Best "Mirror" Boss Battle?

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Azahul

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There's one in the original Guild Wars that has your exact same character build. I believe they altered it later, but at one point it was possible to murder it by playing a Necromancer and taking a ton of curse skills with your Curse stat set to 0. Curse skills tended to come with fairly serious penalties, and if you built it right the penalties could do more damage to your Doppelganger than the skills did to you. Sit back and watch it kill itself, awesome fun.
 

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MPerce said:
Fiend Ryu in Ninja Gaiden Black. Pure epicness.
I agree with this. It's so much fun to find an enemy that can do everything you can do.
(Except when it wields a Dabilahro and infinite explosive arrows)

Btw, they are called Doppelganger Fiends.
 
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I quite like the boss fight in one of the dungeons in SWTOR, where the boss goes invincible while summoning a clone/cyborg of each of the group members in turn. It wasn't a particularly challenging fight, but was a lot of fun, socially and gameplay.
 

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My favourite would be round 16 of The last stand game mode in Dawn of war II on the Colosseum map. In the round you have to face the duplicates of the three heroes you have chosen, who have the same ability as your heroes but are stronger. This is brilliant fight as depending on what ability you have chosen the fight can be nearly impossible, meaning the build for your heroes have to be carefully figured out so that you don't make this round impossible.
 

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Didn't Prince of Persia on Snes have a mirror fight too? I know a copy is created at one point but I can't remember what happens to him.

As for my favorite, I'd have to go with the dark link from Ocarina of Time. That was really hard, at least if you didn't have the giant's knife to clunk him over the head with.
 

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Last Stand mode in Dawn of War 2. Wave 16 has your 3 man team fight EXACT duplicates of yourselves, right down to the ability to resurrect each other. Wave 20 then takes the piss by having you fight exact duplicates plus a metric fuckton of other shit.
 

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xPixelatedx said:
FoolKiller said:
You are all very wrong. Obviously the correct answer is the Prince of Persia. Its the true mirror battle and where all this originated from.
If we are talking about video games specifically, then that is a tad incorrect. Prince of Persia first came out for the Apple Computer in 1989. Zelda II came out 1 year before that (two if you count the japanese release). The last boss of Zelda II was the first appearance of Shadow Link; a mirror version of yourself with the exact same move-set. That is also who I am using as my answer to the original poster.

Zelda II just happens to be my favorite one.

uzo said:
I'd have to go with shadow Link from Zelda II: The Adventure of Link.

Zelda II: 1987; PoP: 1989.
I can't believe you ninja'd me while I was typing, bravo sir, bravo.
Yes I know that. But Zelda II was fighting your evil self while Prince of Persia...

was the true mirror battle for two reasons:
1. You create the evil doppelganger jumping through an enchanted mirror of sorts.
2. You can only defeat him by putting away your sword as he mirrors your moves exactly. He is quite literally your mirror image.
 

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Terminate421 said:
This video sums it up perfectly:


Ah, the music, the presentation, the fight itself..... (The fight starts at about 1:20)
I remember that one...
"WHY CAN'T YOU JUST HOLD STILL FOR A SECOND?!?"
 

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Jfswift said:
Didn't Prince of Persia on Snes have a mirror fight too? I know a copy is created at one point but I can't remember what happens to him.

As for my favorite, I'd have to go with the dark link from Ocarina of Time. That was really hard, at least if you didn't have the giant's knife to clunk him over the head with.
Well, you face him, but don't kill him at all. It's a clever trick there.

Best one for me has to be Sabertooth from Wolverine: Origins game. He moved like you, made moves similar to you, and you really felt like you were in a struggle between two powerful individuals, breaking the bar and your surroundings with ease.
 

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I'm going for Dark Bowser from Bowser's Inside Story, though possibly because I've played it recently. You're up against a shadow doppelganger formed from pure evil, with all your own abilities turned up to 11...but you're gonna win, because you're the REAL Bowser! Extra props for countering his punches by punching his incoming punch with one of your own.

https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/248/1856/90m/img.youtube.com/vi/TOdh96IbHpg/mqdefault.jpg
 

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The Last Story had a literal Mirror boss fight. It was an interesting fight, but an absolute clusterfuck in the second half. It started by outwitting a doppelganger on the opposite side of a mirror who would mimic your movements, occasionally launching an attack. After a while of this four doppelgangers jump out of the mirror and start mimicking random members of your party.
 

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KingsGambit said:
I quite like the boss fight in one of the dungeons in SWTOR, where the boss goes invincible while summoning a clone/cyborg of each of the group members in turn. It wasn't a particularly challenging fight, but was a lot of fun, socially and gameplay.
I remember that one. First time through I was the healer and was worried that my clone might start healing the boss, but really it just copies your base class and weapon and they die off pretty fast. Shame.

Also Hexen has you fighting a copy of each of the three classes armed with that class' ultimate weapon in the final stage, who are supposed to be the masters of each order in that world. True to form, the fighter copy has the weakest AI.