Games where you can fight the main character.

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I'm looking for some games where you can fight the main character but there are a few rules I want to establish about what exactly that means. So as an example a game like Street Fighter would not count as while Ryu is arguably the main character it's a fighting game and you are expected to be able to fight and play as every character. Games such as sonic adventure 2 do not count either because while you do fight Sonic you can only do so while playing the dark story, Sonic is not the main character of the dark story. Also nothing where you fight a clone or evil twin or dark side or whatever, Those characters are separate characters from the main character. What I'm looking for are things like this.

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In the Binding of Isaac one of the possible final bosses is Isaac. In Megaman Battle Network 5 and 6 you fight Megaman while controlling a different navi after he gets brainwashed or just goes crazy. In the PS3 version of Tales of Vesperia it is possible to fight Yuri in one of the coliseum matches provided he is not in your party at the time. In Disgaea 3 one of the Bad endings has Mao trying to kill Almaz with Mao being the final boss for that ending.

I was bringing this up on TvTropes but it got me wondering if there were more situations like these ones. It's a pretty weird thing to happen in a game when one minute you're helping a games hero on his quest and then you're suddenly thrown in somebody elses shoes and told to kick his ass so I just wanted to know if there were more things like this. If there are then I want to go play those games. Granted I know that seeing these things coming defeats the purpose but I like weird little twists like this.

Edit: I'm looking for the main character of the game you are currently playing being a boss. Not a playable but non main character or a main character from a previous game. So for example Tim is the main character of death game 7. Bob was the main character of Death Game 1. Tim fights bob in Death Game 7. This does not count as Tim is the main character of that game, not Bob (not even if bob is briefly playable before that) BUT if you suddenly are given control of Bob from Death Game 1 during the course of Death Game 7 and told to beat down Tim then that is what I'm looking for.

 

[Elfgore]

In Asura's Wrath you play as another god and have to fight Asura in his wrath mode. Asura is technically the primary protagonist, while the god you fight him as is more of deuteragonist. The fight is pretty epic as well.

 

[newfoundsky]

This is more common in game Series than really individual games, I think.

In inFamous, you technically fight the main character.

The Kingdom Hearts series has you fight basically every playable character, and the main character of plenty of other games...

Um... In Alan WAke you are basically fighting the story line...

Come to think of it, I think what you are looking for is rather rare.

 

[OneCatch]

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In X-COM The Bureau you end up fighting

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the player character once it's revealed that you, the player, are actually an Ethereal who's been (benevolently) controlling him

Spec Ops: The Line could be regarded as this

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given that Konrad is revealed to be a manifestation of Walker's insanity, and has been dead all along

In KOTOR II you end up fighting a force ghost of the protagonist of KOTOR I, does that count?

Also, DarkLink.

Don't you end up fighting a player character in one of the CODs? Can't remember.

 

[Gronk]

While not fighting per se, in Fahrenheit (Indigo prophecy) you play as both the cops and the suspect of a murder. While you play most of the game separated from eachother, there are instances where you meet up. In one scene you interrogate the suspect as the cops, causing a wierd situation of split loyalties for the player.

 

[mrvenom]

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

 

[WhiteFangofWhoa]

Also, DarkLink.

He said no evil clones/doppelgangers/mental images. Otherwise we'd be here all day.

The first Starcraft and Warcraft 3 do this all the time due to the nature of a shifting campaign. It's particularly noticeable in Brood War, where in Episode V as a UED captain you help the forces of Earth take to control of the Koprulu Sector, destroying everyone that gets in your way and eventually enslaving the Zerg Overmind... and then in Episode VI you undo all of that and then some as the Cerebrate coordinating Kerrigan's rogue Zerg broods.

 

[Zipa]

In Diablo III you have to fight a doppelganger of your character as part of the final boss fight if that counts.

 

[Maximum Bert]

Isnt Bayonetta the ultimate boss in well Bayonetta once you make it through that impossibly hard labyrinth(note: I havent seen this as although I breezed through non stop climax difficulty the game gets to hard for me to even reach where Bayonetta is supposed to wait for you).

In legacy of Kain defiance you get to fight Kain and Raziel which is pretty awesome also in FFIV there is a fight where you face your old self.

 

[Easton Dark]

In Yakuza 4 you fight Kiryu. He has all of his moves from the previous games as well. As tough as expected.

 

[tangoprime]

In Oblivion, Shivering Isles expansion IIRC, you fight a dark version of yourself, with the same equipment/stats/abilities.

In Mass Effect 3's Citadel DLC, you can unlock the ability to fight in an arena against multiple waves of different versions of yourself (yourself, but different character classes). Also, there's this, but you specifically mentioned that this isn't quite what you're after:

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Also, the entire story of this DLC revolves around fighting a clone of yourself, which was a hell of a lot of fun

That's all I can think of at the moment, although they don't quite match what you're trying to find.

 

[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.

It's been a long time, but I remember in Sonic Adventure 2: Battle you can fight all the good guys by playing through the bad guy campaigns.

 

[rasta111]

In Devil May Cry 4 although technically Nero is the main character...

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You do fight Dante as well as being able to play as him although as Dante I don't think you ever fight Nero unless you count the final battle against the Saviour which is being powered by Nero's body.

I'm sure there's more but I can't think of any right now.

 

[BloodFlower]

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The main character Kalas changes side half through the game and becomes a boss.

 

[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?

 

[TheDrunkNinja]

You have to appreciate that what you're asking here is extremely rare. In almost all games where you fight a protagonist, it is when you are playing a different entry in the series with a different protagonist or a doppelganger. Hell, even if it is in the same game, it still doesn't fit your criteria. Example: Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow. It's a pretty common occurrence in the Castlevania series to fight the protagonist of a previous entry. Alucard fights Richter Belmont, Hector fights Trevor Belmont. Even in the new 3DS game Mirror of Fate, since Dracula was revealed to be the protagonist of the previous Lords of Shadow game.

In Dawn of Sorrow's case, you play as Soma who is a possible reincarnation of Dracula fighting against his darker side throughout the game. He is assisted by the only surviving member of the Belmont clan, Julius. In the bad ending, Soma becomes Dracula reincarnated, thus unlocking the secondary game mode common in most Castlevania games where you play the game again with an alternate character. However, for Dawn of Sorrow, they gave it a real storyline where Julius is fighting to kill Soma as a part of a promise he made to him if Soma were to fall and become the Prince of the Night. So you would think that would count, but with your criteria, it doesn't. In your example of Sonic Adventure 2, you said it didn't count because you only fought Sonic in an alternate storyline where he was technically no longer the main character. So while Soma is the protagonist of the game, he isn't anymore in the Julius Mode storyline, Julius is. Soma stops being the protagonist when he fails his mission and ends his story, thus starting Julius' new story.

Honestly, for Sonic Adventure 2, I would count it since the Light and Dark storylines come together at the end as one storyline. They start from two different perspectives, but eventually merge by the end. Sonic and Shadow are both the protagonists of Sonic Adventure 2, because by the end of it, they complete the story together. Dark and Light aren't two separate storylines, they're two branches of the same story.

 

[ThatDarnCoyote]

Arguably Spec Ops: The Line might count, although it is sort of indirect.

 

[krazykidd]

Eternal sonata. You have to fight against chopin as the final boss. He is the main character. Man i need to replay that game.