Sonic Frontiers OST - I’m with you 

"Mortal, you have served your purpose. Now face your End. I am the all-consuming void. What can one mote of golden light illuminate within the abyss? Countless stars. Countless worlds. Countless lives. All fell to me, all brought to nothing. All the teeming chaos of creation? Brought to order. To neutrality. To nothing. I saw your mind as you ran through my prison. You have fought machines and gods. They were mighty. They were finite. I am Infinite. I am nothing. You struggle as so many have done before. You will be consumed like all those before you. I saw your mind. Your courage never wavered. Why? Arrogance? Ignorance? Stupidity? I was contained once. Once. Is that why? My captors bent time and space. My captors built a whole reality to contain me. My captors burnt their souls away to fuel their engines. And you? You glitter; you fly above me like a gnat. I am inevitable, I cannot be denied. You strike this incarnation with all your might. It changes nothing. You are not brave; you are not victorious. No matter what form I take... The End comes for you all!"

Sonic Adventure 2: I PISSED ON THE MOON Sonic Frontiers: I'VE PISSED OFF THE MOON

I like to imagine The End is Pluto taking its revenge for us deciding it's not a planet anymore.

1991 Final Boss - A guy in a stompy machine 2022 Final Boss - Literally Unicron

Nice to see that Sage is following in her father’s footsteps of delivering grievous harm onto space rocks

Never has a rock dissing me sounded more epic.

The End is stagnate. Super Sonic constantly moves at the Speed of Light. The End is a vast darkness. Super Sonic is a single, infinitely bright light. The End is an immortal being. Super Sonic represents the best of mortality. The End, is despair. Super Sonic, is _hope._ I truly believe, all of Sonic's fights, have been preparing him for _this_ moment, and this song represents Sonic's sobering realization that this, is the thing he's always been racing toward.

"I AM INFINITE. I AM NOTHING." NGL, I laughed when it said that, I know it is supposed to be a hard quote, but I couldn't help but imagine it as a roast towards Infinite, who's indeed nothing

“I saw your mind as you ran through my prison. You have fought machines and gods. They were mighty. They were finite. I am infinite. I am nothing.”

According to Kishimoto, the true/physical appearance of the final boss hasn’t been revealed because it depends on how each one perceives what death would look like. Sonic, Sage, and we see different things. Just to clarify, we see the entity as the moon since the symbol of death is typically the moon in fiction. We never know what Sonic and Sage see.

The final boss being a MOON on the SAME DAY AS AN ECLIPSE IS INSANELY EPIIIIIIIIC!!

From a story perspective, it's epic how you're battling the literal end of an ancient civilization that once harnessed the Chaos Emeralds, using the power of their own final mech combined with Super Sonic and Sage, avenging the lives of many whose tales you witnessed in flashbacks. Their deaths were tragic and needless. From a gameplay perspective, it's a giant space rock with Ikaruga sprinkled on top.

"I saw your mind as you ran through my prison. You have fought machines and gods. They were mighty. They were finite. I am infinite. I am nothing." Such a chilling monologue.

Fun Fact: Sage has the same voice actress as Rei from Evangelion in Japanese AND English. And with how this final boss ended and what the titans are, I don't think the casting choice was a coincidence

I just realized, The End is the embodiment of death itself, the end comes to us all, Sonic is facing death and even then he is still fighting like it's just another day.

The piano solo alongside Super Sonic flying like a shooting star was such a beautiful spectacle

Considering how epic the Titans looked, it really threw me for a loop when the True Final Boss turned out to be a GIANT ROCK.

8:16 This part with Super Sonic slowly speeding across the screen in space is beautiful

The end was a crafty one It first trapped Eggman in cyberspace to make sure he didn’t pull anything or blab about it. It took hostages and made Sage look like the culprit to propel Sonic into action. Sage hates Sonic as she was made by Eggman, so she’d never spill the beans. The corruption would have killed Sonic right after he unwittingly freed it. The End was pretty sure of itself, but it’s knowledge probably meant it saw Sonic taking on impossible odds before, so while it was sure it could kill Sonic based on its calculations, it would dispose of him in a sneaky manner to try and not fight him at all to not risk it. Sage’s change of heart was literally the only thing it couldn’t control or predict.

The game's only been out for a month and this song already feels nostalgic 😭

Y’know, some people didn’t like this boss’s gameplay but I find the “hey let’s take this silly minigame’s mechanics and turn them into something heavily plot relevant” very clever. It’s like “hey, all those skills you gained from this seemingly innocuous game thing? Use them to beat the final boss.” It’s like a game design Chekhov’s Gun.

"I'm Here, I'm With You."

I completely get why people would be thrown off by this as a final boss, but as a Touhou and Kirby fan i absolutely loved this sorta stuff lmao

"He took your home world. He took your lives! Are you really gonna let him do is ALL over again?! I need your help. We can end this! Please!" That immediately gave me chills.

I fully expect The End to come back at some point. You don't kill something as powerful as the incarnation of order and nothingness that easily.

Even if we got a new version of I'm With You, this ones still my favorite. For a bad ending for the game, this song feels really nostalgic.

*"He took your home world! He took your lives! Are you going to let him do it all over again?! I need your help! We can end this! Please!"* The build up to this fight and the music was just so damn good!

Never in my life would I have to say my time playing Touhou games would help me in a sonic game of all things.

This song is the culmination of all three music styles the game uses. The charming, yet melancholy edm/techno sounds of cyberspace start the song off. It's joined by the energetic, high intensity, motivational sounds of drums, heavy metal guitars and bass that was featured during the titan battles. And the backbone of the whole track, is the triumphant, orchestral string instruments found in the open zone stages, that come in to support the whole song and give it structure. The song also manages to convey a wide emotional range, without uttering a word. Sadness, triumph, heroics, loss, regret, joy, excitement, wonder, calm, focus, fear, strength. All contained within this track. And to top it all off, no matter when you die during the song, it will always perfectly loop itself back to the start seamlessly, without sounding odd or mismatched. It does not matter if you died during the mellow opening, the high intensity middle, or the calm comedown of the final portion. As soon as the song starts from the beginning, it never feels like it interrupted itself. It's a difficult task to compose a piece that manages to wrap up the themes and experiences of whole adventure. But this track knocks it out of the park. It is the perfect final boss theme

After seeing the update 3 final fight and ending, I thought it was good, but.... I actually prefer how bitter sweet this final fight and ending was. The way Sage sacrificed herself and Eggman feeling sad that his daughter died (until he brought her back after credits), his "that's my girl ". Sure, it's not exactly what people wanted, but it was an intense af thing in a Sonic game, a bullet hell final battle. Funny how people forgotten that Rush Adventure ended the same way.

People calling it a space rock while my first thought was “Holy shit, we can’t even comprehend this thing”

Considering The End said "You strike this _incarnation_ with all your might", I am not entirely convinced that Sonic and Sage truly managed to kill it. They perhaps managed to take it out of commission for a while, but I doubt this will be the last we have heard of it. The scope of what it is responsible for and how many questions still linger around would be too much of a waste to leave like this.

I love how after the end says: "My captors bent time and space. My captors built a whole reality to contain me. My captors burnt their souls away to fuel their engines. *And you?* " The music swells up. It really makes this battle feel so much more intense. Overall, the battle is great! This seems to just be one incarnation of this entity, so I wonder if we will see more forms of it someday.

This is one of my favorite closing themes to a sonic game that I've ever heard I'm used to this final boss fights being about being on the edge or facing impossible odds But all I feel from this song is the pure vibe of...Hope. This is the song of hope. It just makes you want to get up and run, full speed ahead , regardless of what's around the next corner What a fucking masterpiece

Now after the dlc, the new battle might have been better gameplay wise but this one was superior at narrative level, also the original had a pretty good atmosphere as well.

He took your home world... He took your lives... Are you going to let him do it all over again?! I need your help. We can end this! Please!!

That monologue was was ice cold pure evil incarnate it didn’t even mind if we defeated its current incarnation. I’m so curious to learn more about this deity, Sage stated that it wasn’t in its true form and the deity stated it had many forms and defeating it means nothing. This might be the scariest and strongest sonic game boss to date. God bosses just hit different lol

This music can make a grown ass man cry.

"No matter what form I take... The End comes for you all. This boss makes me think so much. I don't think it's a thing, or a single thing, or many things. it's not evil that is trying to destroy everything. it's the natural order of existence. this whole story leads me to believe that the ancients have been around for a very very very very VERY long time. their time was up. it was time for their End. and obviously no one wants the end to happen so we try to prevent it as much as we can. thousands upon thousands of years from now when the sun of our solar system dies, the humans on earth will be faced with this scenario. Our End. As humans we'll of obviously try everything in our power to prevent our demise from happening because we have so much love, sorrow, hopes, history and dreams for the future.. If we're gone, everything is gone. we won't be remembered. We would probably do the same thing the ancients did. because it's a terrifying thought. That''s why this boss hits so hard for me. Sonic may have defeated this incarnation. But that doesn't change anything, it will return one day. It may not be now, it may not be tomorrow. But eventually, The End come's for us all.

This boss is like: Have you played Ikaruga? Me: No? The End: dO yOu WaNt To?

I'm gonna be real, as someone who also loves games like Kirby and NieR, seeing Frontiers do that same approach of "now for something completely different", for the final boss no less, and having it be a goddamn Ikaruga homage?? Sonic Team was personally after my own heart there. I get some people being disappointed, I get if the gameplay shift might filter some players, but good lord, dude... this got *me* good. Rock on, Sonic Team!

Something about this theme just breaks me. It literally sounds like the end. But the end of what? The game? The story? A chapter in life? Fond experiences? Memories? Life? It seems like all of those and more. The emotions of this song can be depicted with anything; all those things that eventually passed. A bittersweet memory of something that once was. Something still inside but only as a warm flickering. The transiency of things. This theme is the end. And it breaks me.

honestly with this song you feel like it is already the end of the game regardless if the final boss it’s just a giant meteor, it gives that feelings, a message from the creators: ¨Thank you for accompanying Sonic on this adventure. We’ve worked really hard to lift the name sonic up to the top. And I, the player with one eye tearing up, i must say: thank you” Normally most final bosses themes are made of super badass songs; but this one is quite differently. What do you think ?

This was the only game that made me feel emotions while playing it. I’m so happy.

I don't know why, but seeing Super Sonic soar across the infinite void of space as the last glimmer of hope for Earth and the Ancients to 7:00 makes me a bit emotional.

"He took your homeworld! He took your lives! Are you really going to let him do it all over again? I need your help. We can end this... Please..."

My son was born last night. I’m sitting outside the hospital, reflecting on the last 30 years of life. This song is the perfect soundtrack to it.

At first, I was kind of upset that the final boss was basically a bullet hell shooter. But...honestly this fits. Hearing this THING trash talk you the whole time during this actually difficult final boss, death after death, you actually begin to appreciate this boss for what it truly is. It's like an acquired taste...this was a brilliant final boss.

"My heart was disguised, a ghost brought into life, we'll see it when I'm With You..."

The end thought it was UNDEAFTABLE. it thought it could BREAK THROUGH IT ALL. but it didn't expect the forces against it to FIND THEIR FLAME. And now THEIR HERE to set things right.

[The Ancients escape their home world, just before it is blown to bits, and resettle on Earth] The End: "...And I took that personally."

I hope this eldritch death rock is the new Dark Matter/Zero of Sonic; a constant threat even when you don't see it, he said it herself, strike this Incarnation down and nothing changes you only delayed the inevitable, "The End comes for you all!"

this game...its about a weird blue hedgehog...its a weird blue hedgehog...and this damn weird blue hedgehog actually got me to feel emotions. This is a strange new world were living in.

It’s crazy that this was originally gonna be the theme for the FIRST boss of the game!

This doesn't sound like the final boss theme of this game, it sounds like the final boss of the entire Sonic series.

After hearing this again in update 3, no matter what, I'm With You will always be Sonic's best work in my opinion

The moment you realize, Sonic wasn't the one who saved the world this time. It was Sage. And, by extension, Eggman. Mind blown.

One of the reasons why this song hits hard for me, what made me cry as my first time with this boss, as it ridicules you for your efforts. This song is nothing but Sorrow. But also Hope. For all of those that died, to the embodiment of death, The End. The inevitable. But hope is what keeps us alive and keep moving forward, to keep fighting the uphill battle. Giving it all you got till the very end. Thank you so much Sonic team for such a great built up.

Maybe I’m just easy to please but after finding the Supreme Titan kinda “whelming” as a final boss I REALLY loved the true hard mode-only final boss. Just the sheer insanity of Sonic Team going the full 9 yards for an Ikaruga shoutout had me stunned, and The End having some of the coolest lines in the series while you weave between shots kept me in that bewildered hype state. Not at all what I expected from this game’s final boss, both the fight and the music and I love both of them.

I think the vocal version suggests there's an even deeper meaning to this version of the song. The vocal version describes how glad sage is that she can finally go come home to a family of her own. This version only plays in the timeline where that doesn't initially happen, so it's more her wishing she could stay with eggman forever but can't. It's kind of sad when you think about it.

This song gives a sense of hope in trying circumstances. I've been battling anxiety and depression for several years. I've heard so many songs that give me a sense of healing, but this one is incredible. Thank you Sega for such a wonderful song. Can't wait to play this game and to listen to this song!

Unicron has been real quiet since this dropped.

this song makes me cry, this game was so good and it will be remembered in sonic history

Personally I really adore how this isn't just another Super Sonic fight. It emphasizes how this isn't really Sonic's moment, it's a moment focused on putting to rest all of the Ancients' loss and suffering and especially... It's Sage's moment, it's the cap to her story and so controlling the Ancients' final mech controlled by Sage cannot be more fitting. Now, did it really have to be a bullet hell though?... No... but I'm not complaining

This theme is genuinely a banger

Fun Fact: This was a scrapped first Titan boss theme! The themes were originally going to be much more emotional sounding but were changed to be sung by Kellin Quinn for more loud, screamo type, metal sounding theme.

There is something about 2:57 - 4:27 that leaves me feeling things. This song left me in awe as I took it all in. And this specific part reached something that I feel. This song means so much to me.

This song hits completely different now…

This theme got me. Hits all the right notes for The End, and I’m still surprised how Outstanding Sonic Frontiers was. A solid change of pace, and I hope they continue this style going forward potentially branching out to other playable characters with refined move sets like Sonic.

"I have seen your mind, your courage never faultered, why is that? Is it arrogance? Ignorance? Stupidity?"

The End's monologue (credit to GamerBlade84 and Charisma Entertainer for quoting it for me) taking the entire fight was just. MMMM I love it so much! This music which plays alongside the monologue fit it perfectly as well: an ancient unstoppable creature who was made overconfident based on past exploits, and is unable to understand why Sonic insists on fighting despite everything, not able to comprehend the brilliance known as willpower. So hearing it play while The End is trying and failing to understand why anyone would insist on the uselessness of fighting when there is no hope is just BEAUTIFUL. On that, the music is hollow and simultaneously empowering. A perfect embodiment of what this fight represents. Fights like these, the embodiments of hope in the face of hopelessness, are the pinnacle of flawless storytelling. These are demonstrations of the impossible power of will. A power we humans in real life possess. Additionally, these two characters are blatant opposites, made even more clear by how Sonic (alongside Sage and the spirits of the Ancients) is wordlessly destroying this ancient creature who is spending the fight monologing. This is a creature who does not understand the soul. It would rather endlessly devour with no satisfaction. Sonic himself understands this, as the intro dialogue to the fight shows. "He took your home world! He took your lives! Are you going to let him do it all over again? I need your help! We can end this! Please!" Lastly, it's even better how all this was built up throughout the game, most especially in the case of this particular exchange between Sonic and Sage: "You're always talking about odds and simulations, but we living beings don't live by calculations. The will to live, the drive to achieve, the desire to protect the ones you love - That kind of thing can grant a power you can't imagine." - Sonic The Hedgehog. The power of Ian Flynn as a writer, everyone.

I discovered something embarrassingly late. Sage is using her color palette as the Light and Dark shots while the Golden Burst (Gonna call that multishot attack) is Sonics super attack. Edit: I keep coming back to this and the more I did, the more I felt afraid of The End than other godly beasts like Solaris, existing in the past, present and future simultaneously, or Time Eater, consumer of timelines. Something about The End just felt all the more terrifying than those.

I wonder if this theme was composed with Hyper Sonic in mind? For context, the writer of the game confirmed that, originally, Sonic was supposed to fight The End as Hyper Sonic, but SEGA doesn’t want Sonic to achieve different forms to become more powerful like Goku does in Dragon Ball Z.

The End has been living rent free in my head ever since I finished this game. I can't stop thinking about it and its implications to the universe it's in. Hear me out on this. We can presume that The End is a primordial force, something that had existed even long before the Ancients came into being. Its sole purpose was to bring ruination to any that it comes across, and that is its role for all time. But there must be something in place to counteract this. If there is only destruction then there's no way for the cycle to continue. Balance has to be struck. If there is a Destructor, then it goes without saying that there should also be a Creator. The existence of The End implies that there also exists its complete antithesis - an entity as powerful as its dark counterpart whose sole purpose is to give life and light to the Universe. What if this entity was the true origin of the Master Emerald? Or better yet.... _....what if this entity of light IS the Master Emerald?_

"This isn't even my final form" *TURNS INTO A GIANT ROCK*

Dig how this song meshes well with Sonic’s and Sage’s personalities. Overall hopeful for victory while having a constant somber and melancholy tone.

The monolog The End gave goes hard for no reason. I love it! But I also hope we get to see them as the villain for the games again. The End adds so much lore to the Sonic series. And the fact that there's a hint of it having more than one form is seriously giving me Darkseid vibes.

"MORTAL, YOU HAVE SERVED YOUR PURPOSE. NOW FACE YOUR END."

Genuinely such an emotional and beautiful moment. When it zooms out and you see Super Sonic like a shooting star of hope throughout the sky, really hit me. I've been a Sonic fan for over a decade, the games were my comfort throughout my teenage years and Frontiers for me was a letter of love for the fans. The game isn't flawless but I had so much fun and I enjoyed the story like I use to all those years ago.

Gives me massive Sonic Unleashed vibes for some reason - only Dark Gaia was doing its job. This monster just wants to one-up Solaris and consume all. It took everything from Chaos and the Ancients for fun. Man, how cathartic its death is!

I feel like the correct way to experience ‘I’m with you’ now is to listen to the vocal theme and then this. Makes this half hit hard AF

Hearing this while listening to "the end" speak throughout really got me thinking about how Sonic and us have gone through so much in each game. This game's story is so fucking incredible and I loved every single minute I had playing this game.

I fucking love this theme and the monologue that accompanies it. A surprisingly unique vibe for a Sonic finale. I cant help but love it even if I understand why it wasnt popular.

I'm a grown man and this seriously made me cry. Was lucky enough to beat The End the first time of asking. What an amazing finale to a phenomenal game. Thank you Sonic for always being with me, through thick and thin ❤️

8:16 A Golden Light Soaring Across The Abyss of Space like a Shooting Star, lighting the darkest night.

Glad they kept the og ending in tbh it was pretty good love the alternate one aswell but this one is very emotional literally fighting what everyone fears the ineviteable end

In the Japanese version of the game The End's monologue is completely different than in the English version. Here is The End's Japanese monologue translated to English. "I am the orchestrator and arbiter of cosmic order. My light is judgment. I melt all things and return them to primordial dust. Nothing can escape the infinite light. Answer me, little life. Only through my discipline and judgment can life everywhere find peace. Many lives are now at peace under my guidance. Is it thy bloated ego that makes thee choose that path? Is it the aspiration of life to find the meaning of existence? The stronger the aspiration that life embraces, the more thousands of tribulations will descend upon it. Behold the many lives that flee and try to escape in the face of hardships before them. Life, except for me, is an entity that cannot overcome its own fragile mind. Life is oblivious to the ignorance that makes it believe only it does not make mistakes. There is no such thing as an absolute constant in the universe. Only a future of stupor awaits us in the face of irrationality and absurdity. when judgment comes, reality will be revealed. what did you crave, what did you discern, what did you question, what did you ponder, what did you accomplish? I hereby seal this planet forever. my attunement is ruling of fate on everything that exists in this universe. Since time immemorial, it has been ordained that aspiring life dreams life forms will come to this end, and that there is no way to challenge thine foolishness. Hear, I say, the chirps of darkness that lurk in thine heartbeats. Life is to stagnate and enter its twilight. But thou wilt go on? It is a choice that is hard to understand. Stop the nonsense now. This is the last warning. Indeed. This was decided from the ordination. It has been repeated time and time again. I see. is this the meaning of thy existence in this universe? Canst thou devote thy being to that aspiration which guides life? Something is about to happen. Something that transcends law and time. Is this the beginning of evolution? I see. so that is what the universe is, what life is."

Very few songs have ever made me this emotional before, i can feel the raw emotion signifying ‘The end’ in most other tracks but they pale in comparison to the emotion and symbolism this conveys

Spoilers for dialog at the boss. "I am the all-consuming Void. What can one mote of golden light illuminate within the abyss? Countless stars, countless worlds, countless lives. All fell to me, all brought to nothing. Not to chaos or creation, not to order or neutrality, to nothing. I saw your mind as you ran through my prison. You have fought machines and gods, they were mighty...They were finite, I am Infinite, I am nothing. You struggle as so many have done before. You will be consumed like all those before you. I saw your mind, your courage never wavering, why? Arrogance? Ignorance? Stupidity? I was contained once, once, is that why? My captors bent time and space. My captors built a whole reality to contain me. My captors burned their souls away to fuel their engines. And you?"

This song and the boss is giving me Undertale's vibe. And I like it.

I'm sorry Sonic Team, and I'm sorry Kishimoto but i prefer the original bittersweet ending 🥲🥲 Of course i do really like the new final boss but, there's something about the atmosphere of The End fight in the space that makes me... Melancholic

“You have fought machines and gods. They were mighty. They were finite. I am INFINITE.” “Yeah, we’ll, you’re kinda weak for something that’s existed since the beginning of time!” “Wha- no. I’m not weak! I’m… I’m not! I’m NOT WEAK! I’M NOT WEEEEEEEAAAAAAK!!!!”

The ethereal Sage, the ever-rebellious Sonic. In isolation, they're incompatible. Together... they're *unstoppable.*

The End: EGGMAN!!!! Eggman: What did I do? The End: Remember the announcement on Twitter?

i don’t get what people dislike about this theme. i get gameplay wise this boss is criticized for being anticlimactic but i adore it thematically. sonic the hedgehog faced with the literal concept of death (the player seeing the moon, but sonic and sage seeing whatever their concept of death is) and still standing tall, defeating it despite everything, like it’s nothing to him. kinda meta, don’t you think? the melancholy emotion of the music makes me nostalgic for a time that never happened, i’m not sure how to describe it otherwise but it has that feel. turned this on while crying about something unrelated just so i could cry harder-ended up getting distracted and feeling better writing this comment.

Man Frontiers is just a Experience for fans, I've been growing up with sonic all my life and man this game made feel emotions and goosebumps. Something no other sonic game has done

You know all the other bosses before this one were super hard rock music but the final boss being less intense even hopeful piano music with the exception of a little guitar in there is really beautiful to me like symbolizing the end of your journey

Sonic's speech gave me serious chills. Say what you will about the execution of the fight itself, but it really drove home that you're not only saving the world, but you're avenging the Ancients and ensuring their deaths weren't in vain by taking down the sadistic cosmic horror that murdered them.

Sonic frontiers changed me. Sonic in general changed me. This song will always hold a special place in my heart. And so will this game. Here we see our blue boy finally facing what is death. The End comes for us all, it's either we get up and fight it, or we surrender and everything we knew is gone. This game is a therapy session not just for the characters, but for us all. This game makes us *face* what the last 10 years was. Going over all the events from Sonic Adventure to Sonic IDW, and the end, this song, it is a breakthrough for us all. Finally breaking through the barrier that was the 2010s era. This song is full of emotion and hope, along with sorrow.

This game was a wild rush (😋) It's been so long since the 2000s, and after all these years we finally got what we wanted Thank you, SonicTeam, Iizuka, Kishimoto, Ian, from the bottom of my heart 😭😭😭💜💜💜💜