Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XXVII Lore Discussion

[Enkidoh]

Ipsen's Castle was a dungeon in FFIX which... looked like a mirror image of itself. It started out normal but halfway through things turned... weird. The bottom half was a mirror reflection of itself that was upside down, literally. And connected to that was a unique mechanic where suddenly enemies became... extremely hard to kill. This was because the aforementioned mechanic made it that your strongest gear suddenly became weak, and vice versa, it literally reversed the levels and stats for gear, so level 1 gear ironically became the strongest in that dungeon. Luckily level 1 equipment was scattered around the dungeon in treasure chests for those players who had long since disposed of their original starting gear.

Because of this, the parallels with the upcoming 'Antitower' are quite pronounced, hence how I think that aforementioned music track would be a nice reference to it.

As for Dancing Mad that's not quite correct - the entire track of Dancing Mad consists of four separate tiers, each tier changing as you defeated each member of the Triad in turn before finally ending up against Kefka. So I guess you are right, from a certain point of view... but as I listen to the whole piece usually I associate all four tiers as the one track (rather than regarding each tier/fight separately). But I digress...

[Rocl]

As for Dancing Mad that's not quite correct - the entire track of Dancing Mad consists of four separate tiers, each tier changing as you defeated each member of the Triad in turn before finally ending up against Kefka. So I guess you are right, from a certain point of view... but as I listen to the whole piece usually I associate all four tiers as the one track (rather than regarding each tier/fight separately). But I digress...

Au contraire mon ami! You fight the Warring Triad individually BEFORE the Statue of the Gods fight & Kefka.
You seem to be conflating the Statue of the Gods and the Warring Triad, which it definitely feels like there are parallels (hell, we might even go Fiend > Demon > Goddess in XIV which would support the idea of Statue of the Gods being a rematch)

http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/G...nal_Fantasy_VI)
http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/F...nal_Fantasy_VI)
http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/D...nal_Fantasy_VI)

And a youtube for good measure:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GYClcIhlqc

These individual fights against the Triad within the tower, as you can hear, use the theme present in the Containment Bay S1T7 shown off in the Live Letter. (Which is also used for our friend Atma/Ultima Weapon on the Floating Continent)

[CyrilLucifer]

Opinion time: I'm of mind Dancing Mad is one of the weaker boss battle themes in VI, not bad, just weaker, so I'm extremely pleased they went with Battle to the Death, which is my second favorite.

Dancing Mad is more an elaborate Kefka's theme. It shouldn't really be played with the Triad members individually.