tuba archmage boss theme 

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I love how a stupid shitpost became an ENTIRE universe

I love how the internet is slowly making a videogame we can't play

1:28 I feel like this part is where he extends his energy to the point his body starts to give out and also starting the hardest part of the boss fight.

That moment where he activated Maestro Mode and said "This time, BRASS RINGS THE LOUDEST!" I legit got goosebumps

Jokes aside, this soundtrack is fire

0:00 reveal 0:17 Phase One 0:52 Phase Two 1:16 Fake Death 1:28 PHASE THREE: FINAL FORM!!!

It's honestly insane how rhythm was integrated into this boss fight. Easily the best game of all time.

Man, this one was difficult, I kept dying to his C Minor attack

"I'm gonna kick your brass!" "Come on and face the music!" "It's about time Tuba takes centre stage!"

This is that charismatic yet sadistic maniacal boss. Like the one that tells you spicy jokes while launching oblivion attacks towards you.

Man I hated this boss fight at first. He kept cornering me whenever I slipped up. But damn do I love this character. His dialogue is so charming and the lore behind him is so interesting and opens up a whole new perspective on the magic system of this world.

I can imagine you’re in a stadium and the whole crowd is banging the cymbals you hear in the song

To anyone wondering: Yes, there is a save point before the fight, it's just hidden. If you go right from the entrance of the arena and hit the wall 3 times, you'll see it.

I swear on all that is holy. One day I'll make an entire game revolving around these.

0:00 - 0:16 "Battle Entrance" Plays during the beginning battle cutscene. 0:16 - 1:16 "Normal Battle Theme" Plays during the normal battle. 1:16 - 1:28 "ALT Battle Entrance" Plays during the beginning battle cutscene, switchable by the OPTIONS menu. 1:28 - 2:00 "LOW HEALTH Battle Theme" Plays when the main character is at low health. When [MAINCHARACTER] is healed to a state where it ISN'T at low health, this version fades into the Normal Battle Theme. 2:00 - 2:06 "Battle End" Plays when defeating the Tuba Archmage.

I love how it starts out doom-like with these MASSIVE bass notes, then after build up swerves directly into Dead Cells with the funky brass, and in the final run dips into Hades a bit. love it.

This meme ain't got no business having such talented musicians be apart of it.

The dislikes are from people who lost to this boss

The devs killed it with this boss. The chase through the archives while his spells were recharging was a spectacle to see!

Definitely the hardest boss for my Alto Saxophone playthrough, especially with his Reed Snapper attack.

I can feel the maniacal, yet cool aura this boss music radiates.

Pro tip: you’ll see him another time later on the game, when you reach the battle just go ahead and hide under the broken pillar, his spells won’t be able to hurt you and you just need to shoot violin bows as usual, when his magic armor is broken just take your flute and finish him, he will die in 2-5 attacks, but bring about 10 flutes whit you so you won’t run out of flutes during the battle

As a french horn player i can confirm that this man is not a tuba but THE tuba.

This, no joke is one of the best boss themes I've ever heard, and he doesn't even exist.... or does he?

"I fear no man" "But that thing" *it scares me*

this entire comment section is talking about a game that doesnt even exist and i love it lol

To those having trouble with this fight, you can actually (mostly) skip the fight alltogther. Once you walk into the arena, don't attack him, he'll stay in phase one and all you have to do is survive for 5 minutes, you'll know you did this correctly as you'll see 'The Violinist has made his entrance' and he'll fight by your side as an ally for the fight. He can pretty much solo the Tuba Archmage at this point so you can just sit back and listen to this jam.

Timestamps! 0:00 Intro/monologue 0:17 Phase 1 0:52 Temporary Retreat/you fight his summoned Violins 1:17 Phase 2

I like how this went from lighthearted cursed images to a funny picture of a tarantula magician with twilight princess music playing to 10 whole games, a blockbuster movie, an animated series and 3 novels.

Ah one of the earliest bosses. That Treble Triangle spell is easy to cure with a healing harp.

Dang he is quite a powerful enemy, his resistance to mainly everything (And specially magic) really can put you on a softlock in the great castle of the tuba king

Damn, this was one of the hardest bosses pre-nerf. I really did like the old attacks, they were fun but hard to get past, like his wall of sound attack or his ultimate, tuBAD.

Can we appreciate how hard it goes in after 1:27. Godamn it's too fire just to be a meme, somehow without even having a game to correlate this to it still makes me saddened, nostalgic, and hyped all at the same time.

Dude... so THIS is the technology the dwemer of The Elder Scrolls got deleted from the universe for.

"Alas, you've arrived. I was getting rusty waiting for a real challenge"

The sheer amount of emotion i feel from listening to this song is amazing, just think about the amount of lore you'd have to write to get to this point, and you managed to create a song that surpases that Nice work!

This has the energy of "spellcaster that looks like a pushover but can oneshot you if you're too arrogant about it"

Me: takes off headphones Also me: still hears boss music

Those smart enough to run are spared. Fools who stand before him shall know his tuba wrath

The implications of the bottom middle tuba are sinister at best.

It’s sad that If someone makes a game based around these themes it’s inevitable that some will fall through the cracks and not be included

The Fight: Phase one: 0:17 rather obvious patterns. He picks up a tuba and blows a wave of sound at you. small in size, it's easy to dodge. once you dodge enough, he'll get tired and that's your chance. go in for a stab/pierce at his abdomen. it's his only unprotected area. phase 2 0:52 he hovers his wand over one of his 3 tubas and it promptly begins emanating sound into the ground. The debris where you stand will begin shaking and moving as a warning. maybe have a red aura around your legs. Failing to escape the red aura will result in a sound wave coming from under you, knocking you off your feet and doing damage. He also continues to send the waves at you directly through his wand. he will begin deflecting your stabs. An oversight is that this entire time, he has been standing in one place. You've entered his dungeon and he has large tubas built into the ceiling for when he feels like playing music. Get him to use his ground attack on you while you're under one of these ceiling tubas. the sound will travel back onto him and cause immense vibrating on his armor causing a piece of it to fall off and stunning him. use this chance to slash and stab at him. phase 3: 1:25 he becomes enraged and using all his magic on the element of sound. He uses all three tubas to crumble away parts of the ground. leaving you with limited room to manoeuvre. having to jump across gaps to move effectively while he levitates above. pelting you with noise after noise and reducing your health. he retains all his previpus attacks. the only strategy to defeat him is to dodge his attacka until he lands. then you must rush towards him and your controls will be switched so that your xharacter constantly runs forward. you'll be able to dodge left and right onto the long cracked stones. he'll continue attacking you in a range fashion and you'll be forced to move left and right until he lets out one continuous blast that you have to block with your shield and push through with a quick time button masher event. if you succeed your character will march forward and plug the tuba with their shield and push them back to stun them and knock the tuba away. then you'll be able to attack them once more. this has to be done 3 times (one for each tuba that he has) and when you defeat him he drops his brass armor which you can choose to wear. it will grant you +50 defense and +25 magic affinity. Edit: i didn't read the description and apparently the leg pieces become minibosses after you beat him. but you guys can decide this fight in the replies lol

1:28 is so good! Like oh my goodness wow! It could be used when the boss’s health is low

*casually summons Flesh Tuba*

The brother of the tuba king, he's been alone for so many years mastering magic that he forgot how to speak to people, now he can only speak with rhymes and dad jokes. Nice Theme bro!! It will be a fine addition to the tuba boss themes colection.

"You're a MINOR inconvenience!" "face the BASS!" "TUBULAR!" "im too ORCHESTRATED for the likes of you" "how'd you like that BLOW?" "can you face the MUSIC?" "escaping me is BAND!" "toot toot its time to shoot" "Im gonna kick your BRASS" "Whats wrong? All WINDED?" "You cant TONE ME down!" "You're such a sour NOTE" "Im gonna turn you into an E splat!" "What a saxaphony!" "Time for some Classical chaos!" "Time for some violence >:)" "Say cello to your demise!" "Harmonize and oblitorize" "I wont stop till i see your ORGANS!" "You're didgeridoomed!" "Stop pulling my strings!" "I have they KEYS to victory!" "Oh SHEET" "You're making me go instra-MENTAL!" "A hero? More like a comPOSER!" "you're going to need more than a TUBA glue when im finished with you" "Go BACH to where you came from" "Im about to clariNET me a good one >:)" "Come at me and there's going to be rePRECUTIONS" " trapped Like an animal into a SNARE" "you should've seen the Cymbals"

You can see by the fact that he holds a trombone slide that the Archmage Tuba has likely slain the Lord of Trombones, meaning this guy is no joke.

I said something similar to another Tuba Boss Theme, but... I listened to a LOT of them, and this is definitely one of my all-time favorites!! It is just a blast to listen to, and I can imagine it in a game very well!

this is surprisingly badass for such a minor character

i LEGIT WANT TO SEE A JRPG style game made after this meme

This is one of those games I never had time to finish as a kid, so I came back in my 20s and spent over 100 hours on it. This fight, and most of Disc 3 in general, has some of the best boss themes in the game. Fun fact: if you have the Lamia's Harp equipped to a Cleric you can change the music mid-fight by using the Lullaby ability.

This is actually FIRE, holy shit. I got chills and everything, this is fucking amazing

Subtitles: “laughs” Yeah, I felt that

the fact that he managed to both put two horns on his legs and also stand up in them is very impressive

I love how the start is so crude and brooding.

"The bellowing of my tubas have shook entire mountains. What makes you think you stand a chance?" -Tuba Archmage, before the battle

me: what is his weakness everyone: it has no weakness

Tuba Archmage: The mysterious wizard who practices his fine arts of brass. His HP is 1000 His Defense is 30+ His Offense is 50+ A bit mediocre with his tuba witchcraft.

He returns in the sequel as the 'Tuba Lich'.

*You encountered a wild Tubarchmage*

Fun fact: this the only tuba boss to have a combination of string moves and drum moves!

I love how all these instrument themed characters already have their own characteristics and stories made despite these themes being made as jokes

As you approach him you hear the boss music playing, until he says "THERE IS NO BOSS MUSIC" "I AM THE BOSS MUSIC" hearing that strikes you with fear but you dont let it get in your way "may the best chorus win" you say with a grin.

I absolutely adore this fight on Sousaphone Sorcerer playthroughs. A lot of people don't know this because he's such an unpopular character pick (tbh can't blame people... Sousa hits really hard but he's slow, clunky, and surprisingly frail), but the Tuba Archmage is actually designed as a rival boss fight for Sousa, and his AI changes drastically as a result. Instead the usual challenge on other characters where you need to end the fight ASAP while coping with the Archmage's nasty debuffs like Deafing Sforzando and Temporal Ritardando, Sousa vs. Archmage is basically a game of endurance where you gotta have the intuition to know when to trade hits, when to pressure the Archmage so that his Crescendo gauge doesn't fill too much, when to back off so you can keep your gauge from dropping... it kind of reminds me of a control deck mirror match in Yugioh, in a weird way. (If that makes sense?) There's even a neat trick in the last phase, too: you know when Archmage uses it's desperation attack, "Fermata Arte: Eternal Tuning"? Instead of breaking his concentration to stop the attack the usual way, Sousa can just straight up outlast him as long as you're good enough at stamina management. (And as a reward, the Archmage even gets inflicted with BREATHLESS if you pull it off. It's hilarious, try it.) I don't think any other boss in the game just lets you pull the rug out from under it during an ult like that.

First Stage: Fires fragmented notes, summons randomized tuba soldiers, shields himself with flute corpses. Second Stage: Summons sound cannon from hand, summons heavy grunts, drops clusters of brass grenades. Third Stage: Summons orchestral lightning, fires multiplying blades, spawns two tuba knights at a time. Final Stage: Uses all attacks from all stages, can duplicate himself (copy has less health), raises bar line spears to fire at you. HP: 50000 Def: 300 Atk: 500 Description: Archmage Tuban is a loyal follower of King Tuba II, and will stop at nothing to ensure the conquering of Orchestria. Weaknesses: Trumpet blast stops summoning. Cello glaive can stagger him.

Your hopes of a finished fight ended in one sentence: "Avenge me legs!" Seriously though, I love how this song manages to be both quirky and serious. The serious half reminds you that you are fighting an all-powerful archmage that has likely slain thousands with unfathomable brass magic along with legions of war-hardened brass ensembles while the quirky half reminds you that you are fighting a tuba person.

I love how he's the Tuba Archmage but holding a trombone slide in his left hand XD

When a couple of your friends are having a passionate argument, either mute yourself and play it to yourself while they talk, or play it down the mic as a backing track to their debate. It’s absolutely incredible, would recommend everyone to try.

Friend: What kind of music do you listen to? *me: It's complicated*

No one talking about the placement of that middle tuba? That wizards horn-y

The archmage was a very respected figure in the king's court, having an affinity for magic that none could rival. But eventually it was discovered that he was using viola repertoire to cast his spells on tuba, a forbidden practice punishable by deafness. That night however, he escaped and was never seen in the kingdom again.

The magical arch age has been hidden in captivity for years slowly deteriorating at his sanity. You find him gone insane and you have 2 choices 1. Use a memory potion (rare but useful) and have his sanity restored and have as a support character. 2. Battle to the death and may the most fabled warrior win.

that one trumpet player: “A spit valve? What’s that?” The rest of the brass section:

I've seen this game for quite awhile but never actually tried it, i've finished the game and i'm amazed. Took 10-20 tries to defeat him but it's kind of easy when you get the hang of it. Here are some quick tips that you could use against him. Bring the Healing Harp: It's pretty hard to get but when you actually do manage to obtain it, you'll have an easier time while not dying as often . Even if you don't want to get it now, you'll have to get it later due to its massively great upgrades and a side quests that requires it. Choir Tome: Deals great damage and grants a debuff that'll remove a bit of his defense which is definetely helpful. Obtained by defeating the Lesser Tuba Mages which has a 35% chance of dropping. Quite easy to find them and are defeated in around 7 attacks using the Starter Flute. I've seen people using the defense harp which grants you +5 defense and I'm actually surprised. I know it's easier to get but it has a high cooldown and gets removed after 20 seconds plus so it isn't recommended. Here is the boss stats and attacks aswell as how to dodge them. Tuba Archmage: 270 HP 24 Defense 27 attack (Doesn't need high attack due to how often you'll get hit) 5% miss rate (Increased when it gets to 75% hp (10% MR), 50% hp (15% MR) and 25% hp (25% MR) Immunity to Unmelodious Debuff (Confuses the boss and gives +10% miss rate) Attacks: MeloWaves: Sends vibration to the ground causing the ground to break into smaller pieces (Happens when i reaches 75% HP) Go to the corner since the vibrations won't fall causing you to not fall. Note Frenzy: Summons random notes from the sky falling down and cause small vibrations, if hit by the vibrations you will get a random debuff. Debuffs: Unmelodious, Confuseness (Makes you hit yourself when attacking), Stun (Can't move) This one is a little bit tricky since you don't see an exclamation points and they're fast. You have to count to 4, when you reach 4 dash to the right, count again then dash to the left and so forth until the sky goes back to normal. Tempo Disfunction: A dark circle with two bigger white lines and a thin red line will appear in the middle of your screen, when the thin red line reaches the left big line you have to press space, it will reset and go to the right, when it reaches the right you have to press enter, this will happen repeatedly and having it right will grant you a temporary speed buff. The trick is to have your hands on space and enter then clicking whicher it is on. When it reaches 25% HP, all the attacks mentioned before (Except MeloWaves which won't work and tempo disfunction which'll stop working) will be a LOT faster and will appear a lot more frequently (Mostly Note Frenzy) while also adding a few more attacks. Note Release: Summons a notes circling the mage, the notes will duplicated and advance forward making a line after a few seconds you have to jump then dash when one gets close and always walk the way the lines are going so they won't catch up as often (Except when doing Note Frenzy where now you just have to spam dash to wherever the line is going). Big Note Rain: Summons giant notes at random and when hitting the floor will split onto more notes following you for a few seconds. You can jump over them after a few seconds since they'll kinda just become one entity after a bit. Small note rain: It will start raining notes that damages you This is what makes the fight extremely difficult since there isn't much way to counter it, best bet is to use healing harp to heal you (Helps overall) or buy the Defensive Charm which will negate 10% of falling notes (Not useful on note frenzy since note frenzy just inflicts debuff and the damage is not that bad while you could get better accessories). Please do not take this as words from the gods, i have finished the game but I'm in no way a Profesionnal at the game. Also sorry for making this long, there was way too much to cover lol.

Still great 3 years later

Alien 1: do you think we are ready to initiate contact with humans? Alien 2: let us see how far they've advanced. *Watches this video* Alien 1: seems they've surpassed us a long time ago.

1:16 *Tuba Archmage reaches 1% HP* "Phew! Ok. Wow. You guys are actually pretty tough. It's been a while since anyone pushed me this hard. Time to get serious." *Tuba Archmage* cast _Full Score Forcefield_ *Tuba Archmage* is now immune to all damage types until he runs out of MP! *Tuba Archmage* cast _Final Accelerando_ *Tuba Archmage* casting cooldown for all spells reduced by 99%! "Survive this and you'll have my respect!"

HP: 833k SP: 31k Stats: STR: 293 VIT: 398 AGI: 91 DEX: 225 INT: 788 Elemental Resistances: Physical: 72% Fire: 15% Cold: 25% Wind: 125% Earth: 200% Dark: 100% Holy: -50% Effect resistances: Immune to AOE damage Immune to Stone curse Immune to bleeding Immune to blindness Immune to Stun Immune to Snare 80% reduced confusion duration Passives: Resists slash and pierce damage (RNG, 60~75% reduction) 50% chance to block projectiles Weakness to blunt damage Resonance: 5% chance Disarm melee attackers for 5 seconds when hit 80% reduced slow effectiveness Defensive Skills: Infrasonic burst: 100% chance to slow (for 5 seconds) and 25% chance to stun (for 2 seconds) everyone in direct LOS. Cannot be blocked. Glare: Reflect Holy spells back at their casters as dark elemental with a 33% chance for 20 seconds Offensive skills: Siege orchestra: Takes time to charge a loud orchestral stab that does burst damage in a cone Stompede: Uses legs to fire multiple underground projectiles that surface near targets and do earth and wind damage in a small area. Each projectile can hit up to 7 times in a short period of time and each subsequent hit increases damage done by 60%. Stacks from multiple projectiles Rain bows: Conjures a storm of violin bows that hit the entire vicinity at random for pierce damage. Causes bleeding. Weaknesses: Has a small chance to stagger when hit by blunt weapons on the legs Hands can be disarmed by slashing weapons, reducing magic damage output temporarily Incoming Fire DOT spells lasts 50% longer Incoming pierce damage crit chance increased by 25% Incoming cold-based slow spells last 100% longer ahh.. what a waste of my time.

“AND THY PUNISHMENT… IS DEATH” *music begins* “NOW THE REST OF THE ORCHESTRA WILL KNEEL BEFORE THE MIGHT OF BRASS”

When you disrespect the band teacher and her class, so they engage you in tuba warfare.

Boomer humor: phone bad Millenial humor: life bad Gen z humor:

A quick battle guide: Don't tank him. Just don't. If you've invested all your points in tanky abilities, you'll have the tempo charge, you can use it as a dodge. So, whether you're a tank or not, you'll need some hefty DPS on this one. You may think debuffs are useless since the archmage can remove any debuff, it costs him a lot of energy and his attacks are weakened. So inflicting him with, say, Brass Dissonance can open up a slot where you can rack up HUGE DPS if you're using a weapon like the Snare, Flurry Bagpipe, Tabla or any of the other faster attacking instruments (I used these three, not just for this but because Bagpipe and Snare have great synergy if you switch quickly enough). A good ol' Tuba will do if you've upgraded your AOE. Just be careful in the second and third phases, as any debuffs will be later reflected as a temp dissonance. Craft lots of metronomes to counter that. Now for the defense, in the first two phases just avoid everything. If you can't than avoid the Horn Blasts and the Spell Inception. In the third phase you're gonna have to charge uo some dodges/stealth/counters/shields during the low damage Air Stakes and use them up in the very high damage attacks next, especially Solo Blast. This will only work if the boss is kept weak in offense using debuffs (because of energy focusing). That's just one strategy, of course. Reply if you have something else, or if this doesn't work out. Have a good day!

Why is this actually a banger

I've never gone from Dark Souls to Banjo Kazooie and right back to Dark Souls quite so fast....

I love how it starts out so imposing before becoming a mixture of silly and awesome.

The rightful king of the Tuba throne, Archmage is the brother of King Tuba. He's a pretty jovial guy until you get on his bad side. When encountering the protagonist, the player can tell that they genuinely worry for them; a person so young setting out to right the wrongs of the world. He acts as a way to heal your troops for free until revealing his relation to the King at the end of the game.

"i'll turn you into a puddle of blood and brass!" - Tuba Archmage

"You see Maestro ,we mages of the Brass Order are sonic specialists and we fair poorly in close combat . Even so there is a reason why Im known as the ARCHMAGE and i will preform until my lungs burst and show you why the previous Maestro decided to offer a peace treaty with the Brass Order!"

Now we wait for the tuba empires arch enemy.. *The woodwinds* I mean sure, they were on the verge of victory, but the woodwind clan has been really quiet here for a long time.. Are they plotting something?

Best one out of all of them. I can really feel the music

“He seems to have put a tuba wall. we can’t break it Try to tire him down he can’t have that wall on forever “

DAMN this song could legit be a showstopping boss fight banger in a grade-A RPG. Where's the kickstarter, I'll back said game.

"the battlefield is in ruins, the heroes are in shambles trying to figure out what to do. The warrior sighs with disbelief 'h-he's too strong. We can't beat him' then suddenly, out of the smoke a figure emerges, the bard walks towards the devastated battlefield with a smug look on his face. He throws aside his harp of purity and pulls out his saxophone 'finally, someone who can catch up'.

“So, you want to defeat me? Well that’s TUBAD”

This boss is up there with the classics.

The song: Has an intense orchestration Also the song: *doot*

Fun fact : your reward for winning is a tuba, and it's named You Tuba, because it's yours now. Each time you'll do an attack the you tuba can summon between 1 and 20 millions of people who will comment the battle and help you psychologically by doing so!

This is the Archnemesis of the Noise Marines, brothers.

Step aside music man,