I think pretty much my love for FFVI can be summed up in the opera scene, which is, y'know, sort of the most famous thing in the game. The way you see it from two perspectives, both Celes' and Locke's, was just revolutionary, the play-within-a-play trope that would be resurrected for most FF games after that, but never so successfully. Not only was there an opera composed entirely for this game-- and "The Dream Oath" is still, I believe the only opera composed for a video game-- but all the scenery's magnificence, the Wagnerian conceits, all of that just pales before character drama that is Celes earning her own song.

And then a giant octopus shows up.