Just an earlier picture for some reason. This is not the hardest boss battle in Final Fantasy history, but it does have some of the best music in one. It may not be a good idea to dance while mad, as you can't keep up with the rhythm, but Dancing Mad is worth listening to. Not Dance Dance Revolution, mind you.
Kefka's at the top of a tower of Espers. The short arm does little except for fight and Vacuum Wave.
The long arm uses fight and Shockwave, nowhere as powerful as its Exile equivalent, and ditches Shockwave in favor of nothing at 10240 HP.
The face delivers most of the damage, in the form of a quake spell if you kill it last, and in the form of Magnitude 8 if you aren't. It occasionally uses R. Polarity and Slip Hit and uses safe or haste on the arms. When it hits 10240, it begins using Dread. You don't want to remain in a petrified status.
Imp is annoying when it's successful on someone with 90 M.Block, since M.Block affects de-imping as well.
The tiger uses Doom Tusk, fight, N.Cross, S. Cross, and Flare Star. Tiger's sprite is the same as a rarely-seen desperation attack by Sabin.
The tools use Delta Hit, which must look ridiculous here, atomic ray, tek laser, diffuser, Absolute 0, and missiles. They're all random, except 11250 causes him to switch Atomic Ray for Absolute 0.
The mage uses lots of diffferent spells. I won't bother listening them. Muting it will still allow it to deliver a final counter.
The thing at the bottom uses nothing but fight and ten hits, which is one strong hit and nine consecutive fights as its dying move. It often misses if you have any M.Block at all.
The woman's face has a Ragnarok to steal in case you missed it, have the esper, or exchanged the sword for the Illumina. It occasionally uses a sleep-inducing attack called Calmness, resurrects the sleeper when you kill it, and uses pearl wind every turn.
Ha ha ha! I mock your Merton and all it stands for. By the way, you can get a Merton of your own with Crusader. Like Crusader, it is unable to make any sort of distinction between friend and foe, but this time it's fire and wind combined and you should absorb or at the very least be immune to those elements. You might see Train or Meteo or Condemned or W Wind from this guy as well.
The sleeper ends with Calmness, but this Calmness doesn't just make you go to sleep, it makes you go to sleep FOREVER! Say goodbye to a character if you donŐt block it, as once the battle ends, anyone KOed is replaced with the next in line. If you're really unlucky, calmness will kill two characters.
And heeeeeeeeres Kefka!
He's talking about dreams and hope.
He opens up the battle with Fallen One. After that, he'll use fight and the dreaded HavocWing, which usually kills in one hit. It's only fair, I guess, even if he does get access to it more than you get Joker Doom to one hit kill Kefka. There's a rumor that if you throw the Atma Weapon, Kefka will die in one hit. Not true, because you can't throw the Atma Weapon. You also can't use Vanish on Kefka, so don't bother with that.
Train makes a train noise and blinds you. I think I was muted by it as well, but this is Edgar we're talking about, and Edgar uses tools, so who the hell cares? The FFwiki says it blinds and silences. Very unimpressive, for something that looks so cool.
At, surprise surprise, 32640 HP, he says this. I thought this was his ending speech or something when I last beat him. Since the Fixed Dice can potentially do 40,000 damage with the offering, I think I killed him before he begun Phase 2.
He holds a really weird looking head and the screen shakes. He's charging up for something.
That something is Goner, basically Kefka's big bang.
That something makes Kefka turn red and do a lot of damage. It's not barrier piercing like Ultima is, though. Too bad for him. It's not as threatening or as colorful as Big Bang, but that might be due to the fact that Shadow is no Edge and Terra is clearly superior in every way to Rydia and anyone who disagrees with me is a dill weed and probably thinks that cephalopods belong in outer space and cats need captions in sub-NES English, but it's fairly dangerous. And I know I need a new insult, but the fact that dill weed is real and really funny when you're still in high school and thinking WEED WITH THE FLAVOR OF PICKLES! makes up for it.
Notice anything about the characters? I redid it because someone (you know who you are) said you can break the game (in the overpowered sense, not in the sketch away your sram sense or forgetting a line of code and causing the game to be unwinnable, king's quest) by equipping an offering, two imp halberds, and a genji glove, as if you didnŐt know that a genji glove is the only way youŐre equipping two items.
This is about as real as the throw the Atma sword and kill Kefka instantly. Offering + imp halberd while imped is around 1000 to 1500 damage, not 9999 like that blowhole said. Here, anyway.
This something is not Goner like you probably thought it was. See, the background isn't wavering. This thing is Revenger, his looks-cool-but-accomplishes-very-little attack, which doesn't have a Zeromus equivalent, except in what it does, which is strips you of positive statuses. I know I shouldn't be relapsing in to Final Fantasy IV, but I am anyway. He spends two turns doing Havoc Wing, Train, or Revenger, but he does have some nasty counters when he's not charging up his Goner.
That's it. He's not that hard, really. It's possible to take him down in one turn. Hint, try the fixed dice or perhaps Ragnarok, offering, genji glove. We donŐt do that here, though. By the way, he offed both Celes and Terra with his HavocWing right before dying. Makes sense, he hates^17 Celes.
I have heard the language of apocalypse, and now I shall embrace the silence.
I redid the battle to witness Hyperdrive. I'd say also, but Hyperdrive was the whole purpose of the battle. It's disappointing, especially considering that I had to go through the whole thing as an imp and getting two of my characters offed by Calmness. On the bright side, it didn't take me two fucking hours to screenshot the green part of Big Bang. Revenger and Train are so much cooler looking, but then again, Hyperdrive did actual damage, while Revenger just strips you of positive status effects. As for Train, what in god's holy fuck is Train? If you've lived your whole life in Detroit, you might mistake it for a train, but I won't and neither do Japanese. They have trains that go really fast, for the Almighty Bob's sake! Bye bye, it's been fun, I'll see you in the ending.