"The intention behind this song was to make it be able to move on to another song without it sounding unnatural. But in reality, this song ended up having 3 phrases, each corresponding to the battle's phases. For the soundtrack though, I connected the three phrases in one single recording." --Yoko Shimomura
I literally saw her playing piano right in front of me in the Kingdom Hearts Orchestra World of Tres and it was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen
Even after playing Kingdom Hearts 3 all the way through, I honestly think this is the best final boss theme in the series. The way it builds through the different phases, the gorgeous instrument choices and some of the more sentimental passages makes me think you really ARE fighting against someone who isn't really supposed to exist. It's haunting and really difficult to top! :O
Plus the fact that you fight him alone with Riku the friend that Sora has been searching since the end of KH1, it was really fitting that after all the mess Xemnas did that prevented Sora and Riku to be reunite you get to beat him with Riku, and the ending was actually more satisfying in KH2 for some reason.
KH3's final boss just sort of slaps some leitmotifs together with no real consideration for their meaning (why is Rage Awakened a part of the Sora vs Xehanort battle?). It kinda shows that Shimomura (who is very good at leitmotif, let's be real) wasn't the one who composed KH3's final boss theme... Compare this to, say, KH2, where every boss theme has a purpose. Rowdy Rumble for "gimmick" bosses (like Hades Escape, or Invincible Pete), and the various 13th... themes being used depending on the context of the fight. "Struggle" for solo fights, "Dilemma" for fights backed up by party memebers, and "Reflection" for the Absent Sillhouettes.
@@mads_in_zero its probably because I'm autistic, but I always felt like the rage awakened part was because of sora. He seemed pretty pissed during the final stretch.
@@camharkness Rage Awakened isn't Sora's leitmotif though. It's firmly Terra's. Sora doesn't have a connection to Terra in the same way that say, Roxas, Ventus, and Xion's leitmotifs sample part of Sora's.
God bless you and your family and friends and everyone else in the world abundantly more by centillion to the power of 999 centillion Be blessed forever, everyone, and every second. May God bless everyone with best gifts from heaven and may all receive super love and joy all the time in Jesus name. May your family and friends and everyone else be blessed and receive joy and love as well. May you be blessed forever and be crowned, you and everyone else, as royalty and mighty men of God in heaven. May you and everyone else be cleansed by the blood of Jesus every second in Jesus name. May you and everyone else be restored and exalted by infinity in heavenly places in Jesus name. May you enjoy repentance. Time is short Love you everyone forever god willing. I am the least of eveything by infinity.
Sora...are you sure you _trust_ Riku..? Riku... are you sure you're not _jealous_ of Sora...? *Out of our way!* *Is that all you got?* *I'll take 'em.* *You're gonna lose it all!* *Time's up.* _fistbump_
Forgot about "this is foolishness" HA HA HA HA YA YA YA AH HA YA YA HA YA YAH HAH YA YA HA HA YA YA YA YA HA HA HA YA AA YA YA AH HA HA HA HA AH HA YA YA YA YA YA YA (explosion sounds)
Kingdom Hearts 3 have been a release, we finally have the final confrontation with Xehanort........ And Xemnas in KH2 is still the best Final Boss in the serie.
@@TakeTheWorld21 Well it's not that surprising, Xemnas's motivations in KH2 (before they fucked it up in Dream Drop Distance) wasn't necessarely evil, he wanted for him and the rest of the organizations to get a Heart even if he had to use extreme methods, he also has some moment were we could sympathize with him (the one that come to mind for me is between his first and his second form, when he admit to Sora that he forget how it feels to have a heart, at this moment I don't think he was acting), Xehanort motive where.... well evil, and he was not likable at all always acting evil and clearly enjoying it (which makes his last minute redemption completly bullshit for me). Add to that that he was more active than Xehanort (I mean even in KH3 during the final he is the most active of the Xehanorts XD) during 358/2 Days and KH2, and while he was calm and collected he was still threatening, you could feel he was dangerous since Chain of Memories (remember how Vexen is terryfied when Marluxia threat him to talk about him to their leader ?), he has a presence in the plot. Meanwhile Xehanort is evil and so obviously evil, that it makes me hate the characters of BBS for not realising it, in both DDD and KH3 he appears at the end of the game, he never feel as present as Xemnas is.
I disagree heavily. 80% of the final fight is nothing but boring cinematic. I mean, what is truly fun about mindlessly spamming X, and launching bombs into a generator? Or hitting Triangle to jump across buildings? It's boring as heck and offers zero challenge. It only became a true battle in the very end, which sucked. While KH3's final boss is 100% serious the entire time. There isn't a single phase that isn't a real battle. Every single one is unique and has a plethora of different unique attacks that can actually challenge players playing on CM or CMLV1. Unlike KH2's final boss, where all of it is extremely easy. But that's just my own opinion.
@@bnhearyza4767 Only part of Xehanort that Feel good in my opinion is funny enough the Armor form and not the last one. 13 seekers can be defeated by just spamming Aeroga. Final Xehanort is a Boring fight all he does for 80% of the fight is just teleport then 1 hit, teleport then 1 hit...etc... it's really lacking in diversity, the Only interesting part is the force Rage Form and his DM. His armored Form is the Only part of the final fight, that does have a great moveset fitting of the final boss and that was somewhat fun to do (except the underwater part). Even Armored Xemnas was more diversify to fight than final Xehanort, and Final Xemnas is better than any Form of Xehanort, Only part of Xemnas final boss that isn't good is the dragon ship fight. And challenge wise they are the same if you are not playing Critical or LV1 Xehanort in KH3 is a complete joke difficulty wise.
Nesouk Kefka exactly that was my biggest problem with kh 3 xehanort character is so under developed and only appeared at the end like WTF and it’s like numora just didn’t even care anymore about the main villain character at that point iam like xehanort is pretty much TP ALTTP AND Zelda 1 ganon a last minute one note villain very lame that is what went through my mind over and over after beating the game and numora tried to make him simplicity at the end iam like Really numora REALLY! that’s doesn’t work numora you made him kill his best friend in kh BBS you made him take peoples body that is some devilish i Un redeemable shit right there you made him fuck friends over multiple times you made him destroy a world as a complete person and then countless worlds again as a heart aka Ansem-xehanort then in KH3 you made him kill kairi and let’s not forget he even made Ansem-xehanort very inconsistent in kh3 after all he’s the assholes heart I didn’t feel a fucking thing for him with his final words he’s just the basterd heart and a hypocrite at that as well when he calls out the real Ansem on the things he did iam like please face palm 🤦🏽♂️ just STFU Ansem I mean xehanort seriously let’s not forget you destroyed worlds and took boys body’s but but yet shaming others yeah right so many things in KH3 we’re very inconsistent 😒 xemnas however I do feel bad for because in actuality he’s not xehanort but the body of a youth who is forced to be xehanort cloned vessel or should i say his phantom xemnas is still the best villain/tragic character of the series with the most characters villain depth case close
Xemnas (and to a lesser extent Terranort) really ought to be the strongest villians in the game if you think about it. Terra was stronger than Master Xehanort and bested him before MX took his body over. Then you've got an old master with the raw power and strength of Terra. Once Xemnas was born he had both that power and the added ability over the nobodies/enhanced abilities that nobodies gain. In terms of lore it makes sense why Xemnas would be the strongest opponent in theory. Though armoured Xehanort must be up there as well.
Xemnas is sadly #5 in the heirarchy when you take a step back. Xemnas and Ansem. Seeker of Darkness were born the exact same moment. However. We know one critical thing. That Xemnas continued on as King Ansem losing his castle to Maleficent's invasion. Happened. Canon. Mal fully enthralled in darkness ended worlds upon worlds. She's #4 so far. But has dropped now that she's not fully enthralled in darkness. Just dabbles in it. #3 is Old man Xehanort from III as he has the full knowledge of Ansem and Xemnas on top of his own. Technically is underneath armored Xehanort who doesn't count for obvious reasons. Only dropped down due to.. #2 is Ansem Seeker of Darkness. He's lived longer than all the non completed forms but when possessing Riku's nobody is at his peak. He's got more skills in DDD and III but that's proof that the replica is of his peak form but lacks the control of keyblades Riku's body allowed him. Resorting to full on murder tactics. #1 by a mile is Terranort from III. The recompleted form. Of Terra with the memories of Xemnas and Ansem Seeker of Darkness his former halves. Repossessed by his past self. The near limitless knowledge inside his body showed how he almost single handedly destroyed the Guardians of Light in the timeline Kairi survived in. That Sora brought back into the main one. Terranort hits harder than everyone except X-blade and Goatnort with full access to his nobody and Dark side powers he's completely broken and required three of the most powerful keyblade masters to ever live to hold back and even then they almost lost if it wasn't for Terra recovering his body back in the most epic scene ever. Terranort rules them all. But At some point Xemnas was #3 and infinite Xemnas was #1 in fighting skill until everybody reassembled. I think while he's not as powerful Infinite Xemnas can take Mal out but wouldn't land a hit on the others. As shown by Ansem using lasers to just block everything around him while doing other things. It's amazing how much though was put into their recompleted forms being perfect balances of them. So neither would stand a chance against either Old Nort or TNort. Edit: power is this. Fighting skills it's Terranort > Master >> Xemnas though. So at least there's that.
Jokes to his name aside, Xemnas is probably the most intimidating villain of the entire saga. Motherfucker dual-wields lightsabers, has a inhumanly deep voice, and is outright "using" you up until the final world. And he's got presence, unlike -Spock- an old man, a kid, or -anime Billy Zane- "Ansem". Great job with the mixing, by the way!
Also Xemnas POTENTIALLY has a keyblade of his own (like nearly all Xehanort versions) but doesn't use it at first to manipulate everyone (after that he doesn't use it in KHIII to look cool)
You merged these together so well! I cant believe this doesn't have more views yet. been looking for a good complete version since the games release. take my like and favorite! JUST TAKE IT!
Wasn't a hard boss but definitely was a beautiful and well executed sequence. Music, designs, feel and all. Don't get me wrong the fight was fun and blood rushing but just not hard ya feel?
I remember seeing a thread on /v/ about how KH2's finale was unironically peak fiction. And honestly I really can't think of anything else that objectively hits all the notes as perfectly KH2 does
@@RuneKatashima I think he's referring to how you have to fight Astral Birth Void's flying form in a shooter segment, similar to this vid's phase one Xemnas dragon form.
Not actually a part of KH2FM nor 2.5 but my favorite line from Xemnas.... As your flesh bears the sigil... You shall forever be known as that... Of a recusant...
Imagine this playing in the background durung a basketball game or if this fight was just they challenge Xemnas to basketball or if we fit a Coach Bolton summon.
Apparently the final boss was at one point going to be even longer, but I guess people’s heads would explode from how epic that would be so they had to cut some of it.
No KH2 or beyond tracks displeases me greatly. It has the by far the best soundtrack in the series; why do you think the later games almost exclusively used kh2 remixes instead of kh1 songs? I still like the music we got, but it’s slightly disappointing.
When you look at it, there's really no reason why Kingdom Hearts couldn't have ended with KH2. The final remnant of Xehanort was defeated, Sora, Riku and Kairi were reunited, the Organization were all defeated, and Roxas and Namine accepted their places alongside Sora and Kairi. Couple that with this boss song having the most concrete feel of finality in the whole franchise, and this would be a great finale. The letter in a bottle at the end felt like it should have been the start of a brand new journey, not a continuation of this Xehanort storyline.
I actually feel like Phases 2 and 3 would definitely fit Elder Princess Shroob. Seriously, how is it that Yoko's compositions sound like they could fit in multiple franchises at once (not counting Super Smash Bros)?
@Daniel Brozovic i can see what you're trying to say but you're completely wrong if you think kh2 is better graphically and technologically speaking over kh3.
@@gianperez2103 Are you in the generation that think graphics mean anything? Story, combat and gameplay is what comes first. Graphics comes later. This battle had it all.
@@jakomioftherose2434 bro KH2 is one of my favorite games of all time and is easily the best KH game bar none. But, I will admit that KH3’s combat is much more fluid feeling.
Ironic that despite the years going by how much more of a threatening imposing figure xemnas is compared to xehanort the way people show fear at his strength and every action in the plot is under his gaze. The finality in this music surpasses the final boss in kh3, while the game led to everyone pretty much getting a happy ending it just felt so unfufilling because 90% of 3 is essentially padding to the final confrontation where in 2 we are constantly facing the organization taking members down one by one watching their plans unravel yet xemnas remains completely unfazed.
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Anger and hate are supreme.
Soupcream*
Mojitothecat definitely soupcream
***** Ok that ones just gone right over my head
***** I'm guessing that's a battle quote? Lol I don't really remember many battle quotes other than "GET UP ON THE HYDRA'S BACK".
EpicWingmanXIII It's what Xemnas say before throwing his Final Lasers Rain Attacks
"The intention behind this song was to make it be able to move on to another song without it sounding unnatural. But in reality, this song ended up having 3 phrases, each corresponding to the battle's phases. For the soundtrack though, I connected the three phrases in one single recording."
--Yoko Shimomura
Sounds reminiscent of how Nobuo Uematsu tried to compose Dancing Mad.
And also for an intense basketball tournament.
That's why she's the Queen
And Yoko Shimomura said "Let there be 2:19." And it was made so. Shimomura saw that it was good, and was most pleased.
This makes me laugh every single time I come to this video
Yoko Shimomura is a fucking goddess, on par with the likes of John Williams in my opinion
That shift is so amazing!!!
I literally saw her playing piano right in front of me in the Kingdom Hearts Orchestra World of Tres and it was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen
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Even after playing Kingdom Hearts 3 all the way through, I honestly think this is the best final boss theme in the series. The way it builds through the different phases, the gorgeous instrument choices and some of the more sentimental passages makes me think you really ARE fighting against someone who isn't really supposed to exist. It's haunting and really difficult to top! :O
Plus the fact that you fight him alone with Riku the friend that Sora has been searching since the end of KH1, it was really fitting that after all the mess Xemnas did that prevented Sora and Riku to be reunite you get to beat him with Riku, and the ending was actually more satisfying in KH2 for some reason.
KH3's final boss just sort of slaps some leitmotifs together with no real consideration for their meaning (why is Rage Awakened a part of the Sora vs Xehanort battle?). It kinda shows that Shimomura (who is very good at leitmotif, let's be real) wasn't the one who composed KH3's final boss theme...
Compare this to, say, KH2, where every boss theme has a purpose. Rowdy Rumble for "gimmick" bosses (like Hades Escape, or Invincible Pete), and the various 13th... themes being used depending on the context of the fight. "Struggle" for solo fights, "Dilemma" for fights backed up by party memebers, and "Reflection" for the Absent Sillhouettes.
@@mads_in_zero its probably because I'm autistic, but I always felt like the rage awakened part was because of sora. He seemed pretty pissed during the final stretch.
@@camharkness Rage Awakened isn't Sora's leitmotif though. It's firmly Terra's. Sora doesn't have a connection to Terra in the same way that say, Roxas, Ventus, and Xion's leitmotifs sample part of Sora's.
@@mads_in_zero well, using what you said, xehanort does have a connection to terra. He did steal his body after all, so many that's why?
“Cursed... Key... blade...”
One of the best compositions in the KH series, and that’s saying a lot considering how many good ones there are.
God bless you and your family and friends and everyone else in the world abundantly more by centillion to the power of 999 centillion Be blessed forever, everyone, and every second. May God bless everyone with best gifts from heaven and may all receive super love and joy all the time in Jesus name. May your family and friends and everyone else be blessed and receive joy and love as well. May you be blessed forever and be crowned, you and everyone else, as royalty and mighty men of God in heaven. May you and everyone else be cleansed by the blood of Jesus every second in Jesus name. May you and everyone else be restored and exalted by infinity in heavenly places in Jesus name. May you enjoy repentance. Time is short Love you everyone forever god willing. I am the least of eveything by infinity.
@@davidpadilla6732 I eat dogs alive
The fact that Xemnas tries gaslighting Sora and Riku throughout the fight, god I love this boss
Sora...are you sure you _trust_ Riku..?
Riku... are you sure you're not _jealous_ of Sora...?
*Out of our way!*
*Is that all you got?*
*I'll take 'em.*
*You're gonna lose it all!*
*Time's up.*
_fistbump_
Sora... Riku... There is falsehood within you... Do you *dare* deny it...?
@@DreadnoughtDT wait I don't remember that line.
@@davidgn40 He doesn't say it in game, it was dummied out. Look up "Xemnas all voice lines" or something like that and you can hear it for yourself.
@@DreadnoughtDT alright, thanks.
Forgot about
"this is foolishness"
HA HA HA HA YA YA YA AH HA YA YA HA YA YAH HAH YA YA HA HA YA YA YA YA HA HA HA YA AA YA YA AH HA HA HA HA AH HA YA YA YA YA YA YA
(explosion sounds)
2:19 God, that violin sting! It's like the orchestra let out a deep cry into an empty night!
Exactly! Well said!
That’s ALWAYS satisfying to hear
Yes
Still the best Battle-Soundtrack ever made in video game history.
U got that right . 🔥🔥🥺
Agreed
But what about the xemnas theme in dream drop
Hey is still the best boss not questions about it
debatable, but this is still suuuper good
“We shall go together”
The weight this song has is insane!
You really feel like the fate of the universe is hinged on this final battle. . .
Xemnas still the best final boss fight in the franchise and rightfully so! he'll always be my favourite bad guy
He's a strong contender for favorite boss fight of all time for me
Same!
Kingdom Hearts 3 have been a release, we finally have the final confrontation with Xehanort........ And Xemnas in KH2 is still the best Final Boss in the serie.
Nesouk Kefka Somehow, Xehanort in KH3 is inferior to his Nobody both as villain and final boss.
@@TakeTheWorld21 Well it's not that surprising, Xemnas's motivations in KH2 (before they fucked it up in Dream Drop Distance) wasn't necessarely evil, he wanted for him and the rest of the organizations to get a Heart even if he had to use extreme methods, he also has some moment were we could sympathize with him (the one that come to mind for me is between his first and his second form, when he admit to Sora that he forget how it feels to have a heart, at this moment I don't think he was acting), Xehanort motive where.... well evil, and he was not likable at all always acting evil and clearly enjoying it (which makes his last minute redemption completly bullshit for me).
Add to that that he was more active than Xehanort (I mean even in KH3 during the final he is the most active of the Xehanorts XD) during 358/2 Days and KH2, and while he was calm and collected he was still threatening, you could feel he was dangerous since Chain of Memories (remember how Vexen is terryfied when Marluxia threat him to talk about him to their leader ?), he has a presence in the plot. Meanwhile Xehanort is evil and so obviously evil, that it makes me hate the characters of BBS for not realising it, in both DDD and KH3 he appears at the end of the game, he never feel as present as Xemnas is.
I disagree heavily.
80% of the final fight is nothing but boring cinematic.
I mean, what is truly fun about mindlessly spamming X, and launching bombs into a generator?
Or hitting Triangle to jump across buildings?
It's boring as heck and offers zero challenge.
It only became a true battle in the very end, which sucked.
While KH3's final boss is 100% serious the entire time.
There isn't a single phase that isn't a real battle.
Every single one is unique and has a plethora of different unique attacks that can actually challenge players playing on CM or CMLV1.
Unlike KH2's final boss, where all of it is extremely easy.
But that's just my own opinion.
@@bnhearyza4767 Only part of Xehanort that Feel good in my opinion is funny enough the Armor form and not the last one.
13 seekers can be defeated by just spamming Aeroga.
Final Xehanort is a Boring fight all he does for 80% of the fight is just teleport then 1 hit, teleport then 1 hit...etc... it's really lacking in diversity, the Only interesting part is the force Rage Form and his DM.
His armored Form is the Only part of the final fight, that does have a great moveset fitting of the final boss and that was somewhat fun to do (except the underwater part).
Even Armored Xemnas was more diversify to fight than final Xehanort, and Final Xemnas is better than any Form of Xehanort, Only part of Xemnas final boss that isn't good is the dragon ship fight.
And challenge wise they are the same if you are not playing Critical or LV1 Xehanort in KH3 is a complete joke difficulty wise.
Nesouk Kefka exactly that was my biggest problem with kh 3 xehanort character is so under developed and only appeared at the end like WTF and it’s like numora just didn’t even care anymore about the main villain character at that point iam like xehanort is pretty much TP ALTTP AND Zelda 1 ganon a last minute one note villain very lame that is what went through my mind over and over after beating the game
and numora tried to make him simplicity at the end iam like Really numora REALLY! that’s doesn’t work numora you made him kill his best friend in kh BBS you made him take peoples body that is some devilish i Un redeemable shit right there you made him fuck friends over multiple times you made him destroy a world as a complete person and then countless worlds again as a heart aka Ansem-xehanort then in KH3 you made him kill kairi
and let’s not forget he even made Ansem-xehanort very inconsistent in kh3 after all he’s the assholes heart I didn’t feel a fucking thing for him with his final words he’s just the basterd heart and a hypocrite at that as well when he calls out the real Ansem on the things he did iam like please face palm 🤦🏽♂️ just STFU Ansem I mean xehanort seriously let’s not forget you destroyed worlds and took boys body’s but but yet shaming others yeah right so many things in KH3 we’re very inconsistent 😒
xemnas however I do feel bad for because in actuality he’s not xehanort but the body of a youth who is forced to be xehanort cloned vessel or should i say his phantom xemnas is still the best villain/tragic character of the series with the most characters villain depth case close
*xemnas voice* “Nope, not getting outta this chair.”
Sudden PTSD flashbacks from the time he DID get out of his chair in Birth By Sleep Final Mix.
Somebody should pay the VA to say that.
Trump said the same at white house
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
To be fair, it's a very comfy chair.
2:09 - 2:48 The most Badass part
A game that involved Disney characters had no business having a final boss theme this epic, and it still hasn't been topped.
Still the best final boss in the series
Words can't describe how beautiful this entire song is.
Xemnas (and to a lesser extent Terranort) really ought to be the strongest villians in the game if you think about it. Terra was stronger than Master Xehanort and bested him before MX took his body over. Then you've got an old master with the raw power and strength of Terra. Once Xemnas was born he had both that power and the added ability over the nobodies/enhanced abilities that nobodies gain. In terms of lore it makes sense why Xemnas would be the strongest opponent in theory. Though armoured Xehanort must be up there as well.
Yeah and with the X-Blade MX was the strongest
MX became stronger because of his Replicas, the X-blade and Kingdom Hearts
Xemnas is sadly #5 in the heirarchy when you take a step back.
Xemnas and Ansem. Seeker of Darkness were born the exact same moment.
However. We know one critical thing. That Xemnas continued on as King Ansem losing his castle to Maleficent's invasion. Happened. Canon.
Mal fully enthralled in darkness ended worlds upon worlds.
She's #4 so far.
But has dropped now that she's not fully enthralled in darkness. Just dabbles in it.
#3 is Old man Xehanort from III as he has the full knowledge of Ansem and Xemnas on top of his own. Technically is underneath armored Xehanort who doesn't count for obvious reasons.
Only dropped down due to..
#2 is Ansem Seeker of Darkness.
He's lived longer than all the non completed forms but when possessing Riku's nobody is at his peak. He's got more skills in DDD and III but that's proof that the replica is of his peak form but lacks the control of keyblades Riku's body allowed him. Resorting to full on murder tactics.
#1 by a mile is
Terranort from III. The recompleted form. Of Terra with the memories of Xemnas and Ansem Seeker of Darkness his former halves. Repossessed by his past self. The near limitless knowledge inside his body showed how he almost single handedly destroyed the Guardians of Light in the timeline Kairi survived in. That Sora brought back into the main one.
Terranort hits harder than everyone except X-blade and Goatnort with full access to his nobody and Dark side powers he's completely broken and required three of the most powerful keyblade masters to ever live to hold back and even then they almost lost if it wasn't for Terra recovering his body back in the most epic scene ever.
Terranort rules them all. But At some point Xemnas was #3 and infinite Xemnas was #1 in fighting skill until everybody reassembled. I think while he's not as powerful Infinite Xemnas can take Mal out but wouldn't land a hit on the others. As shown by Ansem using lasers to just block everything around him while doing other things.
It's amazing how much though was put into their recompleted forms being perfect balances of them. So neither would stand a chance against either Old Nort or TNort.
Edit: power is this.
Fighting skills it's Terranort > Master >> Xemnas though. So at least there's that.
The way you merged these together is beautiful. Good job!
Jokes to his name aside, Xemnas is probably the most intimidating villain of the entire saga. Motherfucker dual-wields lightsabers, has a inhumanly deep voice, and is outright "using" you up until the final world. And he's got presence, unlike -Spock- an old man, a kid, or -anime Billy Zane- "Ansem".
Great job with the mixing, by the way!
The way he uses twilight thorns and his moveset really evokes the idea of him as a Sith Lord. The red blades don't help.
First time I’ve ever seen anyone say that Ansem has no presence
Also Xemnas POTENTIALLY has a keyblade of his own (like nearly all Xehanort versions) but doesn't use it at first to manipulate everyone (after that he doesn't use it in KHIII to look cool)
still one of my favorite final boss fights.
Objection!
Hey, me too. I haven't played this game in years but it still remains one of my absolute favorites of all time.
I can’t resist getting chills at 5:33 😯
Agreed. That’s my favorite part in phase 3.
Damn, that violin solo in the second phase always gets me in the chills!
This goes down as one of my favorite final bosses ever. This and Metroid Prime. Just games from this era in general were so good!
Can you...spare a heart?
No
ask donald trump
*reflega*
Original kh2 made this move unskippable. Tried reflect spamming and he just kept trying.
You merged these together so well! I cant believe this doesn't have more views yet. been looking for a good complete version since the games release. take my like and favorite! JUST TAKE IT!
Thanks for the kind words !
Man i will never forget what it felt like hearing this for the first time when i was 9 years old... All the final Battle scenario.
Wasn't a hard boss but definitely was a beautiful and well executed sequence. Music, designs, feel and all. Don't get me wrong the fight was fun and blood rushing but just not hard ya feel?
Critical mode fixes that
He's more aggressive, much more proactive attacker
Critical Mode don't fix that, Critical Mode LV1 does.
Final Zebraman is pretty tough on crit
mogul its not make us feel difficult but it make us feel exhausted. So the ending is so worth it. Credits to Square :)
Darkness, is.. *A TURTLE*
I will never forget this adventure. What an incredible game this was.
I can't help but imagine Fox fighting Andross in Star Fox 64 with this song.
i kinda wanna have this play against master core on smash 4 :)
"Can you spare... A Heart?"
Me: No no no no No No NO!
Absolutely adore this piece and great job piecing this all together :)
It's pieced together already in the OST
It took me a while to realize, that the original composition of this has Disappeared sampled into it.
The feeling of my childhood. It’s something that can’t be beaten by anything else. By far the best soundtrack 🔥🔥👑
Best final boss/video game boss of all time. It's a shame we didn't get this song in Smash but I am grateful nonetheless that Sora made it.
Still a better final battle than 3.
Better theme too.
Everything about the final battle is way better than what KH3 came up with.
Go back and listen to key to all and tell me how long it takes you to get sick of the weird droning vocals in the background.
@@highroller5335 Exactly, still stings that they got Ishimoto to do the final boss theme, which was absolutely lackluster.
I remember seeing a thread on /v/ about how KH2's finale was unironically peak fiction. And honestly I really can't think of anything else that objectively hits all the notes as perfectly KH2 does
Anger and hate are SUPREME!
we shall go together
Still the best final boss theme
DANCE, WATER, DANCE!
Sorry, that was completely unrelated, allow me to continue.
Please, master, please, compose yourself!
sir u got it all wrong. its "GET UP ON THE HYDRAS BACK!C
+Diego Rivera !*
Goddamit
YOU LIKE IT?!
MOON SHINE DOWN!
"I would like to order an anger and hate supreme" - xemnas probably
Fighting an entire planet. JESUS this fight was dynamic!
Arguably the best song in arguably the best video game ever
Darkness of the Unknown > Fate of the Unknown
Gilberto Forni Nah
Gilberto Forni In my opinion, Darkness of the Unknown is one of Yoko’s best works in her career as a composer.
Xemnas still claims the throne of being best final boss
I just had an eargasm
"Nothingness...is..ETERNAL!"
And that scream from Xemnas...chills.
His voice is too raspy in KH3 so you don't the same effect from his voice..
See my Hearts Power.... feel it... know it... accept it!
Thank you finally someone uploaded it together now I don't have to listen to ads between phases :P
6:13 gives me incredible chills, just wow.
Remember when Kirby’s astral birth Void went Darkness of the Unknown?
I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO THOUGHT EXACTLY THAT!!!!!!! IT'S SO TRUE!!!!!!!!
And both of them are my favorite final bosses!
huh?
@@RuneKatashima I think he's referring to how you have to fight Astral Birth Void's flying form in a shooter segment, similar to this vid's phase one Xemnas dragon form.
@@jadenkarpoff9158 and maybe also how, similar to Darkness of the Unknown, the song changes tone to a more melancholic one in the last phase
"Why do you despise the Void?"
This is peak Yoko
Shoutouts to the homie for coming back to not only heart comments,but also adding the phases as chapters in the video
And now the song is even more appropriate with the lightsaber volume noise :)
I thank my aunt that showed me this game or I would of never experienced such greatness
Not actually a part of KH2FM nor 2.5 but my favorite line from Xemnas....
As your flesh bears the sigil... You shall forever be known as that... Of a recusant...
3ZKZ Sting Dream Drop Distance
Xemnas, Making you Look up words in the dictionary since 2005
Imagine this playing in the background durung a basketball game or if this fight was just they challenge Xemnas to basketball or if we fit a Coach Bolton summon.
This track slaps more than anything in KH3.
"Sora, are you certain you can trust Riku?"
"Riku, are you not jealous of Sora?"
This is absolutely perfect! I had to go through I don't know how many videos to find this one! Awesome job and thanks a lot, dude!
That transition into phase two is just divine.
After Sora+Riku laser:
Limit:
-Session
Sora:"Riku"
Riku:"Out of my way"
Xemnas:"Cursed... keyblade..."
This needs more views. You did a great job
I didn't appreciate this song enough the first few times I played this game
"Cursed, Keyblade..."
The best song ever
When I tell you I’m crying 😭. I miss the old times
Me too.
The legend of Yoko Shimomura prevails
5:47 the moment this kicked in during the final phase, i got goosebump'd to kingdom come
*NOTHINGNESS IS A TURTLE*
Nice turtle
Apparently the final boss was at one point going to be even longer, but I guess people’s heads would explode from how epic that would be so they had to cut some of it.
4:20〜dollar and a dream 3 💵
Anger and hate... Are supreme!
We shall go together !!
Who's here after Sora announcement in Smash?
No KH2 or beyond tracks displeases me greatly. It has the by far the best soundtrack in the series; why do you think the later games almost exclusively used kh2 remixes instead of kh1 songs? I still like the music we got, but it’s slightly disappointing.
@@jadenkarpoff9158 Yeah when they showed the list i immediatly noticed the darkness of unknown missing :( That's i got here xD
Who's here after the Sora in smash reveal?
Sora: riku!!
Riku: get out if my way!!
It's all you got?
(special attack)
Awesome! A well made completion of the incredible battle! Thank you so much! This is perfect to download
Thank you !!
When you look at it, there's really no reason why Kingdom Hearts couldn't have ended with KH2. The final remnant of Xehanort was defeated, Sora, Riku and Kairi were reunited, the Organization were all defeated, and Roxas and Namine accepted their places alongside Sora and Kairi. Couple that with this boss song having the most concrete feel of finality in the whole franchise, and this would be a great finale. The letter in a bottle at the end felt like it should have been the start of a brand new journey, not a continuation of this Xehanort storyline.
I totally agree
Yeah dude, I legit think this all the time. It literally wrapped up every plot point.
@MoonJoe Not when you factor in Final Mix scenes and Lingering Will's existence, of course.
part of me wants to learn piano just to shred to this
when your games been loading for over 20 minutes and its stops at 99% and you dont know if it froze or not
This is right up there with FF8’s The Extreme!
I actually feel like Phases 2 and 3 would definitely fit Elder Princess Shroob.
Seriously, how is it that Yoko's compositions sound like they could fit in multiple franchises at once (not counting Super Smash Bros)?
Xemnas’s newer theme in Dream Drop Distance and KH3 ReMind will never match this masterpiece 👏🏼 truly one of the best boss fights of all time
Has anyone ever tried to edit FFXV so this plays as the final boss track? I think it'd fit.
Well it did fit in a fit video if you know what I mean
love this remix great work
Ladies and Gentlemen, the great Yoko! Shimimura.
Best KH Battle Theme.
The best final battle in the series. Last boss in KH3 felt a bit underwhelming.
Kh2 is superior to kh3 in every way, except graphics.
@Daniel Brozovic i can see what you're trying to say but you're completely wrong if you think kh2 is better graphically and technologically speaking over kh3.
@@gianperez2103 Are you in the generation that think graphics mean anything? Story, combat and gameplay is what comes first. Graphics comes later. This battle had it all.
@@jakomioftherose2434 bro KH2 is one of my favorite games of all time and is easily the best KH game bar none. But, I will admit that KH3’s combat is much more fluid feeling.
These songs are super good in Beat Saber. Like, all of the KH battle themes. Hell of a workout lol
2:08
4:20
Goated theme
When Ansem listens to Fate of the Unknown
The fact that this or the DDD version didn't make into Smash is a crime
Its a shame
I can imagine Goku Black and Zamatsu fighting against Xemnas
Fit vs rusher
Yes
Yay
On the oldest anarchy server in minecraft
Ironic that despite the years going by how much more of a threatening imposing figure xemnas is compared to xehanort the way people show fear at his strength and every action in the plot is under his gaze. The finality in this music surpasses the final boss in kh3, while the game led to everyone pretty much getting a happy ending it just felt so unfufilling because 90% of 3 is essentially padding to the final confrontation where in 2 we are constantly facing the organization taking members down one by one watching their plans unravel yet xemnas remains completely unfazed.
You are the best man
This unbelievable banger