I love that calus tired so hard throughout his entire life to be this cabal that hated fighting and thought the old ways weren’t needed anymore. Only to have his last moment be that of a true cabal death with cabal cleavers in hand and a death match against the most powerful combatant in the galaxy
"you gave him a Cabal's end?" Caiatl seems almost grateful for this final mercy for her lost father, that he die not as a snivelling wretch in exile but in mortal combat against a mighty foe as a true Cabal Emperor
@@kohrakthehorriblebionicle6187 As far as I understand the cabal dont age like humans and live for extremely long periods of time or indefinately. So having that culture to have wars and stuff makes tons of sense from a overpopulation point of view (I guess for them).
Honestly this fight kinda felt sad and melancholy in a way. "I've been waiting for this day a loooong time, Guardian... Come, let us revel in this exquisite moment!". Finally, after all this time, Calus no longer had to rely on his fan fictions, he no longer had to host game shows on his Leviathan - in fact, even he no longer had to feel broken inside that he had given up who he was to be a pawn of the Witness - he was living the fight with the Guardian for real, living out his greatest fantasy for real. Calus's life had been fucked for a really long time, and despite some of the horrible things he did, I still feel pity for him. I'm happy that he got to go out in a way that he could have only ever dreamed of. He probably felt like a child getting to fulfill his fantasy of being a superhero, or... perhaps a supervillain.
I wish we could have seen a lot of this communicated, there would be something really cool about Calus vocally acknowledging that he has failed and knowing that the Witness will punish him, and instead choosing to die fighting us which is what he's always wanted.
Calus becomes a much more tragic character when you release he gave everything up to serve a being which used him and cast him out like a piece of trash
Calus's life was fucked, but only by his own doing. He was an incredibly selfish and insecure leader who would have let the entire Cabal empire perish for his own greed. Even interpersonally he was an abusive, deadbeat dad and was unfaithful to his spouse. He's constantly contrasted against Caiatl, who by comparison is self-actualized and selfless. He was not following the Witness because it was his only option, it was merely because the Witness satisfied his ego.
@@accountname902 see tbf he was a cabal ahead of his time, he enjoyed lavish things and drowning himself in greed and gluttony but he was also quite anti war and anti expansionist, he fought or metaphorically clashed with cabal culture while also appeasing it, he included other races and freed the psions from slavery albeit they were still indebted to their old slavers. Very much like the roman empire the cabal fell from within whether it be infighting and betrayal of their Emperor like the midnight coup (assignation of julius caesar), or the invasion and destruction of the cabal homeworld from within (the fall of Rome and the empire), caital had to swallow her pride and also taste many defeats before she was humbled and chose survival and cooperation over revenge and death, calus pre-disciple was shafted by everyone, never connected with anyone and thus went I search of some sort of meaning and purpose( much like the witness berates him of not having any in lightfall ) even after being dripped in gold and given immense power he still didn't find it, in the end the man wanted to live his fantasies of grandeur and battle and probably seen the gaurdian who defeated him ( his shadow) as his only friend which is really quiet sad. Yeh he may have brought it on himself but he had no one to actually pull him back or help him so no wonder he went down the path he did all things considering, personally wish he remained non affiliated to anyone tho and was always just this allussive gladiator loving guy who wanted a good time and not a long one 😂
@@alexrobinson5058 same which is why I cheesed the fuck out of him on Hunter cuz I just wanted to get that done one ACTUAL Legendary run is enough for now I gotta be raid ready for day 1
@Alex Robinson I've done a solo legendary run of both witch queen and lightfalls expansions and imo Calus boss fight felt so much more personal and climactic.
Calus always really just wanted to die fighting us. It was his wish to either leave victorious over us or die in the arena. He also started to see what the witness truly seen him as when he tried to question it. Nothing more than a pawn to get what it wants and don’t question why
As much as people disliked Calus being killed off this way, I felt it actually fit him perfectly. We have never faced Calus before this point, like never truly faced him. Up until this point he has done nothing but hide behind his robotic machinations and Psions. Calus at heart is no great warrior, or even that powerful of a being. He is a self absorbed, egotistical, and self destructive individual. He took over the cabal empire not on his own, but with ahamkara magic and betrayal. In the end he believed he was serving the witness in some great way, but in reality he was just bait. For all of his bragging, his supposed opulence, he really was just a sad old cabal with nothing left.
Calus seems almost childish to me. Always wanting to spoil himself in luxury and look his best. Even as a disciple he was the same. Unlike rhulk and nezarec who cleary devoted the rest of there life to the bringing about of the final shape calus didn’t even fully give himself. He was still the exiled emperor and he still wanted to show that here. Instead of thinking of the future he was reminiscing the past and how he’s dreamt of this moment for so long how he’s waited for this fight. He was definitely happy to die fighting us. He got somtbing he dreamt of for so long
At least he could have find a way to die regretting and hating himself for everything he did, ending in giving himself in to the guardian. Because like someone said: "Don't close yourself up. Open your heart, and follow it."
If only the boss fight was near as good as the music. For a character like calus his death didn’t feel right. Someone like him shouldn’t have been killed so easily
@@adamboy0559 Fit him great! Calus fought back, but he was never a fighter. He hid behind other's successes, hence he was overthrown so easily. Hence, in his desperate final stand he shifts to a crazed gladiator like Ghaul, but he has no experience and begins to pray for the Witness, who at this point Calus had spent much of his life worshiping, and he gets no response. The Witness abandons him in his last hour of need, and when he finally realizes he has made such a grand mistake he ends up finally mentioning the only person he every truly cared about, his first wife. It was a great ending for a character who had been fought for seven years.
@@fleepdeep1706 yeah calus as a cabal emperor wasn’t a fighter but he was granted power from the witness that should have atleast gave him a fighting chance. It wasn’t a final boss it was killing an old man who had lost everything. I’m not expecting an oryx or savthûn level of fight as there lives were spent conquering and fighting. For calus he was a leader who couldn’t fight yes but the power he was given should have atleast gave him some form of a chance
@@adamboy0559 I think it's fitting for him to get such an unceremonious death actually. He's a spoiled, pouty, coward, full of hot air. Even the Witness was fed up with having him around. At least he went down fighting as a cabal still
Calus may have played the role of benevolent emperor, but he didn't need conventional weapons to be powerful. His ambition, gluttony and debauchery were lethal enough.
@@Azrael_Equinox he was raiding the leviathan as the only person left to take the mantle of leading the red legion. he wanted to steal the leviathan for the red legion's gain as well as use vex tech to win the red war.
The shifts in color for this track have been sending me on an emotional rollercoaster. The harmony altering between major and minor for this expansion's theme is on a whole other level.
I dont know why but for some reason this boss in now my favorite in the 2 games. It felt so damn satisfying, personal, fulfilling, powerful, emotional, charged, and action packed boss I've ever experienced in my destiny career. I quit the game before witch queen and decided I had to come back to bear Witness to the fall and God damn It was worth it. The story was expectedly flat on our gaurdians side, but Calus I loved every second of ever since we got teased all the way back in Rise of Iron about a cabal emperor. The story of Calus and everything he was a part of. It's completely up to you to decide if he got what was coming. But you can't deny after all this time he was definitely aching to finally get some action after teasing, tormenting, and manipulating the galaxy for years on the sideline. Now he has everything he wants, he is glorious. But he is also empty. Just like the Beautiful golden chalice he's had in hand for years now. Bejeweled and opulent and empty. It felt so good to finally have our battle. Farewell my favorite destiny villain. We reveled in glorious battle together.
Besides Lightfall's shortcomings I really enjoyed Calus here. I kinda dig the idea that he's finally where he wants to be, Emperor AND a Disciple to what's practically his new god ... And... He kind of doesn't really like it. He expected so much more, but is just being used like a dog to go fetch instead of witnessing the true finality like he wants to. Then, when he's finally there, he at least lives out the dream of contending with us - But it's pretty much all for naught. Maybe at least the fight was worthy in his eyes but it's clear the Witness didn't give two shits about the guy. Still, I kinda wish Caiatl was at least present for his end, if not allowed the killing blow.
Personally kinda like Eramises “death” we depleted his health bar then he drops to his knees and the cutscene starts caiatl jumps in and we let her have the finishing blow finally after so long of her regretting not ending him during the coup
It's the look within motif, when you think about the story of beyond light, witch queen, and now lightfall the stories have all been about us as faction looking within ourselves and realizing just how powerful we are without the light. We don't need a cheat code because we are the key, not the light but the gaurdian
@@okruma625 That was way more unique tho. She even had the ward of dawn around the area. The least they could have done was give Gladiator Calus 2 glaives
@@okruma625 yeah, I agree with space cowboy, Savathun was just utilizing the Light the way she saw Guardians use it, she was too fresh to have her own "supers". Calus on the other hand had psionic powers since he was in the Leviathan and he didn't gain any upgrades/improvements from the Witness, just a darkness machine gun and a butcher set
@@kronost06no i see it more as his last stand out of pure desperation; drop the gun and just kill us w the blades. he says something along the lines of “the witness WILL see me!” meaning it’s just desperation. the witness used him as bait i think tbh, because if he didn’t have calus in the veil how could he have gotten the link w the ghost after we killed him
@@d6spairit is pure desperation. He starts off confident he will win then after we deal enough damage he has the realisation rhulk had of “they can actually kill me” and since calus Isn’t near as well trained as a disciple as rhulk his solution is begging the witness to save him pretty much. The whole second phase he talks about how the witness will see him and save him. Rhulk used the darkness to try drown us whist calus just begged to a god who didn’t care about him
7:57 this part gives me goosbumps everytime it feels like the climax of the fight the pinacle of it where we finaly strike down this threat thats been ahead of us the whole time and then the choir at the end there just tops it off giving the feeling of its finaly over
I wish this fight would have been more spectacular (although, given how the campaign implies Calus was but a pawn for the Witness, one that it loathed, this might be intentional. In that case, a cruel irony for Calus to end like that) , but in terms of difficulty, I found it very enjoyable. Overall, it was a cathartic and climactic end for the Emperor, and the excellency of the music almost makes up for the fight's relative lack of visual flair.
A theory that I hear is that the witness orchestrated this in order to get calus killed as it saw that calus would have been a liability if kept around too long
As underwhelming as this fight was compared to Savathun, it was still a great fight. I often wonder if calus was happy with the result aswell despite it being his death. I think hes just happy he got what he wanted which was mortal combat with us
I agree but as good as the savathun fight which in my opinion was the best campaign boss we have had it felt more personal than the savathun boss. During WQ we had to defeat savathun to stop her from sealing the light away in her throne world. In LF we have known calus for some time now but havnt ever seen him face to face and the first time we do is unfortunately as enemy’s and not friends. Tho imo calus is too far gone to be redeemed. Atleast characters like Eramis have shown they could help and have done so willingly such as saving eido from the lucent hive whilst she could have very well left her to die and saved her own life she didn’t and even Warned misraks that going i it that base will lead only to death which was true and even helped. Calus has done some horrible things such as have his own daughters war beast slaughtered in front of her as she cared more for it than him
I got my Legend of Acrius, that had been sitting in my vault for I don't know how long, and fed his "gift" back to him. All throughout the Leviathan raids and Season of Opulence, he uses, manipulates, and toys with you. Add on the fact that in his lore books that he writes for you, he basically tells you "Kill your friends, then I'll kill you" So he had this coming in my book...
Claus not as strong as maybe Savathun gampleay wise but he still was a fun boss fight. Imagine tho having Calus live and replace the first boss in root as Calus. A double disciple raid would have added to it and with the attacks Calus has he fits a raid boss since most are unique like I believe ones called sun of lubrae which is a darkness spike that comes out of the ground and has insta kill potential on legend and master also has the flying darkness nodes from caretaker he has a darkness mini gun and a second form that could have easily been changed a bit to be a final stand where we knock off his helmet then he starts to surround the area in a darkness aura to wipe us
It's a good concept on paper, but that raid's focus is elsewhere, primarily focusing on Nezarec's revival and his grasp on light and dark. As for Calus, he is one of the bigger villains in Destiny 2, one with more appearances throughout the franchise than Nezarec. So for him to be killed off as anything other than a final boss would be a bit underwhelming.
@@Yimster06 yeah it was just cope that calus wasn’t a raid boss. His boss felt so underwhelming for his character. Imo the first boss of root tho doesn’t even make any sense to nezarec as he hates him and actually asks us to kill him. I doubt he’d feel much different about calus but atleast then it would be a known character rather than the glorified incinerator we got
Wait so after we “kill” him the first time he’s actually dead and possessed? Makes a lot of sense tbh he changes complety but at the same time why did he then say things like “the witness will See me” if the witness was the one in control of his lifeless body?
That's not what happened tho? Calus simply got empowered by the Witness, at the very least he used it's gift to transform into a gladiator, it was still him and very much alive.
@@roberttheronin9803Would have made more sense of the Witness possessing him after the first phase. Possessing against his will after finally being pissed off that the failed again and decided to do the "If you want something done, you have to do it yourself." Would have demonstrated how little the Witness cares for its Disciples.
I jujst realised what the begining (which is one of my favourite parts of the lightfall ost) remind me of. Mass effect. Idk what song but just the rythem and beat lol.
I expected more from this fight honestly... like him using the power of absorbing the nightmares and such... what became of that? what is this power he speaks of? because all I see is pyramid tech gun and swords plus a Rhulk cosplay
The Nightmares aren't his thing, they're Nezarec's. The reason he had them for the Seasonal thing was because he was drawing power from Nezarec's Pyramid.
The power of the Nightmares was Nezarec's, not Calus'. In Season of Haunted Calus was trying to link himself with Nezarec's pyramid to take that power. We stopped him from getting that power, but he still became a Disciple.
Nightmares aren’t his thing that was a result of his failed attempt to take control of the moon’s pyramid which was previously nezarecs. Unlike nezarec and rhulk who had time to perfect there techniques he was given the title the basic darkness ability’s and sent to link his master to the veil.
after dying like 5 times I muted this and put "Desperate Situation" on from the Vanquish OST. The only way to beat the high aggro phase 2 was with EVEN MORE AGGRESSION.
IT TOOK ME LITERAL HOURS TO BEAT HIM BECAUSE I WAS SPEEDRUNNING SO HARD (classic mode solar hunter first time doing campaign.) THAT I IGNORED ALL THE POWER LEVEL GATES.
Ok the fact this took you hours on classic isn’t really anything to flex. Now I ain’t here to flex either but you v solo flawlessed the ritual and this mission on legend for fun. It really ain’t that hard out first run we beat this boss on our third try as a duo strand Titan and teammate strand hunter without aspects as it was the version your given for free at the start of the encounter if you chose to take it
I’d say ghoul wins. If it wasn’t for the travelers intervention he’d be an immortal almost god. Whatever he was after we killed his physical body wasn’t mortal anymore anyway
Tendrían que añadir una nueva opción en las puertas y que sea la insiginia de una Piramide. Si sale esa, peleás contra la Legion de las Sombras, los tipos que parecen Rhulk y Nezarec, y al final la pelea contra Calus pero a diferencia de la original, no tenes nodos de Cuerdas para poder balancearte, tenés que correr mientras que los otros buscan quitarte el aggro.
They can't keep every important villain for a raid, though. I wasn't bothered at all because ultimately, if they did not use a character like Calus as the final boss, who would it be? It wouldn't be nearly as impactful, and they have Nezerac for the raid boss instead which is also pretty awesome.
@@spierrwolf3416 calus is also a petty mf he isnt nearly as powerful as rhulk because he cares more about himself than the final shape, rhulk on the other hand was pretty much a fine blade made to serve the witness will, i fully believe the witness expected us to kill calus and he had it coming, im glad atleast in one dlc since d2 vanilla the big bad actually died
@@spierrwolf3416 personally I would have just liked his actions here to be of his own motive, not fear. Calus should want to be here, serving the witness, fighting us. To me he just seems tired and ultimately doing this because he no longer has a choice and wants to move on, but he's in too deep. Which I suppose is it's own theme consistent with disciples (sans Nez and Rhulk).
@@scowlinsun I'd argue it is his own motive. He wants to see the end of everything and him helping the witness furthers that goal. The fear of the witness is just a bonus
@@scowlinsun His motive has always been determined by fear. Specifically a fear of not being there 'at the end'. He will do anything to achieve this, including retracting his enormous pride for the Witness and being a pawn in its campaign.
I really wish they gave him the first raid boss instead of the incinerator we got (yes I can’t even remember his name that’s how little impact that boss left on me) and I did Ron day 1. The actual encounter design was great aesthetically mechanics we’re actually kinda decent too doing them blind. The boss tho literally no one had heard of him nor seemed any different from any other yellow bar cabal.
Calus died with a gladiatorial combat as a true Cabal, despite him always shunning that part of their culture. He finally has that battle. He has nothing else left. He even used his two tormentor guards. He is sad, old, desperate, afraid, alone. That is what Calus always has been, the Leviathan covered in gold on the outside but empty and twisted and filthy within is literally his own reflection. All bravado on the outside. Nothing more than a pathetic little Cabal on the inside. That is Calus. And he got the end he deseved.
I love that calus tired so hard throughout his entire life to be this cabal that hated fighting and thought the old ways weren’t needed anymore. Only to have his last moment be that of a true cabal death with cabal cleavers in hand and a death match against the most powerful combatant in the galaxy
Yeah it was shit lmao didn’t match his character at all
"you gave him a Cabal's end?" Caiatl seems almost grateful for this final mercy for her lost father, that he die not as a snivelling wretch in exile but in mortal combat against a mighty foe as a true Cabal Emperor
@@kohrakthehorriblebionicle6187 As far as I understand the cabal dont age like humans and live for extremely long periods of time or indefinately. So having that culture to have wars and stuff makes tons of sense from a overpopulation point of view (I guess for them).
NGL this comment goes hard
@@kohrakthehorriblebionicle6187 Oh yeah, so he engaged in MORTAL KOMBAT 🧙
Honestly this fight kinda felt sad and melancholy in a way. "I've been waiting for this day a loooong time, Guardian... Come, let us revel in this exquisite moment!". Finally, after all this time, Calus no longer had to rely on his fan fictions, he no longer had to host game shows on his Leviathan - in fact, even he no longer had to feel broken inside that he had given up who he was to be a pawn of the Witness - he was living the fight with the Guardian for real, living out his greatest fantasy for real.
Calus's life had been fucked for a really long time, and despite some of the horrible things he did, I still feel pity for him. I'm happy that he got to go out in a way that he could have only ever dreamed of. He probably felt like a child getting to fulfill his fantasy of being a superhero, or... perhaps a supervillain.
I wish we could have seen a lot of this communicated, there would be something really cool about Calus vocally acknowledging that he has failed and knowing that the Witness will punish him, and instead choosing to die fighting us which is what he's always wanted.
Calus becomes a much more tragic character when you release he gave everything up to serve a being which used him and cast him out like a piece of trash
Calus's life was fucked, but only by his own doing. He was an incredibly selfish and insecure leader who would have let the entire Cabal empire perish for his own greed. Even interpersonally he was an abusive, deadbeat dad and was unfaithful to his spouse. He's constantly contrasted against Caiatl, who by comparison is self-actualized and selfless. He was not following the Witness because it was his only option, it was merely because the Witness satisfied his ego.
@@accountname902 see tbf he was a cabal ahead of his time, he enjoyed lavish things and drowning himself in greed and gluttony but he was also quite anti war and anti expansionist, he fought or metaphorically clashed with cabal culture while also appeasing it, he included other races and freed the psions from slavery albeit they were still indebted to their old slavers.
Very much like the roman empire the cabal fell from within whether it be infighting and betrayal of their Emperor like the midnight coup (assignation of julius caesar), or the invasion and destruction of the cabal homeworld from within (the fall of Rome and the empire), caital had to swallow her pride and also taste many defeats before she was humbled and chose survival and cooperation over revenge and death, calus pre-disciple was shafted by everyone, never connected with anyone and thus went I search of some sort of meaning and purpose( much like the witness berates him of not having any in lightfall ) even after being dripped in gold and given immense power he still didn't find it, in the end the man wanted to live his fantasies of grandeur and battle and probably seen the gaurdian who defeated him ( his shadow) as his only friend which is really quiet sad.
Yeh he may have brought it on himself but he had no one to actually pull him back or help him so no wonder he went down the path he did all things considering, personally wish he remained non affiliated to anyone tho and was always just this allussive gladiator loving guy who wanted a good time and not a long one 😂
The music makes me sad to
I've been waiting for this day a loooong time, Guardian...
Come, let us revel in this exquisite moment!
@@colonorum5840 words before dying from a staircase
Loved hearing this 50+ times on my legendary run lmao
@@alexrobinson5058 same
which is why I cheesed the fuck out of him on Hunter cuz I just wanted to get that done
one ACTUAL Legendary run is enough for now
I gotta be raid ready for day 1
@Alex Robinson I've done a solo legendary run of both witch queen and lightfalls expansions and imo Calus boss fight felt so much more personal and climactic.
He basically said “FUCK THE WITNESS!
I! WANT! YOU!!!!”
Calus always really just wanted to die fighting us. It was his wish to either leave victorious over us or die in the arena. He also started to see what the witness truly seen him as when he tried to question it. Nothing more than a pawn to get what it wants and don’t question why
4:55 The Witness: Hippity Hoppity! Your soul is now my property, my puppet!
As much as people disliked Calus being killed off this way, I felt it actually fit him perfectly.
We have never faced Calus before this point, like never truly faced him. Up until this point he has done nothing but hide behind his robotic machinations and Psions.
Calus at heart is no great warrior, or even that powerful of a being. He is a self absorbed, egotistical, and self destructive individual. He took over the cabal empire not on his own, but with ahamkara magic and betrayal. In the end he believed he was serving the witness in some great way, but in reality he was just bait.
For all of his bragging, his supposed opulence, he really was just a sad old cabal with nothing left.
His fate was the same one that he gave to many others - A pawn tossed away for something trivial by a being he worshipped.
I think the only true thing he had was his love for her late wife, Cemaili. He remembered her at the very end.
he who cowers behind others in a battle has no strenght of their own
Calus seems almost childish to me. Always wanting to spoil himself in luxury and look his best. Even as a disciple he was the same. Unlike rhulk and nezarec who cleary devoted the rest of there life to the bringing about of the final shape calus didn’t even fully give himself. He was still the exiled emperor and he still wanted to show that here. Instead of thinking of the future he was reminiscing the past and how he’s dreamt of this moment for so long how he’s waited for this fight. He was definitely happy to die fighting us. He got somtbing he dreamt of for so long
At least he could have find a way to die regretting and hating himself for everything he did, ending in giving himself in to the guardian. Because like someone said:
"Don't close yourself up. Open your heart, and follow it."
4:53 I love that bit of Tenebrium at the end of discipline
5:39 - I love how the cabal theme is integrated into calus’s theme
That theme that plays there right after the Cabal theme is the Witness's theme.
@@AstridTheBee ooooh I had no idea, thats even cooler
Even though the campaign had its flaws, the music really didn't disappoint me at all, it was really great
To be fair the music is never actually bad
If only the boss fight was near as good as the music. For a character like calus his death didn’t feel right. Someone like him shouldn’t have been killed so easily
@@adamboy0559 Fit him great! Calus fought back, but he was never a fighter. He hid behind other's successes, hence he was overthrown so easily. Hence, in his desperate final stand he shifts to a crazed gladiator like Ghaul, but he has no experience and begins to pray for the Witness, who at this point Calus had spent much of his life worshiping, and he gets no response. The Witness abandons him in his last hour of need, and when he finally realizes he has made such a grand mistake he ends up finally mentioning the only person he every truly cared about, his first wife. It was a great ending for a character who had been fought for seven years.
@@fleepdeep1706 yeah calus as a cabal emperor wasn’t a fighter but he was granted power from the witness that should have atleast gave him a fighting chance. It wasn’t a final boss it was killing an old man who had lost everything. I’m not expecting an oryx or savthûn level of fight as there lives were spent conquering and fighting. For calus he was a leader who couldn’t fight yes but the power he was given should have atleast gave him some form of a chance
@@adamboy0559 I think it's fitting for him to get such an unceremonious death actually. He's a spoiled, pouty, coward, full of hot air. Even the Witness was fed up with having him around. At least he went down fighting as a cabal still
The literal handles for his gun and cleavers are his chalice. Holy hell.
Calus may have played the role of benevolent emperor, but he didn't need conventional weapons to be powerful. His ambition, gluttony and debauchery were lethal enough.
8:03 This might be the best ending to any final bosses track in Destiny, I freaking love it
Spire of Stars comes close, but that track goes unreasonably hard for some random Centurion raiding the Leviathan
What about Regicide?
Idk a lot of the raid ones hit extremely hard too
@@Azrael_Equinox he was raiding the leviathan as the only person left to take the mantle of leading the red legion. he wanted to steal the leviathan for the red legion's gain as well as use vex tech to win the red war.
look within type beat
Calus battle absolutely destroyed me the first time round but man that Discipline part gave me goosebump when it started playing
0:21 That riff is absolutely legendary !
it sounds like another song that has lyrics to it, and I can't place it but its been wiggling my ears in familiarity every time i hear it
This fight made me feel very emotional, we had been waiting so long to see Calus in person, and we have to put him down..
Everybody gangster until the cannon becomes a pair of cleavers.
Everybody gangsta until "Embrace the end."
@@thermae5419everybody gangsta until “witness! venerate your disciple!”
Everybody gangster until “CEMAILIIIIIIIIIII”
He finally got out of that yee-yee-ahh chair
The shifts in color for this track have been sending me on an emotional rollercoaster. The harmony altering between major and minor for this expansion's theme is on a whole other level.
I dont know why but for some reason this boss in now my favorite in the 2 games. It felt so damn satisfying, personal, fulfilling, powerful, emotional, charged, and action packed boss I've ever experienced in my destiny career. I quit the game before witch queen and decided I had to come back to bear Witness to the fall and God damn It was worth it. The story was expectedly flat on our gaurdians side, but Calus I loved every second of ever since we got teased all the way back in Rise of Iron about a cabal emperor. The story of Calus and everything he was a part of. It's completely up to you to decide if he got what was coming. But you can't deny after all this time he was definitely aching to finally get some action after teasing, tormenting, and manipulating the galaxy for years on the sideline. Now he has everything he wants, he is glorious. But he is also empty. Just like the Beautiful golden chalice he's had in hand for years now. Bejeweled and opulent and empty. It felt so good to finally have our battle. Farewell my favorite destiny villain. We reveled in glorious battle together.
He got the end he wanted which was fighting us. He had dreamt of it since we first boarded his leviathan back in vanilla d2
Besides Lightfall's shortcomings I really enjoyed Calus here. I kinda dig the idea that he's finally where he wants to be, Emperor AND a Disciple to what's practically his new god ... And... He kind of doesn't really like it. He expected so much more, but is just being used like a dog to go fetch instead of witnessing the true finality like he wants to. Then, when he's finally there, he at least lives out the dream of contending with us - But it's pretty much all for naught. Maybe at least the fight was worthy in his eyes but it's clear the Witness didn't give two shits about the guy.
Still, I kinda wish Caiatl was at least present for his end, if not allowed the killing blow.
Personally kinda like Eramises “death” we depleted his health bar then he drops to his knees and the cutscene starts caiatl jumps in and we let her have the finishing blow finally after so long of her regretting not ending him during the coup
This just solidified my love for the Beyond light motif 6:38
It kinda works as a theme of us overcoming and wielding the darkness which is pretty cool
@@NeuTraLZero_ yeah its called look within
It's the look within motif, when you think about the story of beyond light, witch queen, and now lightfall the stories have all been about us as faction looking within ourselves and realizing just how powerful we are without the light. We don't need a cheat code because we are the key, not the light but the gaurdian
@@Kazuhira2249 look within is really just the action version of beyond light and I love it
Imo the best of look within plays on taniks phase 3 which is the most pure and heroic version and you’d only ever hear it in a low man or day 1 run
Love 2:10. You can feel the battle begining to turn in your favor.
3:01 IS SO GOOD😩😩
"EMBRACE..THE END!"
Too epic
THE WAR BEASTS SHALL BE FED TONIGHT
DONT DIE ON ME YET GUARDIAN
4:08-4:33 GOOSEBUMPS GOOD LORD
literal goosebumps
One of the best boss fights in D2 imo
One of the hardest, but disappointing in power showcase to say the least. No psionic powers, just reskinned colosus
@@arisdrik Calus was always a fraud, the "psionic powers" in his raid were his psion council doing it for him.
@@arisdrik as if Savathûn wasn't just a wizard that could throw a nova bomb every 5 minutes
@@okruma625 That was way more unique tho. She even had the ward of dawn around the area. The least they could have done was give Gladiator Calus 2 glaives
@@okruma625 yeah, I agree with space cowboy, Savathun was just utilizing the Light the way she saw Guardians use it, she was too fresh to have her own "supers". Calus on the other hand had psionic powers since he was in the Leviathan and he didn't gain any upgrades/improvements from the Witness, just a darkness machine gun and a butcher set
I just love the brassy version of the witness theme at 5:47
That's because the Witness possesses him in the second phase.
@@kronost06no i see it more as his last stand out of pure desperation; drop the gun and just kill us w the blades. he says something along the lines of “the witness WILL see me!” meaning it’s just desperation. the witness used him as bait i think tbh, because if he didn’t have calus in the veil how could he have gotten the link w the ghost after we killed him
@@d6spairit is pure desperation. He starts off confident he will win then after we deal enough damage he has the realisation rhulk had of “they can actually kill me” and since calus Isn’t near as well trained as a disciple as rhulk his solution is begging the witness to save him pretty much. The whole second phase he talks about how the witness will see him and save him. Rhulk used the darkness to try drown us whist calus just begged to a god who didn’t care about him
7:57 this part gives me goosbumps everytime it feels like the climax of the fight the pinacle of it where we finaly strike down this threat thats been ahead of us the whole time and then the choir at the end there just tops it off giving the feeling of its finaly over
I love the discipline leitmotif so much.
The encounter and Calus final stand was amazing..... 10/10
I love the Be Brave motif the most from this funny enough:
7:31
4:53 this vail motif is gorgeous
One of my favorite boss fights in Destiny 2
that first 37 seconds AH MAN ITS SO GOOD
1:53 is so cool fr fr
JUST. KEEP. GRAPPLING.
Calus 2nd phase gave me strong Tartarus boss fight vibes from Halo 2, but this time Bungie did it properly and it was tons of fun imho
I wish this fight would have been more spectacular (although, given how the campaign implies Calus was but a pawn for the Witness, one that it loathed, this might be intentional. In that case, a cruel irony for Calus to end like that) , but in terms of difficulty, I found it very enjoyable. Overall, it was a cathartic and climactic end for the Emperor, and the excellency of the music almost makes up for the fight's relative lack of visual flair.
A theory that I hear is that the witness orchestrated this in order to get calus killed as it saw that calus would have been a liability if kept around too long
@Sarciety Calus was never saucy enough 😩
Xivû Arath could be tho'.
As underwhelming as this fight was compared to Savathun, it was still a great fight. I often wonder if calus was happy with the result aswell despite it being his death. I think hes just happy he got what he wanted which was mortal combat with us
I agree but as good as the savathun fight which in my opinion was the best campaign boss we have had it felt more personal than the savathun boss. During WQ we had to defeat savathun to stop her from sealing the light away in her throne world. In LF we have known calus for some time now but havnt ever seen him face to face and the first time we do is unfortunately as enemy’s and not friends. Tho imo calus is too far gone to be redeemed. Atleast characters like Eramis have shown they could help and have done so willingly such as saving eido from the lucent hive whilst she could have very well left her to die and saved her own life she didn’t and even Warned misraks that going i it that base will lead only to death which was true and even helped. Calus has done some horrible things such as have his own daughters war beast slaughtered in front of her as she cared more for it than him
this was harder than savathun for me lmaoo
I got my Legend of Acrius, that had been sitting in my vault for I don't know how long, and fed his "gift" back to him. All throughout the Leviathan raids and Season of Opulence, he uses, manipulates, and toys with you. Add on the fact that in his lore books that he writes for you, he basically tells you "Kill your friends, then I'll kill you"
So he had this coming in my book...
are those lore now unlocked for everyone in the game? I really gotta give those a read.
@@Killzone-cr2od Pretty sure it was the lore for the old Opulent armor sets during season 7.
@@SoilderofChirst yes
@@Killzone-cr2od unless you have the really old opulent armor in your vault somewhere you have to read it online
@@Tau_Aquila i believe you can read it inside collections? not sure
6:19 - 6:35 DPS with thunderlord! brrrrrrrr
Darkness is a powerful tool but can it compare to the sheer might of the STAIRS !?
Only until the man wants to have a melee combat.
apparently this has been patched now
The Witness warned him about them stairs bro.
I always thought I’d fight a… gold-ier Calus but this’ll do
i didn't expected him to be a buckethead
@@justaguywhocandraw1793 the witness loves their bucket helmets
@@yummy_the_braix possibly cause of... well, Rhulk
@@yummy_the_braix if we ever get a Witness boss fight, i want to witness the Witness wearing a bucket
@@justaguywhocandraw1793 It came from the moon
I know people had a problem with his difficulty but man, even if you hated the campaign this was an awesome and memorable fight.
Gameplay wise best campaign in all of destiny
Absolutely love the opening to this ost.
Destiny soundtrack man still goin hard as ferk
Destiny can be beyond mid season to gameplay yet the music just hits different if only that quality was matched through the entire game
Awwwww yeah we love to see this!
Calus deserved better story wise, but this song absolutely slaps. All 8 minutes of it.
@@PlamzDooM agreed, would’ve been so cool to see him use his big ass head like in leviathan instead of generic darkness powers
THAT INTRO
*ExhiledGod2 Summons Everyone*
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👏👏
One last opulent clap, for Calus.
This song is calus approved
so good
Claus not as strong as maybe Savathun gampleay wise but he still was a fun boss fight. Imagine tho having Calus live and replace the first boss in root as Calus. A double disciple raid would have added to it and with the attacks Calus has he fits a raid boss since most are unique like I believe ones called sun of lubrae which is a darkness spike that comes out of the ground and has insta kill potential on legend and master also has the flying darkness nodes from caretaker he has a darkness mini gun and a second form that could have easily been changed a bit to be a final stand where we knock off his helmet then he starts to surround the area in a darkness aura to wipe us
It's a good concept on paper, but that raid's focus is elsewhere, primarily focusing on Nezarec's revival and his grasp on light and dark. As for Calus, he is one of the bigger villains in Destiny 2, one with more appearances throughout the franchise than Nezarec. So for him to be killed off as anything other than a final boss would be a bit underwhelming.
@@Yimster06 yeah it was just cope that calus wasn’t a raid boss. His boss felt so underwhelming for his character. Imo the first boss of root tho doesn’t even make any sense to nezarec as he hates him and actually asks us to kill him. I doubt he’d feel much different about calus but atleast then it would be a known character rather than the glorified incinerator we got
The music we play when deposing bungie management
4:55 The moment the Witness possessed the poor Calus. And using his dead body as a puppet.
Wait so after we “kill” him the first time he’s actually dead and possessed? Makes a lot of sense tbh he changes complety but at the same time why did he then say things like “the witness will
See me” if the witness was the one in control of his lifeless body?
@@adamboy0559 Probably to think it's not them. Also, you can hear the Witness's Darkness theme in that part, meaning they're involved in this.
That's not what happened tho? Calus simply got empowered by the Witness, at the very least he used it's gift to transform into a gladiator, it was still him and very much alive.
@@roberttheronin9803Would have made more sense of the Witness possessing him after the first phase. Possessing against his will after finally being pissed off that the failed again and decided to do the "If you want something done, you have to do it yourself." Would have demonstrated how little the Witness cares for its Disciples.
I jujst realised what the begining (which is one of my favourite parts of the lightfall ost) remind me of. Mass effect. Idk what song but just the rythem and beat lol.
"You cannot abate ANNIHILATION!"
I expected more from this fight honestly... like him using the power of absorbing the nightmares and such... what became of that? what is this power he speaks of? because all I see is pyramid tech gun and swords plus a Rhulk cosplay
The Nightmares aren't his thing, they're Nezarec's. The reason he had them for the Seasonal thing was because he was drawing power from Nezarec's Pyramid.
The power of the Nightmares was Nezarec's, not Calus'. In Season of Haunted Calus was trying to link himself with Nezarec's pyramid to take that power. We stopped him from getting that power, but he still became a Disciple.
The nightmares were the power of Nezarec. Calus was a new disciple and did not have much time to train (plus he is lazy).
Nightmares aren’t his thing that was a result of his failed attempt to take control of the moon’s pyramid which was previously nezarecs. Unlike nezarec and rhulk who had time to perfect there techniques he was given the title the basic darkness ability’s and sent to link his master to the veil.
Could you get the track that plays when you fight the first tormentor please? Thanks for posting this track
after dying like 5 times I muted this and put "Desperate Situation" on from the Vanquish OST.
The only way to beat the high aggro phase 2 was with EVEN MORE AGGRESSION.
IT TOOK ME LITERAL HOURS TO BEAT HIM BECAUSE I WAS SPEEDRUNNING SO HARD (classic mode solar hunter first time doing campaign.) THAT I IGNORED ALL THE POWER LEVEL GATES.
it locks you at under 20 anyway man
@@dadshirt6681 legend is under 15 and he was playing on classic
Ok the fact this took you hours on classic isn’t really anything to flex. Now I ain’t here to flex either but you v solo flawlessed the ritual and this mission on legend for fun. It really ain’t that hard out first run we beat this boss on our third try as a duo strand Titan and teammate strand hunter without aspects as it was the version your given for free at the start of the encounter if you chose to take it
Is the Desperate Measures on the OST the full ambient?
Yes.
Calus the disciple Vs Dominus ghaul with light empowerment
I’d say ghoul wins. If it wasn’t for the travelers intervention he’d be an immortal almost god. Whatever he was after we killed his physical body wasn’t mortal anymore anyway
@@adamboy0559 I'm talking ghaul as a talking sun lol I'm talking about him during the boss fight itself
@@Tau_Aquila tbh ghaul probably still wins calus was stupidly weak even on legend
Calus como campeón de retos de la eternidad
Tendrían que añadir una nueva opción en las puertas y que sea la insiginia de una Piramide. Si sale esa, peleás contra la Legion de las Sombras, los tipos que parecen Rhulk y Nezarec, y al final la pelea contra Calus pero a diferencia de la original, no tenes nodos de Cuerdas para poder balancearte, tenés que correr mientras que los otros buscan quitarte el aggro.
This fight was kinda great solo but it was a bad way for calus to die after being a persistent and interesting villain for almost 6 years
They can't keep every important villain for a raid, though. I wasn't bothered at all because ultimately, if they did not use a character like Calus as the final boss, who would it be? It wouldn't be nearly as impactful, and they have Nezerac for the raid boss instead which is also pretty awesome.
@@spierrwolf3416 calus is also a petty mf he isnt nearly as powerful as rhulk because he cares more about himself than the final shape, rhulk on the other hand was pretty much a fine blade made to serve the witness will, i fully believe the witness expected us to kill calus and he had it coming, im glad atleast in one dlc since d2 vanilla the big bad actually died
@@spierrwolf3416 personally I would have just liked his actions here to be of his own motive, not fear. Calus should want to be here, serving the witness, fighting us. To me he just seems tired and ultimately doing this because he no longer has a choice and wants to move on, but he's in too deep. Which I suppose is it's own theme consistent with disciples (sans Nez and Rhulk).
@@scowlinsun I'd argue it is his own motive. He wants to see the end of everything and him helping the witness furthers that goal. The fear of the witness is just a bonus
@@scowlinsun His motive has always been determined by fear. Specifically a fear of not being there 'at the end'. He will do anything to achieve this, including retracting his enormous pride for the Witness and being a pawn in its campaign.
Looks like transmetal megatron
The timestamps stopped working on this?
You too?
ガーディアン「カルス、感謝しろよ。やっと死ねたんだからな」
All that's left is the witness now, then peace for the first time since the red war ended
Yeah nope. The vex will make there move after the witness is out of play
I'm not sure we are even up for the task... but whatever it takes, i'm right here besides you Guardian.
Don't forget xivu arath, and technically nezarec
So, at what point during the fight does the Battle Ready part start playing?
I believe it was half health or maybe a tad further during his first phase (he isn't a Gladiator yet).
@@destiny_music_archive what happened to timestampes
@@Bootybandit02849 Timestamps are in the description, they just don't appear on the video for some reason.
@@hue_lord_4208 ik
落下死のテーマ
The fight's second phase was really fun, shame the first was terrible.
What a waste of a character. Calus deserved so much better.
I really wish they gave him the first raid boss instead of the incinerator we got (yes I can’t even remember his name that’s how little impact that boss left on me) and I did Ron day 1. The actual encounter design was great aesthetically mechanics we’re actually kinda decent too doing them blind. The boss tho literally no one had heard of him nor seemed any different from any other yellow bar cabal.
Calus died with a gladiatorial combat as a true Cabal, despite him always shunning that part of their culture. He finally has that battle. He has nothing else left. He even used his two tormentor guards. He is sad, old, desperate, afraid, alone. That is what Calus always has been, the Leviathan covered in gold on the outside but empty and twisted and filthy within is literally his own reflection. All bravado on the outside. Nothing more than a pathetic little Cabal on the inside.
That is Calus. And he got the end he deseved.
the worst boss in video games history in my opinion
Skill issue tbh
Worst destiny dlc since dark below
you forgot curse of osiris