What's Your Ideal Final Battle Setting?

[Ceejaythe630th]

This doesn't necessarily pertain to just Video Games, but since I think this doesn't fit with the other forms, I'm just going to put this here.

Final Battles: They are the culmination of the protagonist's journey coming to an end and using what they've learned along the way to defeat the overarching antagonist of the game/story. Most of the time these are one of the main highlights to a story/game and end up being one of the most notable moments in them. There are many good reasons to love final battles, such as the difficulty in playing them, the buildup, the effort (if there is any) to make it as amazing as possible, among many other reasons.

Back when me and my friend were playing Pokémon Scarlet & Violet (it was one of the only games we could play together at the time) and we were about to fight the elite four, I brought up a question that would both lead us indecisive: What's better for a final battle, taking place during the day or at night? Looking back and thinking about it more I realize that the setting of which a final battle takes place in is one of the backbones for making them as good as they are.

Take Smash Bros'. World of Light as an example: Not only does the background look beautiful, but it also reflects the war between Galeem and Dharkon's control over the Smash world. The background for the overall entire fight is split between a light heavenly place, and a hellish dark place, with either side taking over completely if the opposite character is defeated (this is even reflected with the gameplay for these bosses). This is even more evident when fighting all the previous boss spirits before fighting the main 2 puppet masters behind it all. The more light bosses that are defeated, the more darker the background becomes and vice versa.

Personally my ideal final battle would be in the middle of the rain where a dark blue/purple overtakes the sky, leaving up to ambiguity if it's day or night. This is mostly due to my adoration of rainy environments and how poetic it would be if the battle ends as soon as the rain does.

What's your ideal setting for a final battle? It can be something with long and deep detail, or something simple like the weather. If you don't have one, then list one of your favorite final battle settings from something you like.

[Ragnarokia]

The classic final boss setting is the isolated location on neutral ground where just you and the final boss (usually your rival) can engage in a final talk and final battle without anyone interfering.

Theres a reason why the "1v1 me on Final Destination" meme works so well. As it makes a good easy example.

[Chdonga]

I think chasing down a slippery fucker through a dense city or a warehouse or some other complicated and treacherous area is an underutilized place to fight a boss, let alone the final one.

Beating him in an even playing field by simply being stronger is fun, but the satisfaction of beating someone who had a homefield advantage is downright cathartic.

[LazyDoll]

My ideal final battle settings are in high buildings, preferably above a much larger-scale battle going on at ground-level. My second favorite would be in a wide desert-y wasteland.

[VictorVonVice]

A sunset or sunrise whilst ontop of a crumbling wreckage. Its a dangerous situation but this final showdown needs to be settled here and now. Nothing else matters but the aftermath of this fight

[MondoBilby]

Ideal final battle setting is just you and the main antagonist duking it out in outer space while a bunch of meteors fall towards earth and high-speed uplifting electronic metal music is playing loudly in the background. Comically large weapons are also welcome.

[NoobClock666]

Night time, and also at the place where it all started.

[BlueKnightSkeleton]

I feel like there's a ton of perfect ways to make a cool Final battle. The music, the whole deal, and the aesthetic.

There's many examples of cool final battles: Sonic 3, Adventure 1 and 2, Heroes, Rush 1 and 3 (Colors), Unleashed and Mania, Yoshi Island, Mario & Luigi: BiS, Earthbound, PvZ, Banjo-Tooie, Pizza Tower, Kirby modern era games, Undertale (Neutral and Pacifist) etc. Like, it's hard to choose which one is cooler. But going back on track.

My idea of a cool final battle? Yeah, i can see the deal of a stormy night, or a place where everything is fucked up, but the music and everything is cheering you, a genuine emotinal (And literal) power boost.

[NIFYX]

So the setting usually shifts when the big hanchos enter the ring. More specifically, it's like the setting shifts in accordance to reveal their intentions. In dr strange, the ancient's last fight is her most revelative. In metal gear, there's a neat kinda genjutsu effect with boss and her flowers, as if she took snake to another version of reality with her fight. Supersmashbros had the idea with final destination, kinda like ff7's. So, I guess mine would be like inside a tunnel of a retro winmedplayr music visualization or summat.

[RepriseAgain]

Somewhere desolate, preferably at night.

[BoiledMilkz]

I think it's more like a corrupted reality or an end of the world theme.

[Mitchelf]

A field of flowers.

[MetalSlayer69]

7-11 parking lot

[TheJayJay]

Final Destination

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[Drazah]

Defeating the final boss from the inside.

It's just you, and their final defense from within, their final moments are spent using whatever is in them in hopes to kill you before you kill them from the inside.

Destroying the brain of a cold machine, ripping apart the heart of a giant monster, obliterating the soul even, in hopes to stop the madness and destruction they caused...

[ZX4KTX]

I think a graveyard at night would be cool.

Set in a large empty paved area surrounded by graves on a cloudless moonlit night.

No zombies popping out of their graves, no neon coloured magic circles, just you, and the BBEG,

[PoultrygeistGame]

I'm a fan of 90s movies which get smaller as you go on. So my ideal final batte

is really enclosed. Aquarium. abandoned arcade. crowded storage warehouse. This is my fav community post ever. im asking people this question.

[PoultrygeistGame]

At 9/30/23 06:42 AM, Mitchelf wrote:A field of flowers.

not done enough in games or movies

[DhWhiteAsian]

Hmm, I've always liked idea of settling it down by being ontop of something while cool shot of sunset on background being shown.

[Maksbruh]

Has it's own theme music which should be one of if not the best outta the whole game, the enemy/boss should have some hard mechanic which is difficult to bypass and the scenery should be sorta apocalyptic looking(though that depends on the general tone of the story

[shempman]

A fight against an enemy that never should've happened, but due to circumstances it's all they have left if they want to move on. Usually accompanied with sad music to reflect the fact it could've been avoided.

Tbh the closest a game has come this as a final boss is probably dark souls, but it's story the way is can be interpreted differently. Usually being relegated to either optional fights or near the climax.

Things like

Sora vs Roxas in KH2

Frog vs magus in Chrono trigger

Vs Miguel in Chrono cross

Kiryu vs nishikiyama in Yakuza 1

Shinada vs baba in Yakuza 5

Shez vs byleth in three hopes

[BoiledMilkz]

At 9/30/23 10:14 AM, TheJayJay wrote:Final Destination
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Fox only.