@seraphic, yeah he's very demented. But that's what made him so great. The fact of his being so human, but so absolutely cruel.
Sephiroth was inhuman and distant, forever chased across the horizon and always cryptic, which was part of his spooky appeal. Kefka was very human. He was spoiled and arrogant, demanding and unsympathetic of the people left in his charge (he was a general). He was cowardly and hated pain, he was bastard that you weren't afraid of so much as you just hated him. But his sadism was far greater than his cowardice. He may have run from his own pain, but he loved to infict pain and torment on others. He didn't hurt others out of necessity, he did it out of pleasure. And it was that he hated pain so much that made his love of inflicting it on others so twisted, and made you hate him that much more. He was a true sociopath that didn't see others as living being so much as things to have fun with, and inflicting pain or suffering he thought was very fun. "Nothing can beat the sound of hundreds of voices screaming in unison"
And the story was presented beautifully. You got a very personal sense of what kefka's callous and sadistic actions were doing. You got the sense that he was a rogue general, his colleagues like General Leo were sympathetic characters that you could empathize with, that they were on the other side of a conflict, but were good, reasonable, respectable people that believed that what they were doing was right. And then there was kefka a sadist that the empire created and subsequently didn't know how to control. His actions were deplorable but written off by the emperor and looked down upon by his peers as unnecessary. And then he played them all and one by one betrayed and murdered, and climbed. And eventually, he managed to do the unthinkable and in the process destroyed all of civilization, made the world into a desolate wasteland, and made himself into a god that could use the everyone and everything as his playground. And eventually as a god his sadism became nihilism. He would create a monument to non-existence.
Kefka was a fantastic villian, one of the best ever in videogames. He desperately needs to come back in a fully realized fleshed out remake.
You can find me on facebook as Markus Van Rijn, if you friend me just mention you're from VGchartz and who you are here.
