I'm starting to think that this scene is here to reiterate everything that's happening in the plot up to this point, just in case you're losing track of it...
I wanted to do something to get the player's attention with this because it's kind of important. So I right-justified it down an imaginary line near the middle of the text box.
If you've ever played a full Rages game of Final Fantasy VI, you'd know that to get the most Rages on this trip to the Veldt, you would do Macias' Scenario last. But as I have heard it said, smurf the Veldt.
As you can see here, I decided to use Iaido #2, Sky. It's always been my favorite for the wicked damage it does. Also, there's a chance of getting a Phoenix Down here in the original game, but this has been removed.
The full quote is "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori." It means "It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country." Also, I edited this so that we now know this to be the guy who deserts after the poisoning of Doma, is beaten within an inch of his life, and spends the rest of the WoB in a bed in Mobliz. You can get a Cat Bell from him if you send his girlfriend in Maranda stuff.
Since the game now has a dash button feature, even if you couldn't afford the Wingboots (they're 30,000 gil), you can still make Cayene run like hell here.
The King of Doma doesn't have many lines, but his death can be interpreted as symbology for the passing away of the feudal system as the industrial revolution took hold.
I want you personally to know what I went through to get this shot. It takes a while for Kage to get bored and leave. Not that I am leaving him behind, I just wanted you to know what he says.
This always reminds me of that episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation where the Doctor has a green candle that turns into a ghost that ravishes her and there's this old, really camp Scotsman telling her "Dunna light that candle!"
When he recounts this story to Edgar and the others later, this is the point where they're going to call bulltrout and ask him if he really just got drunk. Cayene'll back him up though.
You know how it goes, they jump across the train car rooftops. Why does every video game from this period feature some kind of stage on a train, or its roof?
This whole episode of the game (The Phantom Train) would be kind of morbid if it weren't for this scene. How does this guy even get on the train, and then appear later, very much alive? What's the point of this? Was it really just a way to waste the player's time? I wonder if anyone's ever gotten pissed off at this event afterwards, because you get next to nothing for it.
I could just use a phoenix down on him of course, but the day I can't beat the Phantom Train fair and square is the day I'd better hang up my SNES replica controller forever.
I'm going to assume for the sake of brevity that people know how to get Gau into the party. You go to Mobliz and buy Dried Meat, then give it to him instead of smacking him around.
Is it just supposed to be comically unlikely that Gau would guess that's who Locke was, or is this supposed to indicate Gau being smarter than Macias, or that Locke is somehow famous? I don't even...sigh...forget it.
Anyway, about Gau. I skipped the Tutorial because if you're like me and have played this game a zillion times, what you really need to know is that you start with just this one rage, and it's really all you need, if you are an experienced player of Final Fantasy VI.
Note that Gau's returning speech has been trimmed to one line. For those of you who like to grind Rages, this will make the Veldt just a tad less tedious.
People have complained that Macias says a cuss now and again. I used to be married, and my father in law was a fifth degree black belt. Man cussed like a sailor, and in fact was also a sailor at one time.
A friend of mine actually got stuck here because he didn't understand that he was supposed to select the correct password, he thought the three passwords were all one password. ...I never have quite got how that was possible for him to have thought.
I'm not saying that it's right to hit women, but I am saying that Imperial Soldiers aren't right. (And either way, we go right to her getting bitten by dogs and attacked with swords in a minute anyway...)
Her name is spelled Final_Fantasy_VI_(J)002.png in the Japanese rom. These three symbols represent the sounds "Se" "Ri" and "Su," or Celise (the letter u is often silent at the end of a word in Japanese).
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