Eternal Sonata - Final Boss Battle

The boss fought after stepping through the portal in the core of Double Reed Tower, and the last boss of the game. They have a large number of attacks to use against you, including one you'll recognize, although it works differently in this fight. In addition to that move, they have three status attacks that you'll rarely see - Pala (which inflicts Burst), Truc (Poison), and Zamrazac (Stop). They always move behind you to use these, so you can't block them.
Their two strongest attacks are Nimbostratus, which shoots a piercing beam in front of them, and Applaudisement Sonique, which affects a huge area around the boss and deals lots of damage unguarded. As for their basic attacks, they're slow but have unpredictable animations, making it difficult to judge when to guard against them.
Bringing along either a healer or lots of items is recommended, as well as a strong attacker and a dedicated Echo-builder so you can hit the boss with repeated Harmony Chains.
This supplemental video is part of a now-finished Let's Play that you can read here: talking-time.n...

[@EisArrow]

I love this Boss so much. The music, the story, the fight, chefs kiss
I like your team btw, fits this fight very well :D

[@ER-je3fd]

I love the final boss theme song so much, I have been requesting it as a cover from a music channel, it will be 2 years in 2 weeks that I started.

[@inoumi123]

Crazy how he locked and poisoned you one after another.... never seen that before!

[@cadenza_m400]

I suspect the developers tweaked the final boss's AI a little for the PS3 port, because I don't recall ever seeing those moves more than like, once on the original Xbox 360 release.

[@inoumi123]

@@cadenza_m400 very true!! Very cool though thank you so much for posting :3

[@cadenza_m400]

@@inoumi123 More than happy to. Thanks for watching!

[@KATinBLACK]

⁠​⁠@@cadenza_m400 must be. I played the 360 ver several times and only saw each once, on different runs. Congrats, on winning the game and getting such a rare unlucky event 😢

[@NeoArashi]

His battle intro quote is so much better on the Xbox 360 version:
"This entire world is my dream! I WILL NOT LET YOU DESTROY IT!"

[@GrandAngel8000]

While I also prefer that line purely due to the performance of it, It also doesn't make *any* sense to his character.

[@airiakizuki5592]

a lot of people on youtube seem to like Beat. he is my least used useless team member back when i played this game.

[@Homururu]

After very recently replaying the game, I can say that although he's not very good, he's fun to use as a ranged character because he can build Echoes really easily with his gun. But yeah, he's not very strong compared to say, Salsa, March or Falsetto

[@airiakizuki5592]

@@Homururu Falsetto is probably my favorite once she gets the weapon that changes "one hit" into two

[@inoumi123]

@@airiakizuki5592 Falsetto, Viola, and Allgretto are usually my team but I recently included Beat, and I love it!! Not as strong but when he gets vital drain... it is incredibly useful.

[@luisreyes1963]

I never did get to beat that game Eternal Sonata. Glad to finally see how it ends. 🎼

[@xXxXkuramaxXx]

Harry Potter must of had some influence here.