Very awesome music you made.

Incredible song. Very dramatic, yet also action-packed.

This is really awesome stuff, man. A lot of people are totally missing out here.

Sweet!

Originality for the win. Your music rocks!

Really awesome stuff right here.

Really weird analysis criteria. 15 seconds of one song vs 45 of another?

For Dissidia Final Fantasy OST Final boss The Messenger (D - It's Forgettable) kzbin.info/www/bejne/jIHLfYKmZpx7fsk I hate this music it sounds like AMV

This is a very breathtaking rendition of the battle theme. Much more energetic than the original.

Epic remix!!!

somebody let bro cook and he burned down the house

Imagine this playing on a final fantasy 8 remake. Just like square did with other final fantasy 7 songs. This is amazing. I wish square would seriously consider making a ff8 remake.

Phenomenal arrangement. The percussion and string sounds really seem like an ensemble playing.

this one's insane

If you're looking for some new Final Fantasy VGM remixes and other content, check out: Bandcamp - Retro VGM 2023 Volume 1 / Retro VGM 2023 Volume 2 / Castlevania 2023 (Volumes 1 and 2 feature remixes from FF Mystic Quest, FF4, FF6, FF7, and FF9)

If you're looking for some new Final Fantasy VGM remixes and other content, check out: Bandcamp - Retro VGM 2023 Volume 1 / Retro VGM 2023 Volume 2 / Castlevania 2023 (Volumes 1 and 2 feature remixes from FF Mystic Quest, FF4, FF6, FF7, and FF9)

Four S tier boss themes: * FF4 - Battle with the Four Fiends * FF5 - Battle on the Big Bridge * FF6 - Atma Weapon * FF Mystic Quest - Boss Theme

Agree with Stand Your Ground, Up for the Challenge is even better imo.

There are some battle theme bangers in every Tales game, but my favorites are almost never the first ones. I really like the Tethe'alla's battle theme in Symphonia, Never Surrender from Abyss, Tenacity from Vesperia, etc. They usually pull out the best battle themes in the final or pre-final act of the story imo 😅

The Ps1 Tales games give me such a high! I adore those Ps1 midi drums!

In my opinion, Tales of The World; Radiant Mythology's is the worst! Its so boring and unmotivating.

Tales of the Abyss actually has an anime adaptation that was uploaded to KZbin by the official Tales Of Channel! I recommend giving it a watch, it is probably the strongest Tales Of story out there. Gameplay was also solid, but far from my favorite Tales game - but story-wise, I consider it one of the best.

XIII and XIII-2 deserve so much moreee here, they might not be super energetic but they sound incredible and really get across the "we won the battle! let's relish in our victory" vibes while also really driving home the technological aspects of the games

Legendia is such a black sheep in the franchise. Chibi art style, different composer, back to 2D battles. It has it's issues (post game is just as long as the actual game with no VO in the US version), and I believe it's not very well liked by the community, but it was my first and I love it to death. The soundtrack is the best in the franchise IMO. Go Shiina one of the GOATs. Also, Vesperia on hard is crazy difficult due to some of the difficulty spikes (see the forest boss that was in the demo). Definitely recommend giving it a go again on normal difficulty.

Still awesome

Love to see more love for the Tales games. (also fellow magilou enjoyer hell yea 🤝🏾)

Never thought I'd get to find a tales of battle theme tier list video in my lifetime. Thank you for that. Sakuraba is my favorite game music composer.

Would love to see ranking legend of heroes trails battle themes.

For me, The Edge of A Decision, Like a Glint of Light (both 1 and 2), Flame of Hope and My Sword Shall Open the Way all stand out in my head for Tales battle themes none of them are the first battle theme however except for Flame of Hope, which makes sense. They would likely save the stronger battle themes for different parts of the game's story. Regardless your opinions pretty much lined up with mine. Didn't know Rebirth's first battle theme cooked that hard

once you do tales of boss would a grab bag of motio sakuraba other work be a good idea?

Yo dude you should definitely check out the Legend of Heroes Trails series when it comes to battle themes

Ff8 is my favorite game

I'm Vesperia biased so Furnace of War is my favorite 1st battle theme, but also fun fact, Arise's 1st battle theme is a remix of Vesperia's act 3 battle theme Tenacity, so that's cool.

Yo, I'm telling you to go figure out a way to learn the Rebirth battle system. As an avid Tales of fan its the best one they ever did IMO and its easily the best RPG battle system I ever played. Some of the boss fights from that live rent free in my head for life. I don't know a lick of Japanese but I worked out how to get through it (with manual translation docs alongside to help a bit). The painful part was dealing with the customization cubes because I would have to work out a few of the things on there to get my bearings on it before I knew what was what and that customization of abilities is an enormous part of the gameplay. But seriously, its worth the effort. Its also the biggest screw up of any game dev company IMO that it STILL does NOT have a legit english translation. I mean hell, it doesn't even have a legit fan translation (one has been in the works for like 10+ years but its stuck in some special kind of hell). I got through the story thanks to the amazing work of Lanyn doing subtitled vids of the whole damn game.

Sakuraba is an odd composer. Sometimes his OSTs feel very phoned in, other times they are just insane. Sometimes the battle themes are just there, then we get stuff like Isaac's theme or the Saturos battle theme... Running trend there, yeah I'd say the first 2 Golden sun games on GBA are Sakuraba's best work. He also knocks it out the park in the Star Ocean games, I mean Stab the sword of Justice from SO2 is phenomenal (often overlooked in general, but Star Ocean the last hope has some stellar tracks especially the battle theme) To me though Sakuraba will always be the synth master, especially synth pan flutes, he really loved those pan flutes in the 2000's from Golden Sun to Tales to bloody Mario Golf. Legendary composer that always feels like a coin flip is the gist of my ramble I suppose.

I'm sure Eternia was my first Tales Of game on the PSP, and you actually introduced me to it and the Tales series with it lol My favourites are Rebirth, Legendia, Arise and Hearts. (Man, I FORGOT how hard Battle Artist went and that it was the normal battle theme)

Just as FFXIV has a 'final boss' theme for each expansion, FFXI did the same earlier. Awakening is the final boss of vanilla, but there's five more expansions and three short scenarios that all have their own final boss themes, plus more side campaign stuff that was added whose soundtracks I'm not aware of.

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For the DC version of Tales of Destiny, it features Leon as the MC and has his own version of his battle theme that replaces the main one. For Radiant Mythology, while it reuses battle themes from other games, it has its own battle theme named Blazing! (other battle themes from other games are used when it is about quests or battles related to the other characters). Don't forget themes from the mobile games such as Tales of Crestoria and Tales of Luminaria (ost made by Go Shiina for the latter).

For me it's gonna be very hard pressed to knock The Arrow Was Shot and Furnace of War off the top perch together though that might also be just Abyss and Vesperia being the first Tales games I always think about. Though man I forgot how epic sounding Don't Look Back was, has me more curious now if they'll keep that kind of grand feel to general music in the next Tales game.

Tales of Symphonia is my all time favorite game! Nice to see the battle theme ranked well!

FF15 Comrades fanfare was saying to the player: U won the battle but not the war. Also, FF8 is the ost goat!

Wow, after your awesome FF rankings now the Tales of series?! Motoi Sakuraba, master of prog rock?! Count me in, hell yeah :)

Oh I'm here for this. MASSIVE Tales fan

Vesperia in A? I love that game, but that battle theme was the epitome of mid and basic. It also gets repetitive real quick. Outside the guitar it be forgettable. Would put it at C

I'm curious why you can't get the original versions of songs. They're all easily accessible on KZbin...

Aaaay let's go!

Some games have multiple boss themes, like FF2 and FF4. FF1 remasters have 2, a regular boss theme and a theme for the elemental lords.

Key point about One Winged Angel (and Zanarkand)...in every Distant Worlds Concert, they must be played. One Winged Angel is also always the 'encore' after Arnie Roth pretends to be done with the concert. And then he lets the audience sing. On 9, the moans of the damned are the best part :)