Your most memorable final boss fights? - Potential Spoilers -

[Mr. Wang]

Metal Gear Solid Series... in my opinion, has the best boss fights. Though one boss battle pissed me off, and yet got me so focused and intent on beating it.

Spoiler for The End, MGS3:

Personally, I like MGS3 better than any other Metal Gear game in the franchise. This boss battle in particular, was so annoying and time-consuming, that when you finally finish it, you can't help but sigh in relief, and be amazed you even finished. Hell, it took me 2 hours. The duel against the End definitely took the stealth and recon element of Metal Gear, and took it to the max. You use all of your extra tools, the thermal goggles, the directional mic, all to try and track The End's whereabouts, and while you're hunting him down, he's already hunting you. When counter-sniping, the battle is somewhat easier, albeit still difficult as hell. But when trying to go for the rare and valuable unlockables that can come under finishing the battle under certain conditions, this really gets hard. Using only tranquilizer weapons (which come in the form of pistols) and CQC against a Sniper legend? The tensity one can feel when the screen shows the sniper scope, with Snake in its center, as you have a second to get out of the way... the anxiety of sneaking up on him when he's unaware, and you're about to hit him for another close step towards victory... In terms of gameplay and how sheer challenging this was, it's a good mention.

[SilverSyko]

I have another one to put in this thread:

Xemnas (First Battle) - Kingdom Hearts 2

The first fight with him. None of the subsequent ones. The setting, music and mood of this battle are all just fantastic. A 1 on 1 duel beneath a single skyscraper in a void of nothingness accompanied with my favorite music track in the series "Disappeared" playing in the background makes for one hell of a memorable fight. Not to mention Xemnas himself is pretty damn awesome too. (God his English voice. <3)

Spoiler for Second-to-Last Boss Battle Spoilers:

[Asuras]

Yami (Last Boss) - Okami.

This was a last boss battle that I actually had some slight trouble with. Not to mention the fact that this game was so beautifully designed, the final fight only seemed that much cooler.
I also think giant spheres are some of the coolest things or a super-villain idea anyways.

[Hooves]

Sephiroth (Kingdom Hearts II): I literally found this guy to take the longest time to finally get down. Took me a good 30 tries without taking a break to finally get him finished gave me such a thrill.

[Asuras]

30? I chucked my remote at the wall after my 70-something-odd'th time!

[SilverSyko]

He wasn't impossibly hard. I managed to beat him at level 60 at lowest. Not sure how many tries it took but I know it wasn't 30. xD

The biggest inconvenience was his Sin Harvest Angel attack though since he floats up too high to hit him. Had to be at least getting Master Form to level 3 and aquire the aerial dodge before taking him on, and brought some Elixers just in case I failed to hit him.

The Data Org. XIII fights in KH2 Final Mix were even harder, and god are they fun.~

[Hooves]

Alot of fights were hard but interesting in Kingdom Hearts II. But I found Sephiroth to be the hardest for me.

[Asuras]

I beat him by level 57, but it took me nearly several hundred tries, no joke.

[Evil Rick]

Final Boss Fight?

I would say Baby Bowser from Yoshi's Island at the Super Nintendo, the second phase of the battle has specially a very awesome feeling of epicness. XD

[GreatTeacherKen]

Zelda franchise has quite a few good ones:

Ocarina of Time:

Spoiler for final battle:

Right when the game seems to be over, Ganondorf bursts out of the rubble and we're treated to the first appearance of Ganon! In 3D! Definitely a great, "Oh crap!" moment and the fight itself is as epic as the build up.

The Wind Waker:

Spoiler for final battle:

You get to fight Ganondorf in a straight up sword fight in Hyrule kingdom while the ocean is literally cascading onto the arena. I believe this is also the first time we see Zelda fight and she works together with you to take him down. And the way the Ganondorf gets finished off is surprisingly brutal.

Mother 2 (Earthbound)

Spoiler for final battle:

Giygas, one of the creepier bosses in a video game and unexpected given how humorous the game for the most part.

Bayonetta

Spoiler for final battle:

Jubileus. You get to fight the Bayonetta universe's equivalent of God and defeat her by literally punching her into the sun. A great way to finish an over the top action game.

[demonfang]

The big bosses of Sengoku Rance: Xavier, Gunagan, Sekimei, and Orochi.

Especially Orochi and wondering if you won't wipe before he goes down.

[desirebluesky]

Silent Hill's 2 wasn't so good, but it made me go WTF so much i almost forgot to shoot. it definitely was memorable.

[Suomi]

Kirby 64 the Crystal Shards...I don't even know what to call the thing (not Dark Matter, the thing you have to defeat at the end of planet Ripple Star...)
but it was creative having to use the powers it threw out against it.

also...
hmmm, I haven't truly beaten many games yet so I can't say for most of them.
and the ones I have most haven't been terribly memorable...

[Kuroi Hadou]

I would have to say my most memorable final boss fight would be Orphan's Second From from Final Fantasy XIII. It was my first play through, my Crystarium was fully maxed (at the time; the final level opens up after you've beat the game), and I was going for the Superstar trophy (kill him in the first Stagger period) on the first go. The Doom count was only 3600 (when it hits zero it's game over and it drains at about 1 point/second), and you can't deal any damage to him outside of Stagger. I got my Superstar trophy.

[GreatTeacherKen]

Originally Posted by Illusore

Kirby 64 the Crystal Shards...I don't even know what to call the thing (not Dark Matter, the thing you have to defeat at the end of planet Ripple Star...)
but it was creative having to use the powers it threw out against it.

also...
hmmm, I haven't truly beaten many games yet so I can't say for most of them.
and the ones I have most haven't been terribly memorable...

That boss is called Miracle Matter.

BTW I should also point out that that boss isn't actually the final boss. So dust off the N64 and get all the crystal shards.

[Silverwyrm]

I always think of Melfus (sp?) form grandia II, when I first encountered him he kicked my *** though on subsequent playthroughs I remember finding him far easier, probably because I knew what i was doing. I really loved that game though, too bad the final boss was such a pansy.

Demon's Souls Had a couple for me, when I first started the game and it was still quite hard for me, i stepped into the tower knights room to find the boss...who was literally a knight as big as a tower! surrounded by archers no less... He wasn't so bad after I learned how to do it but that first time I walked in there was just so cool.

Also the dragon god, first time fighting him and waiting for him to start to breathe fire before dodging away and he...balls his fist and punches me. That was a HUGE fist, and a one hit kill. Had never seen a dragon punch before

Dark Falz form pso, especially on multiplayer. When you got into ultimate difficulty on the dreamcast version he was simply murderous, its just a ifght I always remembered being so much fun (before everyone got too OP)

First stage of Olga Flow in PSO ep2, giant monster freefalling around a descending elevator (which your riding) shoving his giant sword through the bottom of it to try and stick you. How cool is that.

[Urzu 7]

MGS 3 has some of the best boss battles for all games. The last boss battle, the sniper duel with The End, the boss battle with The Fury, and the 'Boss Fight' with The Sorrow being my favorites. Other boss battles in that game are exceptionally good are the battle against Ocelot and the battle against The Fear.


The original MGS has great boss battles, too. Like nearly everyone of them. The fight against the ninja, Pycho Mantis (may be the best boss fight in the game), the second fight with Vulcan Raven, the fights with Sniper Wolf, the last boss battle, and the battle against Liquid Snake in the Hind D are all great boss battles.

[Cyz]

Well, if we're talking about something memorable and not just because the fight was hard then I can think of 2 for me...

Spoiler for Final Boss faves:

1.) The Snake vs Liquid Ocelot in MGS4. Man, I feel like I'm in a movie instead of playing a game. Sure it was your average fist fighting but the soundtrack they used for every round was one of the reason it made so awesome. One to be noted when the "Snake Eater" theme song starts playing and you're fist fighting. It felt like a James Bond movie or something . Anyway, that's a memorable final boss indeed though it's not hard.

2.) The fight with Nobunaga Oda on Sengoku Basara: Samurai Warriors. Yeah I know it's wierd but hey it's really epic especially when he has that demon apparition behind him with matching rock music at the BG . Oh, that's a little hard considering I have no idea what to do first prior to the fight but when I figured it out...it's nothing.

[Urzu 7]

Sadly, that very last boss battle in MGS 4 may be the best boss fight in the game. I didn't really like fighting the Beauty and the Beast unit. The best one to fight was the wolf B&B, IMO.

Spoiler for MGS 4 boss battles:

My favorite boss battles in that game are the fight between Metal Gear Rex and Metal Gear Ray and the fist fight between Solid Snake and Ocelot.

[Kyero Fox]

Legend of dragoon fights including this