favorite final battle song

[DGF]

FF VI (dancing mad) was my favourite because I was so used to the FF X battle tunes it just made me laugh

[Shuin]

FFVII = One Winged Angel
FFVIII = The Extreme
FFIX = Final Battle
FFX = Otherworld (Only)

FFX-2 = Death Match, Destruction, Demise

[Vermachtnis]

One Wing Angle. That song is just great and gotta love the remix in Kingdome Hearts(Well, I do).

[Doomgaze]

Dancing Mad, by far.


And One Winged Angel isn't that great, especially since it's ripped off of Carmina Burana.

[Miles_the_11]

Well Nick you seem to be very interested in the final boss battles (I thought I was the only one). I can never choose a final fantasy and say it is better than the others. FFX final boss music isnt Overworld, its the music against Yu Yevon.

Ive killed Chaos, Emporor Paramekia, Zeromus, Neo X-Death, Kefka, Sephiroth, Necron and Yu Yevon and Ive loved all of the themes

[Outsider]

Dancing Mad is great... It's as insane as Kefka.

And I love how his theme during the game is inserted during the "Dancing Mad" song, and how it changes from slow and dark in the beggining to fast and aggressive in the end.. It's just great

[i90east]

Yep, Dancing Mad. It's just too bad that Kefka is so easy, but it's still fun playing the tiers just because of the music

Oh yeah, and the echoing sound effects are so cool.

[Kenshin IV]

As good as they all are, One Wing Angel by a long shot.

[Kindo]

One Winged Angel isn't that great, especially since it's ripped off of Carmina Burana.

Huh...? What?

[Rase]

Originally posted by Dr Unne
I like FFIV's The Final Battle a lot, for some reason.

Reason #78 why I like Dr. Unne.

[Kenshin IV]

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~caveman/Carmina/

[Strider]

Now that I've beaten Zeromus, I'm inclined to vote for FFIV.

[Yoshix]

Umm... the magus battle from chrono trigger.

[Kirobaito]

This is what Doomgaze meant about OWA for those who don't know.

The lyrics to "One Winged Angel" are taken from "Carmina Burana", an opera written by Carl Orff in the 1930's. He based this opera off of the poems found in Benediktbeuern.

The title "Carmina Burana" literally means 'songs of Beuren' and was given by Johann Andreas Schmeller to his complete edition (1847) of the poems contained in an early 13th-century German manuscript (found in 1803) from the Benedictine abbey of Benediktbeuern, south of Munich in the Bavarian region.

Since then, the manuscript has been known by that title even though it is now generally agreed that it probably did not originate in Benediktbeuern and may have come rather from Seckau. There are some poems in German, and several of the poems have music written in unheighted neumes - a relatively rare style of notation at the time. In total, the manuscript contains approximately 250 poems.

Translation of the lyrics...

Estuans interius................(Burning inside)
ira vehementi................(with violent anger,)


The first "verse" is the first two lines of "Estuans interius" (Burning Inside). This is the opening song to the second part of Carmina Burana, "In Taberna" (In the Tavern).

Sors immanis....................(Fate - monstrous)
Et inanis.......................(and empty,)


These lines are the first two in the second verse of "O Fortuna" (O Fortune), which is the opening prologue of Carmina Burana, "Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi" (Fortune, Empress of the World). This song has been used for many things, ranging from Oliver Stone's "The Doors" and "Excalibur" to commercials for Nescafe instant coffee and Old Spice. Of course, there are tonnes of horror flicks and movie trailers out there that love to use this piece.

Veni, veni, venias,...............(Come, come, O come,)
Ne me mori facias................(do not let me die)


The second "verse" is the first two lines from "Veni, veni, venias," (Come, come, O come). This is the sixth song from the third section of Carmina Burana, "Cour d'amours" (The Court of Love).

Gloriosa.................(Glorious)
Generosa....................(Noble)

And the last verse from "A One-Winged Angel" comes from "Ave formosissma" (Hail, most beutiful one). This song precedes the finale of Carmina Burana, "Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi" in a subsection entitled "Blanziflor et Helena" (Blanchefleur and Helen). However, they do not appear together, as the first two verses did:

Ave formosissima, (Hail, most beautiful one,)
gemma pretiosa, (precious jewel,)
ave decus virginum, (Hail, pride among virgins,)
virgo gloriosa, (glorious virgin,)
ave mundi luminar, (Hail, light of the world,)
ave mundi rosa, (Hail, rose of the world,)
Blanziflor et Helena, (Blanchefleur and Helen,)
Venus generosa! (noble Venus!)

This is what Doomgaze meant. Anyway, in response to the topic, One Winged Angel captures everything about the situation in the song. Even the name means something. Sephiroth is above all other men, more powerful, but he's twisted (One-Winged). And the beginning sounds like something from 'Psycho.' It's definitely the best in my opinion.

[MagicKnight Locke]

ff8 final boss musics were all so good...