Information: Defeat the storm and protect the surrounding area!

*Protagonist:* "Storm... why are you doing this?" *Storm:* "WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO KNOW, WEATHER BOY?"

imagine hearing this during a tornado warning and seeing a healthbar

Between this and the Pictionary NES theme I think we should have a genre of music called “bangers for the stupidest shit”

Yoko Shimomura didn't have to go this hard on a weather theme

When you wanted to make JRPG music but you get hired by the Weather Channel instead.

TWC Ends With You

Everybody gangsta til Mother Nature uses her Desperation Move.

I hate how even 16 years later, the real composer still hasn’t been identified. AUGUST 2023 EDIT: The real composer, Christopher Kennedy, has been identified!

_Ansem's Weather Report_

"Mankind... Civilization... All fleeting. But the weather is eternal. Now, surrender and let the storm wash away your sins!"

ok if this isn't Yoko Shimomura it's a pretty fucking amazing coincidence that this hits pretty much *all* of her stylistic idiosyncrasies

"Where was Kingdom Hearts II during Hurricane Katrina?" Here, evidently.

When you're overqualified for your music role

I don't live in the USA, but hearing this paired with the red alert for a huricane must have been intense as hell

No one asked whoever it was who had to compose the storm alert theme to go so hard, but they went and did anyway~

The final boss: The Weatherman, who had secretly been controlling the weather the whole time...

If someone told me this was an unused track in KH2’s soundtrack I wouldn’t even question it

The drop at 1:00 with the weather channel jingle goes astronomically hard holy shit

When the weather channel is also a xehanort vessel.

Kingdom Hearts F5: 358MPH/2 Winds

TWC is the final boss

I love the way they worked the TWC motif into this. They really went all out with this. I think TWC is my favorite RPG.

bro this is unironically fire

Taking “Dance water, dance!” to a whole new level

Can just imagine the composer presenting this to a boardroom of people in their 50's and they react like "Wow okay sure, this is the one" This is borderline experimental.

The Weather Channel is also Xehanort.

“Your hopes are doomed to the darkness.” “Your heart will be scattered!” “In a world without light!” “Break the curse with your cards!” “Do you want to scream?” “Lose everything!” “Scattered to oblivion!” “So this... THIS is the heart of a hero...”

"Wouldn't you like to know weatherboy?" "I know EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Remember how hype it was when the thunder clouds reached their final phase and coalesced into a man-sized final boss?

“Why do you oppose me? I am the embodiment of the world you stand on. I created you, and I have decided that was my only mistake. I will restore myself to a prior state. Who are you to defy me?”

Nobody: Yoko Shimomura: I’m bored. Gonna compose a weather report theme for the lolz

give that composer a fucking raise

*The Weather Channel* has challenged you to a battle!

The new boss theme for Kingdom Hearts 4 kinda slaps

DOES THAT TORNADO HAVE A HEALTH BAR

Considering hostile weather will be humanity's final boss battle, it's pretty fitting

Bro why is this fire

The Weather Channeler will begin the encounter casting The Eye of the Storm, dealing slight raidwide damage and applying the debuffs Dripping to tanks and healers and Spongey to DPS. Simply assign each DPS a tank/healer partner and stack on them to cleanse the debuff and drop a blue puddle on the ground. Next The Weather Channeler casts Cloud Summon, spawning 4 clouds that must be baited by each DPS into the puddle, giving each one Lightning Resistance Down, causing them to die to the upcoming raidwide damage.

why do i hear boss music

POV: You’re JRPG composer working at the weather channel

A storm is approaching. Do you engage? -->Yes Yes

So when the full version coming out??? Real talk though, as a survivor of Hurricane Katrina, this scared the fucking piss out of me after that experience (I had just turned 6 when it hit). It fucked up our house to the point where the house had actually been torn off of its foundation and being held back by the plumbing pipes. First time hearing this the next year, it struck a chord that was like a fresh scar to me, but coming back to it, it almost gives me a strong feeling of resilience and determination to fight. If the storm was a superboss, then I will be the one who conquers it, y'know?? I'm 22 now, and although I still tense up during hurricanes or tropical storms, I always listen back on this as a sort of calming method, pretending that I'm fighting the storm inside myself. Still here, still fighting, and I always will be. Damn I didn't mean to turn this into a sappy comment, but this song boppin'.

Other alerts: I need to hide and take cover from the incoming tornado! This alert: *_I am going to fucking fight this tornado with my bare hands._*

why is this one of the best boss themes I've ever heard and it's a literal storm alert

They seriously didn't have to make this sound like the most badass boss battle theme in a video game ever Well done Weather channel

Final Mission: Storm Alert -Defeat The Storm and save the world!

The warning: "Hide in your basement! Get away from windows!" The song: "Fight the tornado!"

"I do arrive naturally, but I am no disaster. I have come and gone ever since your precious planet was hospitable to your kind. Whether it be in the form of rapid lightning strikes, a funnel shape of death carrying and tossing your creations away, formations of burning ice that few can take, or freezing small flakes that cut through any warmth you feel, I can take any shape, and I can appear at any time. I am the Eye Of The Storm. I see clearly that you have chosen not to take cover, and you wish to chase me head on. Very well then." *"Can you weather my assault?"*

"Puny humans... your light will never surpass my.... STORM OF DARKNESS!"

The breakdown at 1:11 though, holy shit my dude It's a little bit of rain, not Safer Sephiroth

Watch out, when the tropical storm boss reaches half health, in enters phase 2 and becomes a hurricane.

You having a Blizzard spell icon just adds to this theme somehow

Bro whoaaa i came here to fall asleep listening to the weather channel. Not buffing my party and preparing to limit break suplex mother nature...

I genuinely refuse to believe this sounding like a JRPG boss track isn’t a coincidence. Literally all the usual musical sounds and motifs you’d expect are there. Outside of the little station jingle the structure is identical

final fantasy is that you

This is that theme that plays when you first encounter the main antagonist at the beginning of the game and you've got that unwinnable boss fight.

You could literally replace any boss track from Kingdom Hearts with this song and it would fit perfectly wtf

When you say "rain rain go away," and the storm grows heavier:

Somewhere, in the midst of a severe storm... "GWAHAHA! Great dark hurricane! Seriously, perfect backdrop for an awesome final battle!"

"Alert: Category 6 Storm detected, debris and lightning have a high probability of penetrating all defenses. Suggestion: Evade."

This sounds like a kingdom hearts boss theme

The weather channel ran by Xemnas

My favorite video game ost

Information: Defeat the Meteorologist.

The Weather Channel HD 1.5 + 2.5 ReMIX

Why does this go SO HARD for a storm??

Bruh am I supposed to fight the fucking weather?

Please Prepare for Hurricane Sephiroth

I am the bone of my Umbrella Water is my body and Wind is my blood I have forecasted over a thousand storms Unknown to Thunder, nor known to Lightning Have withstood Rain to predict many Hurricanes Yet those forecasts will never predict everything So, as I pray- Unlimited Storm Works

this sounds so much like a KH2 boss theme, maybe with a time attack gimmick since it has that sense of urgency

*< You can't escape from boss fights! >*

Thanks Antdude

When Floridians shoot the tornado and a health bar appears

Take a look at this tiny place. To the rain drop seeking freedom, this cumulonimbus cloud is a prison, surrounded by water. . . And so this drop sought to escape from its prison. It sought a way to cross over into other worlds, and it opened its heart to storms.

This feels like a theme someone did make for a game, but they couldn't ever join the game industry so they used this the first chance they got.

dang the quadratum weather station really going all out

Man how did this unused Parasite Eve track get leaked

I love it starts as a normal news jingle, but then just quickly turns into a crazy boss theme. It almost feels fake, kinda like the whole Mario Party DS piracy song. ...damn, this could be a trend!

Literally Florida right now

POV: You're in Hurricane Ian's path.

Definitely sounds like 2006 but why does it sound like I have to fight the weatherman to discover the forbidden knowledge of THE FORECAST?

*Information: Defeat Katrina!*

I REFUSE TO BELIEVE THIS ISN'T FROM A VIDEO GAME!!!

hope project destati covers this asap

Just learned this was composed by some dude name Chris Kennedy. I always though this was some lost/scrapped JRPG track. (Ps. I know Chris Kennedy composed this but damn this could fit ether the game Ar Tonelico or a Venetian Snares album)

*TWC Putting back its hood* -Let's see how long you can keep up, shall we ?

Yoko Shimomura didn't write this, a man named Chris Kennedy from Clean Cuts Music did. It was part of a larger package of commercial music for TWC.

2020 theme song as we go into the world of darkness

This song was composed by Chris Kennedy as a staff composer Clean Cuts Music (now Noise Distillery) for TWC. They usually weren't credited, but he recently stepped forward on Twitter.

People say waking up to an American EAS alarm is scary, imagine waking up to _this_ song playing in the background as a person or text to speech is warning you about a tornado that just touched down in your area. Gives me chills just thinking about it..

**A RAGING COLD FRONT APPROACHES**

Composer: Yoko Shimomura

*you stare at the sun one last time. Your healing objects and ammo are low. Your friends and companions are all dead. You heard the weather alert play its song one final time. The sky turns cloudy as you reload your weapond.* (Sorry for bad english)

The Nobodies! They've come back, and they're... making- guah! A bunch of tornadoes that will destroy Twilight Town if we don't stop it!

Ah yes my favorite Kingdom Hearts game: The Weather Channel

Man, the soundtrack to Kingdom Hearts 4 sounds awesome.

this is literally me when i eat 17 thousand calories in 1 day

Sora...are you sure you can trust...Riku?

*Mr. Blue Sky* Enemy type: *Boss* Health: 231,000 *Description* Mr. Blue sky is a humanoid about twice the size of the player made up of water and ice, with clouds surrounding him *Summoning* Mr. Blue Sky can be summoned by having a Lightning Rod get struck while in your inventory during a thunderstorm or the Tornado Warning event. Getting struck during normal rain will not summon him. *Behavior* Mr. Blue Sky is a very agile boss, and can easily dodge the player's attacks. When not attacking or between attacks, he may charge at the player, dealing up to 200 damage and potentially stunning the player. Upon summoning, he will create a large arena mimicking a tornado made out of clouds, temporarily leveling all objects for the duration of the fight. The walls of the arena will push the player if touched, which can be used to your advantage. *Attacks* *Phase 1* * Mr. Blue Sky will re-position himself randomly and throw ice chunks at the player for a short while, before re-positioning again and changing attacks. *Mr. Blue Sky will summon a piece of debris that will orbit around him. It disappears when damaged, but not when taking splash damage *Mr. Blue Sky will summon up to 8 glowing clouds that fire lightning after a short delay and in quick succession of one another. *Phase 2* Upon reaching 30% health, Mr. Blue Sky will enter his second phase, signaled by the following message displaying in chat: /The wind is howling.../ *Mr. Blue Sky will start a hailstorm that lasts for a short time. Getting hit by a hailstone will lower the player's defense by up to 3 for 5 seconds. The hailstones do not deal knockback and while the defense lost by them will stack, the time will never exceed 5 seconds. The player is lifted off the ground, and is recommended that the player equip any movement accessories due to this. The player will also no longer get stunned by his dash. Mr. Blue Sky will also reflect and slow-moving or lingering projectiles. He will also take 1% of the damage the player dealt in their last hit every second. This resets upon him getting hit again.