@@superblanco444 I think Weissman was more evil. That scene when he orders Joshua (Before the fight) to kill Estelle and he knows their connections and Estelle's reaction and he just revels in it. I don't think there's a contender for more evil character in the franchise than Weissman, maybe aside from Gerard Dantes, and Merchiole is also a good contender from Kuro.
@@oritrabelsi4030 It's two kinds of evil. Joachim was more selfish and sought power no matter the cost because he believed in his own truth. Weissman however lacked a basic understanding of empathy, obsessing over torturing individuals because it gave him a sense of safety and control.
The amalgamation of "Way of Life", "The Merciless Savior" (Sky SC), and the general Sky Trilogy motif is so brilliant. Despite having so many other motifs, this Final Boss track feels incredibly unique. It's extremely good.
Also love how it's foreshadowing that..... Estelle and Joshua (and Renne) weren't supposed to be there in the first place - it was due to KeA that they didn't die.
I constantly love the fact that the final bosses of the trails series are always right under your nose the entire time. Like it's a lesson not to judge someone because a person's exterior could be welcoming or regal but in the end their ambitions turn them into the monsters beyond who they show other people.
@@ryangallagher2190 Yeah, those kinds of lines are such cheap phone-ins that make no sense and are only there because the developers went "Oh shit, it's technically the game after the last one, we need some way to make people think that this is the biggest baddie so far" instead of actually trying to make sense. Hate when Falcom does this shit
@@vytmorkI think part that but also the show that the SSS is now on par with Josh and Estelle. they've caught up. compare to the very beginning of the game when they were just like so much stronger during that monkey bus part
Which is especially dumb because half the point of starting new arcs with a new party is they can reset the power level. Maybe they were scared of people wondering why Joshua and Estelle couldn't just curbstomp him.@@vytmorkIf demon Guenter could challenge that duo, the SSS was apparently already more than strong enough to beat up *enforcers*, which they DEFINITELY are not able to do in zero lmao.
Just finished Zero myself ^^ That powerscaling does seem a bit off, but I look at it like this: He was stronger than Wiessmann *in that moment* because of the transformation and mass consumption of Res Gnosis, but he was far more unstable, and broke down far quicker.
2 perfectly placed guards. One when he did his really powerful Scraft and one where he were to cast his most powerful art. God bless Tio and Zero Field.
I love how this boss has hoarded all the 3D S-Crafts that 3rd introduced but were weirdly absent from Zero for himself. Way of Life is also an amazing leitmotif.
It's quite fitting considering how he's almost as evil as Weissmann. (He even says that the two of them would have probably gotten along great, just to drive that point home)
Using motifs throughout the series like "Merciless Savior" and "Way of Life", orchestra and choir that sounds as good as Jindo despite being synthesised, and the drum roll that kicks the song into high gear make this track unbelievably awesome. Definitely one of the best Kiseki final boss themes.
0:28 that drum roll + guitar riff just before is also fucking sick The introduction to the track kinda has the feeling of the party being at awe of a great power, but then saying fuck it, let's beat this fool's ass.
Woah, I never expected to hear a song similar to a Xenosaga 1's battle theme. But that's only for the first few seconds. It totally changes after that. Pretty cool song.
It's interesting the xeno series and falcoms games at times have similarities. I also know Tetsuya Takahashi did once worked at falcom before going to square and then starting monolith soft.
@@TARDISES same thing happened to my joshua before my whole team fell. It was worst for me in sc thou since I was almost finished with final boss but 2 of my members was hit with vanish. Haha
I got Lloyd and Estelle vanished on the same side platform. And I clearly didn't learn my lesson, because Ellie was standing on the platform in the back...
You did lose your sanity, actually. [SPOILERS FOR ENDGAME OF AO/AZURE] . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . Luckily, that was in the original timeline and not this one.
scholarly trails final bosses with recurring motifs seamlessly woven into their battle themes my beloved. hearing 3:26 for the first time felt like ascending to heaven
After looking up way of life's English lyrics, it's especially fitting with the final boss that there's some of that at the end of the song with the sss facing their final challenge in this season of their career.
The buildup from 0:55 to 1:31 always gives me goosebumps that shit is so damn good, it has such a menacing vibe to it, and of course you can hear the motif of Merciless Savior in it as well
Trails is one of very few series I can be forced into using my near infinite stockpile of items I don't use throughout the game in the final boss. Joachim is the only enemy from ANY game to force me to use 90% of all my items I had just to survive, and that's on TOP of me maxing out on some items for the final dungeon for precaution's sake. Let this lesson be learned: BRING REFLECT BUFF ARTS ON *EVERYONE.*
I spent the entire game *knowing* we were going to get a drop like 3:00 eventually. The zero theme was too catchy for them to *not* resist bombing it into the endgame OST.
I knew when i heard inevitable struggle in phase 1 that there'd be another phase (alot of final bosses i know happen to have multiple phases, yes, but i was surprised they just did inevitable struggle which i guess was fitting for phase one 😂)
This is the best final boss theme of the series so far! Haven’t played Trails to azure because the geofront patch was taken down, and I don’t want to play trails of cold steel until then.
You can find it on internet archive sites. I was in the same boat (Finished CS1 and 2 a month ago and wanted to play the Crossbell games). Got both games that way. Typing this as Zeros credits roll and getting ready to jump into Azure.
2:59 is exactly why i feel the o.g sss taking on the final boss while benching *great twilight like distortions for spoilers sake* is the true way to finish the game lol
This fight is the perfect "I don't like violence, but... I'll really enjoy murdering the sh** out of this one" moment xD And the music does it absolute justice too!
There's a couple of possible interpretations. The more obvious one is that the final boss brings a demon from another dimension into reality by overdosing on a drug that lets people do that, which is what turns him into the giant monster form you fight. But in the broader sense of "being born", this boss's master plan was to bring a new, physical goddess into existence, to replace the commonly-worshiped goddess Aidios, whom he viewed as a fake made up by the Church to justify their own power. He did in fact bring a kind of divine existence into being, but not the one he thought he was, and he himself was the patsy of a much larger conspiracy, and all the consequences thereof are dealt with in the sequel.
You know, unlike many people here, I honestly found the "final boss" of this game to be *underwhelming both in terms music AND in terms of the battle itself.* I'd honestly that *the final boss of Trails in the Sky the 3rd was 1,000,000 times BETTER in BOTH those aspects* (ESPECIALLY with the AWESOME *"Dreamy and Boisterous Holy Land"* as final boss theme in Sky the 3rd) IMO.
when you have arts like aqua mirage and an scraft like zero field anything can rly be beaten easily. kiseki games are usually pretty ez to break mid to late game.
@@soniablanche5672 FC was just spam shadow blade and white ghenna while nvr taking kloe off team. Sad SC knows how good kloe is and takes her out party for a while for multiple instances.
“Mom, can we get Georg Weissmann?”
“No, sweetie. We have Georg Weissmann at home!”
Georg Weissmann at home:
Underrated comment. lol
Mainstream meme with niche game combo
He’s more evil than him though
@@superblanco444 I think Weissman was more evil. That scene when he orders Joshua (Before the fight) to kill Estelle and he knows their connections and Estelle's reaction and he just revels in it. I don't think there's a contender for more evil character in the franchise than Weissman, maybe aside from Gerard Dantes, and Merchiole is also a good contender from Kuro.
@@oritrabelsi4030 It's two kinds of evil. Joachim was more selfish and sought power no matter the cost because he believed in his own truth. Weissman however lacked a basic understanding of empathy, obsessing over torturing individuals because it gave him a sense of safety and control.
The amalgamation of "Way of Life", "The Merciless Savior" (Sky SC), and the general Sky Trilogy motif is so brilliant. Despite having so many other motifs, this Final Boss track feels incredibly unique. It's extremely good.
Also love how it's foreshadowing that.....
Estelle and Joshua (and Renne) weren't supposed to be there in the first place - it was due to KeA that they didn't die.
I constantly love the fact that the final bosses of the trails series are always right under your nose the entire time. Like it's a lesson not to judge someone because a person's exterior could be welcoming or regal but in the end their ambitions turn them into the monsters beyond who they show other people.
Yeah, Joachim actually looks like a very nice and friendly guy, I've never suspected him even once.
Thanks to the Kiseki series, I am now suspicious of any blue haired bespectacled academic-type fellow I come across.
@@ilyasbasuki3207 Well, at least in Cold Steel the villains aren't blue-haired or bespectacled. I'll leave you with that though.
@@Kaebuki Gideon tho
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Gideon was never perceived to be a good guy though.
Joshua: He seems to be stronger than weissmann when he was fused with the aureole!
Me: Are you sure about that?
Yeah that never sat right with me either. I get Res Gnosis is the shit but it shouldn't be able to match the Sept-Terion of space.
@@ryangallagher2190 Yeah, those kinds of lines are such cheap phone-ins that make no sense and are only there because the developers went "Oh shit, it's technically the game after the last one, we need some way to make people think that this is the biggest baddie so far" instead of actually trying to make sense. Hate when Falcom does this shit
@@vytmorkI think part that but also the show that the SSS is now on par with Josh and Estelle. they've caught up. compare to the very beginning of the game when they were just like so much stronger during that monkey bus part
Which is especially dumb because half the point of starting new arcs with a new party is they can reset the power level. Maybe they were scared of people wondering why Joshua and Estelle couldn't just curbstomp him.@@vytmorkIf demon Guenter could challenge that duo, the SSS was apparently already more than strong enough to beat up *enforcers*, which they DEFINITELY are not able to do in zero lmao.
Just finished Zero myself ^^ That powerscaling does seem a bit off, but I look at it like this: He was stronger than Wiessmann *in that moment* because of the transformation and mass consumption of Res Gnosis, but he was far more unstable, and broke down far quicker.
2 perfectly placed guards. One when he did his really powerful Scraft and one where he were to cast his most powerful art.
God bless Tio and Zero Field.
tio best girl
necessary Tio.....and CP up cook item
Tio is Kevin 2, Alfin wishes she could be them
In my most recent replay of the game, I had Tio deal the final blow with her Genesis Flood art.
Felt like it was fitting karma for the bastard, lol.
@@CaptainJarkesHey thats what I did too lol
There's a little Merciless Savior in here, it works
You know this soundtrack will be more epic when you see a giant demon humanoid doing A SOMERSAULT to your party members
I love how this boss has hoarded all the 3D S-Crafts that 3rd introduced but were weirdly absent from Zero for himself.
Way of Life is also an amazing leitmotif.
I absolutely love remix to Way of Life in this, really good final boss theme.
The Crossbell theme and motif from Merciless savior combined here make this track unbelievable
It's quite fitting considering how he's almost as evil as Weissmann. (He even says that the two of them would have probably gotten along great, just to drive that point home)
...after seeing what KeA is capable of, the title of this song is such a brainfuck holy shit moment for me
they really DID arrive to exist
Using motifs throughout the series like "Merciless Savior" and "Way of Life", orchestra and choir that sounds as good as Jindo despite being synthesised, and the drum roll that kicks the song into high gear make this track unbelievably awesome. Definitely one of the best Kiseki final boss themes.
The intro sounds exactly like Xenosaga's battle theme intro. It gets me every time.
LMAOOOOO i thought the same thing
As expected of a trails final boss theme it's simply awesome love the use of the main letimoff here too
0:35 still makes me goosebumps
0:28 that drum roll + guitar riff just before is also fucking sick
The introduction to the track kinda has the feeling of the party being at awe of a great power, but then saying fuck it, let's beat this fool's ass.
@@McCaroni_Sup that drum roll reminds me of final fantasy 14 when the 2nd phases kick in for a boss
Woah, I never expected to hear a song similar to a Xenosaga 1's battle theme. But that's only for the first few seconds. It totally changes after that. Pretty cool song.
IT'S THE SAME AND IT GETS ME SO MUCH
It's interesting the xeno series and falcoms games at times have similarities. I also know Tetsuya Takahashi did once worked at falcom before going to square and then starting monolith soft.
Ikr haha
"Activating combate mode"
The boss was easy, but I did not notice that I was standing in a platform after he transformed into his golden mode... guess what happened.
@@TARDISES same thing happened to my joshua before my whole team fell. It was worst for me in sc thou since I was almost finished with final boss but 2 of my members was hit with vanish. Haha
@@TARDISES NOTHING BAD EVER HAPPENS TO THE BRIGHTS! Ahahah- WAH! *vanished*
I got Lloyd and Estelle vanished on the same side platform. And I clearly didn't learn my lesson, because Ellie was standing on the platform in the back...
They come back eventually. If they fall they have the Vanish Status
@@hajimebannings731 All fell down at the same time.
When Phase 2 is kicking your ass but 3:00 kicks in and your S-craft just charged
Knowing that real sh*t is gonna happen :)
I would like to thank turbo mode for letting me get through this guy's insanely long animations without losing my sanity.
You did lose your sanity, actually.
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Luckily, that was in the original timeline and not this one.
scholarly trails final bosses with recurring motifs seamlessly woven into their battle themes my beloved. hearing 3:26 for the first time felt like ascending to heaven
1:10 Steel Floor Blocking the Way
The Sky SC final boss mixed in this is awesome
After looking up way of life's English lyrics, it's especially fitting with the final boss that there's some of that at the end of the song with the sss facing their final challenge in this season of their career.
Im so happy trails series getting some attention :)
Lesson of the story: never trust a doctor or a scholar with glasses.
They did it a third time in CS4
I love the sleighbells in this.
Honestly the most underrated Kiseki final boss theme for 0:28 alone
3:27 It's powerful
The buildup from 0:55 to 1:31 always gives me goosebumps that shit is so damn good, it has such a menacing vibe to it, and of course you can hear the motif of Merciless Savior in it as well
This theme kicks OFF on headphones
That moment when 3:00 hits and you start destroying the boss with S-crafts.
Reddaxe
Rising... SUUUUN!!!
When this part hits, I used Estelle S-Craft, was so awesome!
DEATH SCORPION!
Aerial Cannon!
It was an easy fight for me but god damn the feels while it was all happening!
Outstanding track, love the variety of sections and different instruments appearing.
Trails is one of very few series I can be forced into using my near infinite stockpile of items I don't use throughout the game in the final boss.
Joachim is the only enemy from ANY game to force me to use 90% of all my items I had just to survive, and that's on TOP of me maxing out on some items for the final dungeon for precaution's sake.
Let this lesson be learned: BRING REFLECT BUFF ARTS ON *EVERYONE.*
I spent the entire game *knowing* we were going to get a drop like 3:00 eventually. The zero theme was too catchy for them to *not* resist bombing it into the endgame OST.
I knew when i heard inevitable struggle in phase 1 that there'd be another phase (alot of final bosses i know happen to have multiple phases, yes, but i was surprised they just did inevitable struggle which i guess was fitting for phase one 😂)
This is the best final boss theme of the series so far! Haven’t played Trails to azure because the geofront patch was taken down, and I don’t want to play trails of cold steel until then.
You can find the patch online if you look.
@@AuroraFirestorm I literally looked everywhere and couldn’t find it, if you know where I can find it please let me know
@@Xemnas.1 nyaa si
Use Wayback Machine
You can find it on internet archive sites. I was in the same boat (Finished CS1 and 2 a month ago and wanted to play the Crossbell games). Got both games that way. Typing this as Zeros credits roll and getting ready to jump into Azure.
Yeah fine I like the transition and the variation
かっこいい！
Underrated
Really difficult boss
If you don't use clock down and speed up constantly
Almost feel bad how this guy only got to attack me twice. Speed down debuff is busted.
2:59 is exactly why i feel the o.g sss taking on the final boss while benching *great twilight like distortions for spoilers sake* is the true way to finish the game lol
That Zeram overdose Baby
ok hold on the first 12 seconds of this song is literally the same as xenosaga 1's battle theme someone tell me im not crazy
I've had this same exact thought before lmao
After playing Aono and ended it, this theme sound different and bitter touch.
Intro is very much similar to Xenosaga's Battle Theme. Also both games are influenced by Gnosticism, which is curious.
After azure, feels only right to play this fight with the core sss being active fully 😂
yea is cool
The better merciless saviour
3:00 is the reason i must do this boss with the o.g sss squad lol 😂
Getting strong Ys vibes from this
This fight is the perfect "I don't like violence, but... I'll really enjoy murdering the sh** out of this one" moment xD
And the music does it absolute justice too!
2:59.
Brilliant song but I don't really understand the title. "Arrival Existence"? Sounds like a fancy name for "birth." What's being born?
There's a couple of possible interpretations. The more obvious one is that the final boss brings a demon from another dimension into reality by overdosing on a drug that lets people do that, which is what turns him into the giant monster form you fight.
But in the broader sense of "being born", this boss's master plan was to bring a new, physical goddess into existence, to replace the commonly-worshiped goddess Aidios, whom he viewed as a fake made up by the Church to justify their own power. He did in fact bring a kind of divine existence into being, but not the one he thought he was, and he himself was the patsy of a much larger conspiracy, and all the consequences thereof are dealt with in the sequel.
Arrival of a Brand New Existence basically it all makes sense once Azure is finished.
The end of the music reminds me of Genesis from Persona 4.
groovy bastard
Ok who got softlocked in this boss when the platforms fell off
Me
Me
Personally gonna blame KeA on this
Lmao sounds like xenosagas battle theme
lol his 1st phase was way harder
Funny I actually found his first fight to be a complete joke, and the second one to be more serious.
spam cp foods and burning rage 2, ez
Randy all the way
intro taken right out of xenosaga ep 1 battle theme???????
You know, unlike many people here, I honestly found the "final boss" of this game to be *underwhelming both in terms music AND in terms of the battle itself.* I'd honestly that *the final boss of Trails in the Sky the 3rd was 1,000,000 times BETTER in BOTH those aspects* (ESPECIALLY with the AWESOME *"Dreamy and Boisterous Holy Land"* as final boss theme in Sky the 3rd) IMO.
That was a disappointing battle...
Calamity claw and I could get like 6 to 8 actions with each char before the boss could do any move...
i know right? after getting through SC and 3rd i was like, what? that's it? Ah well, at least this games tracks kicks ass.
This boss was actually hard for me.
when you have arts like aqua mirage and an scraft like zero field anything can rly be beaten easily. kiseki games are usually pretty ez to break mid to late game.
@@Crevambiguous the boss in trails in the sky first chapter was even easier lmao
@@soniablanche5672 FC was just spam shadow blade and white ghenna while nvr taking kloe off team. Sad SC knows how good kloe is and takes her out party for a while for multiple instances.