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If you're going with Pokemon champion themes, it's hard to come up with a better example than, well, the original protagonist's theme, Red's theme, after he becomes a final boss in the second game, Pokemon Gold/Silver. Another extremely frenetic theme while still tying back to the original roots, that being the very first thing you hear upon loading up the original game boy games after the dev screen; with the Nidorino vs Gengar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWHgMcIOsuw It lends itself really well to remixing, too. Red Theme Metal Remix remix 1 remix 2 The original Red/Blue/Yellow had a very good final fight theme with Gary Oak/Blue, too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_5TVp1wSTU
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FFVI. poo poo's slowly been getting more and more hosed up at time passes... and then Kefka rips half a continent out of the ground and goes flying with it. You parachute drop on it, and start getting chewed up by enemies tougher than any you've encountered before. You finally claw your way through, and Kefka is in your sights, but there's something in the way. A loving beefgate called Atma Weapon. With this bitching epic battle theme you've never heard, entirely appropriate for what is actually the final boss of the first half of the game. A theme that not only tells you that you tangled with the wrong ancient sentient artifact, but also that no, what comes next is not going to be sunshine and daisies, that in fact things are going to be the complete opposite of okay.
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rndmnmbr posted:FFVI. poo poo's slowly been getting more and more hosed up at time passes... and then Kefka rips half a continent out of the ground and goes flying with it. You parachute drop on it, and start getting chewed up by enemies tougher than any you've encountered before. You finally claw your way through, and Kefka is in your sights, but there's something in the way. 
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Mother 3's overworld music isn't as good as Earthbound's, but the battle themes are excellent. None are better than the one that plays when you face Natural Killer Cyborg. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4EATZ-tNPU Super Mario World has a good boss battle music that plays when you face Reznor or one of the Koopalings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipbeQSSdfrk Its Smash Bros. 4 remix is one of the best new tracks in the game. It sounds like something that would play in a spaghetti Western movie. Kraken of the Sea isn't strictly a boss track in Earthbound, but it's closely associated with a boss so close enough. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D20dF5Ao1mE I already mentioned the Rundas battle theme from Metroid Prime 3 so here it is in earnest. There are nice bits and pieces from other boss tracks in the previous two Prime games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nMFLquJeCc
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Diddy Kong Racing was a fun game, and had fantastic music. The boss challenge theme is my favorite among all the tracks though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rD42H8icFw Wizpig, the final boss, had quite an intense theme too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwJ41cq0c74
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Final Fantasy XIV's big scary bosses (Primals) all have really really cool boss themes, but to me, Titan's is the one that really stands out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JevOJeRzIk (forgive the video, it's really hard to find a decent clip of this) I love the drums feeling like a heartbeat, and the lyrics are really simple but they work so well. Bow down overdweller (under the weight) Succumb to the hate that corrupts your fate
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Everyone knows the famous F-ZERO GX rant. Despite that, F-ZERO GX was a great game with an amazing soundtrack. And towards the end of the campaign that spawned that rant, actually, the very next mission has you in a 1 on 1 race against some evil guy in a cavern filled to the brim with lava and land mines. He's much, much faster than you are. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n37XtQJxREg Video of the race in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN_Cawe6WZM&t=82s
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gamingCaffeinator posted:Final Fantasy XIV's big scary bosses (Primals) all have really really cool boss themes, but to me, Titan's is the one that really stands out. Ravanna, a great general who will conquer the lands for his children, the Gnath. A cool dude who you challenge to glorious combat. If you win, he will gladly bend his knee to the victor, but in return expects the same from you should you lose. The fight has 2 phases and both have their own tracks. Phase 1:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6roTXrTziQ Phase 2:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV_IP4mNJCI There's an amazing fight with equally amazing track when you are fighting inside Alexander, a gigantic mechanical Primal summoned by a group of fanatical goblins called the Illuminati. Who are massive technophiles that think technology belongs only to them. Brute Justice, a robot sentai team that combines when it's had enough of your poo poo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLCWCPyxByg It's a combination remix of earlier tracks in the same raid made more up beat to fit the super sentai theme of the boss, so heres the two tracks used to make it the Manipulator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhDvQIqEkuI Boss battle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v89qYANJGMQ
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the dragonslayer armor battle from DS3 Not necessarily my favorite battle but god drat did I love listening to that epic track as I sunbro'd with other players. The choral bits are just excellent and really drove home how bitchin' a fight it was. the one reborn from bloodborne A mediocre fight (but one of my favorites from a creature design standpoint), I always remember this score as getting my psyched to jump from the ramparts. Epic orchestral swells are my jam yo.
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Zernach posted:Brute Justice, a robot sentai team that combines when it's had enough of your poo poo. edit: Crypt of the Necrodancer has some good boss themes, as a music-themed game should. It even comes with versions in different music styles by various artists that you can switch between depending on preference! King Konga https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUAq7-YpO0w Death Metal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8sSkxgmueA Deep Blues, a certainly unorthodox boss theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUgyIpim1ls Necrodancer phase 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZiorkb9F1M Necrodancer phase 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yBqlPVmfX0 Captain Invictus has a new favorite as of 01:13 on Sep 21, 2016 |
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People like to rag on Golden Sun in hindsight (and a decent chunk of it is deserved) but I loving love the theme that plays the first time you fight Saturos on Mercury Lighthouse. It's a shame they only use it here and for one bonus boss in The Lost Age- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9HDIjMqzSc E: Also because I'm jamming out and because I mentioned Monster Hunter already, the Dalamadur fight (despite being a slog) has dope music- Part 1-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvVtxu2sQp0 Part 2 (when it gets mad)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02YO65N2vYc (the monster, for context- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzEi7v3Jj64) C-Euro has a new favorite as of 04:44 on Sep 23, 2016 |
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gently caress yeah music thread Monster Hunter's been mentioned a bit, but I wanted to share the absolutely amazing White Fatalis theme, which I always thought was the most climactic and awe-inspiring song in the series. Not to mention that it plays against a celestial white being said to be the ancestor of all elder dragons that summons red lightning from the sky and, in the forth game, emerges out of an eclipse. It sounds so serenely beautiful, but also incredibly oppressive and powerful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGAUCj-c9og On a similar tone is Gogmazios's pair of themes, which go from the slow, lumbering oppression of an unknown abomination that crawled out of some deep, slimy pit to the panic you feel when you realize that this Godzilla-sized horror can fly, raining down burning tar. At that point, anyone with any sense just loving runs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9KVjx2EmhI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrdVX7AC75s And speaking of FF14, they've been doing bosses recently against remakes of the Warring Triad from FF6. So far they've only had Sephirot the Fiend and Sophia the Goddess, both of which start out with a fantastic arrangement of Fierce Battle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpDbr6_WtEE Once you reach the second phase for both, though, they get into very unique vocal tracks. Sephirot gets pounding industrial rock with some lyrics I absolutely love ("Retreat where lesser men lead! Flee from what you do not see!"), while Sophia has a gorgeous orchestral song with very soft bells and a gentle soloist leading the vocals. I really wanna hear what they get for Zurvan, but that's probably not gonna be for another year considering the gap between the other two. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdV_bzJgRxE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knV-5VciTTQ
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbh3ZYuTBDY The final level of Doom 2 has some creepy rear end music.
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The theme that plays when you battle the first wild hunt warrior in Witcher 3 is epic. And while it isn't an actual boss theme per se, the tune "ransacked" from wolfenstein new order is incredible for an extremely tense firefight
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The third Fiend should be in 3.5. The only reason there wasn't Sophia in 3.3 was because of the storyline boss getting an extreme mode. Funny thing about Sephirot's theme is that Powerman 5000 called out the composer since they thought it was a rip-off of "When Worlds Collide". If your reaction was "Who the hell is that?" you've pretty much got what Soken said about it.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3jSY5fIeDA Very short, still pretty awesome
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Zernach posted:FF XIV has so many amazing tracks, few of my personal favorites are: Oh god, speaking of great leaders and their 'children', how did I forget the greatest theme of all: GOOD KING MOGGLE MOG Fighting him and his group of followers can be super tough but the music is wonderful, and the fact that it's a remix/medley of several Moogle themes from across the games made me giggle like a little girl when I realized it the first time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCcbKY7d0dc Good King Moggle Mog, Good King Mog leads the brave and true Good King Moggle Mog, Good King Mog! Now come along and meet his trusty crew! (KUPO!)
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The whole Metal Gear Rising: Revengence soundtrack is phenomenal and should just be linked in its entirety. Here. Shadow of the Colossus was a beautiful game that consisted of one epic boss fight after another. The music was suitably grand in pretty much every encounter but several tracks stand out as truly exceptional: 1. The Opened Way 2. Counterattack Notable remix: Wanderer On the Offensive (Uses both songs) 3. In Awe of the Power In Dark Souls you spend the whole game being told about the eminently great and powerful Gwyn, Lord of Fire. Who lit the First Flame, etc etc. At the end of the game you finally face him only to find, not a great man, but a burned out husk of a man: Gwyn, Lord of Fire Do dance games count? When you think about it, every stage is a boss fight. Bust a Groove: 1. Bust a Groove (Kitty-N) 2. Chemical Love (Gas-O) Heat, Robo-Z and Capoeria's themes are also pretty good. Parappa the Rapper: 1. Fleaswallow 2. Cheep Cheep Notable remix: Cookin' with Fire Also gotta go with Blue Dragon's Eternity the greatest video game music of all time! No but seriously, this is the greatest video game music of all time.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKc6dOw7vBQ This game will always be awesome to me. gently caress the haters.
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Gorian's Battle from Baldurs Gate. Only used in the Baldurs Gate 2 trailer and one battle in the entire game vs some merc's in Cloakwood. I always found it much more epic than the Final Battle Music vs Savarok.
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Pokemon really needs to bring back Miror B, he was one of the best things from the gamecube games. https://youtu.be/gZsOwo9rhsQ https://youtu.be/zCl1gwX_CVA
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Drakengard 3's take was even better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph4f06Q5ItE Phantasy Star Online has a ton of great music, but the boss theme for Shambertin is one of my favorites https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coitxrHiDUU PSO: Episode 3 also had the theme for Pollux/Castor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ6ZW5wv13A Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xcqNJzS2Ac https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOeb7StJlRc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPkrtLyZu2o Miijhal has a new favorite as of 05:15 on Oct 9, 2016 |
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From when you fight the two Red Pyramid Things in Silent Hill 2. Probably my all-time favorite. Kinda epic sounding, kinda melancholy, kinda scary. Perfect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WShknpNpHbY
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TheHoosier posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3jSY5fIeDA That entire dungeon was pretty much a tribute to James Brown, I loved it.
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Intoluene posted:The third Fiend should be in 3.5. The only reason there wasn't Sophia in 3.3 was because of the storyline boss getting an extreme mode. I loved that silly controversy. And I didn't realize that was the delay; admittedly, I don't play FF14, I'm just a distant appreciator. On the subject of Touhou music, Raiko Horikawa's theme is one of the better recent ones, I think, mostly thanks to the kickin' beat. I love the kind of oppressive tone to it, especially with the weird tones that come in when the classic Touhou trumpets aren't around. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioQLlX2ELbg That was really just an excuse to link this loving incredible remix of her theme, though, that takes all the best parts of it and makes them even better. For a slight change of pace, the Abyss Watchers theme from Dark Souls 3 is probably one of my absolute favorites to this day, not because it's overwhelmingly bombastic and oppressive, but because it's one of the most serene and subdued songs in the entire series, while still keeping a slight air of tension with the background instrumentation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmccPPaRb3w Meanwhile, in the realm of Bayonetta 2, have this theme for the FIRST BOSS OF THE GAME, a gigantic angel-devouring dragon turning the sky into a hellstorm that sucks an entire city up into it, fought as it crawls up the side of the equivalent of the Chrysler building. One of the best songs in the game, and that's saying something. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqpoPwhkJ2U Also have the two themes of Alraune, a demon lady who starts as a stylish action fighter much like Bayonetta, but then quickly turns into a giant plant-scorpion-demon as the arena crumbles around her. The juxtaposition is nothing if not appropriate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r5lU8JdX50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0-acvQZPVw
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Kick rear end speech by Auron, about to fight God, right as this kicks in. So loving good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XFlR4MQaQI I really hate the 'updated' music of the HD release A White Guy posted:Max Payne 3's music score was pretty good, but perhaps the best part was the lead-up to just before the 'boss' battle: This pumped me too, then the singing kicked in.
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In The Wonderful 101, you play as a group of superheroes who can come together to create giant energy weapons with them inside: unite morphs. The game mostly follows the same pattern: You go through a level defeating enemies, recruiting more members to make your morphs more powerful, and eventually enter your most awesome state ("Team, engaging Unlimited Form!") and fight a boss. The game has a lot of good music, but my favorite is a little different. Throughout the game you repeatedly run into Vorkken, a space pirate, and his crew. These pirates can also create unite morphs, and worse, their ship constantly heals them. The first couple of times you fight them, you just have to hold out until somebody comes and rescues you. The third time, you finally manage you crash their ship, forcing them to hop down onto yours. It's been a hard fought victory, but it seems that you've finally got them on the ropes. "Teio Form, activate!" And suddenly you're fighting the hardest boss fight yet, set to the best music yet. It's a really good fit for a boss in which you're fighting 100 powerful enemies instead of one nigh-unbeatable one.
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Translated: This is the music for W101's Vergil Fight. The music kicks in when they super mode the same way you do. Rigged Death Trap has a new favorite as of 17:49 on Oct 16, 2016 |
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Squidtentacle posted:I loved that silly controversy. And I didn't realize that was the delay; admittedly, I don't play FF14, I'm just a distant appreciator. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQIIiHc5FMw&hd=1 I really like most of their Disciple medleys, they take a core track(Fighting of the Spirit from Tales of Fantasia/Symphonia) and build an appropriate medley corresponding to a given element around it. The one for Fire incorporates two Touhou boss tracks well(though one is barely there). Their videos also nicely show what part of each track corresponds to each character/game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n_sq7RubUM&hd=1
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Just remembered another good one from Gamecube's Baten Kaitos- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK5cRPzYa2w Your goal is to stop the bad guys from collecting the pieces of an dead evil god, but of course the evil god gets revived. You get to jam out to this while fighting it (twice!) This whole soundtrack is great TBH. Lots of rough brass and strings, which I love.
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Speaking of good Sakuraba soundtracks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHsflYC52Ks The actual stage music is way better than the boss music in VP though. Vagrant Story is a rare game that has a unique piece of music for almost every boss and they all own https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP2nWp60gvo
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A White Guy posted:Max Payne 3's music score was pretty good, but perhaps the best part was the lead-up to just before the 'boss' battle: Although I really liked that section in the airport very much, It wasn't until the track after that section where for me, the poo poo started getting real tense, felt more final to me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTFcSYqUwrY This video is a rough music cut of everything after that. I still to this day love this track, it felt like the final gauntlet.
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I love music from games and have a ton of things I could contribute to this. Going to try to only post one per game but really I could post nearly every boss theme from each one of these. Misery In Hand, from Fire Emblem: Fates. A midboss theme for the not-Japan characters. I would routinely just let it play rather than finish the fights. Fates had some spectacular music overall. Hoist the Sword with Pride in the Heart, Etrian Odyssey 3. Yuzo Koshiro's music is one of the best things about the series, and the theme makes the punishing stratum boss fights even better. (And an arrange of it.) Divine Entity from SMT: Digital Devil Saga 2. Holy poo poo the boss music in DDS was incredible, and while this is the final boss, it's really worth listening to all of them. The Almighty from Persona 4. Giant Disco Eyeball fight set to some kickass music. Izaro from Path of Exile. Players are probably more annoyed by this music, since he's a difficult boss of the Labyrinth, you have to fight him several times, and there are some bullshit gimmicks, but he's got some really, really great music to go with it. Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke from Touhou 8, Imperishable Night. The theme has a lot of beauty to it, and it's a very fun fight to go with it. The Red Locus from Radiant Historia. A great game with a tragically small soundtrack, Yoko Shimomura is fantastic as always. The Handsome Sorceror from Borderlands 2. The whole Assault on Dragon Keep DLC had amazing music and atmosphere in general, all high-fantasy stuff in stark opposition to the grindy punk stuff, and the Handsome Sorceror fight caps it off wonderfully. Assault on Dragon Keep was a spectacular sendoff for the game. One Who Gets in Our Way from Xenoblade Chronicles. I know, most people love You Will Know Our Names, but this - which played for most actual boss and event battles - is a really great piece for shoving the tension of battle right in your ears. It still feels a little empty without all the characters shouting, though  Dark Hero from Valkyria Chronicles 3. Only plays on the enemy turn when fighting the main antagonist. This usually coincides with you losing a couple troops, probably a camp or two, and maybe your tank as well. Dahau is a cheater  An Honor Befitting that Name from SMT: Strange Journey. Strange Journey was a weird game with some weird design decisions, but if there's one thing I can't fault them on, it's the midboss theme. I'll definitely throw some more out later. I really enjoy VGM, it adds a lot to the experience. theshim has a new favorite as of 19:15 on Oct 27, 2016 |
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Please don't post so many embedded youtube videos in a single post, the thread is already really slow to load as it is. A bunch of indie games have had fantastic boss music. Axiom Verge, a Metroid 2-alike, has a few boss tracks and they're all intense. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL68Sp-4Dqs Super Meat Boy's bosses were less fights and more surviving until the boss killed themselves. But boy were the boss tracks amazing, as is the entire soundtrack really, there's a reason Danny Baranowsky became very well known after the game came out. Lil' Slugger is just crazy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQa4-s_3m_Q FTL has some amazing atmospheric music that seamlessly kicks into battle mode whenever you enter a fight. But for the final battle against the Rebel Flagship, there's only one theme, and it plays from the moment you jump into the final system. It's pretty forboding and has a great buildup. It takes nearly half the entire track to get to the main melody but it's totally worth it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quwBEzrwXSU Say what you will about Castle Crashers, but it had some really good music, and one of the better ones was the Necromancer boss fight track, Simple Sight. When the intro ends and the real track kicks in, it's frantic as gently caress and great for that particular fight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK_mZFdo-hY And on a considerably less-indie note, Super Mario Galaxy has a loving NUTS final boss, I don't know of any Mario tracks that really go in this direction, this is Battle For The Grand Star https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myZ67-RXq7c
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Captain Invictus posted:Please don't post so many embedded youtube videos in a single post, the thread is already really slow to load as it is.
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Speaking of which, how the hell has this not been posted yet (via its original game)? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3aEQuxQEOw
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Yoshi's Island's final boss has been posted here, sure. But I feel this is worth posting: an insanely good cover of it, which is even better because the track is so woefully underrepresented in the cover/remix communities. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCNgxs3iGu8 It's really drat good. Also apparently Smash Wiiu has a Big Baby Bowser stage? Neato.
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And Tyler Too! posted:I loved the final boss in Ace Combat Zero. It's just you and your former wingman, one on one. You weave your aircraft through an extremely narrow trench and tons of gunfire and by the time you reach your old pal to throw down, well, just listen until 1:45 and you'll understand why. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGjwXI0n5-I Oh and then, from AC5, there's The Unsung War. https://youtu.be/o1Qkzj5bStU Five is, in a lot of ways, Peak Ace Combat. The last mission of the game, you've razed the enemy's fortress city, you've blasted your way through a continent-spanning tunnel with split-second precision, you've gone up against the squadron of treacherous bastards that's hounded you throughout the game and ripped them to shreds, and, as a final gently caress you, the people that engineered the war you've found yourself in are dropping a colossal weapons satellite on your nation's capital city. Your job is to intercept it on its way down from orbit, and stop it by any means necessary. Cue The Unsung War.
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