Demon Dragon Battle [All Phases Seamless Theme] - The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom OST 

“I came here to kick ass and chew Secret Stones… And I’m all out of Secret Stones.” -Demon King Ganondorf

If you think about it, the Demon Dragon fight is your REWARD for beating Ganondorf. Its not that difficult, but is the most thematically satisfying encounter from start to finish.

Ever since that moment in BOTW where you freed naydra from the malice, all I’ve wanted to do, was fight a dragon. WE FOUGHT A FUCKING DRAGON

POV: you turned off Ganon's radio mid-suavemente.

You witness a king, Mid-Suavamente.

A demon, who chose Power over humanity in order to crush its foes, forsaking life for victory. A dragon, who still held enough Wisdom to recognize her old friend and assist him in his darkest hour. And a hero, who stood in the face of death itself, using great Courage to ascend to the heavens and slay the ultimate evil. A struggle 10,000 years in the making, finally coming to an end.

guys we did it. we rode zelda.

This fight may not have been the most difficult fight in the game, but come on... riding on the back of a dragon as you face ANOTHER dragon by skydiving onto it's back and when you are going for the kill shot a freaking blood moon is lighting up the sky... that's pretty badass for the ending of a game, let's be real. Not everything has to be a For Honor duel or Dark Souls boss. Sometimes it can be just... cool.

That Blood Moon segment is one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard in a video game

The "Blood Moon Rises" part is absolutely beautiful and I'm honestly really thankful you extended it

This final boss fight almost made me cry.

What an absolutely beautiful ending to one of the best Zelda games we’ve got. Rauru said “That pride will be your downfall, Ganondorf” right before sealing him away for tens of thousands of years and, in Link’s present, his pride made him swallow his secret stone, he knew what it would do to him, but he was absolutely not going to lose to a kid. His objective was to conquer Hyrule and (presumably) exterminate all life inhabiting those lands, but he ended up sacrificing everything just for a slim chance of winning against Link and the Sages. My favorite iteration of the character is still the Wind Waker one, but God, this is possibly the most in-character Ganondorf we have and I love it.

2017: Dark beast ganon has the best final boss theme in the series. 2023: Dark beast who?

They really did it. They took the Naydra battle from BotW and turned it into the final boss. I loved every bit of it.

This is my favorite finale in any game I’ve played. Nothing rivals the sheer catharsis and awe I felt throughout the entire final hour. From the Sages joining you to face the Demon King’s Army to the thrilling face-off with Ganondorf to THIS! It’s the perfect cherry on top of this innovative masterpiece of a game. Well done, Nintendo! Bravo!

The music matches so well in this fight! It’s a mixture of the dragon theme, main theme, and Ganondorf’s theme

Almost perfect example of Final boss that is easy yet full of impact. Much better than Dark beast from Botw. (At least to me.) I also enjoyed where music plays part of Botw and Zelda's theme. It was too good for my sensitive heart.

The very beginning of the blood moon phase, if you listen close the low brass actually plays the first 11 notes of the BotW theme and oh boy that hits me in the feels every time.

0:38 is beautiful ! Really good melody!

Fucking *phenomenal.* Especially in the 2nd phase with the key change, followed by the slow build of the piano with the final strike GOD it's so good. Zelda never fails when it comes to music.

Did anyone else find this whole sequence intensely moving as they were playing it? The Light Dragon flying in to catch you as you fell...just broke me. The devs took the critique that BotW was lacking narratively and they just *nailed* the story for TotK. I was just blown away by this ending.

This. This might be my favourite climax in any video game ive ever played. It may nit be very difficult but the sheer spectacle, music and emotions i was feeling during this have been unparalleled for me

Listening closely at 3:12, you can hear Zelda's lullaby faintly. People say you can also here the botw theme, but I can't hear it at all

MY FAVORITE SONG IN THIS GAME, WHAT A MASTERPIECE AND OMG 2:54 IS TRULY MAGNIFICENT

I love when the saxophone bits come in--the gentle sound feels like Zelda encouraging you to keep going. This whole playlist is fantastic. Thanks for putting it together.

Yall I love hearing Zelda’s lullaby played by the horns at 3:13

This fight was phenomenal and unveiled one of the best themes in the Zelda franchise: what a gem this game was 🤩

The erhu makes this so much more beautiful

I beat the game 10 months after it released and now I'm 100% it. And I know how good the theme is because I listen to this particular theme everyday. So I slowly beat Demon Dragon and even took some selfies on his snout. 😂

And they still managed to squeeze a bit of Ganondorf's theme in. Honestly, I feel like you can forget whom you're actually fighting without it.

One detail I love is that they don't call him something like "Dragon Ganon" or "Dragondorf". It's just "Demon Dragon". As in "He threw away his entire identity to become a creature of pure, mindless, malevolent power."

Colgera wasn't hard either, but that fight felt very dynamic. This huge centipede thing that actually moves around, dives for you, teleports, summons tornadoes. There where so much tempo in that fight. While the light and dark dragons clashing in the sky over the kingdom is pretty fricking awesome as a final battle, I were a bit sad to see that they didn't emulate what they did in the gameplay of Colgera. Still enjoyable though. As said, stellar concept.

My absolute favorite thing about this piece is how clearly you can hear Zelda’s lullaby. Any other time you get close to the Light Dragon, you can hear the lullaby, but it’s off. It’s not complete, the notes aren’t exactly the length they need to be, and it sounds sad. Almost mournful. It’s like she’s trying to remember, but can’t because she’s been this form for so long. You get to this battle, and the lullaby is clearly heard. While it’s still not complete, the leitmotif is correct. It sounds triumphant. She still can’t fully remember who she is, but some subconscious part of her remembers Link and that he needs her help. I know I’m overthinking the heck out of this, but it’s still really cool.

I wonder what's happening in lookout landing while this whole fight is going on

the last two banger Nintendo games both had rad kaiju fights in the end. 10/10

2:55 eargasm

the final boss themes in these games are basically the main theme in a major key and we eat it up every time

This has extremely high spirited-away ost vibes. *The dragon boy* specifically (makes sense, totk and botw take a lot of inspiration from miyasaki).

I love the dragon theme part that is mixed in! Soo sooo good

Giratina looks different than I remember…

he finally transformed into his final form, John Zelda

I love how this game made the panic blood moon canon. Normally, it's when the game is overloaded and has to reset all the monsters, but you can see the Blood Moon appearing with the fake Zelda cutscene and in that final fight, which happens during the day.

3:11 if you listen closely you can hear Zelda's Lullaby

I love the jazzy bits. Really gives a weird tone in this context

You are an actual good for doing this

Finally, Link defeated a red eyes black dragon while riding a blue eyes white dragon 🙏🙏🙏

So beautiful !!!

I'm only just now hearing the Zelda's Lullaby in the background that starts at 3:12

pretty love the final battle, this ost just bring me back to that sky

3:54 spirited away vibes

Who also did use arrows before realizing that you can STAND ON THAT DRAGON SADFSDKDFHNSUI

Very Beautiful. Still come back to this trackkeeerrr

It feels good listening to this track after beating Totk today

“Demon king… secret stone?”

And this is how you do a cinematic over difficult final fight where as botw just threw in pig ganon for no real reason this one had build up with a truly difficult boss before it everything in the end felt at the very least more deserved like instead of it being a letdown it was a true conclusion

Even though I'm fighting a Demon King in this moment my ears are in paradise

Though both themes kick ass, I'm glad that at least this fight was better than Calamity Ganon

what i would give to play in this orchestra........ i mean, more than my whole days, life and future since 7 years ago, anyone?

3:53 Español latinoamerica🇲🇽 TWILIGHT PRINCES (golpe de gracia) SKYWARD SWORD (golpe e gracia) TEARS OF THE KINGDOM (golpe de gracia)

Best theme of all of gaming ⬇️

2:54 2:55

GANON TURNS INTO A FUCKIN LIGHT NUKE!!

Props to the devs for making an epic finale that actually feels genuine, compared to Dark Beast Ganon anyway. I mean come on! DBG felt like an ass pull. A huge boar just pops out of nowhere? Adn you receive the bow of light and a horse to fight *even if you never rode one*!? And that last hit where you have to glide above Ganon with the updraft and shoot midair... It all feels forced! The Demon Dragon fixes most of these issues, both lorewise and gameplay wise. Most of the things that might've felt like ass pulls (Ganondorf turning into a dragon, the white dragon coming to save link, even providing the master sword if you don't have it) are heavily hinted at through the Dragon's Tears questline. This rewards players who sought them out. As for the gameplay itself, aerial movement in TotK is just fun and controls better than horseback riding, and actually using the Master Sword to destroy the weak points feels very satisfying. The visuals are truly stunning and the music doesn't sound like a broken record.

I feel like polishing stones on Ganondaddy’s chest

0:37 That erhu did not deserve to be the one delivering that beautiful melody

The Demon Dragon itself looks kinda silly with its eyes perpetually unfocused and looking in two different directions. I know it's a mindless monster, but it should at least look at me when we're trying to kill each other!

For anyone wondering, the blood moon part is at 2:51

We got him this time! Sadly, his Doombot, Calamity Ganon, is still only sealed away...but I doubt it can survive another round with the new and improved Master Sword, either.

Amazing! Do you have the cutscene music that leads into the dragon fight?

What kind of world will you create, Link?

Timestamps?

Anyone in 2024?

the saxophone is somehow giving me pokemon diamond and pearl vibes lol

You produced this, not Nintendo.

Personally, I actually liked Demon Dragon, but it was in spite of literally the rest of the entire game. TotK, to me, is hands down the worst Zelda experience I have ever had, with far and away the worst story, only rivaled by Age of Calamity in that regard. But Demon Dragon pretty much sums up why I hate TotK. It looks pretty, has a good OST, and is mindless fun to turn your brain off and ignore the rest of the entire series. But as someone who has pretty much grown up with Zelda my whole life, TotK is a complete betrayal of expectations and basically shits all over the rest of the series. I WISH I could like this game, but I can't. It has no characters I can invest in, they rewrote Ganondorf, reducing him from the complex and tragic character Wind Waker turned him into back to "generic Demon King 57", they furthered the worst concept in all of Zelda, the existence of multiple Ganondorfs which, please no, kill that idea, they pretend no other Zelda game ever happened, the Zonai are the most boring new species introduced to Zelda, they even break continuity with BotW. BotW name drops Nabooru, making OoT canon to it, references Skyward Sword, Twilight Princess, implies Wind Waker with the Rock Salt and Rito, and all in all felt like it was trying to be the Finale to the Zelda timeline... which it failed at spectacularly with Dark Beast Ganon, the worst boss in all of Zelda, who is disappointing for his lackluster strength for the supposed "final form of the curse of Demise" thing they built it up as. Then TotK, poised to right these wrongs and claim its throne as the true finale for the Timeline, pretends none of this happened, even going so far as to have Riju have no idea what the Vah Naboris Helm even is. And then this is all before the reward for all shrines, the Zonai Hero armor, which makes no sense. Rauru and Ganondorf made it pretty clear that all the Zonai died out in the... one year tops they'd been in Hyrule for, so to have a random Zonai Hero tens of thousands of years later show up and fight alongside the Sheikah against Calamity Ganon makes no goddamn sense. AND THEN this is all before TotK can't even write its own story well, with massive plotholes and stupid writing. Ganondorf kills Sonia, Zelda's ancestor, before she had kids. Therefore Zelda shouldn't be alive. If Sonia had kids, you know they would've been mentioned or seen, and we know Zelda is Sonia's descendant because she literally says Zelda has the same power as herself, and that power runs through the royal bloodline as we learn in BotW. SPEAKING OF WHICH, in BotW, the sacred power is the Triforce. Flatly, plainly, inarguably, it is the Triforce. But in TotK, they rewrite the power into the hilarious "Zonai Light and Time Magic", completely forgetting the Triforce even exists. Then we have Zelda, who can't realize the man named "Ganondorf", who holds "many dark ambitions" might maybe be somewhat related to the Calamity Ganon she spent 100 years inside of. And worst of all is Rauru and Sonia undoing Dragon Zelda. It just... happens. Killing Ganondorf had nothing to do with it, they just decided "yup, we can do it now". They could've literally done it when Link gets the Master Sword, but nope. TotK was one of my most anticipated games ever. After the disappointing conclusion of BotW, I was stoked to see Ganondorf again, in his full glory, with all these past games having filled out his identity I was thrilled to see where Nintendo would take this. How would he react to his resurrection? How would he react to the Gerudo, who in two of the three Timelines were genocided into oblivion (the flood in Wind Waker, and the Hylians eradicating them at Arbiters Grounds before Twilight Princess). What was up with Fi in BotW? Was that Demise in that trailer? The longer we went without news, and the more they drip fed us, the higher and higher my hopes got for a true "Zelda Finale" that put a bow on the entire Timeline with finality. Then the game releases, and the first ten minutes are literally perfect. The Imprisoning War (I.E. OoT) is mentioned, dead Ganondorf reanimates, recognizes Link and Zelda, name-drops Rauru, and we're off to the races. Perfect, sublime. Teasing everything I've ever wanted from this game. Fast forward to the end of the game, and all I can do is stare blankly as Zelda is returned from her dragon form, undoing the only praise I could've given the story. I didn't cry at Dragon Zelda, but I did almost applaud. She then delivers the most cringe-inducing dialogue of any Zelda game, the credits roll, and I didn't even bother sticking around for them. (Oh, and fuck the whole "the Timeline is a Loop" idea. That is such a cheap copout of storytelling. Give me a beginning, middle, and end please.)

anyone hear breath of the wild theme?

this theme is really celest and on the end the OST really said to the player "this is THE END"