Boss/Bosses Appreciation Thread!

[LaserMoose]

Zankuro Mizakuchi is my blood-pressure death .
Trying to beat this guy is like kicking the wall down , only using with my pinky toe .

At least Zankuro has a sweet design! Probably my favorite boss design in Samsho.

How can we have a discussion about Fighting Game bosses and not talk about The General from Kaiser Knuckle?

Right on point - The General's infamy should be shouted from the rooftops (or from the arcade machine? Or from my home? You know what I mean)

Overall, he's a complete monster in terms of a final boss that wasn't beaten officially until 2009, though it was likely with cheats. He wasn't beaten fairly officially until 2014, clearly showing how much of a nightmare he is.

And Kaiser Knuckle is from '94! At least 15 years of arcade dominance. In terms of who is the most difficult boss, The General will not be beat in that regard.

 

[AkiraSO4]

Samurai Shodown .... the whole game series....
Almost every Boss (except Amakusa in SS1) is an all-countering prophet of virtual fighting mastery or is extremly agressive to the point of impossibility till you randomly beat them (Happens often btw) .

Zankuro Mizakuchi is my blood-pressure death .
Trying to beat this guy is like kicking the wall down , only using with my pinky toe .

The thing with Samsho is that the bosses can range from either "Eh this is stupid but okay" to "FUCK THIS FRANCHISE".

Amakusa (SS1): This guy is an asshole. Reads you every single time, you can't land a hit on him. Last time I beat him (PS1 version), I just threw him over and over like it was SFV on ranked.

Mizuki (SS2): My favorite boss fight, but that doesn't exactly make it good. I like it because it's the stupidest boss with the stupidest attacks I've ever seen. A projectile that inverts your controls, AND a super THAT COMES BACK BEHIND YOU IF YOU JUMP IT? That's the craziest thing I've ever seen, lol.

Zankuro (SS3): There's lots of things wrong with this battle honestly, and most of them are because of the game itself. It feels so sluggish to play, no matter the version. Not to mention, you have to beat him 3 times, and he can kill you with three swipes.

Amakusa/Zankuro (SSIV): My favorite Samsho game, and the bosses are okay. Not the best but not the worst. Amakusa might be hard but only because he has massive range and plays defensively 90% of the time. Zankuro hits like a goddamn truck in SSIV, vanishing a lifebar in a single hit sometimes. Potential hot take, but they might be the most "fair" bosses in the franchise.

Gaoh (SSV, specifically Vanilla SSV): FUCK THIS GUY, SO MUCH, LOL. He pulls a Rugal where the problems lie if you beat him one round, where whenever he gets full meter, he becomes a armored demon monster and becomes INVULNERABLE TO EVERYTHING, and keeps spamming a dashing attack where if he hits you, it's not only a weapon drop, but massive damage. And it might happen over and over in a single round, so you have no choice but to keep running away.

Makai Gaoh (SSVI): This guy can also eat a bag of dicks, lol. Massive range, the most damaging command grab I think I've ever seen, and a Final Psycho Crusher knockoff super. Also blocks everything and decimates you if you even blink wrong. Sure, busted boss for a busted game, but Makai Gaoh is pretty annoying to fight. At least he doesn't have an invulnerable state, I guess?

 

[LaserMoose]

Gotta bring up Seth's fight from SF4 again, but this time about the stage theme:

Crumbling laboratory. I love everything about this theme. Seth pulls out all of the stops with the sonic booms, constant teleports, SPDs, and continuous DPs. As the player beats Seth for one round, the theme changes as the laboratory falls into a greater state of disrepair.

In terms of music, crumbling laboratory is everything I want from a boss theme.

 

[Graves Ruinwalker]

Gotta bring up Seth's fight from SF4 again, but this time about the stage theme:

Crumbling laboratory. I love everything about this theme. Seth pulls out all of the stops with the sonic booms, constant teleports, SPDs, and continuous DPs. As the player beats Seth for one round, the theme changes as the laboratory falls into a greater state of disrepair.

In terms of music, crumbling laboratory is everything I want from a boss theme.

Yeah , seth wasnt a pleasant boss . But i didnt had any problems later on when i understood his moves well enough (after getting my ass beaten more than 30 times ).

He has really cheap moments that can ruin everyones day while some Fighters arent suited for this boss entirely because their movesets are why to close-quarters heavy (easy for counters) or arent fast enough to counter seths attacks more easily but maybe because im a scrub with some of those characters in this game .

 

[Lokgamer]

Mi favorite boss from my favorite fighting game, Gado the lion. A Hard a brutal fight with an excelente soundtrack.

 

[LaserMoose]

Yeah , seth wasnt a pleasant boss . But i didnt had any problems later on when i understood his moves well enough (after getting my ass beaten more than 30 times ).

He has really cheap moments that can ruin everyones day while some Fighters arent suited for this boss entirely because their movesets are why to close-quarters heavy (easy for counters) or arent fast enough to counter seths attacks more easily but maybe because im a scrub with some of those characters in this game .

I agree. He's difficult at first, but after a few attempts his patterns are more apparent. I just have a real soft spot for the way the theme of crumbling laboratory was used for the fight moreso than anything else. Not to mention that it brings me back to when I first started really getting into fighting games, around the time of 3S Online Edition, SF4, and MVC3.

Mi favorite boss from my favorite fighting game, Gado the lion. A Hard a brutal fight with an excelente soundtrack.
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I have yet to check out Bloody Roar 2 - really nice artwork, too!

 

[X y b e r - S k u ll]

Parace L'sia from Arcana Heart 3 used to give me so much trouble as a kid when I used to play it back in the day.

 

[AkiraSO4]

Gotta bring up Seth's fight from SF4 again, but this time about the stage theme:

Crumbling laboratory. I love everything about this theme. Seth pulls out all of the stops with the sonic booms, constant teleports, SPDs, and continuous DPs. As the player beats Seth for one round, the theme changes as the laboratory falls into a greater state of disrepair.

In terms of music, crumbling laboratory is everything I want from a boss theme.

Seth USED to be a lot worse for me. I remember horror stories about him on SF4 vanilla or Super SF4, but on Ultra, he's not the worst boss ever, though he can still kick your ass if you're not careful.

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

Red Earth is entirely bosses outside of the few playable characters, it's kinda sad.
I'd do anything to play as Hydron

 

[LaserMoose]

Seth USED to be a lot worse for me. I remember horror stories about him on SF4 vanilla or Super SF4, but on Ultra, he's not the worst boss ever, though he can still kick your ass if you're not careful.

I wanna say I have more memories playing around the time of AE and AE2012 onwards, though I do own vanilla SF4 on console as well. I didn't have to deal with it back then, but Yun in original AE could've been a boss in his own right - not to mention vanilla SF4 Sagat, too. Too bad Ultra has an overtuned Elena, since otherwise the balance of USFIV is pretty good. I'd have to boot up vanilla again to see if the horror stories are true

Red Earth is entirely bosses outside of the few playable characters, it's kinda sad.
I'd do anything to play as Hydron

Hydron is playable in Capcom Fighting Jam, at least! Bad game, but it is playable there. CFJ will be in the next fighting collection.

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

Hydron is playable in Capcom Fighting Jam, at least! Bad game, but it is playable there. CFJ will be in the next fighting collection.

I knew that, but I refuse to acknowledge Fighting Evolution and Fighting Jam, they're dead to me just like MvCI.

 

[Deleted member 3864]

I love this big freak and it loves me too.

 

[Lokgamer]

I just played Resident Evil Village a second time, and I had a lot fun with the ridiculous bosses. They were adorable but at the same time I wanted to beat them up, so I coming with this idea: Bosses you like because are charming and/or funny, but at the same time you want to beat up.

 

[Deleted member 386808]

Yes Resident Evil Village was good, I liked the boss fight between Donna and Angie but I also felt sorry for the woman .

 

[Tonberry]

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

don’t look up the official name of his battle theme on the PSX version of Persona 1, worst mistake of my life

 

[Viviana Santos]

All the bosses in the first two Paper Mario games are incredibly charming and fun to play, with great designs and some of them are quite challenging, the final battle against the Shadow Queen being my favorite.

 

[Stookymalarkey]

Kuze from Yakuza 0. No matter how much you kick his ass, he comes back for more. He doesn't give a shit if he lost before, he's not going to let some low level chump like Kiryu get in his boss's way!

 

[Sir Auriel of Lionel]

Does Daddy Wesker count?

 

[Iguana-0]

don’t look up the official name of his battle theme on the PSX version of Persona 1, worst mistake of my life
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Tell us anyway cause i'm looking it up

 

[Lokgamer]

Does Daddy Wesker count?
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Of course. He's another great example of the laughs that Resident Evil has given to me.

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Kuze from Yakuza 0. No matter how much you kick his ass, he comes back for more. He doesn't give a shit if he lost before, he's not going to let some low level chump like Kiryu get in his boss's way!

That's a good one, especially for how braggart he is.

 

[Samatonic Samatonic]

This tree right here. I felt bad for defeating it, specially cause of whole "can't do anything about it".
But what can you do about it.

 

[Lokgamer]

Agni and Rudra are other bosses that match this category.

 

[Samatonic Samatonic]

This Vegeta, from Dragon Ball Z GT.

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

Tell us anyway cause i'm looking it up

The original name was, get this
Child Abuse

now you'd expect a song with a name like that to be dark and depressing as fuck, and then you hear it