It starts with choral chanting and epic orchestral music befitting of a final boss. “Serpent Eating the Ground” is the high-energy final-boss theme for Bravely Default. The song went on to become Shulk’s victory theme in Smash Bros.ģ: Serpent Eating the Ground – Bravely Default “You Will Know Our Names” stands as one of the most iconic songs from Xenoblade, and is often used by Nintendo and fans alike to promote the game. The guitar-heavy track gets your blood pumping and alerts you that you are either entering a boss fight or will be battling against an extra deadly unique monster out in the field. You know you are getting into an awesome fight once “You Will Know Our Names” starts playing. Ridley” memorably keeps playing during the opening escape sequence of Super Metroid after Ridley escapes making it feel even more stressful. Ridley.” Every showdown with the big purple space dragon has music that expands on the small core loop of the intense original track. While the original name of this track in Super Metroid was simply “Big Boss Confrontation,” (a name it shares with another track that plays with different bosses like Kraid and Phantoon) this song has since gone on to be known as “Vs. Ridley (Big Boss Confrontation – Ridley and Draygon) – Super MetroidĬomposer: Kenji Yamamoto and Minako Hamano “The Opened Way” does a terrific job of capturing and even elevating the scale of the encounter to make each fight feel truly substantial.ĥ: Vs. It plays during fights with four of the colossi, and always begins the moment the tide of battle has shifted in your favor, like when you stab the back of the leg of the first colossus to cause it to collapse. “The Opened Way” is the most iconic song from the Shadow of the Colossus soundtrack. Brawl is especially powerful because it amps up all of the percussion and horns to make it even punchier.Ħ: The Opened Way – Shadow of the Colossus
The N64-inspired version of the song featured in Super Smash Bros. The theme has been remixed several times, which often leads to the theme becoming slower and more sweeping, as heard in Star Fox Assault. Star Wolf’s theme really sells the space-opera feel of Star Fox and makes each encounter with them feel like an event. Star Wolf are rivals with Star Fox, and their theme features peppy horns and drums that never let up. The song frequently appeared in the menus of the first two games, which gave it even more prominence. “Awakening the Chaos” also has a nice break in the middle that features a flute carrying on the melody in the absence of the vocals. While the song is still guitar heavy like the rest of BlazBlue’s soundtrack, it is actually the vocal “Ahs” of the song that drive it forward. “Awakening the Chaos” is final boss Nu-13’s theme in BlazBlue Calamity Trigger. This song expands Magus’ personality long before he joins your party. The eerie start to the song is followed by a bombastic MIDI orchestra, and also contains some of the same wailing and moaning sounds you heard throughout the castle. You need to travel through time to fully prepare your party to enter Magus’ castle, and then you need defeat his hordes in order to confront the demon lord. The battle with Magus is a climactic event in Chrono Trigger, and worthy of its own unique boss-battle theme. Players found this out for themselves when “The Ballad of Lil’ Slugger” was featured as DLC for Rock Band 3. While the solo is a delight to listen to, it is very challenging to actually perform. The music that accompanies the battle is excellent and features an awesome electric guitar solo. Lil’ Slugger is the first boss in Super Meat Boy, and to defeat him you simply need to run away. Here are 10 of the best boss-battle themes of all time.ġ0: Ballad of Lil’ Slugger – Super Meat Boy These battles require suitably complex and epic boss-battle music to elevate the action and make them even more memorable.
It often takes everything you have learned to triumph over the most deadly and epic of foes. A good boss battle serves as a climax for your journey.
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