Video game bosses are some of my preferito parts of games. The build up to them, knowing that a boss waits at the end of the level, standing in the way between te and the rest of the game, testing your strength and everything te learned up to that point. Bosses are some of the best parts of games… Most of the time. Then there are the bosses that are so annoying, so infuriating, and so dull and boring, that they may just make worst and not fun to play. For every great video game, there always has to be that one boss that’s gotta ruin it for everyone and just make people have a aspro, acida taste in their mouth. So, today, I want to discuss some of the worst bosses that were ever put into a video game. Now, before I start the list, we have to get the usual rules out of the way first. First off, only one game per franchise and only from games that I have played, so Silver from Sonic 06 will not be on the list, thank god. But don’t worry, these other ten will surely just make up for that. So, let us get underway.
~#10~
Tony Hawk Underground is a game that is not your typical extreme sports game, filled with addictive gameplay, an interesting story, and some decent missions. As a person who isn’t the biggest fan of sports games, or, hell, sports in general, Tony Hawk Underground really did amaze me. But it’s not a perfect game, sadly. Case in point, Eric Sparrow.
#10: Eric Sparrow from Tony Hawk Underground
This Joseph Joestar voice acted motherfucker is one of the most hated characters in video games, and that is for good reason. Backstabbing te again and again, stealing your video to become a pro and leaving te in Russia after crashing a military tank, Sparrow challenges te to one last skate-off around the neighborhood of New Jersey. Simple enough, really? Just beat his score- No! Instead, it’s a game of Follow-the-Leader, and a crap one at that. te need to hit each mark perfectly in order to best him, as Eric Sparrow, while being a cheating sack of shit, does manage to have some skating skills. But that doesn’t stop him from cheating, as he will set the ground underneath him on fire, so if te are right behind him, he will trip te up and cause te to crash, causing te to lose precious time. Oh, I forgot to mention, this boss is on a time limit. If te aren’t fast enough, he will beat you, and da beat you, I mean he will wait for the timer to reach zero while te are trying to pattinare, skate on the damn electric wire. te could argue that this isn’t a boss battle, since there isn’t much fighting, but he is the one final person standing in your way, he is a threat to you, and beating him is required to finish the game. And plus, does anyone want to refuse più reasons to hate a character like Eric? It’s not all bad, I guess. If te play through the story again, te can completely avoid this boss da simply punching Eric in his face and just taking the tape. Now that is the true reward.
~#9~
Skyrim is a game that, despite Bethesda’s poor choices of trying to latte it dry, is a game I still Amore so much. The expansive overworld, the multitude of quests, and the chance to fight off dragons. Fighting the Draghi was one of my preferito parts of Skyrim. It really made te feel like a real champ when te kill them, and are rewarded with them. But sadly, not all the Draghi are great. Sometimes, te get Alduin.
#9: Alduin from Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
I had to replay Skyrim again to confermare if Alduin was bad. Now first, that should be a problem of itself. Alduin was so forgettable that I couldn’t remember how his boss fight was. And yeah, it’s bad. Nowhere near as annoying as later bosses on this list, but bad because of the sheer amount of disappointment. Alduin is in Sovngarde, this game's version of the afterlife, and te need the help of the Heroes that fought Alduin in the past. That sounds like it could be a cool idea. And then te face Alduin and- What is this? Why is he like the other dragons? Why is my health barely being chipped away? Are te goddamn kidding me? It’s just the same AI. Alduin, this fierce dragon, this enemy seen as a god amongst other dragons, is just as strong as any other dragon. Shit, I think Alduin may be weaker than some dragons. The Dragon te fight underground put up più of a fight than him. Why is Alduin so pathetic? I detto Skyrim made me appreciate exploring worlds more, and that is true. But Skyrim also taught me what it’s like to feel disappointment in a game's ending… Alduin is the one reason for that disappointment. I wouldn’t mind so much if I hadn’t been able to kill him with ease da using some random gear I had, because I don’t do side quests until the main quest is over, but it’s still baffling. Alduin had all this to live up to, and he didn’t even try. Hell, Dagon was a better villain, and te don’t even get to fight him.
~#8~
I’m gonna say it right now. I hate Devil May Cry 2. I don’t think I’m alone on that, and how could I be. The game is so damn easy if te just keep firing your guns, the story is all over the place, and Dante is at his worse… Okay, he’s not as bad as DMC Dante, but he’s up there. So, naturally, boring gameplay must mean a boring boss fight, right? That is the best way to describe the Infested Tanks.
#8: Infested Tanks from Devil May Cry 2
This is probably one of the easier bosses on this list, but that doesn’t stop it from being a complete and utter bore. The Infested Tank only has one attack. Rotate the cannone at te and fuoco away. That is as deep as the combat with this boss gets. But once te get up to this thing and attack it with your sword, then there te go. te have pretty much won. Just Slash at the Tank until te have depleted its health and te have beaten it. Though, it’s like they knew that this boss was pathetic on it’s own, so as a way to make up for it, they added three in the same area for te to fight, that way it’s più fun… It’s not. Same strategy, run over to the others and attack when te are close. This entire boss fight is just so mundane. It’s almost as if this boss had più ideas for it but was left unfinished and in this… dull state. It feels like a filler boss, almost, for how empty and lifeless this boss fight is. Just run over, use sword, kill Tank, run to the other two. Repeat the following and te will pretty much have them killed. The enemy and name are stupid as well. It’s just a tank with some demon gunk all over it. And Infested Tank? That’s the best name te could come up with? I know that Devil May Cry is più about gameplay than anything else, but that is seriously the dumbest name I’ve heard for an enemy. But hey, at least this boss’s dull and uninspired… everything fits well with Devil May Cry 2 as a whole.
~#7~
As much as I hate Final fantasy XIII and its plethora of horrible bosses, at the least, it didn’t have it’s terrible traits based on poor translation. So, sadly, I’ll have to turn to the better game, Final fantasy VII. I Amore Final fantasy VII so much, and I am really saddened that I never got to beat it, either due to damages o misplacement. I know, I’m irresponsible. Leave me alone! But, I can safely say that the Guard scorpione is one of the worst first bosses ever conceived.
#7: Guard scorpione from Final fantasy VII
Back on my old (And very dated) worst bosses article, I detto that I hated the Guard scorpione because I was new to the game. While that may be true, when I replayed Final fantasy VII a couple months ago, having been più adapt to the turn-based RPG genre, I can safely say that I now hate the Guard scorpione even more. That’s right, this boss got even worse, the più I looked into it. Sure, it can be a problem if this is your first time play JRPGs, but what really makes me hate this boss is the fact that, when it raises it’s tail, nube, nuvola will tell Barrett to attack. And that is in the English translation. In the original Japanese version, nube, nuvola tells Barrett ‘npt’ to attack. This is because when te do attack when it’s tail is up, it will hit te with it’s strongest attack. It’s not too much trouble, since this is the first boss of the game, but a waste of Potions, and maybe even a Phoenix Down if you’re really unlucky. This boss killed so many uninformed gamers because of pisspoor spell checking. Not that it would make the boss any better, since it will keep it’s tail up for a long time, so unless te need to heal o want to waste a potion, te are forced to attack this boss, as waiting may not be an option. All I can say is, Final fantasy XIII got real lucky this time.
~#6~
(WARNING: SOME SPOILERS FOR PERSONA 4)
Persona 4 is a game that has, while challenging, very few terrible bosses. I was tempted to put some of the bosses in Tartarus from Persona 3, but if te know what te are doing, it won’t be that bad. Sure, their annoying, but at least they don’t regenerate, have large health, and keep the fight going for an eternity… Shadow Mitsuo does, however.
#6: Shadow Mitsuo from Persona 4
After te make your way through The Void, te will find Mitsuo under attack da his shadow, and then, the fight starts. And da god, if te aren’t prepared, te are gonna be here for… quite some time. Shadow Mitsuo will start out inside the 8-Bit Hero, where te will need to break its shell. Be careful, however, as Shadow Mitsuo is able to use Bomb, which causes Exhaustion, which depletes SP, which is necessary to summon your Persona and give te più powerful attacks. But thankfully, the 8-Bit Hero isn’t so bad, despite having two turns inside of one. But once te defeat it, it will reveal the true Shadow Mitsuo, the core. At this point, it is weak and open to attacks, but be careful, as it will begin to recreate the 8-Bit Hero, and if te fail to destroy it before it is recreated, te will have to fight the 8-Bit Hero again. But it gets worse, as Shadow Mitsuo is capable of casting any elemental spell, so it will no doubt knock down at least one party member eventually, and thus, get one extra turn. If you’re real unlucky, he could knock down half of your party. But what’s worse is that it is able to cast Fear, immobilizing party members, and those who are under Fear better be cured of it, otherwise they will be hit with Shadow Mitsuo’s Ghastly Wail and be killed immediately. This is a fight that just drags on and on, and never stops. It makes te just want the fight to end, but Shadow Mitsuo just keeps it going, and you’ll be sick of it before the end.
~#5~
Number five is QTE bosses. Which one? All of them. They all suck.
#5: QTE Bosses from Various Games
I know it’s kind of a cheap shot, but if I ended up putting them on here as their own individual person, we’d be here all day, so I just want to put all the QTE bosses in their own little spot of terrible. QTE bosses are just bad because they require no effort, no work, nothing, and yet, they get made all the time, and I don’t know why. They are not fun, they are not interesting, and they sure as shit aren’t clever. Their mindless, cliched, and pretty annoying. It gets even worse when te are forced to hit the buttons perfectly, o face death and are forced to do the fight all over again. Cutscenes that were once skippable now force te to watch as te have to do hit these buttons. Villains that were once threatening o even perfect are now destroyed when they are defeated in some simple way. Resident Evil, Order 1886, and Far Cry have boss fights based around QTE. But what’s worse is when games make their final boss a QTE, and especially when there were no QTE’s prior to this moment. So tell me why so many games make the final boss a QTE? Shadow of Mordor, Dying Light, and Halo 4, especially Halo 4, being the worst offenders. I have no problem with bosses having little moments of QTEs in them. I Amore No più Heroes and many Platinum games, and they always make te finish bosses o dodge attacks with a QTE, but they give te enough time to react, and are frequent enough to where te expect them. But when your entire boss is a QTE, then there is a problem. These bosses are the problem.
~#4~
Fighting game bosses aren’t always fair. Hell, most fighting games are known for having the cheapest bosses imaginable. Skullgirls as Marie constantly throwing attacks at te and keeping te away. Marvel Vs. Capcom has Galactus hitting te with his size and never missing a hit because of it, and I don’t even wanna talk about strada, via Fighter III’s Gill for healing himself and getting back up. But, I mentioned fighting games, and I mentioned cheap bosses, so te all know who it is.
#4: Shao Kahn from Mortal Kombat 9
Never in my life have I ever felt better to cheat at a game… And that is a big problem. If te are so upset with a boss that te feel that the only way to win is to cheat, than that should be a problem on it’s own. But it’s justified, because Shao Kahn is the biggest cheater ever. He always manages to hit te like a truck, while you’re attacks just barely chip away at his health. Each time te hit him, it feels like te are barely weeding his health down. But when he hits you, he is able to combo te before te can even get a chance to react. And don’t even bother trying to get some distance between te two, because that just makes things worse. He will constantly throw weapons at you, like spears and hammers, and if te aren’t timing it perfectly, he will hit te with them, stun you, and then make a beeline for te and combo your culo before te can chuck your controller at the scream in frustration. There have been video of people beating Shao Kahn, either da using some sort of cheap move, o da hanging back and just waiting the timer out. The only way to beat Shao Kahn, at least from what I have seen, is to just wuss it out as best as te can. Hell, even I had to cheat to win, but I don’t care, because I don’t have fun when fighting Shao Kahn. And this isn’t just me sucking at fighting games, even though I do. Everyone says he sucks, and te know what, at least the world can agree on something.
~#3~
Madworld is such an underrated game. Few people know it, and even fewer have played it. It has some of the most fun gameplay, the best art style, and the craziest bosses I’ve ever seen. From a German soldier that creates tornados to a shogun in a burning dojo. But sadly, not every boss in this game is perfect. And what better place to look for the worst boss in the game than in the worst level in the game?
#3: The Shamans from Madworld
The Shamans may not look to bad, but let me explain. Throughout the level they are in, Mad Castle, the game seems to have this strange glitch where sometimes, your Wiimote won’t read your controller movements, usually when te are in a QTE (Oh, here we go again with QTEs). This is shown when Deathblade, a grim reaper that can kill te in one hit, shows up when te are grabbed. This is foreshadowing for the bad fight with The Shamans. Not only can te not hit them directly when te are in a QTE unless te get real lucky, but they are able to swarm te before te can react, and they are also able to hit te with attacks when te clearly avoid them. It’s like they are so strong, that the force of their attacks are enough to harm you… o maybe they just didn’t test this level properly. Yeah, that sounds about right. te thought the Guard scorpione wasn’t properly looked at. At least it functions, in gameplay. It works, on a technical level. The Shamans do not. They are a completely broken part of the game. They aren’t too annoying in strength of cheap tactics, that would be the other awful Madworld boss, Frank, but for how unpolished, and poorly tested this level was, and how the same is for The Shamans, it clearly proves to be worse than any other boss. At least those bosses function. The Shamans barely function at all.
~#2~
(WARNING: SPOILERS FOR DEAD RISING 2)
Dead Rising is a series I will always love, from it’s gameplay, to its protagonists, to it’s bosses… Most of the time. I was originally going to put the boss, Cletus, from the first game, on this list, but he is optional. Hell, he isn’t even in your Case File, so he’s easy to miss, especially for first timers. So I went with the (Depending on your choices) final boss of Dead Rising 2, Sullivan.
#2: Sullivan from Dead Rising 2
Yeah, the guy who was in the shelter with te from the start. He is an agent for the ones who started the outbreak and is planning on escaping the city, taking the truth with him, and te need to stop him. And it is awful! He is on superiore, in alto of a scaffolding, and while te are on bottom ground, he will either take potshots at te with his gun, o call his plane to send missiles at you, which will create holes in the floor, and if te fall down, te will be dropped into a horde of zombies, and will have to climb back up to the boss. But it gets worse when te are on the scaffolding with him. Here, he will beat te down before te know it. If te shoot him with a gun, he will jump at te and knock te down. If te try to hit him with a melee weapon, he will counter and make te drop the weapon. And there is a chance he can knock te off the incredibly small platform. Good luck getting back up, as there is a chance he’ll just knock your culo off again. And yeah, zombies are everywhere in this fight. And if te thought it couldn’t get any worse, he then uppercuts you, which will bring te down to one hit left. What the fuck!? This bullshit uppercut is the thing that pisses me off the most about this entire boss fight, and makes it a più painful version of the fight with Brock in the first game. What made the Brock fight work was that, I don’t know, not bullshit tactics like this and didn’t give te a false sense of security since DR2 gives te weapons. Plus, at least it made sense from his perspective. Sullivan just kinda became the villain out of the blue and is now one of the most annoying bosses in the game. And he isn’t like Cletus, where he is optional. He is a mandatory boss that te have to fight. And god, he is just the worst ever. I’ll take the fight with Borck any day.
~#1~
This is the boss that inspired this entire list. This is the boss that made me want to put it here just so I can talk about it. I talked about it before on the Dark Souls list. I detto before that the Capra Demon was the worst boss in Dark Souls, but that was because I was very upset at the time due to how dumb it was to have Cani in a small room. While it’s still not a good boss, I also mentioned the letto of Chaos as a worst boss, and just second… I went way too easy on the letto of Chaos before.
#1: The letto of Chaos from Dark Souls
The letto of Chaos is far from the worst boss I’ve fought in Dark Souls. It’s the worst boss I’ve ever faced period. It fails in every single category. Some bosses were boring like the Infested Tanks, some were disappointing like Alduin, some were long like Shadow Mitsuo, some had cheap deaths like Shao Kahn, and some had unavoidable attacks like Sullivan. letto of Chaos is all five of those things. Let’s start with long. The fight seems to be appealing, at first. It’s a giant albero that is alive. te run over to one of the domes on the left o the right. That is when the fight starts to get very irritating. At this point, the letto of Chaos will begin to attack, da trying to stab te with it’s sword, o swipe at te with it’s long arms, which will hit te if te are too close. Problem: te have to be too close, because the platforms under your feet will begin to collapse and leave holes that will never go away, and will kill te instantly if te fall into them. Once te do manage to destroy the secondo dome da some miracle, then the fight will get worse from here on out. But, before that, let’s add onto the long part da adding annoying and boring. The letto of Chaos is also able to use fuoco magic to blow te up, no matter where te are in the stage. And should te die in anyway from this fight, te will go back, not outside the boss door, not inside Lost Izalith, where the letto of Chaos lies, and is also the worst area in Dark Souls, no. te will go back right outside of Lost Izalith. te will have to trek all the way back. Through the lava, through the rubble, up the albero limb, through the stone corridor, up the stairs, through the fog gate, and down the slide just to get another try. This happens every time te die to the letto of Chaos. Sure, others had long runs back, but it was never this bad, and other bosses weren’t the letto of Chaos. And running through Lost Izalith, a place filled with molten lava, is so bright, I actually had to strain my eyes every time I got through. I am not kidding, this level actually physically harmed me. It was that bad. Few games physically harm people, but when they do, te know that there is something wrong. So, with long, boring, and annoying out of the way, as well as cheap kills from those bottomless pits and unavoidable attacks from the magic and hand swipes, how does the rest of the fight fare? Well, after te destroy the two domes, te are forced to fall down a hole, a specific hole, and onto a albero limb, and climb through, only to be met with… a worm. A worm that te can kill in one hit. I know that the story of the Witch of Izalith was that she failed in her spell to keep the flame alive, thus turning into the letto of Chaos, a monster that created the demons te see in the Demon Ruins, but it still doesn’t help how stupid this looks. In fact, that makes it worse. A backstory like that doesn’t help me enjoy the boss anymore. It’s just a waste of good backstory, and it’s wasted on a trash boss like the letto of Chaos. The only good thing about this boss is that it saves your progress, because restarting would be a nightmare. But te still have to go through Lost Izalith when te die, so fuck it, it still sucks! Capra Demon, I owe te an apology. While te are far from great, te at least didn’t have all the qualities of letto of Chaos. Hell, at least the bosses on this lista didn’t have the awful qualities of the letto of Chaos. Not the Infested Tanks, not Alduin, not Shao Kahn, not Shadow Mitsuo, not Sullivan, not any of them. I have never fought a boss worse than the letto of Chaos… And I pray to any deity that will listen that I never find one worse.
~#10~
Tony Hawk Underground is a game that is not your typical extreme sports game, filled with addictive gameplay, an interesting story, and some decent missions. As a person who isn’t the biggest fan of sports games, or, hell, sports in general, Tony Hawk Underground really did amaze me. But it’s not a perfect game, sadly. Case in point, Eric Sparrow.
#10: Eric Sparrow from Tony Hawk Underground
This Joseph Joestar voice acted motherfucker is one of the most hated characters in video games, and that is for good reason. Backstabbing te again and again, stealing your video to become a pro and leaving te in Russia after crashing a military tank, Sparrow challenges te to one last skate-off around the neighborhood of New Jersey. Simple enough, really? Just beat his score- No! Instead, it’s a game of Follow-the-Leader, and a crap one at that. te need to hit each mark perfectly in order to best him, as Eric Sparrow, while being a cheating sack of shit, does manage to have some skating skills. But that doesn’t stop him from cheating, as he will set the ground underneath him on fire, so if te are right behind him, he will trip te up and cause te to crash, causing te to lose precious time. Oh, I forgot to mention, this boss is on a time limit. If te aren’t fast enough, he will beat you, and da beat you, I mean he will wait for the timer to reach zero while te are trying to pattinare, skate on the damn electric wire. te could argue that this isn’t a boss battle, since there isn’t much fighting, but he is the one final person standing in your way, he is a threat to you, and beating him is required to finish the game. And plus, does anyone want to refuse più reasons to hate a character like Eric? It’s not all bad, I guess. If te play through the story again, te can completely avoid this boss da simply punching Eric in his face and just taking the tape. Now that is the true reward.
~#9~
Skyrim is a game that, despite Bethesda’s poor choices of trying to latte it dry, is a game I still Amore so much. The expansive overworld, the multitude of quests, and the chance to fight off dragons. Fighting the Draghi was one of my preferito parts of Skyrim. It really made te feel like a real champ when te kill them, and are rewarded with them. But sadly, not all the Draghi are great. Sometimes, te get Alduin.
#9: Alduin from Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
I had to replay Skyrim again to confermare if Alduin was bad. Now first, that should be a problem of itself. Alduin was so forgettable that I couldn’t remember how his boss fight was. And yeah, it’s bad. Nowhere near as annoying as later bosses on this list, but bad because of the sheer amount of disappointment. Alduin is in Sovngarde, this game's version of the afterlife, and te need the help of the Heroes that fought Alduin in the past. That sounds like it could be a cool idea. And then te face Alduin and- What is this? Why is he like the other dragons? Why is my health barely being chipped away? Are te goddamn kidding me? It’s just the same AI. Alduin, this fierce dragon, this enemy seen as a god amongst other dragons, is just as strong as any other dragon. Shit, I think Alduin may be weaker than some dragons. The Dragon te fight underground put up più of a fight than him. Why is Alduin so pathetic? I detto Skyrim made me appreciate exploring worlds more, and that is true. But Skyrim also taught me what it’s like to feel disappointment in a game's ending… Alduin is the one reason for that disappointment. I wouldn’t mind so much if I hadn’t been able to kill him with ease da using some random gear I had, because I don’t do side quests until the main quest is over, but it’s still baffling. Alduin had all this to live up to, and he didn’t even try. Hell, Dagon was a better villain, and te don’t even get to fight him.
~#8~
I’m gonna say it right now. I hate Devil May Cry 2. I don’t think I’m alone on that, and how could I be. The game is so damn easy if te just keep firing your guns, the story is all over the place, and Dante is at his worse… Okay, he’s not as bad as DMC Dante, but he’s up there. So, naturally, boring gameplay must mean a boring boss fight, right? That is the best way to describe the Infested Tanks.
#8: Infested Tanks from Devil May Cry 2
This is probably one of the easier bosses on this list, but that doesn’t stop it from being a complete and utter bore. The Infested Tank only has one attack. Rotate the cannone at te and fuoco away. That is as deep as the combat with this boss gets. But once te get up to this thing and attack it with your sword, then there te go. te have pretty much won. Just Slash at the Tank until te have depleted its health and te have beaten it. Though, it’s like they knew that this boss was pathetic on it’s own, so as a way to make up for it, they added three in the same area for te to fight, that way it’s più fun… It’s not. Same strategy, run over to the others and attack when te are close. This entire boss fight is just so mundane. It’s almost as if this boss had più ideas for it but was left unfinished and in this… dull state. It feels like a filler boss, almost, for how empty and lifeless this boss fight is. Just run over, use sword, kill Tank, run to the other two. Repeat the following and te will pretty much have them killed. The enemy and name are stupid as well. It’s just a tank with some demon gunk all over it. And Infested Tank? That’s the best name te could come up with? I know that Devil May Cry is più about gameplay than anything else, but that is seriously the dumbest name I’ve heard for an enemy. But hey, at least this boss’s dull and uninspired… everything fits well with Devil May Cry 2 as a whole.
~#7~
As much as I hate Final fantasy XIII and its plethora of horrible bosses, at the least, it didn’t have it’s terrible traits based on poor translation. So, sadly, I’ll have to turn to the better game, Final fantasy VII. I Amore Final fantasy VII so much, and I am really saddened that I never got to beat it, either due to damages o misplacement. I know, I’m irresponsible. Leave me alone! But, I can safely say that the Guard scorpione is one of the worst first bosses ever conceived.
#7: Guard scorpione from Final fantasy VII
Back on my old (And very dated) worst bosses article, I detto that I hated the Guard scorpione because I was new to the game. While that may be true, when I replayed Final fantasy VII a couple months ago, having been più adapt to the turn-based RPG genre, I can safely say that I now hate the Guard scorpione even more. That’s right, this boss got even worse, the più I looked into it. Sure, it can be a problem if this is your first time play JRPGs, but what really makes me hate this boss is the fact that, when it raises it’s tail, nube, nuvola will tell Barrett to attack. And that is in the English translation. In the original Japanese version, nube, nuvola tells Barrett ‘npt’ to attack. This is because when te do attack when it’s tail is up, it will hit te with it’s strongest attack. It’s not too much trouble, since this is the first boss of the game, but a waste of Potions, and maybe even a Phoenix Down if you’re really unlucky. This boss killed so many uninformed gamers because of pisspoor spell checking. Not that it would make the boss any better, since it will keep it’s tail up for a long time, so unless te need to heal o want to waste a potion, te are forced to attack this boss, as waiting may not be an option. All I can say is, Final fantasy XIII got real lucky this time.
~#6~
(WARNING: SOME SPOILERS FOR PERSONA 4)
Persona 4 is a game that has, while challenging, very few terrible bosses. I was tempted to put some of the bosses in Tartarus from Persona 3, but if te know what te are doing, it won’t be that bad. Sure, their annoying, but at least they don’t regenerate, have large health, and keep the fight going for an eternity… Shadow Mitsuo does, however.
#6: Shadow Mitsuo from Persona 4
After te make your way through The Void, te will find Mitsuo under attack da his shadow, and then, the fight starts. And da god, if te aren’t prepared, te are gonna be here for… quite some time. Shadow Mitsuo will start out inside the 8-Bit Hero, where te will need to break its shell. Be careful, however, as Shadow Mitsuo is able to use Bomb, which causes Exhaustion, which depletes SP, which is necessary to summon your Persona and give te più powerful attacks. But thankfully, the 8-Bit Hero isn’t so bad, despite having two turns inside of one. But once te defeat it, it will reveal the true Shadow Mitsuo, the core. At this point, it is weak and open to attacks, but be careful, as it will begin to recreate the 8-Bit Hero, and if te fail to destroy it before it is recreated, te will have to fight the 8-Bit Hero again. But it gets worse, as Shadow Mitsuo is capable of casting any elemental spell, so it will no doubt knock down at least one party member eventually, and thus, get one extra turn. If you’re real unlucky, he could knock down half of your party. But what’s worse is that it is able to cast Fear, immobilizing party members, and those who are under Fear better be cured of it, otherwise they will be hit with Shadow Mitsuo’s Ghastly Wail and be killed immediately. This is a fight that just drags on and on, and never stops. It makes te just want the fight to end, but Shadow Mitsuo just keeps it going, and you’ll be sick of it before the end.
~#5~
Number five is QTE bosses. Which one? All of them. They all suck.
#5: QTE Bosses from Various Games
I know it’s kind of a cheap shot, but if I ended up putting them on here as their own individual person, we’d be here all day, so I just want to put all the QTE bosses in their own little spot of terrible. QTE bosses are just bad because they require no effort, no work, nothing, and yet, they get made all the time, and I don’t know why. They are not fun, they are not interesting, and they sure as shit aren’t clever. Their mindless, cliched, and pretty annoying. It gets even worse when te are forced to hit the buttons perfectly, o face death and are forced to do the fight all over again. Cutscenes that were once skippable now force te to watch as te have to do hit these buttons. Villains that were once threatening o even perfect are now destroyed when they are defeated in some simple way. Resident Evil, Order 1886, and Far Cry have boss fights based around QTE. But what’s worse is when games make their final boss a QTE, and especially when there were no QTE’s prior to this moment. So tell me why so many games make the final boss a QTE? Shadow of Mordor, Dying Light, and Halo 4, especially Halo 4, being the worst offenders. I have no problem with bosses having little moments of QTEs in them. I Amore No più Heroes and many Platinum games, and they always make te finish bosses o dodge attacks with a QTE, but they give te enough time to react, and are frequent enough to where te expect them. But when your entire boss is a QTE, then there is a problem. These bosses are the problem.
~#4~
Fighting game bosses aren’t always fair. Hell, most fighting games are known for having the cheapest bosses imaginable. Skullgirls as Marie constantly throwing attacks at te and keeping te away. Marvel Vs. Capcom has Galactus hitting te with his size and never missing a hit because of it, and I don’t even wanna talk about strada, via Fighter III’s Gill for healing himself and getting back up. But, I mentioned fighting games, and I mentioned cheap bosses, so te all know who it is.
#4: Shao Kahn from Mortal Kombat 9
Never in my life have I ever felt better to cheat at a game… And that is a big problem. If te are so upset with a boss that te feel that the only way to win is to cheat, than that should be a problem on it’s own. But it’s justified, because Shao Kahn is the biggest cheater ever. He always manages to hit te like a truck, while you’re attacks just barely chip away at his health. Each time te hit him, it feels like te are barely weeding his health down. But when he hits you, he is able to combo te before te can even get a chance to react. And don’t even bother trying to get some distance between te two, because that just makes things worse. He will constantly throw weapons at you, like spears and hammers, and if te aren’t timing it perfectly, he will hit te with them, stun you, and then make a beeline for te and combo your culo before te can chuck your controller at the scream in frustration. There have been video of people beating Shao Kahn, either da using some sort of cheap move, o da hanging back and just waiting the timer out. The only way to beat Shao Kahn, at least from what I have seen, is to just wuss it out as best as te can. Hell, even I had to cheat to win, but I don’t care, because I don’t have fun when fighting Shao Kahn. And this isn’t just me sucking at fighting games, even though I do. Everyone says he sucks, and te know what, at least the world can agree on something.
~#3~
Madworld is such an underrated game. Few people know it, and even fewer have played it. It has some of the most fun gameplay, the best art style, and the craziest bosses I’ve ever seen. From a German soldier that creates tornados to a shogun in a burning dojo. But sadly, not every boss in this game is perfect. And what better place to look for the worst boss in the game than in the worst level in the game?
#3: The Shamans from Madworld
The Shamans may not look to bad, but let me explain. Throughout the level they are in, Mad Castle, the game seems to have this strange glitch where sometimes, your Wiimote won’t read your controller movements, usually when te are in a QTE (Oh, here we go again with QTEs). This is shown when Deathblade, a grim reaper that can kill te in one hit, shows up when te are grabbed. This is foreshadowing for the bad fight with The Shamans. Not only can te not hit them directly when te are in a QTE unless te get real lucky, but they are able to swarm te before te can react, and they are also able to hit te with attacks when te clearly avoid them. It’s like they are so strong, that the force of their attacks are enough to harm you… o maybe they just didn’t test this level properly. Yeah, that sounds about right. te thought the Guard scorpione wasn’t properly looked at. At least it functions, in gameplay. It works, on a technical level. The Shamans do not. They are a completely broken part of the game. They aren’t too annoying in strength of cheap tactics, that would be the other awful Madworld boss, Frank, but for how unpolished, and poorly tested this level was, and how the same is for The Shamans, it clearly proves to be worse than any other boss. At least those bosses function. The Shamans barely function at all.
~#2~
(WARNING: SPOILERS FOR DEAD RISING 2)
Dead Rising is a series I will always love, from it’s gameplay, to its protagonists, to it’s bosses… Most of the time. I was originally going to put the boss, Cletus, from the first game, on this list, but he is optional. Hell, he isn’t even in your Case File, so he’s easy to miss, especially for first timers. So I went with the (Depending on your choices) final boss of Dead Rising 2, Sullivan.
#2: Sullivan from Dead Rising 2
Yeah, the guy who was in the shelter with te from the start. He is an agent for the ones who started the outbreak and is planning on escaping the city, taking the truth with him, and te need to stop him. And it is awful! He is on superiore, in alto of a scaffolding, and while te are on bottom ground, he will either take potshots at te with his gun, o call his plane to send missiles at you, which will create holes in the floor, and if te fall down, te will be dropped into a horde of zombies, and will have to climb back up to the boss. But it gets worse when te are on the scaffolding with him. Here, he will beat te down before te know it. If te shoot him with a gun, he will jump at te and knock te down. If te try to hit him with a melee weapon, he will counter and make te drop the weapon. And there is a chance he can knock te off the incredibly small platform. Good luck getting back up, as there is a chance he’ll just knock your culo off again. And yeah, zombies are everywhere in this fight. And if te thought it couldn’t get any worse, he then uppercuts you, which will bring te down to one hit left. What the fuck!? This bullshit uppercut is the thing that pisses me off the most about this entire boss fight, and makes it a più painful version of the fight with Brock in the first game. What made the Brock fight work was that, I don’t know, not bullshit tactics like this and didn’t give te a false sense of security since DR2 gives te weapons. Plus, at least it made sense from his perspective. Sullivan just kinda became the villain out of the blue and is now one of the most annoying bosses in the game. And he isn’t like Cletus, where he is optional. He is a mandatory boss that te have to fight. And god, he is just the worst ever. I’ll take the fight with Borck any day.
~#1~
This is the boss that inspired this entire list. This is the boss that made me want to put it here just so I can talk about it. I talked about it before on the Dark Souls list. I detto before that the Capra Demon was the worst boss in Dark Souls, but that was because I was very upset at the time due to how dumb it was to have Cani in a small room. While it’s still not a good boss, I also mentioned the letto of Chaos as a worst boss, and just second… I went way too easy on the letto of Chaos before.
#1: The letto of Chaos from Dark Souls
The letto of Chaos is far from the worst boss I’ve fought in Dark Souls. It’s the worst boss I’ve ever faced period. It fails in every single category. Some bosses were boring like the Infested Tanks, some were disappointing like Alduin, some were long like Shadow Mitsuo, some had cheap deaths like Shao Kahn, and some had unavoidable attacks like Sullivan. letto of Chaos is all five of those things. Let’s start with long. The fight seems to be appealing, at first. It’s a giant albero that is alive. te run over to one of the domes on the left o the right. That is when the fight starts to get very irritating. At this point, the letto of Chaos will begin to attack, da trying to stab te with it’s sword, o swipe at te with it’s long arms, which will hit te if te are too close. Problem: te have to be too close, because the platforms under your feet will begin to collapse and leave holes that will never go away, and will kill te instantly if te fall into them. Once te do manage to destroy the secondo dome da some miracle, then the fight will get worse from here on out. But, before that, let’s add onto the long part da adding annoying and boring. The letto of Chaos is also able to use fuoco magic to blow te up, no matter where te are in the stage. And should te die in anyway from this fight, te will go back, not outside the boss door, not inside Lost Izalith, where the letto of Chaos lies, and is also the worst area in Dark Souls, no. te will go back right outside of Lost Izalith. te will have to trek all the way back. Through the lava, through the rubble, up the albero limb, through the stone corridor, up the stairs, through the fog gate, and down the slide just to get another try. This happens every time te die to the letto of Chaos. Sure, others had long runs back, but it was never this bad, and other bosses weren’t the letto of Chaos. And running through Lost Izalith, a place filled with molten lava, is so bright, I actually had to strain my eyes every time I got through. I am not kidding, this level actually physically harmed me. It was that bad. Few games physically harm people, but when they do, te know that there is something wrong. So, with long, boring, and annoying out of the way, as well as cheap kills from those bottomless pits and unavoidable attacks from the magic and hand swipes, how does the rest of the fight fare? Well, after te destroy the two domes, te are forced to fall down a hole, a specific hole, and onto a albero limb, and climb through, only to be met with… a worm. A worm that te can kill in one hit. I know that the story of the Witch of Izalith was that she failed in her spell to keep the flame alive, thus turning into the letto of Chaos, a monster that created the demons te see in the Demon Ruins, but it still doesn’t help how stupid this looks. In fact, that makes it worse. A backstory like that doesn’t help me enjoy the boss anymore. It’s just a waste of good backstory, and it’s wasted on a trash boss like the letto of Chaos. The only good thing about this boss is that it saves your progress, because restarting would be a nightmare. But te still have to go through Lost Izalith when te die, so fuck it, it still sucks! Capra Demon, I owe te an apology. While te are far from great, te at least didn’t have all the qualities of letto of Chaos. Hell, at least the bosses on this lista didn’t have the awful qualities of the letto of Chaos. Not the Infested Tanks, not Alduin, not Shao Kahn, not Shadow Mitsuo, not Sullivan, not any of them. I have never fought a boss worse than the letto of Chaos… And I pray to any deity that will listen that I never find one worse.
