The unique boss theme for the battle that happens right after the Bravely Default plot twist is a pretty damn epic one.
Zed from Wild Arms.
He fulfills none of the criteria in the OP, and yet he gets the best theme in the game.
FFXIV's OST is really something special. You go from my two choices that are all about building up these epic fights with a ton of symbolism built into the build up and the lyrics of the actual songs and then you have this 70s Super Robot parody theme.
I legit came into the thread thinking "Battle on the Big Bridge"
Yeah, but he has a different track in that, so it only partially counts.Well, he joins the party in the PS2 remake, so he technically does fulfill the criteria! He's just playing the long game.
I don't think MH counts because plenty of these are final bosses or extra bosses from other MH games.If it count as "RPG", then Monster Hunter.
In Monster Hunter World Iceborne, 22 unique battle theme out of 69 boss monsters. Some of my personal favorite :
Teostra
Zinogre
Kulve Taroth
Nargacuga
And shoutout to Behemoth (Final Fantasy XIV collaboration).
should i just post the entire Undertale boss soundtrack or
cause like every boss has their own theme and it's all fantastic. i guess i could pick out the super standouts
this one for being an absolute banger period
this one's amazing on the 'powerful' front. just the sheer character and emotion it conveys purely through the music... it really got me the first time. It's like it gives the entire tragic arc of the character without ever even saying a word, it's kind of incredible.
this one. for the first time in the route you feel immediately like you're up against a genuine threat. embodies the 'hero' the game portrays her as, like someone truly putting up their final stand against the worst possible threat, which just makes the incoming tragedy all the worse
Atma Weapon gets its own theme in FFVI to let you know it means business
more threads should be jenova threads
Doubt that people who haven't played and don't plan on playing Bravely really give a crap about the story. Wicked Battle is indeed dope though. The part at 1:20 and on = hype intensifiedGonna quote myself because anyone who doesn't know the plot of Bravely Default and never plans on playing it really needs to know this, so uhh major spoilers.
The main character Tiz is the only survivor from a village that is completely wiped out by a giant chasm opening and swallowing everyone else. He meets Agnes, who has a fairy companion named Airy that is guiding her on a quest to help stabilize the world by purifying the 4 elemental crystals from a consuming darkness. So for the first four chapters, Tiz, Agnes, and two to other party members do just that. When you finish with the fourth crystal, Airy guides you to a column of light that is coming out of the great chasm after purifying the last crystal. You'd think that this would be the end of the game, but after you head to the column of light, you reset back to when Tiz first wakes up after escaping the chasm in the beginning of the game. Everything is back to the state that it was in the beginning of the game, except some things are different.
Various different enemies that were working together change up their groups and some switch sides. Events still play out mostly the same, but it's clear that this is not only a travel back in time, but to a parallel universe, which the game already established in a thing at this point by having this friend mechanic where you can call in someone playing the game from your Nintendo 3DS friend list to do one quick super attack, but up until this point it didn't seem like this was story critical.
Airy convinces the team to just rush to all of the crystals and purify them again, so you do that. Then the world resets again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
Now there is a bad ending that you can get tied to the crystal purifying mechanic. The game asks you to mash a button until Airy asks you to stop, except you can keep mashing. You can keep mashing until the crystal breaks, and then the twist can be revealed then and there, which leads to a bad ending, but if you go through this process about 5 times (if I recall correctly), you'll still get the reveal but you continue toward the true ending.
Airy reveals herself to have been setting you up to revive her dark overlord Ouroboros, who is a devourer of worlds, and she had been fooling several adventurers into doing this across multiple parallel worlds. If you are perceptive, you can even notice that there are symbols on her wings counting down how many more times this process needs to happen for Ouroboros to be fully revived.
So in short, this is the boss music for the fight against Airy.
One really fun gimmick that the game uses here is the title screen. As you are first playing through the game, this is how it looks:
And then when you get to this plot twist, the two Fs get removed and it becomes:
So yeah, hope that context makes listening to that song more enjoyable.
The strength of FFXIV's OST is the same as the rest of the game's content: the sheer range of it all.
It also helps that, in addition to the new stuff, it can pull off pretty darn good versions of old songs, too. Since this thread loves fisticuffs on big bridges:
Doubt that people who haven't played and don't plan on playing Bravely really give a crap about the story. Wicked Battle is indeed dope though. The part at 1:20 and on = hype intensified
In a similar spirit, Breath of Fire 3 has IIRC 2 battle themes (a generic boss one and an important story boss one, though it's inconsistently used). Then there is this theme for the penultimate boss battle:
Again knowing the story behind this battle makes it that much more sadder and ominous, but that's obvious endgame spoilers.
Not really, you fight your party members for a lot of reasons in RPGs, some of which are just friendly duels or heart to heart fighting with fists. Kratos has like a billion layers to his backstory and this does actually play in a duel-like fightLol aren't those major Tales of Symphonia spoilers in OP? Fortunately I've played tos.
Not really, you fight your party members for a lot of reasons in RPGs, some of which are just friendly duels or heart to heart fighting with fists. Kratos has like a billion layers to his backstory and this does actually play in a duel-like fight
Baten Kaitos series Giacomo and the chaotic trio. Man I want a remaster of both games.