[General Discussion] Favorite Boss Fights

Originally Posted by MTGNecro

That feeling of oh shit! was worth buying the game alone...

Amen to that. Shadow of the Colossus blew me away with each boss that I went after but really when I first played the game NOTHING topped that introduction with that sense of impending doom.

I'm actually surprised that only ONE OF YOU who talk about "challenge" have mentioned any of the bosses in Ikaruga. I haven't been past the boss in Chapter 4: Reality myself (because I suck at the game, obviously) but he's the one that's a pinwheel full of electric charge turrets and you have to be REAL careful when you enter that opening in the core while simultaneously avoiding the electric charges from the turrets. I've gotten OK at it but DAMN that fucker's hard to beat.

Okami had some intense bosses too but my favorite of them all was Kyūbi. That was an amazing bossfight because, well... she had the same divine powers that Amaterasu had and was tough as nails to beat. But aside from that, I just loved how perfectly symbolic that whole fight was with the light and dark contrast in the midst of an ethereal tug of brush war. Beautiful game, beautiful fight, bar none.

God of War always had me raising my eyebrows with its boss fights, not because they were hard or challenging, (Unless you played in God Mode, which I managed to do with the first God of War but never got around to doing on the second one.) but because they were immensely fun and over-the-top gory. The Minotaur boss in the Architect's Tomb was hard as fuck to beat the first time I played through it because I had NO clue what I was doing. I was just avoiding this massive bull-like creature charging with the intent of impaling me all the time and Athena-forbid you didn't have your Blades up to at least a level 4 or you were gonna be doing this for A LONG TIME.

God of War II had some incredible bosses with most of them being mythological figures with great voice acting but the one that seriously just set a superlative pace for the rest of the game was the Rhodes Colossus. You started out avoiding him all the time and he took the entire run of the level to swipe at and beat to a molten pulp but MAN that was awesome. I mean, shit... You're walking through a bathhouse, fresh out of busting a nut with two Greek honeys and BOOM! FOOT STOMP THROUGH THE ROOF! Fucking epic~

But the honor of best bossfight goes to... HELLO? KEFKA from Final Fantasy VI~ Towering monster that took me a year to beat. Beautiful artwork and an all-around awesome final battle. That's still a game that I play just to go back to this battle and witness it over and over.

Jam it back in, in the dark.