You’re almost there, hero.
You’ve plowed your way through countless hours of gameplay. You have found every weapon. You’ve done every nasty little fetch mission. You had to restart the game when your little sister saved your game file. You even survived the tedious tutorial level.
Victory is within reach. All you have to do is defeat one last enemy.
But this one is definitely a doozy.
Maybe you know who they were since the jump. Maybe it’s a new enemy that you didn’t know was pulling the strings all the time. Maybe they have always been your enemy. Maybe they were your friend once. Maybe they betrayed you. Maybe they killed one of yours themselves. Maybe they want power. world domination. Maybe they are just on the wrong side of history. Maybe they just want to watch the world burn. Maybe it’s three cats in a trench coat.
Whoever they are, they’re the boss and they don’t go down easily.
So just to get you pumped up for this final fight (or maybe just traumatize you again) I’m coming up with a list of some of the best bosses in gaming to show you that even the mightiest foes can be defeated. Make sure to save your game before going in to fight them. Because you might die. A lot.
The boss
This is by far the most emotional boss fight on this list. Your fight with The Boss at the end of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater going to yield a lot of feelings. She was your former mentor. She taught you everything you know. If anything, she’s more like your surrogate. She betrayed you in the beginning of the game for reasons you don’t understand, and now you have to fight her and kill her. She meets you in a field of beautiful white flowers and tells you that you have ten minutes to defeat her before an air strike comes to shatter both of you. The battle is a brutal, hand-to-hand affair. You both sneak around the flower field in camouflage, and her snow-white jumpsuit matches the blossoms perfectly. She rushes you out of nowhere and you have to take your time pressing the button the right way to escape her hand-to-hand attacks. And all the while the theme music of the game plays to really puts you in touch with your feelings. At the end of the fight she is defeated at your feet, and she looks you in the eye and asks you to finish her. The camera cuts away at the sound of the final shot. And it’s over. And then you cry. And you won’t stop crying until the end of the game when you realize (SPOILER ALERT) she was on your side all along. Devastating.
Majora
The final boss of Majora’s mask is a very disturbing matter. After you collect all the magic masks in the world and face Skull Kid on Clock Town clock tower you will be transported to the surface of the moon which doesn’t look like the moon at all but rather a peaceful green field with a tree in the middle. Under the tree you will find children to wear scary masks who ask you to play? games with them. One child sits alone under the tree, away from everyone else. He wears the evil Majora’s Mask and is undoubtedly the spirit of Majora incarnate. He asks you to play a game of “good guys vs bad guys” and that “you are the bad guy”. Then he takes you to a technicolor hellscape where you realize that Majora is not a ‘he’ at all, but an ‘it’. Majora’s Mask floats in front of you and gets coarse tentacles that you must destroy. Then it changes shape and gains an eye and legs and starts running around at sonic speeds while laughing maniacally. You give it a few good licks with your sword and then it changes shape again in a blur humanoid form with tentacle whips and at this point you are faint from screaming and you come to and hopefully Majora is dead. But it doesn’t die. Because it lives on forever in your nightmares.
xemnas
Okay, so you spent everything Kingdom Hearts 1 dealing with the Heartless Prince of Darkness, Ansem, and his bitch, Riku, who was your best friend at the time. You defeat Ansem and Riku begins to redeem himself. In the second game, you find out that when a Heartless is created from the darkness of a human heart, a “Nobody” is created from the body they left behind. Guess what? Ansem also has a Nobody. His name is Xemnas, and he is even worse then Ansem. You track him down to his homeworld, and you team up with Riku, for the first time in two games, to hurt this man. And the battle is wild. It has about five stages. Xemnas rides a giant monster that you and Riku must defeat while piloting a ship. Then Xemnas starts throwing skyscrapers at you that you cut in half with your magical Keyblade. He then takes you to a formless void where you and Riku must defend yourself against an infinite amount of lasers while Xemnas tries to chop your head off with a pair of lightsabers. Dan Xemnas captures Sora and you come to play as Riku to free him. And then finally the two of you do a great quick time event tag team attack where you finally deal the deadly blow. This battle is awesome. One to compete God of War’s Boss Battles (who totally deserve their own list)
Omega Flowy
When you start playing undertale, in the tutorial level you will be met by a cute little flower with a face called Flowy. He starts by being nice to you. Except there’s something seriously off with this flower. He straight away tries to kill you but then you are saved at the last minute. You think he’s gone for good, or at least won’t be a problem anymore. But he survives the attack and plots revenge. If you play the neutral route of the game, at the end of the game (after fighting a cheating boss) Flowly reappears and challenges you to another battle. You think, “This is going to be a cinch, this guy is just a little flower, isn’t it?” MIS. Flowy turns into a disturbing as hell photoshop monstrosity called “Omega Flowly”. And this Flowy is cheeky. He shoots lasers, fires missiles and just says: terrible things to drive you to utter despair. It’s a seriously twisted battle. If you thought Majora was bad, this is much, much worse.
(image credit: square enix)
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