I thought, they fixed that 3 patches ago. There was a bug, when spells leveled from general level, not class level. Also, shriek from sword should stop when he unequips the sword and get his mace instead, also old bug. End, smithing anyone but Raphael will end up pretty bad =) Probably, video is made from old build and numbers not that awesome anymore. Still, paladin in combination with other classes doing well for almost entire game.
@@AlexAnder-dh8qz Taking off the sword lets you keep the buff in current patch & you can still use the Deva weapon for huge damage. Again all in current patch.
@@AlexAnder-dh8qz Uh…spell slots have never worked off of character level OR class level, they’re determined by your overall caster level. As far as I know slots are working as intended here. 10 levels of Bard gets you caster level 10, and 2 Paladin levels only get you 1 additional caster level, since Paladins are half-casters. This makes your total caster level 11, hence the 6th level slot.
Bro rolled the worst initiative of all time and still made it look easy. My first playthrough is also a Swords Bard 10 / Paladin 2, this is just perfect.
Great idea but feat economy is already thin with paladins and their stat requirements. Fighter + paladin flourish might as well just have a separate frontline fighter since a single paladin doesn’t have enough sustain dmg with spell slots per long rest
Finished the game with this build too, but dipped a single level in war domain cleric to attack with bonus action without needing the mind sanctuary. Great synergy, no idea why do people recommend warlock/paladin, 2 smites per fight is just not enough
They like that build because you can max out your Charisma and use pact of the blade to use any weapon. Yeah the two smites sucks but the extra attack you get at warlock 5 on top of the paladin extra attack means you're swinging a lot more and have a ranged option with eldritch blast. Two smites per short rest coming back isnt great but they will be level 3 smites.
Getting the high spell slots is insanely good. However, other than "just" the bugged extra attack, Hex alone is a pretty solid reason to go Warlock as it has some broken interactions. It does trigger on both spell and melee damage. So just a normal attack with whatever smite adds 2d6 to your damage already. Now there is Phalar Aluve, which also triggers from both spell and melee attacks so it will procc twice on a smite hit aswell. That's where the weird stuff happens as now both Phalar Aluve hits also trigger Hex twice. So you get 4d6 for every smite hit you do and you happen to attack quite a bit if you go the Warlock double extra attack route. Thats quite some power for being ready every short rest
In honor mode all the cambions have radiant retort (radiant reflect 2x as force). Unfortunately banishing smite is gatekeept behind bard 10 but if your tav is bard you can’t inspire yourself for story. So swords bard6+paladin1->6+phalar is better for support aura+ penetrating sanctuary with tav instead as a vengeance 2h paladin for main dmg
If I did this half the attacks would be critical miss, concentration with advantage breaks on the first hit recieved, then my power goes out as I get him to 25% hp
Its like 0.25% chance to lose conc. DC is 10. +6 from 23 con, +4 from profiecency, +1 happy, so only 20 roll breaks conc, but I also have advantage so its 2x20 roll = 0.25%.
At level 12 you literally have party of gatling guns or even wizard cannon. The paladin has only one problen at this fight - all Raphael's guards have x2 reflection of radiant damage (but not himself, lol).
On fresh start with Bard Id probably have 16 dex 14/16 con 14/16 cha, 8 int, leftover points to str or wis. Id play with hand crossbows + casting spells. Spells - lvl1: Sleep, Thunderwave, Faerie Fire lvl2: Cloud of Daggers lvl3: Glyph of Warding, can even upcast CoD.
Been reading up on a lot of bard guides and haven't seen a single one with the same spell recommendations 😅 Love that the community is still in the experimentation phase for this game
Cool video! They have not patched Raphael to have immunity to Paralysis. Instead it was the poisons that got nerfed wherein if a Creature succeeds the first saving throw against any poison coating the Creature will receive poison immunity for 2 turns. Hold Monster should still do the trick against him. I don't know if Hold Monster is better than Spirit Guardians as a magical secret spell pick up as a level 10 bard though.
You can blow towers with bombs to apply vulnerability, you can blow him with Luminous armor proc to make him -30 to attack rolls for next lol 30 turns, you can hide party under sphere of invunerability, you can stack Purple Work or Thirsobald's Brew poison on him (the only of few poisons that actually stack per hit/failed save, every stack gives 1d10 poison damage per turn), perilous stakes also applies vulnerability to all types of damage. So many ways to actually turn the battle into total domination over poor Raphael. Paralysis immunity wouldn't save him, no, no...
Raphael was pretty hard for me on my first playthrough when i didn't understand a lot about the game. I think it's actually cool that once you get to know all of this and experiment a lot, the game becomes pretty easy and you can become op. Btw why does everybody choose raphael to show builds? Is it because he's the strongest or is it because he is the coolest?
He’s got a huge health pool (more than dragons of the final boss) and he’s tough to take down without destroying the pillars first. So seeing builds completely cheese him like this is usually the biggest way to show how OP they are.
having three difficulty tiers that don't only improve the AI but also change the numbers I think it wouldnt've hurt to bump them up a little. Other thing would be if the AI didn't cheat but once it does I don't see the reason to not make it appearently absurd.
How did you get the cleric aoe skil as bard with college of sword? Dont you learn magical secrets with college of lore? If so your not melee bard sub class.
Paladin is half caster, so he adds 1/2 spell level progresion. Bard 10 gets 5 1/2 spell level progresion and 2 lvls of paladin 1/2 to 6 lvl combined. Normally full spell casters get 6th lvl spells at 11, with that multi at 12.
Raphael is not immune to paralysis. He is vulnerable agains paralyse monster, not paralyse humanoid. And you can use Gift of carabasan bottle, throw it and he will be paralysed too. Classical sorcadin also very good choice here. 6/6 best option
What do these divine smite builds do if Raph uses his first turn of combat to activate his ability where he deals double damage back to attackers if he takes radiant damage? Reload save and hope for different rng?
@@SchwartzSchnee I think, it's static buff on his minions, still Raphael never lives enough for that moment. Also, paladins have psychic and thunder smites also, viable replacement.
Larian: it would be hard to make a DLC that allows for further leveling your character since they are practically gods at those levels in D&D Also Larian: here are some magical items that no sane DM would allow before level 17 AND here are a bunch of house rules that specifically do not exist in D&D to make your 12th level character more powerful than most tier4 characters at the table. Also, what is this weird thing called attunement?
It's a mace (I know it looks like a morningstar) and therefore is boosted by Strength. The trick here however is that Paladin can do damage with anything, because it's more about the Smite power than the weapon: you could go around killing people with Salami even. He's chosen Lathander probably for the effect of blinding any Undead/Fiend around him, which gives Advantage on attacks.
@@justanotherLunny that makes sense bcuz i tried equipping it to other characters with different stats and still no significant dmg boost got me confused
This rafael guy must be tired of dying already. lol. every single video he's getting beat up like the ultimate jobber in wrestling. and he barely gets to show anything. haha. this song though is very catchy. very disney-like. "Hell.. hell..." "No more deals... its over..."
Its something bugged. I played solo with main character, so Astarion was always in my camp. I picked him only for his personal quest and for this fight and he kept that buff from act 1 that you would nomaly lose after long rest.
@@thorusin It applies every time after you dismiss and take companions back to party and persists through acts. So only main character can't renew it after Long rest. Probably a bug, or maybe it was intended to be a constant buff, but implemented in a strange way.
bro how did you have 3 action points + 2 bonus actions at 2:48? 2 actions from haste and 2 bonus action from helm of grit.. where did the last action point come from?
I'm also confused. I suspect that since the strength and con items are in this area, that he wasn't allowed to leave and re-spec after stealing them. The 16 int does nothing.
It should be easily doable with a Gloomstalker/assasin and fly Potion to reset the fight over and over to pick apart the adds. In the end you can just meleecrit Raphael when he is alone.
Ok If I think of any cool build Ill do next video without powers. Im thinking of Tiger Barbarian and his AoE attacks with some multiclass coz barb alone isnt the greatest.
@@thorusin Without illithid powers and without pre buffs. In all your Raphael videos all your characters always use Elixir of Bloodlust+haste+Helm of Grit and illithid powers : Favorable beginnings, Luck of the Far realm, perilous stake, Mind sanctuary. All of this is independent from the class and any NPC can actually do that. And Raphael fight is very cool but one of the easiest in the game. Try commander Zhalk+2 cambions at the beginning. Commander Zhalk is the hardest fight in the game by far.
agreed. when i make my builds, i make them all no illithid power, item agnostic (should work while using common only weapons, armor, consumables) and without any party buffs (no pre-buffing or passing of transmuter stones). Just a self-sufficient solo build that's as close to dnd tabletop conditions as much as possible.
@@TheRobversion1 I mean without items sound kinda of stupid. EB warlock can't work late game without those. But I see what you mean. Some builds are only focused on items. For example the jumper monk. But without illithid powers for people who want to roleplay is important I think. I wish Larian implemented bad consequences to use illitid powers.
What's cringe is people using cringe for literally everything they do not like and try to sound cool so they say cringe instead of literally any other better fitting word to articulate their dislike. Plus it is just ingame sound, so it is even weirder to make a statement like that under a video on youtube
The music was the best part of the battle. your party is fighting a Devil in his own house, and he sings while he's fighting you. So yes, the music fitting with the theme of the fight is part of the experience. If you don't like the music, then just turn off the volume on the video.
![[Act 3] Solo Warlock - Disrespecting Raphael - Honour Mode](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Gdsv8ghVX18/mqdefault.jpg)
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"In Baldur's Gate combat is broken up into rounds, 1 round is meant to represent 6 seconds worth of in-game time"
1 second is all i need
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Bruh Raphael went from hardest boss fight to punching bag 😂
You could increase raphaels health by 10,000 i dont think it would make a differnce how easy the fight is given how strong the player is
I mean, that’s what happens when you apply a bunch of modifiers and status conditions before fight
@@MultiZernez intiative potion is all you need
Reminds me of how in Elden Ring, the hardest boss, Malenia becomes a punching bag when someone understands the game.
After what he did to Hope, he kind of deserves it
Bro... I never thought to get higher spell levels for smites. That's amazing.
I thought, they fixed that 3 patches ago. There was a bug, when spells leveled from general level, not class level. Also, shriek from sword should stop when he unequips the sword and get his mace instead, also old bug. End, smithing anyone but Raphael will end up pretty bad =)
Probably, video is made from old build and numbers not that awesome anymore. Still, paladin in combination with other classes doing well for almost entire game.
@@AlexAnder-dh8qz Taking off the sword lets you keep the buff in current patch & you can still use the Deva weapon for huge damage. Again all in current patch.
@@AlexAnder-dh8qz Uh…spell slots have never worked off of character level OR class level, they’re determined by your overall caster level. As far as I know slots are working as intended here. 10 levels of Bard gets you caster level 10, and 2 Paladin levels only get you 1 additional caster level, since Paladins are half-casters. This makes your total caster level 11, hence the 6th level slot.
@@AlexAnder-dh8qz current patch still lets you have a lingering buff with the sword.
Bro rolled the worst initiative of all time and still made it look easy. My first playthrough is also a Swords Bard 10 / Paladin 2, this is just perfect.
according to the description the low initiative is part of the strategy
You creating wonders in every video, amazing.
Bro started this fight like Ainz Ooal Gown
flourish + smite seems like such an obvious combo but this is the first time ive seen it done
Great idea but feat economy is already thin with paladins and their stat requirements. Fighter + paladin flourish might as well just have a separate frontline fighter since a single paladin doesn’t have enough sustain dmg with spell slots per long rest
awesome build but I just wanted to point out how satisfying rafaels timing is at 1:36, he's perfectly in sync with the music for a moment
it is very much possible for a game to try sync music and movements, given the game calculates animation timings fast enough.
Any chance you could make a short list for us on what spells etc. to pick on each level?
Love this content.
You use your spell slots for smites in this build...aside from spirit guardians I doubt he uses anything else.
Divine smite scaling got fixed so you'll have to use magical secrets and concentration on banishing smite
Finished the game with this build too, but dipped a single level in war domain cleric to attack with bonus action without needing the mind sanctuary. Great synergy, no idea why do people recommend warlock/paladin, 2 smites per fight is just not enough
They like that build because you can max out your Charisma and use pact of the blade to use any weapon. Yeah the two smites sucks but the extra attack you get at warlock 5 on top of the paladin extra attack means you're swinging a lot more and have a ranged option with eldritch blast. Two smites per short rest coming back isnt great but they will be level 3 smites.
@@knightghaleon Just a note on that. The extra attack from pact of the blade 5 is not intended, so it might be patched somewhere in the future
@@Jewels___when that happens, then they'll respec. For now, let people enjoy their Lockadin
Arcane synergy so you triple dip charisma, its like a "fighter" since extra attack stacks so u have a watchers sword doing 9d10 + 75
Getting the high spell slots is insanely good. However, other than "just" the bugged extra attack, Hex alone is a pretty solid reason to go Warlock as it has some broken interactions. It does trigger on both spell and melee damage. So just a normal attack with whatever smite adds 2d6 to your damage already. Now there is Phalar Aluve, which also triggers from both spell and melee attacks so it will procc twice on a smite hit aswell. That's where the weird stuff happens as now both Phalar Aluve hits also trigger Hex twice. So you get 4d6 for every smite hit you do and you happen to attack quite a bit if you go the Warlock double extra attack route. Thats quite some power for being ready every short rest
In honor mode all the cambions have radiant retort (radiant reflect 2x as force). Unfortunately banishing smite is gatekeept behind bard 10 but if your tav is bard you can’t inspire yourself for story. So swords bard6+paladin1->6+phalar is better for support aura+ penetrating sanctuary with tav instead as a vengeance 2h paladin for main dmg
If I did this half the attacks would be critical miss, concentration with advantage breaks on the first hit recieved, then my power goes out as I get him to 25% hp
Its like 0.25% chance to lose conc. DC is 10. +6 from 23 con, +4 from profiecency, +1 happy, so only 20 roll breaks conc, but I also have advantage so its 2x20 roll = 0.25%.
@@thorusin Ah yes, all-in builds, when you have all stats 20+ from items you steal from Raphael moments ago. The funniest thing in this battle.
you can double smite from hitting 2 enemies with flourish?! that's MAD
i cant wait for the college of whispers bard mod
Could you make a video with the build, to see more or less what it would be like?
His bard can sing along Raphael.
Paladin is Just insane it goes well for any build and makes this boss easy lol
Fighter, sorc, wiz, lock, ranger and rogue can all do this faster.
@@phugindomas Paladin run I did on tactician 2 turn him it was mix with 4 levels of cleric wasn’t the best optimize but did the job
@@phugindomas I did it this way because I wanted mine to follow a god
At level 12 you literally have party of gatling guns or even wizard cannon. The paladin has only one problen at this fight - all Raphael's guards have x2 reflection of radiant damage (but not himself, lol).
Bro this build is insane, good shit. What sort of stat distribution would you go with if this build is something you'd start a fresh run with?
On fresh start with Bard Id probably have 16 dex 14/16 con 14/16 cha, 8 int, leftover points to str or wis. Id play with hand crossbows + casting spells. Spells - lvl1: Sleep, Thunderwave, Faerie Fire lvl2: Cloud of Daggers lvl3: Glyph of Warding, can even upcast CoD.
Been reading up on a lot of bard guides and haven't seen a single one with the same spell recommendations 😅 Love that the community is still in the experimentation phase for this game
This guy is a menace
Cool video! They have not patched Raphael to have immunity to Paralysis. Instead it was the poisons that got nerfed wherein if a Creature succeeds the first saving throw against any poison coating the Creature will receive poison immunity for 2 turns. Hold Monster should still do the trick against him. I don't know if Hold Monster is better than Spirit Guardians as a magical secret spell pick up as a level 10 bard though.
And then really need to close that door. You an easily just run out, reset the fight and pick it apart piece by piece.
Bard can get hold monster from regular bard spells at lvl 10, spirit guardians has to come from magical secrets tho.
You can blow towers with bombs to apply vulnerability, you can blow him with Luminous armor proc to make him -30 to attack rolls for next lol 30 turns, you can hide party under sphere of invunerability, you can stack Purple Work or Thirsobald's Brew poison on him (the only of few poisons that actually stack per hit/failed save, every stack gives 1d10 poison damage per turn), perilous stakes also applies vulnerability to all types of damage. So many ways to actually turn the battle into total domination over poor Raphael. Paralysis immunity wouldn't save him, no, no...
Bruuuuuh, i Deva Mace'd the hell out of Raphael also with 2 paladin/ 10 bard, swords bard is just so much fun to play
Wish people made these type of videos without illithid powers
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Raphael was pretty hard for me on my first playthrough when i didn't understand a lot about the game. I think it's actually cool that once you get to know all of this and experiment a lot, the game becomes pretty easy and you can become op.
Btw why does everybody choose raphael to show builds? Is it because he's the strongest or is it because he is the coolest?
He’s got a huge health pool (more than dragons of the final boss) and he’s tough to take down without destroying the pillars first. So seeing builds completely cheese him like this is usually the biggest way to show how OP they are.
dont let anyone fool you, its because of the theme song
@@laundrysauce234 nice, that's what i thought
having three difficulty tiers that don't only improve the AI but also change the numbers I think it wouldnt've hurt to bump them up a little. Other thing would be if the AI didn't cheat but once it does I don't see the reason to not make it appearently absurd.
Seeing Astarion in heavy armour is weird
How did you get the cleric aoe skil as bard with college of sword? Dont you learn magical secrets with college of lore? If so your not melee bard sub class.
College of lore gets magical secrets at 6 and 10. Other bards just on 10.
@@thorusin ah nice to know. Then I can get it with my college of sword bard too ^^
Can someone tell me how you get crawler mewkus?(if it's not a major story thing)
Its in act 2 house of healing. It wasnt required in this fight at all. I think it didnt do anything in this fight.
You can get a bunch in act 2 at the house of healing, making sure to check the smaller room to the east. Bam, spoiler free.
Hi ! Great content ! How do you keep the morning lord radiance ? I'm curious
before long rest ditch party member, long rest then invite them again seems to keep the Morning lord buff (it is a bug)
How did you get past Raphael's Punish Divinity ability?
Question: you start the build as paladin, to get the armor/weapon proficiencies, right?
woooooow great build
Cute how you show tactition mode, they game is way to easy and can be steamrolled with any class.
I didn't think you could get the level 6 spell slot without going into the spellcaster class to level 11?
Paladin is half caster, so he adds 1/2 spell level progresion. Bard 10 gets 5 1/2 spell level progresion and 2 lvls of paladin 1/2 to 6 lvl combined. Normally full spell casters get 6th lvl spells at 11, with that multi at 12.
Raphael is not immune to paralysis. He is vulnerable agains paralyse monster, not paralyse humanoid. And you can use Gift of carabasan bottle, throw it and he will be paralysed too. Classical sorcadin also very good choice here. 6/6 best option
How you get second bonus action?
Helmet of Grit, but must have 50% hp or less
What do these divine smite builds do if Raph uses his first turn of combat to activate his ability where he deals double damage back to attackers if he takes radiant damage? Reload save and hope for different rng?
Use a different smite
Paladins have a variety of smites that deal damage types other than just radiant.
I've never seen him use that ability.
@@SchwartzSchnee I think, it's static buff on his minions, still Raphael never lives enough for that moment. Also, paladins have psychic and thunder smites also, viable replacement.
Do you use Phalar Aluve the whole Game or?
Wait i didnt notice how you got spirit huardian without lv 5 cleric?
lvl 10 Bard gets Magical Secrets, so he can pick 2 spells from any list.
@@thorusin so I don't needa go cleric 6 n bard 6 hmm interesting
I thought only lore bards got magical secrets?
@@jerryq1837 Lore Bards get magical secrets at 6 and 10, Swords and Valor just get at 10.
Larian: it would be hard to make a DLC that allows for further leveling your character since they are practically gods at those levels in D&D
Also Larian: here are some magical items that no sane DM would allow before level 17 AND here are a bunch of house rules that specifically do not exist in D&D to make your 12th level character more powerful than most tier4 characters at the table. Also, what is this weird thing called attunement?
Why is Intelligence at 16?
Wtf is happening here? This game suddenly looks so easy.
Bruh are these mods?! Cuz holy hell thats OP !
Divine smite is just bonkers
Until you get silenced, stunned or fight against Radiant retort.
@@AlexAnder-dh8qz Lot of ways to counter that
@@AlexAnder-dh8qz Silence doesn't even stop Divine Smite. It doesn't have somatic components.
Bard can learn spirit guardians??
Ye at lvl 10 via Magical Secrets. Lore Bard can pick it at 6 lvl.
@@thorusin why spirit guardians over banishing smite?
how did you get lathanders dmg so high? i still dont know what ability it scales with lol
It's a mace (I know it looks like a morningstar) and therefore is boosted by Strength.
The trick here however is that Paladin can do damage with anything, because it's more about the Smite power than the weapon: you could go around killing people with Salami even. He's chosen Lathander probably for the effect of blinding any Undead/Fiend around him, which gives Advantage on attacks.
@@justanotherLunny that makes sense bcuz i tried equipping it to other characters with different stats and still no significant dmg boost got me confused
This rafael guy must be tired of dying already. lol. every single video he's getting beat up like the ultimate jobber in wrestling. and he barely gets to show anything. haha.
this song though is very catchy. very disney-like. "Hell.. hell..."
"No more deals... its over..."
How in the world did you keep the morninglords radiance until this fight?
Its something bugged. I played solo with main character, so Astarion was always in my camp. I picked him only for his personal quest and for this fight and he kept that buff from act 1 that you would nomaly lose after long rest.
If you dismiss a companion and add them back, the buff is re-applied
@@thorusin It applies every time after you dismiss and take companions back to party and persists through acts. So only main character can't renew it after Long rest. Probably a bug, or maybe it was intended to be a constant buff, but implemented in a strange way.
140 divine damage wtf how?
Crit and vulnerability
bro how did you have 3 action points + 2 bonus actions at 2:48? 2 actions from haste and 2 bonus action from helm of grit.. where did the last action point come from?
elixir of bloodlust
@@thorusindamn didnt know these elixirs exists. Been playing on tactician without elixir and haste potions.
auto crit + lvl 6 smite LOL
JESUS CHRIST
I wonder what is the stat distribution on this because I see main charisma at 17 but I don't understand everything else.
I'm also confused. I suspect that since the strength and con items are in this area, that he wasn't allowed to leave and re-spec after stealing them. The 16 int does nothing.
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Try to kill him without illithid powers please.
yeah bro try to kill him without illithid powers, level 1, no items, eyes closed or its not REAL
@@bolognious2263 you have 40% to miss savescummer.
@@cccbbbaaa110 Irony hits cccbbbaaa110. cccbbbaaa110 is immune.
It should be easily doable with a Gloomstalker/assasin and fly Potion to reset the fight over and over to pick apart the adds. In the end you can just meleecrit Raphael when he is alone.
@@chocrikir655 brilliant
Bugged phalar aluve + radiant ring
With all respect, illithid powers are easy mode. Would be very interested to see a solid match without them
I'm thinking a hasted pally / warlock would do the trick. With haste it's 6 attacks per turn + bonus attacks
Ok If I think of any cool build Ill do next video without powers. Im thinking of Tiger Barbarian and his AoE attacks with some multiclass coz barb alone isnt the greatest.
@@thorusin Without illithid powers and without pre buffs. In all your Raphael videos all your characters always use Elixir of Bloodlust+haste+Helm of Grit and illithid powers : Favorable beginnings, Luck of the Far realm, perilous stake, Mind sanctuary. All of this is independent from the class and any NPC can actually do that.
And Raphael fight is very cool but one of the easiest in the game. Try commander Zhalk+2 cambions at the beginning. Commander Zhalk is the hardest fight in the game by far.
agreed. when i make my builds, i make them all no illithid power, item agnostic (should work while using common only weapons, armor, consumables) and without any party buffs (no pre-buffing or passing of transmuter stones). Just a self-sufficient solo build that's as close to dnd tabletop conditions as much as possible.
@@TheRobversion1 I mean without items sound kinda of stupid. EB warlock can't work late game without those. But I see what you mean. Some builds are only focused on items. For example the jumper monk. But without illithid powers for people who want to roleplay is important I think.
I wish Larian implemented bad consequences to use illitid powers.
this music is so cringe
What's cringe is people using cringe for literally everything they do not like and try to sound cool so they say cringe instead of literally any other better fitting word to articulate their dislike. Plus it is just ingame sound, so it is even weirder to make a statement like that under a video on youtube
you lack taste
The music was the best part of the battle. your party is fighting a Devil in his own house, and he sings while he's fighting you. So yes, the music fitting with the theme of the fight is part of the experience. If you don't like the music, then just turn off the volume on the video.
Raphael good in bed?
BWA Ha ha ha ha ha
No.