The fact that Chakravartin is the ONLY boss in Video Game History that has his OWN set of QTEs is just impressive.

Genuinely impressed that he made a God bosses list without mentioning either SMT or Persona.

So this is a really minor thing about Chakravartin, but I really appreciate the contrasting colors between him and Asura during most of the fight

The worst thing about the Hollow Knight is that they're meant to be a thoughtless being, without desire But their desire to be what was required was the one gap in the armor that the Radiance squeezed through.

I always considered each "Arceus" to just be one of the eponymous "1001 hands"

Josh finally got a list where he could put Chakaravardin on without having to leap through any hoops or block because of technicalites!

You know the fight with Chakravarten is epic if it can be perfectly synced to some of the best music ever made. I'm referring to the fan videos that synced the fight with Jet Set Run from MHA and literally any of the Desperado themes from MGR.

Fun fact, Hades was, indeed, a blacksmith. He was not as good as Hephaistos, the god of blacksmiths, be he did enjoy it as a hobby to take his mind off the way he was treated so awfuly by the rest of the pantheon. Look at it that way, if there was a god of cards, it wouldn't means other gods couldn't play cards. Or, as a better example, Hermes was the god of travels (among other titles) but other gods regularly traveled.

“A JRPG isn’t a JRPG unless it ends with Teenagers using the power of friendship to kill God!”-Yahtzee Croshaw

Hearing him finally actually having another character (after Jin) from the Xeno-series on a list makes me ridiculously happy!

The only way I chose todefeat Arceus was through restarting the battle over again. Even though I wanted to throw my controller, catching Arceus that way just felt soooo much more satisfying

"what are we gonna fight the sun?" "I WAS MAKING A JOKE?!"

I’m really shocked there wasn’t a persona or shin megami tensei boss fight, because those series are all about fighting gods!

Ok you legit had me dying of laughter at the "Zeus boy me God" joke, you nearly killed me. 22:46

So if we're doing hard bosses next ... I'll just let this quote speak for itself: "I am Malenia, Blade of Miquella - and I have never known defeat!"

16:18 What makes this fight one of my favorites is that the game's main protagonist, Ike, isn't royalty, or a god, or a vessel, he's just some mercenary. The goddess of Order got pwned by a mercenary that fights for his friends

I wish I had a better word for what I’m describing by, but I’ve been loving the diversity of your most recent countdowns’ choices. DIO Over Heaven as an honorable mention? King Dynal as a number one choice earlier? Ocean Hunter? Etrian Odyssey? Dragalia Lost? Really liking it, shows a lot of new faces that definitely deserve acknowledgment.

Level 1: Save a cat Final level: Kill God! Speaking of which, Ultima from Final Fantasy 16 would be my choice for this list.

a lot of JRPG god bosses are actually demiurges (because Japanese writers apparently love their gnosticism), but I guess they're still technically gods so it counts

I thought Zeus was going to be on the list. All Things Considered you fought Zeus multiple times in God of War and the climatic battle and the power of Hope and such

So....Kid Icarus Uprising Hades, FF6 Kefka and Asura's Wrath Chakravartain....why am i NOT shockdd these 3 made the list.

Okay I'm already at Number 10 and I immediately wanna say this: I've fought Number 10 twice in this game Josh is talking about (not saying for spoiler reasons). Simply put, I beat the boss on my personal file, receiving the reward for it... And then my friend wanted to beat the boss himself, but couldn't, so he asked me to take them down when he learned I did so. Simply put, squaring off against the boss twice and coming out on top both times (with fewer tries the second time) was so very satisfying because it felt like I'd taken down almost everything the game had to offer (minus the sidequests, which, given I decided to start over, means I won't have 100%...yet)

This takes the term “Divine Intervention” to a whole other level.

God of war: everyone Pokemon:arcues in legends Fate samurai: Gilgamesh Tales of series: Maxwell Fire emblem: grima Medues Rhea etc Kirby: literally everything

Asura’s Wrath is such a gem. Not a great game, but amazing as a story.

It's going to be a godly list

I feel like the Princess from "Slay the Princess" could get at least an honorable mention on a list like this.

Darn it, I had hoped to see a Hyperdimension Neptunia boss here, considering the main cast IS made out of Godesses. One day Kurome, one cay.

Even though it didn't make it on the list, I'm happy that Void Termina was acknowledged in the number transition. I consider the final fight against it in the highest difficulty of Kirby Star Allies' arena mode to be the best Kirby boss, and given the kinds of final battles Kirby has on a regular basis, _that's saying a lot_. Not only is the fight itself pretty fun and varied (and the music really good, with the final phase having a rather somber track that lasts 6 minutes by itself), but the idea of Void reincarnating in different forms depending on the amount of positive and negative energy gathered is super fascinating from a lore perspective (and also implies that Void might turn into a 2nd Kirby-like being because of the core mimicking Kirby's face, which is wild).

I’m genuinely surprised you’ve never mentioned Kefka’s FF14 fight(s) as far as I recall. It’s definitely a fun interpretation of the boss brought into both 3D and MMO format, at least in my opinion

A bit disappointed by the lack of Megami Tensei bosses like Brahman from Digital Devil Saga 2, Shekinah from SMT Strange Journey, Yahweh from SMT IV:F/A and Matter Lucifer (he absorbed Yahweh and transcended his existence, making him either a god or a being beyond a god) from SMT V. From gameplay perspective at the very least these are excellent bosses, while only Brahman and Yahweh have a more grand scale of spectacle.

Waiting for the eldritch bosses list if that one hasn't been done yet! "Who did you expect in the end of all this? God? The Devil, perhaps? No... It's just... *ME* "

Hey! It's nice to see Octopath at least get an honorable mention :)

Now I'm wondering what other lists Dragalia bosses can fit on (unfortunately Volke and the twins missed their opportunity).

I'm glad to see Etrian Odyssey referenced here. That series was one of the few I've followed over the years and more people should know about. One game I'm surprised didn't get onto the list at all is from Crosscode. You get a literal god fight against the four minor gods and the main god at the end of the last dungeon of the game in the DLC and there's the fight against the Avatar that's the climax of the main game.

The thing with Bahamut in dragalia gets increasingly more interesting when you know that throughout the several cygames titles, he is always destroying and remaking worlds. "Rebirth and destruction, here at my command. Rebirth and destruction, again and again."

Wait a minute… Chakravartin’s main method of attack is just… *_extreme_* tennis? With their fists?

If I had to give my own favorite, it'd have to be Kat Kraydel from Yo-Kai Watch 2. Idk if it counts, but you do go through basically heaven to get to them, so probably... Though, their fight is ALSO hard as balls, since they have attacks that hit your whole front row, and can lock your wheel down so you can't cure status effects. It's a SUPER hard fight, that I've only seen pulled off using teams specifically to counter that.

What do you call Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo when they're depressed? The Moddy dark crusaders.

2: If I did not have heard about FF VI beforehand, I´ve might enjoyed this fight more. 3: A boss fight with great comedy 8: Really enjoyable boss 9: Entertaining boss. Nice list, but there are some obvious bosses missing. Yami or Nyx Avatar for instance are missing (I would put them over that Simpsons boss fight).

Little surprised you didn't bring up Chrono cross, there are basically three gods in that game. Fate the computer that literally surpassed god, the dragon god(s) a single dragon deity that split in to seven lesser forms by said computer, and lavos (devowerer of time) who is basically a god of destruction.

I think Death is a terrifying boss type though we could go all out with death in all media from games to movies to tv shows.

I'd argue that Jubileus could have easily been a full on part of this list, she's always so big, creates black holes that instantly kill you if you are sucked in and have to start over. She constantly alters the entire terrain, and even after you kill her by punching her soul into the sun, after summoning another goddess yourself-with some help-it's still not over as her body is falling to Earth and if you don't destroy it, the Earth will be destroyed itself.

One of my favorite God Bosses of all time is the final battle between Zeus in God of War III.

30:58 That's another SaltyDKDan Friendlocke reference! I doubt it's hinting towards anything but I'd watch you stream a friendlocke in a heartbeat! Also for another top 10 idea I'm thinking Knights, that'd probably be fun

7:35 - Also give the assist on that to Reyn, since he also constantly pushed Shulk toward freeing Zanza. Now I know the reason for this was that in the original cut of the story, Reyn was going to be the Disciple and not Dickson (literally the reason why he kept telling Shulk to stop overthinking things). But they changed it at the last minute because they felt that it would be cruel to cut the party by two members (Reyn and Sharla, who would've been killed by Reyn in the reveal) during the last act of the story. So because of the change he wasn't a villain anymore, just a moron.

Never realized that we were actually dealing with an avatar of Arceus and not the actual one. It actually makes a lot of sense too

Josh-Is Dragalia Lost going to be the new Trails? Me: Yes

Wow. I'm surprised the final boss from P5 didn't make the list

4:19 I actually remember playing the Simpsons Game as a kid. The story was crazy, the characters were very fun to play as, and the references to both video game history and the show itself were great.

In my school vr game, there are 3 god bosses 1 is the Raiden shogun, which was more of a removal of the Skibidi Parasite fight next is Nhadakhan the Dijinn from Ninjago (at the time he can make his own wishes) which is a perthetic excuse of a boss and finally Jubileus who fight is in the Metal Gear Rising Revengance category

2:35 I actually knew that before Legends Arceus came out, and it’s true in more ways that one. I learned that from VsBattlesWikia. 16:33 And also a Saurian, probably. 17:17 Amulets and Havik, the Mortal Kombat coincidences are piling up!

If Chakravartin isn't at least at 3, I'm going to be very disappointed in you, Josh. *Edit:* You have chosen wisely, Joker.

Technically you can still play Dragalia Lost. Just not officially. There's an emulator online that allows you to play the game again, if i recall you can even play it on pc

Goes to number 1 right at the transition i get a pizza ad that was perfect comedic timing

I find both your honorable mentions for Fear & Hunger interesting, because I agree with neither of them Go'gorath is a very surface level pick for a Devil figure. Sure he's the God of destruction and violence, and wishes for such acts to be committed in his name, but the games always make it clear he is a force of nature, not evil. And I think a Devil figure has to either explicitly cause evil, or be opposed to the established Pantheon of Gods. In regards to the first definition, I feel Rher is a better fit. While the other Old Gods simply abandoned humanity, Rher wanted to stifle it, leaving servants like The Pocket Cat in the world to snuff out any potential humanity had. In regards to the latter half, I feel Le'Garde fits better, seeking to become something greater than The Gods and forever break humanity from their influence. For his goals and hubris, I would have chosen Le'garde as the Devil figure. And there's also the Sulfer God, who is supposedly the other half of All-Mer, Fear & Hunger's edgy Jesus. But there's so little about him he would make the list For the god, I find Sylvian to be the most boring. Don't get me wrong, she's an interesting take on a loving god, whose love went was so deep that she became distraught that humanity could never love her that much back and plunged it into an age of mindless lust as a result. But I feel every other God in the game is more interesting. I personally would have chosen The God of Fear & Hunger. For being the climax to the first game, the horrific results of getting the girl to where her mother told you to go, and for being an all around interesting take on a god. Having driven humanity to advancement by negative means, Fear and Hunger being the driving forces

5:57 Fun fact: In the PS2 version of The Simpsons Game, the "Hii" console is called the "I Am".

Maybe that’s why we haven’t gotten Kid Icarus Uprising or Asura’s Wrath on modern consoles yet: *They fear their power.*

Is that a new Intro !? It's so smooth

The whole thing with Bahamut in Dragalia was surprisingly that he wasn’t evil, but he was willing to go to extremes to stop Xenos. A fear that’s completely justified considering Xenos DID succeed at destroying the Multiverse, which is what Bahamut tried to prevent.

Asura's "Extend arm" moment has to be one of the best-feeling moments in a boss battle... possibly in any game, ever.

One honorable mention I'd like to bring up is YHVH from Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse. In a series where you collect and fight gods like trading cards (sometimes literally), YHVH is special in a few ways. First, he's one of two bosses in the game who uses fully animated 3D models instead of 2D sprites, which is already jarring enough - the only other character who does that is Shesha, who I'm made to understand is the entity who destroys all of creation at the end of each cycle. Second, he's the ONLY fight in the game (aside from the DLC fight against the superboss Stephen) in which you swap back and forth between two parties in order to fight him. You and your demons alone don't cut it, you need the help of the cast of the previous game (two of whom were previously the leaders of the Law and Chaos factions, and also the final bosses of their game). Lastly, you don't fight him in the way you fight everything else. You can't just hit him really hard, partly because he resists *everything* except Almighty - forcing you to use a special ability to slowly lower his resistances in order to be able to do damage with anyone other than your main character - but also because he's different from every other demon in the game. You have to use the human power of "Understanding" and, either by yourself or with the help of your allies, refute every claim he makes to godhood in order to lower him to the level of a demon. You have to reject every lie and excuse he makes and expose him for what he truly is, literally altering reality in order to make him vulnerable. And when you finally do whittle him down, he goes from the infinite golden visage of the almighty to just another demon, albeit a terrifying one that can wipe you off the face of the universe if you aren't careful (and sometimes even if you are). He's one of the hardest mandatory bosses in SMT, and he really makes you feel like you're confronting the lord almighty. Also anyone who tries to say his name gets censored by the universe itself. Nobody else in SMT history has ever gotten that treatment. That alone speaks volumes if you ask me.

after seeing Athena on the Devils countdown, I was fully expecting either Hydaelyn or The Twelve on here.

I got scarred flashbacks of my multiple losses to Ashra during her entry on the list.

VISIL: ALL FORESTFOLK IN THE LABYRINTH MUST BE EXTERMINATED!! EXTERMINATE!! EXTERMINATE!! PC: ...wait, God's a peppershaker?

I'm... not entirely sure how much it counts, but the final boss of Mary Skelter Nightmares is a fight of _epic_ proportions. (Spoilers ahead) So... Snark. We hear about this dude _constantly_ throughout the game. The King of Nightmares, an unstoppable force that the Blood Team is repeatedly told to not fight against and to simply run away from. Eventually, we learn that Professor Tohjima, the man we (kinda) trusted since the beginning of the game, actually _is_ Snark... and is also an alien... and is also abysmally weak. He was hyping himself up _on purpose_ so that we would avoid him and let his plans go unhindered. Those plans? Use the white core that lays within the Jail's moon to become a god that would be able to recreate his dying homeworld; a task that was _supposed_ to be pulled off with the Theophil seeds alone, but was thwarted by their assimilation of human stories and concepts. And he actually kinda _succeeds._ When he uses the power of the Witchcraft (the white core in question), two things happen. One, Hikari (a sweet human girl that you meet at the start of the game and then reunite with near the end) is transformed into an angelic being _quite literally called a goddess_ on multiple accounts. Two, the Jail Nightmare is born: Snark fused with _the Jail Tower itself_ and that could very well pull off his desire to terraform the Earth for his people. And the fight is _utterly insane,_ utilizing a mechanic that was only utilized once before in the game: giant boss fights. As one may expect from a living tower, the Jail Nightmare is _gigantic,_ forcing the Blood Team to climb up to the top and chop away at him until he's no more. And as... easy to break as these giant battles are, the sheer scale remains unmatched through both of the game's sequels. You need Hikari's help to even _fight_ this thing, her creating the floating platforms you go between to slice this thing apart. And it has some very powerful attacks too, including Felony, an AOE magic attack that completely destroys any attempts at cheesing the fight with Cover. TL;DR: Go play Mary Skelter. The games are really fun and can even be kinda brutal sometimes, the characters are incredible, the OST is _god-tier,_ and it just kinda becomes a freaking _horror game_ at times, which is really cool for an Etrian Odyssey style dungeon crawler.

19:54 Yeah, I don't know how Radiance thought this was a good idea

I was hoping to see Odin from God of War here. That was one helluva boss fight.

Sir Gideon ofnir: a human cannot kill a god Every jrpg protagonist: hold my consumable healing item

i have a particular interpretation of chakravartin having his own qtes that i'm surprised i don't see elsewhere, but to be fair it has to do with a somewhat uncommon idea in gaming that the real world is a higher plain of reality inhabited by beyond god like beings compared to even god like beings in video games themselves, and by applying this to chakravartin, him having access to the players mechanics means he is so godlike that he's on our level, that his true form is practically a real person.

Honestly when I saw that Kefka wasn't number one, i knew itd be Chakravartin.

Kinda surprised Bhunivelze from XIII-3 didn’t make the list, but y’know, Kefka bias wins in the end.

I’m gonna start a drinking game every time Josh makes a TFS reference

What good timing, cause I started on an art piece for the final boss of an event in an Art Game I play. And She happens to be the Goddess of Life! And she is mad!!!

"so many knives she could get a job at annoying Orange" lol!

Here I was thinking there's no way we can get through a god boss list without a FF game. And I was right. Happy to see Dragalia and Xenoblade on here too though!!! More love for my games. The Pokémon entry was also a treat.

Surprised at the lack of Megaten bosses on this list

Let's be real here, we all knew the number 1 pick! This list was practically made for him! Never change, Josh, never change! 😊

1:53 - I'll take 'Web Animations That Aged Poorly' for 500, ghost Alex!

I'm more then a little bit surprised to not see a God Of War boss on this style of list but then again there are more than enough bosses from both the Greek and Norse series to be their own list.

Like his Top 10 Devil Bosses last month, I’m very surprised that a series that has gods as a focus, Shin Megami Tensei doesn’t even have a spot in this too. I was expecting YHVH from SMT IV: Apocalypse having a spot there. XD

Kinda surprised the god of evolution from ys 8 wasn’t mentioned.

22:50 And this is just the best part of the video hands down.

4:21 Actually one of the first games I EVER played. Sadly it was *long* before I'd understand any of its many, many references.

I am suprised to have seen Sylvian from Fear & Hunger as an honorable mention, i would have much rather picked the titular "God of Fear & Hunger" or "Gro'goroth" instead. Otherwise, i am just happy to see Fear & Hunger getting acknowledged, its a great indie game series.

Before the premiere, I'm guessing we're going to see: Arceus (PLA) Chakravartin (Asura's Wrath) YHVH (SMT) Radiance (Hollow Knight)

All the TFS clips in this video... *Chef kiss*

Glad that someone is talking about Etrian Odyssey but I don't think that Vasil can be consider a "God". Overlord from EO2 would be a better pick. He lives in "palace in the heaven" ,he creates new life forms and has fallowers who consider him to be a God.

Kinda surprised that YHWH from Shin Megami Tensei didn't even make the honorable mentions list, considering that he's an enemy in so many.

I just realized how much Hades reminds me of the version of Alucard from Hellsing

Funnily enough, "catchable Arceuses are avatars rather than the real thing" was my headcanon all along.

Odin in Jotun is not trying to smite you down. He is testing you.

My favorite boss of all time is YHVH from Shin Megami Tensei 4 Apocalypse. The mastermind behind everything and creator of all his presence is felt through the whole game as the Devine Powers are guning him you finaly corner him in his own dimension only to see him in the form of infinite power itself only to deny his godhood to drag him from his throne and reveal his true demonic form as a dragon formed of the plagues of egypt as 7 trumpets sound helfire begins to rage and YHVH revals his true nature as a petty bratty tyrant promising you'll suffer for an eternity for this humiliation to force him into his lowly demonic form even the punishments he gave Lucifer are too good for you now as a metal remix of the first battle theme in SMT4 begins to herald your triumph as you clash with the big man himself striping him of more and more of his power revealing him to be just another demon like the other gods who he striped of their power and then he finaly falls leaving you to either take his place in the Anarchy route or build a better world with the suriveing humans and peaceful demons either way the final battle is over and god is dead and you killed him with your own two hands and feel like the fucking man for doing it. Sad this didn't even get an honrable mention :(

Suggestion: Top 10 Arcade Game Bosses (Mainly because I would love to see you dive into House Of The Dead)

I forget, have you done a list of Top 10 Eldritch Horror Bosses yet? If not, I'd love to see it!

The Radiance be like: I heard you like bullet hells.

I'm not sure if you've done it before, but I think a top 10 of your favorite bosses would be cool

Darn, not even an honorable mention for Ultima from Final Fantasy 16. Then again the one per franchise rule. Maybe we'll see him in Eldritch Bosses

Ashera just stole my heart.

12:09 Their hinting at the next game in the series!!!!!