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Korilla: "They just stole your stuff."
Raphael: "Hurry, summon the choir."
Korilla: "Don't you mean the army?"
Raphael: "No, I have this cool song I need to pitch them."

The reason Raphael doesn't attack you immediately after you pick up the hammer is because he has to get in one last song rehearsal before the fight

It fucking blows my mind that this whole thing is just an OPTIONAL SIDEQUEST

Larian really said "Satan is real and he's a godsdamn theater kid."

Making Raphael a disney villain with his own disney villain song moment was a stroke of utter Genius

"So Korilla, what exactly do you do for Raphael?" "Sing the chorus, mostly".

Friendly reminder that Raphael is quite literally an evil bard. In his devil form, he wears the Boots of Brilliance, that restore Bardic Inspiration, his allies in a 18m perimeter all get Inspiration (advantage to STR and DEX saves), his boss song can qualify as Unsettling Words from the College of Eloquence (making the enemy dou t themselves), he's characterised as singing and enjoys writing as well, he presents himself as a refined man and master schemer...

Raphael is an Evil Bard and I love that so much. He's so delighfully entertaining.

Me while four random dorks break into my house and pile two dozen smokepowder barrels around me (they're doomed, detected and caught)

The Elder Brain: "I am THE villain of the game!"
Raphael: "Oh, are you sure? You seem to think so... but I find you lacking."

My only regret is that I'll never be able to experience this song for the first time again.

It was an absolutely amazing decision to have the villain sing their own battle theme.

Part of the reason this song is so effective is because, as far as I remember, no other sound track has lyrics. Getting to this battle and suddenly the game is singing about how you done fucked up makes it feel very intense

The fact that Raphael is so egotistical that he made a perfect copy of himself to bang means him singing his own boss music is so in character

Raphael overshadowed the end boss, as an antagonist he is a near perfect example. I will never forget him and him singing his own song, the best fight in the game.

Yurgir going invisible and occasionally whacking Raphael randomly made me cackle during this fight

"I finished BG3"
Did you fought Raphael ?
"No"
Then you didn't finish BG3.

Anyone got the feeling that in game awards, when Astarion's voice actor got his reward for best character actor, he wasn't competing against characters from other games, he was competing against other characters from Baldur's Gate 3?

Honestly Raphael's questline is what all dnd campaigns want to be. Starting out at level 1 barely able to take on a band of goblins to killing a Devil in his own home at 12, amazing!

"Don't worry bro the test won't be that bad"

Opens test book to look at first question