The Evolution of Final Bosses [PART 2]

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Within Part Two of the Evolution of Final Bosses, we're exploring everything from Fina Fantasy XII through to Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origins - we hope you enjoy!

00:00 Intro
01:30 Final Fantasy XII
03:37 Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings
05:41 Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII
07:39 Final Fantasy Tactics A2
09:22 Dissidia Final Fantasy
10:30 Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light
12:06 Final Fantasy XIII
14:37 Final Fantasy Dimensions
15:50 Final Fantasy XIV 1.0
17:15 Dissidia Duodecim
17:54 Final Fantasy Type-0
19:15 Final Fantasy XIII-2
20:40 Final Fantasy XIV A Realm Reborn
23:41 Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII
25:43 Final Fantasy Dimensions II
27:00 Mobius Final Fantasy
27:45 Final Fantasy Brave Exvius
28:50 Dissidia NT
29:43 World of Final Fantasy
31:05 Final Fantasy XV
33:19 Final Fantasy 7 Remake
35:47 Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin
37:15 Conclusion
38:14 Outro

[chelsthegameruiner]

I remember when Lahabrea wasn't a solo battle. It was admittedly funny seeing him defeated before any major mechanics appeared

[Vernafveik]

I like Ardyn as a villain, but his battle feels overshadowed by the fight with Ifirit just before

[bryanmorris]

Never played Lightning Returns, but another thing I noticed from the footage shown was that Bhunivelze uses a move called Dancing Mad, which is the name of Kefka’s final boss theme.

[pedroluisroman]

I must admit, I'm in awe of the video production. This (and all your other videos) are amazing in cohesion!

[ryutheslayer]

The irony about leaving out Endwalker is I feel like there was a lot of significance behind who it is and the fight itself

[BlufireTheifprince]

The Duodecim final boss in terms of the plot is actually the possessed fusion of the original Chaos and Shinryu, known as feral chaos... it is a truly unique experience as a fight, you get the choice of 5 of your strongest fighters and a assist character chosen at random, it's a rampaging beast with a unique slew of attacks much like the original dissidia's chaos all with Latin names to reference his violent but divine nature. It is quite a tough fight and still possible to beat with one fighter but much more erratic and dangerous than Chaos in the original dissidia.

[georgehouliaras]

We began with Chaos and we ended with Chaos. Jack was right. It's not a hope or a dream, it's like hunger, a thirst.

[joshuariddensdale]

The first phase of the Orphan fight is fraught with peril because that giant sword attack happens at the most random moment after staggering. But the second phase is ridiculously easy. The trio of Bahamuts in 13-2 can last over 20 minutes even at high levels. Bhunivelze is really only tough in his final phase, but once you stagger him, it's basically over.

[iEGeek]

Admittedly, I was hopeful that the XIV expansion final bosses would be covered but in a way, I’m glad it wasn’t.

Considering how there is the main story final boss and then there’s the post main story final boss and raid boss.

[andrieputra]

Really love ardyn .. he more charismatic boss enemies ... Even in the game he more easier to defeat through the story line battle

[Enharmony]

Perfect final boss encounter? Gotta be Kefka from FF6! The amazing pixel work and art design of the three statues, the amazing music, and the way you slowly rise up through each tier before finally reaching Kefka in all his fallen angel glory all culminates in a glorious epic fight! And this was 1994! It blew me away then, and it continues to do so now.

[chronosp]

Lahabrea was not mind controlling Thancred, he was possessing him

[mjbuffalo]

This was great! Thank you for this series!! Obligatory hope that you eventually do DLC and expansion final bosses too. Just because this might be the most interesting deep dive you’ve done yet. Awesome job 👍🏻

[ArcYT]

My favorite final boss moment to this very day is when I was playing Crisis Core on PSP and I instantly killed Genesis Avatar with Odin shortly after the battle began. It's insane the chances of that happening. I had to not only enter Modulating Phase shortly after the battle started, but I also had to have the normal DMW happen to change to my summons, THEN I had to roll Odin. Not only that, it isn't guaranteed that Odin's move, Zentetsuken, will insta-kill, so I also had to beat the odds there as well. It's so crazy it's almost unbelievable. Even I wonder sometimes if I imagined it lol

[PetarBladeStrok]

As a nostalgic FF retro gamer, I still kinda hoped you'd mention Emet-Selch from FFXIV Shadowbringer, since I consider him easily to be the best boss in all of Final Fantasy. But not only him. You're missing most of the best FFXIV bosses from Heavensward, Stormblood, Shadowbringers and Endwalker.

[Ghost_Ship]

Great video! Very well-researched and well-written as always. Love these evolutions analyses. Thank you for your hard work.

[charlesfarley]

I dont know much at all about the final fight with him having only seen a few clips from it, but I know the tale that lead to it is a story about the cruelty and hubris of gods making playthings of mortals until finally one broke...MOST spectacularly, as he was the gods' favorite toy. The unimaginable depths of abject suffering endured by Ardyn Lucis Caelum before he surrendered to aeons worth of bitter resentment and swore to see to it that the gods and indeed all creation were burnt to cinders, then to ash, then finally to nothing is perhaps why he became my favorite of all the central series antagonists

[gateauxq]

Thank you all, this series was great! Vlad, you killed the editing. It cut flawlessly with the voiceover and enhanced the script overall. Good work dude.

[OverlordZeroULTIMA]

Duodecim has another final boss too: Feral Chaos. He could be a possible example of "expansion" or even "secret boss", though. While the game didn't have any DLC, you pretty much replay the OG DFF story before beating Chaos again and then it continues to another story with Feral Chaos as the final boss there. AND you actually fight him twice, but the final fight...

WAAAAY harder than Chaos and the story with the five. You have up to 5 team members and have to take out like...Millions of HP in order to win. You can lose 4 of those team members, but if you lose the last one, then you lost the fight.


Luckily, if you lose anyone, you CAN restart from that position, BUT you'll have to redo all of the wittling down of HP and if Feral Chaos used his summon, he can do it again. But then you get to play as him and use his battle theme (tbh, the most epic of all boss fight themes, imo) in the game - INCLUDING pitting him against himself in the final fight should you want to do that again.

[SorakuFett]

I would love to see a part 3 on the various expansions and DLCs and such. Perhaps having them as a separate video would be a nice solution to the concerns about spoiling current content from those games, but I do think that, if you felt it necessary to do the final bosses of the X, XII, XIII and Tactics sequels, surely the XI and XIV expansions and XV DLCs and additional seasons of the mobile games deserve the same love!