wtf? has the exact same soundtrack as the first Final Fantasy on the NES! what kind of endless rehash dumpster fire has the FF franchise become?
It's literally a redone version of the final boss's theme because you're fighting him. This raid has had these throwback fights like this for each tier including throwback music. This isn't a rehash it is a reminder of FF's roots and has been received fantastically by long time players of the games.
Meh, fair enough.
We've had
FFV:
Alte Roite
Catastrophe
Halicarnassus
Exdeath (Both forms)
FF6:
Phantom Train
Chadarnook
Guardian
Kefka (Both Forms)
FF1:
Chaos
FF6-7-8-11-12-14-15:
Midgardsormr (though this is more focused on FF14's in particular rather than the predecessors)
FF1-4-5-7-10-11-13-14-15
Omega (again based more on the 14 version but definitely pulls a lot from older versions)
The fights have been rather well done and has been a great throw back just like other fights like Cloud of Darkness and Gilgamesh.
That said FF14 has always been an "amusement park" MMO. It's there to appeal to a little bit of everyone and has always had throwbacks to older games (just like other games in the series have reoccurring enemies) to the point where there's even a theory regarding the game being set in a way that all of the Final Fantasies are canon in the universe.