[Video Soundtrack] Battle 2 [FINAL FANTASY IX] 

You hear and you already know that things will be more serious this time.

不気味さを際立たせた感じになっててなんだかんだボス戦の緊張感があって好きな曲。

Love how this battle theme has both tension and hype to it, makes it so exciting.

唐突な便意に襲われると頭の中に自然と流れてくるBGM

theme always stresses me out; in a good way lol

FF5のバトル2に似た感じのダークな緊張感を漂わせるのが好きです！

This was a track that I wasn't crazy about at first, but after listening to it over and over I loved it

one of my favorite boss themes!

One of the best boss themes in RPG history!

This one is more intense.

When I first heard this in 2000, I immediately went "Oh, this is going to be a tough fight!" Compared to the more upbeat sounding Battle 1, harkening back to the earlier entries, Battle 2 goes with a tense and rather ominous tone. It easily became my second favorite boss battle theme (after Fight On! from VII). Within IX itself, it's only topped by one other song.

子供の時めっちゃ好きで何回も聴いてた😆

Uematsu DOES NOT MISS!!!

The music that plays when your Steal works 5% of the time.

One of the best songs period, not just from a video game. The only boss song that tops this is FFVII’s. I always turn the volume up when this one comes on (in the game or in my playlist).

One of the most intense regular boss themes in the franchise!

おい！それってYO！オズマ先輩にぬっころされる時のテーマじゃんか！ アッ（ジハード）　アッ（フレアスター）　アッ（カーズ） 全滅した・・・

If anyone is looking for a real orchestra version, try BRASS de BRAVO's "Battle II Medley"

進行具合で名前がダガーとガーネットになってるの芸が細かい

ぬすめなかった

Just a shame it's easy to deal a lot of damage in this game and bosses have relatively low HP because on top of it. Ozma coulda been even tougher to say the least.

Sitting here listening to all the ff boss themes and for me it's a toss up between this one and the lucavi boss theme from tactics🔥

To be honest this ost suffers the comparison with the ff7/8 one. But the record keeper arrangement is fire and will maybe included in the remake

This one is way better than FFVII’s boss theme, but it’s up there with FFVIII’s. Though, it doesn’t compare to FFIV or FFVI.

First problem to talk about with Trance: Its gameplay execution. Trance is IX's version of limit breaks, like from VII and VIII, or X's Overdrives. The problem with them though, is that, unlike the Limit Breaks or Overdrives, you can't save up on them for anything when the meter for Trance is full because Trance triggers automatically, meaning that you can't properly strategize with it (not that IX is that difficult or challenging, especially due to how the HP cap is so much lower compared to the PSX games before it. Even the final boss and super boss only have around sixty-thousand HP, contrast that with the health of VII and VIII's final bosses and super bosses), not to mention that the Trance meter fills up way more slowly compared to Limit Breaks or Overdrive. Second problem: Trance's story execution. Another huge problem of IX is it's gameplay-story segregation, especially with Trance. Aside from this one scene, Trance isn't mentioned or addressed anywhere outside of battle and in the actual lore. It seems to be purely a gameplay gimmick, until a certain point in the story where it's suddenly addressed in-universe and then has big story relevance, which also creates a ton of plot holes, but I will address those fully when that point comes. The point for now is that: Exactly how Zidane goes "super-saiyan", Eiko grows wings, and Amarant turns into a flickering purple demihuman is never really explained, but it's never really an issue… at first. The PSX Final Fantasy games had adopted this policy of "what happens in battle, stays in battle." This is the reason that Squall never levels any cities when he brings down that hundred-mile energy column during his Blasting Zone limit break, or why the Shinra Mansion can still be standing after Cloud summons Bahamut while standing in the living room. But towards the end of the game, Final Fantasy IX violates this rule by taking a battle mechanic and then turning it into a plot point. A logistical nightmare ensues. How exactly does Kuja use other people's souls to attain Trance, and how is he able to sustain it for so long? If all you need is a soul and angry feelings to enter Trance, why can't Beatrix do it? Hell, for that matter, why isn't everybody on Gaia and Terra turning into glowing demigods and blowing each other up whenever they lose their tempers? Come on Final Fantasy, if you want anyone other than nerds taking you seriously, you gotta do something about all these plot holes.

I love drums so much I even listen to them the most in this @square enix 🦾👽