Games where you can fight the main character.

[Auberon]

Torment, as I see no mention of previous incarnations up there. Final boss isn't exactly an incarnation, but close enough.

 

[Genocidicles]

You switch to a different character near the end of Hotline Miami, and you get to fight the main character.

It's quite funny too, because he dies just as easily as he does when you're playing as him.

 

[Hero of Lime]

Well at the end of Pokemon Gold/Silver/HeartGold/SoulSilver, you fight the protagonist from the Red and Blue games named Red. His Pokemon reflect the ones you automatically get/forced to battle in Red and Blue like Lapras, Snorlax, all three starters and a Pikachu.

I don't remember now but was there an obligatory Lapras encounter in the original game?

It's not obligatory, but you are given a Lapras by an NPC that is really hard to miss in Silph Co. right before fighting Giovanni.

Though if I recall, the Lapras is actually an Espeon in the original Gold and Silver, since you can easily get an Eevee in Red and Blue. I may be wrong since I haven't played the original gen 2 games.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Well at the end of Pokemon Gold/Silver/HeartGold/SoulSilver, you fight the protagonist from the Red and Blue games named Red. His Pokemon reflect the ones you automatically get/forced to battle in Red and Blue like Lapras, Snorlax, all three starters and a Pikachu.

I don't remember now but was there an obligatory Lapras encounter in the original game?

It's not obligatory, but you are given a Lapras by an NPC that is really hard to miss in Silph Co. right before fighting Giovanni.

Though if I recall, the Lapras is actually an Espeon in the original Gold and Silver, since you can easily get an Eevee in Red and Blue. I may be wrong since I haven't played the original gen 2 games.

Yep, he has an Espeon in Gold/Silver. I guess it's a way of balancing out the other elements.

http://www.serebii.net/gs/red.shtml

 

[Ziadaine_v1legacy]

Final Fantasy X-2 HD (PS3 Edition)


In the normal one, you're able to fight all of your allies but Yuna in a end-game cavern, and with the new "International Edition" being part of the HD release, you can also fight the main heroes from the first Final Fantasy X in an Arena.

 

[Epicspoon]

In prototype 2 you fight against the main character from prototype 1, Alex Mercer.

That's the main character of Prototype 1, not Prototype 2. He's not the main character of prototype 2 so that's not what I'm looking for.

 

[rasta111]

Guardian Heroes on the Sega Saturn has a mode that's like a multiplayer arena mode and once you've unlocked all the characters you could play as any grunt, hero or main character/boss from the story mode. So this means you could pick any character in the game and use all their abilities against any of the other characters in the game.

 

[Sarah Kerrigan]

Castlevania Lords of Shadow Mirrors of Fate for the 3DS. Gabriel/Dracul has always been the main character of the series, but is replaced by Simon and Trevor for those games, and you do fight him at the end.

You switch to a different character near the end of Hotline Miami, and you get to fight the main character.

It's quite funny too, because he dies just as easily as he does when you're playing as him.

Thanks for mentioning this.

 

[chocolatekeith]

There was a really great part in the Witcher 2 were you did exactly that. It's in Roche's path.
It was absolutely terrifying to fight Geralt whilst controlling a relatively weak character.

 

[StormDragonZ]

Is it acceptable to consider Mega Man in the Mega Man Powered Up game? If you pick any other robot master instead of Mega Man, he takes the spot in the boss select screen.

Speaking of Mega Man, you do fight a dark version of him in the Battle Network series, or a clone in Mega Man 1 & 3.

 

[JettMaverick]

 

[Norithics]

In Mega Man Maverick Hunter X's bonus Vile mode, you actually fight against both X and Zero. Very fun fight, a little on the hard side, too!

Is that a spoiler? It's like his stated goal at the very beginning, so it doesn't seem like it would be. Ah, well.

 

[scorptatious]

Closest I can think of would be Chrono Cross.

Spoiler

When Lynx switches bodies with you. You're in a very one sided fight against yourself and your party members.

Not sure if that counts since technically, you're still fighting Lynx. It's the closest I can think of though.

 

[gorfias]

Lord of the Rings The Third Age. I had it for Gamecube. Once beaten, I could play as the bad guys, fighting the good guys.

The game got mostly 7/10s and compared to, say, FFX, it was. But I had a blast playing the thing.

 

[Kopikatsu]

You fight two different playable characters at the same time in Yakuza 4 (Kiryu vs Tanimura and Akiyama). They're just as powerful as when you controlled them, which only serves to reinforce just how broken overpowered Kiryu is because it's one of the easiest fights in the game.

There's also a point earlier in the game where you fight Kiryu as Saejima (Which was hard enough that I thought that it was a hopeless boss fight during my first goaround).

Really, Kiryu is just a massive beast in general. A warmup boss for him is a heavily upgraded version of the hardest boss from Saejima's story.