• Top 10 Boss Fights

  

  Written by Zeromage 58 Comments
  Last Updated:: March 20, 2009

  What makes a good boss fight? Is it the difficulty?  The creative way that you have to oust the villain?  Or perhaps you enjoy an easy boss because it makes you feel good and accomplished. If that’s the case you should re-consider your life, maybe you need to set more important goals and maybe you should get out of your parent’s basement. We here at O-W are well aware that the economy isn’t going so well but there are still jobs available, and you should find them. Once you get some money you can buy more difficult games and beat them in your free time, essentially doubling that feeling of accomplishment. Now that’s a plan. In any case, here’s what O-W thinks are the top ten boss fights. We purposely didn’t qualify it in any other way, which will most likely piss off many people, but hey, that’s what gets us up in the morning. These are the best boss fights.

  10. “Super Drunk”

  What makes the final boss in level 100 awesome? For one, he is a giant named “Super Drunk.” In order to properly pass Super Drunk, you need to drink the potions at the top of the screen before you wake up the Super Drunk. The potion makes you spit lightning bubbles (60 will take out Super Drunk). If you have no friends, Passing Super Drunk will not give you the happy ending (This is evident after several hours of eye-glazing solo-play. You beat that sh*t and get a screen saying “This Is Not The Happy Ending). Let’s recap: If you’re going to get to the final stage of Super Drunk, you had best be drinking the sh*t that makes you spit hot lightning straight from the bottle. If you drink alone, you might pass Super Drunk, but it will not be a happy ending. There are some important life lessons for you here, kids, I suggest you heed them wisely.

  9. Link’s Shadow (Zelda 2)

  One of the coolest moments in the Zelda series was in Zelda 2 when Link is forced to fight his own shadow after he beats the Thunderbird in order to win the Triforce of Courage. Dark Link appears when Link approaches the Triforce of Courage. The lights go out, and Link’s shadow jumps away from his body and then proceeds to attack with his sword.  How spooky is that?  “Dark Link” is never described as one of Ganon’s servants; the more likely scenario is that he was a final test left for Link by the King who hid the Triforce of Courage.  Link by the King who hid the Triforce of Courage. Remember Dagobah? The most intense part of Empire was Luke fighting Vader in the swamp…but it wasn’t the paternal Sith Lord at all, it was Luke’s own fear. Yeah, Dark Link was Empire epic.

  8. M. Bison (Street Fighter 2)

  M.Bison was a beast of a character and was usually the final character of the Street Fighter Series. He had one of the most powerful moves in fighting game history with his Psycho Crusher. This move would turn Bison into an electric bolt that would whip across the screen and run through anybody. All you could do was evade this electrical power unless you were E. Honda, who’s hyper sumo-chop could stop Bison dead in his tracks. Along with this, M.Bison showed off an agility only matched by Vega, by head bouncing on opponents’ heads with his arms folded like he wasn’t even trying to be as agile as he really was. M.Bison was very difficult to beat. You needed to have your character mastered to be able to defeat Bison in the final fight of the game. If you didn’t, you would be left trying to replay him over and over again until all your continues ran out, making you start the whole game over.

  7. Sigma (Mega Man X)

  We first meet the dreaded Sigma in Mega Man X. His massive face appears in the middle of the screen once all 8 bosses are defeated. The marching beat strikes at your heart as you know your about to face a warrior, and you are. When you traverse his daunting castle, you get to the Sigma where you first have to fight his dog, and then Sigma himself who is incredibly difficult, and then his third form which is a massive machine that requires precision turbo shots to defeat him. Sigma takes on greater and lesser difficulty levels throughout the Mega Man X series. One thing is for sure though. When he talks, and when he brings out his light saber, you are in for the fight of your life.

  6. Dracula (Castlevania)

  Dracula may have first found his fame in Bram Stokers famous novel, but it was his role in Castlevania that gave haunted nightmares to the video gamer. He was bigger and stronger than all the Belmonts and could disappear at will. The only shot you had at beating this big bastard was whipping his head or hopefully having the boomerang cross which could possibly hit him twice. Dracula would take on more demonic forms in Castlevania Symphony of the Night, making him more than just a blood sucking man. Either way, Dracula was always a dreaded final boss in the video game medium.

  5. Magus (Chrono Trigger)

  Magus was the first time I can remember where I fought a boss that would later become a member of my party.   I didn’t see it coming either because he had that “I am the embodiment of evil” look about him.   When you fight Magus he’s also by far the most powerful enemy up that point, and possess very strong attacks, and far more HP then any previous boss (his HP is 6666).  He had a magical barrier that protected him from magic unless a specific element that he’s vulnerable to was used. He would indicate which element when he would cast a spell, and would be vulnerable to the opposite, after which he would switch the element he’s vulnerable to. Because you could only use 3 characters in a battle (for plot reasons one of them has to be Frog), it’s impossible to have a counter to every element, but fortunately, even if he isn’t hit with the element opposite to what he uses, he will eventually change the barrier’s weakness anyways. Eventually, Magus would switch to just using his Shadow attacks, including his most powerful spell, Dark Matter, an utterly devastating attack at this point in the game.  This guy was bad ass and definitely deserves a spot on this list.

  4. Diablo (Diablo 1)

  This is every born again Christian’s wet dream. To actually fight the devil and then take the pulsing crystal, which most likely contains his soul or essence, and shove into your forehead. That way you can become even more self righteous and annoying. I mean everyone knows the world is filled with evil, and everyone knows only the born agains can save us from it by making everyone exactly as fanatical as they are. But imagine if you claim you are bearing all the world’s evil… in your forehead. You would be one hell of a good born again, excuse my pun. This fight was pretty difficult the first time, but once you figure out a few tricks it took no more than a few minutes. The fun of it was that you were killing the devil and everybody wants to do that, if only in hopes of replacing him and becoming the lord of evil yourself. Which, if I understand the sequels correctly, you do.

  3. Shredder (TMNT 4: Turtles in Time)

  Fighting the Shredder in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 4: Turtles in Time, was one of the most fun boss fights ever.  Instead of the usual boss fight in a Ninja Turtles game where you bascially have to jump kick him to death, to beat the Shredder in Turtles in Time you had to toss ninjas at the him while he would shot you with, some kind of laser gun.  You do this because of the game’s revolutionary game play where you can do a finishing move to enemies by throwing them into your tv screen.  I’ve always thought this fight was cool because it looked like the Shredder was sitting where you are, thus you were sort of attacking yourself.  This was simply a great boss fight.

  2. Mike Tyson (Mike Tyson’s Punch Out!)

  We put Mike Tyson at #5 greatest Punchout characters, but he was undoubtedly the hardest fighter you had to face in either Punchout and Super Punchout. One uppercut and you were done. What other boss was there where one shot or one hit would knock you down? Mike Tyson’s power is unprecedented. When he was switched to “Mr. Dream” for copyright reasons, it was a big letdown because the prospect of fighting Mike Tyson in the Flesh made the gamer motivated to beat everything in the way. Beating Mike Tyson was near impossible. The sheer difficulty level of Tyson makes him one of the best video game bosses of all time. There has never been an uppercut like his.

  1. Ridley (Super Metroid)

  Ridley is the ultimate boss in the whole Metroid series. He is the Space Pirate who commands everything, including the restructuring of Zebes after it’s first downfall to Samus and the new form of Mother Brain. You find Ridley in the depths of Norfair in Metroid 1 where it would take an innumerable amount of missiles to destroy. In Super Metroid though, he would take on a more beastly form being able to pick you up with his hind legs and smash you down to the ground. It would take even more missiles to destroy him this time around and it wasn’t just Norfair that you were traveling through to get to this impenetrable space pirate, it was Ridley’s own kingly lair of ancient ruins. You weren’t just fighting Ridley but the whole idea of a beast as ancient as time when traveling through the ruins that were deeper than Norfair. Ridley would never seem to be destroyed throughout the Metroid series, he would only turn into more interminable forms utilizing modern mechanics and technology to give himself the most stout armor in the series. Fighting Ridely again in Metroid Prime, you knew that Ridley was an eternal beast that would never stop causing havoc on the remote space system.

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58 Comments

1. #1 Doodger says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 12:57 am

   Ganon in zelda:a link to the past was fun.
2. #2 MentalMetal says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 6:26 am

   heres my list of old new and wen ever the games were out!! not saying it was the right list just saying its mine

   10.Diablo-Diablo fight (easy once figured out)

   9.Fable-Jack Of Blades

   8.Sonic the Hedgehog 2-DR Robotnik(2nd Form)

   7.DOOM-CyberDEMON
   (Hello DOOM Gamers helpline…
   yea ah how do i defeat the cyber demon?…
   …Shoot it till it dies…
   —-Direct Quote—-

   6.Street Fighter-M.Bison

   5.Tekken-Hiahatchi Miashima

   4.Wolfenstien-Hitler (everyone loves briging down a Nazi dictator!)

   3.Mortal Combat-Goro

   2.MGS-FOXHOUND (rather than choosing one ill go with the whole lot)

   1.Mike Tysons Boxing-Mike Tyson

   This is just a list of my fave bosses i liked defeating not nessisarily the hardest, i just think these guys defined good bosses
3. #3 d money says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 11:31 pm

   What about Ghouls and Ghost boss?
4. #4 cody floyd says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 2:59 am

   Vergil from devil may cry 3 is 1 hell of a boss.
5. #5 Lowell says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 8:02 am

   I’d have put Kefka up in this list somewhere. That was a pretty damn epic fight.