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It might not really count, but I thought it was a good idea for Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales to use the Gilgamesh theme for its final boss:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1FKYN9PCTc

MGS 4 - fight vs ocelot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P6DGzSRf3Q&ab_channel=MetalGearOST

Super Bomber Man:
https://youtu.be/Y4GFSMBAhkI?si=DpWi6ljYw5ilgvDX

underrated track imo, despite technically being the music for every boss including the final it does that thing I enjoy of using a lietmotif with callbacks to all the area music throughout the game.

I have it mention this one, I just have to:
https://youtu.be/yX2TlR45eG0?si=VxIyqZ0ACUuQlsLP

Secret of Mana is just too good and Meridian Dance is a classic sounding heroic song where the heroes face unstoppable odds at the end of a long journey...yet there's a faint sadness that foreshadows the ending imo..

I also have to post both of K. Rool's themes from DKC 1 and 2.

Gangplank Gallelleon
https://youtu.be/yMBFdtRbFD0?si=wD4AAlAM7c9Xek5e

It's transition from light pirate fare to a mad rock track backed by what sounds like cannons, as well as a bridge that calls back to earlier songs that evoked running through the jungle.. It is another example of Leitmotif really making a song shine.

https://youtu.be/H2KjJlmpnmc?si=8CqpvGa-uqhPoweD

Here in Crocodile Cocophany though, it's just all K. Rool aching for revenge like a machine.. It's a less varied song than the past, but it's quick, curious, unrelenting in the way the battle forces you to dodge and dodge and dodge looking for an opening. They also use the seafaring pirate sound in this one as well during the
"Back" half of the song, which fits the theme he has going this game so well.

In fact the composer of Chono Trigger, Yasunori Mistuda has this really cool thing to say about music that I've been able to hear in the best tracks ever since

There are two sides two everything

Do you know which is the front and which is the back of a 10-yen coin? Either choice is the right answer! Whichever side you chose as the front can also become the back. Similarly, the human race has both good guys and bad guys. But if you look a little more closely, you'll see good and bad in every individual. Whichever side constitutes one's "front" is up to personal circumstance...

Music too has "fronts" and "backs"; if the "Major" is made the front, the "minor" becomes the back, and a composition has a front beat and a back beat. In short, if you have an understanding of both sides, you strike a good balance between them. Conversely, if one side is lacking, the balance collapses. I suppose that this's most vital to me, for it's what weighs most in my mind. I think I like grappling with the various factors of fate and chance that determine success or failure; it proves useful to me afterward, and I think it's intertwined with music.

In the three "final boss" songs in the game, counting the fake one in Magus's Castle you can really hear it.

https://youtu.be/HyjNbPdhQRg?si=4thBvWUtSSleTFpu

It uses the haunting sounds from his castle theme as a "back" as well a triumphant and valiant clash sounding "front". The way the sounds of weird monster noises break into the battle section shows the heroes at war with the creatures of the night in sound form.

https://youtu.be/TQG5YL8Vg4k?si=gvffy0IqnQKhWhy1
World Revolution, what at the time the player would assume is Lavos's final form has both a triumphant front section that alternates with the discordant organt noises and screeching we've come to associate with Lavos at this point. I think this song in particular is amazing as it captures some of the time of the Epoch traveling music and other musical numbers used in intense moments in the back half; Chrono Trigger as a whole is masterful the way it uses lietmotif..

Leading to Final Battle.
https://youtu.be/6YcFLjVgtOY?si=vO_Z78A-sHjiqf-F

With one huge Lavos squeal the real final battle begins, and the sound is the same Lavos stuff but with the echoey ooing it sounds more alien and otherworldly; the tinkling piano keys sound like falling stars. The way they weave the classic Lavos sound and have Lavos shriek from them to time is unsettling. But I love how the "back" half suddenly sounds heroic, whole still sounding like falling stars. It's a huge callback to the Ocean Palace music as well; this is your second chance to finish it for good. Honestly, I like World Revolution better since it's a bit more straightforward and brass, but I am confident the alien take here is meant to cause you to take a second look at this unusual foe... And of course the shifting background is cool as heck.