Giant bosses where you run towards and chase the boss is good

SoTC is art. That's it. No arguments. Beautiful art.

@@cesarhernandez6861 there is a VR game called Jet Island you may enjoy

@@fridgegaming1544 Then I shall my good man!

i was hoping to see phantasy star online giant boss fight in this video since it is the grandfather of mmo

YES!

I came up on that boss while in the car with my parents. The entire time they thought I was losing or upset because of how much child me was flipping my shit. That boss battle came right the hell out of nowhere and it was incredible.

Lovely memories with that game :)

I used to have trouble with it as my ds had difficulty detecting my mic and blowing but it was fun.

Ohhh boy, just punching the hell out of that robot castle and just seeing it slowly break each phase is so satisfying. And I love how each punch cause koopas and goombasto fly out.

I always treated "phase 1" in the castle as the boss and "phase 2" as a victory lap.

Yeah calamity ganon worst version ganon ever

the calamity boar thing is not a boss, is just a power trip after you beat the final boss. It's a reward, not a challenge.

Yeah both phases had a problem Phase 1: too many weaknesses to exploit and some of the attacks are super easy to avoid Phase 2: anticlimactic and WAY TOO EASY.

@@damp2269 It's a pretty lame power trip to be honest.

And also a pretty good “unbeatable” boss how you need to convince the souls, his power sources to revolt and defeat him afterwards

​@@sillyguy_5559convince? You just pass them attacks to just they revolt against him and heal you

it is certainly very creative! i really enjoyed fighting omega flowey

Undertale's neutral ending is probably the most climactic out of all 3. The true villain of the game. He tricked you at your lowest, and you never saw him again, until the very end when he is the most powerful being in the universe. Maybe I'm bias because Finale is my favorite Undertale song, but the juxtaposition between the terror and hopelessness of "Your Best Nightmare" and the blood pumping excitement and exhilarating satisfaction of "Finale" is so incredible.

@@thenecromancer4113 are we talking about the same ending here? isnt the pacifist ending the one with Omega Flowey and Asriel? been 8 years since i played but i couldve sworn it was just the pacifist route that had OF

THANK YOU. I was amazed when Ultrakill wasn’t mentioned in this

That fight needed music and to get rid of the black hole. it took me maybe 5 tries before i just learned to parry his hand and Railgun if i got low hp

@@darknesshas1 Just move away from the black hole, i agree with the part about the music though.

The fact that you can parry his punches is really what seals the deal for me.

I personally think LEVIATHAN is even better. Is it foreshadowed less? Yes. But, instead of the invisible wall strategy Minos goes with, you can _fucking grapple onto it and wail on it._ That, combined with the big attacks and the _space program_, just make them feel so awesome.

And you cant forget metal gear excelsius, where raiden just rips off one of its massive swords and uses that to destroy it. Sacrificing realism really was the way to go. Like Max0r said, "every game is now just worse for not having this"

@@oricalu448 really wish that during excelsius once you get that sword you could do a little more though...

I don’t talk to people that think Metal Gear Rising is anything less than a 9/10.

@@landonadams9935 oh it for sure is and honestly as a bias rating its a 10/10 on an enjoyment level for me

@@twilight7721 Like slamming it into Armstrong's face when he peeks out of the Excelsius

O&S second stage from dark souls. They shrink down the room just to add more tension to an already incredible fight

I love the fight because of the map you fight him in. The bigger issue personally is it's bullet sponging nature. That fight in particular shouldn't have been Vemon Snake vs Metal Gear, but rather Diamond Dogs vs Metal Gear, with Diamond Dogs calling in support with helicopters and dropping power weapons far into the distance to ensure safe delivery. A boss so threatening it would take a literal army to take down. That could have been a revolutionary colossal boss fight, but it was squandered by a rushed development cycle. Instead of an army fighting against a giant robot, you get a fight where people actively look to cheese because it takes FOREVER to do it normally that it straight up kills the novelty of a giant boss fight. We are actively encouraged to build up Mother Base, why the fuck can't we use it when it mattered most?

Idk when I think of shadows of the colossus the huge maps are part of what makes them epic

@@Xonarag yeah but the proportions are still pretty normal. The colossus’s are WAY bigger than sahelanthropus and their arenas are also smaller.

Meanwhile some of my favorite boss fights are from Metal Gear Rising, where the two metal gear fights are in fairly small arenas and follow mostly the same rules as every other enemy kn the game. Plus, it probably helps that you suplex the giant robots.

And with Calamity Mod the giant boss theme just goes crazy

Hollow Knight's bosses aren't THAT big though, all of them fully fit on screen, so there's no camera problems.

@@DeltaSignIsNotAvailable Oh yeah holy shit the Devourer of Gods, that shit scared me when I first saw it!

@@iveharzing yeah it didn't only scare me, it also scared my 2009 laptop

VisualMT devourer of framerate

It’s obvious how it’s meant to be cinematic by the fact he will miss you with his lasers on purpose

Yeah tp defo did dark beast Ganon a lot better in terms of gameplay combining both regular and wolf link skills

Even Ocarina of Time’s Ganon fight felt more ominous and epic, despite being developed for vastly inferior hardware compared to the switch. It’s a similar 2 phase fight, but in the case of OoT Ganondorf and Ganon both have great and intimidating character models, as opposed to the amorphous blobs with eyes and tentacles that you fight in BotW. In OoT you end up fighting Ganon on a dark field ringed with fire, and only really get a proper look at him when lightning strikes. BotW’s dark beast Ganon is just a big stationary pig that really doesn’t threaten the player in any way. Killing him doesn’t feel satisfying in the least. Here’s hoping that TotK has great boss fights.

And when it comes to Subnautica, killing the big boys feels so good

@@georgesaffos1197 Ikr. Its like u dont gain anything from it, but pure satisfaction. It feels great

I knew I'd find a subnautica fan down here

The abyss leviathan is literally impossible to kill so it's horryfying to run it o when you accidentally go into the abyss and all you see is this GIANT FUCKUNG BEAST charging at you when it decloaks

@@funkie_junkie4289 Unless you mean in Below Zero, it is technically possible to kill the "Abyss" leviathans as they are just adult ghost leviathans.

In Bayonetta the Bosses that are Closer in Size or Smaller are the Hardest. Rodin, Alraune, Father Balder, Lumen Sage Balder, Loptr, Aesir and Jeanne are all bosses who have a low amount of Witch Time Available, Jeanne and Father Balder are an exception since their from Bayonetta 1. Aesir is larger than you, though not by much. The Colossal Bosses like in Both Bayonetta 1 and 2 offer different ways in which you battle them, fighting on a floating platform, surfing, flying, falling and swimming underwater are some of they ways you can battle Colossal Bosses in those games.

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i beat vergil and it made me feel as good as beating a dark souls boss

Honestly one of the best colossal bosses ever. The snake was cool too.

Just saw some gameplay and yeah that looks awesome! I need to play this game.

Sekiro is really on a league of its own

@@SP8inc favorite game of all time. Definitely a must play.

The most cinematic fight in the game by far, well that’s if you don’t count anytime you do a lightning reversal😂

I was hoping there was gonna be someone talking about Hollow Knight. I completely agree with you on all of those points.

Hollow knight doesn’t really have any collosal bosses though they’re all just big, love the combat though

They’re not that big really I wouldn’t call it a colossal boss

@@TwistahsWorld yes and no, I agree that in most games they wouldn't be counted as colossal. However I would argue that In 2D games the colossal bosses are smaller than in 3D so relative to the game and the player size I would call at least at least a few of the bosses should be counted as colossal. :)

@@treelord4644 idk maybe radiance but radiance’s size really doesn’t play into the fight

You don't have to defeat it to climb on it lol.

I think both ruined dragon and Calamity beast ganon are some of the worst examples on how to make a colossal boss.

@@pete5423 Glad to hear your opinion.

@@pete5423 Glad to see that people have different opinions in this cruel world. It gives me hope for humanity.

@@thecatbrat42 are you new here?

I also like the child laughter after you beat it.

Are you talking about Koloktos?

@@Daikon_Micucci yes

I wouldn't really call Koloktos a COLOSSAL boss

Rules of nature

Shara and Safi don't really count as colossal bosses. They're massive yeah but compared to truly colossal monsters like Zorah, Lao Shen Long, Dire Miralis, Dalamadur, Dah'ren and Jhen Moran, and Ceadeus they aren't big enough to qualify

One thing's for sure tho, Goss Harag is definitley not a colossal boss, not sure why they only included it there when Narwa and Ibushi are in the same game lol

@@TheAlmightyPotatoGoss Harag may not be that colossal, but he’s one of my favorite monsters in the entire franchise

@@colehamrick6252 It is very cool, yes

Agreed. I clicked on this video hoping he would talk about at least one Sonic boss even if Frontiers wasn't even out.

The game is really good at building up to the titan fight, where it all comes together, and my lord how worth it is. The way that Giganto absolutely floors you in your first encounter, and then when you tip the scales, Kellen Quinn shows up and knocks it out of the park so you can show Giganto who's the real boss. I also have always been such a massive fan of the fact that Wyvern flies around in the sky for the entire duration of the second island. It makes it so atmospheric, and it's a thousand times better when you're chasing Wyvern over the ENTIRE ISLAND. Then finally Knight, the final test of skill, where we're not learning how to be super sonic anymore, but we ARE super sonic. The end of the fight where sonic can use his cyloop to obtain Knight's very own sword, and SLASH HIM DOWN THE MIDDLE LIKE A GOSHDANG PROTAGONIST is such an excellently climactic moment.

Yeah sonic frontiers did great with the colossal bosses

I still need to play it

Im so glad that Asura’s wrath is getting some spotlight in this video! Such an amazing game, with some of the best fights ive seen in a videogame..

You get a MVP pass for mentioning Dante's Inferno

I mean Asura's wrath is like an interactive action movie rather than an action game, so it can make anything that is emotionally impactful and/or visually appealing feel good, and I haven't played Dante's Inferno and barely even remember what it looked like, but I would argue for the others that they are EXCELLENT games but the colossal bosses in them totally suck. Same goes for Monster Hunter, Dark Souls, Dragon's Dogma, hell, even Shadow of the Colossus, where the smaller colossi were the better ones. The only times colossal bosses work are when they're only colossal in-lore because you're assuming a larger form yourself to fight them, like getting in a mech or something. That said, it's fun to have them for a setting. I like that Dalamadur is something that exists in MH's universe, and that at some point some hunters had to go stop it from rampaging even though it's like a mile long and they're like specks of dust to it. On paper "a tiny human slays a dragon as large as a mountain" sounds badass, but when you see the physical "reality" of it, it's just ridiculous and impossible to execute well.

@@vitriolicAmaranth i would say jhen moran is a fun exception

Monster hunter is also a pretty good example in most cases

The excursion into having enemies that take up 2x2 or even 3x3 tiles on the grid was a really natural place to expand for the series- a long time coming, even. And 3 Houses did it well, both with giving you something to use your massive sweeping batallion attacks on, and using their barriers to complicate and vary the strategies for approaching them (e.g, the giant wolves having weaker barriers that were more effectively broken up close, or the mechanical dolls's barriers completely negating magic).

It really was an amazing move, especially for a grid based strategy.

It was my return toFire Emblem I am so glad I got it!

Advance Wars: Days of Ruin has you fight most of the actual map layout in a really cool fortress siege. Unfortunately, the enemy units you have to deal with _as well,_ make this a lot less enjoyable than it could've been.

I kind of have mixed feelings about it to be honest. With actual bosses, it works great and makes a lot of sense. But when they try to do the same with "standard" enemies, it kind of just turned into a chore to deal with for me, with how many bloated health bars that came up and how much space they often all took up on the map.

Play Ico at some point. Totally different gameplay but the same style storytelling. Shadow of the Colossus is the prequel to Ico.

@@Thor-Orion isn't that game really old and unavailable to play cause it's an old portable game?

@@spacetaco048 no, Ico was a PlayStation 1 game. You can play it on an emulator right now I think.

@@spacetaco048 look at the name of the studio that did shadow of the colossus. Team ICO.

@@Thor-Orion Its also ported in a collection to ps3 alongside SotC so you can play it on rpcs3 or real hardware

was gonna say this. HZD really set my expectations high, they perfected those big machine fights. Always fun fighting them even on the hardest setting.

There is no more fun activity in the game than fighting a Thunderjaw!

That sounds like a crazier version of Skyward Sword's Koloktos fight. Any giant boss fight that lets you use the boss' own weapons against them is peak video gaming if you ask me.

@@PhyreSpore imagine Koloktos but 4 times bigger, attacking like a feral animal and not giving you a second to breathe.

I always wondered how a fight with a titan class would go if it was framed like the fights with the Thunder Jaws or other 2 big Bois. I think a multi hour fight would be fun, with there being save points after every big hit for breaks, like blowing off a tentacle. It would like a game within a game.

Just like her

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Totally agree, I love all the splatoon campaign bosses, and I think that even the final octo expansion boss, the giant laser-eyed statue, is actually quite clever, as it pushes your maneuverability and accuracy.

oh absolutely! splatoon bosses are great fun, although i admit they make me very nervous, like most colossal bosses do... it took me like 15 minutes to beat octoshower my first time through because i kept missing my shots thanks to how much my hands were shaking. good times lmao

It's a shame the marketing for Splatoon isn't the best. If it had better advertising im sure it would lure in newer players. The Splatoon campaign is popular but it mostly gets ignored, it's not as big as something like zelda or mario which makes sense since Splatoon is a much newer franchise but Nintendo really needs to push the marketing for Splatoon (specifically Splatoon 3.)

@@reethelemon I definitely agree, I think generally the surface appearance of Splatoon probably turns off a lot of people that would otherwise really enjoy the game and what it has to offer. On the outside, I'm sure it just looks like another bright and colorful kids game that has nothing for teens or adults, when in reality, it works really well as a game for everyone, with features I think all ages can appreciate! And I totally agree that they should put better marketing towards gaining new players, as I feel they've catered a lot towards existing Splatoon players in their advertising!

The splatoon bosses are perfect for the style of game. They incorporate nice traversal and are goofy but not so it makes the fight feel like a cartoon. Also the music slaps

Kirby has done all of its colossal bosses good, sectonia, void termina(especially the smex one) hr-d3, nova nucleus etc etc

Agreed!

Boosting. Love this idea

Since he often showcases lesser known games, this is really a no brainer.

The struggle. Anyone know the name of the game at 00:45?

@@wellerday7370 pretty sure its spark the electric jester 2

Im sure Monolith soft are still helping and with the Torna final boss (im sure they learned what makes a final boss fight) i am Hyped

The thing is, everything WAS going for that boss... Design, atmosphere, build-up, scale, music...Everything! Except the battle itself. Because i honestly think it's one of the easiest bosses in the franchise's entire history. I wouldn't call it THE easiest (That goes to Link's Awakening Angler Fish), but it's definitely losing out to some very poor competition.

To be honest Ganon was the weakest part of the game, his four minions are just clones of each other, and the fight agaisnt it felt too short for my taste.

BotW is sad because it DID get large boss fights right. Specifically I'm referring to Talus fights. You could also argue the process of accessing some of the divine beasts are large scale boss fights done right too. It's just a shame they seemed to rush over the development for Dark Beast, because it was obviously designed with Shadow of the Colossus in mind and had so much potential to be great.

@@nidohime6233 You can't be serious. Every single blight of Ganon has different mechanics.

And oryx

Insurrection prime was big too (not as much as the others), and the tank usage gave it a lot more pressence.

@@diegocj02 yeah true wish i could've fought it lol

And don't forget the unstable flesh, a single boss that took up all FOUR slots...but was incredibly weak to AoE because of it.

@@dusklunistheumbreon Unstable flesh. Time for Dog.

@@NisseDood Yep lmao. One of the times that the Houndmaster REALLY shone was just using his bleed cleave against the Flesh. Most of the time, it was a pretty bad ability since it did so little damage, and he was a pretty mediocre hero since his damage was kinda bad against non-beasts, and the rest of his kit kinda suffered from being a master of none - he had bleed, mark, heal, stress heal, and guard....but none of that was good enough to really replace any heroes who were just better at those things, except for the mark, which is genuinely very good as far as marking abilities go....but mark builds kinda suck anyway, especially since most of the targets who have enough health to justify using mark tend to have extra turns, making mark expire too quickly to actually do more damage than just hitting them would. But in that one particular instance, he was one of the best possible characters. 4-12 points of bleed (effectively meaning 12-36 extra damage a turn since all three turns of bleed would proc before you got your next turn anyway) and a solid amount of damage, every single turn, QUICKLY rips through the Flesh.

Stallord and Koloktos are definitely two of the best boss fights in Zelda history. Honorable mention for Twinmold from MM as a good giant boss fight. The fight against beast Ganon in TP is also great, especially the "beast against beast" part where you have to grapple and throw him as a wolf.

@@coreywest9597 Molgera too!

Isn’t that the point of bosses and video games in general? Making you, the player, feel epic and awesome! I think easy bosses are okay, if it done in a way that make you feel awesome and incredible.

Although I agree that easy bosses are ok, I wish that some Zelda bosses were a little more mechanically difficulty. I mean they ARE the bosses, but bosses are mostly the easier part of the games; so easy, to the point of me feeling like it's a playable cutscene that will unlock more of the story. I love Zelda, but yeah.... not so fond of the bosses.

Twilight Princess absolutely nailed the bosses as well as the dungeons.

It is a VERY good boss fight.

I would kill for a sequel to that game

@@GuyAngon Like Hades said, gotta wait another 25 years

@@thew00dsman79 ‘Tis up to Sakurai and Nintendo to prove Hades wrong there.

@@thew00dsman79 14 years now! Almost halfway there!

It ties in with the game mechanics as well, since different weapons have different effective ranges.

I liked dj Octavio from splatoon 1 putting you through everything from the single player campaign in a constantly moving environment that isn’t just a giant circle

Its funny that there are so few examples of colossal bosses in FPS games considering they don't run into the problem of unwieldy combat and as long as the arena is well designed, camera issues shouldn't be much of an issue either. Bungie has continued having some pretty big bosses (maybe not quite colossal bosses) in Destiny 1 and 2, some of which have been very good, especially raid bosses. GTFO is also an FPS game with a very cool colossal boss. GTFO is definitely a more niche game, but is fun nonetheless.

@@jellyismyjam7864 yeah, I think that one of the main reasons most FPS games don't do flying vehicles and other targets as well as collosal boss fights while Halo does and pulls it off is in part due to a quirk of the Halo targeting reticle. The reticle in Halo is slightly lower than vertical center, meaning of you drew a line across the screen halfway up your TV, that line will be above your reticule rather than cutting the reticle in half. The reason they did this since Halo 1 was because they wanted to make you look slightly up to aim straight ahead, causing you to get a psychological sense of grandeur in the Forerunner structures. This also means that more of your screen is looking at the sky, opening up the opportunity for flying and massive targets. Most FPS games put the reticle in the center, including newer Halo games made by 343 Industries instead of the OG Bungie, so they don't get this opportunity like Halo does, especially Halo 3. As another bonus to this off-center reticle style, the ammo, shields, and grenade count at the top of the screen don't block so much of your view. Most FPS games have a lot of wasted screen space looking at the floor, but by bringing the reticle down and thus the screen up the empty space is put into the sky where most games would place their HUD elements anyway. This clears them out of the way a by almost the full height of those same HUD elements. So many tiny innovations on the FPS genre were made in Halo that most people don't even know about because the rest of the FPS genre didn't get the memo and just kept making games that really could be that much better if they paid attention instead. It's a loss for gamers everywhere, honestly, as even games like The Elder Scrolls could benefit from this reticle design trick.

@@Will_Forge Very interesting, I was unaware of that. There are also other examples of psychological tricks to draw attention without that specific reticle trick. I believe Half-Life's wires are a popular example.

@@Will_Forge There's an indie game called 'Roboquest' which gives the option of having the reticle not in the middle of the screen, I didn't think of why it would be impactful though!

I always fight those things with a Ghost if I can get one. Brilliant bosses, always loving the feel of tiny man in robot suit with access to many weapons and vehicles vs huge alien robot capable of squashing you and marinating you with your own blood.

What game is this? It sounds Monster Huntery

@@TheRealErurainon horizon zero dawn

I always despised those guys... Probably because I just suck at Horizon lmao

Stormbirds fucking suck.

@@AlfonsoSRT Agreed, stormbirds never got easy for me lol

omg i agree!! such a great battle

Something about Zelda's POV made him look more intimidating.

It was designed to be more of a demo for the destructible demons than anything else. Apparently the Cyberdemon from 2016 is really good, and the original Icon of Sin fight was apparently great, for it's time.

Another fps colossal boss is the corpse of king minos from Ultrakill. He moves fairly slow, but hits hrard with his fists (which can be parried), shoots projectiles, and drops blackholes that follow you. The atmosphere's also great, and the claustrophobic room forces you to move well and parry.

The Icon of Sin’s attacks were one of the few details I really loved about the fight. He wasn’t just going “okay I’m gonna hit right here you better get out of the way before I attack,” no he is *aiming* for you and every attack is meant to hit you. Every punch, every laser, every flame was aimed at the player. Which I feel makes the fight more personal, and makes me enjoy it a lot.

Also The Spider Mastermind from DOOM 2016, it was a "shoot it until it dies" with some nice special attacks, but nothing too special.

@@CesarGameBoy. at that, it seems as if it's slow, lumbering, and powerful at first, until it suddenly hammer-fists at you and swings it nearly as fast as a human being would, it really puts into perspective the fact that it's not big and dumb. It's dangerous, it's freakishly fast for something so big, and it's _intelligent_

If we count mods, calamity has much of that, for example, de DoG

I've always been a little opposed to the calamity mod and other mods along those lines because of exactly that reason. Moon Lord is the final boss. Supreme Calamatis just feels like a bad edgy boss, especially with the quotes she says in the game's chat. If you were to ask my opinion on the calamity mod, I'd tell you that it shouldn't be a mod. Calamity should just be its own thing. I think it's pretty awesome but it doesn't fit into vanilla Terraria that great. The minute of waiting for the Moon Lord to show up is one of my favorite parts of the whole of Moon Lord. Most of the time, you're just standing there, just before the climax of the game where you're left in silence, but at the same time, it's so loud. It really leaves such a noticeable imprint on the boss saying "This is really it." What a joy the boss is too.

Fatalis in World was one of the best (if not the best) large boss fights iv encountered in any game. I have not played the older MH entries.

@@yuomovaeh3028 tbh it's good that you haven't met Fatalis in the older games. He's a genuinely pretty awful fight, just a living, breathing wonky hitbox with sluggish movements and jank attacks. You're really not missing out on much, World Fatalis is an excellent boss.

@@Slaking_ same with world alatreon

@@tacticalpacklimbo129 Alatreon in the old games was actually good, Iceborne Alatreon is good but the elemental DPS Check and the Escaton Judgement was unneccesary and bad.

Ngl without context or mentioning monster hunter just saying fighting giant monster with a giant sword makes me think of berserk.

The Dark Gaia fight shown in the video was a bit lame. It was the bad part of the fight with the slow punches, but most of the fight is intense QTEs. While there are no corridors from what I can remember in that fight, there are multiple runs through the temple parts.

@@EvilParagon4 The Wii version let you throw the punches yourself in a Punch-Out style segment, sure it was a bit, jank, but still more involved and active than the HD version's QTEs

@@ArceusDX wii version of perfect gaia in general was strangely more fun i think, as jank as it was. it was disappointing that the HD version of the fight was just flying around its force field fighting snakes.

I wanted to mention Ori too! I think they did a really good job with big bosses. The last phase of Shriek fight is so unique and unforgettable

You’d love Gigabash and Dawn of the Monsters

Dalamadur is phenomenal. Attacking its claws while they swipe you or its head shoots giant fireballs, and attacking its tail just hanging off the edge of a mountain, ready to turn and come barreling at you any time with a size and speed that makes it seem like a small building is being swung at you. Whatever hitbox you target, you still feel the pressure of the rest of its body on the other side of the map, feeling its giant size and making you wonder how much damage you’re even dealing to it. And then there’s the meteors and wave motion breath attack. Really feels like you’re fighting a terrestrial deity. When it finally snakes around the mountain so you can climb on its back and attack its head, stunning it as it collapses on the ground in what’s the only situation where it actually appears vulnerable…thrilling as hell.

Ikr! That fight was such a satisfying ending to the somewhat repetitive rest of the game

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This.

I always lament that the industry largely ignored Dragon's Dogma's lessons in handling giant monsters. Hacking away at ankles isn't particularly interesting, and being able to systematically break down the boss, climb onto them to reach certain weak points or provok certain actions you can exploit, made large monsters more engaging than usual.

Pretty much the only good Big boss battle that actually feels and looks good to me.

It's an absolute shame Dragon's Dogma didn't make it into this video. It could easily have been the entire "how to do it right" section. Hard to blame him though, considering how little attention the game got in general. That's another shame in its own right.

@@RicochetForce Not to mention if you wanted to you could gain access to magic that felt proper for the scale as well. Finding the safe spot to charge your magic before hurling huge pillars of ice into a titanic monster and watch its health bar drop appropriately to the huge display was amazing.

Yes the flow between the different game mechanics really shines in this fight

Loved the boss fights here. It also gives you a sense of achievement when you fight another one a little further in and actually harm it. And, spoilers in case, you actually get to use one to fight an endless wave of machines, then facing off against another engels in a goddamn robot punchout.

On the opposing side of the spectrum, Grün is a bad colossal boss fight and I dread having to fight it each time I replay Automata. It's got the same issue as Adamantoise from FFXV where it just feels like you're just pumping bullets into a slowly moving wall

@@celeste1823 i agree, not to mention more than half the battle sees you circling the thing instead of actually fighting it alongside being a long, tedious, and annoying fight.

@@celeste1823 I don't disagree, but it was epic enough that I liked it anyway.

I honestly didn't like CC due to its "platforming", but I do see why it is a good game in its other aspects.

Was hoping to see s1 mention it

It was by far one of the best sieges in the series!

Still one of many magic Moments of tri

Dalamadur though. Now THAT is a colossal boss

Hang on, I thought it was illegal to mention Monster Hunter games that came before world.

That game deserved so much more love than it got. I know, it wasn’t the best developed, but it had so much potential. I almost tear up every time I hear “you guy’s are the best…” And Apocalypsis Aquarius is one of my favorite songs ever.

Now that you mention it, in a vacuum, that fight is pretty stunning. Unfortunately, it's ruined by how awful the rest of the game is. I forget it's even a fight half the time because I like to forget about XV

Shara and Safi are my favorite, was about to add Alatreon but I'm not sure if he still counts as "Big" boss Never got to face the Morhans or Dalamadur yet , I'm a Fifth Fleeter myself, tho I have fought Lao Shan Lung and he was pretty damn fun for me too

I know it's hated by a lot of people, but i loved the underwater fights with Ceadeus

Ceadus is and some of the larger winged wyverns are also great bosses!

@@natas5022A rather large portion of MH players, myself included would like to see underwater fights come back, with adjustments of course, because it was just so cool.

@@natas5022 I hold the big blighter in a pretty high regard myself

Yes! I especially loved the final battle with hades as you try to charge your laser. It was an amazing game

But its also 3 different types of games run in sequences. Opening phase is a Railshooter, Second phase is a more typical platformer beat-em-up, and the Boss fight tailors itself to whatever they want to do with it. Its seriously underrated how that game managed to function as good as it did, as so many things could had gone wrong with just the control scheme (DS Stylus) on its own. In fact, the whole game itself is a fantastic case study into a sheer mountain of highly valuable discussions, that translate well into the current state of games being released. Including, but not limited to: - How the original's lack of genre defining characteristics allowed Sakurai to reinvent it any way he wanted. - How they crafted a bunch of lore and characters that all felt like they've always been that way; and how they worked that into both the story and mid-game dialog without being as huge a distraction as it ran the risk of. - Merging up and shuffling 3 radically different genres under a common control scheme, along with how the camera setup (while far from perfect) managed to do a job well when it should had been a total disaster. - And it did one of those genres to peak performance without skipping a beat. - How the year before there was a Yarr's Revenge remake into the same kind of rail shumps, and did everything wrong that Uprising did right. -Hynden Walch is my spirit animal - The whole voice cast and character writing is absolutely on point. - Pulled the most successful plot twist in recent Nintendo history... Twice.... - Executed some of the dumbest tropes in game writing, and flipped them into a good/fun thing - How the gang of composers took like 6 theme songs, and turned it into 3 and a half hours of some of THE best music in the Nintendo catalog. - Is now the second most well known and most played Smash line up where you probably never played (or possibly knew) the game they came from. (Mr Game and Watch still being the champ). - Even the side activities meshed well with the game, even if it wasn't a core part of it. - Did I mention the soundtrack? Because its important to mention the sound track.

Uprising seriously is like, a perfect game

Probably one of the most underrated nintendo gems out there sitting under everyone's nose. How that game failed to create its own on going series using that specific format? Absolutely beyond me.

I think it’s a double edged sword. They love using gimmicks for these fights and when they do work - like the two games you mentioned - they’re magical (specially that final one on Dream Team - such a great throwback to the previous title). However when the gimmick doesn’t land it deflates the whole experience - like the papercraft battles in Paper Jam or the giant Bowser in Galaxy 2, that felt more like a minigame dressed up as a boss

The only downside i can think of is that in the original release of inside story you had to use the microphone for the fire attack

@@History507 My lungs still haven’t recovered from the Fawful Express

Quadraxis was the best boss in that game. And Prime 2 had the best bosses in the series to me.

@@Brandonious15987 I agree, Prime 2 has some fantastic bosses. It's personally my favorite game in the series.

@@ExtremeAce My Favorite is still Prime 3. It has my favorite environments.

Same here. The final phase even makes the boss’s body a mechanic you need to use to defeat the boss.

Midir is almost perfect, but his huge healthpool, high damage output and lack of attack openings make him frustrating and even a bit boring at times, mostly thanks to his lack of variety between his two phases. This boss would be perfect if he had less health, or took more damage to the head, or if he had some more differences between phases. I mean, I had way more fun with Friede and Gael because they both have 3 phases, each with their own twists.

I love midir, I only wish he had more branching movesets (ala sekiro) and less drawn out moves that become memorized and routine very fast

Midir is still a lackluster fight just because it sidesteps a few of the souls games core difficulty rules by having way too much health, having attack windows being too short, and doing too much damage. In that sense, Black Dragon Kalameet is much better, except for not being as large or imposing.

@@necromax13 eh I don’t really care about too much damage and health when his attacks are mostly pretty easy to dodge. The tiny attack windows are pain in the ass though

@@necromax13 I think his hp is fine since you arent fighting a human, but a giant dragon thats a descendant of archdragons. Attack windows big enough to get 2/3 hits in wich is like most bosses in ds and his attacks are really well designed and fair

Don't forget baby GODZILLA himself!

I like how dangerous most elder dragons can be. Even weaker elder dragons inherently destroy the local ecosystem. Mh is pretty good at showing the affects of monsters in the world of mh.

Ya it’s always hard for me to believe the giant is taken down with a bunch of paper cuts on its giant eyeball, but it’s still fun usually.

@@spencercase5370 A challenge? Sure, but it takes me out of immersion.

yea I was hoping that problem would be talked about in the video! like: Oh, I hit a giant with my sword, which is like a toothpick for that boss, and I hit his toe perfectly 5 times - the giant is dead now. What ??

Then there's MGR where it did very good job with giant bosses, just split it wide open. Begin with their limbs, machine guns, rockets, and maybe their arm that has giant high frequency blade so you can use it to finish them off.

The problem with that comes from the requiring of molding the story around the giant boss. If you don't do the legwork of preparing the story to give you the tools needed (either from support, or abilities, or some temporary powerup), then the only way to make fighting a giant boss possible is to dumb it down so that it doesn't use ANY of the advantages being big gives it. If they actually used their size to the fullest, the standard hero would just get swatted like the annoying fly they are.

AND THEY RUN WHEN THE SUN COMES UP

WITH THEIR LIVES ON THE LINE!!!

I agree! Also the great adaptive soundtrack every time your time to hit comes, really one of my favorites x3

Zhu Pharg. 'Nuff said.

I need to put some time into Dragon's Dogma.

The dragon, though, was amazing