Genuinely surprised by what just happened

I’m playing the game for the first time and not even five hours into the game, Kefka poisons a river and kills an entire castle worth of people, including Cyan’s wife and child…

I understand that Final Fantasy games can get pretty dark sometimes but I never would’ve expected to see a man to grieve the death of his wife and child so early in the game. The fact that this was on the SNES too is wild to me, that Nintendo allowed dark subject matter like this on the console.

I’m starting to see why so many people think Kefka is a great villain