Interesting Final Boss Music

[jwmollman]

Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island final battle with Giant Baby Bowser
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9THf5QlXuyo

I just made it to the final boss the other day! I haven't had the chance to beat him yet, though.

I remember the music when fighting Kuja (the second-to-last boss) on Final Fantasy IX. It's called The Dark Messenger. I think it's pretty epic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghSi6...eature=related

[portnoyd]

MGS4 is pretty much the king of the question at hand.

[Carnivol]

I'm trying to figure out how many games play with this idea and play the hero's theme instead of playing a standard final boss theme, or otherwise play with the idea of final boss music being used elsewhere in the game. So, yes, this thread will have plenty of spoilers.

Terranigma on the SNES uses segments from the opening/main theme when the final boss theme kinda hits its climax.

Overcoming Everything - Battle against Dark Gaia - If you skip to 1:52-ish, you can hear how it directly calls back segments from Light and Darkness, the game's main/title theme.

Snake's Revenge on the NES also does a similar thing.

The game's intro tune is this
and the game's opening area tune is this (note 0:24) - which has segments that re-appears in the tune played when you go to approach the game's final boss (this (note 0:12)) - then, finally, when you enter the boss room, the game's intro tune plays again, but this time it has an entirely new segment added to its end

[starsoldier1]

I love music when you finally fight Dark Falz in the original Phantasy Star. Very chilling!