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Best Boss Battle Music you've had
Jamation
Member, Alpha One, Adventurer
[Note: This thread may contain spoilers for various games.]
I recently had one of those Asmongold reaction videos playing in the background and heard him mention boss battle music. It's something I've also felt pretty strongly about in regards to a boss battle experience.
So: What boss battle music can you still hear playing in your head that either haunts your dreams or pumps you up for a fight?
Also bonus: If Ashes were to add in custom music for boss battles where do you think the limit should be? Only certain big lore bosses like ancients? Or maybe just world bosses? Or dungeon bosses too?
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You have to understand...
Let me explain...
FFVI was my first RPG. It is my favorite single player RPG.
While I think they could have done a lot more with the fight, and the arrangement. I love this over all.
Some people don't like when FFXIV uses other FF bosses for no great reason, but I love Kefka so much I don't care.
Fighting Kefka was special on the SNES as a child and special on the PC as an adult. For me it really doesn't get much better than this.
True story. I seen Nobuo Uematsu play live in his Earthbound Papas band. He started to play the opening to One Winged Angel and the audience started to go nuts. A few measures in they shifted it into Dancing Mad. A different part of the audience went nuts, but he actually finished the whole song. Which reaffirmed for me that Nobuo likes FFVI best. He has said it before. I say it all the time.
If I had more time, I would write a shorter post.
Anyone would be crazy not to include Fight On from FFVII
♥ In The Name Of Venus, I'll Punish You! ♥
https://instagram.com/theblazedace/
Music is the only thing that makes me follow something scripted. This music man.
The Painful Way
Scourge of the Furies
River of Flame
Mouth of Styx
Composed by Darren Korb. I wish Intrepid could seduce him
Yes, love me some Hans Zimmer! But mainly for Epic type music, not so much for memorable melodies.
More than once I've been like "I like this music, who composed it? ... oh of course it's Hans Zimmer"
In games though, I honestly prefer music with a long melody line and switch ups. If the music is too bland, I get sick of it if I have to spend a few hours in the area.
Combination of the intro doing that weird tempo swing and taking a while for the song to get started, plus the way it's a variation of the normal battle music and is unique to Cynthia, also highly percussive stuff always gets the heart pumping.
Chromatic wavering (some microtonal stuff too), off-beat rhythms, bass switching between a stable open fifth to an super quirky pattern with heaps of dissonance with the melody - weird sound library but it worked, haha.
They also cheated by having dead silence when you first walk into the room with Cynthia standing in the middle.
always enjoyed gregorian chant in my boss music, this is best boss music , you know when there is people singing in latin , shits going down.
But also:
Hanz Zimmer is also amazing! I really enjoyed his piece "Time" and made a list of songs for when I used to play MTG that started with it. You should check out "Mind Heist" by London Music Works https://open.spotify.com/track/2kgwLTmFWUi2bSxVJFPBKq?si=a39578e9653a462f This caught me off guard with how much I enjoyed it.
Those are my favorites music wise for boss fights.
Touhou has a very unique take on music in their series in that it is part of the story. Since the games are shooters, the stages are also always timed to be at the same part of the song every time you play. So you can use it as an indicator how far in the game you are as well.
There are over 100 characters in Touhou and every single one of them have both a boss theme and a stage theme. Except the few that were either never a mid boss or never a boss. The theme matches every character very well. Though stage themes are more for atmosphere. Boss themes are the actual themes for the characters themselves.
There is no other series where I can say I like every single song in a game series. Touhou is number 1. xD
Between beating up vampires under a blood moon, Going to the netherealm so the world isn't in an eternal winter, or going to hell itself to fight a nuclear hell raven. Not many game series can match the atmosphere it's songs have as well. =3
U.S. East
Can't wait to hear what Bear's got in-store for us, for action/combat music encounters!
Agreed.
Here is my favorite!
If I had more time, I would write a shorter post.