Boss/Bosses Appreciation Thread!

[Jeff]

Nintendo has a fair share of good final boss fights.

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[Jotaro]

several of them are already posted, but lets see

in no order

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgYBK3I2fIg

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zlu6uk0o3Ug

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VWgSVm7uUg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1w3lOV3N64

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhGyT1aOCO8

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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w4EgJIF6jc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4jp7NQROyw


and i might make a part 2, later

 

[Ian Naxieas]

I only manege to beat the final boss of PE 2 because I used a speedrun strategy lol, of using paper spray of all things, and suprising it worked but yeah fuck that fight.

I had to look that up and holy shit, that's nuts. I had no idea the pepper spray could do that period, let alone to fucking Brahman. I know what I'm doing if I ever go through the game again. x) The speedrunner I watched did handle Eve in roughly the same way as me though. A revolver, assault rifle, Energy Shot and Necrosis. Though I didn't have a revolver so it was a shotgun.

Resident evil 3 remake , it's not a bad boss fight on it own but it's underwhelming compared to the OG

Yeah, it was a cool fight in the remake, but it was brainlessly easy. The OG fight wasn't particularly hard either, but it was more than what the remake was. The railgun punching a giant fucking hole through the wall was awesome at least, though not at the cost of "You want STARS?! I'll give you STARS!" while blasting away with a magnum. One handed. Surprised she didn't break her wrist or the gun didn't go flying, but I guess Jill is just built different.

Also, it's nice to see you here again! I thought you were gone for good so it's good to see you back. Hopefully you brought or will make some pão de queijo for me.

 

[Deleted member 288390]

Gnasty Gnorc of Spyro 1 as you had to chase him around and I found it pretty fucking stupid when I played the Reignited Trilogy games.

^THIS! I played Reignited recently, and damn I nearly threw my controller across the room.

Yu Yevon in FFX was also massively disappointing. I don't think you could even lose that fight. Ultimecia from FFVIII was probably my favourite FF endgame boss. Yu Yevon was just a blob. Didn't even have any dialogue! Hugely important character, zero personality or background!

 

[Ain_Gamer]

This guy is a joke
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Having play the OG DMC trilogly this year, I am also going to say that FInal Boss DMC 1 and 2 suck and DMC 3 is a cool flight but doesn't feel like a proper final Boss

DMC 1 boss has 3 phases one where you shoot him and avoid attacks a bunch until he die, which takes a lot of time and is boring, the second phase you try to active Devil trigger to shoot him and when not in Devil Trigger you reload skip with the grande launcher until he die, and the final phase you just attack him until his HP bar is empty.

DMC 2 boss has 2 phases the first one is either impossible or very difficult if you fight with melee weapons so fight him at distant range with guns which makes the fight really trivial.

the Final phase is alright, I am glad it's easy because otherwise I wouldn't want to repeat the fist phase just to fight him again.

DMC 3 final fight is also decent but fighting Vergil doesn't feel final boss worthy when you already fought him before and the boss before that is boring.

 

[MasterEn]

Yu Yevon in FFX was also massively disappointing. I don't think you could even lose that fight. Ultimecia from FFVIII was probably my favourite FF endgame boss. Yu Yevon was just a blob. Didn't even have any dialogue! Hugely important character, zero personality or background!

nope. you literally can not lose. the game gives you permanent auto life. and going from having played the game myself, and some walkthroughs that i skimmed while looking for info on the celestial weapons, it is generally agreed upon that the aeon being used to form sin is the true final boss. yu yevon is more of an interactive epilogue than an actual fight. mainly there for the story and narrative.
he is supposed to, at that point, be nothing more than a parasite. he lives as long as sin can be remade. he's over a 1,000 years old, and being stuck inside of a monstrous shell of living armor for that long has robbed and stripped him of any humanity or sentience that he could have had. the original goal has long since been fulfilled, and now he just exists; fated to an endless cycle of death and destruction for the remainder of his existence.

 

[Deleted member 288390]

Yu Yevon is the whole reason Sin exists, he created Sin in the first place, the entire plot of the game happens because of him ... and he has no character or personality or dialogue. When I played FFX for the first time, I was so looking forward to meeting him, finding out what sort of person he was, hearing why he did it all, what kind of power he must have, imagined how cool he might look. And what I got was a silent blob that was a zero effort fight. Necron in FF9 had more personality than Yu Yevon, but Yu Yevon was actually crucial to the story, setting, and plot, so him being a nothing blob was frustrating and a huge let down IMO.

 

[MasterEn]

Yu Yevon is the whole reason Sin exists, he created Sin in the first place, the entire plot of the game happens because of him ... and he has no character or personality or dialogue. When I played FFX for the first time, I was so looking forward to meeting him, finding out what sort of person he was, hearing why he did it all, what kind of power he must have, imagined how cool he might look. And what I got was a silent blob that was a zero effort fight. Necron in FF9 had more personality than Yu Yevon, but Yu Yevon was actually crucial to the story, setting, and plot, so him being a nothing blob was frustrating and a huge let down IMO.

yep. you are 100% correct. but the whole reason for that takes place 1,000 years prior. you're just dealing with the aftermath. there is a guy, i think he is a historian, who gives you some info on various events of the past at different locations and does shed a bit of light on yu yevon in the process.
the effort and process of winning the war between bevelle and zanarkand resulted in the events of the game. and going by what the game says about fiends; they are the souls of the departed that stay behind, building resentment and anger towards the living. they are just mainly mindless monsters fueled by a stagnant core of emotions, driven to lash out at anything that moves.
yu yevon is no exception. that's why he is just a bug. he went through this process before.
that's why braska's final aeon is considered the true final boss. you can't lose to yevon, you've got more than enough power to beat him. his hp is 99,999; i can one shot him with lulu with my current party.
bfa has enough hp to survive 1 attack with a celestial weapon, the build up in the story is focused on him much more than yevon, the dual protags have a connection with him. his theme music is kickass. you can lose the fight.
i can go into more detail if you want. sometimes the final battle isn't the last battle.

 

[CardcaptorEd2019]

FUCK Wily Capsule 7. Absurdly annoying wall of a boss. Granted in normal playthroughs you can just stock up on E Tanks and not just beat it in a battle of attrition, but man oh man that first time I reached the end of MM7 with only 1 E Tank it was one of the hardest fights I'd ever experienced in a platformer. Of course, grinding out having to do it on 1 life with 0 E Tanks for the Legacy Collection challenge helped me learn its patterns so now I can beat it with just a single E Tank on lock (very rarely can I do it on one health bar), but man oh man what a spike in difficulty!
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I don't even know how long it took me to beat this. I needed to have E Tanks for this boss, as well as looking up a Youtube video for this fight and even then I struggled so bad. I even had to take a break from the game at various times, because of how difficult it was.

 

[Jeff]

The worst final bosses

Dracula in Simon's Quest. All you do is spam the fire item and Dracula freezes in place.

Wily & Gamma from Mega Man 3. Use Hard Knuckle on Gamma twice and time the Top Spin at Wily.

Final Robotnik fight in Sonic CD. Obtain rings, lose them from the first part to destroy the first shield, quickly get the rings, and the rest is just dodge and attack.

 

[spectresfrommercury]

Easily jasper blatt or the final boss in the first bravely default game in my case.

 

[TheShadowsega75Exaid]

FUCK Wily Capsule 7. Absurdly annoying wall of a boss. Granted in normal playthroughs you can just stock up on E Tanks and not just beat it in a battle of attrition, but man oh man that first time I reached the end of MM7 with only 1 E Tank it was one of the hardest fights I'd ever experienced in a platformer. Of course, grinding out having to do it on 1 life with 0 E Tanks for the Legacy Collection challenge helped me learn its patterns so now I can beat it with just a single E Tank on lock (very rarely can I do it on one health bar), but man oh man what a spike in difficulty!
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Wily Capsule 7 really pissed me off the most. Those stupid Fire Orbs, can burn you, the Ice Orbs can Freeze you and the Lightning Orb can shock you all in total can take a chunk of your health! His weakness is the Charged Up Wild Coil but his true weakness is in fact the Freeze Cracker. Wily this is why you failed.

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Fuck this bitch! She blew away all my magic that I stocked ultimately fucking up my party's stats, summoning GFs is a big no no as she will kill them, even worse she will kill one of your party Members as she randomly pick them as I have to end up resetting the game which sucked. Ultimecia can take Griever and stick it up her ass!

 

[Deleted member 288390]

I had turned a card (I think Laguna's?) into 100 hero drinks, and just started chugging them for bosses like Omega weapon and Ultimecia. Unlimited invincibility for everyone kinda makes everything easy. For added fun you can cast Aura beforehand and start spamming Limit Breaks as well. Invincible Squall using Renzokuken and Lion Heart every turn makes for a very short fight.

 

[King Koopa's iconKing Koopa]

Just to name a few but I could pick so many more honestly.

 

[Gentlemanvaultboy]

I have to use a thread like this to shout out The Conqueror from The Last Remnant, who is the only JRPG final boss I've ever seen who becomes exponentially stronger the more side quests you've completed and superbosses you've defeated so that he is always the toughest thing you fight in the entire game.

 

[thanonyx thanonyx]

BEHOLD MY TRUE FORM AND DESPAIR!

 

[Kid Dynamite]

I've gotta give it up to Bowser. He's very driven and creative but always fails.

 

[Ikagura]

I don't know if it qualifies as retro since I'll mention indie and games from two gens ago but I want to point out that I recognised some similar attacks in various games.

Like the Fire Sphere Doomer's charge attack from Kirby's Return to Dreamland

Being similar to Smash Daisaku's After Burner from Gunstar Heroes

Do you have other examples to provide?

 

[LiberoVulpesLiberoVulpes's icon]

I mean, i love the entire final Vergil fight in DMC3, either you know what you are doing or gg.

Technically not retro, i could fill this with Library of Ruina...

When Kali gets serious (manifest E.G.O), her patterns become a war of attrition and having to learn when its best to lock in, or to play it safe, she is one of the wake-up call bosses.

The first part of the Black Silence fight is the hardest, he doesn't have the gimmicks and its just straight up be good at card allocation.

And pretty much most abno fights, realizations, and The Ensemble, mostly cause they are puzzle fights that you have to figure out and read what their cards do.

I'd say that Jester of Nihil is one of the coolest ones because it requires you to find ways to hard counter him, otherwise, gg.

 

[HextarVigar]

The one where they die.

 

[KirboDeku]

The most interesting boss I've seen in a RPG is Adel in Final Fantasy VIII. In the boss fight,

Spoiler: Final Fantasy VIII Spoilers

Rinoa is junctioned to Adel, so any attacks which target all enemies will target her. If Rinoa's HP drops to 0, it's game over. Not to mention that Adel absorbs Rinoa's HP as well.

Overall, a nice break from the usual GF spamming in most of this game's boss fights.

 

[wilddogsdivorce]

in the binding of isaac, specifically the new version of it, there's a boss fight called 'hush'. it's pretty crazy! he does these touhou bullet patterns that i find really fun to dodge, and he does it through most of the fight. i'm not a big bullet hell person, but it's pretty great.

 

[Graw]

A lot of the bosses in Hollow Knight have fun attack patterns. I like the second Hornet fight and Nightmare King Grimm. NKG is so fast it feels really satisfying when you get the rhythm down and you can dodge everything.

 

[Deleted member 257420]

Blood Mother from Vigil, solely because it’s super cute and fun in it’s imagery, and Cleric Beast for being a staple starter boss, and it’s standard pattern makes it cool asf to kill.

Also, both are super hot.

 

[RageBurner]

I'm not sure if it counts as a recurring pattern, but Seven Force from Gunstar Heroes is a very fun boss (also arguably the only good part of Gunstar Super Heroes is it returning). Obligatory mention to Alien Soldier for having its own ersatz of it.