Gil Turtle/Tortoise

Since boss hacks don't have really much justice, compared to full game hacks, i'll proclaim myself the paladin of boss hacks!!!
and so i'll try them, record a battle and review them.

I tested your Boss... here's my considerations:





1) Design of the boss: 8/10
I like the sprite! i don't remember if in FF6 there are real turtle monsters or not, in the case i might consider to use this sprite(credits will be given, in the case)
On a side note i remember Gil Turtle was a great sized monster(well, at least in FF XII);

2) Parameters 8/10
They're well balanced for the expected level(the savestate gives you LV 40 allies, so i guess that's the expected level), besides he still does decent damage with good equips, probably something that you would avoid to fight, if you're not prepared to the battle(assuming it's used in a full game hack and you randomly encounter him);

3) AI 6/10
Quite predictable and simple as AI... exactly what you would expect from an earth based monster... he does more attack in a row than a standard enemy, but the AI doesn't look exactly the one of a boss/mini boss

4) Strategy 7/10
Classic stategy, still he chains a quake after 50 Gs, so you won't escape from that and possibly have to heal and reuse float on the party, you also need of guarding yourself from muddle.
Something i apreciate is when a monster heals himself when casting Quake, and that happens here.

Overall: 7/10
Nice monster and all what i said, still he suffers the usual problems of vanilla earth monsters: Auto float or blocking heart makes him powerless.
Just to not make a sad battle i removed paladin shield from Terra, you can see me wasting some time to test Tools, since i expected to see how they were changed, but actually i don't see any change...
Another thing i don't like is when Sketch commands are useless, and this monster is not an exception... there's no point to assign 100% battle against him.