FF6 - Brave New World

FILTHY LIES. I'm not sure how you wrote the script for the Nifumu battle, but I just got there a few minutes ago and Kutan!Celes dies with the rest of the party, giving me an "Annihilated" message and sending me to the main menu like any normal time. Kutan does not register as Celes at all for the purposes of negating that spell damage

This is very interesting, because pretty much every aspect of the game's code identifies characters by their slot rather than their actual identity. The opcodes in the battle scripts are consistent with this formula (i.e. it specifies character number six, who is Celes), so I don't see why it wouldn't respect Kutan in her place.

...though Sabin frustrated me a bit with how late Golem is found in WoB

Golem is available right after Zozo now >.>

Gau and Mog only having +Stamina and +Magic options respectively really limits the kind of builds I can do with them later on...

Bear in mind that both of those characters are totally optional, and so I was a little less concerned about splitting up their stat boosts between the WoB and WoR espers.

The only bosses I've felt were lacking were the IAF (The missile sidekicks make the initial barrage tough, but they're so frail and once they go down the fight is pretty much over), and maybe Number 024 (I went into that fight with a physical-heavy party though, so I could see him being tougher for a more magic-based crew).

IAF was actually one of the most notoriously difficult bosses in beta, and Atma Weapon was fairly underwhelming. Before we released it, I nerfed the f**k out of IAF and beefed up Atma Weapon significantly

number 24 is mostly meant to serve as a beef gate to prevent underleveled parties from getting trapped in an area of no return.

My biggest complaint would have to be Setzer, who just doesn't feel like he has the tools to be anything decent yet. His equipment in WoB sucks, I've never been a fan of slots, his spell list is rather weak, and as far as healtanks go Edgar has dispel/remedy to Setzer's Regen/Rerise, so I give the edge to Edgar. I expect him to get a lot better come his WoR items, though, as Fixed Dice have always been a favorite item of mine and he's getting his own Offering for them too.

His physical attacks become much more useful in the WoR once he gets the new "Offering" relic. His magical offense is actually quite good if you can hit his slots, though most people just spam losing spins for free heals.

I haven't heard much about people making any use of his offensive spell collection, myself included (though I do find his cure spells to be effective against undead enemies in the cave to the Sealed Gate and Daryl's Tomb). One would assume, though, that Bio could hit pretty hard with lots of magic boosts and if you stack him for magic power.

Cyan would likely be my MVP, though I purposely didn't use Sabin after seeing/reading how great he is in this hack and deciding to give other characters a shot. Cyan has great defensive items, a free self-replenishing move that also works great as a debuff, the most powerful attack for this point of the game (Dragon is wrecking everything and I love it), and access to Kirin, which is amazingly powerful as a healing/buff summon - I'd say his low speed is an issue, but with default speed settings his turn comes up more than fast enough anyway.

Well, assuming you're playing the latest version, his speed is equivalent to that of Edgar, Setzer, and Terra (Strago is the only slow one now). And he actually is quite useful; the issue is less his speed and more his survivability, which tends to be lower than that of a stamina-built Sabin.

(Though, for the record, Kirin really isn't a buff summon - it's just a Cure 2 spell with no split loss)