7 Times the Theme Music Kicked in Right When You Needed It
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- Опубликовано: 11 июл 2024
- These games deployed their most famous themes right at the most desperate or intense moment, delivering you a massive musical buff IRL.
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Games composer here - the absolute dream scenario any game director can give you is a chance to blast the main theme at a key moment. After the stress of slaving over the more technical aspects of the score, it’s just as much fun and relief for us to write as it is for the player to hear it!
Games composer eh? Allow me to say you this then.
You've done a great service in the gaming community. We thank and salute you.
we appreciate your work you brave hero.
That sounds about right haha :)
What projects have you worked on, mate?
@@takoshihitsamaru4675 so far just small stuff, I’ve also been doing a Masters degree in film/TV composition this year as well, so that’s been my priority. The kind of games I’ve done music for have just been small indie games, but that usually allows me to be pretty free with my creativity. Got something a bit larger that’s supposed to be releasing by the end of the year too. Still indie, but it’s based on a moderately popular board game so I’m excited to see how well it goes down!
@@ddjsoyenby I appreciate being called “brave” haha, I’m still early in my career so at the moment it’s more fun than scary
I can't be the only one who in persona 5 timed the all-out attack to the chorus of "You'll never see it coming" every single time.
I try to. But in Persona 5 Royale, "Last Surprise" only plays when you initiate a fight out of a surprise encounter. Otherwise it plays "Take Over".
And who start a fight with other than a surprise attack?
I don't because if you do it everytime and many shadows are repeats they most certainly would see it coming.
Kinda liked rivers in a desert build up for the shido fight myself
@@silverheartlugia2000 Rivers in a Desert is also perfectly timed in Strikers. The guitar riffs begin as the boss transforms into the form you have to fight, with the vocals starting just as you get control back.
@@LateSleeper there now. Just playing it for first time
“The music starts playing.”
*It fills you with determination*
"reading this comment,"
*it fills you with DETERMINATION*
"Seeing this video, . . ."
*"IT FILLS YOU WITH 💫DETERMINATION💫"*
Reading the comments if FEEL DETERMINED AND EAGER TO.... Um... Yeah, inspiration is kind of a waste when you're in your pyjamas
Outside Xtra: "Link is a very pure and good boy so it is highly unfair that he should have to spend any time at all in the company of these total weirdoes."
Tingle: (is Tingle)
I like the face he makes in Twilight Princess when he picks up Ooccoo for the first time.
I... actually found myself nodding along with Luke when he said that Raphael and Link were rivals because they had the same haircut. It... was indeed a very compelling argument.
I love the moment in an Ace Attorney case where the pursuit theme kicks in! Especially if it’s been a long hard case, and up until this point I’ve been scrabbling on the back foot, trying desperately not to condemn my client to death. I hear it and I know I finally have the upper hand, In your face the prosecution!
My favorite implementation of it that I think would have fit on this list is during the last case in Trials and Tribulations when you've got one last chance to pin Godot as the culprit.
I came to the comments hoping someone mentioned the cornered themes! I still punch the air when it comes on with Manfred von Karma and Gant in the first game. I get so hyped and am just all, "IN YOUR FACE! YOU GOIN DOWN!" 😂 it's still such a rush
Bro that always hit
@@TheDriedfrogpills VON KARMA, NO!!!
i'd say especially in trials and tribulations! the big turning point in the final case of the final game of the phoenix wright trilogy uses the original pursuit theme
In Breath of the Wild, when you're in Hyrule Castle, you sometimes hear pieces of the classic Zelda theme, indicating the last piece of hope that is once again rising to challenge Ganon when all seemed lost.
The end of Mass Effect 2 when "The End Run"/"Suicide Mission" kicks in as you're escaping the Collector base, flames chasing the Normandy as you fly off is one of my favorite video game sequences/scores ever.
Same. Always moves me to tears.
Mass Effect 3 "An end, once and for all".
The music that kicks in as the Normandy races away, Shep makes his pick for the ending and you watch the consequences play out.
Piano music never sounded so good.
This guy gets it
I came here to make this comment. Huge oversight.
Also, any time that "Vigil" plays in the trilogy, always signifying hope for the future during dark times, showing that theme music power-ups also apply to quiet introspective moments as well.
I, honestly feel invincible when "Suicide mission" starts playing in Mass Effect 2 when you are fighting your way through the collectors to get to the collector base's central chamber
I appreciate video game themes, but I never really felt like putting one into my playlists. "Suicide Mission" was the first one I did.
In a game full of great music, no piece gets close to going as hard as that one
Absolutely. That was the most inspiring piece of game music for me, ahead even of the Space Marine theme from WH40K:DoW 1. And much unlike DoW, in Mass Effect 2 Suicide Mission theme kicks in at the perfect moment.
I love the way ME3 uses "Vigil" in so many big moments. It hit me with this wonderful wave of nostalgia every time.
Agreed! The way the music swells and pounds in your chest just puts the dread of the suicide mission to the back of your mind and replaces it with focus and determination.
I'd say hearing "Life Will Change" when infiltrating a palace in persona 5 makes me feel like an actual emotion robber.
When Rivers in the Desert play against the almost last boss, I mean is not THE theme music but it is one of the best and an absolute bang for that fight.
I guess you could say it stole your heart.
Especially in Sae's palace, where it gains lyrics
Persona 5 has one of the best soundtracks of any game, ever. Period.
@@nnaauujjddaa strikers remix of rivers in the desert against its almost last boss is amasing as well especially how its perfectly timed with the bosses entrance cutscene, it makes that fight just 10 times more epic
P5's Life Will Change is probably the track that has jazzed me the most in any videogame.
You spend a bunch of time working with your friends, prepping for the job, dealing with the frustrations of the injustices around you, infiltrating and exploring the palaces, along with meeting some brutal challenges if you haven't taken an optimal course through the game. It builds so much tension that spikes right when you finally send the calling card.
It can feel even a little exhausting by the end of each stretch. But now you've locked in the plan and you HAVE to go to the palace tomorrow to see this through.
Then, the moment you hit the button to go, this ABSOLUTE BANGER overwhelms and shatters all of that tension with a hammer made from confidently righteous, and imminent, vigilante justice.
My favorite one is from the Mother Brain battle in Super Metroid. First when that extremely intense music starts when Mother Brain takes her full form after seemingly being defeated, but especially second when after she kills the baby Super Metroid, which just saved your life by powering you up, the heroic Crateria theme kicks in as you repeatedly introduce her face to the hyper beam
Definitely! Once that kicked in, Mother Brain stood no chance.
And the lower Norfire theme, the way the music just gets gradually more scary and intense. It bizarrely reminded me of Ravel's Bolaro
For me, the swell in Undertale (actual song) timed perfectly to "The next day... the human died" and made me bawl
That’s the scene I thought they were gonna mention before I remembered ‘wait, combat themes’. It’s such a perfectly timed moment
My favourite is the "Cornered" theme from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. You know when the person you're cross-examining is screwed when you hear those opening notes
Phoenix Wright's music hits all the right notes, but none more so than when you've got the person who's the real culprit realize they're not going to get away with it anymore.
*Slams hands down on the podium*
Phoenix appears in Project X Zone 2, the Namco/Capcom/Sega crossover game. For most of the game he's being dragged along unwillingly and mostly exists in the background of the (extremely large) crowd, complaining about all this nonsense.
So it's a real treat when the group finally comes face-to-face with who you as the player know is the central villain, but nobody has actually met yet... and just as she's about to leave, it's the 'Objection' theme that kicks in, as she's finally unmasked by way of Phoenix picking apart the contradictions in her cover story.
@@EinDose when does this happen?
@@dukelukebr6873 It's been a while, so I don't remember the specific chapter number or anything, but for some reason I DO remember that it was in the stretch set in the Resonance of Fate world.
That moment in Sonic Adventure when all hope seems lost and “Live and Learn” comes on right before Sonic transforms into Super Sonic, epic.
That is the plot for both Sonic Adventure games. In the first game the negative energy has been absorbed by Chaos - so Sonic draws the positive energy out to become Super Sonic with ‘open your heart’ playing. In Sonic Adventure 2 it’s both Sonic and Shadow who use the positive and negative energy to become super- with Live and Learn playing.
Just a shame, with Open Your Heart in the first Adventure, that the second stage of Perfect Chaos bodges the whole effect with that darker theme though 😂
100% Final Fantasy IX "You're not Alone" when Zidane is about to leave his friends because of who he is, but they showed him how wrong he was, gets me in the feels every time I hear the song to this day
I know we just talked about "Proof of a Hero" in MH: Rise, but my favorite time hearing the song is at the very end of Monster Hunter World in the Fatalis fight. It is an absolutely brutal slog against one of the strongest monsters in the series, inside the burnt out ruins of a castle Fatalis destroyed last the time he came around. Just when you think that you can't keep going, those first horn notes play and you can feel the hope and determination to win start to swell. Truly epic music against a truly epic boss, in a truly epic game.
Monster Hunter has so many epic elder dragons, but very few scare me the way Fatalis does
yeah, it definitely hit harder in the Fatalis fight and felt like a real culmination to World
100% agreed it was a perfect moment, better believe I risked dying to crank my sound system when I heard those horns start to play.
Totally agree I spent days on a fatalis slog trying to slay him the first time. After I heard proof of a hero all my vigor was renewed and it pushed me for a further month
My favourite tune to come out of the MH series is Valstrax's theme: Silver Winged Star. Either the Rise version or the Gen Ult one.
"Song of the Dragonborn" (what most people call the track instead of "One They Fear") hits so incredibly strong that I installed a mod that makes it play more frequently, such as during civil war battles. It makes all the difference.
A year later I found this video, learned the true title of this theme and, well, it became a thousand times even more cool.
I cast my vote for the second part of the last fight in Okami against Yomi: all your powers are taken from you, the darkness is coming, people are hopeless, but thanks to your acts and Issun being a peppy divine messenger, the faith of the people in Amateratsu restores the your power and at the apex of that moment, "The Sun Rises" starts playing with all glorious might a boss fight requires.
im biased but i liked bravely defualts final boss them two all mc themes and the main theme and victory theme play
That moment was so well crafted, it felt really epic
Oh, absolutely. That theme makes me tear up every time.
One of my favorite moments was in Red Dead 2 when John starts his rampage in the snow to get to Micah. His theme music from the first game kicks in and basically makes you immortal
It isn't the theme tune, but I remember weeping like a baby when Deadman's Gun came on in the first game
It’s honestly stunning how amazing and iconic the Zelda theme is, despite it being composed in a day.
To the surprise of perhaps Luke and no one else, Undertale: The Musical is already a thing. It even has IMDb and TV Tropes pages.
It's certainly my go to when I need a dose of the warm, musical fuzzies and don't want to fight with the Disc Player to watch something by Disney or an old (or new *coughsinGreatestShowman*) Hollywood musical. Now I'm just waiting for them to finish Chrono Trigger: The Musical.
I….totally didn’t know that, excuse me I have something to watch
@@Justin-ou5yo Man on the Internet is the channel you're looking for.
Nope, that’s absolutely news to me! Thank you, my good chum, for the information
Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon's final boss's phase two music is a variation of the partner's theme, and it is amazing.
Ayyyy
My personal favorite use of this idea comes from Twilight Princess. While it doesn't use the Zelda theme in such a way, the game DOES make use of its own theme, that being its Hyrule Field theme, and repurposes a part of it as the "Hit the boss's weakness" theme. Even better, each boss has their own slight variation of it.
Snowpeak's variation of it in particular is a pretty well executed one. Similar but... different, cold, distant, almost haunting
Funny you mentioned Snowpeak, since that's my favorite one.
@@NEETKitten eyyyyyyyyyyy nice
Wasn't it's Hyrule Field theme a remake of a far older Zelda theme?
@@LegendStormcrow I think so? I can't remember off the top of my head, but that sounds right.
The final boss of 'Breath of the Wild' where, despite being a fairly-easy boss, has stirring words from Zelda herself, and the pianist going so ham that I think their piano may have actually gone up in flames because of how FIRE their playing is. Even just thinking about this theme makes me want to go out there and destroy ultimate evil.
The final boss of FFXIV: Endwalker. Where, after a whole round of the final boss nuking you and reversing time to repeat your pain and despair, your friends' prayers protect you when you need it most -- and the Warrior of Light's 'I kill Eorzea's greatest threats' theme, 'The Maker's Ruin', starts playing combined with Endwalker's main theme. The boss didn't go to the 2nd phase -- YOU did.
God I forgot how _good_ Dark Beast Ganon’s battle theme is. And I don’t really hate the boss. Just imagine what it’s like trying to fight a fruit fly that can and will kill you
Any final trial of any FFXIV release is top tier. When you hear Answers during the final battle against in the coils of Bahamut... *chef kiss*. Or in Bahamut ultimate how the attacks of the dragon line up with the music.
FFXIV music always goes hard and anytime I'm replaying one of those trials/raids/dungeons(The Amaurot theme continues to just drag the FEELS right out whenever I hear it) it gets to me. But getting there after everything it took, everything we went through. It's always hard for me to believe they'll manage to top it next expansion, and yet somehow they have in my mind every single time. And Endwalker getting to that boss, getting to that second phase. Was amazing. (Also the callbacks to certain characters praying during the Calamity when Louisoix did his thing was just ~chef kiss~)
Continuing the FFXIV love, when Ardbert lowers his Axe to you, and the main Shadowbringers theme kicks in. Or in the later patch, when we get brought back, and "To The Edge" kicks in, Soken KNEW what he was doing, and his circumstances in making that particular song make it kick even harder!
The second phase of the Endwalker final boss is an amazing musical moment, but there's an earlier moment in the same fight that stirs similar feelings.
You've teleported your friends out of harms way, and are gearing up for a seemingly hopeless final confrontation, when out of fucking nowhere... "Is this your prey? Why does it yet live?" And then you hop on his back and ride him into the sea of stars to give chase, and his fight theme kicks in for the actual fight. These feelings are excellently wiped away by cycling through all the other final boss songs and the general hopeless atmosphere, when phase two kicks in to at least triple the "frick yeah" engendered by starting the fight with his theme.
When "The Sun Rises" kicks in during the final boss fight in Okami will get me every time
Between that and Reset (Thank You) I cry every time
Legit bawling everytime, same thing with Reset
😊🥰
the actual best, big agree
I need to replay Okami again.
I still get goosebumps when I turn on halo 1 and hear the music play at the loading screen. That game was my baby sitter when I got home from school and the way it is the first sound you hear and the last one you hear at the end of halo 3 is like gaming poetry.
In my case, it’s the the main theme of FFXIV’s “Shadowbringers” expansion. The final battle against Emet Selch starts like all is lost but then you get a little push by a close friend and then…BAM! The music kicks in!
I just played through that part a couple weeks ago! I was blown away. Absolutely love that game...
Someone else in agreement. Yes sir, the best use I've encountered video game wise so far
While that moment is amazing, I would counter with Endwalker's final trial. Phase 2 comes in and the boss starts asking why THEY hear boss music. The subsequent victory lap is made all the sweeter by that music
@@xenovus8282 Oh hell yeah! That too! There's just too many to count xD
@@argent32 agreed!
I'm not sure anyone's mentioned it, but "The Weight of the World" from 'Nier: Automata' is the perfect endorphin boost you need right at the big final ending. (Can't say much more because spoilers.)
Agreed! There is nothing like the moment the choir comes in to make you feel like you can do anything together.
Couldn’t agree more, though for me it brought me to the point of openly weeping as I fought
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And how about Sound of the End?
I remember finishing ending E of Nier: Automata, and then the next day listening to the soundtrack as I got home from work. I got to Weight of the World and just broke down sobbing in my driveway, just full-on ugly crying for like 20 minutes as I finally processed the emotions of the full game. I can't listen to Weight of the World anymore without getting at least a little misty.
The sonic drowning music still gives me anxiety
Yes till this day
Same. Also the death music from Dragon Warrior/Quest (NES) as well
Yeah same
GOOD
My first video game on a console was Sonic 2, so YES!
Bury the Light and Devil Trigger from DMC 5's final boss fights. They just felt so perfect.
The Yakuza games. Their songs are basically well known to be composed to sync with the actions. If you time some well, you can sync up some really cool QTEs / Mini-cutscenes with the music, particularly when someone gets into "Heat Mode", or when a big hit lands.
Been on a Yakuza binge recently and the music is fantastic. particularly like the Kuze theme from '0'
The best version of this I've ever felt was in FFXIV: Shadowbringers. That moment at the end when Who Brings Shadow kicks in made me feel like I could punch a planet in half.
I agree that's an amazing moment. Have you gotten through Endwalker yet?
Agreed, Always get's me hyped when i get that fight.
YES.
@@Albatross0913 That music kicking in is amazing, makes me wish the fight went on longer though.
Thanks for saving me the trouble of having to post this :D
ooh! I just remembered a good one. In 'Metroid: Zero Mission' near the end of the game, after getting shot down, losing your Power Suit, and making it through an incredibly tedious stealth segment armed with nothing but a stun gun, you not only get a new Power Suit *but* all the previously inaccessible upgrades become active.
Then an amped-up version of the Brinstar theme starts to play, and you immediately proceed to kick some Space Pirate ass!
OMFG It's sooooo incredibly satisfying...
The music that caps the final moments of Mass Effect: 3 is incredibly moving. It never fails to bring tears to my eyes.
Also, in Dragon Age: Inquisition, the music played as the player approaches Skyhold is one of the most moving pieces that my heart soars each time it plays.
The destruction/salvation of the universe played out to piano and slowly increasing orchestra music, the last ditch effort for survival by Joker and the Normandy to out run the inevitable. Yeah, that music delivered for the drama and importance of the moment.
DAI: Yeah that was good the first time, but the one I never get sick of? The Dark [S..poiler] theme that plays during the final bossfight in the Trespasser DLC as the absolute best in DAI, especially since I found myself timing those explosions to a particular bar of the music. Close second is the music that starts as you leave the Haven Chantry during the Sephirypheus fight before you head to Skyhold.
And yes, The End of All Things, capping off the "Leaving Earth" moment at the beginning of ME3---heart-wrenching.
I'm surprised Control isn't included here. There's an entire story segment centered around an epic metal operatic theme that advances seemlessly with your own progress through the maze.
I think they’ve covered that before in the different video, but yeah, 100%.
It’s annoying when Let’s Players put that part on RUclips because a lot of the time it gets copyright claimed so they have to replace it
Take Control in the Ashtray maze was fucking boss and should be on this list.
@coolaccountname does control even have a main theme?
@coolaccountname If anything deserves to be control's main them, it would be Take Control.
In the final mission flight of Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown; when the forcefield around the Arsenal Bird drops. You accelerate forward and let loose a barrage of missiles just as the epic choral music kicks in. Beautiful.
This is what came to mind for me but it's the Second to last mission, the final mission is against the two drones followed by the space elevator escape
I was coming here to write exactly this!
Daredevil is great, and Zero feels like it would fit this list too
Real talk tho all Ace combat music is god tier for me itd be Mayhem being played at The Round Table.
I'm just here to like all the Ace Combat comments and heartily agree with them
"The one they fear", proof that the dragonborn is just medieval Doomguy.
Could be an ancestor. I mean, B.J. Blazkowicz is the guy's great-grandfather.
LMAO I was literally thinking the same
An occasion that has marked me in an unparalleled way is the Metroid Dread scene where Samus finally speaks during the game and does so in her native language, the Chozo, and to finish off her theme begins to play in the background, highlighting her determination to fulfill her mission. Simply incredible.
"Life will change" from Persona 5 is cool, BUT when I reached the final day in the Royal expansion and entered the metaverse for the last time and "I Believe" starts playing... Has to be one of the best music-related moments in any videogame I've ever played
Best song in the game
At the end of Okami, the main protagonist Amaterasu has her powers drained by Yami the main villain and just when all seems lost the people of Japan start giving her their prayers which allows her to fight Yami at full strength. This is also when the suitably epic the sun rises starts playing as the final battle truly begins.
Yes!!! I was hoping someone had already mentioned Okami and The Sun Rises. Easily one of the most memorable musical moments in my gaming history 🥰
I'm surprised its not on the list. *Overriding* the final boss's theme with the *player character's* is such an absolute "time to start the beatdown" moment.
It's sakuyas theme though
@@dreadfullespectre8579 no, its not. Sakuya's theme has *parts* of The Sun Rises, but TSR is Ammy's theme. I'm pretty sure there are other themes that have bits and pieces of Ammy's theme as a reference to her whole "Mother to us all" thing.
Honorable mention: Doom 2016 and Doom Eternal. Just the whole of both, the music is literally designed to hit just right *chefs kiss
Mick Gordon is a master
One of the most satisfying moments for that comes at the very start of Doom 2016. Steeping off that elevator and pumping the shotgun in perfect sync with the music is just... beautiful
Doom eternal. For £60 you can get a mick Gordon album that comes with a free game
I’d argue most of delta rune’s music hits perfectly but then again what else would you expect from Toby fox
They couldn't have two entries with Doom Guy in, he was already in the Soul Calibur one fighting Raphael.
I can’t believe no one mentioned “End Times” from Outer Wilds. It’s continuous, ominous appearance inspires you to both scramble and finish what you’re doing, and dread your inevitable death by supernova. But it’s at the the end game when the song shines most. It kicks in as soon as you grab the warp core, signifying the point of no return, the literal end times, and almost throws you off, as you’re conditioned to know exactly what it means.
I'd agree but I also feel like it would be too big of a spoiler to even explain it in a video. The Echoes of the Eye DLC also has an excellent example with the title track, which is a reworking of the main menu theme and the traveler theme and plays at a key moment in the DLC's storyline.
@@CatCheshireThe they warn you for spoilers for a reason. They spoil the ends of so many games on this channel, and literally in this video spoiled two lol
"Coils of Light" from Dragon's Dogma kicks in when you fight the expansion's final boss. Not only does it play when fight him, but you also learn about why he was cursed and so angry.
About a decade later, I still remember the goosebumps I got when "The Sun Rises" kicked in for the last fight of Okami. I *LIVE* for moments like that in media.
Oh, yeah. That moment was just amazing and really felt like it was the height of action at the ending of a story
My eyes still get misty during Amaterasu's power up scene, I love Okami.
@@cresenciogrant5107 Ah yes, the “you dun fucked up” moment🤣🤣
Man. I remember playing that game and the cutscene right before the final phase making me cry, before the final fight against Yami truly started and the song kicked in. Really made you feel like a true sun goddess.
You have no idea how happy I was when proof of hero is on the list. I grew up with monster hunter and the music has a special place in my heart. Another Gem by everyone in OXTRA
Somehow every use of proof of a hero is one of the best uses of video game music ever
It shows up in the against all final bosses, usually after you dragonate them, I believe.
Thay played it at one of the Olympics
Mhm, good take there chief.
Bit disheartened it wasn't the use in the fatalis fight from world. Not only is fatalist the biggest bad in the monster hunter series' world, the final boss of the first game, final boss of the game that brought it to mainstream attention but also the fiercest monster and more to the point the best design. When it's got a fearsome reputation compared to all these flashy dragons with supernatural abilities when it's quite literally a standard black dragon then you know it's gotta be a real beast. And the moment-the instant- you push this beast back decisively for the first time and proof of a hero starts playing...yeah, that's awesome.
The one piece of music that always gets my blood pumping is Liberi Fatali in the opening of FFVIII. Hearing it incorporated into Premonition, which is played during the fight with Edea, again during the fight against the Witches during Time Compression, and when fighting Ultimecia is incredibly inspiring.
When ‘I Stand Alone’ by Godsmack plays during the Dahaka chase scenes in Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, giving you the much needed adrenaline to escape
Let's give a shout out to Age of Calamity for the most difficult mission in the game. Through most of the fight with the Blight Ganons and even Calamity Ganon himself they play an appropriately bombastic orchestration, but when you get Ganon's health low enough it shifts to the Zelda theme in its most awesome iteration yet.
Shadow of the colossus, easily. You fight the second colossus and finally figured out and managed to shoot it's feet enough for it to give you an opening to climb onto it, and that's when Revived Power comes in for the first time and flawlessly reflects situation on the battlefield going from dangerous struggle for survival to you gaining the upper hand in the fight. It's just perfect.
I came here to say exactly this. The way Luke gets into the Halo theme, I get into the Shadow of the Colossus boss theme. (And TIL that it's called 'Revived Power.' Perfection.)
Every Colossus, agreed. Especially Barba.
Ohhhh good answerrrr
Surprised that Show of the Weekend theme tune isn't on this list. That one kicking in on a Saturday is always needed.
Okami- rising sun. That song still gives me goosebumps. To sum it up, it's the final boss, you are a god whos spent the entire game helping people and defeating evil. The boss proves too powerful and takes all your abilities, you are on deaths door when you hear the prayers of everyone you've helped. The prayers appear and heal you, restoring you to an even more powerful form. This song drops and it's so different from the boss theme before. That's because this isn't the boss music, it's YOUR music, you are the god of the sun and with this amazing track playing you fight and defeat the ultimate evil once and for all.
Control’s “Take Control” from the Ashtray Maze section is an absolute BANGER.
Easily the most fun I had in that game.
Even Jesse agrees: "That was awesome".
YES!
It's weird how badass The Old Gods of Asgard are but how slow and lame Poets of the Fall are. They're the same band!
they need to let you rerun that maze, it was just so much fun!
Can confirm. "Proof of a Hero" in the Narwa fight does indeed buff you like 50 Felyne meals irl!👍
First time doing this fight was a nightmare until that kicked in, at that pioint nothing matters as you WILL win this. That part was just pure genius.
i think it's even better vs Fatalis in World. cuz he's like, the big big final DLC boss and I don't think you hear it vs xenojiva
@@smokesdegrass Same. I clicked on the vid hoping to find Proof of a Hero listed for the Fatalis fight. While I'm glad it appeared in the list, I'm disappointed to not have it be the Destroyer of Schrade.
Moreover, it starting when you use the dragonator makes it blare up just as you take a kind of upper hand in the fight, which is that much more empowering. Based on the footage here (I haven't played Rise this far yet because I like World so Gog damn much), it just starts on a phase switch, which would be more of a monster power up, which I find not as hyping from the hunter perspective.
@@smokesdegrass And that the Proof of a Hero used in the Fatalis fight is the original version (the one used in the 1st MH game.)
Proof of a Hero dropping is a reminder how close you are in ending the quest in a victory and literally pushes you to up your game because the target wont be holding back anymorr
I have three gaming moments where I know the music will affect me, none of them were during fights, though. One is Dragon Age Inquisition, when Giselle starts singing. Another is Mass Effect 1, on Ilos, when the theme music starts as you explore the ruins and talk to an AI that speaks of its creators' destruction. And last the outro of Dishonored is an amazing song to stand on its own and fits the game's mood so perfectly it hit me real hard.
Music in video games is such a beautiful and exciting thing. I'll never forget getting tears of joy in my eyes when Snake returned to Shadow Moses Island in MGS4 and the theme song set in...love it.
Also, the Oxventure Blades in the Dark theme song, that starts at final confrontations is a good piece of music, too :)
When the OG Jenova theme kicks in halfway through the boss fight in FF7 Remake 👌
Metal Gear Solid 3. The amazing Bond-style theme kicks in when climbing that MASSIVE ladder. Only Kojima could make 3 minutes of ladder climbing in a game be epic and memorable.
Sadly the last boss only includes the ladder-climbing theme in the last moments of the fight.
Although truth be told the ending of mgs4 including all the themes from previous games takes the cake for me
Honestly, I can't think of a theme that hits you in the feels as much as Adagio for strings, the theme of the original Homeworld. It plays several times throughout the campaign, all of them during pivotal moments. Duing the final battle, after a long and arduous journey, facing the emperor himself, having just lost fleet command, nearly overrun by imperial fleets, when all is nearly lost, help arrives suddenly in the form of a rebel fleet, accompanied by the Adagio for strings. The choir voices are like a choir of angels at that point rousing a player who has been punched around by overwhelming numbers for the last half hour or more. The appearance of the rebels might bolster your fleet but it's the Adagio for strings that bolsters your spirit and gets you back into the fight.
The final boss fight of Metal Gear Solid 4 is (imo) the penultimate of when the music kicks in at the right moment. You're treated to not one, not two, but FOUR tracks that symbolize the player's journey across all 4 games. MGS1 Alert, MGS2 Tanker Alert, Snake Eater and the main menu theme to finish it off.
This might not count but I Need A Hero in Saint’s Row 3 final mission pumped me up way more than it should have
Yeah that's how you know you picked the right ending.
I don’t think it counts for this since they’re looking for the theme music for the game, but still an epic music moment.
@@EFlatPC yeah but you hear that everytime someone calls you so, not sure how well it would go :P
@@EFlatPC Waiting for "7 Times the Music Most Likely to Get Us a Copyright Strike Kicked In" instead.
Yeah! This is the one that sprang to mind for me too.
The final fight between Ocelot and Old Snake in MGS4 playing all of the themes as you fight and key moments like the ocelot kiss is still incredible 14 years later.
This, the metal gear theme is very iconic by now
It was my first full playthrough of a Metal Gear game, but that single fight ranks as one of my favorites in all of gaming. Cycling through those past songs really intensified the excitement.
Oh man. The way that battle cycled through all the different health bars and fighting styles was amazing! One of the best battles in gaming. So much nostalgia after more than a decade of gaming getting to that point. Mgs4 was such a perfect sendoff
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII'M STIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLLL
INADREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAMMMMMMMMM
SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE EATAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHH
I was thinking about that and also the moment when "The best is yet to come" kicks in when you go back to Shadow Moses
Maybe not perfectly timed but I need to gush about Prof Layton X Phoenix Wright's music because it's one of the best soundtracks I've had the pleasure listening to!
There's gotta be a million examples of this, but Chrono Trigger is definitely a prime example. Remember when Frog used the Masamune to cut a mountain in half to blasting theme music? Yeah, you remember.
After I completed Undertale's pacifist route, I had Hopes and Dreams playing almost every day for a long while because I loved it so much, it's such a brilliant final boss theme
It’s not a boss fight, but “The Dawn Will Come” in Dragon Age Inquisition, just after losing to Corypheus. All hope is seemingly lost and then suddenly the survivors all break out into this soul-wrenching song and BOOM. You find a new base, you regain hope for the inquisition, and you go into the second act ready for anything. ❤️
Glad you mentioned this! It almost made me cry the first time I heard it, and still gives me goosebumps now.
I was also thinking of the music that kicks in right near the end of Trespasser, though I know that's more of a DLC/character theme than an actual main game one. Still, the sense of urgency, danger and impending tragedy that comes with it is 11/10 great stuff, and I think it sets up the game's final events very well indeed.
This. Definitely this. That's the one reason I picked up the DA series again. Just to get that scene.
Yes, this is such a powerful scene!
if you didnt start singing this when you first saw it did you really play the game? lol
@@thomashouston1478 absolutely not 🤣🤣🤣
The remastered JENOVA theme that plays during the final phase of the Jenova boss fight in Final Fantasy 7 Remake gave me chills of proper nostalgia and pumped me up immediately.
when "Snake Eater" starts playing during the fight with The Boss in that flower field.... amazing
The end fight from Metal Gear Solid 3 is burned into my head, mostly thanks to the awesome reprise of the cheesy but super motivating Snake Eater theme. You start the fight in dead silence until the instrumental picks up and then, just when you're pretty sure this moment can't get any more dramatic, the vocals come in. Almost makes up for the emotional devastation moments later when you have to shoot your mentor in the head.
Nah. The perfect time when that theme kicks in is when you are climbing that massive ladder
@@jembozaba4864 both of equal intensity
@@twilight7721 It’s just the sound of the climbing the ladder goes with the music so well
@@jembozaba4864 Agree to disagree. That part is super dramatic, but the use in the last boss fight really gets the blood pumping.
The moment in Metal Gear Solid 4, when Snake returns to Shadow Moses and "The Best is Yet to Come" kicks in, was absolutely spine-tingling for those of us who played the original back in the day.
That passage almost broke me
Jaw dropped at that in my first playthrough. Also worth a note is the various themes included in liquid ocelots final scrap and... the ladder
I would say the final fight with liquid was a great use of all of the themes from the mgs series.
When the last one drop,and you don't have health bar anymore you know that this is the last time you play with Solid (old) Snake and it's hurt
Mgs3 climbing the ladderwell lol
A whole list proving why I absolutely love video game music in general. :D
For me, the best "theme kicking in at the right time" the final mission of Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War. You just defeated your rival squadron on the way to the final mission, to shoot down an orbital weapons platform that has been sent to crash in your home nation's capital. As your squad mates ready up there is a quick brass intro, into a choir singing of the legend your squad is named after, then it goes into full symphonic and choral high as you blow up this platform and dodge debris. It's crazy, in a game that has some crazy stuff. It's a great emotional climax heightened by music after already having three emotional climaxes also heightened by music in the last two missions, among many more in the rest of the game. It's great. Also, as a bonus, Unsung War has my favorite "menu music that shouldn't be this good, but is" with a track just called "Briefing 2". Before I bought the soundtrack, I would just sit in the briefing menu for hours when I was at the point of the game for it to show up. Loved that game.
Final Fantasy XIV's Endwalker expansion's final main story boss has two phases.
Prior to the second phase, the boss will attempt an instant kill attack that wipes out your party. The screen goes black, and all goes silent for a good few seconds, before the main theme of the expansion kicks in with rocking guitars, the screen lights back up to your friends protecting you through prayer alone, and you go back to fighting the final boss. This time, it isn't the boss's theme playing, it is YOUR theme playing.
Oh boy that isnt the expansion theme, that's been our theme music since ARR. Its genuinely my favorite track in the game because of what it means. It only plays in the Warrior of Light's most desperate and climactic moments, and of course the final and most amazing version of it has to be at the Endsinger. Maker's Ruin: the mark of the Warrior of Light's enrage timer.
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In Dark Souls 3 when you finally beat Soul of Cinder's first phase and he transitions, then the choir gives one last hurrah and suddenly everything except the strings cuts out and a lone piano chimes in with 3 notes- Gwyn's theme. It gives a bit of a different feel than most of these themes by injecting massive tragedy into the final fight of Dark Souls. Absolutely gorgeous.
Seriously! That and when he starts moving like Gwyn. I've seen players either recognize the music and be moved, see the grab attack and realize it's Gwyn, or when both happen at nearly the same time and it clicks. It's the perfect farewell for the Dark Souls series.
Plin plin plon plin plin plin plin plon
Dark souls 3 is almost underrated because it’s fucking amazing
This is one of the greatest call backs to the first game and was perfect for the final phase
*chef's kiss moment*
Agreed, the Skyrim and Halo themes are truly legendary, epic bangers of tunes that deserve to be in the National Archives under video game music.
You gotta get Dragon Age Inquisition on here. The final battle in the Trespasser DLC had _all_ the juice. And it doesn't hurt that the games main theme was literally sung when your character at their most desperate. Not quite a boss fight, but it still gave you that "We can do this" vibe when you need it.
One of my favorites was "live and learn" from Sonic Adventure 2 battle when you're taking on the final hazard boss with Sonic and Shadow in they're super forms
FFXIV: Shadowbringers - Cutscene before Hades trail where Ardbert tells you to take his axe to fight as one as the expansions theme song starts in the background. Goosebumps every-time.
Was gonna suggest this very moment too
I mean, plenty of Soken's work on XIV would apply. =)
How about the final battle in Endwalker
Honestly, you could make an entire video just of FFXIV music for this prompt
'If you had the strength to take another step...could you do it?
Could you save our worlds?'
And then everything is amazing.
That moment in Doom Eternal when you're fighting the Gladiator Demon and the chanting kicks in is sublime. After learning that the chanting translates to "RIP AND TEAR!" aka Doom Slayer's catchphrase, makes it hit even harder.
“Valley of Alavar” for Dawn of the Dragon just felt amazing as you flew through the area. Probably my favorite musical moment in all the games I’ve played.
Proof of a Hero always gets used in the final battle of each Monster Hunter game, and it always, without fail, pumps me up and makes me play 5 times more aggressive to seal a win.
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: explorers of sky is a good example of a game that knows how to fill you with emotions
It's the first game to ever make me cry, Primal Dialga's theme and the use of the "time leitmotif" in the most emotional moments throughout the game led to the battle with the god of time being filled with hope
The music in the Mystery Dungeon games had no right to be as good as it was. I must have spent hours at a time listening to it through the jukebox mode.
@@Sheldon1985 ikr
The amount emotions that the game's music can easily make you feel giving you nostalgia is unreal
@@swampy725 Yeah I do still find myself listening to the Dialga theme you mentioned. So good.
How about the music that accompanies your ascension of Dialga’s tower? My favorite from the game. Simultaneously epic and tense, because you *are* trying to beat the clock.
The moment the "Pressing Pursuit- Cornered" themes activate in Ace Attorney, especially the first game. There's usually just long enough of a moment of silence before Cornered kicks in, just long enough for me to doubt everything I did previously, then WHAM that theme. It's so satisfying every time.
I can give you three recent additions.
1. Spiderman (PS4) for whenever you leap off a skyscraper and the music starts to swell as you fall only to crescendo as you thwip your webs at the las second.
2. God of War (2018) when you spread the ashes. I cry every time
3. Hades, especially when you fight the titular boss with the Extreme Measures Pact of Punishment. If you so happen to flop your way into the secret phase three, you're greeted with an absolutely banging heavy metal version of the theme song. Its perfect for spearing your father with the boons of 12 other gods backing you up.
The To Zanarkand theme that plays near the end of the Final Fantasy X is one of the most hauntingly beautiful songs I've ever heard in a game. Having it play along that broke road where you are facing down monsters, and having it replace the battle music entirely, is an epic scenario and I will always remember my time first experiencing that.
The pokemon theme man, was really used to perfection in Gen 5 when you get to the final pokemon of any gym or elite four and of course the final battle with the champion. Literal chills
That's what I'm saying bro
two words: cynthia's theme
@@justinsmolik2834 Cynthia's theme kicked in to hype her up to kick your ass
@@diamonddacc9662 i meant hers is better than the gen 5 music. and yes. i know about undella town
@@justinsmolik2834 hot take but ight
Mgs4 when you return to shadow moses and you are sneaking around the ruined base from the first game and "the best is yet to come" starts playing in the back given you the hardest blow of nostalgia you'll ever receive!
Hearing "Rivers in the Desert" or "I Believe" during both of the final bosses of Persona 5 was absolute hype, and I will never not love them. Also, "Our Beginning" blaring to life to give the final hit to the og final boss was fucking fantastic.
I'd like to recommend the game Hades for any commenter edition that might be happening. When you get to the end of a run and fight the titular character and that BANGER of a theme starts playing... Mmm. Doesn't matter how beaten or broken you are at the moment, you're giving that fight your all.
That theme music is the absolute best part of Hades IMHO. It was stuck in my head for DAYS after the first time I heard it
Hades soundtrack is soooo good
Pure ear candy through the entire game. Hades makes sure you feel like a badass no matter what you're doing. The first time I paired off against Hades and hit the second stage, the soundtrack had my adrenaline cranked up to 11.
I thought for sure you'd have Suicide Mission from Mass Effect 2 --amazing rush while playing.
Seconded ~ the whole pre-boss sequence feels like a reward for all the hard work of keeping everybody alive to that point. I kind of tear up whenever I hear that bass synth start
I mentioned this exact series in another comment. Specifically, the song that players during Shepard's inspirational speech is amazing. I do not remember if it is End Run or Suicide Mission. (Edit to clarify that I don't remember exactly which song plays.)
That dramatic piano signalling the arrival of Sephiroth. Gives everyone chills every time, and freaked people out when he got introduced in Smash! 😂
I’ve never played half these games and yet watching these inspirational gaming moments and hearing the way they were described legit almost moved me to tears a couple of times.
Devil May Cry 5 also does this. After delivering a beautiful f-bomb into the final boss's face, 'Silver Bullet' which is remix of 'Devil Trigger' aka Nero's (the character you're playing as in that moment) battle theme, starts playing.
I know it's already on this first list, but let's not miss the usage of the Legend of Zelda main theme in Age of Calamity. An incredible stirring remix that starts with a dramatic version of the 'chest opening' jingle, then kicks in when you draw the Master Sword as Link, and finally get to turn things around and kick the crap out of the shadow doubles that've been hounding you.
Final Fantasy XIV also does this with pretty much every major story boss, with epic versions of the classic chill Final Fantasy main theme used first, and dramatic versions of each expansion's theme to go along with their capstone boss fights.
Excellent video, as always. Music plays such a huuuuge part in so many video games.
Side note - a Luke produced musical would be funded on KS within MINUTES!
Possible stretch goal - guest song written by Billy Joel!
The final theme against Mother Brain in Super Metroid once you get the hyper beam. Just..... makes you feel like a boss
I think my favourite one has to be in Pokémon Gold/Silver/Crystal/HeartGold/SoulSilver, when you get to fight Red (aka yourself from gen1) as a final boss and the iconic intro theme from gen1 starts playing
As well as " An apple fell from the sky" Gravity rush 2. It was introduced as a spur of the moment act. Then after all you been through, this beautiful piece keeps you from giving up hope.
I always loved when in Pokémon Black and White, if the gym leader you're battling is down to one pokemon left, you'll hear the old school battle theme in the most triumphant way possible
Persona 5's last boss. The theme music, Rivers in the Desert, switch from instrumental to lyrics version when entering phase 2 and it's awesome.