Super Extended - FFIX Grand Cross

Vivi: "I'm out of MP." Zidane: "Then use an Ether." Vivi: "B-but you can't buy Ethers..." Zidane: "IT'S THE FINAL BATTLE!" Vivi: "But I only have 85 of them."

“This is a tragedy, you know?” -Kuja “Then I’m gonna rewrite the script!” -Zidane

This fight is pure symbolism for the lingering feeling of death and loneliness constantly over the party's heads for the entire game. Not even Kuja was able to run away from it long enough

Necron is the embodiment of absolute nihilism, the belief that nothing matters and life is meaningless He embodies the belief characters grasps with through the story, from Freya's hopelessness to losing her home, her people, and the man she loved, to Garnet losing her mother, to Vivi knowing his existence is short lived, to Zidane for similar reasons questioning the point of his existence. And of course Kuja feeling that same way and believing nobody else should exist if he is destined to die. All those feelings of life having no meaning is what Necron is, so in that sense him being the final boss makes sense, he is what the characters are fighting to overcome in themselves. In the end, even Kuja overcame it, when he saved them in the end, teleporting them to safety.

Kuja's own nihilism given flesh...

I think my favorite thing about the Necron fight wasn't that he came out of nowhere, but that it was the first time I actually had to try since getting Auto Regen on all characters

Necron is the ultimate consequence of the world Crystal's destruction.

One of the best boss themes ever

Necron appearing out of nowhere makes sense as he answered Kuja's call to end the world, and the party are literally fighting the embodiment of death to make him change his mind.

2:56 - 3:07 my favorite part of this theme. It makes it feel like a desperate fight (it is)

I remember the first time i fought this guy...I had to restart mid-fight because i told Garnet to use Ark while she was in trance, she used Ark like 15 times with slowly diminishing damage numbers down to like 300 for the most powerful summon in the game...And then for the 16th cast the game just got stuck, showing me her casting animation until i reset the game.

I hear a bit of Neo Exdeath's theme in this. Quite fitting, considering that FFIX was pretty much a love letter to the pre-VII Final Fantasy games, and they both existed solely to reduce all creation to nothingness before disappearing themselves.

Thx to you man, I can do my homework without sleep listening this great battle theme hahaha

I am amazed this is still getting comments.

The final boss had not to be Kuja, the man in darkside, but darkness itself.

I know people get on Necron's case for quoting Star Wars but, it doesn't mean that it isn't true. Both Final Fantasy and Star Wars literally draw from Eastern philosophies most specifically Buddhism with IX borrowing from Western philosophies like Existentialism and Nihilism. Also, out of all the abstract bosses in the series, えいえんのやみ or Eternal Darkness or Necron is the objectively speaking the best due to it being present from the start just without a physical presence. With Memoria's rules about memories being made manifest, it made sense for it to show up after Kuja's defeat. Haters just looked at it on a surface level, barely put any thought into the nuance of this game and wrote it off as a generic JRPG cosmic horror. Anyway, my point is the entire set up and encounter with Necron is 99% perfect! Even its design with its face reminiscent of the Rorshach test, to its entire body being in the shape of the OG Crystal that spawned life and the universe as a whole and of course this track! Omg, this track! The sense of despair at the intro to the struggles for life reaching that awesome crescendo makes this fight one of the very best in the game if not the genre. ❤❤

Finished the game recently. I knew about this boss but not what it did. Grand cross sucked, but what I DIDN'T KNOW is that neutron ring cancels Phoenix down revives. Zidane, Garnet, and Vivi are all down, all that's left is Freya. I have no idea how much hp is left and mp is down. He spams blue crosslash (the down to 1 hp move) and after 1 more swing, the fight was over. Most tense moment in an FF game for me

Owner of the mandatory "I mess with the planets" super move. Except it's mostly nullified by equiping all of the skills that protect you against status ailments.

Failed to steal anything.

"Necron" as a name was made up by the translators. In Japanese, his name is Darkness of Eternity.