Fighting Tseng would be a bit sad, since he was helping Zack and Cloud, kept all of Aerith letters for Zack and even was nice to Aerith. Tseng is actually some kind of friend.

Fun fact about Jihl Naabat voice actress Paula Tiso was also the voice of Lulu from FF X

Not only Tseng, I remembered I was anticipating to have a second round with Rufus after a relatively light but memorable first encounter at the roof of shinra building. I’m glad the remake gave that fight plenty of attention though.

Jihl not being a boss before you confront Dysley was a crime. She deserved so much better.

This was fixed with the Remake but I always found intriguing how you never get to fight human Sephiroth in the original FF7 (I wouldn't count the very last fight since is all an scripted event)

A few bosses I would've liked to see take place that ultimately didn't happen - Final Fantasy V - versus Xezat/Kelger, as a test to prove your skill Final Fantasy VIII - versus Seifer, with Fujin and Raijin at his side Final Fantasy XII - versus the Occuria (not Venat)

I hated that Jihl Nabaat was killed off in a cutscene. Fighting her would have been great for Sazh's arc. She should have been made a bigger villain in XIII's story. I didn't expect to fight Anabella since she had no combat abilities, but they definitely killed her off in an anticlimactic fashion. What are her thoughts once she realizes that the Phoenix didn't choose Clive because he was Ifrit? She betrayed Rosaria because she felt going to Sanbreque and joining the Phoenix with Bahamut would make her stronger politically, but ironically she was raising three Eikons (Phoenix, Ifrit and Shiva) in Rosaria. The story could have been more interesting if this was given more attention. Anabella is power hungry and the game should have made her realize that made the mistake in betraying Rosaria. Also, since she thought Joshua was dead, was she expecting Olivier to awaken as the Phoenix? She's doting on Olivier despite him appearing weaker than Clive and even Joshua at a similar age. XVI didn't handle Anabella as well as it could have.

Tseng does seem an odd choice to start with. I mean, yes, he was Rude & Reno's boss... and he instructed Rude and Reno to destroy the pillar holding up the Sector 7 Plate (at President Shinra's order), but unlike Hojo, President Shinra, Heidegger, Scarlet, and Corneo... Although I wouldn't exactly call him a "friend" to Zack, Cloud, and company... he did at times show some signs of having a conscience and moral compass. He didn't seem completely evil, even though his job required him to do things that were undoubtedly evil.

You could fight Jihl in the DLC. She was kinda rough, too.

Technically you do fight Mika... in the Via Infinito he turns into Concherer at Level 60.

I felt that Bahamut from FFXV should be included. If you played all the DLCs and read the novels, you’ll learned that Bahamut has been the mastermind antagonist that he even manipulated Ardyn so he can get power of the starscourge. But as we know, FFXV has been a “beta” during its release with multiple DLC updates that still left the story unfinished. Hopefully in the future there’s a FFXV “remake” to resolve this.

I'm of two minds on Anabella. Obviously she is a horribly awful person and deserved so much retribution after what she had done, but I also don't feel like Clive or Joshua would have ever taken up arms against her, even after all she had done. They are just too good and decent for that. And Anabella just wasn't combat-focused so it wouldn't have been any sort of a fight anyway. I did entertain the idea that she would escape and Ultima would find her and use her as "bait" to get Clive and Co. to show up, and she would be possessed and perhaps transformed into an Akashic boss of sorts, but honestly, I like that we didn't get that. Anabella's villainy was horrific, but despite her cruelty, she wasn't a physical threat and dispatching her would have seemed like a step too far for Clive and Joshua.

You know. I really wanted to fight Pulse and Lindzei and not as just scythes that Bhuni wielded. Pulse had an insanely great design in the 5 seconds we see him in FF13.

I interpreted Anabella's suicide occurring because she went mad and was no longer able to perceive reality upon the return of Joshua, not as an out because she had nothing else to live for.

I love this type of topics, these fun facts that makes you wonder over different FF games to see if they (all or most of them) share that and start wondering game by game is really fun to do; nice job!

I wasnt too happy that i couldnt deliver a good whooping to Anabella. Ive never wanted to punch a character thru my screen as much as her lol

As much as the Judges were played up in Final Fantasy XII, it was a little surprising that you never fought Drace or Zargabaath.

Tseng was such a pushover in Rebirth. I remember in Remake Reno and Rude were quite a challenge (unless you understood their mechanics ^^). In Rebirth they had the characteristics they had in Advent Children.

It would be bittersweet but I would very much enjoy if we get a Tseng boss fight at some point in the next two VIIR games.

I love FFXIII but Jihl Nabaat was such a wasted opportunity.

I hope we’ll be able to fight Tseng in FF7 Rebirth

We never fight Emperor Varis in FFXIV Not really at least The one canon battle we have against him happens within Cid's memories of the Bozja incident, and then Memoria Misera is a non-canon battle based on said memories

I definitely agree with the last one. Such a missed opportunity to create an all-time great villain.

This is one with a slight asterisk, but Golbez in FF4. Yes we have a fight with him in Dwarf Castle when Rydia returns but it's so short. We never got the epic full party battle with him before Zemus is revealed as the puppet master.

It is a bit of a shame that Brahne was never fought, not even once. While her comeuppance was executed quite nicely, it would have been interesting to see what kind of fight she could give since so much of her power came from powerful underlings and stolen summons. I can definitely see the fight being played out very emotionally, as Garnet would have likely had a lot of reservations about using any kind of force on her adoptive mother, even if it were just to subdue her and force her off the throne.

16:16 How would a boss battle with [spoilers] work? That'd be like a Zetaflare vs. a goblin from Stillwind.

Tseng feels not like a villan, but somebody just trying to work with insane bosses.

Momma Rossfield's reveal was too simple and short for how much the game had been building her but i honestly never saw her as a boss

Tseng was misunderstood

Jihl could have been one of the most iconic ff villainess they did her bad

They realized this about Tseng and threw us a fight in Rebirth

I never took Tseng as a villian, and instead as someone who's just trying to do his job. Aeris even said something about how he was the one who was nice to her when she finds him at the entrance of the black pyramid. However we don't get to fight Don Corneo even though probably everyone wanted to. He has his pet take the battle for him.

I kinda wish Anabella served more of a purpose in story like she had the workings of a great mastermind and a really compelling villain like I kinda wish she had more of an impact on the story itself, I also kinda wish that she wasn't regulated to the standard Cersei Lannister villain archetype like i know that it makes sense for the world but when it comes to female antagonists in this game they tend to feel lackluster I kinda feel the same way about Benedikta she was also very underutilized in the whole of the story but she had a little more of an impact than Anabella

Really appreciate the spoiler warning for FFXVI! I have it but haven't had a chance to finish it yet, so being able to turn it off before anything got spoiled was nice. Plan on coming back here after I finish the game.

Hang on, I don’t remember you getting to fight Elena in the mithril mines. I thought they all just took off after she talked too much about their goals.

lol mika was like oh shit yall killed yunalesca. welp im out peace

it would have been nice to strike and cross blades with many of the Zodiac Braves more than once, from the Tactics Ps1 game. Especially being able to maybe finish off a couple of key bosses before they got to disappear or power up. Im looking at you Wiegraf. But its understandable that we fought who we did in those forms. Also getting to fight Jhect in non-summon form! That wouldve been a really cool fight, and being on the recieving end of the Jhect Shot! but whatever ya know. His summon fight with Otherworld blasting was cool too i guess.

If you guys do a list of satisfying villain ends I recommend Galdes from Ring of Fate. He got a ending reminiscent of Diavolo from part 5 of Jojo.

All of these are accurate. I have always said that Kefka was the best villain of FF because his motivation was he just wanted to see people suffer. I think that Clive's mother may be worse because she based her life on the idea of creating and controlling perfection. When she lost what she thought was perfection, she literally couldn't see her other sons begging to be able to forgive her and move on. The only decision that seemed rational to her was to kill herself. Having known suicidal people over the years, I have seen this happen for real. Even with proof that a person matters, they choose to give up. Perhaps the most broken and human villain in the franchise. As much as I hated her character, I understood her.

I would add Nag'molada from FFXI to this list - I was genuinely disappointed that we didn't get to pummel this guy.

Some of these were great antagonists, but I don't think players ever expected to fight characters like Mika or Brahme given that they never demonstrated any kind of combat prowess. They always had lackeys.

I hope we get a Tseng boss fight in Rebirth!

if i ever get my hands on maester mike bro if i ever get my hands on MIKA MIKE bro OMG he gonna get it

I hope advent children is a dlc in the final game of the trilogy

5:07 Thank you for that.

You get to fight Mika's fiend in FFX-2, though.

Holy heck! I always thought emperor G from ffvi was a dog man

#1: In my fan fiction, I sent her to the Cenobites from the Hellraiser universe. Oh dear Anabella, they’ll tear your soul apart…. *Pinehead voice sold separately*

Mika appears in FFX-2 before transforming into Concherer.

Oh yeah I wish Annabella was a boss fight. Even if it was a one shot kill battle, it would have been so satisfying lol.

tseng wasn't really a villain, he just followed orders, but protected aeris behind the scenes, i mean, who you think controlled cait sith?

Will we get a Tseng fight in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth?

The last two aren't fighters in any sense so i can understand them not being boss fights.

I think you made a mistake in your research this time. In FFVI, Kefka never struck Gestahl, it was the waring triad going berserk. Kefka litteraly ask them "Where are you aiming?" during the scene showing he wasn't part of the attack, just a bystander taking joy in the whole thing.

I've been watching FFU recently. What does TPR stand for? I enjoy the content on here and have been curious

I'd like to make a case for FFXII and FFXV with Venat and Imperial Emperor respectfully. In FFXIII it is shown that most of the fiendish events beyond conquest done by Arcadian empire in their war against the Rozarrian empire, is orcastrated from behind the scenes by Venat, a race of divine-like beings called the Occuria. For a series like FF, you'd think you'd get the chance to go toe to toe with the great evil in the climax of the story like so many other titles before it, but no Venat acts like deus machenia so you can have a round three with Vayne by combining to create the boss The Undying. Afterwards there's no mention of him or nothing else to flesh out his character or involvement in the story. Similar in that vain, in FFXV the Niflheim empire has been a constant presence throughout the game as it's primary antagonist, with emperor Iedolas being directly responsible for the death of king Regis (the hero's father) at the beginning of the game, you'd think you'd get some kind of retribution when you finally make it to the imperial capital, but no, the game jumps 10 years into the future for the end game (for contrived reasons) and it's revealed that the emperor in that time has been transformed into a demon enemy to which you do have an annoying encounter with, it's not revealed until afterwards that even was the Iedolas and the emotional impact isn't there.

@2:48 Technically he didn't kidnap Aerith as she had to go freely of her own free will.

Oh man that's weird, I could have sworn I did fight Tseng but upon rethinking it extensively, yeah I didn't. It's been years but I remember everything about FF 7 so I don't know how I could make that mistake.

In Rebirth you finally fight against Tseng

Even though Maester Kinoc got his just deserts, i would have loved a Kinoc V Auron fight

Tseng was a real one.

Lol you do fight tsun in ff7 rebirth

Brahme, Gestahl, and Mika aren’t characters that most FF fans expected to fight. While they had considerable forces at their command, there wasn’t anything about them that suggested they would be a formidable adversary in combat. Additionally, all three games made it very clear that powerful underlings were either manipulating them or would betray them before long. With that said, the pick for FF6 should have been General Leo. We are led to believe he is quite powerful, and that the fight with him would be both difficult and one of reluctance on both sides since the Returners had great respect for the general. FFVI could have very easily had him be a thorn for the party during the world of balance, much like Beatrix would be during the first half of FFIX.

Well Tseng is no longer actual.

Not a FF game, but I would have loved to get a crack at Krelian from Xenogears. Dude committed centuries worth of atrocities and at the end just walked away.

No Delita?

I was wondering who you would pick from FF7 as that game had so many villains to choose from. I'm not sure if any FF game had more villains.

I forgot i didn't fought some if them 😂

I hated Annabella right away. However I hated her more when she told Clive "It should have been you." Proving she only loved Joshua because he was the Phoenix. At least that's how I see the meaning of that line.

I always thought we would fight Mika and its sad we didn’t. They made him a punk and coward just to let him be an optional fight in X-2

>pronounces Cait Sith right >says "Tye-Duss"

I felt cheated by number 7's end. Literally any other end would've been fantastic.

Honestly, I don’t mind not fighting Mika. Sure, he’s an unsent, but he’s still an old man, I don’t think he’d put up that good of a fight. Breaking his lies and false hope so that he willingly accepted death seemed much more satisfying to me, even funny the first time around.

Delita and Zemus are missing.

You have an error in your list. You state that you fight Elena in the Mythril Mines in FF7 but you don’t fight anyone there, you run into the Turks, talk with them and they leave. You don’t fight Elena until the raid on Midgar in disc 2 and that’s only if you choose to.

Noah Gabranth and technically varis from 14 for me

While not "iconic", I wish we could have fought all of the FF12 Judges (even if some of them weren't evil), and maybe got their weapons as loot, that would have been nice

We never fought elena in the mythril mines

kate sith

No Occuria?

Thank you for the spoiler warning! As badly as i want to, i still havent gotten FFXVI. Im avoiding watching playthroughs and want to go in fresh. (Well... i did play the demo... so.. after that point at least.) Cheers!

9 likes and almost 12k views...am I seeing things 👀

Personally? I don't want to fight Tseng. If Reno's his second in command, I don't wanna know what Tseng's capable of. He scares me.

Zemus?

Thanks for the spoiler warning! I immediately stopped the video, lol 😂

Speaking for the Final Fantasy Tactics crowd, for as much conniving and political shit he pulls, love him or hate him... it'd be satisfying to deck Delita in the face. The man outright tells you TO YOU FACE that he's betraying EVERYONE to get what he wants, and Ramza's like "Oh, neat, I'm gonna go off to tell Orlandeau that shit's going down. Kay bye bestie." And one of his associates rolls up and says, "You're betraying him too. Wow." And he retorts with, "Shuuuuut uuuup, you're not my mom. I can betray my best friend for personal gain if I want to." Don't get me wrong, I kinda love Delita. But he's SUCH a bastard, it'd be kinda cathartic to punch him. He needs a good monk-punch to the face.

Delita?

Tseng isn't a villian or an antagonist. He just has a different path than the main group. He had been Aerith's protecter for over a decade, helped Zack and Cloud, Tseng even, on several occasions, told the main group that they weren't enemies, and that the Turks didn't want a fight with them...The turks have never been the enemy...ever

Whoa!

How about venaat from FFXII

Oh I didn't see this was a Final Fantasy channel. I came expecting to see Iimperius from Diablo 3. Man I wanted to beat the crap out of him.

I have a few issues with FFXVI, but story and characters aren't any of them. Annabella is a better Cersei and I wish we had gotten even more with her.

Mika? I would’ve rather had fought Kinoc Like a one one one with Auron

Except you did fight two of them. Not in the original game but when you say “never” it should be never

LAN DI

Here we are, pronouncing Mommy Baabat wrong.

Fighting Annabella?? Lol, she really can't fight though. She's not a bearer. She would be no challenge, save for swinging a knife recklessly and sloppily lol

I don’t really agree with all this. Annabelle especially, just seemed too broken to be someone you’d fight in battle.

You forgot Claude Schmidt for FF7, He literally killed Cloud's best friend.

Spoilers but I was so happy when Annabella died 😍😍