Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Day 21
Locations: Colosseum, The Veldt, Beneath Figaro Castle, Odin's Castle
Steps Taken: 45,304
Playtime: 54 minutes
Total Playtime: 21:56
Characters: Celes (L22) Terra (L23) Sabin (L21) Strago (L21) Relm (L20) Edgar (L22) Shadow (L23) Gau (L20) Setzer (L20) Locke (L20) Mog (L26)
Rendering error again, so a few times it drops to 30FPS. It seems trimming/editing down can do this for some reason? Barely happens though.
Without any major things left to do, I started at the Colosseum betting a Regal Crown for a Genji Helmet, Crystal Mail for Ice Shield, Chocobo for a Moogle Suit, Moogle Suit for Nutkin Suit and Nutkin Suit for another Genji Armor. Easy encounters overall, minus Veteran who can keep killing you with Roulette. Terra was a GENIUS to cast Mute on it the 2nd fight, my hopes weren't too high after she tried to cast Life on herself... Used the Wall Ring trick on Madam again, only I killed her with an attack by mistake. When Flare was reflecting back, I stopped running for a moment to see what Terra was doing and forgot she'll fight if you do this.
She did die at the Veteran once for the Moogle Suit, but this worked in my favor when I flew over to the Veldt after and it was on Senior Behemoth so I got my Behemoth Suit so Strago & Relm have one. I could get a Snow Muffler, but that's just cheap, dangerous attacks doing 1 damage. If I get another Suit, I'll maybe have the Snow Muffler as backup if needed. Encountered the White Dragon after this which I just took the 10 MP for, then it reset to table 1 and I ditched. Dying at the Colosseum worked in my favor, but it would've only taken a few encounters for Behemoth given it'd skip most tables up to there.
Decided to tackle the Underwater Figaro section next, choosing not to bring Sabin because it'd make everything too cheap. Well, I was regretting that when I got to Master Pug who should've won, I just gave up and got lucky, plus the Minerva and Magic Block bug led to some unfair dodges or taking no damage. I did get lucky when it became weak to Pearl before Mog came back down, so this did good damage. Once it was down to just Terra, I simply was going to do a 2nd try after, but Riot Blade, the only Desperation Attack I've had so far got me there. I looked at my items after and knew I had to leave to get more and at least grabbed Edgar for discounts in Figaro. I'd only brought Locke because I haven't used him yet, but he was no help. Edgar's Noise Blaster could've 1 shot Katana Soul if it were too problematic anyway. He was, at least because I had enough GP for GP Rain to be deadly, but I wasn't going to do this without gaining a few levels 1st, so that took me 2 tries. Still was a pretty close call, but Mog saved the day.
Found the secret switch and grabbed the Odin Magicite which I won't level to Raiden. After doing some reading about love between a human and Esper, Terra makes a remark. She's had motherly love, but romantic love with a human not yet. An interesting tidbit anyone who didn't bring Terra'd miss. After this, I went down to fight the Blue Dragon, which was really just Shadow & Terra's fight. Thrown Thunder Blades and overpowered Bolt 2 helped, plus water doesn't hurt Terra with the Minerva. Having grabbed everything, I returned to the surface and flew the Falcon around for a bit.
It took like 5 minutes to find Doom Gaze, but I was right; 1 attack and he was done. It helped it was Fire 3, but even Fire 2 would've done the job. With Doom Gaze out of my way, I finally had the Bahamut Magicite and no having to worry about flying the ship around. I flew towards Maranda after this to do a modest grind, mostly encountering Cactrots. It's too bad I forgot to take Palidor off Edgar when I found like 3 more though. They are pretty frequent enemies, but still, sometimes they won't show for a bit.
This is my personal favorite grind spot, you learn spells way faster, get more GP and Hoovers are easy to deal with. They're weak to instant death, so Doom, Snare, Air Anchor (what I used) or X-Zone all work. I did edit out some of the leveling up considering it was a lot of me just stopping, healing, saving, encounter, healing, saving. I'd fought some Crawlys in the grass to level up Edgar with Bismark as to not level Shadow who I also wanted to have it. Once I was done (for now), I flew over to the Triangle Island since I intend to get Gogo tomorrow and finish Magi Master at the Cultists Tower. Once that's done, all I have to do is grind, maybe a few extra things at the Colosseum and watch the other 3 of Shadow's dreams, since I saw 1 of them at the Returner Hideout on Day 4. Saved at the Triangle Island and ended Day 21.
Highlights
0:45 - 9:10: Colosseum grind
10:30: Encountering Senior Behemoth & White Dragon on the Veldt
16:20: Master Pug battle
23:58: History of the Ruined Castle
28:11 & 31:03: Katana Soul battle
34:40: Secret switch & obtaining Odin Magicite
35:45: Blue Dragon battle
40:37: Finishing Doom Gaze & obtaining Bahamut Magicite
Day 21
Locations: Colosseum, The Veldt, Beneath Figaro Castle, Odin's Castle
Steps Taken: 45,304
Playtime: 54 minutes
Total Playtime: 21:56
Characters: Celes (L22) Terra (L23) Sabin (L21) Strago (L21) Relm (L20) Edgar (L22) Shadow (L23) Gau (L20) Setzer (L20) Locke (L20) Mog (L26)
Rendering error again, so a few times it drops to 30FPS. It seems trimming/editing down can do this for some reason? Barely happens though.
Without any major things left to do, I started at the Colosseum betting a Regal Crown for a Genji Helmet, Crystal Mail for Ice Shield, Chocobo for a Moogle Suit, Moogle Suit for Nutkin Suit and Nutkin Suit for another Genji Armor. Easy encounters overall, minus Veteran who can keep killing you with Roulette. Terra was a GENIUS to cast Mute on it the 2nd fight, my hopes weren't too high after she tried to cast Life on herself... Used the Wall Ring trick on Madam again, only I killed her with an attack by mistake. When Flare was reflecting back, I stopped running for a moment to see what Terra was doing and forgot she'll fight if you do this.
She did die at the Veteran once for the Moogle Suit, but this worked in my favor when I flew over to the Veldt after and it was on Senior Behemoth so I got my Behemoth Suit so Strago & Relm have one. I could get a Snow Muffler, but that's just cheap, dangerous attacks doing 1 damage. If I get another Suit, I'll maybe have the Snow Muffler as backup if needed. Encountered the White Dragon after this which I just took the 10 MP for, then it reset to table 1 and I ditched. Dying at the Colosseum worked in my favor, but it would've only taken a few encounters for Behemoth given it'd skip most tables up to there.
Decided to tackle the Underwater Figaro section next, choosing not to bring Sabin because it'd make everything too cheap. Well, I was regretting that when I got to Master Pug who should've won, I just gave up and got lucky, plus the Minerva and Magic Block bug led to some unfair dodges or taking no damage. I did get lucky when it became weak to Pearl before Mog came back down, so this did good damage. Once it was down to just Terra, I simply was going to do a 2nd try after, but Riot Blade, the only Desperation Attack I've had so far got me there. I looked at my items after and knew I had to leave to get more and at least grabbed Edgar for discounts in Figaro. I'd only brought Locke because I haven't used him yet, but he was no help. Edgar's Noise Blaster could've 1 shot Katana Soul if it were too problematic anyway. He was, at least because I had enough GP for GP Rain to be deadly, but I wasn't going to do this without gaining a few levels 1st, so that took me 2 tries. Still was a pretty close call, but Mog saved the day.
Found the secret switch and grabbed the Odin Magicite which I won't level to Raiden. After doing some reading about love between a human and Esper, Terra makes a remark. She's had motherly love, but romantic love with a human not yet. An interesting tidbit anyone who didn't bring Terra'd miss. After this, I went down to fight the Blue Dragon, which was really just Shadow & Terra's fight. Thrown Thunder Blades and overpowered Bolt 2 helped, plus water doesn't hurt Terra with the Minerva. Having grabbed everything, I returned to the surface and flew the Falcon around for a bit.
It took like 5 minutes to find Doom Gaze, but I was right; 1 attack and he was done. It helped it was Fire 3, but even Fire 2 would've done the job. With Doom Gaze out of my way, I finally had the Bahamut Magicite and no having to worry about flying the ship around. I flew towards Maranda after this to do a modest grind, mostly encountering Cactrots. It's too bad I forgot to take Palidor off Edgar when I found like 3 more though. They are pretty frequent enemies, but still, sometimes they won't show for a bit.
This is my personal favorite grind spot, you learn spells way faster, get more GP and Hoovers are easy to deal with. They're weak to instant death, so Doom, Snare, Air Anchor (what I used) or X-Zone all work. I did edit out some of the leveling up considering it was a lot of me just stopping, healing, saving, encounter, healing, saving. I'd fought some Crawlys in the grass to level up Edgar with Bismark as to not level Shadow who I also wanted to have it. Once I was done (for now), I flew over to the Triangle Island since I intend to get Gogo tomorrow and finish Magi Master at the Cultists Tower. Once that's done, all I have to do is grind, maybe a few extra things at the Colosseum and watch the other 3 of Shadow's dreams, since I saw 1 of them at the Returner Hideout on Day 4. Saved at the Triangle Island and ended Day 21.
Highlights
0:45 - 9:10: Colosseum grind
10:30: Encountering Senior Behemoth & White Dragon on the Veldt
16:20: Master Pug battle
23:58: History of the Ruined Castle
28:11 & 31:03: Katana Soul battle
34:40: Secret switch & obtaining Odin Magicite
35:45: Blue Dragon battle
40:37: Finishing Doom Gaze & obtaining Bahamut Magicite


![The 24 Days of Final Fantasy VI 2025 - Day 24
Day 24 - Kefkas Tower
Locations: Ebots Rock, Colosseum, Kefkas Tower
Steps Taken: 54,226
Playtime: 1:29 (realistically ~1:50)
Total Playtime: 27:33
Characters: [Terra (L30) Locke (L29) Mog (L30) Cyan (L29)]
[Clyde (L30) Relm (L29) Setzer (L29) Celes (L29)]
[Gau (L29) Sabin (L29) Strago (L29) Edgar (L29)]
In the brackets [-] I separated the 3 groups to storm the Tower. I started off learning Grand Train from Hidon, who was way easier leveled up. Grabbed a bunch of healing items beforehand, I left out the coral gathering. Flew over to the Colosseum after to bet an Elixir for Rename Card, since I like to rename Shadow as his true name: Clyde. I did bet Force Shield for Thornlet and that for Mirage Vest, thinking itd be good on Mog, but lousy stats. It was now time to storm Kefkas Tower.
I had 3 main mage groups, though everyone knew good Cure/Life spells. Edited out putting my teams together since it took a bit, and I was off. Everyone was so overpowered, and when Id find myself in an encounter I couldnt escape, Id just kill the Great Behemoth. Charm Bangles helped, and Mogs group was set. I did leave out also some equipping, since there was some trading or forgetting who had what on. Ill say this much: the Tower was extremely easy overall, I dont think Ive ever fought him without him even using Havoc Wing once, so that RNG was interesting. I did somehow forget Doom was weak to Pearl, then by the time I had Terra cast it, Doom had Reflect on, but Mog finished him from the sky afterwards. He became quite a strong Dragoon.
Since the Tower is pretty much all bosses and the very important scene of consulting with Kefka, theres not much to say. Gau Wind Goded on Inferno, the Warring Triad were a joke. I sadly miscalculated a bit with the groups and never learned Quasar. Dark Force couldve taught me too, but his magic stat was so high, Grand Train didnt even come in handy. Anyway, I edited out what I felt was necessary, which couldve included some random encounters, but I wanted to show as much of the Tower as I could and how I managed to get by. Smoke Bombs were my main method of escape since its guaranteed, and every character has their own runaway success stat. Not to mention, enemy formations have their own difficulty with escaping.
When confronting Kefka and watching the scene, which like the Floating Continent is something better viewed than talked about, it took awhile for me to decide the order of my team. I did forget to add in Kefka utterly annihilating me in his final phase. It was just unfair, Train, Havoc Wing, Havoc Wing, Fallen One, Hyper Drive. He can be hard sometimes, really easy others. But the 2nd time around was the easiest Ive beaten him around this level, and in the 24 Days in general. Wasnt sure Id survive Goner though. The same 4 members that reached him and died are the same 4 who got their sweet revenge. I liked what I had going, wanted a father & daughter thing with Shadow & Relm. I wouldnt have minded if Gau bit a Calmness.
As a Wind God, he can do so much damage which was helping with phases 1 and 2. Smart move of me to put Life 3 on Terra at the last phase, she was definitely what made Kefka so easy. Locke dealt quite a bit of damage for level 29, doing around 4,500 damage per attack and this was without the Red Cap. I had that on Edgar and forgot to remove it for the 2nd battle, so Locke wouldve been doing closer to 5,000. Illumina helped, of course. I did forget the Wing Edge from the Phoenix Cave, but by the time I realized that I wasnt willing to go back, nor did I really have time. Ultimately, Kefka and his tower fell pretty easily, dogwalked by a bunch of level 29 thugs.
Its been 20 years since this challenge was conceived, so I thought Id pay tribute, and actually did impose a challenge on myself by playing lower leveled, which made the first 10 days so much more difficult than they needed to be, especially when I was playing with the flu and symptoms after. But its done, and I realize no one cares that much or watches really, but to the few who do, thanks for following this. Im sure Nangbaby, who introduced this to YouTube in 2006 will see it one day and maybe then itll spark people to start doing it again. Either way, Merry Christmas and Happy New Years!
Uploaded the end credits in 2010 if youd like to view: https://youtube.com/watch?v=KPm_jxCnep4&t - others have better quality though.
Highlights
1:45: Hidon round 2 - learning Stragos ultimate Blue Magic: Grand Train
4:12: Betting Elixir for Rename Card, using it to name Shadow as Clyde
5:20: Entering Kefkas Tower
8:43: Atma battle
16:22: Gold Dragon Battle
20:34: Inferno battle
26:11: Skull Dragon Battle, the final and 8th Dragon and obtaining Crusader Magicite
30:45: Guardian Battle
33:01: Doom Battle
36:32: Goddess Battle
38:45: Poltergeist Battle
41:11: Checking equips & stats
42:36: Confronting Kefka with full party
46:48: Final Battle with Kefka
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