What boss battles do you think were either very epic, or extremely fun. For me it would have to be Dark Samus in Metroid Prime 2 and 3.
Epic Boss Battles
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I have fought a lot of bosses in my time. And Yami, from the capcom game Okami is definately the most epic boss I have ever fought. Throughout the game your assorted brush powers build up in strength and usefullness until you reach the point where you use them almost instictively and to great effect. Really they make you feel like a god as you effortlessly carve your way through legions of enemies that were challenging just two techniques previously.
Confident in my brush powers and overpowered Divine weapons I enter the final boss battle. Only to instantly be stripped of my powers, weapons and techniques. For the first section of the boss battle I am a normal Wolf!!!
Then throughout the battle you have to beat up on Yami until he gives up one of your brush powers. Then he transforms into some other configuaration and you have to use your newly reclaimed power to beat that stage and claim another. Each round you have to pry another power from the greedy bastard and then turn it back upon him. In the beginning Yami is like some unstoppable force that you can barely keep from being killed by. As the battle wears on the balance tips as you become stronger until it feels like you are the one in control.
The feeling of accomplishment when you finally get your final brush power back (Sunrise) and then burn him to a cinder with all the combined force of your Godhood is just amazing.
It's challenging, it's imaginative, it's Epic. Any boss that can force you to use the full gambit of your techniques in one battle (13 brush gods, subskills within each one.) has really crafted a masterful final boss.
Also you have to take into account how very impersonal Yami is. He doesn't mock you, or laugh evily, or tell you his evil plan. He just takes your power and proceeds to smack you around. He never speaks. He's just a big ball of evil. No steryotypes, no malice. Just evil. Pure, unadulterated Evil.
I have fought a lot of bosses in my time. And Yami, from the capcom game Okami is definately the most epic boss I have ever fought. Throughout the game your assorted brush powers build up in strength and usefullness until you reach the point where you use them almost instictively and to great effect. Really they make you feel like a god as you effortlessly carve your way through legions of enemies that were challenging just two techniques previously.
Confident in my brush powers and overpowered Divine weapons I enter the final boss battle. Only to instantly be stripped of my powers, weapons and techniques. For the first section of the boss battle I am a normal Wolf!!!
Then throughout the battle you have to beat up on Yami until he gives up one of your brush powers. Then he transforms into some other configuaration and you have to use your newly reclaimed power to beat that stage and claim another. Each round you have to pry another power from the greedy bastard and then turn it back upon him. In the beginning Yami is like some unstoppable force that you can barely keep from being killed by. As the battle wears on the balance tips as you become stronger until it feels like you are the one in control.
The feeling of accomplishment when you finally get your final brush power back (Sunrise) and then burn him to a cinder with all the combined force of your Godhood is just amazing.
It's challenging, it's imaginative, it's Epic. Any boss that can force you to use the full gambit of your techniques in one battle (13 brush gods, subskills within each one.) has really crafted a masterful final boss.
Also you have to take into account how very impersonal Yami is. He doesn't mock you, or laugh evily, or tell you his evil plan. He just takes your power and proceeds to smack you around. He never speaks. He's just a big ball of evil. No steryotypes, no malice. Just evil. Pure, unadulterated Evil.
Not really a boss battle
But i loved the ending to SOF
ayback
You go through all this fighting
All for a sodding briefcase,
Then some ***** walks up and steals it from you
But i loved the ending to SOF
aybackYou go through all this fighting
All for a sodding briefcase,
Then some ***** walks up and steals it from you
I had a transformers game aages ago on my PS2.
The mission started off with you getting into a motherfuckin' huge aircraft carrier to steal some secret data. When you get back to dry land the aircraft carrier sinks due to some sabotage jobby.
A few seconds later it stands up.
I really should've seen that coming in a game about Transformers , shouldn't I?
The mission started off with you getting into a motherfuckin' huge aircraft carrier to steal some secret data. When you get back to dry land the aircraft carrier sinks due to some sabotage jobby.
A few seconds later it stands up.
I really should've seen that coming in a game about Transformers , shouldn't I?
Fighting Heat for the second time in SHT: Digital Devil Saga 2 is pretty epic, if only because it's followed by a long cutscene explaining the backstory to the game, punctuated by another boss battle against Real Serph and Fake Serph.
Ares in God Of War 1 and Zeus in 2 are awesome fights. Much love also to the giant minotaur boss in 1.
I want to avoid final bosses, but the final battles of Skies Of Arcadia Legends are really something.
The lake monster in Resident Evil 4. And the old man with the beard and fake eye in the burning cabin.
The Aparoid Queen from Starfox Assault.
Probably my favourite from Shadow Of The Colossus is the fifth one, the giant bird. Clinging on to that bastard as it swoops round the gigantic arena is a rare privilege.
Older school: the inviso-powered flying saucer at the end of Area 6 in Lylat Wars. And the Macbeth boss, because of the way you can cut the fight out by redirecting it into the fuel depot. Magic.
Ares in God Of War 1 and Zeus in 2 are awesome fights. Much love also to the giant minotaur boss in 1.
I want to avoid final bosses, but the final battles of Skies Of Arcadia Legends are really something.
The lake monster in Resident Evil 4. And the old man with the beard and fake eye in the burning cabin.
The Aparoid Queen from Starfox Assault.
Probably my favourite from Shadow Of The Colossus is the fifth one, the giant bird. Clinging on to that bastard as it swoops round the gigantic arena is a rare privilege.
Older school: the inviso-powered flying saucer at the end of Area 6 in Lylat Wars. And the Macbeth boss, because of the way you can cut the fight out by redirecting it into the fuel depot. Magic.
I think we already have this thread, but the most epic boss battle in the world is the final duel against the boss in MGS3. That or getting the final boss in Fallout 2 to die by talking to him.
I'm sure I've had many more epic boss battles, but the only one I can think of is the epic boss battle against a giant turd monster in Conker's Bad Fur Day.
Oh, hey, thanks YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8YIGZ2FRK8
Oh, hey, thanks YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8YIGZ2FRK8
Well, with Dimentio, the music helps.
With the walkers, it's a boss that actually tests your driving skill(not getting stomped on, not getting blasted into oblivion), or just something you can blow apart bit by bit.
The Sareaper... Well, you've been waiting the whole game to kick Saren's ass, and the fact that the Reaper is manifested in his corpse means you get to kill a SECOND bastard at the same time.
With the walkers, it's a boss that actually tests your driving skill(not getting stomped on, not getting blasted into oblivion), or just something you can blow apart bit by bit.
The Sareaper... Well, you've been waiting the whole game to kick Saren's ass, and the fact that the Reaper is manifested in his corpse means you get to kill a SECOND bastard at the same time.
