[General Discussion] Favorite Boss Fights

Originally Posted by PiccoloNamek

Yunalesca, because she was the first boss I ever died against. I had to try six times before winning.

Although I don't recall any details about the battle, I do remember that I didn't struggle too much. Was it because your levels were too low?

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I remember Yunalesca. I also had massive amounts of trouble with her. She's the reason i was so powerful when i finished the game. After i found out that Holy did 9999 damage, i went on a quest to get Yuna to learn Holy, but didn't even end up using it cause of it's MP cost. But along with that, came everyone's levels shooting through the roof, and i was able to just barely scrape by, and breezing through the rest of the game.

Qwarky: I remember one fight with him when i had tipped over every nitrogen tank, and shot him each time but he didn't die. It might've been cause it was with my shotgun and not my magnum (i have an obsession with saving magnum ammo).

After i didn't kill him, i figured he just didn't die, and you just had to run away from him. On my next play through, i'll go all the way.

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Metroid Prime - This is the boss battle that always comes to the top of my head in these discussions. I'll never forget getting to the end of that tiny morph ball room, opening the door, and seeing Prime hanging there. It comes out of its shell and drops down. Cue the battle music. The fight was great becaue it forced you to use all your weapons and even drop down into morphball form once in a while. Fast-paced and fun.


It (Resident Evil 4) - Hard to remember by name, easy for the two-part battle, this is the boss battle that began with the impossible cut scene that landed Leon in a system of warehouse-like rooms suspended above an infinite nothing. I was more than willing to forgive the game, though, because what followed was one of the most intense fights I've ever played. You had to wander around these dark rooms that resembled mini-mazes, looking for switches to open the industrial shutter door that led to the next room. The previous room would of course fall into oblivion, for dramatic effect. There was the possibility that you would fall with it if your exit was too slow.

Through all of this, the hulking mass of a boss (which, incidentally, must be the most hideous thing ever conceived) would drop down to terrorize you. Sometimes it would haul you up and choke you. After a few shots it would jump back up.

After finally getting through all the rooms, Leon makes it to the other side, some large dirt ledge protruding up out of the nothingness. What can only be called a mutant scorpion-bug presumably fell to its death. It comes crawling up the ledge, however, and is far from done with you. The second part of the battle is also great, but this is getting more windy than I intended. It suffices to say that as a whole, this battle is more ambitious than the final bosses in most games.

I guess it's not a coincidence that Metroid Prime and Resident Evil 4 are my two favorite games of this gen.

Metroid Prime 2 gets an honorable mention, because even though it didn't have the second, third, or maybe even fourth best boss fight among the three games, it probably had the best overall compendium of them. The major boss fights were great, and the mini-bosses were both great and numerous. Many were simply ingenious.

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Riku- Kingdom Hearts... He was Harder than Ansem. I died Exactly 27 times Before I finally beat him.

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Mr.X from Streets of Rage. I love the entire game and I just love fighting him I find it rather fun.

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I like the both final Boss of KH 1 and 2 (and I mean every form of those fnal boss) I don't know I think they are really fun to do ^^ especialy the one of KH2 with the reaction commend ^^

I really like to fight the final form of Ultimecia in FFVIII because of the best final boss music I have heard.

I could say all 15 colossi because they all feel like boss and are all fun to kill ^^

I like to kill the Queen in ICO, even if it's not really a fight, I like the feeling, the music and the special effect in this "battle"

it's been a long ltime but I really enjoy to fight Ganondorf and ganon in ocarina of time and the final boss in wind waker too ^^

yunalesca can really be a bitch... I remember the first time I pass her without a single problem and on my second game I must have tried her 20time >.> my friend got stuck on her too. the problem is the mega death she does, you must have a lot of holy water keep at least one character in zombie, because is megadeath always work >.> so zombie prevent you to die (yeah you're kind of already dead XD) and it suck to use a holy water to heal yourself after and prey that she will do zombie again before doing mega death >.<

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Actually yeah, Yunalesca was also the most memorable fight of FFX for me as well, more so than any Seymour/Sin fight. Her last form looked so grotesque, being that Medusa meld or whatever it is, especially when casting MegaDeath. *shudder* I wanted that bitch to die after hearing the story before the fight concerning the Final Summoning.

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Originally Posted by Rydia

Although I don't recall any details about the battle, I do remember that I didn't struggle too much. Was it because your levels were too low?

Yes, that, and I wasn't aware of the fact that I should leave my characters in zombie mode.

I don't have any problems with her any more. By the time I get to her, I have already completed everybody's sphere grid path except Kimahri.

(The reason for this is because when I get to the part just before the battle with Seymour on the Bevelle Highbridge, I spend about forty-five minutes to one hour fighting the robots that appear in the random battles there. They are extremely easy to kill and give a TON of sphere points. This is by FAR the best place to level up during normal gameplay. I do this every time I play through the game. So by the time I actually go to fight Seymour, I'm already as levelled as I can possibly be until I get the airship. Except for Kimahri, because he was holding Seymour back the whole time!)

I also don't use any of my special spheres until after I've done this levelling up process. After I'm done, I teach Yuna all of the black magic spells, among other things. It only took one holy and one flare to finish off Seymour that time. That sissy.

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Einhander's Level 5 mini-boss, Ausf A Gestell (aka Funky Pink Monkey Thing). Love this guy. So many ways for him to kill you, so many ways for him to be killed. Also, ordinarily he's slow and lumbering, but he's quite a bit faster on Hard Mode, prancing about on his tiptoes instead of trodding. (Good battle theme, too, actually.)

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Originally Posted by PiccoloNamek

fighting the robots that appear in the random battles there. They are extremely easy to kill and give a TON of sphere points.

lol yeah any robot in FFX when you have Rikku are REALLY easy to kill: Rikku->steal robot = robot automaticaly dead >.> but I don't remember if you get ap that way XD

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Actually, I don't think Rikku's steal works on the huge concrete-looking robots in Bevelle.

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Magus from Chrono Trigger is, of course, classic. Probably the most memorable fight ever for me (probably because I was young when it happened).

Sephiroth from FF7 is another favorite.

The last boss from Banjo Kazooie, the Witch, is another very memorable (and tough) fight (suprisingly).

And finally, by far, my favorite of the favorites: Panzer Dragoon 2 ZWEI, Stage 3 (Forest) and 4 (Caverns) bosses were very fun and amazing at the time.

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Oh I just randomly thought of Wrexsoul from FF VI. I was always scared to fight him the normal way which involves being near death, which I thought was pretty clever, so I always cheated and used Vanish -> X-Zone on the two thingies. One playthrough I had equipped Phantom/Fenrir (whichever one you learn vanish/xzone from) on another character that was not in the dream and had no way of learning vanish for any of my characters, so I gave up at that point.

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My favorite bosses are (in no particular order) -

Matador from Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne III. He has a special place in my heart, since he was the first Fiend you face in the game, he's stylish, and he's also the first boss in that game to thoroughly thrash me.

Hitoshura from Digital Devil Saga 1 was tons of fun to fight, despite the luck factor involved in it. Beating him was one of the most satisfying victories in recent memory.

Flahgraa from Metroid Prime will always be my favorite boss from that game.

Barubary from Breath of Fire II deserves a mention here, if only because of his boss battle theme.

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Originally Posted by Elixir

- The alien boss in Metal Slug 3 on level 2. I still haven't figured out a successful way of beating this thing accurately without dying at least once. The balls of energy they throw at you at an extreme speed usually get me killed at least once. This boss stands out just for insane difficulty over the rest (for example, the first and third bosses).

I once beat it without losing a life by managing to make it all the way there as a zombie. Your zombie form's bomb has a death ray that does MASSIVE damage. I can't remember if those balls affect you or not. I might've killed him too fast for him to do it.
But yeah, I think I pulled off beating that thing without dying only once or twice, having played it through in the arcade multiple times.

I always liked fighting Sigma in Mega Man X2, where he whips out the claws. He moves almost constantly, and you have to as well if you want to beat him. He's not that hard for me, but the fast action is fun enough for me that I enjoy it every time.

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The fairy woman at the end of the Cave of Trials in Star Ocean 2 is easily the hardest boss I've ever encountered and beaten. As if just getting to her wasn't enough of a pain... I must've fought her for over 30 minutes.

The last Vergil fight in Devil May Cry 3 is another favorite of mine. The music was really cool and the swordplay is just intense.

Jack Krauser in Resident Evil 4 was really cool as well. The dialogue and the constant cat and mouse game he played, followed by a timed roof fight. Delicious.

Also, every boss fight in Zone of the Enders 2. Especially the last one against Anubis. Using his own tricks against him was so satisfying. And when it lets you deliver the final blow... That game is a masterpiece, stupid hero name aside.

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My favorite boss fight of all time is right in my username. Maybe he was more of a miniboss, but still. The arena was beautiful. It wasn't your typical dark abyss, it was a shallow, flat lake, with a bit of land in the middle, and the entire arena faded away into endless light. I'd done a good bit of gaming before then, but I'd never come across any sort of doppleganger fight before, so this was new to me. The fact that he wasn't an exact carbon copy of you, and was shadowy was pretty cool....who is link really fighting here? Where's the real struggle.

Ok, maybe that's putting more story into OT than there really was, lol. But Dark Link from Ocarina of Time is probably always going to be my favorite boss.

But yeah, I was pretty surprised to have an extremely awesome enemy to fight in an area that was very serene and peaceful otherwise. The only thing it really needed to make it ultimate was some amazing music instead of the standard miniboss fight music.

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Shadow Ganon comes right up there too as far as cool bosses. Leaping in and out of pictures, and then you had that insanely fast tennis ball match that made the real gannon look like a pansy. Creepy outfit. The works.

Argh....Koume and Kotake were so awesome too...such an AMAZING and memorable soundtrack for that fight too, I always hated that you couldn't go back and fight them again. Just the entire dynamics of the fight were really sweet, the whole fire/ice ordeal.

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my favorite fight:

Breath of Fire: Myria. I was determined to know what item could be stolen from this boss, so I use calculator and count all my attack toward her (the steal command worked better when the hp is low). It appeared the stolen item definitely crap. I felt idiot back then.

Final fantasy X: Yunalesca battle, just like everyone here. But I win in my 2nd attempt. That battle was truly the hardest and most strategic in traditional rpg ever.

Originally Posted by Rydia

Although I don't recall any details about the battle, I do remember that I didn't struggle too much. Was it because your levels were too low?

I lost in the first attempt because I forgot to restock my holy water and potions.

Final Fantasy tactics: against wiegraf. I lost around 5 times when I played the game for the first time. Luckily I always use pisces sign so the affinity is very bad, thus the damage could be reduced.

Chrono Trigger: Lavos core battle for the first time. I never thought the left spectre is the real lavos. I was pissed off when it revived other two creatures when I thought 'ha, I almost win'.

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Killer 7's final "battle" with the hung body of Greg Nightmare in the school's gym is deserving of a mention. Instead of a boss fight of epic proportions, you get to watch helplessly as the smiths get picked-off one by one by perfect smiles, until only Garcian remains. Then, you finally get to pick the golden gun Greg dropped and use it to blast the last smile away. From there, it's just you shooting heaven smile Greg in the fleshy bits until he meets his demise.

That was a pretty freaking unique way to handle a final boss.

Other favorites of mine would be RE4's U3 (the cage monster) and good ol' El Gigante, for obivious reasons.

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Originally Posted by Yamamanama

Yes, your namesake was indeed a good fight. I was going to add him, but I didn't know if he counted as a boss or not.
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You never played Mega Man III? Or for that matter, The Adventure of Link?

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, I never made it that far in Adventure of Link. Stupid Gooma. Anyway, Dark Link is the final boss of Adventure of Link.

I was never a megaman person . Yeah, I know, may God strike me down, and all that crap, lol. I didn't ever start playing megaman until after OOT, I'm kind of backwards that way =/. I like megaman a lot . But I don't think I've actually finished any of them =/.

Never finished Zelda II =/. I could never bring myself to, it's the one Zelda that I think is crap. Thankfully they decided to turn a different direction.

So it looks like I missed out on a lot of doppleganger fights . lol

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The Vol Opt fight in Phantasy Star Online was an insane battle. Really the first one in the game to be that intense. The dragon and the sewer monster weren't all that crazed, and while they made okay bosses they weren't anything like Seven Force in intensity.

Then Vol Opt comes along, hitting you with missiles, trapping you in rocks, and bringing the entire damn room down around you, and you're like "WTF VISTA BETA SUX." And then you remember that they don't run Windows in Ragol, and something else was causing their computer to go HAL on you, but still.

The final boss from Digital Devil Saga (Hari-Hara) was a pretty intense fight, too. First form wasn't all that much to write home about, but the second seriously ramped up the challenge and complexity of the fight.

Another memorable fight was the battle against Robotnik at the end of Death Egg Zone in Sonic and Knuckles. People go on about Doomsday Zone, but it really felt like an afterthought following the insane marathon of Death Egg Zone and the giant-robot-Robotnik fight at the end. That master emerald laser SUCKED.

Also, there was a certain secret boss in Phantasy Star 4 that was a huge shocker. It wasn't hard or intense by any stretch of the imagination, but seeing what it was and then having to kill it really fucked with your head. The short exchange that came after the battle didn't help much either, though you did get something pretty cool out of it.

I have to say, though, the boss battles in Xenosaga 1 didn't impress me all that much. Maybe it was the redundancy of the battle music or the fact that with the exception of THE last boss, a well-placed Erde Kaiser would lay them all out in one turn, but it seemed like so many of them were full of wasted potential.

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SOLDIER mentioned Super Metroid, but he didn't mention the battle with Motherbrain and the giant Metroid. Yeah, it was easy as pie, but it was very cinematic (without being a cinema scene) and very rewarding when you get to blow Motherbrain away with the Hyper Beam.

I certainly didn't forget the fight with Motherbrain, I just found Crocomire a little more memorable. But thinking about it now, I'm very tempted to swap Motherbrain in its place. A fantastic battle that not only throws a creepy twist on the original fight, but manages to convey a torrent of emotions without using any dialogue.

Another excellent fight worth mentioning is Ganon's final form in OOT. I really loved how his face is mostly obscured by the dark, and is only visible for a split second when lightning hits in the background. It was also a nice touch when Zelda cries out every time you suffer a blow from Ganon.

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I was just about to mention that one. The final battle with Ganon in OoT remains the best of all time. Perfect set-up, atmosphere, execution; the only battle where I actually felt the weight of the world on my shoulders.

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Seriously, it's been the one boss battle I've been craving for since the Gamecube came out. Imagine a fully 3D, gigantic FOUR HEADED dragon that takes up the whole room, lunging at you with its many mouths, shooting you with fire from four directions. And it only gets worse when you start chopping the heads off, as they then fly around continuing to blast you with fire.

Never going to happen.

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Ares from God of War. The last part of the battle when its almost like a tug-of-war for health. Always loved that part.

Lucifer from SMT: Nocturne. Didn't realize that I was going to have to fight him and ended up having to level for a LONG time to be able to finaly kill him. But that made the victory all the sweeter.

The End from MGS 3. I don't think there is anything I can say that hasn't been said before.

Kirie from Fatal Frame. I thought that she would 1-hit kill me if she touched me so I was overly paranoid during that one.

Lastly, I can't remember the guys name but the boss from Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver where you had to lead him allllll the way back and eventually burn him with a furnace. Took me forever to figure that one out.

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