Board 8 > What's your favorite bonus boss in any game?

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09/18/21 8:40:47 PM
#1:


By bonus boss, I specifically mean the harder-than-the-final-boss super fights you have to go out of your way to have.

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X_Dante_X
09/18/21 8:42:32 PM
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my first reaction was culex. I don't think that would be my answer if i spent any time thinking about this at all, but its good enough for a gut thought
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WarThaNemesis2
09/18/21 8:43:06 PM
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X_Dante_X posted...
my first reaction was culex. I don't think that would be my answer if i spent any time thinking about this at all, but its good enough for a gut thought


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09/18/21 8:44:38 PM
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X_Dante_X posted...
my first reaction was culex. I don't think that would be my answer if i spent any time thinking about this at all, but its good enough for a gut thought

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Grand Kirby
09/18/21 8:44:46 PM
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My first reaction wasn't Culex, but Culex is a damn good answer.

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LeonhartFour
09/18/21 8:46:23 PM
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I still have fond memories of soloing Culex with Toadstool

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MartinFF7
09/18/21 8:59:33 PM
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My first thought was Erde Kaiser Sigma (Xenosaga Episode III) but he's not really a super hard boss...

so, Sephiroth in original Kingdom Hearts, I suppose.

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Emeraldegg
09/18/21 9:09:01 PM
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Can I count hidden forms of the final boss? Cause Duke's 3rd form from Tales of Vesperia is hard af and you have to get all the fell arms for him to appear during his fight and it's quite fun

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banananor
09/18/21 9:09:14 PM
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the first memorable one i could think of was Sephiroth in Kingdom Hearts. that could be nostalgia

the Nameless King in Dark Souls 3 really had my number for some reason

there has to be something in my brain that tops them. i'm kind of startled by the sheer volume of bosses and games i've forgotten

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09/18/21 9:11:17 PM
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X_Dante_X posted...
my first reaction was culex. I don't think that would be my answer if i spent any time thinking about this at all, but its good enough for a gut thought

Crazy that this seems to be so many of us

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Underleveled
09/18/21 9:15:01 PM
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Hmm, maybe Professor Nebilim in Tales of the Abyss, even though I never actually beat her.

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KommunistKoala
09/18/21 9:25:23 PM
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X_Dante_X posted...
my first reaction was culex. I don't think that would be my answer if i spent any time thinking about this at all, but its good enough for a gut thought


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xp1337
09/18/21 9:41:03 PM
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First thought was Artorias from Dark Souls which probably isn't my answer but is probably pretty close. Friede from Dark Souls 3 would probably win from Soulsborne for me. Maybe Owl (Father) from Sekiro, though that is a required boss for a certain ending route.

Nebilim in Tales of the Abyss is a really good one that was mentioned.

For one for a lot of emotional power there's the Emil Clones in Nier Automata.

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JackMan
09/18/21 9:48:09 PM
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I really enjoyed Sigrun in the most recent God of War.

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MZero
09/18/21 9:51:30 PM
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Red from Pokemon Gold and Silver

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Sceptilesolar
09/18/21 9:52:56 PM
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Lingering Will from KH2, I suppose. It's a very cool fight.

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HasteDeux
09/18/21 10:03:31 PM
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Gotta be Culex. It gives me warm feels because the battle is so FF-esuqe.

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09/18/21 10:14:02 PM
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X_Dante_X posted...
my first reaction was culex. I don't think that would be my answer if i spent any time thinking about this at all, but its good enough for a gut thought

I hate to be redundant, but this
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Underleveled
09/18/21 10:16:42 PM
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MZero posted...
Red from Pokemon Gold and Silver
I would consider him the true final boss.

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Kenri
09/18/21 10:40:45 PM
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Nightmare
King
Grimm

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Dancedreamer
09/18/21 11:07:05 PM
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Sephiroth - Kingdom Hearts

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TheRock1525
09/18/21 11:12:45 PM
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Does Sans count?

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WazzupGenius00
09/18/21 11:17:26 PM
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I like the one in Demons Crest that you have to use a password to access

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Axl_Rose_85
09/18/21 11:23:46 PM
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Demi- Fiend (Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga)
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SSBM_Guy
09/18/21 11:37:11 PM
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undertale

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Murphiroth
09/18/21 11:52:20 PM
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Rodin
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Leafeon13N
09/19/21 12:08:26 AM
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X_Dante_X posted...
my first reaction was culex. I don't think that would be my answer if i spent any time thinking about this at all, but its good enough for a gut thought

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UF8
09/19/21 5:35:09 AM
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broly in dbz: attack of the saiyans was my gut reaction but likewise if i put more thought into it there's definitely ones i thought were a lot more inventive than him for sure that'd surely rate higher (nothing specific coming to mind yet tho)
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SwiftyDC
09/19/21 6:13:48 AM
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Ozma from FF9.

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Axl_Rose_85
09/19/21 8:06:52 AM
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Sceptilesolar posted...
Lingering Will from KH2, I suppose. It's a very cool fight.

Cool fight but I always have more trouble with some of the Data Organization XIII fights (Larxene and Vexen especially) than LW but that is because LW is so well designed whereas some of the Data fights are really not.
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andylt
09/19/21 8:14:25 AM
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Huh, I'm having real trouble thinking of one here. There's some that are 'fine' but none that I really loved the challenge of. Most of the hard ones just get me annoyed at the cheesy OP hax they have that means you can only fight them a very particular way.

Though I don't know this Culex everybody's going on about.
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Raka_Putra
09/19/21 9:09:06 AM
#33:


I don't really like bonus bosses, mostly due to what andy said. But this one is not bad:

MZero posted...
Red from Pokemon Gold and Silver


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RaidenGarai
09/19/21 9:10:22 AM
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X_Dante_X posted...
my first reaction was culex. I don't think that would be my answer if i spent any time thinking about this at all, but its good enough for a gut thought


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JonThePenguin
09/19/21 11:14:25 AM
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My first thought was the one in Dragon Quest VI, since if you beat him hard enough hell go and kill the final boss for you, triggering an altered version of the ending sequence.

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Shonen_Bat
09/19/21 12:16:21 PM
#36:


Maybe Artorias in Dark Souls? I'm sure there's a boss in some other game where I'd think 'yeah it's definitely this one' but nothing comes to mind

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XIII_rocks
09/19/21 12:36:47 PM
#37:


Yeah I was wondering if G/S Red would count

I guess you could have Cynthia in BW and she'd fit better for this. Or Giovanni in HGSS

Sigrun was superb


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Axl_Rose_85
09/19/21 12:42:02 PM
#38:


I wouldn't count any Dark Souls or Bloodborne bosses as a super boss because the line between mandatory and optional is a very thin one there. Otherwise every DLC boss is a super boss and a lot of them have a difficulty which would qualify for them to be so.
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Big Bob
09/19/21 12:49:27 PM
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Weirdly enough, Morgan Freeman from South Park: The Fractured But Whole was the first that came to mind.

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