Doesn't matter how many bars you go to and tell the story of this fight. No, one will ever believe the Primal of Time died to a DoT. No, free drinks for you bub.
@@deleted6089 A DoT is a Damage over Time effect. Primal of Time. Died to an effect that, via wordplay, has dominion OVER time. You could just read the words and comprehend meaning.
@@savvivixen8490 You're thinking of "beyond" time, or "out of" time. Over in relation to time takes place *within*. To use "over" in any other way indicates it's literally ABOVE it(like, on top of it, like on top of a building), which wouldn't work as that pertains to space, not time.
I love how canonically, this entire thing about every boss in Alexander going Voltron like this is something that the Wandering Minstrel just completely made up.
I like to think of the Ultimate fights just being the version of the fight we were supposed to lose (aka like the time line where the illumanati win, or a time line where Bahamut fully recovered), and because we the players are stubborn as fuck, in that time line we abuse the power of the echo till we win
"Everything seemed to be going so well, it was one of the most difficult fights I've ever experienced but we seemed to be winning" "But?" "But then it decided to stand up"
agree and i 100% think that had to be intentional, at the very end when the cages are falling down, the way that triumphant sounding melody swells and crescendos they clearly expect THIS MOMENT SPECIFICALLY to be the moment that the players clear the fight and want that feeling of accomplishment to be that much more elevated by the incredible composition they put together **chef's kiss**
@@MajorReynolds92 It's amazing how they timed ALL of the used songs for the whole fight, especially the part that you mentioned. It really makes you feel the victory.
Its true because this phase is easily the easiest in the fight. It isn't uncommon for someone to clear the final phase the first time seeing it after studying it. If you focus, this phase and song is truly a victory lap. I love this fight so much.
@@ROBDEWAND the way the enrage works is that Perfect Alexander will place panels that the party needs to stand in one-by-one to presumably avoid killing the rest of the party with a failed mechanic. Standing in those panels stops each party member as it hits them, before eventually the entire party is halted. Then Perfect Alexander casts its enrage, which essentially confirms the total halting of time for everything in that area except itself. No damage, no death, just a total stop. After a few seconds to really drink in the screen that shows how close you were to victory, the fight restarts. If it were an instant restart from the moment the cast activates, they wouldn't have killed Alexander with those DoTs - it's still amazing to think about.
This song is actually so perfect in every way wow. It really captures the tone of the fight as Alexander is such a god-like being. The music almost feels like it's telling a story of how Alexander is taking everything he has to stop you, and at some moments it sounds like he's observing you and testing you to see exactly what might is needed to be thrown at you, and then makes predictions based on what he thinks you'll do, and then gives it his all to defeat you. Then in the final moment he reasons that he can't defeat you and tries to stalemate with a temporal prison, and that message of changing fate is amazing. This fight is so beautiful, and is my favorite Ultimate fight both mechanically and artistically.
Not to mention how throughout the whole fight the music syncs up with it beautifully. The first and third elemental debuff swaps are timed perfectly, the way Metal slows down when Nisi is resolved, how it comes back when Double Rocket Punch hits the tanks, how the music charges up when Brute starts his Super Jump... how Rise lyrics come in after the tank busters end, how it slows down during Inception, builds up during Super Jump, and comes back when Alex reappears. How it's tense and faded during Wormhole, allowing players to focus, only to get more active as the mechanics pile up, building up to the shared stack, and once again, the lyrics return when Alex returns. Then the final chorus during J-Waves is electrifying. It's gonna take a lot to top this. TEA might go down as the best fight in the game, forever.
just a note way later which I was excited about, have you also noticed how cool the music and instruments are and how well they fit thematically? a shit ton of brass, there's a sound that is just like steam releasing, and at one point it's got almost the exact same rhythm as a chugging train and hydraulics, and obviously you also have the alarm noises as well. it's so good.
I do like how AI's realizing that there's no way forward and realizing that "the only winning move is not to play" has actual basis in real neural networks, and that translates to Alexander's enrage.
It reminds me of current gen Chess bots playing each other where there will reach a point where both will aknowledge moving any further will put them at a disadvantage, so they both will just cycle the same piece repeatedly between 2 squares till the game stalemates
From Mr Data playing a game of stalemate against one of the Federation's top tactical minds to the embody of the God of Time, they all realize the true final gambit of deadlock
The dots! You guys must have been freaking out over that clutch last second tick. Looked so satisfying seeing it die just as the enrage was about to go off.
One year late, but a good keybind layout will help massively. I play 16 of the 17 proper jobs without referring to the hotbar, which is only possible because the buttons make sense to me and I can logically recall where is what bound to. I highly suggest you play around with different setups until one clicks. It's worth the relearning.
When ff14 creators were designing this fight their dialogs were probably: “This tier was really good, how we could even make it feel more cool?” yoship: “What if it stands up?” Everyone: “you what?”
@@altairscauldron9776 That would be Brute Justice (His name and the name of the robots that make him is actually based on a team of transformers that can combine.)
@@danielnaumann8469 Inspired by the Combaticons, recognized most of the names. Except they unintentionally used Blaster, the actual name of an Autobot. I know it's Blast Off... but still. x)
In the lore of ff (not only ff14) there's a version of alexander with the legs, it dates way before this ultimate was made. For example ff13 has one of them and Hope is it's owner
It's a real shame that Primals are dangerous to the world, especially Alexander who sucks aether like a damn caprisun, this theme makes Alexander sound heroic, and having him show up mid-fight against say, bahamut or some other big bad kaiju primal would be sick as hell
I mean he kinda is. He undermines the illuminati and then tests you to see if he can leave the world in your hands. He's the one primal in the game that is at odds with his summoners, even if his hands are mostly tied in dealing with them
90 percent sure he'd just win against any other primal you'd put him against save maybe Hydaelyn and Zodiark lol. The only primal that decides its best to find a way to take himself out of commission because he's TOO strong.
@@SilverVibes Yeah, imo of all the primals we have faced Alexander is the strongest so far. Having the ability to control time and space, and change reality like an actual god is so OP. Even Alexander himself knows how dangerous he is so he decided to just "pls kill me, i'm very very harmful"
One of the finest compositions/performances in the entire soundtrack scene. Soken is a brilliant, brilliant force. A once in a generation talent we're lucky enough to experience in real time. A living Warrior of Light. Here's to a long career.
I watch this video everyday. This is the most epic boss fight I've ever seen in a MMO - I mean the fact that the static kill Perfect Alexander in a pinch when the time ends. Totally epic.
I love how this song encompasses both Locus and Rise. Who'd have thought that oddly soothing electronica and rapidfire scat singing about goblins would translate so well to an epic orchestra?
Well it is an upgraded version of Mobius from phase 1 of A12, though that track only got to play for about 2min before Rise jumps in. I'm really glad they upgraded Mobius for this fight... though even in A12 it was always a case of "Do these kind of silly electric tracks really deserve this more traditionally somber and epic version?"
I love everything about this fight. The bosses. The mechanics. The music. Just everything. I can’t wait to be able to tackle this on with my group. The jails are a roller coaster of emotions. You spend months grinding this with your group. You improve, optimize, strategize and give it everything ya got. Then at the very end one by one your static members are being jailed and they can’t help you so you push and push giving it everything you have until the very end. You clear. 😭
Imo this is the PERFECT theme for the final phase of an ultimate, it’s so fucking triumphant, it’s a real “let’s bring it home” kind of theme. There’s no feeling in the whole game quite like your heart pounding and your hands shaking as you cleanly execute the mechanics one by one with this playing in the background
The ultimate raids really are the "ultimate" love letter to the most dedicated players. They simultaneously take you back in time to when you first experienced the content while also taking everything to an amazing new level.
Is a Time God, can summon copies of himself, is Voltron, is a world unto himself like Mechanus, and Autocthon, more Prime than Optimus Prime, has the most bombastic Final Fantasy drum and trumpet soundtrack ever. Fuck, is he not the coolest fucking Robot ever?
In FFIX they are completely different entities. I actually wish the remaster of IX would have added new content like a way to restore alexander that would have been cool.
@@HalinHaber That's right. Ark is the Terra to Alexander's Gaia. Both are immensely powerful Ediolons in the image of living fortresses, but from different planets in service to their own respective summoners.
@@Zayindjejfj Is Ark really an Eidolon? For some reason I thought it was linked to the creation of the Invincible somehow (proto-Invincible?), since it originally resided in Oeilvert where there's also a room full of airship concepts leading to Invincible's creation. Eidolons are also created by the planet's crystal as it's defenders, but Terra is dying so can it really produce one? When you summon it, it doesn't really manifest, and just comes to Gaia from Terra's moon.
@@Rettomus Last time I checked it was essentially Terra's version of Alexander. An Eidolon of legend in the form of a living fortress. I figured it was just preserved and stood as guardian for whatever Garland/Kuja wanted. We know it's an Eidolon because you can actually use him as a summon. He's been referenced to have the longest summoning cutscene in the entire game and I think in the entire franchise. Him coming from Terra is supposed to show that he is not a creation of Gaia, but of Terra as you mentioned. That's just my idea at least. Ark could've been some kind of tool to create airships in its image? I'm not sure, I figured he was just their to guard the place. I might be wrong about a few things. Since it's been a minute since I've checked factual sources. I'm just going off of memory.
Square's really been going hard on the space battlefields this expansion and I love it so much. Even after the amazingness of Hades this is the most ridiculously final boss enemy yet.
@@dragonfable66 Alex has always been on the cooler side of the franchise's summons (see IX for a standout example) but this is definitely his best showing yet. Nothing like Genesic Alexander!
I really adore how you can tell that this track is a live orchestral recording as opposed to the orinigal version of this that played in the first phase of Alexander Prime. I like this one a lot better!
There's a lot of details added to this version that weren't in the original, too. - Muted trumpet marcato during the first section - Bass drum - More focus on brass (specifically, a LOT more trumpet and trombone) - Woodwinds and strings backing the piano during the piano "solo" instead of another piano - French horns are more up front in the mix during the final section - Cello section actually sounds like a section during the intro
I think we would could all agree a toy collection of XIV's alexander dungeon would be amazing, especially if they could transform and even combine to make Perfect Alexander.
As a mecha fan, I’d love this! But realistically speaking, while Brute Justice and Cruise Chaser would be easier to design, designing versions that also combine with Alexander would be rather difficult. Especially seeing as some of that wonderful combination sequence is what we call “anime magic”: mass-shifting of multiple units, and segments of robot seemingly extending out from and retracting into almost nothing (which I’m not talking about Alexander absorbing Brute Justice and growing its component limbs, I mean like the leg units grow wider and gain an extra toe each). Unfortunately a physical Alexander the Assembled would be resigned to being a partsforming combiner. Though I’d still buy it if it had good articulation and could hold itself up. Hell, you could make bank between repaints: one that’s the different colors of each component involved like your standard megazord, and one that’s the unified white and gold as Al grows wings - that latter one could easily be a box set.
I just realized that the transformation reference isn't TTGL but it's Digimon Xros Wars, the final episode where the main Digimon protagonist combines with his other buddies is the same as this where their color parts are visualised and then he turns full gold/white similar how this boss is transforming. Very nice sneaky reference you got there SE. Also forgot to mention both grew wings at their backs at the end of the transformation.
This is some absolute top tier raiding content right here. I missed out on a lot of HW raiding due to just how bad I was at the game and the overall difficulty of finding groups on my server at the time. Currently got to BJ+CC and this is turning into easily one of my favorite fights in the game, if not in gaming in general.
I thought the same thing with Bahamut Ultimate yet here I am with a full clear thanks to an awesome and patient random group. Gonna tackle PA this weekend.
One thing I actually really do like about the ultimate fights is that since they're so precisely tuned the music tends to sync up really well with what's actually going on with the fight because they don't have to worry about the song being at a weird spot in the loop because the song is going to change for each phase and they'll know roughly how far into each phase you should be at a given moment
Grats on the kill and thanks for uploading this theme! That DoT clutch, holy shit. Also, my only disappointment is that Perfect Alexander didn't scream "BUT I'M PERFECT!!!!" as he disintegrated a la Perfect Cell. :P
I want so hard a figurine with every alexander's version that can be clipped to form brute justice etc and finally perfect alexander, it could be so glorious
Nobou can literally take over an entire opera house and just play video game music with his orchestra and, if he wanted, have them play for an entire week. That's so fucking gangster.
@@stevenlucas6029 Wasn't this piece written by Souken? Most of the Music for FFXIV after 1.0 was written by Souken, with Nobou only contributing a song or two.
@@stevenlucas6029 Taking on few tracks here and there, 90% of FFXIV songs are created by Masayoshi Soken at least since ARR onwards. Uematsu were main composer of the music back in 1.xx but after that he mostly made all the expac trailer song (Dragonsong, Revolution) maybe except for Shadowbringers in which Soken composed himself and contributed few tracks here and there albeit it is far in between. So, yeah, Moebius and its incarnation is by Soken.
Alexander: "Looks like you're out of time. GOODBYE JOJO!! MWAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA-" SMN: "Your next line is: I'VE WON!! CREATION WILL BE MINE TO WIELD AS I SEE FIT!!"" Alexander: "I'VE WON!! CREATION WILL BE MINE TO WIELD AS I SEE FIT!! NANI?!?!?!?!" SMN: "HA!! JUST ACCORDING TO KEIKAKU!!" Alexander: *Doubles over in extreme pain* "No....no! NO!!! I WAS STILL UNDER THE EFFECTS OF DAMAGE OVER TIME!! I CANNOT STOP TIME FOR MY OWN METABOLISM!! *zooms in to alexander's nano-cells being melted by miasma iii/bio iiii* "HE WAS PLAYING ME FOR A FOOL THIS ENTIRE TIME!! I'VE BEEN DEAD SINCE HE CAST THAT RAIDWIDE BUFF-ENHANCED TRI-DISASTER!!" *EXPLODES WHILE SCREAMING "WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY-*" SMN: "Checkmate.....*gives a thumbs up before passing out*" PLD: "Yeah but summoner is still a bad job though."
@@bigbay1159 I mean this is the first one I can remember where it has multiple shots of every character individually doing their victory cutscene. Usually you get a YOU WIN screen zooming out to show your party looking cool then either a dramatic pan of the arena or a shot your own character laughing / posing / smiling / being depressed in the center of the screen with a random party member or two getting Mike Wazowski'd at the edge the background.
This song hits so fucking hard after having killed tea. My hands literally shake when hearing this music, just like the times you got to PA in the actual fight.
With how they made the Mobius version for Perfect Alexander, I cannot wait for when SqEx releases the Omega Ultimate raid. Be it From the Heavens or Heartless, the Ultimate version would be excellent!
before this got released I had talked to my friends and said that they're probably gonna have alexander himself pull a brute justice and just morph with the others AND I WAS RIGHT
I want all of these goblin mecha as toys. I want combining Brute Justice, transforming Cruise Chaser, and if we can somehow sneak Perfect Alexander in there, then just shut up and take my money.
Alexander: "Time for you to die!" Protagonist: "Funny how you speak about time..." Alexander: "What's so funny about it?" Protagonist: "Well...your time is up...shouldn't have wasted your time with a big finisher :P"
Doesn't matter how many bars you go to and tell the story of this fight. No, one will ever believe the Primal of Time died to a DoT. No, free drinks for you bub.
What part of "damage OVER time" is confusing you 😏
@@deleted6089 A DoT is a Damage over Time effect. Primal of Time. Died to an effect that, via wordplay, has dominion OVER time.
You could just read the words and comprehend meaning.
@@Those_Weirdos DoTs are specifically OVER time, therefore it's out of Allie's dominion of time! Aaaaaaaaaay!
@@savvivixen8490 You're thinking of "beyond" time, or "out of" time. Over in relation to time takes place *within*. To use "over" in any other way indicates it's literally ABOVE it(like, on top of it, like on top of a building), which wouldn't work as that pertains to space, not time.
@@optimaltt6070 RIP that wordplay joke; you were well loved ~♡~
6:38 I absolutely love how, based on the mouse movement at the end, you can tell even the player couldn't believe what just happened.
I love how canonically, this entire thing about every boss in Alexander going Voltron like this is something that the Wandering Minstrel just completely made up.
It's only made up after the first time you told him about it, which was brute justice in A8 and was real.
I mean... you're not wrong. At all.
Since the minstrel actually is Yoshi-P's in-game avatar!
I like to think of the Ultimate fights just being the version of the fight we were supposed to lose (aka like the time line where the illumanati win, or a time line where Bahamut fully recovered), and because we the players are stubborn as fuck, in that time line we abuse the power of the echo till we win
@@lapinbeau somewhat, i believe during the rising events his model changes a little to moreso reflect his irl hairstyle and complexion
@@rinnnnnnnnnnrinRinOnishi yeah they do update his model in accordance with his irl look over the years
I can't stop watching the transformation, it just so cool.
Power Rangers style, but better animation XD
Monk mains wanna speak a word with you
Alexander is Voltron confirmed.
Gattai!
When I first saw I said "this is one part cool two parts were fucked"
"Everything seemed to be going so well, it was one of the most difficult fights I've ever experienced but we seemed to be winning"
"But?"
"But then it decided to stand up"
Heh... You could say it was... Alexander's Last Stand.
@@SirBuljo Leave.
@@SirBuljo Get out!
@@SirBuljo INAFF
@@SirBuljo And take his knees with you when you go.
I came for the music and then I watched the end and I was like "Oh shit did they just wipe?" then he died to the DoT and I nearly lost it.
I love how triumphant this song feels. It’s like the game saying “you got this far now finish it!”
is that a KKHTA pfp i see
agree and i 100% think that had to be intentional, at the very end when the cages are falling down, the way that triumphant sounding melody swells and crescendos they clearly expect THIS MOMENT SPECIFICALLY to be the moment that the players clear the fight and want that feeling of accomplishment to be that much more elevated by the incredible composition they put together **chef's kiss**
@@MajorReynolds92 It's amazing how they timed ALL of the used songs for the whole fight, especially the part that you mentioned. It really makes you feel the victory.
Its true because this phase is easily the easiest in the fight. It isn't uncommon for someone to clear the final phase the first time seeing it after studying it. If you focus, this phase and song is truly a victory lap. I love this fight so much.
@@ihaveskillissue69 True i prog atm P2 to (3rd Nisi/BPOG) P3 and P2 looks so much harder then this phase when im honest :D
Love how Alexander quickly dyed new outfit, he knows what true endgame is.
> ENGAGING FASHION MODE
> SETTING DIVINE BLING TO ONE HUNDRED AND TEN PERCENT
> BE BLINDED BY MY RADIANCE AND GOLD-TRIMMED CHROME
Losing is fine, but you gotta go out with style. 😂
that clutch dot tick at the end lmao
I came here for the music, certainly but... when time was stopped at 0.1% I legit screamed at my screen.
I tried so hard to not wake up everyone lmao
I thought my party killing Shinryu EX after the enrage Tidal Wave had sent us flying was cutting it close, but these fuckers. THESE FUCKERS
I love it.
what would have happened otherwise insta death ?
@@ROBDEWAND the way the enrage works is that Perfect Alexander will place panels that the party needs to stand in one-by-one to presumably avoid killing the rest of the party with a failed mechanic. Standing in those panels stops each party member as it hits them, before eventually the entire party is halted. Then Perfect Alexander casts its enrage, which essentially confirms the total halting of time for everything in that area except itself. No damage, no death, just a total stop. After a few seconds to really drink in the screen that shows how close you were to victory, the fight restarts.
If it were an instant restart from the moment the cast activates, they wouldn't have killed Alexander with those DoTs - it's still amazing to think about.
Video proof that DoTs are actually important.
@@Aleara27 there was one about a carbuncle killing one
WoW proved that dot's matter too.
god i miss having three dots as a dragoon.
Basic math is all the proof we needed..
@@magistrategaming I miss my Drk dot. ;-;
This song is actually so perfect in every way wow. It really captures the tone of the fight as Alexander is such a god-like being. The music almost feels like it's telling a story of how Alexander is taking everything he has to stop you, and at some moments it sounds like he's observing you and testing you to see exactly what might is needed to be thrown at you, and then makes predictions based on what he thinks you'll do, and then gives it his all to defeat you. Then in the final moment he reasons that he can't defeat you and tries to stalemate with a temporal prison, and that message of changing fate is amazing. This fight is so beautiful, and is my favorite Ultimate fight both mechanically and artistically.
Not to mention how throughout the whole fight the music syncs up with it beautifully. The first and third elemental debuff swaps are timed perfectly, the way Metal slows down when Nisi is resolved, how it comes back when Double Rocket Punch hits the tanks, how the music charges up when Brute starts his Super Jump... how Rise lyrics come in after the tank busters end, how it slows down during Inception, builds up during Super Jump, and comes back when Alex reappears. How it's tense and faded during Wormhole, allowing players to focus, only to get more active as the mechanics pile up, building up to the shared stack, and once again, the lyrics return when Alex returns. Then the final chorus during J-Waves is electrifying.
It's gonna take a lot to top this. TEA might go down as the best fight in the game, forever.
just a note way later which I was excited about, have you also noticed how cool the music and instruments are and how well they fit thematically? a shit ton of brass, there's a sound that is just like steam releasing, and at one point it's got almost the exact same rhythm as a chugging train and hydraulics, and obviously you also have the alarm noises as well. it's so good.
I do like how AI's realizing that there's no way forward and realizing that "the only winning move is not to play" has actual basis in real neural networks, and that translates to Alexander's enrage.
It reminds me of current gen Chess bots playing each other where there will reach a point where both will aknowledge moving any further will put them at a disadvantage, so they both will just cycle the same piece repeatedly between 2 squares till the game stalemates
@@otto8th272 Isnt that 90% of Checkers games
From Mr Data playing a game of stalemate against one of the Federation's top tactical minds to the embody of the God of Time, they all realize the true final gambit of deadlock
The dots! You guys must have been freaking out over that clutch last second tick. Looked so satisfying seeing it die just as the enrage was about to go off.
That was such a clutch kill there. Amazing.
Oh hey, it's the Melt guy. Fancy seeing you here!
"Look upon the perfection that will be your destruction"
If I'm ever gonna be in a bar fight and I'm winning, I will use this as catch phrase...
I want to one day have developed enough muscle memory to play without the hotbar too lol
Well, it's white mage..
@@angel.feathers Y E S
@@angel.feathers S E Y
holy crap you're right
One year late, but a good keybind layout will help massively. I play 16 of the 17 proper jobs without referring to the hotbar, which is only possible because the buttons make sense to me and I can logically recall where is what bound to. I highly suggest you play around with different setups until one clicks. It's worth the relearning.
When ff14 creators were designing this fight their dialogs were probably:
“This tier was really good, how we could even make it feel more cool?”
yoship: “What if it stands up?”
Everyone: “you what?”
😂😂😂
it's like they just watched transformers and thought of power ranger megazord at the same time
@@altairscauldron9776 That would be Brute Justice (His name and the name of the robots that make him is actually based on a team of transformers that can combine.)
@@danielnaumann8469 Inspired by the Combaticons, recognized most of the names. Except they unintentionally used Blaster, the actual name of an Autobot. I know it's Blast Off... but still. x)
In the lore of ff (not only ff14) there's a version of alexander with the legs, it dates way before this ultimate was made. For example ff13 has one of them and Hope is it's owner
It's a real shame that Primals are dangerous to the world, especially Alexander who sucks aether like a damn caprisun, this theme makes Alexander sound heroic, and having him show up mid-fight against say, bahamut or some other big bad kaiju primal would be sick as hell
Im sorry, I know this is a late response, but your remark about caprisun made me almost spit out my tea. XD
I mean he kinda is. He undermines the illuminati and then tests you to see if he can leave the world in your hands. He's the one primal in the game that is at odds with his summoners, even if his hands are mostly tied in dealing with them
That exact thing happened in FF9 (Bahamut vs Alexander) Even with dated graphics that cut scene still gives me the chills.
90 percent sure he'd just win against any other primal you'd put him against save maybe Hydaelyn and Zodiark lol. The only primal that decides its best to find a way to take himself out of commission because he's TOO strong.
@@SilverVibes Yeah, imo of all the primals we have faced Alexander is the strongest so far. Having the ability to control time and space, and change reality like an actual god is so OP. Even Alexander himself knows how dangerous he is so he decided to just "pls kill me, i'm very very harmful"
One of the finest compositions/performances in the entire soundtrack scene. Soken is a brilliant, brilliant force. A once in a generation talent we're lucky enough to experience in real time. A living Warrior of Light. Here's to a long career.
I watch this video everyday. This is the most epic boss fight I've ever seen in a MMO - I mean the fact that the static kill Perfect Alexander in a pinch when the time ends. Totally epic.
Perfect Alexander's transformation cutscene is the epitome of: I'm fluent in over 6 million forms of kicking your ass.
Form! Feet! And! Legs!
Form! Arms! And! Torso!
And I'll form ... The HEAD!
ALEXANDER!!!!!!!!
Voltron: Defender of the Universe
@@nikkitan9001 lol Alexander defender of universe.
Single handedly the best final phase transition in any ultimate to date
This holds true 200% after DSR
Agreed, even Top can't...well...Top this
@@dadkwashere FRU continues the tradition of 'not being as absolutely badass as Perfect Alexander's phase change'
Turns out Alexander was keeping his legs inside Brute Justice this whole time!
And part of his arms, and a sizable chunk of his chest as well.
"Captain, why is he standing up?"
"Because now he's fighting back..."
I love how this song encompasses both Locus and Rise. Who'd have thought that oddly soothing electronica and rapidfire scat singing about goblins would translate so well to an epic orchestra?
Well it is an upgraded version of Mobius from phase 1 of A12, though that track only got to play for about 2min before Rise jumps in. I'm really glad they upgraded Mobius for this fight... though even in A12 it was always a case of "Do these kind of silly electric tracks really deserve this more traditionally somber and epic version?"
It incorporates a bit of Metal in there too! I've loved tracking the leitmotifs in this game, and this song made me especially giddy.
I love that alex realised he can’t beat you the normal way so just locks you in time forever
Am I the only one finding it ironic that a 'God of Time' is killed by 'damage over time'? XD
You're not the only one!
To stop the DoT would of had to stop himself to, so that's why he was killed X'D
@@arachineatzeer7478 DIO: ZA WARUDO
SCH: *laughs in patch 3.0 balance*
SCH, BLM, SMN, WHM: "Let us introduce ourselves."
@@arachineatzeer7478 LAUGHS IN SAMURAI'S HIGANBANA
I keep forgetting about Higanbana as I rarely see it or use it myself as a Samurai
Alexander: Your time is up.. It is over.
DoTs: imma bout to end this man's career
Why would Alexander say "You are time is up"?
All I want in life is a Perfect Grade Perfect Alexander Gundam model kit
Holy hell this is so kickass. Nice work on the clear, absolute power move at the end with the DoT kill.
I love everything about this fight. The bosses. The mechanics. The music. Just everything. I can’t wait to be able to tackle this on with my group. The jails are a roller coaster of emotions. You spend months grinding this with your group. You improve, optimize, strategize and give it everything ya got. Then at the very end one by one your static members are being jailed and they can’t help you so you push and push giving it everything you have until the very end. You clear. 😭
Imo this is the PERFECT theme for the final phase of an ultimate, it’s so fucking triumphant, it’s a real “let’s bring it home” kind of theme. There’s no feeling in the whole game quite like your heart pounding and your hands shaking as you cleanly execute the mechanics one by one with this playing in the background
"Well guys it's time to do the old you know what!"
"What!?"
*"WHAT ELSE, COMBINE!"*
Now Perfect Alexander just need to take control of the Alexander Raid Body... Arcexander
"JUST WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK WE ARE?"
and when it combines with the Colossal Alexander he will become the Super Perfect Prime Alexander
this version of the song makes me feel like i can do anything it sounds so triumphant
"Why would I want to stop time on myself? That seems illogical."
Perfect Alexander, probably.
(nice work btw!)
Blassty: And I'll form the head.
BlueMageDanny I’ll form the head, I’ll form the head.
LETS GO VOLTRON FORCE!
this is the ost only clear i was waiting for
Gotta love how the music's epic finale is meant to be played once you get the kill
You lalafell looks like it does a sigh of relief during the duty complete scene lol
BusterBosque that’s because they do lol ultima weapon ultimate does the same I think.
The one greatest thing FFXIV ever did was these encounters. It feels so good to dodge everything in a full party encounter.
The ultimate raids really are the "ultimate" love letter to the most dedicated players. They simultaneously take you back in time to when you first experienced the content while also taking everything to an amazing new level.
Is a Time God, can summon copies of himself, is Voltron, is a world unto himself like Mechanus, and Autocthon, more Prime than Optimus Prime, has the most bombastic Final Fantasy drum and trumpet soundtrack ever. Fuck, is he not the coolest fucking Robot ever?
I never would have guessed that Garnet’s strongest Eidolon Ark was actually a part of Alexander. Makes sense now lol
True!!
In FFIX they are completely different entities. I actually wish the remaster of IX would have added new content like a way to restore alexander that would have been cool.
@@HalinHaber That's right.
Ark is the Terra to Alexander's Gaia.
Both are immensely powerful Ediolons in the image of living fortresses, but from different planets in service to their own respective summoners.
@@Zayindjejfj Is Ark really an Eidolon? For some reason I thought it was linked to the creation of the Invincible somehow (proto-Invincible?), since it originally resided in Oeilvert where there's also a room full of airship concepts leading to Invincible's creation.
Eidolons are also created by the planet's crystal as it's defenders, but Terra is dying so can it really produce one? When you summon it, it doesn't really manifest, and just comes to Gaia from Terra's moon.
@@Rettomus Last time I checked it was essentially Terra's version of Alexander.
An Eidolon of legend in the form of a living fortress.
I figured it was just preserved and stood as guardian for whatever Garland/Kuja wanted.
We know it's an Eidolon because you can actually use him as a summon.
He's been referenced to have the longest summoning cutscene in the entire game and I think in the entire franchise. Him coming from Terra is supposed to show that he is not a creation of Gaia, but of Terra as you mentioned. That's just my idea at least.
Ark could've been some kind of tool to create airships in its image? I'm not sure, I figured he was just their to guard the place.
I might be wrong about a few things. Since it's been a minute since I've checked factual sources. I'm just going off of memory.
Yeah, this orchestral version does the theme justice. Brute justice. Sick clear, awesome fight!
Square's really been going hard on the space battlefields this expansion and I love it so much. Even after the amazingness of Hades this is the most ridiculously final boss enemy yet.
Also let's just take a minute to process that we get to fight a MULTI-WINGED ROMAN GLADIATOR MEGAZORD GOD OF TIME.
Is it a crime i wa t a transforming/combining figure of Alexander the Assembled?
@@dragonfable66 you don't have a soul if you don't want a figure of this glorious bastard
@@tuyhhf i dont even play FFXIV But i followed the story via playthroughs. Alexander is my fave primal with all the temporal mtrickery involved
@@dragonfable66 Alex has always been on the cooler side of the franchise's summons (see IX for a standout example) but this is definitely his best showing yet. Nothing like Genesic Alexander!
I really adore how you can tell that this track is a live orchestral recording as opposed to the orinigal version of this that played in the first phase of Alexander Prime. I like this one a lot better!
There's a lot of details added to this version that weren't in the original, too.
- Muted trumpet marcato during the first section
- Bass drum
- More focus on brass (specifically, a LOT more trumpet and trombone)
- Woodwinds and strings backing the piano during the piano "solo" instead of another piano
- French horns are more up front in the mix during the final section
- Cello section actually sounds like a section during the intro
When your regular floatie *Zeong* turned into the *Perfect Zeong.*
But the legs are just for show
I am Alexander… the Assembled
Look upon the perfection that will be your destruction
I love the part when Alexander says, "It's Moebin time!" and then stands up. Truly an awe inspiring and moving moment.
Kek
He found his legs
Just when I thought Alexander was already my favorite fight and theme.
They make it so MUCH BETTER HOLY SHI-
God this is so beautiful. I love the way the music just peaks at 3:00
I think we would could all agree a toy collection of XIV's alexander dungeon would be amazing, especially if they could transform and even combine to make Perfect Alexander.
As a mecha fan, I’d love this! But realistically speaking, while Brute Justice and Cruise Chaser would be easier to design, designing versions that also combine with Alexander would be rather difficult. Especially seeing as some of that wonderful combination sequence is what we call “anime magic”: mass-shifting of multiple units, and segments of robot seemingly extending out from and retracting into almost nothing (which I’m not talking about Alexander absorbing Brute Justice and growing its component limbs, I mean like the leg units grow wider and gain an extra toe each). Unfortunately a physical Alexander the Assembled would be resigned to being a partsforming combiner.
Though I’d still buy it if it had good articulation and could hold itself up. Hell, you could make bank between repaints: one that’s the different colors of each component involved like your standard megazord, and one that’s the unified white and gold as Al grows wings - that latter one could easily be a box set.
I just realized that the transformation reference isn't TTGL but it's Digimon Xros Wars, the final episode where the main Digimon protagonist combines with his other buddies is the same as this where their color parts are visualised and then he turns full gold/white similar how this boss is transforming. Very nice sneaky reference you got there SE.
Also forgot to mention both grew wings at their backs at the end of the transformation.
love the theme, its not your typical kind of song with vocals n stuff.
I came here for music and stayed for the absolute roller coaster of an enrage. Awesome job!
after 4 years of this music and video pulling me into ffxiv, i have finally cleared TEA with my static. 💗 ty for ur service
This is the stuff that energizes me
This is some absolute top tier raiding content right here. I missed out on a lot of HW raiding due to just how bad I was at the game and the overall difficulty of finding groups on my server at the time. Currently got to BJ+CC and this is turning into easily one of my favorite fights in the game, if not in gaming in general.
as someone who plays solo , i thank you for uploading this as i will never be able to experance this myself,
You can experience anything you wish -- just put the effort in to put yourself out there. We're social animals.
@@domini1337 So you've had a dedicated static for a while, then.
@@domini1337 i do not have the time , i have a job to do
Same
I thought the same thing with Bahamut Ultimate yet here I am with a full clear thanks to an awesome and patient random group.
Gonna tackle PA this weekend.
this fight so beautiful omg
Players upon fighting Alexander for the third time: How many times do we have to teach you this lesson Alexander!?
Alexander: As many times as -I- can create.
Wow that was so funny!
Damn not gonna lie that shit was epic almost shed a tear. The music is godlike to! Congrats on thy clear.
This OST is just too fucking good, I can't get over it
Perfect Alexander transforms
Simon from Gurren-Lagann
*heavy breathing*
Nah he be like " yo that's cool but where's the drill? " 🤣
WE NEED A ALEXANDER VS GODBERT
Gurren lagann crossover when SE
I imagine my avitar standing head back, jaw to the floor as Alexander stands up in all his bad-assery.
One thing I actually really do like about the ultimate fights is that since they're so precisely tuned the music tends to sync up really well with what's actually going on with the fight because they don't have to worry about the song being at a weird spot in the loop because the song is going to change for each phase and they'll know roughly how far into each phase you should be at a given moment
anyone watching this see the last 33% of the final cast and started saying "die die die" out loud? LOL
you should watch the source video, because...they are shouting DIE DAMN YOU! for the last 30 seconds or so. Its fantastic
WE GO TOGETHER
The music is so so cool, I love it so much !
the boss is ok, but can we talk about how good the name "Tunnel Visionary" is?
Yeah I agree!
@@tunnel1507 biased :^)
@@tunnel1507 Perfection.
Grats on the kill and thanks for uploading this theme! That DoT clutch, holy shit. Also, my only disappointment is that Perfect Alexander didn't scream "BUT I'M PERFECT!!!!" as he disintegrated a la Perfect Cell. :P
should've sung "My Way"
I want so hard a figurine with every alexander's version that can be clipped to form brute justice etc and finally perfect alexander, it could be so glorious
I've seen enough sentai to know where this is going >.>
Underrated comment.
I feel like I can hear all the screaming that had to have been going on over discord with that kill.
ua-cam.com/video/1DTxwE8LCAo/v-deo.html this video has the reactions at the end!
Love FF or hate it, you have to admire the effort they put into the soundtracks of the game. Easily the best sound tracks in ANY mmo or even any game.
Nobou can literally take over an entire opera house and just play video game music with his orchestra and, if he wanted, have them play for an entire week. That's so fucking gangster.
@@stevenlucas6029 Wasn't this piece written by Souken? Most of the Music for FFXIV after 1.0 was written by Souken, with Nobou only contributing a song or two.
@@rympha3581 not sure, I know the 5.3 songs are gonna be Nobou
@@stevenlucas6029 Taking on few tracks here and there, 90% of FFXIV songs are created by Masayoshi Soken at least since ARR onwards. Uematsu were main composer of the music back in 1.xx but after that he mostly made all the expac trailer song (Dragonsong, Revolution) maybe except for Shadowbringers in which Soken composed himself and contributed few tracks here and there albeit it is far in between. So, yeah, Moebius and its incarnation is by Soken.
I love the fact that the instant he realizes he cant defeat you he has to put you into an eternal stalemate in order to "win"
gz on the clear
Perfect Grade Perfect Alexander and everyone else when? Cmon Square, Do the collab with Bandai
Alexander: "Looks like you're out of time. GOODBYE JOJO!! MWAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA-"
SMN: "Your next line is: I'VE WON!! CREATION WILL BE MINE TO WIELD AS I SEE FIT!!""
Alexander: "I'VE WON!! CREATION WILL BE MINE TO WIELD AS I SEE FIT!! NANI?!?!?!?!"
SMN: "HA!! JUST ACCORDING TO KEIKAKU!!"
Alexander: *Doubles over in extreme pain* "No....no! NO!!! I WAS STILL UNDER THE EFFECTS OF DAMAGE OVER TIME!! I CANNOT STOP TIME FOR MY OWN METABOLISM!! *zooms in to alexander's nano-cells being melted by miasma iii/bio iiii* "HE WAS PLAYING ME FOR A FOOL THIS ENTIRE TIME!! I'VE BEEN DEAD SINCE HE CAST THAT RAIDWIDE BUFF-ENHANCED TRI-DISASTER!!" *EXPLODES WHILE SCREAMING "WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY-*"
SMN: "Checkmate.....*gives a thumbs up before passing out*"
PLD: "Yeah but summoner is still a bad job though."
I could picture the xray miasma scene perfectly.
Amazing comment!
Why did PLD say smn is bad :(
@@cherylhassenzahl4462 it's a joke.
it isn't real, go play smn and kill everything
Why do I picture this as an anime scene
From the transformation to how it dies... everything about alexander ia elegant!
It's great that the victory screen shows scenes of all your party members victory emoting and not just you with Some Other Guys in the background.
It's like this for most 8-man duties.
All of the fights end that way, story and savage content you and your characters are the ones putting in work. Always liked that about the game.
@@bigbay1159 I mean this is the first one I can remember where it has multiple shots of every character individually doing their victory cutscene. Usually you get a YOU WIN screen zooming out to show your party looking cool then either a dramatic pan of the arena or a shot your own character laughing / posing / smiling / being depressed in the center of the screen with a random party member or two getting Mike Wazowski'd at the edge the background.
i love how you timed the celebration animation with that drum roll at the end xd
Just another boss neither me nor my group has any chance of clearing ever
Man, I loved this part of the fight.
Yup. Alexander is officially a god in the Final Fantasy Pantheon
Listening to this on the bus: Yeah boiiiiiii
Listening to this while playing healer: AAAAAAAAAA
Absolute. PEAK.
This song hits so fucking hard after having killed tea. My hands literally shake when hearing this music, just like the times you got to PA in the actual fight.
The fight ended and I was like "wait, that's it?" lol Grats on the clear!
With how they made the Mobius version for Perfect Alexander, I cannot wait for when SqEx releases the Omega Ultimate raid. Be it From the Heavens or Heartless, the Ultimate version would be excellent!
@@lucasmaury730 Man, this comment I made was like 2 years ago. I CAN'T WAIT FOR WHEN I DO THE RAID!
So, did you like it?
@@pudding6588 I did. It was glorious!
before this got released I had talked to my friends and said that they're probably gonna have alexander himself pull a brute justice and just morph with the others AND I WAS RIGHT
everyone knew that you know, it was obivous since alexander ultimate has been anounced...
go away scrubby
@@zannibalable Don't get mad for not having the same prediction-powers as others, sit
I mean brute justice was a give away.
When time stops but the DoTs don't. 😫👌
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Let's be honest here. Alexanders theme at the end made that final push so much better
I want all of these goblin mecha as toys. I want combining Brute Justice, transforming Cruise Chaser, and if we can somehow sneak Perfect Alexander in there, then just shut up and take my money.
Yes plz
Someone contact Soul of Chogokin asap
Alexander: "Time for you to die!"
Protagonist: "Funny how you speak about time..."
Alexander: "What's so funny about it?"
Protagonist: "Well...your time is up...shouldn't have wasted your time with a big finisher :P"
When he stood up with legs my whole static was like "oh...oh fuck."
If Alexandria castle turned into this lad in FFIX I wonder if things would have turned out different...
Everybody gangsta until the castle stands up
Now we all understand that guy from the WoW Onyxia wipe meme when he starts yelling for MOAR DOTS
Just cleared today and this theme is stuck in my head. Fate Calibration is such a cool mechanic.
Everybody Gangsta 'till the Primal of Time start walkin'.