The Absolutely Best Final Boss theme in Final Fantasy....

[Wolf Kanno]

...that isn't Dancing Mad or One Winged Angel?. ;)

[Vermachtnis]

Is Braska's Final Aeon the final boss of X, cause Otherworld is great. If Yu Yeven counts as the final boss, then I'm going with Cloud of Darkness' theme.

[Karifean]

The Extreme is the best whether you include those two or not. :colbert:

Honorable mention to... uh... just about all the others. They're all pretty swell.

[Ayen]

...that isn't Dancing Mad or One Winged Angel?. ;)

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YOU WHORE!

[Fynn]

FFX, because Hamauzu is love.

[Ayen]

Yeah, I'm going to say FFX, too.

Holy crap! Fynn and I agree on something FFX related!

[Fynn]

I've expressed my love for Masashi Hamauzu far more often than my disdain for FFX

[Ayen]

Well, at least your ears are working properly. :colbert:

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[Sephiroth]

Dark Messenger for Super Saiyan 4 Kuja.

[Fox]

I love both The Extreme and Grand Cross, but I have to give it to The Extreme on balance just for having a better intro. If they'd been sensible in IX though and ended the game after the proper ​final boss i.e. Kuja, then I would have had an even tougher decision because Dark Messenger is fantastic.

[Galuf]

I think ill say a top 5.
5: neo exdeath
4: Zeromus
3: Grand Cross(ff iX)
2: Otherworld
1: Struggle for freedom (ff xii)

[Depression Moon]

This is a tie between The Extreme and The Final Battle from Final Fantasy IX.

[Fynn]

Well, at least your ears are working properly. :colbert:

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Ew.

[Wolf Kanno]

Struggle for Freedom is easily one of my favorite final boss themes in the series. I just really enjoy the escalation it has.

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I enjoy The Extreme until it finally jumps into the faster tempo and "main theme" then it just sounds like some unused boss theme that was written for FFVII with some elements of the Battle with the Four Fiends mixed in. The opening minute and a half of that theme is gold and I would have liked if the whole theme had continued down that road.

The Final Boss Battle Theme from FFTactics Advance is actually pretty fine as well despite the limitations of the GBA sound card.. Much better than the one from FFTactics.

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[Mirage]

...that isn't Dancing Mad or One Winged Angel?. ;)

I don't know why you would disqualify those two when they aren't better than The Extreme anyway.

[Fynn]

The Extreme's got that Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells-like thing going for it which is cool

[maybee]

The Extreme and FF III Cloud of Darkness

[Loony BoB]

TIL I just don't really enjoy many of the boss battle themes unless I'm actually in the fight.

[Fynn]

TIL I just don't really enjoy many of the boss battle themes unless I'm actually in the fight.

Weirdo :p

[Mirage]

TIL I just don't really enjoy many of the boss battle themes unless I'm actually in the fight.

Weirdo :colbert:

[Loony BoB]

I dunno. I was just listening to a bunch of them and maybe it's my work headphones but they just didn't sound nearly as cool as I remember them. For XIV, I really like the Shiva and Thordan music. I remember loving the Caius fight music in LR, too, and none of them really got me going when I played them on YT just now. Perhaps it's just a case of the Mondays. But they definitely sound so much cooler when I'm in the middle of a fight.

[Fynn]

That's because Caius' theme is incredibly dull. Sure, it sounds epic enough, but it has nothing interesting going on in it structure-wise. Naoshi Mizuta is an okay composer that writes memorable of generic melodies, but he really can't compare with Uematsu, Shimomura, Hamauzu, Mitsuda, Sakimoto, etc. :monster:

[Loony BoB]

I'd say it served the purpose well enough in the game, at least, because it was one of the first to spring to mind. Different tastes, though.

As for all those other composers, while I love them all, the final boss themes they have come up with don't tend to feel as great when I play them back, either, so... :shrug:

Well. Aside from One Winged Angel. But that won't fit the thread.

[Fynn]

Oh yeah, I forgot. Revo is pretty amazing.

Bravely Default counts as FF, so I'll just put Wicked Flight as my choice here :smug:

Speaking of which, Revo's successor to the series, ryō, has given us a pretty bitchin' final battle theme for Bravely Second.

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[Shiva95]

My favorite one si Dancing Mad, followed closely by Dark Messenger.

[Fynn]

Also, not sure if this is really a final battle track, but this theme from Crystal Chronicles is just godly

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[Ayen]

Well, at least your ears are working properly. :colbert:

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Ew.

Don't smurfing ew at me ya jackass! >:0

[Fynn]

Well, at least your ears are working properly. :colbert:

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Ew.

Don't smurfing ew at me ya jackass! >:0

But I thought you liked girls!

[Ayen]

Well, at least your ears are working properly. :colbert:

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Ew.

Don't smurfing ew at me ya jackass! >:0

But I thought you liked girls!

You aren't a girl?

[Fynn]

Well, at least your ears are working properly. :colbert:

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Ew.

Don't smurfing ew at me ya jackass! >:0

But I thought you liked girls!

You aren't a girl?

Look, I know I'm very pretty, but no. Sorry to disappoint.