Current Events > Boss fights that end with a particular requirement.

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For example, maybe after you drain the life bar you have to hit it with a certain special attack or dodge the instant death move or do a QTE.

What are your thoughts, CE?
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Fuck you, Bald Bull.

Are you asking us for our take, or suggestions?
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Vicious_Dios posted...

Are you asking us for our take, or suggestions?

Both. Either. Do you like when they do this l, or maybe only sometimes, or..?
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Sometimes. I mean, nothing wrong with a standard fight either.

The giant cyborg armadillosaur from Ninja Gaiden 2 was hilarious, as is the hotfoot method in Dark Souls.
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Devastating if the move/skill is able to be missed. Pretty fucking cool if it's necessary for a bonus reward.

tbf, some Suikoden battles are like this for recruitment.
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The only boss that immediately came to mind was the Time Devourer in Chrono Cross.

ocelot51 posted...

The only boss that immediately came to mind was the Time Devourer in Chrono Cross.

Some others I can think of are Del Lago from RE4, a couple of Kirby bosses (Return to Dreamland's final boss, Planet Robobot's True Arena) and Ra's from Arkham City.
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I like it.

I like playing games thematically so its always nice to have a special boss finisher instead of the fight just ending in the middle of one of their pre-scripted moves.
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Persona 3 was very memorable.
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Common trope in RE games where you get a super powerful weapon to finish off the final boss.

There's a boss in FF6 that hits you with Ultima when it dies, and if you're not prepared it will wipe your party which is pretty brutal.

I don't mind a specially scripted ending to a boss as long as it's fun or cool. Like, I enjoy how RE does it but I don't care how FF tends to have them loose some bullshit OP spell on you.
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In KH2 bosses can only be defeated with the last hit of a combo.

I dont like that.

RuneScape comes to mind.

Stakes to kill Vampyres, salt to kill rock slugs, hammers to kill gargoyles etc.

Its annoying if you miss click though.

Dagoth Ur in Morrowind too, gotta slap the heart so he doesnt come back.
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I like desperation attacks after healthbar is fully depleted, but only as a surprise. if every boss does it it's just lame
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Climaxing to finish off bosses in Bayonetta
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Pretty much every boss in Pandora's Tower was like that. After taking out the bosses life bar you had to rip it's flesh from their body using your holy chain so you can feed it to your girlfriend.
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Killer Instinct 2 requires you to hit Gargos with a combo that knocks him high into the air otherwise he just gets back up and regains a little bit of life.

Kind of shitty on higher difficulties because of how super accurate the AI is with combo breakers.
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I think the best is games where you have a "regular" portion of the boss fight and then the special requirement one (like Earthbound for an RPG example). Then you get to truly show your game "chops" but also get the thematic/story aspect as well.
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Having to specifically Parry Ganondorf's final attack to defeat him in Wind Waker.
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i like how some certain events happened in the middle of the fight, but hate when there needs to be a special last event to finish off the enemy

NibeIungsnarf posted...

In KH2 bosses can only be defeated with the last hit of a combo.

I dont like that.

Yeah that made the otherwise cool final gambit of Xemnas a little anticlimactic. Oh theyre not beat yet, zap them with Thunder or something
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CapnMuffin posted...

NibeIungsnarf posted...

In KH2 bosses can only be defeated with the last hit of a combo.

I dont like that.

Yeah that made the otherwise cool final gambit of Xemnas a little anticlimactic. Oh theyre not beat yet, zap them with Thunder or something

True. That was lame af. But if the fight had ended with that last QTE would have been pretty sweet.
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