Xenosaga Episode 1 - Last Battle Theme

This is the theme of "Last Battle" from Xenosaga Episode 1. Enjoy!
I do not own Xenosaga or any of its music and characters. All content in the Xenosaga series belongs stricly to Monolith Soft.

[@BlingBlams]

Finally a DIFFERENT theme. Same them for every battle gets dull. Was like "Lol finally new theme"

[@KC-dg9pu]

Maybe it was all to make this theme so much better

[@CripplingDuality]

@@KC-dg9pu on its own this is really unremarkable music so you're probably right

[@joshklein5070]

Sounds like a compilation of several thems. Gnosis attack, woglinde, Muchtam/Kevin's them maybe as well.

[@blacktoilet2661]

@@CripplingDuality no

[@marshall4134]

My exact reaction tbh

[@TheHedgememe]

> Song from Xenosaga I > Picture from Xenosaga III The Engineer

[@cyconical]

I was almost convinced that the final boss theme was just gonna be the regular battle theme lmao

[@seankalifut9948]

I was caught completely off guard, lol.

[@MrBillybotz]

I love this boss theme so much. It just send chills down my spine when it first opened since it was the first new battle theme in the game. It just emphasized the sheer importance of this battle and the need to destroy the proto merkabah

[@mooman1017]

"the first new battle theme" "last battle theme" Yeah that's episode 1 though! I like xenosaga a lot but never got a copy of the games past episode 1 (and never finished episode 1 for that matter). I hope you have a wonderful day!

[@OyVeey]

i like how you can hear the vocal layer from Albedo's theme here

[@albedopiazzola5366]

MY THEME :D :@

[@prettyflippingaverage1268]

@@albedopiazzola5366 LOL

[@user-yc3uq8to3v]

"This battle is pretty easy! I got this..." _Boss uses Dark Omen_ _Party OHKO'ed_ "WHAAAAA?!!"

[@XSarte96X]

bro i had to do this twice cause MOMO died while guarding, 800 dmg when she has 780 like cmon... and he critted both Kos-Mos for 1.2k when she has 1.1k hp and critted chaos for 1.2k when he had 1k hp i was there like BRUH is this for real

[@glorbojibbins2485]

I had to grind the final area to use Erde Kaiser for this reason lol Finally beat the game like 2 hours ago 😅

[@FireEmblemForevah]

UGH. This music is so amazing it's like an overload. The feeling is so intensely powerful that I'm having difficulties not exploding. The music isn't necessarily heavy, but it's just so remarkable... How can anyone resist Xenosaga if we get music like this?

[@SlickMusicMedia]

Finished this game yesterday as i move towards my goal of finishing every xeno related game before XC3 releases... Onto Episode II i go

[@Icarus975]

How you feel about episode 2?

[@armandostockvideos8386]

"Cool, the final boss has its own theme, I'm glad they didnt use the regular battle theme for the...Did the final boss just wipe out my entire party with that attack?"

[@solidsnake434]

at this point of the game I was totally in love with Xenosaga, and the last boss... thought it wasn't the hardest one to bet definitely was a nice closure to the episode... I can remember "he Fused the Gnosis With the reactor!!!!, and the timer still going on :D EPIC

[@TheShadowParliament]

I loved how Xenosaga was so religious in its tone. In a way you would need to play it more than once to fully understand the game...let alone the series.

[@MrMeshida]

It makes me think of a battle that transcends time...like a victory that will be remembered forever or a loss that will eradicate the future.

[@xeax-r5l]

kind of reminds me of "One who Bares Fangs at God" (final boss theme in xenogears)

[@Mr.VonStoogle]

being the same composer certainly helps

[@SALNight]

Brings back memories. On my first runthrough of the game, I was so weak that I actually had to use the Erde Kaiser finish Sophie off! I couldn't believe how strong the final boss was! Second time through the game, I completely destroyed Sophie. By the end of the fight, I still had my instant-revive technique in place and a spell that would halt my characters hp to 1; in case they ever were about to be killed in the first place.

[@kalaslsl]

I don't get tired of listening to this song.

[@Trid3nt861]

you mean the song "One who baresfangs at god" from xenogears ost? Hmm it does have that feint impression in the rhythm and melody when Feiis fighting the Uroboros after the small chat with a transcended Kreilan about life,humans and their imperfections and God.

[@jeannaegirl]

went old school with those chords.......anyone else feel nostalgia for episode 1 when they heard this?

[@SuperUltros]

I always wondered if there was gonna be another battle theme and if it would hit hard. Damn it did!

[@ZarathustraX]

33 is the level you will be at if you fight every enemy you encounter in the game...it is more than enough to win if you have Bravesoul and Double Buster. I equipped both to Jr. at this level and after upgrading the Tech all the way my attacks were doing 2800 each...so in a normal turn with Jr. it is possible to inflict 6000 damage.

[@neoghaleon55]

This is probably mitsuda's Magnum OPUS when it comes to battle themes. It's so original, and well layered. Everytime I listen, I hear something different.

[@XenoZeal]

It's based off of the last battle music for Xenogears (which Mitsuda also wrote).

[@kon-nekoeldeen2453]

idk y but I can imagine this theme playing in Chrono Cross. love this game

[@shioriryukaze]

Part of the reason why I love this song! Especially when the strings drop in.

[@kon-nekoeldeen2453]

yeess!! I agree too xP

[@GrandAngel8000]

+Kon-neko Eldeen Seeing as the guy who did the music for that game did the music for this game, it makes total sense.

[@kon-nekoeldeen2453]

whoa! really. I didn't knew! (b>u

[@Posirep]

+Kon-neko Eldeen Moreso Xenogears since this is basically a remix version "One who bares fangs at god" during the final battle of that game

[@xNocturnalKnightx]

Been a while since I thought about that comment. XD Thank you for the reply. I think I might have stumbled onto that information somewhere later on, but I wasn't sure at the time.

[@BearOnBear]

This song is fun and exciting! Loved it as the last boss song!

[@MightyPoggers]

I remember playing this game and loving it my favorite character was the dude with robotic legs

[@loveshiningstar]

9 years later, you mean Ziggy right?

[@Ba1k3n]

Personally I loved having one battle theme up until the very end, stupid no doubt and I'm sure I'll have a mob after me but... still it works, you go through the entire game, one theme, feeling strong, feeling that you can take anything down and then the final fight changes it up. From feeling strong to again feeling like you did at the start of the game 'will I make it out, will I see the end of this fight?' think what you will, I loved it XD

[@markasscop]

while I still think having only a single theme throughout the game was a big detractor for it, can't lie when I say it was pretty effective the moment this one showed up

[@Bryantzerox]

@buttafly72 Actually, you're partially right, because the Dragon God is called "Time Devourer" as well... But there's two versions of him, so yeah ;P

[@sorafate2552]

for the last boss i had 2 really beat him slowly and it took me about 3 hours becuz this is the only song that is different in the whole entire game of battles

[@PhoenixWrightfan101]

I feel bad. Just for this battle I went and did the Erde Kaiser subquest. I didn't even give Sophie a chance >_>

[@joke312]

I wish they would have made all 6. Monolith Soft at least delivered Xenoblade which was gold.

[@owenitzura]

Yeah, Threads of Fate was amazing. One of my favorite PSOne games.

[@skykid]

Everyone's talking about Xenosaga continuation, and as unsatisfied as I am by the whole thing, let's face reality. 1. They stated Xenosaga wasn't a prequel to Xenogears, but a reimagining. 2. They already screwed that series up by making 3 games instead of 2, so the creator essentially gave up on it being the whole original series anyway. 3. Xenoblade is all he cares about now. How it'll evolve, who knows, but it's not Xenosaga or xenogears right now.

[@espica]

They were supposed to make 6 games, yearly releases. They could have done it if they hadn't changed the battle system and graphics for every game. I want to replay the trilogy soon, but I'm kinda worried about having to go through all the side quests in Ep I and II again, it wasn't that fun lol

[@RandomZombie412]

espica, my dad said the same thing about Namco making 6 games, and goddamn I would have loved to at least seen them, I want more Xenosaga, it was the only RPG I wasn't really shitty at! And the story and characters my god they were amazing, and the American voice acting actually was good, it wasn't pure garbage like some, which to me is a plus!

[@andresmarrero8666]

skykid it was supposed to be 6, but the creator died, it was cut in half in terms of budget and Namco gave up on it.

[@dooroflight4156]

I love those themes

[@JohnboyTheGamer]

Lusamin's battle theme from Pokemon sounds like this ngl

[@Malroth00Returns]

You know you take her out with one spell ray, made me sad when i cut the music short so early.

[@pseudogenesis]

What? I've sunk more hours into Pokemon than is probably healthy and I still consider the music - all of it - to be classic.

[@officerchachi3857]

Major Steve Reich vibes from the intro

[@diane9905]

That's actually Steve Reich, it's the theme from Violin Phase 😊

[@officerchachi3857]

@@diane9905 Holy shit, it literally is. How have I never noticed that??

[@diane9905]

@@officerchachi3857 hahaha I'm glad I could blow your mind. My parents noticed back when I was a kid and pointed it out or I wouldn't have known at all. They asked me about it recently and I was like hmm, I'll bet you're thinking about xenosaga but I don't think it was a full on quote... looked this up and ate my words 😂

[@joke312]

@LynellD11 Quite true. All you really gotta do is get him below 10k HP and then just summon Erde Kaiser. Even without EK its still ridiculously easy.

[@crystalcoveseries]

WHY HAS NOBODY EXTENDED THIS THEME!

[@kennethshiro9500]

best final boss theme in the series.

[@Maliki79]

I still have my Xenosaga games and the old model PS3, so I can still play them on it, but for the chance for an ep 4, I'd buy them again on PSN!

[@LaharlD2]

I'd build about 5 or so levels before taking it on and making sure you some Techs are equiped in the near section. Also know that Sophia's boost will take over yours and you can't over power the enemie's boost

[@joke312]

Suffice it to say Xenosaga series has one of the ABSOLUTE best soundtracks overall. Many of the songs in the games are great. I am a huge fan of the Halo soundtrack and even that doesn't touch this games soundtrack. Thats IMO anyway.

[@Runeless]

SOPHIE PEITHOS!!!

[@buttafly72]

Ohh i really love the last boss fight music :D It makes me think of the music when your fighting the Time Devourer in Chrono Cross:) Really nice music:D

[@satan2218]

Let's play a game, Mr. Wright... Who is Jean? Who is Mathis? Who is Rita? Who is Isaac?

[@nightzeroAX]

Guys if we pester namco to put Xenosaga on EP 1~3 on PSN maybe it can render enough sales for ep 4? And even so it doesn't happen at least we can play 1~3 on our PS3's.

[@Mngalahad]

YESS!!! A DIFFERENT SONG!!! (game ends). awwwww.... well, at least there's two more games :) and like 15 Xovers where KOS-MOS shows up.

[@Rorona113]

This was KOS-MOS from the second part of Xenosaga 3.

[@buttafly72]

@Bryantzerox Oh yeah sorry got there names mixed up ^~^'' Thank you for making me remember :D

[@LeonGun8]

No, it still means that, once again, the series wasn't brought to fruition as it was supposed to. They claim Xenoblade is another reinvisioning where they expect to bring forth all the ideas they perfected over the years into one work, but we'd have to wait and see.

[@1aundulxaldin]

This isn't important. There is an *Ace Attorney* Fancase that used *this track* as one of the "Moderato" pieces in a Testimony/Cross-examination sequence of a character named *Billy Peppers*. The case is called, "Turnabout Revolution". That was a choice well made, because I fell in love with this track the instant I heard it, and it fit so well with the serious, intense mood of the case.

[@mericido5609]

1aundulxaldin And I thought I was the only 1 who came because of this case.

[@1aundulxaldin]

Meri cido Same here. We must both love obscure weird things that not many people know about.

[@main_gi1647]

Yeah, it's really fitting. But their silly nickname for the track is actually called "Lonely Heart ~ Andante", just in case you didn't know :D

[@DualScreenGamers]

Yeah, I've been listening to the pieces of music. I like Allegro the most, followed by this.

[@kiraina25]

This boss is evil incarnate... I didn't even realize it was the final boss until I saw this... (I had my suspicions, though, which was why I clicked it in the first place, to see if I was right.) Um... any tips on how to kill it? My characters are around lv. 33 (if I remember correctly).

[@GERMAINEK]

This is the perfect song for Sophie Peithos

[@oriramu]

hmm this boss fight had me spamming moves from left to right like crazy..good thing I had shion , kos-mos and chaos in the group...it was quite long but I took it out..its been awhile since I've heard this theme..

[@Bryantzerox]

@buttafly72 Do you mean Dragon God? Because the last time I checked, the Time Devourers battle theme was... very silent-ish xD

[@grahamc3963]

I'll never forget this theme and tried to get her on the latest xeno game but what was with the sexualizing and matrix spinoff thing?

[@TRal55]

Wow, I can't believe this wasn't in the soundtrack, it's frickin amazing, not that I expect less from Yuki kajiura!

[@legna3266]

Super late but this was done by Yasunori Mitsuda

[@SuperSlash132]

Xenogears isn't a sequel to Xenosaga. They aren't even related. Xenosaga was supposed to span six episodes, and Shion's arc (the three games we got) was supposed to only be two games (pretty sure games 3-6 would've had Lost Jerusalem). I believe the developers stated that Xenosaga is more like a reimagining of Gears, so it's not a sequel.

[@LeonGun8]

Ep 3 still finishes in a pseudo cliffhanger as they never did find the planet where Xenogears was meant to take place (hinted to be Lost Jerusalem AKA Earth).

[@CelestialKingLeo]

Its fun, but the game can be really challenging. The kind of games I love!

[@gamesthatmatter9374]

not with erde kaiser

[@kiraina25]

Um... by "near" section, do you mean the kind that can be fired off with two button presses and only 4 AP? I've got plenty of those... Is grinding really the only answer? I mean, I hate having to do that... I don't mind fighting underleveled; heck, I beat Sapphire's Elite Four at only lv. 47. And yeah, I know about the counter-boost. But Sophie is hardly the only boss that does it. One last thing... my lineup is Jr-Momo-pilot (it works great for the Albedo fight), any thoughts about that?

[@xNocturnalKnightx]

Not sure I recall the model in this image being used...

[@loveshiningstar]

He just decided to use xenosaga 3 art.

[@Uhquila]

I liked fighting to this song!!!

[@gamesthatmatter9374]

me too

[@NotTooWellKnown]

Anyone play threads of fate? Intro reminded me of the final dungeon in that.

[@gamingair772]

Only one person answered correctly in 15 years. We can understand why Mr.Mitsuda chose Steve Reich as a reference. Der Wille zur Macht.

[@eviter]

I was almost thrown off when I first heard this music in the game. Different battle music for a change.

[@boredgoddesstori6635]

„We‘re not trying rip off One Who Bares Fangs at God we swear!“

[@RrowdyBeast]

lol It's the same composer; if anything it sounds like Chrono Cross music

[@boredgoddesstori6635]

@@RrowdyBeastit may be the same composer but under a different company

[@RrowdyBeast]

@@boredgoddesstori6635 The devs that did Xenogears split from Square and went on to make MonolithSoft, it's why so many folks carried over between projects Xenosaga and Xenoblade are spiritual successors to Xenogears, a remake of Xenogears was initially going to be fit in as Xenosaga 5 til they had to cut down the project to three parts instead of six lol Like, it's not common knowledge unless you look for it so it's understandable folks don't know, but it's all intentional, it's why Saga and Blade have so many callbacks and homages to Gears

[@boredgoddesstori6635]

@@RrowdyBeast still, they cannot directly reference Xenogears due to licensing issues. The closest we got was Abel from Xenosaga just looking the same as Abel from Xenogears

[@RrowdyBeast]

@@boredgoddesstori6635 Yup!

[@kurenian]

Heavy xenogears vibes

[@infinityfinder21]

Anyone else struck as to how much this resembles "Decisive Battle" from FFX? do a search and check.

[@Cole3402]

i miss kosmos:(

[@CodingAnt1]

theme of playing a little game

[@Cellmate]

The only other fighting song in this game. ^3^

[@thesadmummy77]

@nightzeroAX Do you have any idea about the series? The project was meant to be six or so games, but the budget wasn't going to fit the bill, so they knocked it to 3 parts and rushed the story. Xeno3 is a great game, but the plot is thrown together for the sake of finishing the game. There will never be an ep. 4.

[@St4rTr3v1Ut10n]

Kinda stupid that this was the ONLY other battle theme in that entire game. Every boss battle, no matter how pivotal, had the same battle music until the final one. It's a good song, but by the time you hear this beast it's long tired

[@skeppy8925]

It also didn’t help that the majority of dungeons/towns didn’t have any music either. Might be the one thing I didn’t enjoy about this great game

[@markasscop]

imagine if they still used the regular battle theme for the final boss

[@Crackhog]

@@skeppy8925 I kinda really liked that aspect of the game. I didn't even notice that the towns didn't have any music for like 80% of the game

[@thesadmummy77]

Does that matter at all? The series is done. It's not like it's on hold.

[@Metakaabii]

Strange. Then again, most of my characters were level 50's when I took on albedo 2nd.... and I was using A.G.W.S. Units to win.

[@xwolfhunter2237]

I love Xenosaga. I have a playlist on my channel called All of my Xenosaga tributes if anyone is interested

[@AirDavy01]

yeah, it was kinda weird, infact i got quite surprised hearing this theme xD

[@cancan460]

That would be in Xenosaga 3.

[@ThatBeingCed]

The third one have a really good battle system in comparison to the 2nd

[@Lybido]

Still waiting for this on SPOTIFY!

[@willhem00001]

ko-mos very good and long blue hair

[@muamua101]

14 years ago? God I'm a Dinosaur 🦖

[@LaharlD2]

it's risky at lv 33 you may be able to beat sophie. Just make you have the curcuits +4 equiped and Heal Guard 10% just in case. W-acts suck-don't use them.

[@TheJswift1234]

Xenosaga 2 was a cakewalk just had to imagine FF XIII battle system

[@prettyflippingaverage1268]

Can somene explain to me what vocal layering is?

[@犯人-g5h]

うーむ Σハーモニクス でも聞いた気がするのは何故なんだ…

[@Lightning5182]

@xenosagamaster AMEN

[@hiro1001]

Level up o.o 33 is way too low a level. I was near 47 when I took him on, and I STILL had a tough time.

[@Bryantzerox]

@buttafly72 Good job (:

[@MegaGrandMasterSexy]

final boss was easy, only cause i spent a year training in song of nephilim cause i was stuck, lvl 40 x-buster?

[@therealityrawcastiii8066]

#2007EXACTLYOURWAY

[@buttafly72]

@Bryantzerox Hehehe yay, I was kinda right! :D

[@gamesthatmatter9374]

agree

[@SorenHighwind]

@xenosagamaster Which has nothing to do with this video or the song at all! Also she's a robot! Kinda creepy!

[@peterjimenez9471]

Sounds very similar to Zinnia's Battle from ORAS

[@Tommyvang187]

Peter Jimenez no its the other way around lol. Zinnia's theme from ORAS sounds like this.

[@FlipMasta89]

Seriously!! As much as I love Episode I, it annoyed me infinitely that there was only one battle song until the very end. I started muting battles because I couldn't stand the song anymore.

[@Nerdinyan]

I at one point just started playing Mr. Blue Sky whenever we got into a battle.

[@OmegaBoost1]

Yknow, just saying..Namco still only has 1 rep for Smash Ultimate. _wink wink nudge nudge_

[@Yamaneko81]

hehe yes this is totally similar to the dragon god theme of chrono cross

[@LynellD11]

To me the last boss was 1 of the easyest bosses.

[@Bryantzerox]

@knightmare864 ;.;