great boss fights

[Mando Pandango]

The whole Metroid Prime 1 and 2 both had a ton of great boss fights. I need to replay those games soon. Damn.

[Kalahari Inkantation]

[spoiler=dark souls 3][youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ21JRZKSK4[/youtube][/spoiler]

my waifu

i can't resist the urge to go into detail about what makes this fight so great

• the stylish intro


• fight begins in the darkness, but visibility gradually increases as her weapons themselves hit walls and columns and light the cathedral interior ablaze


• the creepy slow hunched stalking of the player character around the room


• her loud footsteps generally match the tempo of the music and add a neat percussive element


• the graceful sinuous animations


• the flowing of the veil


• the rad spin attack that does an especially good job at showing the above off


• the way her own animations suggest that she's actually quite weak, she seems to struggle to stand upright for the attacks that require her to be stood upright, and then immediately collapses back into that hunched position lol (see from 2:30 - 2:40 for clear examples)


• also way she wields and weightily swings those weapons furthermore suggests they're a little heavy for her/she's too weak to wield them efficiently, yet she still manages to you up in spite of her feebleness

simply brilliant presentation all around, it's just such a mesmerizing visual marvel of a fight

and absolutely top-notch waifu material, she's just so frail and cute

a+ boss design fromsoft

probably my favorite fight in the game, and possibly my favorite in souls overall

[TooB]

[spoiler=dark souls 3][youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ21JRZKSK4[/youtube][/spoiler]

my waifu

i can't resist the urge to go into detail about what makes this fight so great

• the stylish intro


• fight begins in the darkness, but visibility gradually increases as her weapons themselves hit the walls and columns and light the cathedral interior ablaze


• the creepy slow hunched stalking of the player character around the room


• her loud footsteps (usually) match the tempo of the music and add a neat percussive element


• the graceful sinuous animations


• the flowing of the veil


• the rad spin attack that does an especially good job at showing the above off


• the way her own animations suggest that she's actually quite weak, she seems to struggle to stand upright for the attacks that require her to be stood upright, and then immediately goes back to that hunched position lol (see from 2:30 - 2:40 for clear examples)


• also way she wields and weightily swings those weapons furthermore suggests they're a little heavy for her

simply brilliant presentation all around, it's just such a mesmerizing visual marvel of a fight

and absolutely top-notch waifu material

a+ boss design fromsoft

and the weapons and armor set kick ass too. You get the same veil for yourself.

Role-playing as the dancer in subsequent plays is a lot of fun

[Samus Aran]

quadraxis from metroid prime 2

quadraxis LOOKS cool as fuck and there's a real spectacle in just how big he is but he's kinda boring to fight imo?? i was actually trying to figure out what metroid boss is my favorite when i posted in this thread last night, and ultimately couldn't decide.

i might just give it to mother brain from super metroid just because of how fucking amazingly well it's made as far as story cinematic quality goes (the callback to metroid 1 initially, the sudden transformation into a big monster, THE BABY METROID, the Crateria theme suddenly coming in and playing while you're blasting MB with the hyper beam thingy, GOD this ending is good)

i think meta ridley in prime 1 might be the funnest boss in the franchise to actually fight

[Samus Aran]

The whole Metroid Prime 1 and 2 both had a ton of great boss fights. I need to replay those games soon. Damn.

Super, Prime 1, Prime 2, and Fusion all have some pretty incredible bosses. very hard to choose

[Kalahari Inkantation]

super metroid's mother brain is simply the best

[spoiler=super metroid][youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFz3aF1kw5k[/youtube][/spoiler]

[TooB]

I think I'd give it to Phantoon actually, in super.
But it's damn close

[Samus Aran]

super metroid's mother brain is simply the best

[spoiler=super metroid][youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFz3aF1kw5k[/youtube][/spoiler]

super metroid literally does the "use opening theme in ending climax" anime trope

[ME##]

quadraxis from metroid prime 2

father balder and jubileus from bayonetta

ninetails from okami

mr. freeze from arkham city

there's some non-souls choices

thank you 

[Thyme]

i guess dancer of the boreal valley wasn't as memorable for me because i got her in like three or four tries as opposed to, like, fourteen like guardian gundir and sulyvahn

[Samus Aran]

ok geeking out about super metroid again but HOW BOUT THAT CROCOMIRE

[C.Mongler]

Avion (colossus 5) from SotC is a goodASS boss fight. the feeling you get when you hop onto one of them flappers for the first time, OOO BABY

Phalanx (colossus 13) is a close second, but IMO he has a bit more annoying bullshit that can trip up the fight's pacing if you git fuk'd

uhhhhhhhhhhh riftworm from gears 2???

[Nyerp]

pleb confession: i have a hard time thinking of any boss fights from 2D games that i would consider "great"

ok geeking out about super metroid again but HOW BOUT THAT CROCOMIRE

you just shoot missiles into his mouth over and over again

super metroid's mother brain is simply the best

[spoiler=super metroid][youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFz3aF1kw5k[/youtube][/spoiler]

you just shoot missiles at her over and over again while occasionally jumping

i fought at least 100 bosses in the mega man series over the last year but they all just felt like "which weapon do i use?" puzzles and then you melt them instantly

please convince me otherwise

[TooB]

Don't need to convince you otherwise, when you boil a fight down to it's bare essentials.

[C.Mongler]

Don't need to convince you otherwise, when you boil a fight down to it's bare essentials.

damn nyerp u just got rektd