The Jenova fight, if only for the music shift in that 3rd phase, which might my favorite moment in the entire game.
I kept wondering how they were going to handle this theme ever since I realized heard how good this ost could be from the demo, and was drawn in when the motif kept drifting in and out of other earlier scenes where Jenova gets mentioned. When the fight started and the bgm wasn't much like J-E-N-O-V-A at all, i thought they fucked it up and went for a more subtle approach.
I was wrong, because having that music transition happen so late into the fight was something I wasn't expecting, and that surprise made the moment so much better. There was a lot of build up with the theme being teased so much in the last third of the game, but I didn't even realize it was culminating to this until I finally heard it.
It actually reminded me a little of how FFXIV pulls off musical transitions at key points in boss fights.
I kept wondering how they were going to handle this theme ever since I realized heard how good this ost could be from the demo, and was drawn in when the motif kept drifting in and out of other earlier scenes where Jenova gets mentioned. When the fight started and the bgm wasn't much like J-E-N-O-V-A at all, i thought they fucked it up and went for a more subtle approach.
I was wrong, because having that music transition happen so late into the fight was something I wasn't expecting, and that surprise made the moment so much better. There was a lot of build up with the theme being teased so much in the last third of the game, but I didn't even realize it was culminating to this until I finally heard it.
It actually reminded me a little of how FFXIV pulls off musical transitions at key points in boss fights.