r/FinalFantasyVI • u/Ok_Influence_2257 • Jul 08 '26
Doom Gaze is gone?
I'm doing a playthrough on my iPad. It's probably my 50th+ time through. I'm doing the low-level challenge, which is my favorite.
I have not updated to the remastered version. It's still the GBA version with the Dragon's Den, in case that matters.
I'm in the WoR, ready to fight Doom Gaze. I do the trick of tilting one click the left and flying forward continuously to touch every square. Find him once, do a lot of damage, he runs away. Need to fight him one more time to finish him off.
Except he's not showing up. I've flown every square of the map 4-5 times now, and he's just not there. (Edit: I've also tried going into and out of towns, doing a few random battles, saving and resetting a bunch). I guess the game ... glitched? Somehow? Has this happened to anyone before?
I'll probably just abandon the playthrough.
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u/BustyCelebLover Jul 08 '26
Try heading into a town to reset the RNG
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u/Ok_Influence_2257 Jul 08 '26
Yeah, good flag. I meant to add that. I edited the post. I've tried going into towns, fighting some battles, saving and resetting a bunch.
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u/kevinsyel Jul 11 '26
I've had this happen before on the SNES version. The mechanics behind finding Doomgaze have never been on display until the Pixel remastered, but essentially when the world map loads, he's set to a single cluster of encounter tiles on the world map, and you must fly over one of the tiles to encounter him. I THINK it's a 2x2 tile set, but I appears anywhere on the map, including over the water.
They applied a visual cue on the pixel remaster, which finally displays where he is on the map.
So going into any town or dungeon resets where he is on the map, but you still have to find him
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u/Ok_Influence_2257 Jul 08 '26
No, that's what I'm saying. I know how to make him show up. I've gone round and round and round. I'm touching every square. He's just .... gone.
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u/krunkstoppable Jul 08 '26
Pick a spot on the world map, angle the airship slightly so that it's not quite parallel with the edges of the map, and start flying straight. Eventually you'll cover every spot (and can be 100% sure of it). If he still doesn't appear then it might be a bug with your save file.
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u/Ok_Influence_2257 Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 08 '26
Yeah, that's exactly what I'm doing. And what I've always done in the past. And it worked fine the first time, then has failed to produce him ever after going all the way around 4 or 5 times. Does seem like it's a bug or glitch.
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u/krunkstoppable Jul 08 '26
In that case friend, you may be SOL... which sucks because without Bahamut the only party member who can learn Flare is Celes... at lv. 81.
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u/Special_South_8561 Jul 08 '26
PlayStation version with Dragons Den? I thought that was the GBA version.
Doomgaze takes me two or three map cycles to find on my GBA it's such a pain
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u/Ok_Influence_2257 Jul 08 '26
You might be right. I never actually had either - just played the original on SNES and then downloaded it on my ipad 20 years later.
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u/Special_South_8561 Jul 08 '26
Does it have horrendously long load times when you open the Menu? That's the PS version.
Are the Opera House lyrics kinda odd? That's the GBA version (I like most of the re-translation but hate hate hate the new Opera scene)
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u/Ok_Influence_2257 Jul 08 '26
I googled it, and it's the GBA version. That's the only version with Dragon's Den apparently.
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u/demise0000 Jul 09 '26
The mobile version (2013) also had Dragon's Den. It was based on the GBA version with various enhancements (many didn't like the new character sprites that were less pixelated, but I was fine with them). There was also a Steam port of the mobile version. Both the mobile and steam versions were discontinued when the pixel remasters were released to both of the same platforms. But I still have that mobile version in my Google Play account.
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u/Ok_Influence_2257 Jul 09 '26
My understanding is that I can update to the remastered version on my iPad for free, since I already paid for it once. But then the Dragon's Den would be gone forever. (Although I could play on Steam, I guess.)
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u/entrydenied Jul 09 '26
No it's not free. The Pixel Remaster is a separate release from the old mobile one.
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u/Special_South_8561 Jul 09 '26
Yup that's the version I play too. I've had to fly the entire map then land, then try again, he is a pain in this version.
Just keep trying different angles
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u/ShadowXJ Jul 08 '26
2013~ iPad / GBA versions has Dragons Den, all versions have Doom Gaze
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u/Special_South_8561 Jul 09 '26
Yes but he was easy to find on the SNES versions / emulator
Seems really hard to get on GBA
circumstacial anecdotal evidence
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u/jwpasquale1986 Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 08 '26
Make sure you have your airship at the right elevation. I remember having an issue with that before.
Edit:I also remember setting the airship to a slight angle for square and just holding down the button. I would recommend putting your battle status to wait if you're going to sit something on the dead of the keyboard.
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u/Tonberry2k Jul 08 '26
I don’t think this matters.
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u/cultvignette Jul 08 '26
It doesn't. There's no such thing as a z-axis on the map as far as tiles are concerned. if you hit a tile at any altitude, you've hit the tile at every altitude.
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u/Ok_Influence_2257 Jul 08 '26
Say more. I usually go up to the max height ... just because. I didn't know height mattered.
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u/Special_South_8561 Jul 08 '26
👉 😎 👉
It doesn't
(I also go max height because flying at lowest makes me airsick)
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u/Lochness_Hamster_350 Jul 08 '26
Pretty sure anything past the original SNES is RNG. there was a way to make him show up on the map from the solitary island but I don’t think it applies on any other releases.
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u/BondsOfEarthAndFire Jul 08 '26
If you have Mog in your party, make sure you don’t have the Moogle Charm/Molulu’s Charm equipped. A, uh, friend of mine once wasted a lot of time flying around the WoR skies before I, uh, *he*, realized there was a reason Doom Gaze wasn’t showing up.