Greatest final boss theme?

[Fbuh]

I heard this really good song in some game I played years ago about some spikey haired guy with a sword (can't remember the name.) The last boss had an amazing song called The Angel Who Was Missing A Wing or something.

el oh el

I won't say above mentioned song, since it's bound to be a favorite (and therefore mentioned 5000 times), but I did really enjoy some of the other FF boss battles, specifically Kefka's

 

[Phlakes]

What's this?

Another opportunity to shamelessly plug my series on video game music [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/groups/view/Top-Ten-Songs]?

Well, only for the good of the people. THE PEOPLE I TELL YOU!

...Yeah, here's a few-




Actually, I have an entire entry [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/326.270713-Top-Ten-Songs-Special-Final-Boss-Themes] for final boss themes. Just sayin'.

 

[Captain Underbeard]

It's fast...loud...and chaotic...


....and really really good.


Edit to add: How do you embed vids on this board? I can't seem to get it to work.

Here ya go, just do:

[ youtube=35rX1WWqulw ] without the spaces

 

[gruggins]

two words: Odin. Sphere.
pure concentrated epicness
(i would have put shadow of the colossus here instead but someone already beat me to it)

 

[Feylynn]

I actually had a lot of trouble coming to a conclusion but I think this is it.

There is bosses where all out pump up and ridiculously epic and insane terror are appropriate sounds... But my favorite is the heavy but soft, almost a melancholy to it.

Edit: and just to invalidate this post someone posted anything Odin Sphere above me and made my choice wrong.
Ah well, this will be my second favorite for now then.

Edit2: sorry for the disabled embed can't find a decent alternate to link atm.

 

[happymasksalesman]

This.

 

[DoctorPhil]

What? No one has posted the final boss of Team Fortress 2 yet? What the hell, escapist?

Spoiler

 

[Jonny1188]

This has always been my favorite Final Boss theme, especially considering what it takes to get there as a kid.

 

[AyaReiko]

NEET Princess FTW.

 

[Gaiseric]

King Allant's theme from Demon's Souls fit perfectly. Haunting and epic at the same time.

 

[Grabbin Keelz]

Rock on

 

[Shakomaru]

Seven rings in hand from Sonic and the secret rings. That game had the best music....

 

[Ultress]

To me it will always be this

 

[Gearran]

My favorite end boss theme is a three way tie:

1. Dancing Mad, from Final Fantasy VI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbXVNKtmWnc

2. Lavos Final Battle, from Chrono Trigger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpaJulksCik

3. Pokey Means Business, from Earthbound
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZRyJDOVRlk

I know you said try for ones that no one has heard before, but all of these games are over a decade old.

 

[hopeneverdies]

From Iji, a freeware game.

None of that chanting vocals or awful lyrics stuff; just good, inspiring rock music that gives you the feel of a world just on the knife's edge of disaster (and appropriately, this battle takes place minutes before all of Earth is going to be nuked into oblivion)

I will agree with the OP that that music is really good. Might be relying a bit too much on the standard holy-chanting theme, but it has good rhythm.

Also: Trying to take the time to listen to most of the tracks here, but most are really good, so I'm not sure which to spend more of my time on...I like that so many of them have a certain buildup to the climactic portions of the fight. Works well for RPGs which tend to have some leading dialogue, or it takes a few turns of combat before you really feel the tension.

Goddamn, this makes me feel so tired of how most newer games, especially FPS's, haven't bothered giving you any sort of boss fight or even any large direct personal conflict with one character.

I freaking love you. No joke. Full stop.

 

[GodofDisaster]

Spoiler: ...

I've grown rather attached to PkMn Trainer Red's theme.

Trust me your not the only one I heard the song when my brother was playing his copy of Soul Silver and I've been addicted ever since.

As for my favourite final boss theme, well I actually like all of the Pokemon Champion themes so I'm just going to go with that. I especially love the Kanto Champion remake theme that Black and White has.

 

[Raziel_Likes_Souls]

World of Warcraft's final boss theme blows all of these out of the water.

When it gets made. Until then, need I say more than that what I have in mind is the first result you get when you type in "final boss music" in the search bar of youtube (excluding the suggested videos)? The final boss and plot of the game itself weren't epic at all, so it didn't deserve such an epic final boss theme, but there you go. Just too bad the sound was generated with a DS. Most themes I see in this thread are just epic, but have little musical value. This theme has both.

I already posted, so here's Catherine, instead.

 

[KefkaCultist]

Well what I'm about to post isn't a FINAL boss, but it is from a definitely epic fight and has some definitely epic music.

Behold...

[HEADING=2]MAGUS' THEME!!!![/HEADING]


And also an awesome remix of it for your ears to salivate to:

 

[Canadamus Prime]

2. Lavos Final Battle, from Chrono Trigger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpaJulksCik

That one has always been one of my favorites.