Top Ten Least Favorite Boss Battles

I've got many hats but honestly this one's all I need in case it hasn't hit you yet I love boss battles when the pieces are set right they're exciting they test your skills and they're just fun so when a boss comes along that rubs me the wrong way I take notice just like commentators notice when I screw up so these are the buses that pissed me off the most some buses may look bad or have bad atmosphere but for me gameplay is the biggest factor that makes or breaks a boss fight basically if I didn't have fun with it it's gonna find itself in the crosshairs also I'll be spoiling a few games so I'll make a note of a recent game is being spoiled take notes video game developers who may or may not be watching this these bosses are examples of doing it wrong it's game time custom Robo an overlooked series featuring fast paced action and plenty of options for combat heck if Nintendo in the general gaming public gave a [ __ ] it could probably make for some good eSports at least then we wouldn't have to deal with crap like the final battle with Rahu we're out the game you have a few encounters with this mysterious menace and each time it just gets worse and worse first off let's talk about illegal parts in story they're forbidden because they put exorbitant strain on the commander in game they're illegal because they're far more powerful than your standard part all three times you fight Rahu he's on to the teeth with some of the most powerful illegal parts in the game that alone puts you in a disadvantage but it gets worse in the final battle you're paired up with Marcia and Harry and as expected for partner AI in this game they suck rahu himself is ridiculously powerful durable and agile all at once so fighting against him one on one is much harder than your standard opponent especially when you consider that he recovers immediately after being knocked down complete with the invincibility frames that come with it I'd rather face a human opponent than this guy at least then I know that I'm being straight-up outplayed there's challenging and then there's just outright cheap keep that in mind we'll be seeing more of that with the series like Monster Hunter that prides itself on its giant beasts you probably imagine that there's at least one monster that's a pain to fight I can think of a few right off the bat but the most irritating I faced is the tease ooh now this thing was introduced in the original game but this is going off of my experience Monster Hunter 4 ultimate and whenever I entered the frozen sea way this is the monster I always dreaded facing why for one thing its movements are highly erratic mainly when an extent that mr. fantastic negev is also it can climb on the walls and ceilings now when it's on the walls it can be knocked down with your knife not so much on the ceiling being a melee specialists whenever climbs up there my teeth clenched almost subconsciously but then the Beast busts out the Thunder it's bad enough the Lightning field in the midst can start up when you're delivering an attack and can't dodge but sometimes it does a second one right after the first one finishes this is especially aggravating when you're trying to mount it because you're not invincible when you're in the air also it and a couple charging attacks cause thunder blight which increases the chances of you getting stunned and then there's the lightning balls of cubes which can paralyze you combine that with the affirmation thunder blight and you could end up getting stun lock to death I don't care how jacked you are no amount of flexing can make this beast bearable the Sonic series tends to have the bad bus bull's-eye on its back whether it's the time eater silver ablis take your pick as for me the worst sonic boss I faced is the first sonic boss I faced yeah great impression am i right the boss of underground zone the first zone in The Game Gear version of Sonic 2 should not have been the boss to open the game with or at the very least should have been better designed the idea is that this antlion is waiting at the bottom of the hill while cannon balls bounce down at random speeds you can't damage the thing the cannonballs can the issue is that it's hugely hard to see the cannonballs coming before it's too late making matters worse is the fact that there are no rings the act three stages in this game meaning one mistake and you're short one Hedgehog that includes making the mistake of hitting down on the d-pad perhaps the biggest issue in this fight is the game gear screen itself the Master System version of this fight has a larger visible area you need can see the cannonballs more easily however with the lower resolution of the game gear you can't see as much of the screen and as a result it's hard to see where the next cannonball will come from gotta love that game gear screen crunch am i right in a series like No More Heroes that lives and dies by its boss battles the stinkers really smell and trust me there are plenty of those now I dragged on Jasper bad junior before including his horrific boss fight and yeah it sucks but I can't call the worst boss in the same game where you destroy man exists whether you love or hate to strive men to begin with you can't deny this boss is crap the first problem is that it's two against one I guess not only did being split down the middle by Travis in the first game not quite take but apparently he also identifies as a cyborg amoeba that can reproduce asexually now with the way that the destroying men coordinate their attacks one of them will be assaulting you with melee and AoE attacks while the other one takes potshots at you from across the frickin map not only that but they have you guessed it a combined attack that can do a ton of damage worse yet when the melee user goes down the flying sniper will come to the rescue on the one hand that's a big opportunity to attack but that's little help on the remaining destroy man can revive his partner making you repeat the process all over again and if you interrupt him he'll just fly away take another pot shot at you and swoop in and try again and again and again talk about a contrast to the first game and that fight he was a joke and the icing on the cap I you're playing as Shinobu it's bad enough that her platforming is janky as hell and he taunts at the end of every combo but because suda51 is such a mad genius he gave her two of the most annoying bosses in the game the things you go through to get senpai to notice you oh look a bus from Skyward Sword is on the list go on take a guess who it is well to be fair I'm not just gonna slap you imprisoned on here and just call it a day instead I'm singling out the second fight with this thing my thoughts on this fight can be summed up with one question why did it take until breath of the wild for a 3d Zelda game to have a goddamn jump button not only does the imprisoned have more toes to cut off during the second fight but the shock waves that it emits with every step make it a pain just to cut them granted it could use the shock waves in the first fight but in that fight they only came with an intentional attack making things worse is the addition of those arms of his not only did they get in the way of you getting around to the ceiling spike when you knock him over but there's the slight insignificant matter of he can climb up the walls not even the addition of the Crusader can help this fight especially when it throws in more of Skyward Sword infamous forced tutorials when the controls for the damn thing are pretty much self-explanatory and easy to figure out okay I sealed him up again how long until he breaks out again [ __ ] my life if there's one thing that Kingdom Hearts usually does really well its boss fights final bosses in particular are some of the best in videogame history and sums outlandish design and fun challenge and send us his battle which tests everything you've learned in the game stand out in particular the point I'm trying to make is god damn was young Zen or to pain in the ass the typical flow of a boss fight is to exploit any opening that you can get the problem is that young Zen or it hardly gives you an opening to begin with he's constantly attacking you with lightning-fast combos that are difficult to dodge and can take you from full health to kill in a matter of seconds also if you manage to wear down his health he retreats to this weird clock and you have to perform a reality shift on it and even that's not the end of it now you'll have to destroy the clock for good which is still easier said than done when you consider that his clothes will be coming at you from every direction and will likely prevent you from getting close if not kill you outright and if you take too long with the clock in either case he will rewind the battle gaining back a third of his health and making you go through the same painful process all over again it's bad enough that the fight as annoying as hell normally when it can possibly last forever that crosses the line at least the actual final boss arm Ventus nightmare is better somewhat four hours four [ __ ] hours on a single boss not how I'd want to spend an afternoon but if you want to do a 100% run a final fantasy 12 you'd better clear a good chunk of time in your schedule to take on Yi's Matt y Amaya one of a good number of people who ate this boss well let's start with that abnormal self bar in the corner each of those little segments represents over 1 million HP and there's 50 of them that's right this boss has over 50 million HP and considering that the most damage you can do in a single hit is 9999 which is lowered to 6999 halfway through the fight I'll spare you the calculations and just say that it takes over 6,000 hits to kill it you think that's bad throw in the fact the fight takes place in an arena that's littered with perhaps that can inflict nasty sadist ailments on your party it also doesn't help that use mad can also inflict insta-death on your party members and you can increase its power and buff itself as the fight drags on and at top it all off it casts reflect cut in the final stages of the fight and it's not simply offensive spells they get reflected oh no it can also reflect healing spells and if renew gets reflected off the party it will heal yeast mat to full health effectively rendering all your hard work completely wasted the only saving grace of this fight is that there's a safe point just outside of the arena so that you can save heal bully restock and jump right back in with little to no progress lost if that weren't there I have to waste an entire day just to defeat one boss I've got things to do with my life Game one of the most interesting additions that Arcana heart 3 love max added over vanilla was trial mode in this mode you are put through a series of increasingly difficult challenges ultimately leading to a fight with yes if Paras weren't already bad enough I hate how she can combo you for tons of damage seemingly without effort I hate how her gauges refill at such ridiculous rates compared to everyone else I hate how she teleports constantly giving you hardly any chances to actually hit her and since I'm using the old trouble repetition reinforce a point I hate hate eight eight eight eight eight eight eight four ability to regenerate her help at a whim remember how in vanilla she started losing health after the third loss welp no such luck here the game is through taking pity on you you were good enough to make it this far now you're on your own thanks a lot game ready to combo her you'd better throw out a super quick or shall burst you in you're back to square one she hits you with berserk you better pray to pallet Anna you can knock her out before it wears off or all the damage that got negated will be Delta you all at once trying to wait out our constant supers you'd better be ready to pounce on her if the last one whiffs or shall gain it all back within seconds ready to ravage you again relying on your akin attacks you'll have to wait out her extend force which renders all Arcana attacks useless the Paracel sia every single mistake is an invitation of pain and suffering in fact nobody I know has a definitive strategy for beating her besides pure luck fighting game buses are keep by nature but Paris will only go down when the computer decides to let you win lift is about as likely as me winning Evo nearly 700 attempts later yes I've kept count and I still haven't beaten her in love Max and it only took me 23 in vanilla this is the only boss on this entire list that I still haven't beaten properly someday Paris someday oh look another countdown maker ragging on disciple or Athiya from Xenoblade Chronicles when I first bought Laura Thea I hated this fight because I died once or twice for seemingly [ __ ] raisins knowing what I know now I still hate this fight because the pieces were set for a fantastic and thrilling fight famiglia but the execution was downright abysmal the first problem with this fight is the fact that when the fight starts Larissa has 100% physical resistance meaning that only ether attacks will harm her unless you kill up 2/3 of the Nova sea spawns which also are weak to eater while Riki and number 7 have a few ether arts the best ether user by far Melia is also the squishiest unless you gem her up properly and the way her magic works is admittedly rather awkward now Shipton gameplay style aren't necessarily bad in fact if done well they can make for some amazing boss fights but the way it was handled here just doesn't work well now if that were the only problem with this fight at afoot Jade face on the list instead but we are just getting started first off those Nova's they can cause status effects and lawyer' defense' and if all of them die laura theologist summon a fresh set laura thea herself is huge compared to the arena hits like a tank and can cause effects like art seal which Familia is a curse confusion which is always obtained and possibly the worst in this case topple I see in this case because the relatively small arena is surrounded by hazardous ether if you fall in he'll lose quite a bit of health getting out and if your teammates fall in they're likely to die since a they emphasize fighting over not dying and be calling them to you doesn't always work preparing for this fight requires either extensive research or trial and error either way it's just not a well-designed fight at least in the end we get some heartwarming closure famiglia if not a bit tear-jerking por Melia all right before we get to number one here are some dishonorable mentions Bowser from New Super Mario Brothers - boring and uninspired boss fight is boring and uninspired the Queen Metroid from Metroid other read I want to fight the boss nutter constant minions Nick Taylor from assorted great game but this boss is downright noxious hi rivet from Kirby triple deluxe stop hiding in the background you lousy frog and mikake from the King of Fighters eleven if I wanted blood help I'd play some touhou gate from Mega Man X X was an interesting villain with a lot of potential he designed the nightmare investigators created the nightmare virus from zeroes DNA and basically set a plot in motion to get revenge in a world that didn't appreciate his work he's basically the closest that the x-series got to dr. wily naturally this is the kind of villain from whom you'd expect an epic and satisfying battle and considering we've reached the number one segment you can probably figure out that what I got instead was utter hell there's no excuse there's no excuse I can't think of a single reason that a fight with such a promising villain should be disatrous I can think of several reasons why it's atrocious in fact the fight with gait is a step by step example of how to screw over a good villain step 1 make the arena annoying start with a bottomless pit and several small platforms the smaller the better step 2 give the boss attacks that mess with you in the worst ways possible how about those orbs he fires they'll do nicely they do stuff like fire smaller shots slowly homed in on you draw you towards them release those nightmare things and even slow you down and sometimes he releases three or four of them at a time step three make the boss impervious to all your weapons Gate will just float all over the place and your weapons will just do [ __ ] all to him so how are you supposed to damage him well refer back to step two those orbs release clouds of energy when destroyed and they're the only way to damage him problem is they can damage you too so unless you position yourself just right you'll be putting yourself in harm's way just to damage this guy step 4 have the boss be inconsistent into how often you have a chance to actually damage him Gate will only release orbs after floating towards your location but he won't do it every time this essentially turns to fight into a test of patience and frustration step 5 give them an attack that limits your options even further like destroying your platforms once he hits at health and you'll want to stay away from those platforms when they regenerate or risk an instant kill follow all these simple steps and you too can piss me off I want to add insult to injury he is not even the final boss no sooner do you defeat him then law Sigma out of nowhere and after going through gates heliborne gauntlet of a lab and enduring his annoying tedious and infuriating boss fight Sigma is pathetically easy personally hurts me the most is the nagging fear that gate will ultimately be remembered for this shitty-ass boss fight instead of his potential as a villain that's just sad I'm the quarter guy and while I will admit I enjoy x6 to a point I won't deny that there are a lot of problems with it the Bosch localization the crappy level design the poorly implemented nightmare system stuff like this is the reason why I can only consider x6 to be a guilty pleasure instead of you know good so the King of Fighters 14 is out and SNK wants to prove that they're relevant again ok guys you want me to be honest let's hope you haven't forgotten what made you relevant in the first place need a reminder let me give you one you can thank me later just make sure you can still deliver the goods next time top 10 Neo Geo games it's game time and here we are again at ye old fashioned end card doohickey hope you all enjoyed the video feel free to leave your feedback in the comments as always if you want to see more there's the annotations to check out my other countdowns and my 25 cents worth my weekly unscripted series I'm also active on social media and I do stream on Twitch from time to time also there's a link to my patreon if you want to get in on some cool stuff and support my channel at the same time thanks again and until next time this is the quarter guy signing out you

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Length: 19min 20sec (1160 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 23 2016