ReCast FF3: War of the Magitek

It's funny that you mention Suriander, I've had a lot of trouble with that enemy.  I originally replaced it with the wild boar from FF5's <Friends> command, but I felt it clashed too much with the enemies it usually appeared with.  So my second attempt was a direct shrink of the original Wart Puck monster, with a few porcine adjustments to the face.  I thought it was a better fit, but I guess that it was a miss.
For its third attempt I'm making a splice of enemy parts from FF2J to replace the Suriander entirely with a small minotaur (well, small-ish, it's still about twice as tall as the players).

As for the Vulture, I'm making some adjustments to its beak, but I couldn't find anything in the other 2D games that came close to what FF6 originally had, or the look I was going for for that enemy.  Hopefully the beak changes are enough, but if not it'll have to stay the one shrunk monster that looks funky.

EDIT [7/25/2020]: I'm working hard on a new version, which will hopefully improve the experience all around (even for challenge runs, though Terra's getting a nerf).
In the course of this pursuit, I've encountered a potentially dangerous data bug with Mog's learnset.  The spell he learns midway through the Level 60s is set to $51... I imagine I meant for it to be d51, since $51 is SparkPlug.  Needless to say, this might cause something weird to happen once he passes said level.  The benign outcome (and hopefully what actually happens) will be that upon gaining that level, GAU will learn some random white-magic spell.  The worst outcome, though, could be a soft-lock or some kind of data/savefile corruption triggered by picking a number out-of-bounds.
The level in question is Level 62.  The game is easily beatable by level 40, so hopefully this won't cause an issue for anybody playing through.  Version 2.0 will fix this problem, but save files won't be compatible.

EDIT [7/29/2020]: Progress report!  I've fixed the Relm event 'bug' that lets you wander around the weapon shop while the guy is telling you about Lola.  I've also fixed the event in Mt. Zozo so that you cannot trigger the Tsepmet fight during the scenario.  Locke and Relm will comment that the switch is dangerous and they should come back after they've found all their friends.  I made Relm say All since finding Gau will not enable the fight, but you can trigger it as soon as you have the airship to return, if you so wish (though Tsepmet will trounce you!).
I've moved all "Stop" effects to "Freeze" and repurposed the Stop status for Runic.  This will let Runic clearly display whenever it is active, and this also allows me to both dispel Runic and to grant it with an Esper (Ragnarok now gives Runic to the party).
Running a full play-test now, currently at the first scenario split (I know, it's really early in the game.  Takes a while to find all the stuff).
Oh, and I also fixed a tile update bug in South Figaro Basement: by moving an exit location one tile down, I prevent the player from refreshing the screen once the door has been opened.  Thanks to Fathlo for pointing out this bug, which was apparently in Vanilla.
FYI, when 2.0 comes out, if you get stuck on the South Figaro secret bridge, press A!  Something will happen!

EDIT [8/4/2020]: After looking into the Veldt situation with Gau, I've decided there's a serious snag there, especially with the difficulty of the fights (and particularly when you've only got Terra and Banon to fend them off!).  I've reverted "Wilder Randomness"'s changes to the Veldt formula back to vanilla (so the Veldt will cycle through the enemies in order, starting at a random spot).  I may remove the random element entirely and have the Veldt start on the Lobo fight each time you load a save... haven't decided yet.
I've also greatly reduced the count of formations in the Veldt.  Since Gau now only has 24 rages, there should only be enemies that give him rages there (there are a few exceptions but this was the goal of the change).

EDIT [8/13/2020]: March of the menu features!  After investigating the hex of Brave New World (Grayshadows' code?  Synchesi's code?  BtB's code?  Seibaby's code?  I don't know), I was able to implement descriptions for the Rage and Dance menus!  I've also taken their lead and replaced the 'Reequip' option in config with Run/Walk.  As such, Hiking Boots no longer toggle auto-run, and instead reduce the encounter rate.
This leaves the only menu feature I have as-of-yet been unable to implement as Magic Order sorting the Lore menu.  I'm okay with that, though, because Strago's lores are anachronistic of older games by design and being unable to sort them like the rest of the spells fits with the character them.  It is my old mantra, "It's not a bug, it's a feature."
***Also!
Fixed the Cranes fight music bug.
Nerfed the magic defense of the Vector abominations and the Magitek Research Facility residents.  Magic should be more useful in this section, as was originally intended.

EDIT [8/21/2020]: Boss Script testing is past the scenario split in the WoR.  Was going to have Edgar say something in the tentacles fight, but Seize/Discard is precariously dangerous and prone to crashes when poked... so no scripting magic there.  Also fixed a bug of which I was previously unaware... if you saved between an actor drop-in and their removal and re-loaded, said actor would disappear.  This affected Mog during the Opera (if you succeeded at the song but failed against Ultros), Biggs at the Banquet, Banon in Thamasa, and the poker game in Kohlingen.  These problems have been fixed with new conditional entrance events, except for the opera whose failure conditions post-Act 2 were replaced with game-overs. If Ultros drops a weight on Celes, it SHOULD be a game over!