Early Access!! Final Fantasy VI - Dancing Mad

iirc, there's actually a rather humorous reason why this song is so long. Nobuo Uematsu was having that much of a fun time making it that he lost track of how long it was becoming.

Joshua Selbitschka

"The song is mocking you" makes sense. This boss fight is kinda like "What if the Joker became a god?"

Ben S

Dancing Mad. FF6 Spoilers ahead, you've been warned. ----- Spoilers/Synopsis Here ----- You just spent 40-50 hours playing through a darker RPG in terms of tone. The world is at War between two factions, one of which is using eikons/gods to create magical machinery to help dominate their side of the war. You deal with loss, love, grief, and hope through the characters personal stories (all the characters have their own theme as well) and you reach the half-way point where the Empire has a general named Kefka Kefka is this bright, cheerful, colorful guy with a sound-clip dedicated to his laugh that's just makes you think "Oh God he's crazy." He's actually introduced in the intro cutscene but isn't named until about 30 minutes to an hour into the game where he's after one of the main characters named Terra because she was part of the Empire as one of these Magitech Knights but has amnesia. There is more stuff about her later that makes her wanted but it's not terribly important at this moment to explain Dancing Mad. Kefka He poisons a river to kill everyone in an area so he can leave sooner. He was told explicitly not to do this. He kills his other general because the other general realized how wrong the empire was doing things were and was trying to stop it. He literally alters the balance of power between the Warring Triad (2 of which you've heard music for ff14) and destroys the world as everyone knew it and turns into a Deity. You spend your time in the World of Ruin finding all your friends, dealing with their personal issues/concerns because you need all the help you can get as you progress through Kefka's tower that oppresses the world. The tower itself is this crazy amalgamation of twisted steel, organic matter and just weirdness. You fight some tough bosses and then you reach him. Kefka, self-proclaimed God/Deity with the power to match. The Final Boss. Dancing Mad Plays. As you go through phases of the fight, the music changes into the movements you heard. The Classic Music gives you this feeling of something more, something greater, until you realize that Kefka is "ruining" it. He's twisting with dissonant tones and chords. He's taking what would be a fantastic piece to listen to in a church into... Dancing Mad. That fervor, that energy, that feeling of 'this is wrong' never really escapes until he's dead. This song is one of Nobuo's Masterpieces, and that feels like its not enough. Out of context is an amazing piece of music that can and does stand on its own. In context? There are very few songs that hit as hard and meaningful as Dancing Mad.

i would pog to this in a concert KEKW !

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