Raphael's Final Act | Baldur's Gate 3 [Part 58]

[@thirdcoinedge]

Baldur's Gate 3 really said, "Y'know what we're missing? A GODDAMN DISNEY VILLAIN SONG!"

[@rayclay3249]

Kinda funny that these days everybody can do a Disney Villain song better than Disney themselves

[@savlecz1187]

AND THEY WERE RIGHT!

[@russety]

DOOMED. DETECTED. AND CAUGHT.

[@SirCharles12357]

Organ music!

[@cealens]

the way you were dead silent when raphael’s final act started 😭😭 no more deals ITS OVER!!!!!

[@dsilvermane0]

The Raphael fight is hands-down the best in the game to me. What a fantastic setpiece, with that incredible theme. Just incredible. Raphael's Final Act. SO GOOD!!!

[@DeltaLightTSFH]

you know that you are doomed when the boss start singing his own ost

[@Blat223]

And also detected and caught

[@ericwilford2156]

Raphael’s voice acting, writting, the house of hope build up, all climaxing with the amazing song all come together to create one of my favorite boss fights/gaming moments. I’ve been waiting the whole playthrough for this moment!

[@PackZTerrible]

Perfectly executed by larian

[@iamboringvideos6832]

plus since you can hear the theme song every time you see Raphael.

[@ryandavies7905]

My favorite part is that out of all the characters Rafael makes the most sense to actually be singing this while fighting lol.

[@isisnoreija]

When you cast silence upon Raphael while he sings you get an instrumental version of the song as long as the spell lasts ❤ Larian have such an eye for details!

[@vincent4805]

Pretty sure that's an urban myth that got disproved

[@isisnoreija]

@ I tried it myself and it worked 🤔 but that was many patch iterations ago, maybe they changed it? They did change the soundtrack of the fight since then (back at the beginning you didn’t get the full version of the song only once but it would repeat after a while, now only two small parts are repeated)

[@nezfromhki]

I'm sooooo glad Raphael's Final Act wasn't spoiled for you, that reaction was for sure worth the wait.

[@darth_cat2541]

2:41:22. Raphael's body didn't actually decompose, if you inspect his corpse it's shows " Dead ( Until long rest ) " so Raphael technically didn't die die. Raphael is with Mephistopheles, If you go to the the cristal ball in Devıl's fee again the cristal ball will show Raphael again but this time bloody and beaten up. And let's just say Mephistopheles is not happy with him 😂

[@iamboringvideos6832]

daddys mad

[@laigron7884]

but he shouldbe dead. If you kill devil in hi sdomain in hell he is dead dead.. Only if you kill him in realmspace then he returns to hell. so there is something else at play..

[@darth_cat2541]

@@laigron7884 Yes, According to the rules of DND, it should be like you said. I don't know why Raphael is alive but he is. Maybe they changed it because Larian liked the character 😂

[@ragenaros4475]

We all ve been waitin for ur reaction to that Legendary Music

[@nightfrost1891]

this song alone... it deserved all the awards for the soundtrack alone

[@nickrubin7312]

What an episode. I mean, I like circus ones and others, but what a spectacle :) Larian: "Can you sing?" Andrew Wincott: "Ehm... yes, I guess, why?". The man literally never sang as an actor/performer. Year after release, he performs live in a music hall with full audience. And it all makes sense, Raphael is a theater kid, a narcissist, we see him practicing poetry "until it was perfect" lol, he starts talking to us in act1 with a poem, ofc he would sing his own villain song. As far as the song goes, I think, just my personal opinion, that it is Hope and Raphael duo. Hope's part is about "mortal lives" (and all the souls that are doomed in Hells), and Raphael is an intimidation part in which he baits the party while recapping all the interactions party had with him and chances you had, but now there is "no more deals, it's over". I always thought of Raphael as one of the main villains, much more villainous and important than Chosen, even tho this is a completely optional quest overall. Like, yes, if you go you probably go for the contract or the hammer, but you don't really need to go, for various reasons. Maybe you trust the Emperor, who says you shouldn't go, maybe you never found a way to go, maybe you're ok with the deal with Raphael in a first place. And, in the end, the Hammer is just an item, you can somehow "accidentally" throw it into the chasm. Btw, yeah, there is a way to save Korilla and Hope will even address it, that her sister isn't dead and will "understand and find a way into the light" or something like that.

[@MikeMac1988]

Standard reaction to the Raphael fight 👌. The worst thing about this game is that once you play it, everything else just doesn't quite stack up. Absolutely phenomenal from Larian Studios

[@isisnoreija]

Yeah, one really does become spoiled by all the goodness 😅

[@flake-49-shino]

The House of Hope heist mission might be my favourite part of the game, it really feels like you are somewhere you shouldn't be and that sense of unease slowly morphs into dread and just keeps on building the whole way through to the final fight with Raphael. It's excellent, so well done. I love it Also i died when you rolled the two 15's. Some fey magic must be happening here, Ethel has broken the 4th wall and cursed you irl there is no other explanation 😂

[@conradoccaminha]

Yes i fucking love Raphael's theme song. I was as amazed as you were the first time i heard it too.

[@shahs1221]

This is one of THE best experiences I've ever had in a game. I did every optional mission and left this for last because I've heard from some mutuals about it and Raphael was already one of my favourite characters anyway. Nothing could have prepared me. Every time I watch my friends get to this part, the only thing I tell them is "raise your music volume and make sure you're on standard difficulty at least" and I can just hear their jaws drop, as they stare in awe at what's occuring. Like, OF COURSE it's Raphael who gets to have a meta/break the 4th wall moment this grandoise. GOD, what a fantastic character! True Disney/Jacobian villain realized and executed.

[@grapeape325]

1:23:32 it was a great speech!

[@NathanFrank-n9d]

Your reaction to Raphael's final act is priceless!

[@jemaselite8076]

Been waiting for this one since the playthrough began, my favourite boss fight of the game, mainly because of the music of course

[@AlmostYearly]

That's the thing: for me it's only in the top five fights, objectively speaking, song aside. Been dying for it anyway.

[@nickrubin7312]

@@AlmostYearly so true, and that's flavor wise, difficulty wise might be not even in top5, if we take all acts

[@Mikkey_Gee]

2:16:05 I also felt that Raphael deserved a final cutscene when I beat him. I HOPE they’ll patch it in someday.

[@nickrubin7312]

Actually agree. Even tho there are some things to be said: 1. Usually don't like boss final cutscenes after fight, since it breaks the immersion for me. Maybe just me, but if I burn a boss to the crisp, or perform some cool move in combat, I usually don't want to see either them somehow having a full-blown end speech or my character doing cool moves in the scene that are not the same moves that I performed in combat. Basically, I don't want Kai Leng type of loss/win in cutscene rather than actual reflection of my combat experience. Dark Souls experience is perfect this way, you don't have cutscenes, you have gameplay experience as is. However, for Raphael, it would be only too fitting to actually have one, and him citing poetry/singing while dying lol 2. There is a small, but very vocal, minority in the community, on some social, that treat additional cutscenes as "change of character", which is understandable, but overall wrong. Adding something new like this will create a weird discourse, not from the community at large, but a very vocal one. Like it was with "evil ending cinematics", all the branches and paths were already there, so effectively nothing has changed, but only visualization for existing paths were added, and some people just couldn't handle some of the cinematics, arguing "why would they add this", "who would do that", "it doesn't feel right". Like, at one point, they added an extended cinematic for one of the 8(!) Gale endings, for a very specific ending, and person who did it have proudly written about this on twitter on their personal account, and after that got harassed in DMs by some fans who imagined things differently (again, just an extended cinematic for already existing ending) I do hope they will add a cutscene for Raphael and some other "memorable" bosses that also kind of expected to have this, like Orin cutscene triggering only under specific circumstances and not just always, but they probably won't.

[@AstarionSpawn]

I really wish I could play this game for the first time again, 1,400 hours later and I’m still finding new content and am still in awe. No game hits the same after Baldurs Gate 3. Really love seeing your reactions! 😁

[@estonia76]

Absolutely incredible. I totally bungled the whole Rafael storyline in my own play through, so I didn’t get to experience any of this, it’s so wild!

[@violetbliss4399]

They did Raphael justice, I even love that he actually has a few weaknesses but appears so strong at first glance. It is so him.

[@trengilly01]

If Raphael had been a Bard he would have succeeded on Mind Dominating Mapocolops! 🤣

[@basseon]

I've been waiting for this fight for a long time! So, so, so good. Glad you liked it. You're the only streamer I watch really, respect. I don't get the strategy to spread out damage, you could have brought down 1 pillar on your first round AND kill Korilla, or take out 1 Cambion, which means less attacks on your group. I really hope you realize that Hope can totally banish Cambions that are still full of HP (you did! Big move!). I once casted Otto's Irresistible Dance on Raphael and it worked. 10 rounds of dancing! Arcana Restoration: always restore the highest lvl because you can Upcast anything.

[@viniciusstellium8012]

Gosh I love Hope so much, her writing is just 🤌🤌

[@ИванБылев-я1з]

NO MORE DEALS, IT'S OVER!

[@666Shinedown]

I was absolutely stunlocked when the goddamn Disney villain song started in my playthrough lol

[@rievemg]

The fight and SONG is the best thing ever. I missed it my first time

[@OceanHedgehog]

I love watching first time players just freeze when Raphael's Final Act starts playing. There's nothing like experiencing it for the first time.

[@lavabeard5939]

its crazy that I've never seen fiendish ascension. looks awesome

[@dalmaskadeadtrash3592]

that soundtrack WOW!

[@PatMagree]

"You knew I was gonna use that contract as toilet paper" on point

[@JohnZaun]

This was one of the two reasons I wanted to watch you play this. I knew your reaction to it would be epic.

[@lydia8226]

I didnt even realize when I first watched this video but *I finally caught up with the series!* I cannot wait to start watching episodes as they come out now, this is probably my favorite bg3 playthrough bar none

[@panamakira]

Raphael’s song is so good! Glad you got to this point. My fight was a bit different in that Yugir came to help me in this fight based on my conversation with him at his encounter

[@YellowBirdOfParadise]

I love the Raphael fight so much, such fun! I have the game soundtrack and every time the music starts I *have* to sing along with it, it's so epic.

[@siliqua4584]

I was waiting for it since the first episode of this LP!!! Loved your reaction!! And yeah, we all listen to this song on repeat. Honestly, I listen to the whole OST, it’s outstanding!

[@chrisdiokno5600]

Raphael's song lives rent free in my brain

[@saurabhch4001]

LIIIIIIIVEEEEESS… ALLL MORTAL LIIIIIIVEEEEESSSS

[@timmytrance82]

I love watching people react to this encounter. It's such an amazing story moment.

[@henrym7990]

It was fun to watch this. I recently discovered Baldur’s gate. I played it through a couple times. I’m also a fan of your’s-when I’m not playing a video game, I like to watch your channel. So currently I’m playing this game, and also watching you play. It was fun to see you do this section. It’s probably my favorite part of the game. Always a pleasure to watch your gameplay.

[@jamesmccarthy962]

Woo great work in the House it is an epic location and fight with great build up really emphasizing that Raphael is a threat beyond anything else and the fight presents that well. Globe of invulnerability coming in clutch, still some good fights ahead but that one is my favourite. The song is epic, it could be Korilla but i think it is Hope singing half the song with Raphael.

[@AlmostYearly]

Christmas is complete.

[@emperman]

Man i really should've waited a year to play bg3 lol this fight got so many improvements. Even the song has a proper loop now.

[@abessia1494]

Raphael is such a goddamn glorious bastard. One of the best video game villains of all time.

[@Just2Ddude]

ABSOLUTE CINEMA

[@chicoryfield4702]

This makes me hyped for Cazador, I can't wait to see your reaction

[@stephanied1024]

I'll beat this game at.... Some point, but I've been enjoying your playthrough now and then and this was absolutely one of the best parts of the game so far to me. (If not THE best, tbh.) Really one of the coolest boss fights I've ever fought. I was equally as shocked and overjoyed by the Disney villain song! The VA's in this game are on another level... Raphael's VA is spectacular. Wish more bosses had their own theme song they personally sang, haha.

[@PatMagree]

I've watched a lot of BG3 playthroughs and you have the best looking Tav by far

[@joshuanowlin443]

Best part of the game. Also an amusing way to deal with the beholder, turn them into sheep and you can throw them off the cliff.

[@siricat3231]

This has probably been my favourite episode yet for the Raphael fight alone

[@BySpartan]

LIVEEEEEES ALL MORTAL LIVEEEEEEES. EXPIRESSSSSS

[@nickrubin7312]

SOULS GO TO THEIR DOOMS IN FLAME, FOREVERMORE

[@KellyBunni]

I have been waiting for your reaction to this song for AGES and it did not disappoint

[@luminemo]

I love the adventure of Mapo the chaos gnome! Such a fun journey it has been, and I'm glad that it still continues even though Raphael does feel like a final boss. Raphael talking about Mapo bringing chaos was so fitting, and funny

[@woltanson1289]

Raphael's combat was for me the best of the game.

[@simongosselin4300]

Raphael is the kinda dude whose ego is so huge only he could sing his own damn theme song.

[@rebekahhernandez5434]

soooooo happy to finally watch your reaction to Raphael's song! haha

[@Katt3330]

I was so excited for this battle. You've done so much and there is still so much to be seen and done ❤ Your speech was great, I was holding my breath waiting to see what you rolled

[@itme7685]

Good thing you gave Karlach the constitution amulet and she had 173 health! And she was partially fire resistant until they gave her vulnerability.

[@BasicDomesticActivity]

Raphael fight with that song is the best part of the game. pure genius!

[@mrman-yj3bn]

THE wait.... ITS OVAH

[@CraigNull]

The way Yurgir walks in at 1:16:30 should be a meme if it isn't already -- indeed I just checked and it is in the generic gif repository on discord Whenever you weigh possible next steps you never mention Shadowheart's business in Baldur's Gate. Hope you haven't forgotten it's there, it's not exactly a trifle. Not that it needs to be rushed or anything

[@baileybyrd2116]

MAPOOOOOO. So excited to watch this!! I honestly love your play throughs! I love how much fun you are having and how you make every game you play “your own”! Just wanted to lyk I enjoy what you do and can’t wait to see what 2025 brings!

[@Blastanker]

Been waiting the whole play through for this lol

[@Evan056]

This is the premiere moment of the game for me; just glorious in every facet!

[@Theorak]

Quite the fiery act. The method of pulling the whole dungeon before doing the escort mission is bold. If you only used all spell slots and return to the boudoir between each encounter. Love how you brought chaos goblin into the house of Raphael. :D Always fun to see and hear the final act.

[@The_Nightsong]

That soundtrack ❤❤❤

[@chrisdiokno5600]

Today I learned there ARE Helldusk Boots. Gotta make a date with Gortash though

[@annina134]

The house of hope and the fight with Raphael is just 🤘 😄

[@BasedNate]

I have fallen behind on watching this let's play. I think I am back where you meet Derryth in the Underdark for the first time. But when I saw this episode drop, I had to click and skip to the part where Raphael's theme song starts to check your reaction, lol. Priceless!

[@TabbyVee]

About halfway through you were saying that Raphael feels like its a big build up to the final boss of the game despite this whole thing being optional, and well, thats because Raphael is probably the hardest enemy in the game bar none. Orin and Gortash are pretty tough, but Raphael just has *so much*, he has insane health, insane abilities, tons of followers, a level up gimmick, he can instantly kill your party if you use Divine Intervention at a bad time during his fight, and man, it only gets tougher when you play on Honour Mode.

[@MizuMing]

The best part is he's actually singing. You can use a silence spell to shut him up. 😂

[@TheJakson67]

THIS, this one is such an amazing detail! Raphael's theme is just top tier boss theme!

[@nickrubin7312]

> You can use a silence spell to shut him up I believe that's a community misconception, started somewhere on BG3 sub a while back. As much as I wish that was true, and same for Hope's part, and same for Raphael lips actually moving in the fight like he is indeed signing, that would be hard to execute mechanically (with all the starts and stops especially, accounting for going in and out of the silence, or direct silence effect, and so on), plus I don't think Larian thought of this in this particular case. I would say they were a bit too enamoured with their own creation for this fight to work all the corner-case devious variance.

[@MizuMing]

@nickrubin7312 I can go fight him when I start my game up tomorrow and directly test this. Anyone can test this. 🤨

[@lr-]

​@@MizuMingIt doesn't work, at least the last time I checked. However, silence can actually be used in some pretty fun ways because it DOES completely prevent NPCs from talking to you. So you can do stuff like take Minthara back to Act 1 by just silencing her before she can tell you she doesn't want to go.

[@nickrubin7312]

​@@MizuMing I tested this several times (like 4 times for each playthrough I fought him) :). It is not that it supposed to work but doesn't, it is that this is a common community misconception, akin to, idk, like, Peter Dinklage winning Emmy for 4x6 of GoT (he didn't that year, Aaron Paul did for Breaking Bad, and idk why I know this lol, I'll admit it is weird knowledge to have). It would be 12/10 interactivity in 10/10 interactive game if they made boss sing his own villain song, but you could actually use silence to prevent him from singing. I wish they kind of though about it and actually did it, but sadly, it isn't an interaction that is in the game. Still, it is the best part of this dungeon and absolute masterpiece of the detail that specifically Raphael sings his own song, and what is the song. As @lr said, silence is actually lots of fun since it does prevent NPCs from talking, and anything or anyone making any sound in the area in a first place, thus silenced fireballs on the groups of sleeping enemies, or silenced explosion of the cracked wall, and so on. That's just normal interactions lol

[@moosepotato4116]

Hearing this song play was absolutely the best part of the game for me haha

[@theproteinconsumer]

been waiting for this episode since you started the series

[@thebananacow6236]

Every time Gale gets a turn, and I see unused Kereska’s Favour, I get irrationally annoyed

[@Mapocolops]

I'm doing it specifically to annoy just you

[@thebananacow6236]

@@Mapocolops :( No hate though, you still crushed one of the craziest fights in the game just fine without using it

[@itme7685]

Me too. It’s so good. I never used it my first game until almost the end, because I didn’t realize. Cast it at the beginning of the day you get one free lightning spell and one chain lightning spell each rest/short rest. Or ice storm/cone of cold is good. The other ones I suppose too and boosting that element’s damage too.

[@Blat223]

I've never actually seen that dialogue from Mol! I got her contract, but she didn't offer me any dialogue or mention of it--thought it was bugged. So cool to discover new things!

[@LLlap]

AHHH YES!!! HERE IT IS! BEEN WAITING WHOLE DAY! Edit: The initial 30 minutes have the MMORPGist in me questioning the tactic of running through to aggro all creeps in the area if not for efficient farming =)

[@doug3318]

First time I did house of hope, I didn’t see the regen pool in the bedroom and did the ENTIRE LEVEL WITHOUT RESTING OR REGEN it was horrible lol

[@iamboringvideos6832]

my plam for the soul pillars is to set up a lot of exploding related items and liquids around the Sou pillars before even doing the fight for Raphael, just so the pillars get destroyed right away, all in 1 go, or so I hope.

[@operatic4794]

Pogged up episode. Fantastic job with Raphael; you turned him into nothing.

S+++ tier boss music theme!

[@echobucket]

I'm been waiting so long for this episode

[@ragenaros4475]

You should Imbude Gales Staff like every long rest, buff last until next long rest and u get 2 free overpowered Spells of Element type you pick.

[@Floraensn]

Man I loved, loved, LOVED this episode!! Raphael's my favorite villain in the game. I was so excited for your reaction to Raphael's song and I was not disappointed, haha. And your way of freeing Hope was so clean! I still remember my first, very chaotic time doing this - my party was half dead by the time i reached Raphael and Hope died during the fight 😂 Your dialogue with Karlach after being back at camp was timed so perfectly 😭 Just when she said she would never go back and the music in the background was like "now hope is gone, or so it seems, but game's not over yet"

[@borealsullivan5486]

If you're talking about the Gur camp, he already visited there

[@Floraensn]

@@borealsullivan5486 Yeah, that's what I meant! Thanks for telling me, must've missed it somehow.

[@TabbyVee]

Fun fact about the boss fight song, if you cast Silence on Raphael or otherwise incapacitate him so that he cant speak, his lines of the song also stop playing, meaning that he is actively singing his disney villain song while fighting you and thats so goddamn funny.

[@Alchemist1330]

This isn't true. It's a BG3 urban myth that people keep repeating. You can easily teat this for yourself, and he keeps singing.

[@18Rada89]

Fun fact: this is false, but it's been said so much that people really believe it

[@Mattismen]

I'm way behind on this series but you know i had to make an exception for an encounter this exceptional.

[@aqualitymeme9476]

1:25:36 You didn’t know Raphael had levels in Bard, did you?

[@Theorak]

I would wager in thousands of years, one takes every multiclass^^

[@Wotansfogal]

Ah yes, the episode we were all waiting for

[@Sheechiibii]

Yeeeeeeessssss! 😂 omg I can't wait to watch this one. This boss theme blew my mind

[@acfan1988]

Interesting I’ve never seen this form of Raphael before! Very cool

[@PackZTerrible]

In my first playtrough i didnt made a deal with Raphael and so i never visited the house of hope until the second run Worst decision ever not to sign it

[@conradoccaminha]

I'm so sad you failed to persuade the demon brute next to Raphael. I wanted that for you. Unfortunate. But I'm glad you tried.

[@wakkadakka9192]

fun fact - if you cast silence on Raphael the song will keep going, but without his parts

[@tophatwolf]

Finally! Been waiting for this x)

[@alifreeman9135]

Been waiting for this one lol

[@FuFightersStudio]

I remember the moment Raphael fight starts so well - its one of those moments in RPG I will never forget alongside the Dawn Will Come from Inquisition - goosebumps every time. Fun fact - if you cast silence on Raphael you mute the song :D

[@kipgrey1267]

My favorite area of the game by far!

[@colinchildress1251]

Funny part is, if you stun or paralyze Raphael in some way, he gets cut out of the music.