Man, I meant to replay FF4 before the expansion came out but didn't get around to it. My party marked Cindy to kill first which I know you had to do in FF4 or she'd revive the others; is that the case here as well?
Also the tower is kind of creepy as fuck. Very unsettling biological looking design when it absorbs the alchemist. Fandaniel's identity was one of the things I indirectly spoiled myself on with the card list (at least that that name would be relevant again). I was a little confused in that cutscene; I had thought that Xande was actually Emet, but it didn't seem like that here. Maybe I misremembered.