Last Boss Boogy

by Name Withheld

Have you ever noticed that there are only three fundamental types of musics you find when you're fighting the final boss in an RPG? Take a look:

• Hopeless Death-Dirge type music
• Mystic Rave type music
• Powerfull-but-there-is-hope type music

Hopeless Death-Dirge:
Probably the second most enjoyable end-boss type music there is, because the music makes you realize just how powerfull this guy is. It allows you to appreciate the final battle, though it can get somewhat disheartening sometimes. Prime examples: Chrono Trigger (Lavos's Theme Music when he's a giant rock), Safer Sephiroth's end music, Arsenol's music (from Final Fantasy Legond 2).

Mystik Rave:
The least appropriate music, IMO. This is characterized by the up-beat fast-paced beat of the music and sometimes sounds very much like techno. I don't really know; I just don't think this kind of music is appropriate for a last boss. Too "happy". Well, not really happy, but it doesn't give you a real sence of anything except "I am in another battle". A prime example of this is the Lavos battle in his finial form.

Powerful-but-there-is-hope:
The best kind of end-boss music you could ever have. It gives you the kind of hopelessness of the Death-Dirge, but without being as depressing. The best thing about this kind of music is that there is some sense of resolution to it. When you hear it, you think "Okay... This is the finial battle. This is what it has all led up to. Let's do it!". When you fight the last boss with this kind of music on, you really feel like you're doing something; it greatly adds to the experiance. Good examples are the second Lavos music (when fighting Lavos Core), Jenova's Music (I know, she's not the last boss!), Kefka's music score overall (from the bottom all the way up to the angel), and Xagr's theme from Finial Fantasy LEgend III (if you can get it on MIDI, it sounds so much cooler than it does on GB; they have bells and gongs and everything!).

My point? Notice that Crono Trigger has the best end-boss music because it has all three end-boss musics. However, I was kinda dissapointed by Lavos in general. He/She/It didn't really seem to have too much development and looked kinda like a cookie-cutter villan. I, personally, thought Queen Zeal would have made an EXCELLENT CT villan (Magus would too; he's VERY well rounded and to this day of all the times of playing Load+, I've never ince let him join my party). She, at least, spoke to you and had some nice evil quotes. Lavos doesnt seem evil to me. Lavos just seems kinda like a force of nature. Though, if you've ever read anything by HP Lovecraft, you'll have found out about something called the Great Old Ones. These're guys who have been sleeping for thousands of years and came to Earth in prehistoric times. They have only bad intentions for Earth and when they rise are fated to destroy it. Lavos seems ALOT like a Great Old One. To think there's an entire species of those guys running about makes my skin crawl (in Crono Trigger... If that happened in real life, I'd be weird... Weirder)