Fun fact! Elfilis’s meteor attack is called “The Fermi Paradox’s Answer. There’s a reason there are no aliens. Fecto Elfilis killed them all.

“So, what’s your recommended method for slaying gods?” Asura: My fists are enough, all six of them Clive Rosfield: A good flaming sword will stop nearly anything on its tracks Kratos: I’m partial towards both methods myself Kirby: *nah just run them over with an 18-wheeler and you’re set*

“You throw another moon at me, and I’m gonna lose it.”

This boss theme hits like a truck.

- being of divine power - wields a spear - detained in the deepest level of a laboratory - enabled humanity to create technology beyond their wildest dreams - coming into contact with its missing counterpart triggers the apocalypse Hal still loves Evangelion.

for a long stretch, Kirby antagonists have had their origins in madness born of an outside source. Magalor was influenced and possessed by the Master crown/zero. Sectonia was driven mad by the dimensional mirror. President Haltman had his mind and memory eroded by constant overuse of Star Dream. Hyness grew bitter in exile and turned to the dark god his order sealed away. Fecto Elfilis is a being that posses his full mental faculties. It's restored power cam from absorbing their previously seperated conscience and empathy. Fecto Elfilis Choses to be evil. Not even Zero had the ability to make that choice.

legitimately did not expect having an astrophysics degree to be relevant to kirby lore, but here we are anyway

I can't find the comment anymore, but someone pointed out something that blew my mind when I read it: "I thought this song felt different from all the other kirby final boss themes until I realized, there's no green greens here"

Don't let this theme distract you from the fact that 2-player mode is essentially Bandanna Dee's most epic character growth in all Kirby games. He went from a lackey who would try to defeat Kirby into a friend and companion who would stay by his side, no matter how rough things get. He basically watched his fellow Dees get captured and locked in cages and put into labor, was forced to fight his own King (again), had to watch his king sacrifice himself for the sake of the Waddle Dee's survival, and let's not forget the friendship between Eifillin and Bandanna Dee. In response to losing everything, Bandanna Dee used the remaining courage he had and defeated Fecto Eifillis. Bandanna Dee proved to be a versatile asset in Forgotten Land's 2-player Mode, and one of the best characters in this game.

Chinchilla Sephiroth trying to kill Kirby by crushing him in between two planets, and then getting annihilated by a truck that was using the debris of the planets as a road. I love Kirby

let's not let this theme distract us from the fact that people canonically call Kirby *"The Pink Demon"* as stated by Announcer Waddle Dee and is not just a title from smash bros or a name from superstar, *its his actual in-universe title*

Something that makes Fecto Elfilis truly scary is that it really has a righteous motivation for lashing out. It was experimented on, split in two, locked away as it's captors left it to rot. It already arrived on that planet ready to wipe out all life, but now it has a reason. Now it has motivation. Every ounce of cruelty it enacts is now justified in it's eyes.

Chaos Efilis opening its wings to reveal its title has so much raw unparalleled energy to it. It’s so fluid and threatening. Edit: I have been informed that it’s wings are actually ears.

Nothing captures the Kirby final boss tone shift of "Holy shit am I still playing a Kirby game?" like calling your final boss song "Two Planets Approach The Roche Limit", what a badass name for a song.

Love the whole "organized chaos" vibe this song has. The erratic yet controlled rhythm especially makes me think of a very elaborate swordfight/dance, which is fitting for Fecto Elfilis and how it moves around.

Ah yes, Kirby and the Forgotten Land keeping the tradition strong of enemies consisting of: Puppy Monke Tree Cat *God of multidimensional power*

I like how you could read the name of the song literally, as Popstar and New World collide, OR metaphorically, as two cosmic beings approach, until the lesser of them (Elfilis if you win, Kirby if you lose) collapses. (Spoilers for Post-Game below) OR LITERALLY AGAIN because Chaos Elfilis actually turns into floating debris that orbits around their SOUL form, very similar to an *actual planet* being pulled apart.

Instruments used: Electric Bass ✔️ Vocals ✔️ Violin ✔️ Electric Guitar ✔️ Trumpet ✔️ Bells ✔️ Organ ✔️ Drums ✔️ Theremin ✔️ Timpani ✔️ Oboe ✔️ Bassoon ✔️ Viola ✔️ Cello ✔️ Piano ✔️ Vibraphone ✔️ Clarinet ✔️ Yep, this is a banger song indeed

I love how the person singing throughout this song is seemingly the same as the voice telling Elfilis' story at the lab! It's especially obvious in it's final form how that voice has haunted it for the 30 years it was trapped, so having the same voice carry into It's final battle is a really cool touch!

Elfilis wasn't beaten by the usual. No massive sword, no power plant, not Mecha, no Friendship Ex Machina. No, they just got ran over by a truck. Best final hit lmao.

I thought Elden Ring would be my GOTY. Then Kirby came outta left field with a masterpiece.

People normally see ‘world colliding’ as an interesting concept or cool idea… When it’s this physical it’s… less fun

Seriously how does anyone even begin composing a song as complex and as long as this, its so fucking impressive. At times it feels like a clusterfuck of instruments and that in turn makes it seem like it should be a mess, but somehow it sounds beautiful the whole way through and even then you can still hear the Kirby. Its great.

This song is the most majestic kirby boss fight. Superficially it's close to Moonstruck Blossom, but that song is still very tight, and hurried. Roche Limit is floaty, a waltz, and it really reflects how the fight against Elfilis is like a dance to the death with two deft fighters.

Something HAL Labs has been really good at recently is creating A.) Songs that don't really loop all that often and B.) Tie in the the leitmotif of the game. Void Termina and Two Planets Approaching the Roche Limit are incredibly intricate songs that tie into the general theme of the game, typically throwing it into the song as a backing track and having it punctuate the ending of a long journey. Honestly they're amazing.

This entire finale sequence from the Second round with Dedede to the end was absolutely Phenomenal and unreal. Hell the minute I saw it show pop star I was like:Is that popstar… no way NO WAY! ITS PULLING A MAJORA’s MASK ON US! One of the greatest bosses and a FANTASIC opening to the 3D era of Kirby.

Y'know, I was wondering what direction Kirby lore was going to go after unveiling Void Termina, and this game gave us an answer to that. The question? How the Ancients of Halcandra might have gotten their hyper-advanced technology and ability to travel huge distances with ease. The answer? "AND HERE WE ARE."

This game came out two years ago 😭😭😭😭

4:13 is just… music at it’s perfection. I can’t describe just how awesome that part sounds. It makes me feel so powerful. It really nails that feeling of “Everything ends here, it’s you vs. the bad guy, it’s up to you to save the day.” It’s inspiring. Not many pieces of music I’ve heard have made me feel this feeling on such a strong level.

The fact mouthful mode only gets used once in the main fight (not counting the driving sequence at the end), and it's to try and free Elfilin. Something about that moment stirred major emotions in me. I could imagine Kirby yelling "give me my friend back!!!" in that moment, that's what it felt like.

Literally every time I hear whoever’s singing in the bg hit that extra high note- *LITERAL C H I L L S .*

I absolutely love it when Elfilis swoops down at super speed after doing the energy spear attack. So elegant and smooth yet so fucking threatening

There are a few things I want to say about this boss. 1) I'm really glad we got a final boss who wasn't just "Wow, I'm huge, FEAR ME!" What I mean is that we had a character whose power was on full display and he wasn't some massive creature. We can have powerful bosses without making them ginormous. 2) This boss is the first time in a while where Kirby beat the final boss without any sort of final power-up or assistance (not counting the truck, which I consider to be a finisher sequence more than anything). Listing every final boss this far... _King Dedede: Beat on his own_ Nightmare: Star Rod Dark Matter Blade: Rainbow Sword _Marx: Beat on his own_ Zero: Love Love Stick Zero Two: Ribbon _Dark Mind: Galaxia (optional)_ _Dark Nebula: Triple Star (optional)_ _Magolor: Super Copy Abilities*_ * Magolor came back for a stronger phase 2, so Kirby technically won without power ups. Queen Sectonia: Hypernova Star Dream: Halberd Void Termina: Star Allies Sparkler _Fecto Elfilis: Beat on his own_ 3) For anyone curious on how this track works in terms of transitioning from Phase 1 to Phase 2, it works like this: Phase 1 lasts until 3:40, at which it will loop if the player hasn't reached Phase 2 yet. Should the player end Phase 1 at a different point, the track will use 1 of 14 different transitions (Jesus Christ) in order to smoothly switch over to 4:01. So in other words... 0:00 - 3:40 = Phase 1 3:40 - 4:01 = Transition 4:01 onwards = Phase 2

still blows my mind that this is the name of a song in Kirby

Kirby's transition to 3D was perfect. My theory is that Hal waited until technology was ready for 3D Kirby. Edit: Yeah I know that HAL tried it long ago but they thought "Kirby's way too round, you can't tell where he is facing." which is not really an excuse because Kirby has BIG. STUBBY arms. And his feet are ovals.

Trivia update: Wikirby's section on Fecto Elfilis has all the official names for their attacks, probably from an official lorebook. The giant scrap meteor attack's name is, and I kid you not, literally called *"The* *Fermi* *Paradox's* *Answer"* . Astronomical&biological edge, brought to you by HAL Laboratories. Edit: Basically, where are all the aliens? Well, Fecto ate ALL of them. Without exception, before getting its ass kicked by the inhabitants of the forgotten land. Every alien civilization we do see might be a descendant of those inhabitants that spread to the stars, every relic a child of their intellect. A sort of genetic bottleneck on a cosmic scale - although bottlenecks usually refer to only a single near-extinction event, not a lengthy, continuous scouring of life done by the likes of Fecto Elfilis. Before the forgotten land's civilization, the universe was mostly empty, and every message into the universe by any innocent civilization was answered by Fecto's invasion and desolation. It is a great irony that Fecto's power would be the thing to allow the natives to so quickly repopulate that empty void - and an even greater irony, that even those ancients, the survivors of a universal biodisaster, would eventually die out anyway, through some other catastrophe, natural or self-inflicted. (Void Termina? Galacta? Dark matter? The damn crown? A fucking butterfly? All of the above? Who knows🤷)

I've always wondered why this fight feels so natural for a Kirby climax, despite being the most over the top set piece in the series. But I think I've got it now Kirby's not fighting for the fate of the world. They're just fighting for their friend back. Like they always have.

If you think about it, this is not the first final boss to be defeated with a vehicle

4:02 I loooove this bit leading up to the second phase. It lets you know that they’re about to unleash absolute hell on you in order to win. I love this final boss so fucking much

"Lunchtime!" "Oh no, someone stole our lunch!" "Let's go get lunch back!" "Time to fight an all powerful god!"

I love this so much, I always wanted a final boss to not just incite fear, intensity or sadness but also a sense of wonder! this actually has a few segments that make it feel like you're looking at something amazing rather than something to be feared of. is it me or some parts of Battle of Blizzard Bridge is in this

I love how the first minute of the song builds up with the opera singers and orchestra and then BAM TOTAL CHAOS Easily Top 3 favorite final boss themes

The vocals make this song so much cooler. I love that high synthesized female voice that goes into the stratosphere to hit those whistle tones

TWO PLANETS APPROACH THE ROCHE LIMIT IN LEGO CITY

They said ID-F86 remained dormant for 30 years. Kirby's Dreamland came out 30 years ago :0

This boss has quickly become one of my favorites in the series, it encapsulates everything the previous four final battles got right: Void's imposing and sweeping Humanoid and Winged attacks, as well as basically being a parallel to Chaos Elfilis's final form The feeling of raw power and control emanating from Star Dream's fight, both even using meteors to attack The elegance and beauty of Sectonia followed by unhinged chaos in the final phase The otherworldly background and sorrowful undertones of Magolor Soul Elfilis is imposing in strength and their attacks are grandiose and terrifying. Yet, they move with elegance, as if performing a dance, only for all hell to break loose as the next phase is gone, and subtlety is replaced with arena-clearing attacks, meteors, and lasers. As the harrowing vocals hit, you remember your friend that was consumed by the overwhelming power. And maybe, unlike past bouts, you can still save him. Great fight. However I'm afraid everything I stated doesn't matter as there is no Kirby's Triumphant Return or Green Greens leitmotif thus making it terrible

In forgotten land it says: "species reborn out of chaos" In star allies we learned that whether positive or negative energy is gathered, Void will rebirth itself in a physical manifistation of that emotion. I personally like to think that Elfilis is reborn out of so much negative energy that only chaos can pursue thats also why Elfilis is so evil in nature

Fittingly enough for this game's theme of exploring a new world, the quality of this song genuinely feels otherworldly Looking back on the Fecto Elfilis fight, the way that 4:12 syncs up perfectly with their giant meteor attack is such a sick detail That section in general is also just incredible at setting the mood, especially with Chaos Elfilis. Another huge highlight of this song for me is 2:07, I absolutely adore how groovy it is, along with the breakdown at 2:32, and the choir at 2:43 is gorgeous At the end of the day, basically everything about this song is phenomenal (Although I do enjoy VS. Star Dream more), I don't know how Hirokazu Ando manages to consistently create these musical masterpieces

4:14 that hype moment when Chaos Elfilis ' 2nd phase tries to charge you with it's fireball attack

the part at 0:21 is literally *heavenly*, and the fact that it kicks in just a moment after the boss spreads its wings far and reveals its subtitle only adds to it. this being is the ultimate life form, and though that might something to fear, it's just as much something to be in awe of. that whole moment feels like the game giving you a moment to just marvel in the sight of a foe like this before you actually have to fight it additionally, that feeling of awe persists as the theme continues and develops, and it might make fecto elfilis my favorite kirby final boss. it's powerful, but not some raging beast, and even as it gets desperate, it never seems to lose that elegance. from its first breath to its last, it remains composed and precise with its power

Fun fact: As soon as the buffs shop opened up, I accidently bought a double health bar from it. So I went through half the game with the double health bar, and thank god I did, cuz this fight was the first time I needed it. After the biological abomination I like to call the hallway monster, this is a much needed musical and gameplay break. Love this boss, and love this song.

The 10 second trumpet solo at 4:30 is my favourite part of the song. It’s so awesome.

This final boss really unleashed his inner Queen Sectonia. I absolutely love this final boss it felt like the past 3 games rolled into one battle. The surrounding feeling like a planet robobot setting, the music and moveset feeling like Sectonia, and the stakes feeling like the same in Star Allies it felt incredibly awesome the whole way through.

this is just my personal opinion but i think this is the best final boss song in kirby now. i had to specifically listen to star conquering traveler, the star dream phases, and the sectonia phases again to be sure but yeah. this is my favorite final kirby boss music. it hits my ears and brain just right, i love it. this game is Also my new favorite kirby game in general. kumazaki said in an interview released before the game came out that forgotten land is a "masterpiece" and, uh, i think he's 100% correct.

This theme is already so special to me it literally puts a tear to my eye every time

Man, HAL composers out there putting out bangers like this and still NOT NOMINATED in TGA's best music category. The whole award is a scam.

Now this, THIS is how a fucking final boss theme is done.

As usual, you spend the entire game beating up on wild animals only for the final boss to be an ancient eldritch deity bent on universal destruction

this fecto forgo entity is a very brand new final boss. i mean. nobody has remark that he has no the regular one eye design of the previous greater scope villains!!!

The Roche Limit is the distance two celestial bodies can be apart before they tear each other apart with their gravity [Edit: Man it's fun to give an off handed comment and start a war in the comments] [And yes I know my definition is slightly off] [Damn it's a fucking soap opera down there] [I would like to say that I'm the first person to google this and give the definition]

*And here we are! ID-F86!*

One of the most beautiful songs I’ve ever heard… haha, the context of the game makes this better too. You’re fighting an angel of some sort, or at least that’s what the song is saying… in-game, it’s not really an angel, but the song makes it feel like it is.

I was really wondering how they'd do the finale after just beating up monkeys and a bunch of furries and how it would all end up fighting some divine world ender shit They delivered

4:13 I always have the mental image of the boss catching fire and charging you when hearing this

I think I have an addiction, I listen to this multiple times per day

It’s awesome to me how this boss and it’s lore are pretty much straight out of a mush of Dark Souls and Final Fantasy, and yet it fits perfectly still in Kirby’s world

Phase 2 starts at 4:13 for anyone who wants to know

So the Roche Limit is essentially how close a celestial body has to be to another body before it starts to disintegrate So Fecto Eflilis is attempting to disintegrate both pop star and the forgotten land That’s insane to me

When the final boss of a kirby game is rocket science.

out of every game I've played, I would never have expected a kirby game to be the one that has a song to rival dancing mad.

-You make your way through a fiery lab -You fight a king -You go deeper in the lab and fight animal abominations -Your best friend becomes the ultimate life form This was just Undertale all along

I don’t know what it is about this song in particular that just puts me in a writing mood. I just focus so much better when I listen to this. This song is single-handedly responsible for me having a passing grade in my writing class.

shoutout to this song for making me cry for no fucking reason other than the fact that its so beautiful

What happened leading up to this fight was a mix of Akira and Earthbound like wtf

Can’t wait til we get a GaMetal cover of this masterpiece

I was expecting a more "down to Earth" final boss since you can't really top Void, but nope: we end up fighting Archangel Gabriel's Fursona... And I wouldn't have it any other way.

When you walk to the top of the building, and elfilis is waiting there, silhouetted, casting a massive shadow over the arena.. its so cool.

this is one of the best songs in the whole series Like plenty of games have ambient choirs and stuff, but this game makes it MEMORABLE Its ambient but still melodic and powerful and sticks in your head

game: kill slow goo monster that is unbelievably easy also game 2 seconds later: *destroy the ultimate life-form*

This boss fight was actually super hard. I only got through it because dragon fire is so OP.

Had the weirdest dream last night So in the dream, I was back in middle school, but it was post-KatFL's release and I was a band kid instead of a choir kid, I played the flute. And during the dream, when the band teacher was giving us our sheet music for what we were learning to play... it was THIS TRACK.

That snippet of “The Battle of Blizzard Bridge” at 2:08 gives me so much life.

i love how they somehow found a way to make both "elfilin is evil" theory and "elfilin is pure" theory true through elfilin being helplessly apart of a genocidal alien

Hi. This song is written in a 4:3 polyrhythm. Listen especially at the beginning-you can hear it. If you’re unfamiliar with polyrhythms, listen for the beats dividing each measure into both thirds and quarters (not twelfths, thirds and quarters of the same period of time). It’s kinda awesome.

It feels like each time they develop a new Kirby game, they ask themselves “oh… how can we top the last games final boss?” And I am all in for it ^^

Other Games: "Here's the final boss. This is his theme. Good Luck!" Kirby Games: "Here's the final boss. This is Kirby's Boss Theme. It's Tuesday."

What a fucking amazing name for a final boss theme

Kirby and the Fucking Bangers

Who doesn’t love a good song that gives you goosebumps

The boss trying to make the two planets collide is the same thing that would happen to Inferia and Celestia in Tales of Eternia if the heroes didn't stop the Grand Fall.

Does anyone else get Queen Sectonia and Moonstruck Blossom vibes from the fight or is it just me?

What I absolutely love about this boss is that it starts far away, having a standoff between it and Kirby. Then it spares no time in ruthlessly charging toward him with enough force to pierce the building they duel on. Elfilis gives absolutely no fucks and I love that

I wonder how the violin soloist felt while playing this?

This combined with the actual boss was just FUCKING BREATHTAKING

Just like the rest of this OST, this is a banger

I go into every kirby game expecting an incredible final boss theme. My expectations were delightfully met once more.

Now this theme has finally reached 2 million views!

5:25 God... absolutely blown away by this game's OST

Man, I sure love playing Kirby games and fightin' bosses such as Gorillas and Trees and Lions and Cthulhu.

ROCHE LIMIT I love how they make it more epic by referencing real world things like this