Final Fantasy 6 Pixel Remaster: How To Defeat Deathgaze

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The whole tempo changes when you reach the World of Ruin in Final Fantasy 6 Pixel Remaster, doesn't it? Square stopped at nothing to ensure that this half-dead husk of a post-apocalyptic planet gets its point across. Kefka did a raw number on this place and no mistake.

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You can see it in the frightful NPCs scurrying through their towns. You can hear it in the music, somber and filled with dread. And you can practically feel it in the skies above – that burnt-orange pallet says it all, and to further drive the point across, there's the giant flying monster called Deathgaze who's positively thirsting for your party's flesh.

We can't revert the world to the way things were prior to shenanigans atop the Floating Continent. But we can kill Deathgaze, and there's a sweet reward for doing so.

Ask folks the hardest part about fighting Deathgaze, and there's a real chance at least a few will tell you that finding it is half the battle.

Deathgaze can be fought as early as the instant you obtain the Falcon in the World of Ruin. At that time, you'll only have Celes, Edgar, Setzer, and (probably, but not necessarily) Sabin. Since your party's stats will likely be on the low side for such a climactic bout, we recommended avoiding doing so.

That's all well and good, but where do you even find the undead rascal? Well, it's more like it finds you. Sort of. From a certain point of view. Obi-Wanisms aside, here's the trick: Deathgaze spawns on a single aerial tile at a time. Wherever it happens to spawn, that's where it'll be until you, in return, happen to fly there.

So technically speaking, it could be right there waiting for you the instant you board the Falcon for the first time. It's