I used to find this theme pretty generic, but I kept coming back to it. It tells a beautiful story about pushing through and breaking cycles, and each instrument feels so powerful. It's easily become one of my favorite tracks of all time.
The music is fine, but I vastly prefer the Future Redeemed Final Boss theme or "Zanza the Divine" and the final boss theme of 2 over it. The guitar is great though.
It's hard to rank them because they're all so good, but I absolutely love this theme. It's criminally underrated imo and stands up there with Redeem the Future, Zanza, and After hope and Despair
Yeah. Act 1 might have been my favorite track from the game. I listen to aggressive stuff all day every day, but the guitar doesn't suit it at all for me. There's a version of Act 1 with this ending now, at least.
@@Sherkeli prefer the guitar in this particular theme since we already had a fully orchestrated battle theme with noah and n with much of the same motifs
@@aylinilya. Try listening really loud to Phase 1, though! Maybe while thinking about the battle... And feel the utter inundation of strings merging with your cells and making you feel like you're floating!! Yes, it's cool that the Off-seer motif is played by the guitars and stuff which was also left out of Noah and N so I can see why Mitsuda might have found it redundant. But this ain't some code repository, this is music...
@@Sherkel that’s exactly it, it’s music, it’s art, they chose to have the e guitar play the off seer melody and i enjoyed that lol, also that’s my personal preference, it’s not like i was saying it needed to have an e guitar to be good, i was saying that if this track was fully orchestral, then it would feel repetitive for me, i like variety
@@aylinilya.Imo, when the orchestral version loops first, it makes the guitar section hit THAT much harder when it finally kicks in, like the sensation of making one last big effort before the finish.
Yes. I finished the game yesterday and noticed it too. It's more obvious in the game music-loop and in the the "congregating lives" music at 1:12. Here, in this music, you can hear it at 2:20. Same tune as in "awakening" from Xenogears.
Agreed. It sounds like a generic movie score. Whereas themes like After Despair and Hope, or Zanza the Divine have a catchy melody going on. Even Redeem the Future, which plays in a freaking prequel DLC, sounds like a much better final boss theme compared to this.
@@LIGHTANGEL_EX I have to disagree. After Despair and Hope is the weakest final boss theme to me because it feels way too slow and doesn't really fit the battle. This theme, although less 'intense' than Zanza the Divine, fits the 'theatrical' battle completely. The slow parts emphasize the scenes of the party overcoming their fears, and the intense part is a banger when it's almost time to finish off Z.
It seems like today, the Alphabet doesn't end with Z, but with X!
I used to find this theme pretty generic, but I kept coming back to it. It tells a beautiful story about pushing through and breaking cycles, and each instrument feels so powerful. It's easily become one of my favorite tracks of all time.
"I'm Cancelling the Simpsons, Mutha-F***er."
~ Ouroboros destroying the Endless Now.
N, realizing he's just killed the wrong girl: "D'oh!"
It feels weird to hear an ending to this theme, especially considering that a lack of ending is Z's whole thing
Yeah, that's the point. This track is about Z being given an end by the party.
The End Now
Back to the eternal flow with you. Where you belong!
Yet you rise. You will taste despair!
Probs the best final boss theme in the series, that guitar feature goes insane
The music is fine, but I vastly prefer the Future Redeemed Final Boss theme or "Zanza the Divine" and the final boss theme of 2 over it. The guitar is great though.
Im shocked there are not a bunch of nerds yelling at you haha. I like every final boss theme. X was my fav for a long time.
It's hard to rank them because they're all so good, but I absolutely love this theme. It's criminally underrated imo and stands up there with Redeem the Future, Zanza, and After hope and Despair
Noooooo! The video with the most views and the cool comments got nuked! xS
I wish this had the whole first part and then looped to include the guitars, but ah well.
The Curtain Closes
As I listen to this song, I am once again made angry by the fact that God of War won best soundtrack over this.
If it make you feel better god of war got robbed by the game of the year award by Elden ring
@@Dylanit-t4erobbed implies that it had a chance
Annoyed that they dont have the first part loop entirely, but still nice to hear.
Yeah. Act 1 might have been my favorite track from the game. I listen to aggressive stuff all day every day, but the guitar doesn't suit it at all for me.
There's a version of Act 1 with this ending now, at least.
@@Sherkeli prefer the guitar in this particular theme since we already had a fully orchestrated battle theme with noah and n with much of the same motifs
@@aylinilya. Try listening really loud to Phase 1, though! Maybe while thinking about the battle... And feel the utter inundation of strings merging with your cells and making you feel like you're floating!! Yes, it's cool that the Off-seer motif is played by the guitars and stuff which was also left out of Noah and N so I can see why Mitsuda might have found it redundant. But this ain't some code repository, this is music...
@@Sherkel that’s exactly it, it’s music, it’s art, they chose to have the e guitar play the off seer melody and i enjoyed that lol, also that’s my personal preference, it’s not like i was saying it needed to have an e guitar to be good, i was saying that if this track was fully orchestral, then it would feel repetitive for me, i like variety
@@aylinilya.Imo, when the orchestral version loops first, it makes the guitar section hit THAT much harder when it finally kicks in, like the sensation of making one last big effort before the finish.
1:38
Is it just me, or do some parts of it sound like Deus' theme from Xenogears?
Same composer. Same character too, in phase 2.
Yes. I finished the game yesterday and noticed it too. It's more obvious in the game music-loop and in the the "congregating lives" music at 1:12. Here, in this music, you can hear it at 2:20. Same tune as in "awakening" from Xenogears.
I personally think this might be the weakest boss battle theme of the xenoblade series, yet this is still a banger
Agreed. It sounds like a generic movie score. Whereas themes like After Despair and Hope, or Zanza the Divine have a catchy melody going on. Even Redeem the Future, which plays in a freaking prequel DLC, sounds like a much better final boss theme compared to this.
@@LIGHTANGEL_EX exactly how I feel, yes
@@LIGHTANGEL_EX I have to disagree. After Despair and Hope is the weakest final boss theme to me because it feels way too slow and doesn't really fit the battle. This theme, although less 'intense' than Zanza the Divine, fits the 'theatrical' battle completely. The slow parts emphasize the scenes of the party overcoming their fears, and the intense part is a banger when it's almost time to finish off Z.
Cringe af take. This is literally the greatest final boss theme of the series. The weakest one is Fog King.
@@LifeMushroom
Summed it up perfectly