Words Of Wisdom said:
I'm not going to attempt to convince you that FFVI was amazing or brilliant. That's a waste of both our time. However, there's a sequence I really liked in it.
After the world crumbles and becomes the World of Ruin and you've regained the party, you can take a trip to the Veldt and find Gau's father. Realizing who he is, the party takes Gau away, humorously attempts to teach him table manners, find him a decent outfit, and get him "spiffed up" (Sabin's phrase). They dress Gau in a suit and bring him back to see his father. After introducing Gau, the father stubbornly refuses that he has a real child. His recollects abandoning a monster child but that insists it was no real child of his. Then to Gau he says "But you, young man... Your parents must be proud to have such a fine son!" The man begins to talk of the "terrifying monster child" and Sabin gets extremely angry only to be stopped by Gau. Gau then leaves and the party follows. Gau's last words before the end of the sequence were: "Fa-ther...alive...Gau...ha-ppy."
It didn't matter to Gau that his father would never accept that child he abandoned, only that his father was alive. Though, in a strange way, I suppose Gau actually was accepted by his father. Also, an interesting thing to note that you may not have noticed during your FFVI playthrough is the truth behind the events that led Edgar to remain to take care of Figaro as king while Sabin got to go free and live the life he desired. There are a couple coin flips in the game. One is when Celes bets Setzer to get him to help the party and another is when Edgar bets Sabin for who will become King of Figaro and who will be free. When Celes bets Setzer she uses a double-headed coin to win. What you may not have noticed was that she got the coin from Edgar. Sabin didn't win that coin toss against Edgar by luck, he won because Edgar cared enough about his brother to set him free and shoulder his kingdom's burden himself.
Those are the moments that make FFVI great. They are also the moments that many didn't see in FFVII. |
You make me want to run out and buy FFVI Advance. If didn't suspect a DS remake of the game was in the works, I'd already have it.
