Final Fantasy VI(Snes) Final Boss - Kefka 

Japanese RPG be like -Mission one: save the cat -Final Mission: Defeat God

Joker checks under his bed every night for Kefka

Can we just appreciate how a little girl is trying to save the world with her friends by drawing god to recover her team's health? I think we should.

" you make me sick... It's like listening to the world's worst self-help booklet ! " Kefka.

I will always remember my most nail biting moment. I was at the end of the game, I was below 50% of all my pcs, and Kefka was casting Goner. The skies turned started to change and the skies turned white. I closed my eyes and prepared to replay the WHOLE final battle. That is when Edgar came down and I heard the crack to indicate victory was mine. That was my greatest win in any video game.

The music in this entire sequence is absolutely incredible. And the moment when you finish the 3rd phase and the title screen theme plays as Kefka descends is one of the coolest moments I've ever seen in a game. There aren't many boss battles and there's aren't many games that play quite like this one.

Kefka doesn't even make a dying speech or curse at the end. Not a word . That is some powerful stuff.

This game was renaissance art.

Kefka: What’s the point of living if everyone dies one day? Also Kefka: *Doesnt kill himself and tries to apply the logic to others*

I love how Kefka as, “God” immediately starts asking questions. He may have immense power, but he is certainly not all-knowing. I don’t believe for one second that it was an oversight by Square either.

It took me so long to realize what Kefka meant when he said "The end comes...beyond chaos." It is so clear now and powerful. Kefka, after seemingly destroying all hope, love, all things he hates (since he sees them as useless), after putting so many obstacles in the path of the heroes in order to stop them from reaching him, after believing he is a god, unstoppable, that he is already won, he faces the ultimate coup de gras: he realizes before it all began, he already lost. Without getting too much into it, there is a theme that plays out throughout the entire game: all things come to an end, with balance come ruin, ebb and flow. You can look to a ton of points in the game to see this. Kefka, however, believed that he was capable of escaping this inherent circle of life. His own ego blinded him. So in this last moment, as he is staring down the heroes that represent hope, love, life, all the things he seeks to destroy, he ironically realizes that they will ultimately destroy him, and they always were going to. So he murmurs the line "the end comes...beyond chaos." And this could be taken in so many ways. First, he could mean, "I realize now, before I even began this path of destruction, my end was already in the distance." This is punctuated, literally, by the ellipses. They show his own train of thought playing out before the eyes of the characters, him in that moment realizing, "Oh my, this was destined. The very thing I set to destroy came back and destroyed me." This bitterly ironic statement is a moment of humility for Kefka, demonstrated by holding his head as the building begins to collapse. The head represents his ego, the laughing head of Kefka. To the players it is also the most powerful theme in the game. It is not that love triumphs all, hope always wins, it is that all things in the world are precious. Life ends. The very irony of life that all come to realize is before you are ever born, you are already dead. And because of this, your life, your impact, what you do, who you love, what you cherish, it is the very meaning of what is worth fighting for. Even Kefka in his final moments find humility in realizing his life went by wasted. And everything he valued crumbled. The only thing that lives on is in the people that continue to live. So the message is: what will you leave when you die that lives on in the people you touched? And this makes the ending so much more meaningful, because it is a tribute to the people that may have been lost, but not forgotten. Simply beautiful. One sentence, perfect.

7:39 the way the music fits to the next phase is so satisfying

''Why do people cling to life when they know I'll eventually kill them?'' Spoken like a mad man.

"Dancing Mad" will forever be my favorite boss theme!

18:06 That kefka attack and music syncs perfectly love it

Those are some really clever music transitions every time a tier is defeated

Do ya'll understand/realize that Uematsu had to compose this whole thing in separate pieces for each tier/level of the final fight, and that the pieces had to be able to transition ON CUE with the players pace of defeating each part?! It's like a modular masterpiece. Unreal. Each tier that is triggered tells the game to start the next musical piece whenever the last one comes to a part that can musically move to the next. I don't know if I'm describing it well, but it's insane.

I find it interesting, that for as much as he talks, in his final moments of life, he has nothing to say. Perhaps he accepts this is the end of his pitiful life, or is stunned into silence that he was actually defeated. I guess, we won't really ever know.

I learned something here today. You can't go to any Final Fantasy video without seeing a war in the comment section about what game is better than the other. With VII usually being the target because it's popular.

Kefka needs to have double his HP, I really feel like this battle always ends too quickly.

The final theme has got to be one of the best pieces of progressive music I've ever heard!

It still drives me to tears. This is hands down, the best final battle in all of FF's history.

One of history's greatest crimes was giving Kefka a measly 62k HP.

Decades later, I still get a chill up my spine to finally hear that incredibly ominous opening theme in its proper context here, when Kefka appears for that final showdown.

Imagine how fucking epic this boss would be if remade. It's kind of hard to imagine it in glorious 3D but I'm sure they could make it happen.

People nowadays don't understand. In 1994 we expected this from Square and Uematsu. it was a wonderful time to be a gamer.

I still think kefka is the best ff villain.His laugh is full of epic and so is his lines

18:05 PERFECT timing. Ooooh that felt good

There's a bit of subtext to Kefka many people miss: When he asks everyone what their reasons for living is, he's actually asking the question to himself. Kefka is the one looking for a reason to live, and when the heroes can't give him an answer that satisfies him he decides then and there to end his life; and he's going to take all of existence with him. This is one of the reasons why the 4th and final movement has a sad section in it, behind all his madness is a resignation to die because that's the only thing left for him to do. Course this also acts an excuse to why the fight against Kefka is so easy, he stopped growing after he lost meaning and purpose in life (which for the majority of his life was serving the Empire and Gehstal. He stopped growing, but the heroes kept on. In a weird way, FF6 pulled what Breath of the Wild did with it's Ganon fight decades earlier. You make the final battle easier and easier the more you explored the world: Finding your lost friends, finding new treasures; growing so strong that the final battle is merely a formality.

That moment when a final fantasy that came out in 1994 has a better final boss than one that came out in 2016

Kefka is definitely one of the best villains in fiction. He doesn't have the cliche motive of being bad for badness sake like a Saturday Morning Cartoon bad guy. He's as much a victim of misused power and magic (which was the result of his abnormal and unnatural experimentation infusing people with magic addling his brain and mind) as he is perpetrator of incomprehensible evils. But he does everything because he finds sadistic pleasure using his magical powers like a kid with a magnifying glass burning ants. He's also meta as heck. Throws the corny, sappy lines about life and love back in the heroes faces by comparing them to chapter titles in a self-help book.

Remember, this is from the SNES, If you forget it, due to it being so amazing.

This boss fight always blows my mind, I love how instead of cutting the kefkas next form it just ascends to give the feeling that he is slowly becoming a god. Like a sort of metamorphosis, I know he's already a god but still it's really clever.

The more I learned about the Super Nintendo and its capabilities, the more and more I marvel, appreciate, and admire all of the cutting edge coding and technology that went into this whole experience.

The first time I fought Kefka at the end of VI. It was a battle to end all battles. People died, people were replaced. Close calls were met with another round of blood and vigor. Then the curtain raised on the finale and it played out like a masterpiece. Then on my 3rd or 4th play through I discovered that Genji Glove and the Offering stacked for shit tons of attacks and 2 sets of said attacks kills him (Hitting 9999 each attack of course). The music was still beautiful at least.

The timing of Kefkas laugh in dancing mad as he casts Goner makes this already epic battle even greater, great vid

I love how when Kefka used goner(forsaken) it synced perfectly with the music.

To clear up for people in the comments who are discussing what version this may be. This is a SNES patch called "Stand Guard" which changed some things, the font, spell names and most notably uncensors the graphics that were censored in the US version of the game.

18:06 Good timing

As a guy who's favourite FF is 7 I'll say 6 is the best one. 8 and 9 rock too, But I'd see myself loving this game more if it was the one to come to PS1 back then and be everyone's first JRPG. The character's in this are truly memorable which is crazy considering the vast cast of like 12+ main characters. A wonderful game that even though I truly want an FF7 remake this one deserves it more 10 fold.

Just beautfiul this music....... after so many years still awesome. This game is the proud in the historical developement of japanese role-playing games. So much RPG with so limited and outdated technology. That's a masterpiece. Relm Arrowny was always one of my favourite characters. Her personal cute attitudes and the typical childish behaviors were unforgetable. I always had to laugh or to cry with her interactions. There's no doubt, FFVI is one of the best role-playing games ever made and truly the best FF game. Thanks for upload!

This Final Boss Theme ALONE Makes This Game Worth To Beat

Kefka...the one villain who had completed his goal, but bitterly realized that from the very beginning, he has already failed his true goal.

I came here after I heard the whole musical piece that is Dancing Mad, and I just had to see the fight that went along with the theme. This was some real magnificence here

first Final Fantasy game I played, finished few days ago and I love it so much!

1st Form: Satan 2nd Form: Man 3rd Form: Angels 4th Form: God

This game is a masterpiece. Easily the most satisfying victory I've had from beating a game

One of the best boss battles in the series.It's so very symbolic.

obscenely exceptional without comparison, the best video game in history

18:09 i like how kefka laught before he throw Goner,its like he is getting ready for do the strongest attack,combined whit the perfect timing of the music when the goner animation start's

Good to hear this soundtrack again. Well done! My mom loved it when I played this game through for her in 1994 (and again in 1995, just before Chrono Trigger). Her health was failing. And when it was this time, I destroyed Kefka with Ultima from every person, ear to ear. Got at least one round of applause for all my level building. She adored the ending. I miss her. Let’s do this

I disagree, i think kefka is better than sephiroth. Sephiroth went bad because he read a book, but at least kefka showed he was evil from the start.

The music is godly, Kefka pretty much accepts his fate and you see your entire party struggling against this evil and wont quit till it's gone. Just Don't make them like they used to, the fact that they had to use 2D graphics to portray the story and characters just makes it more of an artful masterpiece than anything else. Squaresoft actually gave a shit back then.

15:34 - 15:49 = Shivers intensifies

16:15 Someone, HIRE THIS GENIUS ALREADY!

The design of this boss fight, from the appearance to music, I cannot complain.

There are two overlooked elements to this fight found in its original versions only: 1 - During the first 3 phases, the music _doesn't_ switch immediately with each new phase, but instead continues playing normally until its natural transition point in the composition so it can switch seamlessly (for proof, timestamps in chronological order: phase 1 ends at 7:38, _song transition at __7:50__,_ phase 2 starts at 8:05 phase 2 ends at 12:20, phase 3 starts at 12:48, _song transition at __13:14_ phase 3 ends at 14:53, song transition here was always in sync) 2 - The "Tower of the Gods" _isn't_ shown in the enemies list on the UI, only Kefka (so when you reach that final phase and "Kefka" appears, you know IT'S GO TIME) I kind of miss that these are not reproduced in FF6's modern remakes.

One thing that bothered me with the GBA version was how (in addition to the soundfonts ruining some of the music eg.Serpent Trench) that they removed the seamless musical transition in this version, between phases of this boss fight, where the loop of the previous part of the track has to finish before it moves on: it just jumps instead.

the music is fucking epic

I love how every Final Fantasy has a moral to it.

Not doing 9999 every hit, someone went to fight Kefka a bit to early. Not that you cant beat him before you can easily but such a excellent villain as him makes him deserving you bring your A game.

Holy catfish, the timing on the Goner and the laugh in the music was absolutely perfect

Whenever the main villain is finally defeated in the very final battle, they slowly start to crumble away with the loud sounds of explosions, lightning, and rumbling with their end feeling like it was felt not only by everyone in the entire world of their respective games, the entirety of the universe as a whole. Their deaths feel like a spectacle with the crumbling away of the being and their retched soul. I always loved that, it also feels bittersweet to witness the end of all those long journeys too, a whole THIS IS IT moment, we did it.

the music of this boss fight is freakin legendary

Every time I read Kefka’s dialogues I think, “Who hurt you, boo?!”

15:25 Reminds me of the battle with safer sephiroth. His appearance and the way he enters the battle from the sky even the music is similar.

The song before facing Kefka as the boss reminded me of the song before facing giygas in Earthbound.

I understand that the party is laid out by who's at the top slot, but I find it odd that Shadow, an optional character who only joins halfway through the game, is standing ahead of Terra, who's arguably the main character.

Ladies and gentlemen.. please, a f-ning round of applause for Nobuo Uematsu 🫡

I love this fight: the music, the symbolism, and of course, Kefka realizing that his end has come and how he accepts his death is just so mind blowing!!!!

15:18 when the class clown gets promoted to be the line leader

Such an epic battle. Imagine how it would look remade on the PS5...Take my money!

18:09 the Kefka laugh happened at the best possible time.

Finished FF15... Had to watch a real boss now.

2024 anyone?😁😁😁

I love at 3:13 how kefka starts casually playing as everything gets blown up also, remember how tellah gave his life to cast meteor? 8:43

ANDD in this episode....our heros face off against.....God...

A part of me says they should've remade this instead of Final Fantasy VII.

Fighting Kefka again in FF XIV was amazing. Great villain!

This is probably the best ending to any game that has and will be made. There's just no comparison.

“LIFE... DREAMS... HOPE... “ I felt that

I just wanted to put my 2 cents in about this game. This is by far my favorite Final Fantasy game not because I played it but because my older brother would play it and I'd watch him finish it, it was so awesome. Best Final Fantasy in my opinion.(:

Probably one of the greatest descriptions ive ever seen on youtube

*"The end comes … beyond chaos"*

I can totally feel how One Winged Angel from VII was inspired by Dancing Mad. And fighting a god like figure as the final boss, when you think about it, Sephiroth legit plagiarized Kefka's final fight, and became MORE popular for it.

The spell of "goner" followed by that iconic laugh. Awesome! 18:04

18:38 Kefka: " I don't feel so good"

Final Fantasy VI will always remain in my heart as the best rpg I have ever played.

Sephiroth didn't actually destroy any universes, as it was just a spell effect showing it, but nothing was destroyed.

My favorite thing about this game is you can watch this same battle a million times and so many people use so many different party members and strategies. I always went in with Shadow, Sabin, Cyan, and magic user - usuall Celes because runic blade was bad ass if used properly. Sometimes I would mix in mog with all the god equipment and relics just for fun - usually like Edgar is used here.

This is great playing. Your characters are incredibly powered and the strategy is great. You literally beat the crap out of a rather difficult boss fight.

So, the thing about this is that this entire boss fight is one big reference to the journey of the protagonist in Dante Aligheri's Divine Comedy. The first phase is the Inferno's depiction of Satan, whose top half is displayed because he was trapped up to his waist in ice. The second is the penitent souls of Purgatario. The third is Paradisio, the residing place of the savior and the holy mother, and at the absolute summit of all things, God.

Kefka's timing with goner and the music is soo good there

Most epic final boss battle song ever, even better than One Winged Angel at the end of Final Fantasy VII, and that was a damn fine piece.

Tower of the Gods Boss List Tier 1: Visage [HP30000] Long Arm [HP33000] Short Arm [HP27000] Tier 2: Tiger [HP30000] Machine [HP24000] Power [HP28000] Magic [HP41000] Tier 3: Rest [HP40000] Lady [HP9999] Tier 4: Kefka [HP62000] All in all, that's almost 325000 HP for this boss gauntlet. And to all people who say that giving Kefka 62000 HP is a crime is truly overestimating the processing power of the SNES, which can only take in 16-bit unsigned integers, whose values can range anywhere from 0 to 65535 (65536 just loops back around to 0). Tell me what the difference would be if Kefka started out with 3536 more HP than he has been given!

I only read a few comments but as far as I can tell you either were way to prepared or you were under prepared for the fight. The twelve I took to the tower we're almost lv. 60 and I think all of them had Ultima. Gotta love the paladin shield. If this boss were to get reworked, I'd have him scale to the players similar to what ff8 tried to do but even though I was overleveled, the entire gauntlet of bosses still had a few tricks up their sleeves that KO'd my party members occasionally, typically by Doom effects. The only reason I would want Kefka to change is I was able to beat him before his first attack. Why? Because I must be a try hard because I got Cyan's speed up to 40 with 82 vigor and he had access to the quick spell and Quadra Slice. My cyan straight up deleted half his health in the first 3 seconds of the fight.

Kefka is like... you know... the Joker of the Final Fantasy serie... a clown who isn't interested in anything but destruction, death and mayhem because well you know... ...some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

This is the best game ever made.

This fight is a masterpiece, seriously

15:50 You know he means business when he laughs 4 times in overlapping succession.