One of the greatest things abt this bossfight is the perfectly implemented QTE at 17:19, it happens so seamlessly and done so elegantly that you just do it out of instinct and immerses you even more in the climatic finale...
I feel like Jena might've had a good idea but went about it the wrong way. She kept being cryptic about her plan instead of properly explaining it. I think her plan was to turn everyone into chimeras but with a human consciousness. That way the Chimera would stop instinctively attacking them and they could coexist. The way she went about it was wrong though. I think she also knew about Chimeric fusion and that it could cause a self destructive power boost and had been (all too subtly) warning the main character. She was very contradictory in her approach. She didn't once properly explain her plan and instead of trying to explain and convince them of what she's doing is correct, she tried to convince them with force. She could've them take her in, let them interrogate her, and she gives the full explanation and then let them decide whether to stop her or help her. But from the way she was acting, she may have had limited time to work things out that way. Like maybe she managed to keep conscious control of her Chimera form but was slowly losing it. Not sure about that but something was giving her a time limit.
I think her plan was to keep Humans out of the fight entirely. Homunculi absorb Chimeras without any effort, effectively cleansing the areas they scour. Jena probably wanted to use the Homunculi as living bulldozers, trampling their way through humanity's enemy. While humans keep them under control. Problem is, she explained it super poorly. It was as if she tried to be a terrorist/villain instead of bringing her point across. Also, how in the fuck did she expect to control her sentient bulldozers? A single Homunculus can devastate entire zones, giving little fucks about who or what they destroy as long as they get to absorb more chimeras.
@@justascarecrow6988 that sounds pretty cool. I agree she Just wasn't trying to explain anything. She kept acting like she was running out if time. Aaaah I want a sequel! Or a spinoff or something explaining exactly what she was doing
The reason why she couldn't explain it is Yoseph. He's the one that trapped her in the Astral Plane. She was in the way of his plans, and he sent her off to die. Even if she surrendered peacefully, he definitely wouldn't give her a moment to tell anything to us, especially anything that could jeopardize his goal (which is what the time limit is)
It's funny because there is similar game in the end of ps2 era when you can control some kind of "stando" partner to fight beside your character. The game is called "Chaos Legion." In this game, your "stando" partner is called Legion.
Am I the only one who likes to appreciate the amazing entrance the protagonist does at the beginning Landing from a helicopter then telling your sword legion to just sick em is awsome
It is very unfortunate that her character didn't last long. I feel she could have been very pleasing to interact with. She seemed to have a good heart. This fight was not pleasing one bit. One of the few characters in fantasy I mourned for.
Honestly, I wish there was some sort of choice for who we could side with. After going through the entirety of the game I would choose Jena over Yoseph any day
I have to admit, before chapter 8 I had a really bad time with the game, especially with the platforming parts. However, I was really digging the combat, especially the boss fights. Moments like this really make the game worth it, in my opinion. I'd say it's definitely an 8/10 and cannot wait for the sequel to improve on all the rough parts of the first.
Man, Jena's final phase looks like Solaris from Sonic 06. Which looked even more badass than that game I mean look at her! She looks like a demon god in that form!
@@fatalis-quest1709 yeah I can't wait either. I really love this game. It has that xeno and nier automata feel to it and I love it! Something about the sci fi setting makes it awesome.
Even i saw immediately that this Yoshep guy was no good, and just from this scene. So it's quite amazing how dense everyone protecting him is to not see that. (Or maybe too much anime and betrayal scenes made me spot him fast, but i don't think that's the reason xD)
Well, we got to see a few shady scenes the other characters didn't, besides, the main character and akira are police officers, they can't neglect their duties.
@@Kit76879 Well i didn't see anything besides this scene, and i knew from the start after he and the "boss" woman talked that he was a NO GOOD. So those policies are idiots. xD
@@eiyu-okuroryokan2634 Even if they realised they can't do a thing, he is the boss, you know, the one that paids them, if something happened to him they would be arrested.
@@Kit76879 I do get all of that and that's what's stupid in this scenes. I mean he fought until the limit to protected him only to get "killed", better kill that bastard and be arrested after. But this scenes are always like this so nothing wrong, i only think his morals should be more important than his job, and this guy clearly is bad. Besides it was not just about his job, if it was then he could have let the other kill him when he lost her on the roof and then defeat her.
This game was going to be chaos legion until Nintendo told them that a cyberpunk game would be better than a medieval game, since there are too many medieval games, this game is also more than just fighting, it is actually about investigating and talking with the people like a cop, is a detective game with hack n slash fights
Jena Anderson is similar to Silas Miller from the TV Show, A.T.O.M: They both worked for powerful business men (Jena Anderson worked for Yoseph Calvert, while Silas Miller worked for Janus Lee), both were betrayed by them, both tried to kill them in revenge later on, as well as the respective protagonists, only to be defeated by the latter, and both tried to warn the protagonists of their respective superiors true natures. But due to them trying to kill them previously, the warnings were completely ignored.
The legion fusion is pretty cool. It does cause some concern for the main character like "Oh no is this what He/She will now look like?" Problem is once you can control it, the damn thing takes an eternity to charge! It went from "Oh God! What's going to happen now?!" To "Oh come on already!"
Fernando Segovia I like it. It makes it feel more real than the other games that make no effort into putting sounds in the characters movements. You know when characters run and punch and make no noise whatsoever
@@friendlyfriday3445 I can see the effort to make the movements feel stronger in this cutscene but I wouldn't say it feels more real, this is more like Batman's hits in the Batman Arkham games where whenever he hit an enemy it sounded like an earthquake, they put effort but it comes out as funny rather than realistic or stronger. Still, I like the feeling it gives to the game.
The English voice acting was trying to mimic the Japanese one where stuff like that is very common. Issue is, the voice direction was definitely made for Japanese voice acting in mind and not English. In English it comes off as kind of forced and awkward at times. Japanese feels hell of a lot more natural
While this wasn't the hardest boss in the game, far from it actually, it was the most climactic one in my opinion. And the music... Holy noah the music.
*calling both Jojo and Dante from DMC 5* yeah uhhh...did u two make out and have a baby? Cause I found your baby right here *pointing at the monster* =w= Jokes aside, does that thing even have a name? Like I get Beast, Sword, Arrow, Arms, and Axe Legion but...what's the name of this one? ^^;
TheKageichi sooo...you think it’s name is just Legion? 🤔 Personally, I thought it’s name would be based on their job (Neuron) or from Yoseph’s experiments (Noah)
It's a fused Legion. When a human is on the brink of death and happens to master the Legion, the Legions survival instinct will kick in and make sure that the human do not die.
I haven’t finished this yet but I was kinda expecting we’d side with jena at some point since she gave us that tablet in the astral plane... but no she just dies. I wanted to know more about her :(
I didn't trust Yoseph from the very first moment I saw him, and I felt like there was a reason why Jena was doing what the did. Jena deserved better. She was trying to stop him, of course she probably went about it wrong lol Jena Deserved better.
It was painfully obvious how Yoseph wasn't right in the brain, not to mention the main baddy, yet the game forced you to defend him until you finally got betrayed. The gameplay was excellent but the villain sucked.
Does anyone know what happens when you fail to spin the left and right stick enough times when you’re trying to restrain yourself from hurting Akira? Do you actually kill her?
Imagine Saving your boss from certain death only so he can fire your ass right after 🤔
And try to Murder you.
An extreme version of retail pretty much.
When I first saw that scene play out, I was constantly saying, “This can’t be how it ends.”
He didn’t just fire you, he literally tried to kill you!
One of the greatest things abt this bossfight is the perfectly implemented QTE at 17:19, it happens so seamlessly and done so elegantly that you just do it out of instinct and immerses you even more in the climatic finale...
Astral Chain is the best anime of the season
Astral Chain and Beastars are the best animes of this Seasons.
I’d pay to see an actual anime for this. Also there had better be an Astral Chain 2
It's been 3 years fam. Yet no word.. 😭
@@AzureMoebius22
This game has too many ' No F-ing Way!!!!!' moments, and I can't complain about it.
That's the beauty of Platinum Games
Main Character pulled his Devil Trigger
So yes. I’ll be getting Astral Chain.
That Will Be $80.00 Please
@@SpatialAndTemporalEvangelicals only in Canada
So yes. I heard that no one can deflect the emerald splash.
Pirate King Boros your name and pfp gives me a seizure
@@twiphe4375Beast leguin deflect shield skill:
“So, you still don’t understand...”
UNDERSTAND WHAT?! YOU BARELY EXPLAINED ANYTHING
I feel like Jena might've had a good idea but went about it the wrong way. She kept being cryptic about her plan instead of properly explaining it. I think her plan was to turn everyone into chimeras but with a human consciousness. That way the Chimera would stop instinctively attacking them and they could coexist. The way she went about it was wrong though. I think she also knew about Chimeric fusion and that it could cause a self destructive power boost and had been (all too subtly) warning the main character. She was very contradictory in her approach. She didn't once properly explain her plan and instead of trying to explain and convince them of what she's doing is correct, she tried to convince them with force. She could've them take her in, let them interrogate her, and she gives the full explanation and then let them decide whether to stop her or help her. But from the way she was acting, she may have had limited time to work things out that way. Like maybe she managed to keep conscious control of her Chimera form but was slowly losing it. Not sure about that but something was giving her a time limit.
I think her plan was to keep Humans out of the fight entirely.
Homunculi absorb Chimeras without any effort, effectively cleansing the areas they scour.
Jena probably wanted to use the Homunculi as living bulldozers, trampling their way through humanity's enemy.
While humans keep them under control.
Problem is, she explained it super poorly. It was as if she tried to be a terrorist/villain instead of bringing her point across. Also, how in the fuck did she expect to control her sentient bulldozers? A single Homunculus can devastate entire zones, giving little fucks about who or what they destroy as long as they get to absorb more chimeras.
@@justascarecrow6988 that sounds pretty cool. I agree she Just wasn't trying to explain anything. She kept acting like she was running out if time. Aaaah I want a sequel! Or a spinoff or something explaining exactly what she was doing
It's because she knew she was in a video game and knew that it had to be a surprise reveal.
Edit: typo
Bitch just wandered 20 years in the astral plane, no wonder why she was crazy af lmao
The reason why she couldn't explain it is Yoseph.
He's the one that trapped her in the Astral Plane. She was in the way of his plans, and he sent her off to die.
Even if she surrendered peacefully, he definitely wouldn't give her a moment to tell anything to us, especially anything that could jeopardize his goal (which is what the time limit is)
Yoseph looks like Anime version of Jim Gordon
Imagine how irrelevant Batman would become if he had officers like this lol.
Now as the squad is heading out to kill chimeras all I can here is
F*** off with you! X6
Reminds me more of Gendo Ikari
Anime Dr. Wily
@@nintendex9288With how he's written now a days he'd have one just cause he's Batman.
Is anyone else gonna talk about the music from 19:38 onward?
Because I got chills first time I heard it.
Too bad its never released in the soundtrack
It sounds like an instrumental version of Dark Hero...
One of the best boss fights I've ever experienced. Period.
HANDS DOWN
Noah first phase was amazing with us just using our legion to go from rock to rock
Games like this are the reason why I want to get a Nintendo switch
Good luck saving up!
Well now they have the handheld only one which is way cheaper
It's funny because there is similar game in the end of ps2 era when you can control some kind of "stando" partner to fight beside your character. The game is called "Chaos Legion." In this game, your "stando" partner is called Legion.
I played the crap out of that game
Me too. I played that game until PS2 and I were broken.
That game needs a sequel. Played the hell out of it and maxed out all the legions.
@@ned418 Just think of this game as a spiritual successor to it. Platinum was founded by ex Capcom employees, after all.
Am I the only one who likes to appreciate the amazing entrance the protagonist does at the beginning
Landing from a helicopter then telling your sword legion to just sick em is awsome
It is very unfortunate that her character didn't last long. I feel she could have been very pleasing to interact with. She seemed to have a good heart. This fight was not pleasing one bit. One of the few characters in fantasy I mourned for.
Honestly, I wish there was some sort of choice for who we could side with. After going through the entirety of the game I would choose Jena over Yoseph any day
@@jboy5253 that would be sick
I liked jenas motivation
@@Luptris technically we side with Yoseph until the very end where you fight him. Other than you always go against the chimeras and Jena
I have to admit, before chapter 8 I had a really bad time with the game, especially with the platforming parts. However, I was really digging the combat, especially the boss fights. Moments like this really make the game worth it, in my opinion. I'd say it's definitely an 8/10 and cannot wait for the sequel to improve on all the rough parts of the first.
You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain
Polneraff
Sometimes, you can live even longer to be the hero again.
That moment when you have a cool boss fight and a kick ass boss fight theme.
The power of Platinum Games. Even the smallest grunts has epic music.
I really wish that there was an actual ost dedicated to the first fusion scene. This file had fantastic music all around
Man, Jena's final phase looks like Solaris from Sonic 06. Which looked even more badass than that game I mean look at her! She looks like a demon god in that form!
God Jena has some of the best boss music in the game!
Jenas final form reminds me a lot of Zanza's final form.
This game feels like a xeno spin off game. I mean hell there's a character named jin.
So I was not the only one who thought that. Speaking of Zanza, I can't wait to see how he looks in XC Definitive Edition.
@@fatalis-quest1709 yeah I can't wait either. I really love this game. It has that xeno and nier automata feel to it and I love it! Something about the sci fi setting makes it awesome.
xenoblade fan?!?!
yes I agree...
Brady Otter and Jin looks just like akhos...
Pro tip: Use IRIS on a boss to add their health bar to the top of the screen
But where's the fun in that? Is so much more challenging not knowing how much health they have, kinda more fun too.
And you'll get a bonus point for not using IRIS
After finishing the game, I'm starting to think that Jena was a little bit right. Maybe.
She was 100% Right about everything
The Protagonist transformed into an EVA 01. So cool.
Ladies and gentlemen, this game has 11 files and Jena is the boss of file 9. This ain't even the final boss of the whole game
It has 12 files
@@hr-g4640 file 12 is postgame, i think jacket was referring to the story
Jena didn't need to go that hard but she did anyways.
Technically 12. The last one is basically a post game epilogue so...
This boss fight reminded me of why I love video games.
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This game in general reignited my love for video games
Ngl : Jena Ultimate form design ain't half bad : love that little detail of her arms being tied up !
Also, QTE to avoid killing your friends ? Great !
Even i saw immediately that this Yoshep guy was no good, and just from this scene. So it's quite amazing how dense everyone protecting him is to not see that.
(Or maybe too much anime and betrayal scenes made me spot him fast, but i don't think that's the reason xD)
Well, we got to see a few shady scenes the other characters didn't, besides, the main character and akira are police officers, they can't neglect their duties.
Still is very obvious he's the bad guy, everyone who played the game agrees on that.
@@Kit76879
Well i didn't see anything besides this scene, and i knew from the start after he and the "boss" woman talked that he was a NO GOOD.
So those policies are idiots. xD
@@eiyu-okuroryokan2634 Even if they realised they can't do a thing, he is the boss, you know, the one that paids them, if something happened to him they would be arrested.
@@Kit76879
I do get all of that and that's what's stupid in this scenes.
I mean he fought until the limit to protected him only to get "killed", better kill that bastard and be arrested after.
But this scenes are always like this so nothing wrong, i only think his morals should be more important than his job, and this guy clearly is bad.
Besides it was not just about his job, if it was then he could have let the other kill him when he lost her on the roof and then defeat her.
just finished file 9 AND DAMN WAS THIS FIGHT EPIC AS F*CK! had the chills while beating jena
Speaking of legions ....
Hopefully after this , capcom would rekindle the interest on Chaos Legion .
This game was going to be chaos legion until Nintendo told them that a cyberpunk game would be better than a medieval game, since there are too many medieval games, this game is also more than just fighting, it is actually about investigating and talking with the people like a cop, is a detective game with hack n slash fights
Like ARPG then ?
even better
I knew this game reminded me of something . It was chaos legion. Thanks dude.
I thought, 'Why does this remind me of Bayonetta...?'; then I found out it was from Platinum Games.
Jena Anderson is similar to Silas Miller from the TV Show, A.T.O.M: They both worked for powerful business men (Jena Anderson worked for Yoseph Calvert, while Silas Miller worked for Janus Lee), both were betrayed by them, both tried to kill them in revenge later on, as well as the respective protagonists, only to be defeated by the latter, and both tried to warn the protagonists of their respective superiors true natures. But due to them trying to kill them previously, the warnings were completely ignored.
How are you Vergil, JoJos and Persona all at the same time?
And Evangelion
And bayonetta
And copy x from megaman zero 1
And metal gear rising
Platinum magic baybeeee
Am I the only one who thought that Jena’s final phase looked like Solaris from sonic 06?
It reminds me of Zanza's final form too.
The futuristic version of Chaos Legion. I’m getting this for sure!
Her first angel form looks badass
That transformation is so badass
Really reminiscent of the boss from MGS3
Its an enemy stand
*menacing*
[ S T A N D O P O W E R ]
N-NANI?!!
Jena requiem
“Blue Evolve”, pretty sure she’s purple Akira
The legion fusion is pretty cool. It does cause some concern for the main character like "Oh no is this what He/She will now look like?" Problem is once you can control it, the damn thing takes an eternity to charge! It went from "Oh God! What's going to happen now?!" To "Oh come on already!"
@Tono_lagos there's an item that does that?
@Tono_lagos cuts it down a little bit, but that still means "Come on Legion fusion!"
damn the music!
I'm stuck on this boss fight. I lost all my revives and used up all my health before she turns into that thing.
Have you beaten it yet?
this boss fight was fucking amazing holy shit dude
the combat and music give me such a vibe of NieR: Automata....
Same director I believe
@@beefybaratiddies No, the game designer of Nier directed this game. Yoko Taro had no involvement.
the music is composed by the same composer for NieR: Automata
They need to bring Nier Automata to switch
"Can you call yourself human?"
ORE WA NINGEN O YAMERU ZO, JENA!!!
Jena went from giant toothpick to giant angel and I don't know what to think
Does anyone else say, “I am thou, thou art I” when using the fusion?
I dont understand the super power in this game. So the characters fight each other with their Stands?
Nah they're called legions and they're basically chimeras (the enemies of this game) but tamed
John Doe: so basically stands
Pokémon + stands
@@doomsday1268 you don't tame stand bro
So like in Chaos Legion back on the PS2?
I can't stop laughing at the exaggerated sounds whenever they move their arms lol
Fernando Segovia I like it. It makes it feel more real than the other games that make no effort into putting sounds in the characters movements. You know when characters run and punch and make no noise whatsoever
@@friendlyfriday3445 I can see the effort to make the movements feel stronger in this cutscene but I wouldn't say it feels more real, this is more like Batman's hits in the Batman Arkham games where whenever he hit an enemy it sounded like an earthquake, they put effort but it comes out as funny rather than realistic or stronger. Still, I like the feeling it gives to the game.
The English voice acting was trying to mimic the Japanese one where stuff like that is very common. Issue is, the voice direction was definitely made for Japanese voice acting in mind and not English. In English it comes off as kind of forced and awkward at times. Japanese feels hell of a lot more natural
Stand user: MCop
Stand name: flying yellow Dude with razors instead of hands
Stand power: Why is this in my recomendation?
Raise your hands if you thought this was the final boss.
Joseph screamed "final boss" from the first time he appears. He has that "mad scientist" look all over his face.
🤚
While this wasn't the hardest boss in the game, far from it actually, it was the most climactic one in my opinion.
And the music... Holy noah the music.
CHorus is a GOD, Rewritte worked like a charm
I'm getting strong final fantasy boss vibes from her.
Hojo?
I don't know why, but the game just makes more sense to me if the protagonist is the girl
I feel the opposite
The girl makes a better side main character, her VA performance is amazing when compared to the male twin ( if you play the female)
Akira kinda sounds like more of a girl name to me
@@VITIN1201 But the only one Akira popular are Akira Toriyama.
wolfoux I named my protagonist tetsuo
This. This is why Persona series has great potential to be made ACT games.
DTWesker Do you mean the characters being able to fight like the way they do in this game?
@@spenserfarman3045 Yeah....JoJo Eyes of Heaven is not good enough to be the example but this game is an entirely different case.
The finale episode of Jojo part 9 is looking gorgeous.
21:35 What is.... what is this warm liquid running down my cheeks?
I note that you can Chain Bind Jena's arms.
Rengake female: Fiona I know you're in here. Just listen what your Husband said
Cat: Never!!
now i understand where Luka´s Strider Form comes from.
Looks like Sigrun got Dark Sun Gwendolin pregnant
Jackthestripper “Gwyndolin”
next level persona
I actually made my Blade Legion red and black so now he looks like Arsene from Persona 5
customizing your legion, only makes the game more cool. damn wish i could play it
dirty sprite the downside is that you have to unlock other color options. Also do you not own a Switch?
18:30 what's the name of that soundtrack
Jenas cute
yes but she need to take a shower and some clean clothes
@@mailoup349 thats true haha
4:10 Jena requiem
10:10 Jena Requiem Act 4 Over Heaven
*calling both Jojo and Dante from DMC 5* yeah uhhh...did u two make out and have a baby? Cause I found your baby right here *pointing at the monster* =w=
Jokes aside, does that thing even have a name? Like I get Beast, Sword, Arrow, Arms, and Axe Legion but...what's the name of this one? ^^;
I consider that form what a real legionis would be. So just legionis would be one name or just legion fusion
TheKageichi sooo...you think it’s name is just Legion? 🤔
Personally, I thought it’s name would be based on their job (Neuron) or from Yoseph’s experiments (Noah)
It's a fused Legion. When a human is on the brink of death and happens to master the Legion, the Legions survival instinct will kick in and make sure that the human do not die.
I haven’t finished this yet but I was kinda expecting we’d side with jena at some point since she gave us that tablet in the astral plane... but no she just dies. I wanted to know more about her :(
Very good game indeed
I didn't trust Yoseph from the very first moment I saw him, and I felt like there was a reason why Jena was doing what the did.
Jena deserved better. She was trying to stop him, of course she probably went about it wrong lol
Jena Deserved better.
This was snubbed for GOTY?
How dare you Yoseph...
Lol I just bullied her with grenades in the first fight
This boss fight was so much better than the final boss fight. This one was genuinely fun, I think it's far superior to all Noah stages. 🤷♂️
nope
Both was great fights
this music was way better than the Noah boss music tho.
Noah is harder tho but i kinda wish that we can fight that giant noah instead of the core and prime only
Jena is absolutely awesome but Noah was even better for me
This music is hype as fuck
*Jenna was a better boss than Noah: change my mind*
1:27 woah I thought that was Jehuty for a second
I love the game so much I have a Nintendo switch to. I just don't have the game I love it though ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I saw Akira isn't helping to his Brother.
It was painfully obvious how Yoseph wasn't right in the brain, not to mention the main baddy, yet the game forced you to defend him until you finally got betrayed. The gameplay was excellent but the villain sucked.
yea ikr, I didn't trust him way before this and it sucks how much the dialogue could have been changed to make it more bealiveable
I like that your stand looks like XO Manowar.
Ok, so the other character option (the opposite gender) appears as another character if you do not select it huh?
Yes their default name becomes Akira.
Yes.
Dude, 1 point of the goatee is to HIDE that bootychin.
They even pay homage to Asuras Wrath overly dramatic transformations and fairy dust deaths.
What's the soundtrack at 19:40 I like that sequence
I'll assume that it hasn't been released yet. The one that's lurking online is the Sound Selection. The full OST isn't out yet
This is basically jojo and pokemon if they did a collab
What is this? Chris Peppler voicing or have his face use as Yosep chaarcter?
Angewoman? Digimon??
Lol
I though the same.
Why you only use sword legion dude?
Sorry Jena. I should be trust you😭
Does anyone know what happens when you fail to spin the left and right stick enough times when you’re trying to restrain yourself from hurting Akira? Do you actually kill her?
If the only the story was as good as everything else
Legend is a stand
"...after your salvation is compleat."
Someone likes Phyrexians?
@@Izelor Yep lol
Jojo would be proud
Ghost in the Shell says hold my sake.
legend fo sahdo clawsis
using the axe legion in this fight is so satisfying, the counters are so good.