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Miles' Top 10 Instrumental Final Boss Themes: #1 · 5:49pm Nov 12th, 2013
And here, at the very end, we have over nine minutes of pure bliss.
1. Suicide Mission: Reaper Suite (Mass Effect 2)
It really gets going around the 3-minute mark, and keeps getting better from there.
Out of all the final bosses I've played, this is the one where the music has drawn me in the most. Not to mention it's a bitch on the higher difficulty levels. Wave after wave of Collectors, not to mention the gigantic Reaper hanging above. You're constantly defending your position from all ends, and wondering if everyone is going to make it out alive.
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I may have to use this as the backdrop of my own current story in a future chapter.
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1502829 What does this have to do with the content of the blog?
1502981...its awesome?
Plus theres a bit in the Mass Effect tune that sounds a bit like this
1503056 I wouldn't know I'm not a Whovian.
Definitely was fun watching you put together this list, Miles. It actually got me compiling my own top 10 list, to be entirely honest - I listen to vidjagame music all the time, and it never really crossed my mind.
1503072 I've got some more shorter lists forthcoming.
Best Countdown Tracks
Best Sad Tracks
Best Second Level Tracks
The best part about the end of Mass Effect 2, other then this song, is the fact that it is a race against time where you have no idea how long you have. How much longer will the other teams be able to hold out? If I fail to beat the boss soon, which of the companions you have grown close to will not come home? Then after that, if you played your cards just right, and get the ending with everyone making it back to the ship, you get what is among my top five endings in gaming history, just under the "belief" ending to Planescape: Torment in terms of the shear chills you get as it occurs, the result of so much hard work coming to fruition with all odds being defied and a mere man, and those around him who's lives he has changed, overcoming a challenge that none would have believed was even possible before hand, and emerging unscathed.
Good choice for a number one, now excuse me as I go and re-install ME2.
1503085 Heh - the #1 of my final boss list would fit into the 'Sad Tracks' list as well - After all the super-grandiose boss battle music from the rest of the game, I was completely blindsided by the melancholy music for Gwyn, Lord of Cinder in Dark Souls.
The drastic change in mood from the rest of the game's music just resonated with me, and was absolutely brilliant.
The first time I did that, everyone died. I almost fell on the floor and wept when Garrus got taken away by that swarm.... ;_;