#boss music

[cat-cosplay]

When the Phase 2 boss music suddenly kicks in...

[magicalstevengames]

ODYSSEUS: makes even the smallest important decision

EURYLOCHUS: fuck I can already hear the boss music. which god is it this time? is it Zeus' turn? Ares? fuck man, I do not get paid enough for this

[humanoid--human]

In Bloodborne there's a boss called Laurence, the First Vicar. The fact that this is a really funny name is sort of unimportant to what I want to say.

If you're not familiar with Soulsborne boss music, it's almost entirely huge orchestral pieces, with organs, horns, and Latin choirs. They tend to be vast, dramatic, and dark, befitting the tone of the boss fights. Laurence's boss theme is not an exception.

In particular there's a portion in the middle of the piece where the music swells, triumphant. The choir comes to the forefront, chanting incomprehensible (and grammatically incorrect, I've heard) Latin lyrics, and the strings reach higher and higher. The moment, musically, is incredible.

But in the actual fight, you are busy cutting off the lower half of his body as he screams and flails around. It's a fantastic contrast: the music is so over the top in accompanying the visuals on screen that it loops around to being contemptuous.

We have a word for that - for praise that is so extravagant it becomes mockery: sarcasm.

They put sarcasm into the music.

damn.

[yinkybaginky]

[IIIIIIIIIIIIIT'S TICKIT TIME!!1!]

[rpgbossthemebracket]

Battle themes are a highlight of any game's OST, especially the ones reserved for big, bad bosses. There have been a couple of tournaments on our fair hellsite pertaining to this topic, but I'd like to get a bit more granular with this.

What is Tumblr's favorite RPG boss battle theme?

A few rules, before we begin:

Entrants must originate from an RPG and must play for boss battles. I will not be counting normal battle themes, even if they still play for boss battles. (My apologies to people who only like Final Fantasy I, if you exist.)

Please only submit one song per submission, and don't spam the same one over and over. Nobody likes a spammer. You can, however, absolutely submit multiple different songs that you like.

Only one song per franchise (or, if I don't get enough, one per game) will make it into the tournament proper. Final entrants will be decided through preliminary brackets.

For the love of god, be civil! Propaganda for your favorite songs is welcomed, but let's keep the mud-slinging to a minimum. At the end of the day, this is supposed to be about having fun, and drama and fighting will only get in the way of that.

Submissions will be open through the following week, or until I receive enough submissions that I deem an early closure necessary. I'm only one person, and even I have my limits.

I'll add links to other important posts on this one as things go along. For now, have fun submitting songs! I'm also open to asks, if there are any further questions!

This poll was inspired by the likes of @bangerbattlethemes, @bestpokemonbattletheme, @finalbossthemethrowdown, @bunnyrabbitbracket, @ultimate-sword-showdown, and @protagonistpolling.

[posthumanwanderings]

Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne - Last Boss Battle (Before Transformation)

[bunny-is-cute]

Lucifer and Alastor: *looking up baby names that start with “C”

Alastor: Celeste?

No: No. To ‘Heavenly’. How about Clarice?

Alastor: No what about Cynthia?

*Music begins playing out of nowhere*

Lucifer and Alastor: *visibly confused and kinda scared*

Alastor: Do you hear that?

Lucifer: It sounds like…boss music?

*Cynthia from Pokemon Gen 4 shows up*

Cynthia: I heard someone say my name. Let’s battle! *immediately throws out Garchomp*

Alastor and Lucifer: *even more confused but are now trying to fight off a Garchomp*

[tabby-kats]

Yippee, poll time

Links to all the themes below!

Ultraviolet

Pulsar

Ejecta

Occultation

Hypernova

Umbral Infinity

Interstellar

[titleknown]

Hot take, while the pipe organ is great, I think the harpischord is underrated in terms of spooky gothic instruments in boss music.

Like, you hear that in a boss theme and you know you're in for fighting some kind of rad as hell fancy Dracula at the very least...

[textual-deviant-blog]

Fanfic - Credits Song for Gabriel's Death

A steady, yet incessant high pitched noise rings out through the Gabriel-sized tunnel.

You have been following this widening, bloody trail for days, through the great underbelly. Featureless boxy tombs awaited you at first, lining the walls, then fluorescent hallways, then the scattered remains of what could perhaps be called a corridor. Now, even those are gone. Nothing except an unending grey with scattered bits of beautiful crimson to lead you on. You stopped sliding after that; it became taxing on your limbs without blood to fill the gaps in your design. You are made to bathe in blood, for even the smallest of faults in your mechanics, hydraulics, limbs and weaponry to be mended by violence. It is paradoxes that keep you going, and you are deprived of them.

The worst of it is, since the last demon to fall at your hands in the tombs, since that fluorescent hum faded from view, all the sound to accompany you has been that of your subtler mechanisms; the dull whir of servos and the near-staccato of your own footsteps. It reminds you of your origin, in the most sickening way imaginable. Each errant rock wastes ammo, each sudden movement- even some of your own- may risk collapsing the tunnel and crushing you beneath glassed rock, your innate bloodlust demanding a vent for that urge.

It's strange, to be a machine made in imitation of man, yet bearing their weaknesses all the same. Weaknesses neither have.

Compared to the silence; to living with nothing but yourself, the careful rhythm of that plipping noise has injected life back into you.

You came to finish what you started, after all.

Fresher liquid coats itself on your feet, staining the ground even more than it already has been. Light approaches. You quicken your pace.

Ahead, you sprint into a large room, completely dark besides a slight glow at the other end of the room.

You see him.

The Angel. The Knight. The Enemy. He doesn't stir. Gabriel leans there, his face being barely visible by only his own light. He is covered in blood, standing far and away above you. Blood drips off of him in a slow, lethargic movement.

You've discovered what the noise was.

"Machine." He addresses you, all too suddenly. "I've... waited." His echo exudes a fraction of the authority it used to. His voice is stripped bare of his former malice. His veneer of civility and poise with which he held himself has been abandoned. You look on, and what stares back is a dying man; a man who lives with the fact that he is to die.

He is no less weak for it.

"God's light has left me." He admits, the pitch in his voice all too high, his very being wavering with such a phrase's utterance. His holy gleam has grown weak. You- V1- stare on with apathy. You're the one responsible for his suffering, but you have nothing to offer in apology.

Both of you were made by and for violence. V1, made by and for man. Gabriel, made by and for god. It is tragic, then, that neither yet lives. Both failed their creators, in one way or another.

And so, only a single purpose remains.

Gabriel continues in his throes, his voice of a seething temperament. "ME! GOD'S MOST RIGHTEOUS SERVANT! HIS GOLDEN SOLDIER! GABRIEL, WHO HAS NEVER, NEVER ONCE LOST TO SUCH INSOLENT, HEATHEN SCUM!" For all his rage, he weakly rises, releasing a roar as he tosses a faded blade of light. You remain rooted where you stand, as it entirely misses you- no, it hits a circuit board on the wall, and electricity arcs away from it in a dark swell. The room is bathed in light, revealed to be far larger than it had initially seemed.

And, it is filled with mountains upon mountains of corpses.

Machine, man, demon- all are equal in the end. Even the severed pieces of the council bleed the same color. The high altar, which was lit only by Gabriel's dimming light, is upon the highest of those mounds. His form is bloody and battered- a result of your most recent fight.

He did not heal.

"I have fought with myself. I have bled myself in disgrace! What was different about YOU, machine!? FOUR TIMES I HAVE LOST, when all your predecessors could do was GRASP futilely at the STRANDS of victory!" He smashes his hand on the altar, and his fist cracks. It calms him, somewhat. "But one has ever survived me. They ran, and didn't look back. They were an urchin and skirmisher, a coward. Now, I am the coward- with nowhere else to run. Nowhere except downward. Nothing except one more sacrifice to make in the name of God. The first to turn their back on god, accept a final offering from... the last."

Impossibly, a rotting stench fills your nostrils. You remember you do not have a nose. Gabriel's blood begins to peel off of him, staining the ivory altar with the holiest shades of red. The five-pointed star appears around him in a dodecahedron, coming off of him in mist. You look upon the mark, and your eyes bleed. You remember you do not have eyes. Then, it expands. It engulfs your brethren, failed progenitors, ancient corpses; demons, ghouls, and long-dead kings; even the holiest of men each are torn limb from limb, uncompromisingly, as it continues sucking away at Gabriel. You watch as they disappear into that red abyss, which now grows too bright and swelled with blood to bear. A deep nostalgia takes over. You forget to remember you do not have memories. The humungous room suddenly feels so very small as titanic, charred legs step out of the dodecahedron while it rises upwards. It ascends, and more of his form is revealed. Red has replaced his all his white. His armor is fused to his skin in shattered pieces. His head comes into view. A glistening, silver skull looks upon you, his jaw set in black iron and his bloodshot eyes tear into you with more fervor than any blade possibly could. With hate in his voice, rapturous emotion in his tone, and metal scraping upon metal with each syllable, Gabriel speaks. "MANKIND'S LEGACY DIES HERE! I WILL END YOU, DEMON BATHED IN STEEL, MACHINE WRAPPED IN MAN, MAN FOLDED UPON DEMON, EVEN IF IT COSTS ME ALL THAT I EVER WAS! EVEN IF THE COST IS GOD HIMSELF!"

The First laughs. The Last roars. The lights cut. The most terrible nightmares start with threes.

~ The mashup created by Bueg is the latter end of a trilogy. You can find the prior songs in the linked video's description. The art at the beginning is by Bl0ody_Art9, found here. This is a fanmade fanfiction, and is in no way canonical to ULTRAKILL or the fanfiction that inspired it. If you ask why these words appeared in my head, I would be unable to answer.

[spectrum-studios]

Save the World au boss theme:

God's Demise

This is a titan boss theme-

[dizzyhslightlyvoided]

man, first Sonic Mania, now Murder of Sonic. The final boss songs from the recent spinoff games 1. have had completely different energy from the final boss themes in the main series, and 2. have been complete bangers in their own right. Less "epic", more "absolute jam". We need more final boss themes like that.

[yinkybaginky]

remaking a song of mine ( again )

[bhps-official-blog]

If Lu is a boss fight. This is his theme

I don't care what you say

Phase 2 :

Final Phase :

Final Phase is a dance off. Good fking luck

[dezertvideogames]

Video Game OST: Day 23