FF6 - Brave New World

Ah, you caught it on the Betus Beat, I take it.

Indeed. Hack seemed interesting enough (I've played a few other full game mods of FF6, so another was right up my alley), and I have to say I've really enjoyed what I've played so far. That said...

Absolutely nothing out of the ordinary. Glitching in Kutan does nothing except make Celes much more aggravating to play as in this mod or any other version

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, so I'm heading back to my previous save back in the Locke scenario. Serves me right, skipping Celes like that. I attached a savestate right before Nifumu, if you want to check it yourself. [EDIT: I can't attach a ZSNES savestate file, anybody have an alternate option?]

Not upset, btw, as I had been considering restarting back there after this anyway - Not having Celes was really bumming me out, since she's one of my favorites in the original game. It was my own foolishness that got me into this mess anyway

That much will eventually change. The mod wasn't designed to rape players right out of the gate, but it will get much more annoying later on to have a gimped Celes.

Annoying was pretty much the right word, at least for the second half of the WoB when you're forced to drag Celes around. Magitek Factory wasn't difficult (Locke/Cyan combo makes pretty much everything stupidly easy), but I found myself thinking "This wouldn't be as bad if I wasn't essentially 3-manning this dungeon".

Anyway, I guess my thoughts on the hack as far as WoB goes:

General thoughts are that the hack itself is really well done in general, though it feels like esper choices for some characters (Gau, Shadow, and Mog especially, though Sabin frustrated me a bit with how late Golem is found in WoB) weren't made with the availability of the espers in mind; Gau and Mog only having +Stamina and +Magic options respectively really limits the kind of builds I can do with them later on, especially since I don't run from fights and have no issues fighting extra battles time to time (I walked to every location on the Imperial Continent before finally going to Vector the first time, for example).

Bigger boss fights felt very well done, btw; Dadaluma was a monster of a fight that, even though I beat him with everyone standing, I felt was one of the closest calls of the hack. Atma was similarly difficult, though he traded in sheer power for a lot of utility; he did have a couple attacks that hurt badly, but for the most part it was a matter of keeping my health up on everyone while still finding time to attack often so he didn't regen too much. 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).

The characters all seem really significantly different from one another, which is something I'm really grateful for. I've tried to use everyone as much as possible, spending a lot of time on the Veldt to make sure everyone has a full spell list; 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.

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.