10 Best Skill-Check Bosses In Gaming History

who doesn't love a good boss battle Final Bosses Resident Evil bosses Final Bosses in Resident Evil these represent just a fraction of the overpowered digital pugilist Gamers have had to overcome over the Decades of all boss types however none a more vital to developing a player skill set than the subject of our list today the skill check bosses meaning mandatory boss fights that exist to make sure you've been paying attention to the fundamental mechanics the game has been teaching you I'm Jess from what culture and here are the 10 best skill check buses in gaming history number 10 father gascoin bloodborne Father gascoin which is the boring way of saying it I want to go with gason or daddy guacamole contains one of the greatest bits of trolling in the history of boss fights during the first half of the fight when gason is in his daughtering old man form there's a group of gravestones in the arena that prove a handy barrier between you and the priest with a little maneuvering it's possible to position gascoin in a matter where your attacks can reach him but his can't touch you it's an undeniably cheap strategy but an effective one that is until you Whittle him down to half his health at which point he transforms into a werewolf shatters the gravestones with a single punch and proceeds to Massacre your health bar before you've had the time to pick your jaw up off the floor it's such a masterful sucker Bunch that you can almost hear director hotaka Miyazaki chuckling alongside you nice Triad of one but you'll actually need to learn how to fight to get past this one and so it goes with gasco's monstrous form proving n impossible to get past unless you proving you've got a good grasp of bloodborne's projectile base parrying or at least a good sense of timing for when to roll out of the way of his feral lunges father G gone is the point where it becomes clear that bloodborne ain't messing around and the only way to really proceed is to as the saying goes get good that the game goes about teaching this in such a delightfully Wicked manner is one of the many reasons miyazaki's Masterpiece is remembered so fondly number n the Mantis Lords Hollow Knight Hollow Knight's reputation for mist level difficulty is well earned but if you only played through the game's opening hours you'd be forgiven for wondering what the fuss is about like a dominate tricks easing a firsttime client into their role and yes that is the explanation from the writer of this article and no I will not be changing it Hollow Knight takes things gently at first with a handful of easily dispatched bosses the Mantis Lords however and yes we keep going with the metaphor that when Hol Knight slaps the player in the face puts on its totil letters and starts digging its heels into their chest goodness gracious Hollow Knight's combat is all about leaping dodging and finding the space and time to heal yourself and while previous bosses gave you enough time to undergo a full spa service during their fights the Mantis Lords are the first bosses whose Relentless attacks make finding the time to heal a challenge in and of itself this dilemma only gets worse throughout the game to the point where it becomes routine for a split second to decide the difference between successfully healing yourself or getting smeared across the floor but it's the Mantis Lords who offer the first real introduction to hollow Knight's sadistic Tendencies number eight master morai ninja Guiden black years before any game with a difficulty level somewhat substantial was referred to as the Dark Souls of insert genre here ninja Guiden black was the go-to comparison for any game that offered a stiff challenge unlike the previous entrance which at least brought you dinner before bringing out the whip ninja giden wastes no time in bringing the player to their knees after button mashing you way through a hord of disposable ninjas in the game's tutorial level the player comes across protagonist Ryu haas's imposing instructor Master marai being a teacher Master marai wastes no time in instructing the player of the skills needed to conquer ninja guidance blacks many many challenges simply hammering the attack button results in poru being nunchucked to death by his overzealous instructor forcing the player to adapt to the rhythms of ninja guidance combat if they want to pass this literal Do or Die exam number seven giganto Sonic Frontiers at this point you'd be forgiven for thinking skill check bosses only exist in the hardest of video games and while that's generally true there are some notable exceptions Sonic Frontiers may not be known for its high level of difficulty it's absurdly hard DLC aside but its first boss the Evangelion inspired giganto plays a crucial role in instru instructing the player on the importance of parrying simply waiting in to attack him results in the mechanical Kaiju repeatedly swatting Sonic away making it impossible to finish the fight before the time limit expires instead the player needs to watch out for gigantor's attacks and successfully Parry them if they want to continue piling on the pressure truthfully doing so is a simple task especially when compared to most of the other entrance in this article however the battle against giganto is arguably the most purely entertaining one in this particular top 10 watching Sonic Go full Super Saiyan on a colossal robot while undefeatable the best Sonic track since 2001's live and learn blasts in the background is the coolest the Blue Blur has been since he was introduced to stared kids back in the '90s and it's sure to bring about a grin to even the most jaded of Sonic fans number six Matador Shin Mami tensei 3 no 10 If the previous boss was all about making the player feel cool then this one is about reminding you of your ignorance seconds after the fight against Shin magami tensei 3's Matador begins you'll likely lead to the conclusion that you've wandered into an unwinable fight you know the kind where a massively overleveled boss obliterates your party you get saved by a dayx marer and hours later you have the rematch to get your win back well that doesn't happen here nador is just that good and now you have to be that much better before this fight you can totally get by in Shin Mami tensei 3 through doing nothing fancier than healing your party when their health gets too low Matador however is a roadblock that's impossible to pass unless you learn the ins and outs of how to buff your party specifically their evasion dead matador's attacks hit so hard that the only way to win is to ensure they don't hit you as such you need to buff your party's evasion while simultaneously lowering the sceletal s's accuracy to ensure he misses more than he hits Matador is a timely reminder to familiarize yourself with the intricacies of smt 3's combat and by the time he falls you'll be far better equipped to deal with the remainder of atlas's extraordinarily tough RPG number five blade wolf Metal Gear Rising Revengeance Metal Gear Rising is many things one of the best action games of the past 15 years a fountain of memes nanom machine sun and the answer to the question posed by the first Metal Gear Solid do you think love can bloom even on a battlefield turns out the answer to that question is an emphatic yes as long as the object of that love is a robotic dog with a chainsaw on its back blade wolf makes his debut as an early boss and despite his diminutive stature he offers a Stern test for the player he's the first boss with attacks that are simply too fast to dodge ensuring you need to master Metal Gear rising's best-in-class Parry system if you want to beat him and move on with the game given that later boss is a literally impossible to beat if you can't Parry their attacks you'll be glad the cybernetic K9 gave you a crash course before you had to face up against them even better once you beaten blade wolf he joins the good guys and becomes one of the game's best sources of humor frankly it's hard not to fall in love with a robot dog who responds to franchise chew toy Raiden's pitiful jokes with I understand your attempts at humor I just don't find them entertaining Speak Your Truth blade wolf Speak Your Truth number four benedicta Harmon Final Fantasy 16 alongside Sonic Frontiers Final Fantasy 16 holds the distinction of being one of the easiest games on this list anyone who's played an action game in The Last 5 Years should find Final Fantasy 16's relatively simplistic combat a dotal to master but that doesn't mean the game isn't capable of entertaining even the most battle hardened gaming veteran case in point one benedicta Harmon benedicta isn't the first boss in Final Fantasy 16's gigantic menagerie of foes but she is the first to offer a real test of the play's capabilities in order to survive Mrs Harmon's wind-based assault you need to be at least p in ly Adept at each aspect of the game's basic combat special attacks dodging and QuickTime events some of you may be rolling your eyes At The Mention Of that last part but those qtees are actually why this boss battle makes the list Final Fantasy 16's bosses are the Undisputed highlight of the game and benedicta is an early preview of the Delights ahead there are several fist pumping the entertaining moments spread throughout the fight including one of the best utterances of the FW in the history of video games and they're almost all kicked off by QuickTime events qtees May Be divisive but when they lead to this much adrenaline infused Joy it's hard to argue against them number three Jean Bayonetta arguably the best pure action game on this list 2010's Bayonetta still stands as the high water mark for spectacle Fighters slash character action games SL games that let you kick ass and look good doing it Bayonetta earned a lot of fans by virtue of its Exquisite boss battles and witch time mechanic whereby time slows down upon successful dodging an enemy attack launching a counter into a decelerated foe is a viciously satisfying sensation and it's Jean who acts as bayet as primary instructor in the ways of this particular pleasure without making judicious use of witch time during your first face off against Jean you'll find most of your attacks whiffing like fake punches from a bad wrestler Jean is simply too fast to land a good hit on at normal speeds and the first time you face her marks the point where Bayonetta signature time slowing mechanic transforms from a bonus into a necessity to top it all off jean herself also proves to be one of the best characters in the game effortlessly able to match Bayonetta blow for blow and quip for quip Jean is a worthy rival to one of Gaming's most charismatic protagonists number two belus armored Core 6 skill check Specialists from software Inc further proved themselves as the Undisputed masters of their craft with armad cor 6's balus the end results of a Mech designer taking the frasia cran approach to deciding exactly how many missiles a robot should be able to fire at once if less is more just think of how much more more will be unless you've mastered your own custombuilt Mech fighting style each round against balas will end with you disintegrating in a rain of Rocket fueled lead fortunately armored Core six's combat is open-ended enough that you can avoid bolas's ballistic discharge in a variety of ways from dancing through the onslaught in a zippy lightweight Mech to absorbing the punishment with a well-timed burst of a force field in a mobile Fortress and any number of strategies in between of course doing any of the above is easier said than done but the feeling of accomplishment derived from balteus meeting his end makes it well worth the effort and the fact that from software deliver this feeling again and again throughout AC 6's campaign shows why this scene is Gaming's Premier provider of quality boss battles which brings us to the final entry on this list number one onstein and Smo Dark Souls it had to be them didn't it dark souls diabolic duo with a stuff of Legend the most infamously hard boss fight in an infamously hard game onstein or onstein depends on how you'd like to say it the internet disagrees and Smo now I think that one SM Fully live up to their controller wrecking reputation as the fight against them puts every skill Dark Souls has taught you to the test focusing all your damage on one enemy before attacking the other check using the environment to avoid enemy attacks check making sure to keep every enemy on screen at all times check dying again and again and again before headbutting the TV screen and frustration and using the shards to carve a blood sigil onto your chest to summon a demon that will hopefully curse the developers unto a thousand Generations okay maybe not that last one although it's tempting onstein and SM are a work of uncommon magic excruciatingly hard each failed attempt against them nevertheless feels like a stepping stone on the journey to mastering your chosen play style in Dark Souls no other du boss fight comes close to the armor clad pairing even fromsoft themselves failed to recreate the magic with Elden Rings irritating godkin Duo and no other boss in gaming does a better job preparing you for the battles ahead

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