Granblue Fantasy - The Ultimate | Reacting To Video Game Music! 

Jesse: "Loop? Loop?" Narita: "I think the fuck not"

Remember that this is a Mobile game playable on browser, they really didn't need to go that far, but they made a 10 minute epic with no loop. As for the similarities with Dark Silver Wings is intentional, Dark Silver Wings is a boss battle against Bahamut ( God of Destruction basically), and The Ultimate is a WAY harder version against Ultimate Bahamut, hence why the similarities. The different shifts in the music is tied to all phases of the boss at each HP checks. Now you gotta listen to Paradise Lost 😁

So I'm late but a bit of context, the game plays like a standard turn based RPG game and it used to be one of the hardest 6 man raids in the game. Big emphasis on used to be because the powercreep in this game is really bad and now it's a cake walk but I still remember the phases it goes through because it was so memorable back in the day. 1:04-3:58(100%-75% phase), prolly the easiest phase but it can still wipe you if you weren't careful. Has some pretty dangerous triggers(special moves) that can one shot you along w/ some annoying debuffs. 3:58-6:15(75%-50%), hardest hitting phase as his normal attacks now hits all of your party members and has a faster cooldown on some triggers. 6:16-8:03(50%-30%), this is the DPS check phase. Each player has only a certain number of turns to do damage and if just one player goes over it will kill ALL the members of the raid. 8:04-9:16(30%-15%), not too dangerous of a phase but will trigger an attack that will 1 shot the whole party at 15%. 9:17-11:00(15%-0%), the home stretch. The make it or break it phase, just a little more push and you'll finally beat Bahamut.

It's finally here. The moment we were all waiting for. Yes,this used to be one of the hardest raids/boss fights. It's basically a mobile mmorpg,so there are new bosses being added.

Glad you liked the request! This is still probably my favorite track from Granblue, period. It's contextually sick, considering it's Ultimate Bahamut's theme and borrows the chorus from Dark Silver Wings (being Proto Bahamut's theme), slowing it down and using it in it's own chorus, showing a more majestic and imposing Bahamut than the previous one.

I recommend listening to Zero, another bgm of one of the hardest raids in Granblue Fantasy Give Praise, For He Has No Equal

FYI,the man behind all of epic Granblue Fantasy OST is Tsutomu Narita and his band Stella Magna.He is the pupil of Nobuo Uematsu,the legendary composser that make many great Final Fantasy soundtrack

They used to performed this live on stage You can see them exhausted after it

Imo, this is probably the embodiment of an actual boss theme. It hits really hard, and the lyrics have relevance to the story of the game. Ultimate Bahamut was the end game raid for sometime till newer raids got added, and it was intimidating as an inexperienced player because one wrong move in this raid and you were easily dead. When you've never done this raid, it's like holy shit what did I just walk into.

He REALLY need to hear Zero, Lucilius theme. That fight changed the meta of the game and the song really is iconic inside the community.

I'm more disappointed everyone didn't force you also listen to Zero, In this narrow small world, New World Order,Existence, Dominion Black Dragon or even Sanbagarasu otoko uta in one go for the full range of this games soundtrack of 8 years

Yo! Jesse glad you finally made it to hear this theme, is such a awesome track imo. But you need to hear the rest of the most popular songs, like Paradise Lost, Parade's Lust, Zero and Existence. Definitely you gonna love it. 3:06 - Kind of funny you say that it sounds like a imperial march, because the name of the raid or boss battle is called 'Empyreal Ascension' . Btw the boss is a dragon as well! You can look for it as Ultimate Bahamut. 6:15 - I alway love this segment of the music because in the boss battle you face, there is a phase of the boss where, if you do not do the amount of damage need it to mitigate a certain special attack from the boss in a certain amount of turns, you get wiped out full of your party, and that feel to know to that is like make you pumped up to fast and do enough damage to bypass that. Here you can find an example of the boss battle ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ymMj7DHTCvA.html you gonna notice it that each % of HP of the boss correspond of some segments of the music, which is awesome! Hope you will hear soon more tracks from Granblue!

You should think of this soundtracks as they are. Raid boss songs, the long intros are because they're the boss first phase, and when the song picks up is because it's getting difficult and the end is when you're about to defeat it

Glad to see you enjoyed it as much as we hoped you would. The only "shame" about the song is that due to the way the game is made much of the fight is left to players imaginations. One important thing to mention is that The Ultimate was built upon Darksilver Wings, as both are fights versus the same boss, just with a way higher difficulty.

Most Boss themes of Granblue are 7 to 15 min Epics lol

His reaction makes me nostalgia on my own reaction when the first time hearing the BGM in game... Especially that chuckles when the tempo starts to become fast But that sudden relaxed 9:20, its totally different reaction because in game, It become most stressfull / do or die phase 12:50 Yea very agreed.... "every thing drops, boss came out" It was very scary when the players saw Ulimate Bahamut appear the first time It was massive feeling that tells you about uphill battle that will going on

Another great (imo) song in granblue fantasy is “Small fish in a small pond” would be cool to see you react to that song too!

The first phase always passed too fast I totally forgot how the intro sound like, lol. Such an incredible song.

As other comments have mentioned, this track is the BGM for the raid boss against ULTIMATE BAHAMUT, thus the echoing of Proto Bahamut's theme "Dark Silver Wings/Wings of Terror" in parts like "REBIRTH AND DESTRUCTION, AGAIN AND AGAIN" The actual fight is not particularly epic looking if you don't play, but UBaha's sprite is pretty sick For my suggestions: If you haven't, listen to Dominion Black Dragon, you listened to Dark Silver Wings and you absolutely need to listen to Dominion Black Dragon as such(I wanna see if you can guess what event the remix was for), others have suggested Paradise Lost, Parade's Lust, ZERO, Morning Light Hymnus, etc, but I appreciate Small Fish in a Small Pond, Illuminated World, New World Order, and the Six Dragon's three themes

Glad to finally hear another GBF track on your channel. As for why the build-up for the song sounds like a "phase" yes you are absolutely correct. The way they make these boss tracks is always composed for build-up that matches the raid boss' different phases on their life bar. This track is actually one of the endgame bosses and his name is Ultimate Bahamut (Ubaha for short). Also at 9:17 that's pretty much the part of the raid where you are not allowed to screw up here or else Ubaha will unleash a move that deals 999,999 dmg that pretty much completely obliterates your entire party, I got chills when I first experienced this with that track like it really makes you feels like the end has come.

next from the series of "end game boss fights" for Granblue Fantasy would be "Zero" (Lucilius theme) I think and then either Paradise Lost+Parade Lust DUO songs (Belial and Avatar Belial theme) OR Existence (Beelzebub theme)

If you'd like a more animated fight scene, there's granblue fantasy versus, which is their fighting game that does have proto-bahamut as a boss fight. Sadly it doesn't have all of the hardest bosses at the time like ultimate bahamut, but it does have beelzebub's, and belials'. I do think parts of their song in versus are different than the mobile/browser version though.

One day we will give praise

fun thing about this song (and yes, it is a boss song... an endgame one at that)... that orchestral bit at the beginning is just him "testing" you. the metal kicking in is when he decides to get serious

If needed I can post some game play of the boss fight. This is all from a mobile game by the way.

You should try Zero from Granblue Fantasy. It's the boss that came out after this specific boss. Ultimate Bahamut is currently back on top as its Super Ultimate Bahamut raid, but Zero, the theme for Lucilius was what came after the regular Ultimate Bahamut.

the game has a fair amount of these, mainly in fights that either have high significance or else are end game. The best part is that all of them are played in sections as the fight progresses and as the boss's hp goes down. it picks up during hard sections in the fight and slows down during sections where you need to be more cautious, and ofc a good finale to push that last 5-10% where you would find the most struggle lol.

The Ultimate Bahamut fight was one of the end have bosses. In fact, the endgame boss for years. It was so hard that you got a trophy for solo killing it. But back when it first released you need 6 (the max amount of people) to kill it. You need 5 main characters with whole raid damage cutters, and one main character healer. The damage cut had 5 turn cooldown. Near the end of the fight, your ability to summon is taken away. You've debuffed him so many times that it's hard to land anything, and so often Bahamut will just straight up clear away all but permanent debuffs. Without the super buff you can use now to fight him, he's still hard to solo kill. Though the power creep of the game has caught up to him. So much so that they made a new version of Ultimate Bahamut. It's the current end game fight.

Oh man I hope you listen to Dragalia Lost’s songs one day in the future, none of them are as long in length but they (imo) are as high in quality as GBF’s soundtrack lol

I'm here 1 year after this video was posted- there is nothing I can add that your viewers haven't already said. But yeah, "The Ultimate" is the boss theme for Bahamut, a dragon that can literally bring about rebirth and destruction of the World as the lyrics say. The sections of the song basically match up with the different phases of the fight itself. And the way I always saw it is that the orchestral build up part of the song is the first half of the boss fight where Bahamut is attacking you yes, but is only barely awake. Like, you are fighting it's sleepwalking instincts rather than a fully conscious God. Then when the main theme really kicks in is when Bahamut fully awakens and the real challenge begins. And yeah, it's pretty cool when a game gives us a song that is THIS long with no loops. I can only imagine the endurance of the musicians playing this song.

This song is supposed to be about the ultimate version of dragon the final and complete form of the emperiyal dragon. Black silver wing was dragon half form, that why both song sound similar, and share lyrics

Woooooo The Ultimate!! Can't wait for Zero now hehe

It couldn't get bette- Oh. It did. Again.

I recommended Zero, the ost for one the hardest raid in GBF Lucilius Hard. The song itself 13 minutes without loop so it's also one of the longest ost in gbf

Stayblue~ ***Believe in yourself*** multiple time

Granblue Fantasy have a lot of great Sound track

Two other GBF song you could listen to are Zero and In this narrow, small world. Though for the second song you should search for subtitles as it's completely ini japanese.

Zero and Existance is my top music from this game

Love the reaction ! Could you react to the new world order ost also from granblue fantasy ?

I think I'm gonna try and look at your streams. Ads in the middle took me right out of it

You should listen Zero man, that's the peak for ost boss soundtrack in gbf. so frickin good.

Now waiting for Zero

Every time i hear this team i fell like i have *skyfallen* :)

"please show me the boss fight" Unfortunately, the gameplay itself is..... not that interesting. Mostly standard turn-based combat. There are some great looking animations, but I imagine the majority of the community skips it via refreshing for time optimization.

Yeah we need Zero Parade's Lust too but mostly Zero

So for context: the reason the song is called "The Ultimate" is because the boss fight is vs God. You fight God. (as one does in JRPGs, LOL) The god of the realm in Granblue is a dragon named Bahamut. Legends say that his power split in two, with the power of Rebirth/Creation, and the power of Destruction. (which is why it's a recurring theme in this song and "Black Silver Wings/Wings of Terror") BSW/WoT is "Proto" Bahamut's theme, who is like a minor envoy(?) of his power (I guess???? The game doesn't make it very clear) "The Ultimate" is *actual* Bahamut's theme, which is why it's as grandiose as it is. The context as to when and why you fight him, or if it's just all in your head, or in a different dimension isn't exactly clear either, as far as I'm aware. Lots of lore and boss fights play it loose, and we don't know the specifics until some story event drops. Anyways: Granblue music is awesome, I've only watched 3 of these vids so far, but all of your reactions have been correct and well thought out! I've definitely been delighted as an average VGM/rock enjoyer XD I would love to see how you react to "Six Dragon Advent: Black and White" which is the theme of the Light and Dark Dragons Lu Woh and Fediel respectively. It also has big thrashy, power metal vibes, but people want to see you get through some other songs first, and they're probably more veteran players than me :P

I can feel the _Deadly Flare_ now

You should listen to "Chainsaw Funk" by 2 Mello, absolute jam.

Loop? Hah! THIS IS GBF! Their live concert was f**king epic btw. The singer almost died.

this man thinks Granblue is a AAA open world JRPG. No one tell him its a 2d turn based gacha game

Time to do "Zero" from the same game

You know the song is good when you need the gameplay of which the song is used. Great reaction anyway! Actually this song is currently used for the hardest boss battle in the game. So yes, The Ultimate, it explains itself.

Since you listened to this theme, you should listen to Destiny from Dragalia Lost. Same boss, different games But if you do you should watch the Advent of the Origin trailer as to my knowledge it is the only way to listen to an unextended rip of the song

glad you like the song just like me

Since the game is closing, why not react to dragalia lost ost? You wont regret it

So its was Bahamut collab with the same company of gbf

Im still holding out for "New World Order"

8:04 oh no, time for quickburst

Hey can you please try listen to Dragalia lost ost? The game is going out of the service

You now gotta listen to 000 from Granblue too, also known by the fans as Paradise lost. It goes 10 times harder and its basically god talking shit to his creation.

Now for mood whiplash with unfinished melody :p I'm not serious

Giga battle

God I remember the first time I did bahamut

You haven't listened to zero, you haven't experience the epic of granblue

Yes this is the boss fight, literally the music fight of the God in this Game man . Bro u need to react the another boss music, the granblue fantasy Zero

Dark silver wings is for the boss proto bahamut The ultimate is for ultimate bahamut

MORE GBF MUSIC REACTION!

He should give Sanbagarasu Otoko Uta a listen.

Someone get this man to download DNF duel my request is the tavern theme

You really need to hear granblue fantasy Zero

SKYFALL !!!

Jesse: Please show me the boss fight. Well if Relink adapts Ultimate Bahamut into the game, gladly.

Jesse was going all over the music while in my head I was going over the percentage of the boss ahahahahha. EDIT: and about the battle, here! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ymMj7DHTCvA.html

STAY BLUE spent too much money on granblue, it's a treat they went all out with the soundtrack and bringing in FF veterans.

zero please from gbf

Well if wanna see the boss fight is kinda bored cuz turn based but if u into that shit u can feel how insane this raid make one mistake team wipe yeah all player raid wipe out

Regular BahaHL raid theme is leagues more catchy and better imo

This game’s soundtrack is amazing. Sadly, the game is not on par with the OST. It could’ve been such a good game, but the ridiculous grinding is just too much, plus the powercreep of characters over the last two years is something else. Which is really, really sad