Vi while poisoned with a last stand, leaf cloak, antlion jaws, poisoned attacker, ADPB extender and two power exchange medals: Sure. Just let me use hard charge real quick.
Imagine becoming a demigod but after being beaten up by a beetle with survivor guilt, a fungus piloting a dead moth and an angry rebelious teen bee you just turn into broccoli Rough day
Ermant StuckInRealityguy Lief is Lief. They’re both the moth and the fungus. The fungus uses “I” when referring to itself but “We” when speaking as Leif.
""Hoaxe was abandoned by his parents in the middle of the Dead Lands, before he spoke his first words. Only through a miracle did he survive to reach Bugaria, where he managed to blend into the Wasp Kingdom's populace. He had no friends, and no respect. All he had was his job: cleaning up trash. One day, he vanished from the Wasp Kingdom. Nobody cared..." Trinket Seller on Metal Island: "...I don't have anything else to sell, but you lot remind me of this fly lad I met once. Poor boy went crazy over an old crown I fished out of the lake. Paid me hundreds of berries for that junk. I wonder what became of him after that... Last I heard he headed north or something..." "...When he returned, unrecognized by all who ostracized him, he commanded such power and charisma...They had no choice but to serve him." Hoaxe was abandoned by his parents, survived Hell shortly after being born, and was practically rejected by the Wasps. After spending who knows how long collecting their trash and being disrespected, he ran away from the Wasp Kingdom, spending his life savings on a trip to Metal Island, where he spent the rest of his money on a crown so that he could feel important for once in his life. By pure chance, that crown was a magical artifact that gave Hoaxe the power of Flame. With his newfound power, he sought revenge against the people who wronged him, so he headed north, back to the Wasp Kingdom. After the Fly got his revenge, he had gone mad with power (perhaps he had gone mad long before he even got the crown, who knows.), and so he started his quest to get the most powerful artifact of all, the Everlasting Sapling, so that all would obey him. He would never be neglected or disrespected ever again. I almost feel bad for the guy. Almost. I hope that his parents got what was coming to them, at least.
@Bagel God They probably did. The game's text says they abandoned Hoaxe in the MIDDLE of the Dead Lands. What in the world were they doing there in the first place? If they were in that deep into sealed territory, then it's unlikely that they made it out alive. Perhaps they didn't abandon Hoaxe out of malice, but rather fear for their lives and just lost their maggot as they fled. It’s also plausible that it was a Kung Fu Panda-ish situation where they hid their maggot somewhere and went to distract the Dead Landers to get them far from Hoaxe. We'll never know. Also, perhaps it's not unusual that he was neglected and disrespected in the Wasp Kingdom. He is, after all, a Wasp Mimic Fly (Hoverfly), rather than an actual wasp. He is an outsider and technically a migrant laborer. His treatment isn’t that much different from how humans treat their migrant laborers throughout history.
A little extra text from a roach in the roach village touches on that. She says it was irresponsible of them to have tossed such a powerful item into the lake, and how it wasn't an artifact per say, but just as powerful.
Sorry to bother you so long after you wrote this comment, but where did you find the text about Hoaxe? I thought I'd read everything in the game, but clearly I haven't!
Wobbmin and let not forget those small clouds of smoke that came up from the table that was epic. We were lucky that the table didn’t get on fire screw the sapling the table is the real treasure.
@@airwalker0676 Also, your little houseplant isn't a living, immortal, too-powerful-for-use magical tree of incredible repute to a post-humanity society of common and uncommon garden ecology in a tiny backyard.
@@bucketofice1777 its his spy dialouge for the everlasting king, basicly the moment i got spy specs i put it on so spying is free, i always put it in my boss builds since i always have like one medal point left over.
I just finished it too, and this was the only game that made me almost drive into tears. It was a experience. I saw this in xbox gamepass and i was like “funny haha paper mario clone”. But it was one of the best games i have played, no joke. Better then alot of paper mario games. The plot was amazing and the gameplay was just paper mario but i still loved it. Good game 9/10 for me.
I dont think I saw anyone mention this, but... "We must press on until the end!" "This is it, huh...Vi, Kabbu, thanks for all the good times." While it isn't as clear with Kabbu's whether or not he thinks so too, since "the end" could also just mean the end of the fight...I'm pretty sure Leif genuinely thought they were all going to die to this guy...
Damn i didn't notice this now the sentence sounds so different yeah it does seem leif thought they were gonna die cuz in the notes it says "He controlled the power of fire and the everlasting sapling, there was no LOGICAL way team snakemouth could've won"
Kabbu: you have been yeeted off the ground Everlasting King: ok then i'l just use a shield (2 minutes later) Vi: ok go get him Chomps! Chomps: (lands the final blow) Everlasting King: HOW COULD I, THE EVERLASTING KING, COULD BE DEFEATED BY A BABY PLANT! Chmps: *laughs in chomping*
I kinda like it though. The entire game bosses have been harder to hit inside the air and Some cant even attack on the ground and others have stronger attacks in the air (spuder is the only flying boss to follow neither of these rules i believe.) So wasp king subversing this expectation is honestly kinda cool, its like what lavos does in chrono trigger where he hides his core in 1 of the smaller pods
@@andxrw5597 I wasn't confident enough to defend against his fire barrages so I kept him as much as possible rooted to the ground. It probably made my fight unnecessarily longer but that's how it be.
Here we go, rant time I love this fight so much, Hoaxe had completely screwed himself without even realizing it, at least not before it was too late That "leaf" Hoaxe ate wasn't a leaf, it was a seed, and as soon as Hoaxe ate it, he was on borrowed time His power seems limitless, every time you take his health down, he just heals But that healing gets weaker and weaker as the fight progresses, the seed is growing inside of Hoaxe, roots are growing out of his legs and sapping energy from the ground, only making it grow faster, he is slowly dying without even realizing as his hatred for the world is blinding him Hoaxe dies as the tree grows out of him, the power of the sapling truly drained, leaving Hoaxe the one thing he always wanted to be..... *Everlasting*
@@Dragon_640 "rant" also implies it being of great length. That was more of a short tangent. That said, a "rant" need not be angry -it can also be impassioned. Never heard of "unimpressed", though. Basically, whenever you go on some form of an energetic spiel, be that from excitement or rage.
Imagine walking into your kitchen and seeing a bee, beatle, and a moth fighting a wasp with leaves coming out of his body and the ability of fire while there is a bunch of "dead" bugs right next to them on the kitchen table
To quote Hoaxe, “With this power, I am everlasting!” To quote me, pointing to the medal that gives you 2 TP every turn, “You think you’re everlasting? Look at this, Bichon Frisée! With this power, I am everlasting!” Proceeds to use Frozen Drill 10 times.
@@ihaetschool3361fucking pitcher plant man. I'm shocked I beat it on my first try, even if it was after I near the game that dude nearly killed everyone lmao
@@GeoAce51my sister found, fought, and beat that boss by complete accident lol she started the fight on half health and almost no healing items but she hadn't saved in a while so we had to beat it, it was a really fun battle lol
I absolutely love how the chorus section of this song was seeded into your mind early-on as the lullaby for the Inn animation. You go to bed every day to a soft, soothing banjo. And you wake up to this fucking nightmare.
It's the everlasting sapling leitmotif, found OST 1, 2, 6, 20, 77, 81, and 84 the first half and second half sometimes appear separately, but only in those 7 songs does the full leitmotif play. (I scanned the entire soundtrack)
Having finished Bug Fables, I'm really sad I took so long to pick it up, because it was worth every penny and then some. I don't know if this is a particularly new take, but this is a game about many things. About triumph over adversity, about the struggle against your own failings, but chief among them, this is a game about finding peace. Vi had her dreams trampled by the hive and estranged herself from them consequently. She was hurt, and she returned that hurt ten-fold. Two wrongs do not make a right, and Leif gives her the push she needs to find peace, spending her life savings if it meant she could finally be a family again, to find that peace in her life. Kabbu was haunted by the death of his friends, that he must protect everyone. But he can't protect everyone if he can't protect himself. And in a moment of passion, he almost repeats the same mistake he made in the past. He was strong enough to slay the beast, but what if he wasn't? Would he have fled again? Perhaps it is only because he has grown so close to Vi and Leif that he finds the resolve to face the Beast, to face his demon, and slay his own selfish rage, finding inner peace. Leif is displaced in time. And more than that, he is dead. We never know Leif. We only ever know the Cordyceps that had taken over his body. Does he have a right to life? A product of mad experimentation by desperate roaches. His wife moved on without him, and had a kid in the spitting image of herself. In the end, it doesn't matter what Leif truly is, he's always been Leif to his new team, his new friends, his new family. That bond is real, and he has as much right to life as they do. And so he resolves to carry on the life of the explorer who met his untimely demise at the hands of a gluttonous spider, finding peace. Elizant the Second lived her entire life in her mother's shadow. She is not half the diplomat her mother was, let alone half the ruler she was. She is distant and speaks with authority, not with kindness. She seeks the sapling to revive her mother, so her mother may reign eternal, the perfect queen the people deserve. As the Wasp King takes everything from her, she is forced to work with her subordinates directly and confide in them. To admit her own shortcomings. To face her greatest fears as a ruler. She bears the brunt of the Termites' anger, but resolves to do what she must for her people, for all of bugaria even, to prevent the Wasp King from attaining the Sapling and becoming unstoppable. In this chase, she realizes the folly of her actions. She sees herself in the Wasp King. No different from the mad king who desires power for power's sake. So she resolves to allow her mother the rest she deserves, and to destroy the Sapling in the final act. She has found her peace. She does not need to be perfect. She need only be her best, to be a better ruler tomorrow than she is today, and that all starts by destroying this object that has become the obsession of both her and her mother, that drove a wedge between the ants and the termites. Would it have pushed the bees away as well, perhaps, if she became too blinded by it? It is good that she came to realize her folly before it was too late. The Wasp King mirrors all of these stories. But he misses a vital component in all of them. No one was there for him. When the world was against him, and he was at his most vulnerable, no one reached out a hand in kindness. No one reassured him that it would be alright. He didn't have Vi, Kabbu, or Leif. What he did have, was a crown. A crown of immense power. A crown that offered him the world. Of course he took it. Of course he spared no expense in obtaining it, the opportunity to take revenge, to make those who pushed him around serve him instead. In the end, this path of revenge lead to his own destruction. Hoaxe's tale is a tragedy, warning not only against the dangers of listening to the demons of vengeance, but also a reminder to us to be kind to one another. Be the Vi, Kabbu, or Leif someone needs in their life. A hand offered in friendship may be all it truly takes to ensure someone becomes more like Team Snakemouth. But the longer they go with no one, the longer they feel as though the world is against them, that they don't belong, that they're a failure, the longer they are left to fester in their own anger, the more and more likely they are to become like Hoaxe. So, be kind to others, friends. Even if it feels like the world is against you, try to stay optimistic, try to stay positive, and when that fails, seek out those like you. The outcast, the spurned, the downtrodden, the stranger. As a wise man once said, sometimes the best way to solve your own problems is helping someone else. Edit: Added spacing for readability
W-wow. This is an incredible envisioning of what the lead writer, Genow, intended for the story. Although it's obviously a basic lesson: there's absolutely no reason to wrong others who've wronged you; instead, simply be friendly to those you currently have in life. It's represented almost perfectly through the 5 significant characters, with it even being twisted through Leif's and Hoaxe's and straight-up altered through Elizant the 2nd's.
Is it just me who connects the title to Team Snakemouth? Vi transcended the expectations placed upon her by her entire species, and eventually went beyond the perception she had of herself too, showing kindness to those who hurt her. Kabbu was overpowered by his rage at seeing The Beast again, and overpowered by the grief that he might loose all he knows again, and used that to overpower The Beast. Leif's memories survived past death, giving the opportunity for his story to be told and remembered forever. Also, immortality headcanons. Might just be me reaching, but I find it cool to think about.
Ok this is actually a really underrated comment, I swear. It’s amazing that the final boss theme could be taken as describing both the party, with each word being positive in its meaning, as well as Hoaxe himself, with the words taking a negative connotation, since he forcefully transcended his mortality at the cost of almost the whole wasp kingdom, overpowered anyone in his way, and ate the everlasting sapling.
I think it could also talk about the bonds of Team Snakemouth by the end of the game. I mean, they endured the fight with the power of friendship and raw willpower, like a bunch of shonen anime protagonists.
Holy shit this is too good to be true, it’s like all the pieces of their problems and major flaws were finally fixed thanks to this adventure, and now it’s time to see the results.
One random thing I’m just going to blurt out. I’m really impressed how well this game did with the lack of major plot twists. I was genuinely expecting Elizant II to be evil in the end or something, but no! Elizant II was a caring leader and overall fantastic character throughout the whole story. The closest thing to a major plot twist was when it was discovered that The Usurper wasn’t in the Wasp Kingdom during the invasion. Even with the other twists like how Usurper isn’t the actual king of the wasps, or the truth about Leif, they don’t twist the plot, they add into them
Same with the Elizant thing, the second I saw she had a battle sprite alarm bells went off super hard.(When she draws her swords on the Usurper, then iirc it never gets used again lmao)
I was quoting ProZD's video about characters that are obviously going to betray you basically every time I saw her for the first half of the game. Everything about her is set up perfectly to make you think she'll be the villain, but no, she was actually a good person the entire time.
I love how right after the Final Battle the great humor comes back. When they're talking about "nothing being everlastung" and Mothiva just blurts out "my beauty". :D
The fact that he turns into a tree after the battle is honestly kind of a brutal death, his body just turns into bark and branches just burst out of the husk of his body, his feet are reduced to roots that are submerged into the soil, and... I'll just stop there.
@@whacka2871 That's what I like about Hoaxe as a villain. He has a reason for his actions that makes you empathize with him, but the game never uses his backstory to justify what he does. He could have done something like join the Explorer's Association if he wanted others to look up to him, but instead he chose to subject others to the same fate as him in pursuit of power. He's not just an evil person, he _chose_ to be one.
Played Bug Fables on the console release, and when I finally beat this boss, I was given a rare sense of sheer accomplishment and relief of beating him that I normally don't get with final bosses. This battle and the rest of the game is very well made.
@@Cyndasoul Beemerang might want to have a word with you :P Also: That fire brooch the party gets from Vanessa could be seen as this game's endgame "op" item.
@@MarkusHobelsberger more like Vanessa taking the op-ness off him, otherwise the man would’ve one-shotted everyone for a third time in a row with his supereffective Inferno spam with 100% accuracy
my greatest accomplishment with this fight isn’t beating him on hard mode. It was finishing him off with my lass chompy. I wouldn’t want to win that fight any other way
"huh this doesn't seem like a lot of health, maybe I'll take my time just to savior this/wait for a surprise" "Oh a revial, that makes sense, well time to splurge on skills" "Okay he's done now and... Phase 3? On 9 tp and most items used up? Oh shi-" Seriously though I got through this fight with all items drained, tp to 0, and every party member in critical. What a hype finale. That everlasting sapling theme hits so hard
What you said apply directly to me. At the end I think lief already fainted everyone was in the red 0 tp 0 items but chompy was wearing the pink ribbon doing 3 dmg. I tried that fight so many times.
What if you wanted to have the everlasting sapling, but the wasp king said: “...Yes...YES! This power will suit me just fine! I will deliver you to your DOOM!”
After I finished this fight, I came back to the Sapling room after cleaning up a little bit of stuff I missed in the main-game. The Elder was there, the trio theorized with her about why exactly they got the upper hand. Apparently the Sapling's having been in darkness for so long was what caused it to wilt, and thus why the Wasp King (or Hoaxe as he's called in his bestiary entries) got a not-so-everlasting boon from the Sapling. Upon looking around a little more, I saw light from outside the Lair - a window that was boarded up! Then the thoughts came about that rather convenient detail...
@@Teinve If the plank of wood boarding up the window was just a few inches above or below where it's at (or absent entirely), the Sapling would never have wilted and Hoaxe never would have timed out--he'd be completely immortal and there would be no force in Bugaria that could stop him from burning everything to cinder.
@@madprophet6891 I think you're forgetting it was encased in a metal dome, I don't think the sunlight would have been able to go threw that even if the board was a little bit higher up.
Love the leitmotif from the Everlasting Sapling track; Like, no joke leitmotifs are one of my favorite things from video game music- having call backs that remind you of the start of a journey to tie it all together and make you reflect on how strong your characters have become over the course of their travels is great.
@@worldssmallestdestron7819 The Ultimate Show is great, and that game's build-up and finale slightly outclasses Bug Fables. However, in terms of a pure leitmotif, this one's better for what it represents.
1:40 onwards is quite literally one of the best parts of any piece of music I’ve ever heard. This song has unbridled power and emotion, and the use of the game’s main leitmotif almost made me cry with how hard this song hits you. I knew I was so close to the finish line, and that has multiple emotions tied to it, both positive and negative, for a game you loved so much you don’t want it to end.
I agree entirely. I absolutely loved this game to the end, and I really wanna play it again in Hard mode just to get more out of it. This boss was amazing.
Pretty much all the themes from the game have this one part that absolutely rocks the whole thing. The part at 0:09 for The Beast’s theme has to be my favorite one of those parts.
Not me, because he had less HP than he did on the previous fight after I spied him, Plus what Kabbu said about the relics, and that this is a RPG, I suspected that this boss would have at least 2 phases.
@@Eepaust it is heavily inspired by paper mario, but unlike games like yooka-laylee, which just do what the original game does best, bug fables still feels like its own thing
Dang right. This song takes down a lot of final boss themes I’ve heard over the years. But nothing can replace the final boss theme from ocarina of time for me. That’s just me.
For me personally (and I reiterate, personally) it is a solid 7-8 for a final boss theme, it is good, serves it's purpose, and gets you invested. But I can't help to compare it to other final boss fights (or even regular boss fight music) and I don't think it makes it into my top 10. Still great tho, not hating.
Skirdus I brought in only 2 miracle shakes for this fight, along various other healing items (No queen’s dinners, I wasn’t gonna stoop to that level) and 2 berry jams. Surprisingly, my winning attempt didn’t see me use any miracle shakes, just pretty much everything else.
I crawled through on hard mode with just 4 leaf omelets, 6 Crisbee Donuts, 2 spicy berries, 2 burly berries, and a few magic seeds. It was a fun experience, I'm surprised I did not die
Just got this final boss done on Hard Mode + Hard Hits. Only took a package of 3 Queen's Dinners, 3 Tangy Carpaccios, 3 Cherry Pies, 3 Berry Smoothies, 2 Magic Seeds and a Miracle Shake. The only thing that survived to the credits was a Tangy Carpaccio and Berry Smoothie D:
when you're on hard mode and you think this is the phase 2 of the fight and you chunk him down just fine but then he full heals, so you do it again and think he can't possibly heal again BUT HE DOES and you just barely scrape by at the end oh man what a SICK fight
@@BirfTheSpider It's like, 175. but that's still more than anything else in the game, and he packs a punch too. Edit: oh right EX bossrush exists oh god oh fuck
@@megamike15 It's actually not random against Bowser in Paper Mario. He heals if you have 50% of his current hp. Or something along those lines. But it does have specific parameters.
This battle was honestly what taught me how important vi’s healing skills are (and espacially with the healing item boosting badges) That is honestly what kept my entire team alive Now that im doing an entire hard mode playthrough i know how usefull certain skills are over others
I love final boss themes that demonstrate the urgency in the tone of the song. With the Wasp King, this demonstrates the point that you HAVE to win here, everything is riding on Team Snakemouth winning here against a creature with legendary immortality and strength. This is a kickass boss theme for those reasons.
Hoaxe (real name of the Wasp King) is Nothing but a power hungry Monster with no love or care for anyone but himself. But Looking at his past, it makes sense why he became that way. Abandoned by his parents in the dreaded Dead Lands when he was almost still a Baby. Ostracized by his own kind and all he had was his Job: cleaning up trash. If someone grows up with no even a Concept of love or kindness, off curse they are likely to become a bad and selfish Person. Yet, for some reason, he made Ultimax (his real name is Fuff), despite of his inept and cowardly nature, to his right Hand man, a General. Why? was there no one better qualified for this? That's honestly hard to believe. Maybe...Hoaxe saw something of his old self in Fuff and gave him something more he had himself in his youth, unintentionally showing kindness without ever realising. Whatever the exact reason was, whatever little shred of good he may had inside him, it's completely lost in his demented hunger for power. All that is left for him is to exist as a tree for what might be an eternity, but when he finally dies as a tree, Maybe than he will be reborn in a happier life. Hoaxe, a tragic and pitiful existence from birth to death. …. NÄÄÄÄÄH! I probably overthinking this. Ima gonna beat'em up in Boss Mode.
Amigo Morton he’s not wasp he’s a fly that looks like a wasp I wonder if he knows that he isn’t a wasp or thought that he was a wasp and wanted revenge.
The title of this song doesn't describe the Wasp King, it describes the Main Characters. it's the story of how you didn't give up, beating everything thrown at you. This is your battle theme.
I love this fight. You TECHNICALLY kill a god, but he didn't managed to god for long enough to be a god, and also no sunlight, and Hoaxe ALMOST won. He ALMOST got what he wanted. While I would love for Hoaxe to somehow return, I feel like he had perfect ending. He wanted ultimate power, and he got it, yet he still lost. He wanted to be everlasting, he became everlasting. He was abandoned to live in Dead Lands, he returned and died in Dead Lands.
@@The_KingDoge I had to make do with only one (plus a few revives, to be fair). D: It was a pain lining things up for the most optimal moment to pop the dinner without someone dying first.
GOD THIS BOSS IS AMASSING!!! You start the fight and it makes you feel like the underdog compared to his overwhelming strength, but you keep moving forward, even if he keeps healing. because you know in you're soul that your making progress and the more you try the more better you get. This is what all bosses should be.
@@MeowBanti Nah, his healing was barely even a factor. If you do it in the order Vi - Leif - Kabbu you can do 7+ damage each turn and prevent him from healing (at the cost of taking extra damage). The only real flaw in this fight is the spy text. All of them emphasize destroying the artifacts, and all other times when they suggest a strategy or order for fighting, it's practically hard required (e.g. Zasp and Mothiva, where beating the former first is a terrible idea). Makes it seem like the goal of the fight is to destroy the artifacts rather than wipe the king out. Other than that, great boss design. Can't wait to fight it on HARDEST.
I love how you have to notice the detail that he's weaker in the air then on the ground with just noticing his attacks and the fact that vines strap to his feet when he's on the ground, it took like 15 times to notice but when I did my mind was blown
"Okay... Kabbu's down... Vi and Leif are all that stands between this guy and Bugaria... They're pretty low on health, but so is he... Should I heal?" "..." "No! He's gonna keep attacking, so I gotta do the same! The fate of bugkind will be decided in the next few turns! AAAAAAAAAA" And that's how I beat the final boss first try. You gotta know when to have guts!
I know im extremely late to this, but I think this fight is really awesome, along with the story of it. The fight isnt so much a test of skill like the arena in the termite kingdom, or a test of wits like the entirety of the deadlands, but more so a test of endurance. He'll keep getting back up, but as long as your playing it safe, You'll keep wittling him down untill you win. The music is also superb, it feels almost alien, as the power of the sapling is, nobody really knew what it did, and when it was finally used, it was wilted, and a sapling, not a fruit, so its still quite alien what it would do if you ate a fruit from the tree, along with how it grew, assuming the dead lands is a home, it would seem to be a pet tree, but no pet trees i know of would make a seed to plant itself. Also the way he dies is quite interesting, the sapling truly was everlasting, as it grew OUT of him, but it seems like it isnt...as the tree he grew into isnt magical.
Wife just outside the game room reading a book on the couch while I’m fighting this boss: “Close your door, babe the base is way too loud.” Me while closing the door and getting back to the tv: “Of course it is, we’re having a fucking epic battle on a kitchen table here!”
When he healed for the first time I thought this battle was scripted, and that I had to die. Nope, I love how they make you feel like overcoming a seemingly unbeatable foe, without adding a dumb scripted cutscene or something.
You always get that feeling when facing something monumentally overpowering, yet somewhere in the depths of the abyss lies a glimmer of hope you NEED to grasp onto…
This was honestly such a sick fight, especially with this playing in the background really encouraging you to keep going even if you felt helpless. I think this has to be one of my favorite boss fights out of any game!
At first I was like "only 65 health? really?" and then I was like "oh, ok, he heals to full health," and then I was like "oh, he heals to full health again, cool" and then I was like "oh he summons two flying enemies with 6 hp that only take 1 point of damage at a time, neat" and then I died. Seriously though this was a badass final boss, glad it wasn't a pushover even at max level.
I just fought this boss today.. boy what a great boss fight. I didnt know what to expect for the music I knew itd be good. I didnt know it's become one of my favorite final boss themes
What makes this piece more epic is that starting at 1:14 you can hear in the background an electric piano with a rhythm which is very similiar to a part of the theme in the fight aganist the shadow queen in paper mario TTYD somewhat connecting those two boss fights.(You might need headphones to notice though).
It didn't hit all that hard for me when I first played, but god damn it hurts listening to it now. I really wish I could experience this game for the first time again.
I got into this fight, finishing phase 1 with good health, but most of my items used, and with no tp, expecting for the fight to be done. Then he heals like most of his fucking hp
On my most recent playthrough, Chompy was the one who ended up getting the final hit in. The Everlasting King, the supposed most powerful entity that you fight, taken down by a baby mother chomper. How fitting.
What’s funny about this track’s length is that it’s longer than most tracks, as if it actually was everlasting, but just as lasting as the Wasp King’s time after consuming that leaf.
1:41 "if this is the end there's one thing we should know" "its that we would never ever let each other go" "here now we stand, here our hearts beat as one" "the road has been long but we've had our fun" "Our bonds and weapons they cut through the dark and bring back the light" "Now, hear us chant now as our souls begin to soar through the sky!" "Together, We are three, but we're one" "Together, Here we stand, fighting free" "Together, with each blow, we have won" "Together, By my side, stay with me"
My favorite final boss theme. Everything about this song is just so damn good especially when the everlasting sapling leitmotif kicks in. This music really kept me going and set the atmosphere so well for an amazing final boss. My feels were all over the place during this fight what a great game and great soundtrack.
@@thebraviarykid7849 leif is best for berserker role cause kabbu can protect leif with taunt. And vi can heal kabbu. So its a perfect tank, healer, and damage trio
2:10 this honestly symbolizes the final fight and no backing down, and there is only one option, I honestly equally love this theme as much as the Usurper,Grasping for power and The Watcher
@@tiptap2352 Aaaah, so that was the pattern. You know, between not knowing that, and having Luckier Day equipped on accident, I really made this fight harder for myself.
@@tiptap2352 had i known him being on the ground was made him heal it would not have taken me like 2 hours to finally beat this guy. that and i have huge issues blocking his fire attack.
I think him being on the ground also lets him use his strongest root attack. Shame I couldn't get that extra damage with Chompy, but it was worth not losing big chunks of my health.
God this fight was so fucking good. Two unmovable forces clashing against each other, constantly on the brink of failure, but never giving up. In the first attempt, my entire team had been brought down except for Kabbu, and I was barely getting by waiting for recharges on SP, failing just as the fucker was under 10 HP. And upon coming back with a better strategy (and a different medal setup), I got to enjoy a proper beatdown (albeit still a really challenging one). Not too hard like Xenoblade's (where I had to grind for the first time in the game, Jesus Christ), but not too easy like... Well, a lot of games. Absolutely perfect difficulty. Just like the rest of the game (except for that fucking post-game fight against those characters that deserve to be the stars of a sequel. Fuck that fight, I'm never going to be able to beat it).
It took me three months to beat that final fight, turning Vi into my poisoned glass cannon, Kabbu healing from attacking them (as well as them taking damage from attacking him) and Leif into my defensive one, freezing them with most of his turns. Lots of queens meals and tangy berry meals, too, and I still just barely won.
I'm assuming you're talking about the fight with the slackers (forgot their names). Just beat the game and barely beat maki and WOW yeah im gonna save that for another time. Hoaxe was a joke compared to the post game fights
i love the little twinkly synth in the background, helps to emphasize the magical properties of the sapling while also working with the other instruments to make it really *feel* like you're fighting a god
I have to say, I WAS fooled by the lower HP in this boss fight, and was kind of surprised when he healed the first time... The second time, though, I was like "oh come on!" because I was starting to get low on items, but still. Can I also say that I love the plot twist of the Everlasting Sapling wilting? And that the one lone leave it gives only briefly gave the Wasp King a huge boost in power before turning him into a tree (anyone else seen Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July? The Wasp King tree is a lot more pleasant to look at than Winterbolt, that's for sure)? It's almost as if the myths surrounding the sapling were greatly exaggerated, like most myths are.
No. Its because the everlasting sapling was indoors and incased in a lock, causing it to not get enough sunlight,making it wilt, due to hoaxe/the wasp king NOW being part plant during the fight, if he went outside for the fight, tbe sun would ov given him ♾ energy
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Wanna see me restore to full health?
Wanna see me do it again?
Lol
This gives me ptsd of that fight
Vi while poisoned with a last stand, leaf cloak, antlion jaws, poisoned attacker, ADPB extender and two power exchange medals: Sure. Just let me use hard charge real quick.
lol
@@NovaPaladin
Bro is playing dangerously... I wish I had your courage
"Somebody help me, I'm being robbed!"
"I'll save you. Tree powers, activate!"
*Metamorphasis into oxygen producing plant.*
That was called for.
oh no you didn't-
Wasp King: "Help me im low on HP"
Everlasting sapling: "I'll save you, tree powers activate"
Man that’s an oldie reference right there
Imagine becoming a demigod but after being beaten up by a beetle with survivor guilt, a fungus piloting a dead moth and an angry rebelious teen bee you just turn into broccoli
Rough day
Im still confused whether lief is 'the fungus' or he just got revived
@@ermant7285 Leif is the fungus that inherited the memories of the moth
@@Sinchu9 that's what's so sad. Lief is dead and never came back.
Ermant StuckInRealityguy Lief is Lief. They’re both the moth and the fungus. The fungus uses “I” when referring to itself but “We” when speaking as Leif.
@@crocketlawnchair259 Lief is dead. The fungus inherited Lief's memories.
CHOMPY COMING IN CLUTCH WITH THE FINAL BLOW
I used kabbu with pebble toss
The most epic thing ever!
Hey, I got the same thing. Completely unplanned too, things just lined up perfectly. It was nice.
Chompy must be exhausted from carrying the entire team on her thin vine back
@@gayflower900 true
The wasp king was abandoned in the dead lands and died in the dead lands. Pretty poetic.
Even more poetic, he came there because he wanted to be eternal. To last forever.
In a sense, he did.
""Hoaxe was abandoned by his parents in the middle of the Dead Lands, before he spoke his first words. Only through a miracle did he survive to reach Bugaria, where he managed to blend into the Wasp Kingdom's populace. He had no friends, and no respect. All he had was his job: cleaning up trash. One day, he vanished from the Wasp Kingdom. Nobody cared..."
Trinket Seller on Metal Island: "...I don't have anything else to sell, but you lot remind me of this fly lad I met once. Poor boy went crazy over an old crown I fished out of the lake. Paid me hundreds of berries for that junk. I wonder what became of him after that... Last I heard he headed north or something..."
"...When he returned, unrecognized by all who ostracized him, he commanded such power and charisma...They had no choice but to serve him."
Hoaxe was abandoned by his parents, survived Hell shortly after being born, and was practically rejected by the Wasps. After spending who knows how long collecting their trash and being disrespected, he ran away from the Wasp Kingdom, spending his life savings on a trip to Metal Island, where he spent the rest of his money on a crown so that he could feel important for once in his life.
By pure chance, that crown was a magical artifact that gave Hoaxe the power of Flame. With his newfound power, he sought revenge against the people who wronged him, so he headed north, back to the Wasp Kingdom. After the Fly got his revenge, he had gone mad with power (perhaps he had gone mad long before he even got the crown, who knows.), and so he started his quest to get the most powerful artifact of all, the Everlasting Sapling, so that all would obey him. He would never be neglected or disrespected ever again.
I almost feel bad for the guy. Almost.
I hope that his parents got what was coming to them, at least.
I wonder what ever happened to his parents... maybe they died in the dead lands.
@Bagel God They probably did. The game's text says they abandoned Hoaxe in the MIDDLE of the Dead Lands. What in the world were they doing there in the first place? If they were in that deep into sealed territory, then it's unlikely that they made it out alive. Perhaps they didn't abandon Hoaxe out of malice, but rather fear for their lives and just lost their maggot as they fled. It’s also plausible that it was a Kung Fu Panda-ish situation where they hid their maggot somewhere and went to distract the Dead Landers to get them far from Hoaxe. We'll never know.
Also, perhaps it's not unusual that he was neglected and disrespected in the Wasp Kingdom. He is, after all, a Wasp Mimic Fly (Hoverfly), rather than an actual wasp. He is an outsider and technically a migrant laborer. His treatment isn’t that much different from how humans treat their migrant laborers throughout history.
A little extra text from a roach in the roach village touches on that. She says it was irresponsible of them to have tossed such a powerful item into the lake, and how it wasn't an artifact per say, but just as powerful.
Sorry to bother you so long after you wrote this comment, but where did you find the text about Hoaxe? I thought I'd read everything in the game, but clearly I haven't!
@@CharlotteML1 check your bestiary article on the everlasting king. Did you spy him?
By the end the Wasp King turned out to be more *bark* than bite.
Getting to the root of his power was a task and a half, other final bosses in games should take a leaf out of Bug Fable's book.
I wood love it if more final bosses were just as good.
Hes quite the challenge with tree phases
If I see one more bad tree pun, I’m gonna log out.
Should I stick with the Grain and make a joke or Nah?
Boss fight: 10/10
Boss fight soundtrack: 10/10
Game: 1000/10
Difficulty: 3725/10
Amen
Fair point
that's a lot of gecs
Game: 4 bees/10
Hoaxe: *Restores to full health*
Also Hoaxe: I'll do it again
Hoaxe*
Also hoe axe: i'll fucking do it aga-
*Becomes a tree*
You know a Final Boss is amazing when it literally takes place on a kitchen table and is still extremely epic.
Wobbmin you forget the important part the table is a fine table that what made the final boss good
@@CaliCosmicGal Only the best table cloth for an epic final battle
Wobbmin and let not forget those small clouds of smoke that came up from the table that was epic. We were lucky that the table didn’t get on fire screw the sapling the table is the real treasure.
Emil Calisto the real table was the friends we made along the way
No One but nothing in the world is as good looking as that table. And the table cloth was perfect.
The roaches took care of the everlasting sapling just as well as I take care of my houseplants lmao
Nice
@@F.D.A751 Estoy de acuerdo.
I hope you've been doing a better job since then
To be fair, it WAS called EVERLASTING. Why the hell would you check in on something protected by a swarm of mutants and risk death?
@@airwalker0676 Also, your little houseplant isn't a living, immortal, too-powerful-for-use magical tree of incredible repute to a post-humanity society of common and uncommon garden ecology in a tiny backyard.
reminder that, lore-wise, probably the only reason this fight was winnable was bc the whole house was boarded up and sunlight couldn't get in.
"This is it, huh. Vi, Kabbu...thanks for all the good times."
i just finished this game and i gotta say, seeing leif say this made me tear up a bit before beating the shit out of a plantified mimic fly.
I'm guessing Leif says that, but I've beaten the game and don't remember hearing him say that
@@bucketofice1777 its his spy dialouge for the everlasting king, basicly the moment i got spy specs i put it on so spying is free, i always put it in my boss builds since i always have like one medal point left over.
I just finished it too, and this was the only game that made me almost drive into tears. It was a experience. I saw this in xbox gamepass and i was like “funny haha paper mario clone”. But it was one of the best games i have played, no joke. Better then alot of paper mario games. The plot was amazing and the gameplay was just paper mario but i still loved it. Good game 9/10 for me.
and then he turned into a tree
funniest thing i've ever seen
Hehe he said funny joke
Ironic how it's the funniest thing you've ever seen after the scariest thing you've
ever seen
Tree go brrr........
i'm not quite sure what compelled me to write this comment
Called himself the tree king
Little know fact: this is a prequel to Ori and the blind forest
I dont think I saw anyone mention this, but...
"We must press on until the end!"
"This is it, huh...Vi, Kabbu, thanks for all the good times."
While it isn't as clear with Kabbu's whether or not he thinks so too, since "the end" could also just mean the end of the fight...I'm pretty sure Leif genuinely thought they were all going to die to this guy...
Damn i didn't notice this now the sentence sounds so different yeah it does seem leif thought they were gonna die cuz in the notes it says "He controlled the power of fire and the everlasting sapling, there was no LOGICAL way team snakemouth could've won"
Meanwhile Vi's is totally ready to kick this guys ass for hurting her friends and isn't even scared at all.
dying twice. gotta be rough for the poor bug.
Makes sense. Why assume you'd all _almost_ die around the same time before saying it?
@@appelofdoom8211 yep. I wiped the floor with him.
I like to think that dead lander omega is watching the fight with pop-corn.
or alternatively, trying to do something about the fire
"By far the best fight I've seen, and I didn't even start this one!" is probably what it's thinking if you are correct.
holy crap, I was about to comment that exact same thing with the exact same words, except I was thinking about a queen's dinner more than popcorn
Why didn't I get notified for those comments?
@@Dragon_640Idk, could be how UA-cam works.
Airborne Everlasting King: “Haha fire go pew pew”
Grounded Everlasting King: “HIPPITY HOPPITY YOUR HP IS NOW MY PROPERTY”
Kabbu: you have been yeeted off the ground
Everlasting King: ok then i'l just use a shield
(2 minutes later)
Vi: ok go get him Chomps!
Chomps: (lands the final blow)
Everlasting King: HOW COULD I, THE EVERLASTING KING, COULD BE DEFEATED BY A BABY PLANT!
Chmps: *laughs in chomping*
I kinda like it though. The entire game bosses have been harder to hit inside the air and Some cant even attack on the ground and others have stronger attacks in the air (spuder is the only flying boss to follow neither of these rules i believe.) So wasp king subversing this expectation is honestly kinda cool, its like what lavos does in chrono trigger where he hides his core in 1 of the smaller pods
I actually think it's a strategy to keep him in the air. At least, that's how it felt for me.
@@andxrw5597 I wasn't confident enough to defend against his fire barrages so I kept him as much as possible rooted to the ground. It probably made my fight unnecessarily longer but that's how it be.
this is why you do, vi attacc, leif attacc, kabbu attacc
Here we go, rant time
I love this fight so much, Hoaxe had completely screwed himself without even realizing it, at least not before it was too late
That "leaf" Hoaxe ate wasn't a leaf, it was a seed, and as soon as Hoaxe ate it, he was on borrowed time
His power seems limitless, every time you take his health down, he just heals
But that healing gets weaker and weaker as the fight progresses, the seed is growing inside of Hoaxe, roots are growing out of his legs and sapping energy from the ground, only making it grow faster, he is slowly dying without even realizing as his hatred for the world is blinding him
Hoaxe dies as the tree grows out of him, the power of the sapling truly drained, leaving Hoaxe the one thing he always wanted to be.....
*Everlasting*
Nice comment,
Unfortunately, this isn't what the word "rant" means
@@Dragon_640 Feels like a rant to me, maybe tangent is a better word?
@@lazybones8962 A rant is when you're angry or unimpressed.
I'm not sure about the tangent, but i think it's right.
@@Dragon_640 "rant" also implies it being of great length. That was more of a short tangent.
That said, a "rant" need not be angry -it can also be impassioned. Never heard of "unimpressed", though. Basically, whenever you go on some form of an energetic spiel, be that from excitement or rage.
I mean, just cut down the tree, he won’t be everlasting anymore.
My favorite part of the game is when the Wasp King said "The Sapling! The Sapling is real!" Truly one of the most epic moments in Bugaria history.
And then when he eat the the sapling he say it's sapling time and sapled every where. That was a certified epic moment
"Jesse, the everlasting sapling is real"
“Can we fly much higher”
@@samm6041 mista white we're making green now, we makin the everlasting sapling yo
its a reference to the one piece, the one piece is real!!
Imagine walking into your kitchen and seeing a bee, beatle, and a moth fighting a wasp with leaves coming out of his body and the ability of fire while there is a bunch of "dead" bugs right next to them on the kitchen table
And then the wasp turns into a tree
"Please tell me this isn't related to the tiny ungodly abominations all over the floor lately."
i'd start recording it lmao
Hoaxe only looks like a wasp. He's actually a hoverfly.
Imagine the game ended with a giant fly swatter just smacking the wasp king. I would have laughed my ass off
To quote Hoaxe, “With this power, I am everlasting!”
To quote me, pointing to the medal that gives you 2 TP every turn, “You think you’re everlasting? Look at this, Bichon Frisée! With this power, I am everlasting!” Proceeds to use Frozen Drill 10 times.
He actually says: " but with this power, I cannot fail!"
It's every two turns :)
Ah yes, Frozen Drill aka one of the 8 skills I use more than 3 times the entire game.....
Frozen drill a.k.a. Boss murderer
@@kluocduoc9835 🤓
The ultimate "yeah you're fucked" and "you're gonna win this" song.
that would be reckless for glory
@@ihaetschool3361fucking pitcher plant man. I'm shocked I beat it on my first try, even if it was after I near the game that dude nearly killed everyone lmao
@@GeoAce51my sister found, fought, and beat that boss by complete accident lol
she started the fight on half health and almost no healing items but she hadn't saved in a while so we had to beat it, it was a really fun battle lol
My first and second attempts
I absolutely love how the chorus section of this song was seeded into your mind early-on as the lullaby for the Inn animation.
You go to bed every day to a soft, soothing banjo.
And you wake up to this fucking nightmare.
It's the motif for the Everlasting Sapling. It's heard in a few other music bits too
It's the everlasting sapling leitmotif, found OST 1, 2, 6, 20, 77, 81, and 84
the first half and second half sometimes appear separately, but only in those 7 songs does the full leitmotif play. (I scanned the entire soundtrack)
Having finished Bug Fables, I'm really sad I took so long to pick it up, because it was worth every penny and then some. I don't know if this is a particularly new take, but this is a game about many things. About triumph over adversity, about the struggle against your own failings, but chief among them, this is a game about finding peace.
Vi had her dreams trampled by the hive and estranged herself from them consequently. She was hurt, and she returned that hurt ten-fold. Two wrongs do not make a right, and Leif gives her the push she needs to find peace, spending her life savings if it meant she could finally be a family again, to find that peace in her life.
Kabbu was haunted by the death of his friends, that he must protect everyone. But he can't protect everyone if he can't protect himself. And in a moment of passion, he almost repeats the same mistake he made in the past. He was strong enough to slay the beast, but what if he wasn't? Would he have fled again? Perhaps it is only because he has grown so close to Vi and Leif that he finds the resolve to face the Beast, to face his demon, and slay his own selfish rage, finding inner peace.
Leif is displaced in time. And more than that, he is dead. We never know Leif. We only ever know the Cordyceps that had taken over his body. Does he have a right to life? A product of mad experimentation by desperate roaches. His wife moved on without him, and had a kid in the spitting image of herself. In the end, it doesn't matter what Leif truly is, he's always been Leif to his new team, his new friends, his new family. That bond is real, and he has as much right to life as they do. And so he resolves to carry on the life of the explorer who met his untimely demise at the hands of a gluttonous spider, finding peace.
Elizant the Second lived her entire life in her mother's shadow. She is not half the diplomat her mother was, let alone half the ruler she was. She is distant and speaks with authority, not with kindness. She seeks the sapling to revive her mother, so her mother may reign eternal, the perfect queen the people deserve. As the Wasp King takes everything from her, she is forced to work with her subordinates directly and confide in them. To admit her own shortcomings. To face her greatest fears as a ruler. She bears the brunt of the Termites' anger, but resolves to do what she must for her people, for all of bugaria even, to prevent the Wasp King from attaining the Sapling and becoming unstoppable. In this chase, she realizes the folly of her actions. She sees herself in the Wasp King. No different from the mad king who desires power for power's sake. So she resolves to allow her mother the rest she deserves, and to destroy the Sapling in the final act. She has found her peace. She does not need to be perfect. She need only be her best, to be a better ruler tomorrow than she is today, and that all starts by destroying this object that has become the obsession of both her and her mother, that drove a wedge between the ants and the termites. Would it have pushed the bees away as well, perhaps, if she became too blinded by it? It is good that she came to realize her folly before it was too late.
The Wasp King mirrors all of these stories. But he misses a vital component in all of them. No one was there for him. When the world was against him, and he was at his most vulnerable, no one reached out a hand in kindness. No one reassured him that it would be alright. He didn't have Vi, Kabbu, or Leif. What he did have, was a crown. A crown of immense power. A crown that offered him the world. Of course he took it. Of course he spared no expense in obtaining it, the opportunity to take revenge, to make those who pushed him around serve him instead. In the end, this path of revenge lead to his own destruction.
Hoaxe's tale is a tragedy, warning not only against the dangers of listening to the demons of vengeance, but also a reminder to us to be kind to one another. Be the Vi, Kabbu, or Leif someone needs in their life. A hand offered in friendship may be all it truly takes to ensure someone becomes more like Team Snakemouth. But the longer they go with no one, the longer they feel as though the world is against them, that they don't belong, that they're a failure, the longer they are left to fester in their own anger, the more and more likely they are to become like Hoaxe. So, be kind to others, friends. Even if it feels like the world is against you, try to stay optimistic, try to stay positive, and when that fails, seek out those like you. The outcast, the spurned, the downtrodden, the stranger. As a wise man once said, sometimes the best way to solve your own problems is helping someone else.
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Why the hell is this comment so underrated.
...I love this comment and everything in it.
W-wow. This is an incredible envisioning of what the lead writer, Genow, intended for the story. Although it's obviously a basic lesson: there's absolutely no reason to wrong others who've wronged you; instead, simply be friendly to those you currently have in life. It's represented almost perfectly through the 5 significant characters, with it even being twisted through Leif's and Hoaxe's and straight-up altered through Elizant the 2nd's.
Damn I just came here to listen to a boppin soundtrack and ended up learning the message of the bug game
This is a damn powerful comment. I teared up a bit.
"Unable to die although he wished for it, the Usurper eventual stops thinking"
I get it 😎
JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOjo
@@kluocduoc9835 REFERENCE?
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| ﾉ⌒＼ ￣￣ヽ ノ
ヽ＿＿＿＞､＿＿／
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JOJO REFERENCE
For a guy who sought to be eternal, too.
Although if he wished to die, it would've been a _long_ while after he stopped thinking.
@@fillertext438 are you kidding me right now
Is it just me who connects the title to Team Snakemouth?
Vi transcended the expectations placed upon her by her entire species, and eventually went beyond the perception she had of herself too, showing kindness to those who hurt her.
Kabbu was overpowered by his rage at seeing The Beast again, and overpowered by the grief that he might loose all he knows again, and used that to overpower The Beast.
Leif's memories survived past death, giving the opportunity for his story to be told and remembered forever. Also, immortality headcanons.
Might just be me reaching, but I find it cool to think about.
I'm with you on that one.
Ok this is actually a really underrated comment, I swear.
It’s amazing that the final boss theme could be taken as describing both the party, with each word being positive in its meaning, as well as Hoaxe himself, with the words taking a negative connotation, since he forcefully transcended his mortality at the cost of almost the whole wasp kingdom, overpowered anyone in his way, and ate the everlasting sapling.
I think it could also talk about the bonds of Team Snakemouth by the end of the game. I mean, they endured the fight with the power of friendship and raw willpower, like a bunch of shonen anime protagonists.
Holy shit this is too good to be true, it’s like all the pieces of their problems and major flaws were finally fixed thanks to this adventure, and now it’s time to see the results.
Deep haha
everyone gangsta until Everlasting King gets the two key halves and deals 9 damage to a party member.
@@kaje3435 nah I'm certain it's just one party member.
yeah it’s one member
I know for a fact he doesn’t always do that at the start of phase three but he damn well made sure to keep doing it anyways.
lol he did only 2 and dear god was he easy to beat
I wasn't dealing with that so when he did I just said screw it, threw an ahoneynation out, and allahu-akbard everyone
One random thing I’m just going to blurt out.
I’m really impressed how well this game did with the lack of major plot twists.
I was genuinely expecting Elizant II to be evil in the end or something, but no! Elizant II was a caring leader and overall fantastic character throughout the whole story.
The closest thing to a major plot twist was when it was discovered that The Usurper wasn’t in the Wasp Kingdom during the invasion.
Even with the other twists like how Usurper isn’t the actual king of the wasps, or the truth about Leif, they don’t twist the plot, they add into them
Same with the Elizant thing, the second I saw she had a battle sprite alarm bells went off super hard.(When she draws her swords on the Usurper, then iirc it never gets used again lmao)
supershadow2021 For me, it was just the fact I was so used to the trope where the queen you were working for was evil all along! Oh noooooooooo!
@@IAteABox well they set her up so well. With how she acts in the first chapters
I was quoting ProZD's video about characters that are obviously going to betray you basically every time I saw her for the first half of the game. Everything about her is set up perfectly to make you think she'll be the villain, but no, she was actually a good person the entire time.
I thought she was going to use the giant crystal in the mines to find the sapling for herself or something. I'm glad that didn't happen.
FASCIST wasp king EATS the EVERLASTING SAPLING, instantly REGRETS it
I love how right after the Final Battle the great humor comes back. When they're talking about "nothing being everlastung" and Mothiva just blurts out "my beauty". :D
The fact that he turns into a tree after the battle is honestly kind of a brutal death, his body just turns into bark and branches just burst out of the husk of his body, his feet are reduced to roots that are submerged into the soil, and...
I'll just stop there.
After the shit he did I find it hard to say he doesn't deserve it
@@Mothbean at first I felt the same way, but after looking at the bestiary entry for him post-game, I kinda felt bad for him.
@@whacka2871 That's what I like about Hoaxe as a villain. He has a reason for his actions that makes you empathize with him, but the game never uses his backstory to justify what he does. He could have done something like join the Explorer's Association if he wanted others to look up to him, but instead he chose to subject others to the same fate as him in pursuit of power. He's not just an evil person, he _chose_ to be one.
@@Mothbean true
@@Mothbean 👏 well said 👏
Me: YES I BEAT HIM!
King: *Full Heals*
If you have hp core, it will be no biggie to fight him
FULL HEALS THREE TIMES
Ermant StuckInRealityguy hard mode tho
@@TopOfAllWorlds oh
Counting all his heals, he technically has 110 hp.
Somehow managed to end the fight with just enough HP for an Ice Bowling and Chompy to finish him off. Maximum hype fight.
I saved my TP for a final 2 fly drops, that final hit was so satisfying. (Didn't have chompy)
Nomf (my chompy) finished him off too. She’s such a good girl. Yes she is. Yes she is.
Finishing him off with frost bowling is so poetic
overkilled it with frozen drill
Played Bug Fables on the console release, and when I finally beat this boss, I was given a rare sense of sheer accomplishment and relief of beating him that I normally don't get with final bosses.
This battle and the rest of the game is very well made.
Normally in final boss fights the protagonist gets something op and wins. I LOVE THAT BUG FABLES DIDN’TDO IT
@@Cyndasoul Beemerang might want to have a word with you :P
Also: That fire brooch the party gets from Vanessa could be seen as this game's endgame "op" item.
MH no I mean like an op finishing move that you suddenly get only in the final boss
CyndaSoul
it's such an overdone trope it's refereshing to see a game going without it frankly.
@@MarkusHobelsberger more like Vanessa taking the op-ness off him, otherwise the man would’ve one-shotted everyone for a third time in a row with his supereffective Inferno spam with 100% accuracy
my greatest accomplishment with this fight isn’t beating him on hard mode. It was finishing him off with my lass chompy. I wouldn’t want to win that fight any other way
same here, it just felt right 😤
Also finished him with chompy
I did it on both phases, I absolutely loved it
me, watching Chompy deal the last bite: (sobbing) that's right, you go queen
Chompy: The real MVP
"Change the world, My Final Message. Goodbye."
*become tree*
"BEHOLD MY FINAL FORM!"
*tree*
HOW DARE YO-
T R E E
Reject buganity, become tree.
Also it may look like I have a clone but that isn’t my clone.
Well this is a bwuh moment.
A- (tunes itno thre)
*_TREE POWERS, ACTIVATE!_*
"huh this doesn't seem like a lot of health, maybe I'll take my time just to savior this/wait for a surprise"
"Oh a revial, that makes sense, well time to splurge on skills"
"Okay he's done now and... Phase 3? On 9 tp and most items used up? Oh shi-"
Seriously though I got through this fight with all items drained, tp to 0, and every party member in critical. What a hype finale. That everlasting sapling theme hits so hard
What you said apply directly to me. At the end I think lief already fainted everyone was in the red 0 tp 0 items but chompy was wearing the pink ribbon doing 3 dmg. I tried that fight so many times.
@BlueDino ive seen you comment on alot of the bug fables songs. Seing someone browsing the whole soundtrack and commenting is super charming to me :)
i still have a tangy carpaccio and leaf salad left. cheers.
Tp core + constantly using frozen drill when possible = victory
@@nintenboss64 Where do I find a TP core?
Transcending
Overpowering
Everlasting
Grey Prince Zote.
The joke was too good to pass up.
OH WYRM DAMN IT.
B U G
K N I G H T
More like Hollow Fables bjsbsj--
Now i want the themes mixed
You can even get "Overcharmed" in this game
What if you wanted to have the everlasting sapling, but the wasp king said:
“...Yes...YES! This power will suit me just fine! I will deliver you to your DOOM!”
easy, literally all of leif’s abilities
0:00 Transcending
1:40 Overpowering
2:08 *Everlasting*
After I finished this fight, I came back to the Sapling room after cleaning up a little bit of stuff I missed in the main-game. The Elder was there, the trio theorized with her about why exactly they got the upper hand. Apparently the Sapling's having been in darkness for so long was what caused it to wilt, and thus why the Wasp King (or Hoaxe as he's called in his bestiary entries) got a not-so-everlasting boon from the Sapling. Upon looking around a little more, I saw light from outside the Lair - a window that was boarded up! Then the thoughts came about that rather convenient detail...
Explain
@@Teinve sunlight turns little plants into big plants
@@Teinve If the plank of wood boarding up the window was just a few inches above or below where it's at (or absent entirely), the Sapling would never have wilted and Hoaxe never would have timed out--he'd be completely immortal and there would be no force in Bugaria that could stop him from burning everything to cinder.
@@madprophet6891 I think you're forgetting it was encased in a metal dome, I don't think the sunlight would have been able to go threw that even if the board was a little bit higher up.
@@madprophet6891 It was in a metal box that was nearly invincible
Vi and leif: Dead
Kabbu: wanna see a cool trick
*pep talk*
Kabbu: you’re not the only one who can revive yourself
Love the leitmotif from the Everlasting Sapling track; Like, no joke leitmotifs are one of my favorite things from video game music- having call backs that remind you of the start of a journey to tie it all together and make you reflect on how strong your characters have become over the course of their travels is great.
I like the leifmotif's as well
I'll leave now
then boy, you'll LOVE the ultimate show.
@@worldssmallestdestron7819 The Ultimate Show is great, and that game's build-up and finale slightly outclasses Bug Fables.
However, in terms of a pure leitmotif, this one's better for what it represents.
I feel the same
_(looks at serpent devouring the horizon)_
Pizza Tower does some of this too!
1:40 onwards is quite literally one of the best parts of any piece of music I’ve ever heard. This song has unbridled power and emotion, and the use of the game’s main leitmotif almost made me cry with how hard this song hits you. I knew I was so close to the finish line, and that has multiple emotions tied to it, both positive and negative, for a game you loved so much you don’t want it to end.
I agree entirely. I absolutely loved this game to the end, and I really wanna play it again in Hard mode just to get more out of it. This boss was amazing.
That main theme motif is SO GOOD. I loved this game!
you could call it a... leifmotif? huh? huh? ok I'll leave
@@sharischneider9720 👏🏼he did the funny
Pretty much all the themes from the game have this one part that absolutely rocks the whole thing.
The part at 0:09 for The Beast’s theme has to be my favorite one of those parts.
2:07 I love how you can hear parts of the Everlasting Sapling theme in this piece. Such a good touch to this already fantastic song.
Really gives it that emotional punch
The Guitar riffs make it even better
Thank you so much for the time link (or whatever you call it).
I really needed it
@@IAteABox I'll do you another solid: this recurrence of a theme is called a leitmotif in music
Ventriloquist Magician I think he was talking about the time stamp (which is what the “time link” is called)
Who else used up all of their healing items before realizing that this guy has more than one phase
me lmao
Unfunny._. And that why secret stash and sharing stash are really good and underrated.
Emil Calisto those were my saving graces during the fight lol
me
Not me, because he had less HP than he did on the previous fight after I spied him, Plus what Kabbu said about the relics, and that this is a RPG, I suspected that this boss would have at least 2 phases.
People out there really do think this game is a shameless Paper Mario knock off. Those people don't deserve this masterpiece.
I mean it is a paper mario knockoff but its a damn good one
The world needs Paper Mario clones with how Paper Mario is now
@@Eepaust it is heavily inspired by paper mario, but unlike games like yooka-laylee, which just do what the original game does best, bug fables still feels like its own thing
It literally outclasses Paper Mario in nearly every regard
Inspired by Paper Mario but definitely it’s own game
Probably one of the best final boss themes I've ever heard, not even joking.
Dang right. This song takes down a lot of final boss themes I’ve heard over the years. But nothing can replace the final boss theme from ocarina of time for me. That’s just me.
For me personally (and I reiterate, personally) it is a solid 7-8 for a final boss theme, it is good, serves it's purpose, and gets you invested. But I can't help to compare it to other final boss fights (or even regular boss fight music) and I don't think it makes it into my top 10. Still great tho, not hating.
They call him spider is still better
*spuder
Right up there with a hat in time,paper Mario 1 and 2,pokemon emerald,chrono trigger and fire emblem three houses
15 Queen's Dinners later from hard mode.
*crawls away* aaaaahhh everything huurrrrts. But it was so worth iiiit
I managed to scrape by with only two miracle shakes and two tangy smoothies, among other items. And I do mean just scrape by
Skirdus I brought in only 2 miracle shakes for this fight, along various other healing items (No queen’s dinners, I wasn’t gonna stoop to that level) and 2 berry jams. Surprisingly, my winning attempt didn’t see me use any miracle shakes, just pretty much everything else.
I crawled through on hard mode with just 4 leaf omelets, 6 Crisbee Donuts, 2 spicy berries, 2 burly berries, and a few magic seeds. It was a fun experience, I'm surprised I did not die
I forgot to get more preparation so I went in there and let chompy killed cause Leif was on 1-3 health
Just got this final boss done on Hard Mode + Hard Hits. Only took a package of 3 Queen's Dinners, 3 Tangy Carpaccios, 3 Cherry Pies, 3 Berry Smoothies, 2 Magic Seeds and a Miracle Shake. The only thing that survived to the credits was a Tangy Carpaccio and Berry Smoothie D:
when you're on hard mode and you think this is the phase 2 of the fight and you chunk him down just fine but then he full heals, so you do it again and think he can't possibly heal again BUT HE DOES and you just barely scrape by at the end
oh man what a SICK fight
tfw ex hard mode has essentially 300 health
@@BirfTheSpider It's like, 175. but that's still more than anything else in the game, and he packs a punch too.
Edit: oh right EX bossrush exists oh god oh fuck
it's a reference to the final fight with bowser in paper mario. he also healed himself but unlike wasp king it was random and not at a set hp.
@@megamike15 It's actually not random against Bowser in Paper Mario. He heals if you have 50% of his current hp. Or something along those lines. But it does have specific parameters.
@@Alphakennyjuan It's if Mario is 50% healthier than Bowser, as a percentage of their HP. So if Mario stayed at 1HP Bowser could never heal.
This battle was honestly what taught me how important vi’s healing skills are (and espacially with the healing item boosting badges)
That is honestly what kept my entire team alive
Now that im doing an entire hard mode playthrough i know how usefull certain skills are over others
I was able to beat him without Vi's healing with nobody in the group dying.
i had hard mode on during my first playthrough and holy shit this boss was hard.
but it was kinda easy with tangy berry and dark cherries items
@@ivegonesickomode1610 Yeah, having an inventory full of Queen's Dinners made him way easier to deal with (even on hard mode).
Yeah man you don't need Vi's healing at all. It's way better to use a Queen's dinner, heal up and restore your TP.
@@loosetube5417 Any boss or enemy group becomes a joke if you have an inventory full of Queen's Dinner's. That's pretty much cheesing the game.
just finished the main story, this song is fantastic. really pumped me up during the final fight
This is one hell of a final fight.
I love final boss themes that demonstrate the urgency in the tone of the song. With the Wasp King, this demonstrates the point that you HAVE to win here, everything is riding on Team Snakemouth winning here against a creature with legendary immortality and strength. This is a kickass boss theme for those reasons.
Hoaxe (real name of the Wasp King) is Nothing but a power hungry Monster with no love or care for anyone but himself.
But Looking at his past, it makes sense why he became that way.
Abandoned by his parents in the dreaded Dead Lands when he was almost still a Baby.
Ostracized by his own kind and all he had was his Job: cleaning up trash.
If someone grows up with no even a Concept of love or kindness, off curse they are likely to become a bad and selfish Person.
Yet, for some reason, he made Ultimax (his real name is Fuff), despite of his inept and cowardly nature, to his right Hand man, a General.
Why? was there no one better qualified for this? That's honestly hard to believe.
Maybe...Hoaxe saw something of his old self in Fuff and gave him something more he had himself in his youth, unintentionally showing kindness without ever realising.
Whatever the exact reason was, whatever little shred of good he may had inside him, it's completely lost in his demented hunger for power.
All that is left for him is to exist as a tree for what might be an eternity, but when he finally dies as a tree, Maybe than he will be reborn in a happier life.
Hoaxe, a tragic and pitiful existence from birth to death.
….
NÄÄÄÄÄH!
I probably overthinking this. Ima gonna beat'em up in Boss Mode.
Amigo Morton he’s not wasp he’s a fly that looks like a wasp I wonder if he knows that he isn’t a wasp or thought that he was a wasp and wanted revenge.
@@CaliCosmicGal if he is a fly, he should be looking like fry the chef
Ermant StuckInRealityguy no he’s a kind of fly that looks like a wasp o think they are called wasp flys.
@@CaliCosmicGal oh
@@CaliCosmicGal Where does the game actually tell you that? I must have missed it.
The title of this song doesn't describe the Wasp King, it describes the Main Characters. it's the story of how you didn't give up, beating everything thrown at you. This is your battle theme.
So basically, it’s Proof of a Hero, but with bugs instead of giant apocalyptic death lizards.
Really thinking about it? That's exactly what it feels like.
2:33 I love this moment in particular. I can't describe why, especially in English, but I just love it.
Damn, the Wasp King really went: 🌳
The Everlasting King used a Full Restore.
...again
and again
Underrated comment.
In the Finale: At last a worthy opponent, our battle will be legendary.
Someone do a Mashup
The finale of gaming itself: ua-cam.com/video/5LZrWRSwDHQ/v-deo.htmlsi=XGNKW3D-xDJiwduk
Adventures end is also a good one
Game of the year.
10/10
I wish... it definitely deserved at least a mention back in 2019
Game of... Every year 10/10
Wasp king: eats seed
Team snakemouth: does a full on epic boss fight
Wasp king: turns into a tiny tree
I never thought about it, but yeah, that’d be a really tiny tree
I love this fight. You TECHNICALLY kill a god, but he didn't managed to god for long enough to be a god, and also no sunlight, and Hoaxe ALMOST won. He ALMOST got what he wanted. While I would love for Hoaxe to somehow return, I feel like he had perfect ending. He wanted ultimate power, and he got it, yet he still lost. He wanted to be everlasting, he became everlasting. He was abandoned to live in Dead Lands, he returned and died in Dead Lands.
I'm so happy this song is so good. Mainly because I had to listen to it over 2 hours before beating the final boss on hard mode. XD
Quinn Sundquist-Carr 2. Full. Revives. UG
spam that queens dinner
@@The_KingDoge
I had to make do with only one (plus a few revives, to be fair). D: It was a pain lining things up for the most optimal moment to pop the dinner without someone dying first.
@@TheAverageGuyTAG eat the table for 999 hp
@@vernbaa Termite burger.... IS PEOPLE
GOD THIS BOSS IS AMASSING!!! You start the fight and it makes you feel like the underdog compared to his overwhelming strength, but you keep moving forward, even if he keeps healing. because you know in you're soul that your making progress and the more you try the more better you get. This is what all bosses should be.
The theme also helps by making you feel dread and hope.
@@MeowBanti but the boss wasn't that hard even on hard mode
@@MeowBanti translate to: i think this boss is hard so i need more way to exploit it
@@MeowBanti Nah, his healing was barely even a factor. If you do it in the order Vi - Leif - Kabbu you can do 7+ damage each turn and prevent him from healing (at the cost of taking extra damage).
The only real flaw in this fight is the spy text. All of them emphasize destroying the artifacts, and all other times when they suggest a strategy or order for fighting, it's practically hard required (e.g. Zasp and Mothiva, where beating the former first is a terrible idea). Makes it seem like the goal of the fight is to destroy the artifacts rather than wipe the king out. Other than that, great boss design. Can't wait to fight it on HARDEST.
I love how you have to notice the detail that he's weaker in the air then on the ground with just noticing his attacks and the fact that vines strap to his feet when he's on the ground, it took like 15 times to notice but when I did my mind was blown
"Okay... Kabbu's down... Vi and Leif are all that stands between this guy and Bugaria... They're pretty low on health, but so is he... Should I heal?"
"..."
"No! He's gonna keep attacking, so I gotta do the same! The fate of bugkind will be decided in the next few turns! AAAAAAAAAA"
And that's how I beat the final boss first try. You gotta know when to have guts!
Gotta admit, I was expecting his transformation to be a little more grandiose, but this theme certainly picked up the slack.
I know im extremely late to this, but I think this fight is really awesome, along with the story of it.
The fight isnt so much a test of skill like the arena in the termite kingdom, or a test of wits like the entirety of the deadlands, but more so a test of endurance.
He'll keep getting back up, but as long as your playing it safe, You'll keep wittling him down untill you win.
The music is also superb, it feels almost alien, as the power of the sapling is, nobody really knew what it did, and when it was finally used, it was wilted, and a sapling, not a fruit, so its still quite alien what it would do if you ate a fruit from the tree, along with how it grew, assuming the dead lands is a home, it would seem to be a pet tree, but no pet trees i know of would make a seed to plant itself.
Also the way he dies is quite interesting, the sapling truly was everlasting, as it grew OUT of him, but it seems like it isnt...as the tree he grew into isnt magical.
Leave it to an indie studio to somehow make more epic final boss themes then most triple a titles
hi
on na kitchen table, no less
Y'know? I'm GLAD he had multiple phases and scripted regens - means we get to listen to this hype beat even more while kickin wasp abdomen!
Wasp King: I AM INEVITABLE!!!!!
Kabuu, with Deep Taunt, Favorite One and Bubble Shield: ... and I am ... KABUU!!!
Wife just outside the game room reading a book on the couch while I’m fighting this boss: “Close your door, babe the base is way too loud.”
Me while closing the door and getting back to the tv: “Of course it is, we’re having a fucking epic battle on a kitchen table here!”
Lol
Tristan Alric casually making the best final boss theme of any video game ever
When he healed for the first time I thought this battle was scripted, and that I had to die. Nope, I love how they make you feel like overcoming a seemingly unbeatable foe, without adding a dumb scripted cutscene or something.
You always get that feeling when facing something monumentally overpowering, yet somewhere in the depths of the abyss lies a glimmer of hope you NEED to grasp onto…
You won’t believe how many Omelettes that my party had to consume this fight
This was honestly such a sick fight, especially with this playing in the background really encouraging you to keep going even if you felt helpless. I think this has to be one of my favorite boss fights out of any game!
1:54 man......... I miss this game..........
At first I was like "only 65 health? really?" and then I was like "oh, ok, he heals to full health," and then I was like "oh, he heals to full health again, cool" and then I was like "oh he summons two flying enemies with 6 hp that only take 1 point of damage at a time, neat" and then I died. Seriously though this was a badass final boss, glad it wasn't a pushover even at max level.
I fought him at like level 23
I just take out the flying ancient keys with one Under Strike.....
Then he makes a lightsaber from a key
I just fought this boss today.. boy what a great boss fight.
I didnt know what to expect for the music I knew itd be good. I didnt know it's become one of my favorite final boss themes
Mee too
Pretty rad game
What makes this piece more epic is that starting at 1:14 you can hear in the background an electric piano with a rhythm which is very similiar to a part of the theme in the fight aganist the shadow queen in paper mario TTYD somewhat connecting those two boss fights.(You might need headphones to notice though).
Even several months after beating this game I still can't listen to this song without crying. The main theme just hits me too hard. Well done.
It didn't hit all that hard for me when I first played, but god damn it hurts listening to it now. I really wish I could experience this game for the first time again.
I got into this fight, finishing phase 1 with good health, but most of my items used, and with no tp, expecting for the fight to be done.
Then he heals like most of his fucking hp
Gotta love the little ultimax tank part at 1:55
On my most recent playthrough, Chompy was the one who ended up getting the final hit in. The Everlasting King, the supposed most powerful entity that you fight, taken down by a baby mother chomper. How fitting.
What’s funny about this track’s length is that it’s longer than most tracks, as if it actually was everlasting, but just as lasting as the Wasp King’s time after consuming that leaf.
1:41
"if this is the end there's one thing we should know"
"its that we would never ever let each other go"
"here now we stand, here our hearts beat as one"
"the road has been long but we've had our fun"
"Our bonds and weapons they cut through the dark and bring back the light"
"Now, hear us chant now as our souls begin to soar through the sky!"
"Together, We are three, but we're one"
"Together, Here we stand, fighting free"
"Together, with each blow, we have won"
"Together, By my side, stay with me"
Looks like a great song!
When you manage to beat him using the power of the Big Mistake you brought for this specific purpose, it feels good. Love those attack boosts.
Delicious,
Finally, a good Paper Mario final battle once again
Just finished bug fables and did the quest where Kabbu grieves.
Honestly phenomenal game. One of my favourites period.
Over 600 likes and 0 dislikes.
That is the power of Bug Fables
816 likes. TWO DISLIKES AHHH
Over a thousand with 6 dislikes
You jinxed it. Now it has 7
@@ericwijaya2119 Now there's 8
The dislikes are now truly neverlasting
2:03 goes hard as helllllll!!!
This was one the greatest finale bosses I have ever witnessed
My favorite final boss theme. Everything about this song is just so damn good especially when the everlasting sapling leitmotif kicks in. This music really kept me going and set the atmosphere so well for an amazing final boss. My feels were all over the place during this fight what a great game and great soundtrack.
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Instructions unclear: became fox
Instructions Unclear: Ended up fighting an Arsonistic Hoverfly
@@NeonWasInUse yes
You may have the everlasting sapling.
*BUT WE HAVE A BERSERKING LEIF.*
I used kabu with berserk
@@thebraviarykid7849 leif is best for berserker role cause kabbu can protect leif with taunt. And vi can heal kabbu. So its a perfect tank, healer, and damage trio
Huh, I used Kabbu with Berserker + Antlion's Jaws + Strong Start as my frontliner
I just kept using Vi's Hurricane Throw with 2 Last Attack medals on her while Kabbu and Leif would keep restoring TP or use Frozen Drill
I never got the Berserker thingy. I just had hard charge+ice rain spam with Leif plus put a shit ton of Buff berries on him.
2:10 this honestly symbolizes the final fight and no backing down, and there is only one option, I honestly equally love this theme as much as the Usurper,Grasping for power and The Watcher
Remember explorers keep him off the ground and focus the relics! Let Kabbu hit him last. Since he's part plant now, he's vulnerable to Leif's Ice!
I used Fly Drop and Frigid Coffin over and over again. But why would you keep him off the ground?
@@azurda7483 He heals three health at the start of every turn he's on the ground.
@@tiptap2352 Aaaah, so that was the pattern. You know, between not knowing that, and having Luckier Day equipped on accident, I really made this fight harder for myself.
@@tiptap2352 had i known him being on the ground was made him heal it would not have taken me like 2 hours to finally beat this guy. that and i have huge issues blocking his fire attack.
I think him being on the ground also lets him use his strongest root attack. Shame I couldn't get that extra damage with Chompy, but it was worth not losing big chunks of my health.
God this fight was so fucking good. Two unmovable forces clashing against each other, constantly on the brink of failure, but never giving up. In the first attempt, my entire team had been brought down except for Kabbu, and I was barely getting by waiting for recharges on SP, failing just as the fucker was under 10 HP. And upon coming back with a better strategy (and a different medal setup), I got to enjoy a proper beatdown (albeit still a really challenging one). Not too hard like Xenoblade's (where I had to grind for the first time in the game, Jesus Christ), but not too easy like... Well, a lot of games. Absolutely perfect difficulty. Just like the rest of the game (except for that fucking post-game fight against those characters that deserve to be the stars of a sequel. Fuck that fight, I'm never going to be able to beat it).
It took me three months to beat that final fight, turning Vi into my poisoned glass cannon, Kabbu healing from attacking them (as well as them taking damage from attacking him) and Leif into my defensive one, freezing them with most of his turns. Lots of queens meals and tangy berry meals, too, and I still just barely won.
I'm assuming you're talking about the fight with the slackers (forgot their names). Just beat the game and barely beat maki and WOW yeah im gonna save that for another time. Hoaxe was a joke compared to the post game fights
I hope they make a sequel
i love the little twinkly synth in the background, helps to emphasize the magical properties of the sapling while also working with the other instruments to make it really *feel* like you're fighting a god
I have to say, I WAS fooled by the lower HP in this boss fight, and was kind of surprised when he healed the first time... The second time, though, I was like "oh come on!" because I was starting to get low on items, but still. Can I also say that I love the plot twist of the Everlasting Sapling wilting? And that the one lone leave it gives only briefly gave the Wasp King a huge boost in power before turning him into a tree (anyone else seen Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July? The Wasp King tree is a lot more pleasant to look at than Winterbolt, that's for sure)? It's almost as if the myths surrounding the sapling were greatly exaggerated, like most myths are.
No. Its because the everlasting sapling was indoors and incased in a lock, causing it to not get enough sunlight,making it wilt, due to hoaxe/the wasp king NOW being part plant during the fight, if he went outside for the fight, tbe sun would ov given him ♾ energy
I love everything bub