Current Events > Good games with a God awful last boss fight or last level?

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Legend of Dragoon comes to mind, I remember the last boss being a huge fuckin slog through a lot of "I can't save and this is taking me a long time."

Karn from Wild 9. Literally a snore fest from an otherwise underappreciated game.

https://youtu.be/fmU4sq7GSDE

Literally 10 minutes of running from the boss through a long ass corridor for ten minutes while waiting for a small window to actually fight back.

Definitely the worst part of the game.

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No More Heroes 2

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CouldBeAnAlt posted...

Dragon's dogma

Second WHAT

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R_Jackal posted...

Legend of Dragoon comes to mind, I remember the last boss being a huge fuckin slog through a lot of "I can't save and this is taking me a long time."

That whole game is a terrible fucking slog. There's a reason it's a dead IP.
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CanuckCowboy posted...

Second WHAT

You a real one

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Beyonetta

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Prinny has legitimately the worst final boss I have ever played or even seen.

You have to whittle down a very large health bar by rapidly mashing the attack button. Your attacks do basically no damage, meaning a lot of button pressing. You have to do this on a very strict three-minute time limit. We're talking "if you do it completely perfectly you have about five seconds left" strict. And it moves around the screen and you have to dodge stuff too, so you can't even just focus on the mashing. Sometimes it moves somewhere you can't reach it just to waste time.

The one bit of relief is that its movements and attacks are the same every time, so you can at least memorize the pattern. But your hands will probably be hurting too much after a few attempts anyway. If you take a break and try again later you have to beat its first form again, which is a lot more random and irritating.

Prinny made me realize that sometimes I don't have to complete a game to be done with it. Garbage game, don't play it.

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The final story mission of the original Guild Wars 2 campaign.

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a bunch of Resident Evils when you get to the compound/research part, IMO.

people talk about RE7 being good until the boat, but it's that way with the other games, too, where they might have these amazing levels, encounters, etc., but that last stretch is often a dip in quality.

that's how I feel, at least.

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Demons souls

ImAMarvel posted...

Damn, that is one hot and spicy take, son

Motorcycle sequence objectivly bad would take a boring ass DMC boss rush over it.

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Saga Frontier's Emeila Story. You get all this set up to confront Joker ( Not that Joker or the other Joker) just to fight a random monster who isn't that hard. No fight against the main villian of this storyline at all.

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Kuuko posted...

YHVH's universe is a terrible final dungeon but YHVH is one of the best final bosses in the series.

The YHVH fight was awesome, but at the same time, I feel that YHVH's grand return after two decades was wasted on Apocalypse. Should have saved it for SMT5.

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CanuckCowboy posted...

Second WHAT

Honestly I nominate the everfall for a awful last level too

The Legend of Heroes: Ao no Kiseki

Absolutely phenomenal game. Final boss gauntlet took me over 4 hours and the actual final boss fight of the gauntlet is one of the hardest fights I've ever experienced in a JRPG. Boss is so stupid. Constantly heals itself, summons annoying ass minions and if you don't kill the minions fast enough the boss revives constantly by absorbing one of them. There's also an unblockable instant kill attack. I failed the actual final fight 3 or 4 times and the fights before it are almost just as hard and equally annoying. At least the final boss theme is godlike though and the fight itself when I won took me 45 minutes.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=h8CmfRgxvVQ

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I don't really consider it a good game (kind of meh) but most people do: Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga. Holy fuck that fight never ends, it's positively mind-numbing. Not even hard, but you still have to pay attention to what you're doing because of how the battle system works. Fucking awful, game went from a "meh" for me to "borderline trash"

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g0ldie posted...

a bunch of Resident Evils when you get to the compound/research part, IMO.

people talk about RE7 being good until the boat, but it's that way with the other games, too, where they might have these amazing levels, encounters, etc., but that last stretch is often a dip in quality.

that's how I feel, at least.

I always really like those parts, especially the RE3 remake. The environments are really neat looking imo, plus there are usually enemies that you don't see elsewhere

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Tyranthraxus posted...

Octopath Traveller had a pretty poorly designed final boss. While I enjoyed the challenge and the story content, the design of it all was just a big mistake.

Came in to post this

My issue was less with the boss itself and moreso with the fact that you couldn't save after fighting all eight mini-bosses beforehand, so losing to the final boss meant doing all those again

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No one has said BioShock yet?
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Drakengard 3. Fuck. That. Last. Note.

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kingdoms of amalur reckoning

stalker shadow of chernobyl

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Ff9 and 12 for me
especially nine

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Remnant: From the Ashes

Fantastic game with many excellent bosses. But the final boss was one of the worst in any video game. They've since changed it, but I don't know exactly what they did. It was such a dull fight I've never had any interest in doing it again.


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xenogears

the boss was alright but the entire final act was a farce for such a wonderful game.

I feel like it was 1 gen ahead of it's time. Woulda made an amazing ps2 rpg. it was too ambitious for ps1. And ps3 is when jrpgs started to warp and morph away from that "classic" feel, which ps1/2 definitely held on to.

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Basically every single one of piranha bytes games

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Came in to say SMTIV:A for a game that had so many great mechanical improvements for the series, damn that was one of the worst dungeons in an Atlus title. Total degrade to some old bullshit from 80's 90's era dungeon crawlers.

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Stranger's Wrath is the opposite of this. The final level was the only part of the game that I thought was really great, rather than at best "playable".

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Giblet_Enjoyer posted...

I always really like those parts, especially the RE3 remake. The environments are really neat looking imo, plus there are usually enemies that you don't see elsewhere

I don't think that they're always terrible, but I never feel like they're as good as the rest of the game.

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ImAMarvel posted...

That bike sequences doesn't even take that long compared to the one earlier in the game and the missile-riding sequence, both of which are the low points of the game. The actual final boss is great and is still one of the most epic things I've ever played through in a game. Dat music too

But its there and i hate it...like the first one made me quit the game and got talked into playing more by a friend...then there it was again. Mocking me.

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CouldBeAnAlt posted...

Dragon's dogma

Third WHAT
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Condemned Criminal Origins--trash mob dogpile followed by barn loft (becomes alternate plane) solo vs The Hate
The Saboteur--egomaniac Dierker has an epiphany... one-shot kill because it's "for reals" (irl EA killed Pandemic)

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Banjo Kazooie

The last boss fight as well as the weird board game thing immediately before it.

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FF7.

Those fights were ass, fight me.
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Irony posted...

Arkham Asylum

First one I thought of when I read the topic title.

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Lord_Wombat posted...

FF7.

Those fights were ass, fight me.

Honestly surprised it took 86 post before we got an edge lord.
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Breath of the wild is my favorite game but dude, that boss fight was grand But:

1. the first phase was just a mushed together mix of the previous bosses. Literally. The health made it a challenge so I guess its good but it lacks originality.
2. Dark beast ganon had an amazing appearance and the laser was pretty cool too but thats about it. Thats all it had. If you moved it wouldnt charge towards you, it just stayed there blasting its lasers. It could have at least made some kind of Malice horse to chase after you, like the 3rd phase of the twilight princess final boss. Also beating it is soooo easy. Simply shoot literally 8 large ass targets with the bow with the best aim. You dont even kill it. ZELDA seals it away, you dont kill it with the master sword. I know Dark beast ganon was most likely a puppet of the real ganondorf but you didnt even need the master sword to kill it!? Come ON! All we just got a 4.5 second animation! The games way of beating itself is do all the shrines, get all hearts and full stamina, do the master trials and get the master cycle zero and the powered up master sword, all for THIS?! I could LITERALLY beat it with a bunch of royal guards weapons! And its actually possible to beat it with a mop! A FUCKING MOP! This final boss fight was such a fucking disappointment. Story wise its good, but gameplay wise? Hell no! Something I would have expected of breath of the wild was maybe you could have a second part of the game where links too weak to beat him again, so Zelda uses the master swords power and makes it her own to seal ganon for a while longer. Then you go collect some item you need to unlock a mysterious power, while also regenerating the master swords power. But nope! We get a crappy boss fight!

There ya go.

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Tales of Xillia 2 Land of Canaan.

It's literally just two "rooms", which you'd think wouldn't be too annoying, but these rooms are made up of sprawling narrow pathways (which means enemies are basically impossible to avoid), and most of the pathways are fake, and the path you need to take to get to the end is randomized every time you enter. Probably not the worst final dungeon ever, but it's pretty fuckin' annoying for how short it is. That takes effort.
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UnholyMudcrab posted...

No one has said BioShock yet?

surprised it took this long for bioshock to be mentioned. that lameass boss fight was so anticlimactic and run of the mill

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andri_g posted...

Condemned Criminal Origins--trash mob dogpile followed by barn loft (becomes alternate plane) solo vs The Hate

Lol, the ending of that was the best part for me. Not because it was good, but because there's an area where you can get three+ enemies in an enclosed area fighting you at once and cause infighting due to the close quarters + the fact that two of them have wild, flailing attacks that hit everything within like 5 feet of them. Just get close enough to one to juke him into attacking and then back off, he invariably hits an ally and then that ally gets pissed and swings at him, often hitting the third guy, and so on. Funny as fuck, almost Three Stooges-esque. I had a save there that I'd reload over and over just lmaoing at them for like an hour straight. I think I got the three of them to kill each other once without me having to do anything

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Red Faction 2 for final boss.

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From a storyline standpoint, the final fantasy 7 remake.

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@Giblet_Enjoyer re-spoiler tag my quoted post, would you kindly? ;P

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HBKick18 posted...

surprised it took this long for bioshock to be mentioned. that lameass boss fight was so anticlimactic and run of the mill

This.
It's such an awesome game, but the boss was really bad.

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Final Fantasy Tactics A2. I didn't bother with any sidequests or grinding throughout the game, because it was reasonably easy, until the final boss, which was impossible, because I didn't do any sidequests or grinding. I ended up just watching the ending on YouTube.

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All of the bioshock games. The first was that stupid hulked up dude. Both sequels just had gauntlets against regular enemies if I remember right.

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The Popo posted...

FF9

If you played it, you know what Im talking about

Came here to say this. What the actual fuck were they thinking?

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GeneralKenobi85 posted...

Remnant: From the Ashes

Fantastic game with many excellent bosses. But the final boss was one of the worst in any video game. They've since changed it, but I don't know exactly what they did. It was such a dull fight I've never had any interest in doing it again.

This this this this. By far, unequivocally the worst boss final boss fight (And one of the worst boss videogame encounters period) ever fucking created. It singlehandedly killed the game for me and the friends I played it with. Hilariously enough, that patch that supposedly changed it/made it less absolutely stupid came out like a week after we said fuck it. It wasn't even interesting from a visual perspective either.

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