Antinomia: FF6

This was quite the effort, but the new event before the banquet is finally complete, depicting the Esper assault on Vector.  This is a scene I thought the original game was sorely in need of because it happens off-screen but is the entire impetus of the final quest of the World of Balance.  I thought Gestahl's sudden change of heart, the fact that "Yes, the Espers have gone too far" was the correct answer at the banquet, and the Espers themselves lamenting that they'd killed innocent people and wondering if the Empire would forgive them all fell a little flat when we never saw any of that happen.

Well, now we do, complete with a Leo/Celes party joined by a new pair of Imperial soldier mooks to back them up, and three new boss fights as they protect the citizens of Vector from the Espers.



Piett and Ozzel follow the naming pattern of Biggs and Wedge in that they're two more Star Wars background characters.  Piett appeared alongside Biggs and Wedge in Chrono Trigger, so I knew I wanted him to be one of them, so I went looking through Star Wars wikis for other background characters associated with Piett and found that Ozzel was the character Vader force-choked before promoting Piett to take over his position in Empire Strikes Back, so he got to be the other.  And it's only appropriate that Biggs and Wedge, who follow Terra, were Luke Skywalker's wingmen, while Piett and Ozzel, who follow Leo, are two mooks of Vader's.

Next on the agenda is some minor modifications to the banquet, mostly to force Terra to be present for the scene even if you didn't bring her in the party.  Terra's agency gets brought more to the forefront in this mod and I thought it was kind of a dick move that your party, who's supposed to be the heroes, can make the decision to have her join forces with the Empire and send her to Thamasa to mediate with the Espers without her actually being there to consent.