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Ninetails - The drawing screen has been a completely safe place for the whole game, so meeting an enemy who can match you there is a frightening experience.
Gargantua - I dunno why this guy doesn't get more love among HL fans. Not exactly a boss, I guess, since there's something like two or three of him in the game. But I'm specifically thinking of the one who chases you through the tunnels and then you blow him up with a nuclear strike. Pure awesome.
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Firstly some of my favorite boss battles of all time are likely going to be from my favorite game of all time, can you guess what that is? :P
Naval Piranha
This bad boy was the end boss of world 3 (I believe I'm correct, how do I doubt myself? I don't think he was the end boss of the jungle level, that was Froggy... but World 3 I believe he was as it was the cavern filled world.) If I'm wrong, I will donate ten kittens to the next poster.
Well for me, the reason I loved this boss so much was for a few reasons.
1. Piranha plants in the game already are just deadly! This towering behemoth is just scary! At least when I was young! He was so intimidating, how could he not be cool looking?
2. Some of the best animation detail in the game. Seriously YI had some of the best looking sprites on the SNES bar none, and this guy moved in just such a fluid and deadly pattern, I just couldn't help but be awed by it. :)
3. Just a lot of fun to battle. :D
Up next we have
Tap Tap the Red Nose
Why was this boss so awesome? Well this was one boss who didn't die out in three hits. He was one of the most challenging bosses in the game, and he was a MID BOSS. Mid boss of world 6 this guy here was all business.
His devilish grin as he hopped about, the blank stare across his face when you smack him with an egg and seeing him flip back when you hit him. This guy was also HUGE in the small room you had to fight him in. The only way to defeat this armored beast was to break the ground beneath you and send him into the pit of lava below.
Of course, you are trying to not get in the lava yourself, but he bounces around the place and there are many rooms for error if you aren't careful and want that perfect score too. One great mid boss who could have been the end world boss, but regardless still lots of fun. :D
Baby Bowser
Of course, how could I forget him? A wonderful end boss to the game, even though you've fought Bowser many times before in every Mario game, this battle is still a shining moment.
It's a two round fare (aren't almost all end bosses this way?)and the first round he's just a little tyke. Hopping around, trying to knock Baby Mario off your saddle, then afterwards a Magikoopa may swoop in to try and keep the baby away from you. To take this tyke down, you need to ground pound and create a shockwave that damages the little guy. Miyamoto sure did bring lots of fancy special FXes into this game and pushed the hardware of the SNES more than any other game in many ways. Just seeing some of the "Morphmation" effects in the game like the shockwave to your pound attacks was neat.
Lastly the second round of any boss should be tougher, right? Well this round sure was. You are standing on one plane, you battle your foe who's in the background, a neat effect that for it's time was unmatched really... it created this grand scale of things and the battle just became harder and harder with each hit he took.
Baby Bowser is HUGE. Kamek's spell increases his size, and your dinky little eggs won't do jack to him. So what do you need? BIGGER EGGS! :D Battling this guy certainly changes a few things you are normally used to...
your Aiming has to include lobbing instead of the straight away aim like your smaller eggs. You have to deal with smaller tiny platforms to hop across all while dodging rocks and fireballs from this overgrown lizard. Not to mention each time you strike the guy he dashes up to you and if he reaches you, it's Game Over. Every time during the battle he takes a few small strides towards you, but with an egg splat in the face, he rushes to you and hopes to end your game quicker, making every egg strike after that much more important.
In no order of preference;
In no order of preference;
The Hive Mecha?Kind of an odd choice.Any reason why?
Grey Fox (MGS1/Twin Snakes)
Who didn't want to fight him after this cutscene and many others.
Emperor Blublax (Pikmin)
Quite the epic battle and alot of strategy behind it.
Bone Dragon (Guild Wars)
Awesome fun.
Masked Mechanical Monster Goht: Best boss in Majora's Mask, although Majora was funnier.
Bowser: Final fight in Paper Mario -- everything about it was awesome.
Phase One -- The Terror of Death, Skeith: His entrance in .hack//SIGN was chilling and he had a great battle theme.
Ansem: Although he rambled on about "Darkness!!11111" all of his battles were great.
The Milkman Conspiracy was a fun boss fight.
The Milkman Conspiracy was a fun boss fight.
blizzvalve
That reminds of a very bad show on newgrounds.com.
The Aigaion fight in Ace Combat 6. The whole thing was epic from start to finish, going in, an elite group of fighter pilots against the best the enemy has to offer, batting the Estovakian air fortress Aigaion for air superiority, dogfighting with the Strigon team, picking apart the four escort craft before finally going in and destroying the flying menace itself... it's fantastic.
AHHHH! Can't believe I forgot about that! I remember flying through the clouds in my SU-33, waiting to see any sign of the flying beheamoth...and then, there it was. All those giganticairships frantically manuevering all over the place, tracer fire filling the air,40+ jets roaring about...I had goosebumps.
Picking one favorite is too hard, but Doku from Ninja Gaiden Sigma was definitely one of the most rewarding when I finally won.
It's the first encounter w/ him where you're supposed to lose--he basically kills you on the first or second hit. Even if you win, the following cutscene shows him cutting Ryu down.
It took me....50 tries? I dunno, lost count. But Ninja Gaiden is one of those games where even if you fail repeatedly, it doesn't get incredibly frustrating b/c you always feel like there's room for improvement. That's a testament to the brilliant design of Tomonobu Itagaki and his apprentice.
It's even better when you have the Top Gun soundtrack blasting. :D
[QUOTE="Hoffgod"]It's even better when you have the Top Gun soundtrack blasting. :D
Oddly enough, Through the Fire and Flames goes very well with this particular battle. >_>
[QUOTE="Hoffgod"]It's even better when you have the Top Gun soundtrack blasting. :D
Ooh. Now that I have to try. ... how did we ever live without custom soundtracks?Oddly enough, Through the Fire and Flames goes very well with this particular battle. >_>
Verge_6
This battle was pure fun.
It's not that I don't enjoy fights, it's that the best fights for me seem to be the ones where you get to kill the person you hate most after what they've done.
Crime: Being in an invincible mech while mocking me. X3 beating him was even sweeter when his stupid mech wasn't invincible anymore!
Crime: Being annoying as hell, kidnapping Ashley, and making me have to face Vertigo.
Crime: Tricking me with the illusion that he was a comic relief character, then he betrayed me.
Yep.
I never played this game long enough to get this far, but how can anything top this boss battle?
I never played this game long enough to get this far, but how can anything top this boss battle?
Cook66
Hitler in a mech-suit?
Speaking of Ace Combat...I think the ending to Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War was just epic. Partly due to the one-on-one chicken match you had with your former friend, mostly due to the unspeakably epic track that played during it. Around the 3:00 mark, when the choir starts, your jaw will hit the floor. Seriously, this song could make ANYTHING awe-inspiring. Hell, it could make taking a dump on the toilet seem like the most incredible thing since the lightbulb. Don't believe me? Listen for yourself; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Huu3PTHBnwQ&NR=1
In fact, I'm gonna put this as the background song to the Chandelier mission in AC6 and play it right now.
Very creepy and he is a real jerk...
Probably the best FF villian out there...
Otherwise, my other good ones have been said by Majora :p
Hm. Never really considered him as a boss. But in that regard, I'd consider Godot a much better boss than von Karma.
Very creepy and he is a real jerk...
BlazeDragon132
[QUOTE="BlazeDragon132"]Hm. Never really considered him as a boss. But in that regard, I'd consider Godot a much better boss than von Karma.I kind of thought of him as a "boss" but he isn't the kind of boss where he has a health bar and stuff before he "dies." Yet he's a big baddy in your way trying to convict Edgeworth of Murder! :o
Very creepy and he is a real jerk...
Hoffgod
I still think of "boss" terms.
Manfred>>Godot>>Franziska. Fransizka couldn't live up to her father's image. She was very smart and agressive, but never like her father. Manfred just had the image, he was intimidatings, cunning, always one step ahead of you, and he was able to remain collected and have the glare that could turn you into stone.
[QUOTE="Hoffgod"][QUOTE="BlazeDragon132"]Hm. Never really considered him as a boss. But in that regard, I'd consider Godot a much better boss than von Karma.I kind of thought of him as a "boss" but he isn't the kind of boss where he has a health bar and stuff before he "dies." Yet he's a big baddy in your way trying to convict Edgeworth of Murder! :o
Very creepy and he is a real jerk...
yoshi_64
I still think of "boss" terms.
Manfred>>Godot>>Franziska. Fransizka couldn't live up to her father's image. She was very smart and agressive, but never like her father. Manfred just had the image, he was intimidatings, cunning, always one step ahead of you, and he was able to remain collected and have the glare that could turn you into stone.
I never thought Franziska was a boss...because she had nothing to cover. The real boss in PW2 would have been [spoiler] Matt Engarde [/spoiler] because he plays the role so well. [spoiler] Damon Gant [/spoiler] would have been a good one in PW also. Godot...yeah, you could consider him, but really it was [spoiler] Dilaliah [/spoiler] because she made a man kill himself over her.
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