I was playing this on the Sonic PS3 collection I didn't expect the boss to be this intense with the music cuz I was naive at the time and thought old 16 bit games from the 90s were boring this game proved me wrong if I had not got that I would have denied myself Chrono Trigger
You should check out the profound darkness' remixed theme from PSO2. It does a great job. ua-cam.com/video/PSOyjD7TeuE/v-deo.html Kinda wish they had more gruesome forms to match the eerie eldritch nightmare vibe the song gives but it's okay.
Speaking of CT, PD should have gotten a special scene of the aftermath of being victorious... Maybe destroying everything, then finally going after the Great Light.
Thanks to the Phantasy Star and Shining series, I discovered my love for RPGs. I usually brought Raja on this fight and completely owned the Profound Darkness.
My all time hit list of that Era at Chrono Trigger(snes ), FF6 (snes), Ps4(Megadrive), Albion(by bluebyte Dos game) for straight up RPGs next tier would include mixed categories Like Shining force series (tactical rpg) and Terranigma (snes a action RPG thats... frankly a bit odd...) they don't make em like they used to...well except when they do... retro indie games are all the rage now days i suppose I mean harvest moon as matched pretty well by Stardew valley and they improved on the formular while keeping the pixel aesthetics
Both the Genesis and Super NES had great RPGs for Super NES for me it was Chrono Trigger in Final Fantasy 6 Genesis it's the Phantasy Star series. In my opinion instead of Sega focusing on Phantasy Star Online they should actually revisit their single player jrpgs
How fitting final boss music the tone of it the horror the no more fooling around this is a matter of life or death the fate of the algo system rests in your hands who will prevail
@DarkKnux09 Actually, the Dark Force/Profound Darkness connection is cannon--Rykros entering the Algol system every 1000 years coincides with the weakening of some weird seal or other that allows a fragment of PD to enter Algol (eg, DF). Dunno about the 'using Alys' body' thing (although that did happen, to an extent, with Zio, and to a greater extreme, Seth), but all this means is: WE. NEED. PHANTASY. STAR. FIVE. Not 'Online', but FIVE.
Yes sage it is cannon, its how the humans made it to algol in phantasy star 2. The wormhole they went threw not only travel threw space but also threw time.
That's the problem with time involved story lines. Still 4 as a stand-alone....woah. Good questions. Zio/Seth are perfect examples of weaklings overtaken by PD and Alys and Rune are examples of the opposite....yet the interloper cares for the entities of good while PD uses and throws aside....which is its/her/his undoing. Alas. DF much stronger than PD. Happens.
@@joryneff9511 We'll never know with Seth. He's thought to be a fully evolved DF, so much it can infiltrate the world of mortal beings. He does show up all of a sudden and has no connections with anyone after all.
I had Hahn and had him use Guardian Rod/Nares every turn if needed and Astral/Nawat if no healing is needed (with his Mental stat I was almost a Gisar with the rod)
The PSO2 remix of this song is going to be a real joy to hear when fighting the Profound Darkness some 20 years after it last made an appearance in the series.
+Rakurai309 Nope, I still enjoy this version so much better. PS4 music was so good, I still listen to it even though it hurts that I finished this game 4 times and theres nothing like PS4 since
***** Fuck PSO, I never played it, I didnt get into computer and internet until it was dead in the ground. By the time I tried PSO i could only play solo with cracks
I just found this on ebay for $50 on ebay can't wait for it to arrive so i can get my nostalgic hands on it and defeat dark force the best genesis rpg game out there
@DarkKnux09 So did I! It kinda makes sense, so why not. But I think that the women on the title screen of II are just supposed to be what the peoples of Algol imagined "Mother Brain" to look like, since no one ever seemed to have laid eyes on it. And because no one knew the location, perhaps they believed MB was omnipresent as well.
i use the grandcross if you know what it is if you don't know then ill explain it's a combo between chaz and rune then as a finisher i use mass destruction it will finish half of her life then just hit her with crosscut then with doubleslash then etc etc
Its a huge throwback to every game, really. Not only Alis and Alys, who is close to Rune and Chaz, but Mother brain as well. It's taking a shape formed from the malice, pain, hatred, and anguish in the heroes' hearts. A form derived from millennia of battle that has the most impact on the hearts of those who would stand before it.
This Song says...."dude, your fucked" I love this song..It really fit the battle especialy the fast bit where youd be using all your special moves..and then it would turn into the woman
@McNotAllThatFreaky"It/They" already seem to be at like 1% or so given by Chaz and Rika's lines "it's still forming" and what not. In fact it's a little hard to accept you're able to do what the GL could not, why couldn't PD just regenerate somehow... Hmmm.
it's also not easy if you don't powerlevel before or inside of the fissure. Everybody falz-farmed or do all of the hunter guild missions first, so you do TPD when you're somewhat overleveled.
tbh you right. Did Valhal / Silver Soldier quest. Was getting my ass handed to me in Air Castle and after....stopped before Abyss/Fissure and did side quests....Turned into killing machine.
i'm gonna be fr, i save scummed the shit out of profound darkness like, i tried not to, but after getting destroyed by it several times and having to get past its first couple forms over and over again, sometime dying to them too, i just said screw it and save state'd right when it changed from its 2nd form into the profound darkness. no, it barely made it any easier but I still did it, after a good hour+ of attempts.
It's not quite so easy if you don't pick anyone to come with you when you go to fight PD... just the original four. As an added challenge, don't bring ANY restorative items! Go in the fissure with your characters loaded to their noses with health, and see how far you get then! X3
@lazarus8472 Seems like a lot of fights were like that, unless you really ran through everything and didn't bother collecting the better equipment. Even then the tougher bosses were still manageable, just a lot more time-consuming. Still a wonderful game though :D
@lazarus8472 Try giving yourself challenges try: Do not use a 5th character. Do not level up past 39. Do not use Megid or Legeon. Do not use Items. There are many many ways you can make your PS4 experience much more challenging
@@zephyromega3077 dude, Cloud of Darkness is damn near bullshit cheap. I played the DS version and must have taken me about 20 times to finally do it, the final time, I had refia left with just around 300 hp, I damn near threw my DS with excitement when the battle music stopped
I wonder about Bhunivelze. PD was almost as strong as the Great Light, which might have created everything in their universe, and was once combined with it.
Yea and then it suddenly kicks in and you're like OHH SHIT THIS IS SICK. Fight was really easy though and a disapointment. I used to drag it out just to listen to the music more.
@DarkKnux09 Hmm....but neither I or II were particularly religious in any way that I remember...maybe it's a representation of Alis (Landale, not Brangwyn) and Nei. Or, maybe they're there for the sake of looking cool. Or, Reiko Kadama ("Phoenix Rie") was flexing the 'feminist' muscle. (Doubtful)
@DarkKnux09 Well, they did a great job with the series as a whole, at any rate (except for 3), so despite wanting another game, I will concede that 4 does do a great job at ending the series, so another game WOULD feel just a little lite a cop-out. You know what stings, though? The PS2 remakes for PS1 and 2 were PLANNED to come to the U.S....and then they were cancelled. T_T
i can finish her off in 2-3 minutes i have chaz level 99 rika level 99 rune level 99 well i have all of them level 99 so i have unlimited power hahahaha
This game wishes it was on a console with a better sounding soundchip. The genesis had a strong soundchip, it just sounds like complete garbage for a majority of games.
When I first saw the final form of Profound Darkness in PS4, I just stared for a good long while. Like, what am I observing here. So good.
What makes this song so awesome is how the previous battle's theme, Abyss, segues perfectly into this one.
I was playing this on the Sonic PS3 collection I didn't expect the boss to be this intense with the music cuz I was naive at the time and thought old 16 bit games from the 90s were boring this game proved me wrong if I had not got that I would have denied myself Chrono Trigger
You should check out the profound darkness' remixed theme from PSO2. It does a great job. ua-cam.com/video/PSOyjD7TeuE/v-deo.html
Kinda wish they had more gruesome forms to match the eerie eldritch nightmare vibe the song gives but it's okay.
Graphics do not determine how a game does, the story it conveys does.
@@saph100 Not sure what you're trying to say or how this has anything to do with what was said by either of us.
Speaking of CT, PD should have gotten a special scene of the aftermath of being victorious... Maybe destroying everything, then finally going after the Great Light.
Thanks to the Phantasy Star and Shining series, I discovered my love for RPGs. I usually brought Raja on this fight and completely owned the Profound Darkness.
Raja ftw. Everyone told me I was being cheap. Pfft. NASAR BITCHES!
NASAR BITCHES
I stopped fighting this boss with a party of 5 for more of a challenge. I still play this game today
My all time hit list of that Era at Chrono Trigger(snes ), FF6 (snes), Ps4(Megadrive), Albion(by bluebyte Dos game) for straight up RPGs next tier would include mixed categories Like Shining force series (tactical rpg) and Terranigma (snes a action RPG thats... frankly a bit odd...) they don't make em like they used to...well except when they do... retro indie games are all the rage now days i suppose
I mean harvest moon as matched pretty well by Stardew valley and they improved on the formular while keeping the pixel aesthetics
@@joryneff9511 i took gryz cuz i like him the most
profound darkness. got to remember that she/he is a billion year old being. and you need those five rings to resist 99% of her power.
I forgot to use them
Also they're at 1% or less because they just emerged.
The rings are an oddity to be sure. The final one is never equippable for whatever reason.
@@hitkid2456 maybe it's like a shield or something; who knows.
never realized how little justice a still shot does for her, she's way more impressive with the strobe-lighting for the hair and scrolling background
When you think about it, this is like the oldest final boss. They're hundreds of millions or even billions of years old.
That would be Brahman from Digital Devil Saga
That sweet sweet Sega Genesis sound!
Both the Genesis and Super NES had great RPGs for Super NES for me it was Chrono Trigger in Final Fantasy 6 Genesis it's the Phantasy Star series. In my opinion instead of Sega focusing on Phantasy Star Online they should actually revisit their single player jrpgs
How fitting final boss music the tone of it the horror the no more fooling around this is a matter of life or death the fate of the algo system rests in your hands who will prevail
This battle was extra stressful if it was a possibility your mom could walk in and see you fighting a naked woman on the funny hedgehog game system
@DarkKnux09 Actually, the Dark Force/Profound Darkness connection is cannon--Rykros entering the Algol system every 1000 years coincides with the weakening of some weird seal or other that allows a fragment of PD to enter Algol (eg, DF).
Dunno about the 'using Alys' body' thing (although that did happen, to an extent, with Zio, and to a greater extreme, Seth), but all this means is: WE. NEED. PHANTASY. STAR. FIVE. Not 'Online', but FIVE.
I can't remember if 3 is cannon but DF shows up there as well and it's during the 1000 years between 2 and 4.
Yes sage it is cannon, its how the humans made it to algol in phantasy star 2. The wormhole they went threw not only travel threw space but also threw time.
That's the problem with time involved story lines. Still 4 as a stand-alone....woah. Good questions. Zio/Seth are perfect examples of weaklings overtaken by PD and Alys and Rune are examples of the opposite....yet the interloper cares for the entities of good while PD uses and throws aside....which is its/her/his undoing. Alas. DF much stronger than PD. Happens.
@@joryneff9511 We'll never know with Seth. He's thought to be a fully evolved DF, so much it can infiltrate the world of mortal beings. He does show up all of a sudden and has no connections with anyone after all.
something i agree with!!!
My combination to beat her at 1997 what a year...!
Deban/Gisar
Barrier/Flare
Crosscut/Megid
Effes/Legion
Gires/Warla/Tandle (Kyra)
I had Hahn and had him use Guardian Rod/Nares every turn if needed and Astral/Nawat if no healing is needed (with his Mental stat I was almost a Gisar with the rod)
The PSO2 remix of this song is going to be a real joy to hear when fighting the Profound Darkness some 20 years after it last made an appearance in the series.
+Rakurai309 Nope, I still enjoy this version so much better. PS4 music was so good, I still listen to it even though it hurts that I finished this game 4 times and theres nothing like PS4 since
***** Fuck PSO, I never played it, I didnt get into computer and internet until it was dead in the ground. By the time I tried PSO i could only play solo with cracks
PSO is not dead...
this angry joe quote fits perfectly here your quest to defeat profound darkness has this happen and "YOU DUN FUCKED IT UP!!"
This is so good for be 16 bit :F
urite
I just found this on ebay for $50 on ebay can't wait for it to arrive so i can get my nostalgic hands on it and defeat dark force the best genesis rpg game out there
This was definitely on par with One-Winged Angel as a "holy shit, this is for real" boss theme.
I felt that way about Laughter as well tho.
Naked Angel before One-Winged Angel.
Metal Angel
Touched by an angel
Serpent eating the ground bravely default
In phantasy star universe clementine there is a fun event quest called oozing chaos with this song in it its so cool
I called this song : Raja rekt the final boss XD
Raja kept final boss from rekking j00?
it was always rune and chaz for the first 2.5 phases, and then megid happens and everyone but wren fucking dies
Not even the profound darkness can survive Raja's jokes :)
@@killysnowsw Holy shit, so true
@@joryneff9511Is that a Phoenix Wright reference?
Super sexy powerful final bosses FTFW
also makes me wanna crack out my Wii and go ham on all 4 games... might do that this weekend.
@DarkKnux09
So did I! It kinda makes sense, so why not.
But I think that the women on the title screen of II are just supposed to be what the peoples of Algol imagined "Mother Brain" to look like, since no one ever seemed to have laid eyes on it. And because no one knew the location, perhaps they believed MB was omnipresent as well.
I always thought of it as Mother Brain and Mother Algol (the name of the parent star)
i use the grandcross if you know what it is if you don't know then ill explain it's a combo between chaz and rune then as a finisher i use mass destruction it will finish half of her life then just hit her with crosscut then with doubleslash then etc etc
alright who took my anti-psychotic medication and dialled up my severe schizophrenia and made me go uber rage mode? damnit megido for all
a bit of it sounds like old 70s-80s future/space movie theme music in a club
tbh would dance to it
great
profound darkness MEGID!!
gaming fun fact: this is a good song
...I always wondered: why did Profound Darkness decide to take on the form of a woman? Is it trying to psyche Chaz out by looking something like Alys?
Nailed it, I think. It took 3 forms to decide on that form.
Its a huge throwback to every game, really. Not only Alis and Alys, who is close to Rune and Chaz, but Mother brain as well. It's taking a shape formed from the malice, pain, hatred, and anguish in the heroes' hearts. A form derived from millennia of battle that has the most impact on the hearts of those who would stand before it.
@@FoxTenson so.. this is why PS IV subtitles was "The end of millenium" wich funny enough coincide to the end of story heavy phantasy star
This Song says...."dude, your fucked"
I love this song..It really fit the battle especialy the fast bit where youd be using all your special moves..and then it would turn into the woman
I got my Legeon, Efess and Psycho Wand ready
plz hav Rika with teh dublslash want to see de hiney
@McNotAllThatFreaky"It/They" already seem to be at like 1% or so given by Chaz and Rika's lines "it's still forming" and what not. In fact it's a little hard to accept you're able to do what the GL could not, why couldn't PD just regenerate somehow... Hmmm.
and deadliest :D
my god.
darkness
it's also not easy if you don't powerlevel before or inside of the fissure. Everybody falz-farmed or do all of the hunter guild missions first, so you do TPD when you're somewhat overleveled.
tbh you right. Did Valhal / Silver Soldier quest. Was getting my ass handed to me in Air Castle and after....stopped before Abyss/Fissure and did side quests....Turned into killing machine.
i'm gonna be fr, i save scummed the shit out of profound darkness
like, i tried not to, but after getting destroyed by it several times and having to get past its first couple forms over and over again, sometime dying to them too, i just said screw it and save state'd right when it changed from its 2nd form into the profound darkness.
no, it barely made it any easier but I still did it, after a good hour+ of attempts.
That's understandable if it's a LLG
@@hitkid2456 nah it was a perfectly normal playthrough, more so an unexperienced one
Boy! Fetch me my PHOTONERASR!
game over rune!
In 2012 The Profound Darkness will rise!
Well... Time to fetch the Neisword XD
Nah just get you a CRBSWD it's 2018 and Trump is president.
It's not quite so easy if you don't pick anyone to come with you when you go to fight PD... just the original four. As an added challenge, don't bring ANY restorative items! Go in the fissure with your characters loaded to their noses with health, and see how far you get then! X3
@lazarus8472 Seems like a lot of fights were like that, unless you really ran through everything and didn't bother collecting the better equipment. Even then the tougher bosses were still manageable, just a lot more time-consuming. Still a wonderful game though :D
@lazarus8472 Try giving yourself challenges try: Do not use a 5th character. Do not level up past 39. Do not use Megid or Legeon. Do not use Items. There are many many ways you can make your PS4 experience much more challenging
orphan vs profound darkness, WHO WOULD WIN?
Orphan from ff13? Profound darkness would stomp him into oblivion. A more fitting fight would be the cloud of darkness from ff3.
@@zephyromega3077 dude, Cloud of Darkness is damn near bullshit cheap. I played the DS version and must have taken me about 20 times to finally do it, the final time, I had refia left with just around 300 hp, I damn near threw my DS with excitement when the battle music stopped
I wonder about Bhunivelze. PD was almost as strong as the Great Light, which might have created everything in their universe, and was once combined with it.
@lazarus8472 Really? I actually had a hard time with the last form of Profound Darkness. She kept wiping me out with the stupid Megid spell.
#Megid#NorthKorea
Yea and then it suddenly kicks in and you're like OHH SHIT THIS IS SICK.
Fight was really easy though and a disapointment. I used to drag it out just to listen to the music more.
Did it on ROM this last week so sad it was so easy at final fight. Hardest fight was DF after the temple on the island. Poor Seth.
You always can try low level run without Rajachad.
Wren POISITRON BOLT
Efess Megid and a bit of Double Slash because Rika has to show that booty somehow.
Rune LEGEON
Nah! They were Zio, Juza and Lassic.
Why... Do the notes not intersect properly?
WDYM?
Poor emulation. Likely from a early YT upload
@DarkKnux09 Hmm....but neither I or II were particularly religious in any way that I remember...maybe it's a representation of Alis (Landale, not Brangwyn) and Nei. Or, maybe they're there for the sake of looking cool.
Or, Reiko Kadama ("Phoenix Rie") was flexing the 'feminist' muscle. (Doubtful)
@jabbafeet At first is was, meh for me, then i picked up, and sounded fun at about 57 seconds in.
CANCELING
Square-Enix games doesn't have a single final boss like this one. Not even a cool last boss theme like this one.
I mean, Atlus came up with a few.
lord zio
@DarkKnux09 Well, they did a great job with the series as a whole, at any rate (except for 3), so despite wanting another game, I will concede that 4 does do a great job at ending the series, so another game WOULD feel just a little lite a cop-out.
You know what stings, though? The PS2 remakes for PS1 and 2 were PLANNED to come to the U.S....and then they were cancelled. T_T
i can finish her off in 2-3 minutes i have chaz level 99 rika level 99 rune level 99 well i have all of them level 99 so i have unlimited power hahahaha
me thinks your full of it. level 99's revert due to a glitch in the game.
You know going to Level 99 glitches your stats in this game, right?
Years late but if you level in a certain order it can bypass the glitch
i am lv 90
Beware of the Lv99 glitch
99 OK on Wii and PS2 Complete Collection
@DragonSlayerKyo Overrated? Perhaps. Trash? No sir.
As far as final bosses go, the music sorta disappointed me at first.
Behold the final boss!
feminism
chara...
if she uses Megid, use Nasar..wash, rinse, repeat and her 12k HP should be gone in about 15-20 minutes, if that
19k if I saw correctly but that's not even that big of a deal. Just have rings equipped and go ham on it with best attacks.
*13k
This game wishes it was on a console with a better sounding soundchip. The genesis had a strong soundchip, it just sounds like complete garbage for a majority of games.