Awesome Bosses/Tales Series: Difference between revisions

* On a similar note, ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]'': {{spoiler|Luke and Asch}}'s final duel, with the brilliant ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-AoP3NOja0 Meaning of Birth]'' BGM. The final battle, although it does provide a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]], actually pales in comparison to the emotional impact of this duel.

** Nebilim in ''Abyss.'' She has the best Strike and Fonic artes in the game. She has absurdly high stats. She also sports a plethora of Mystic Artes like Big Bang, Mystic Cage, Rending Saber, and Innocent Shine. She also brings a brand new Mystic Arte that will horrendously slaughter anyone caught in it. Prepare to die over and over and very painfully each time, especially when Nebilim uses Indignation or Fragmented End.

*** Did we neglect to mention that [[Evil Is Sexy|that she's wearing skin-tight leather and sounds like she's really...''excited''?]]

** Cameo team battle in ''Abyss.'' You fight [[Tales of Eternia|Reid]], [[Tales of Phantasia|Mint]], [[Tales of Destiny|Philia]], and [[Tales of Destiny|Nanaly.]] The battle is basically a mirror fight; Reid is the sword-user, Mint is the healer, Philia is the black mage, and Nanaly is a hybrid of melee/caster. The cameo team can and will revive their teammates and use their own Mystic Artes, including Reid's trademark [[Limit Break]], Aurora Wall, which will revive all dead party members and kill anyone caught in it. Aurora Wall is complete with its very own [[Theme Music Power-Up]] with a remix of Eternal Mind from ''[[Tales of Eternia]]''.

* The [[Duel Boss]] battle against {{spoiler|Flynn}} in ''[[Tales of Vesperia]]''. Some feel it loses a whole lot of impact due to the whole [[Fighting Your Friend]] aspect, {{spoiler|rather than the ultimate clash of Flynn's and Yuri's ideals it could have been if they were fighting as enemies}}. Others find the duel against {{spoiler|Flynn}} to be awesome for ''precisely'' that reason. {{spoiler|It ''is'' the ultimate clash of their ideals, it's just that they're [[Heterosexual Life Partners|such good friends anyway]] that that's how they work things out - by beating each other up. Indeed, part of what makes the fight awesome is how they're [[Talking Is a Free Action|so casually having a conversation]] ''while they're beating each other up.''}}

'''Yuri''': [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner|Oh, it's on now!]] }}

** And if that fight really wasn't good enough, maybe one of the game's many [[Bonus Boss|Bonus Bosses]] are. Specifically, the cameo battle. ''Tales'' fans must have been wondering when a character from the Gamecube / [[Play Station 2]] generation (i.e., ''Symphonia'', ''Legendia'', ''Abyss'') would show up as an extra boss in the main series. Such a character was finally chosen for the boss fight at the end of the optional Labyrinth of Memories. That character? ''[[Badass|Kratos]] [[The Stoic|motherfriggin']] [[Anti-Hero|Aurion]]'', the only character to ever beat out [[Tales of Destiny|Leon Magnus]] in [[Popularity Power|Tales popularity polls]] (besides Yuri himself, ironically), [[Hey, It's That Voice!|voiced by Cam Clarke]] as the original was, using all the same powerful techniques, including the first appearance of his [[Limit Break|Mystic Arte]], Shining Bind, on Western shores. Clashing swords with him is just as awesome as it was back in Symphonia. If not moreso.