Boss Analysis # 72
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- The seventy-second episode of Boss Analysis, and a sequel to episodes 10 and 34.
When you reach the very end of a game and have to defeat the final boss to order to earn the right to finish the adventure, it can be a very scary and tense time. But not all final bosses are much of a threat. In fact, some of them are utterly pathetic, and there's no way they could possibly challenge you if you've already overcome every other obstacle in the game.
For this Boss Analysis, I cover some of my favourite pathetic final bosses in descending order of "difficulty".
Number 6: 0:43
Number 5: 5:54
Number 4: 13:04
Number 3: 23:24
Number 2: 30:16
Number 1: 37:20
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Although this is mostly a super cut version of the shorter videos, (I view this as how Boss Analysis is meant to be intended, by the way) I've changed some dialogue and added additonal parts that weren't in the original versions. (Earthworm Jim, Kirby and Parodius have the additional parts, Fire Emblem and Earthworm Jim have some minor dialogue tweaks)
Glad you showed off the insta kill for Earthworm Jim. Thanks for the entertaining content!
Consider this
How about a video with the WEIRDEST final bosses? Those who do not fit the rest of the game tone at all!
Bonus points if they are cool bosses!!!
+1
He typically doesn’t take requests.
Garfield Caught in the Act would qualify under this with its pre rendered boss
Ah yes, the Giygas Award.
Culex in Super Mario RPG lol
"the only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing"
*Some players who don't focus on attack patterns end up dying by the same boss over and over again*
Here's a somewhat unusual idea for a video: Bosses or enemies that defeat the player in weird, unorthodox, or humiliating ways. The final boss of Shadow of the Erdtree can defeat you by literally brainwashing you (it even says "Heart Stolen" instead of "You Died"). Funnily enough, it's just treated as a normal death - no special cutscene or bad ending - and you even get a unique emote if you lose the fight this way.
37:01
"Corvo's going to kill you!"
"Ha, possibly, but-"
"No, seriously, he's right behind yo- oh, and there he goes."
These final bosses make you go “Wait that was it?” Also, hearing Ada Wong say “Game Over” in Leon’s voice is incredibly weird and funny. I guess you weren’t kidding when you said this save file had Ada Wong modded over Leon.
I liked the split, bite-sized videos (long enough to not be yt shorts with which I have issues, yes short enough not to erode my lack of attention span) but the proper analyses can never be replaced!
31:20 From what Ive seen, if you grab the key when he says, “Do you think I’d fight you Corvo? Sorry to disappoint,” he doesn’t attack. But if you grab the key after he says that, he attacks. It might be a bug.
When i think of Pathetic final bosses, one frequently comes to mind: Dr Neo Cortex from Crash bandicoot 2.
The sequel might be a serious improvement over the first in every possible way, and that includes most bosses...but somehow, they really dropped the ball with the rematch against the big bad himself. Instead of a climatic encounter in the same vain as the previous fight against him, We're suddenly thrown into the jetpack that had only been used twice before this. And the controls that will take a while getting used to is the closest to a challenge about the fight.
All you do is chase after Cortex and spin him three times before he gets to the end. Howerer, that's the only way to die in this fight. He never attacks you himself, and the asteroids & mines scattered across the path only stun the player for a short while.
In short, the final boss is a chase sequence which is heavily rigged on the player's favor. Which, considering the otherwise improved quality of bosses before Cortex, really drops the ball. Thank good the third game picks up the slack and gives us a infinitely superior final fight.
now that the individual videos and the full set are both out, ill put my opinion down for anyone who wants to hear it.
i prefer longer videos, so watching the full set was a more enjoyable experience for me. that said, i can see the individual uploads finding success given lots of people like shorter videos
Never thought after all these years of watching you I'd see Havelock
When you reach the heart of the evil fortress only to face a cripple. Sometimes it can work for the story, like how in Arkham Origins the true 'final boss' was TN1 Bane and the Joker fight after him was merely ceremonial. It would feel odd if he was anywhere that tough without some sort of enhancement. Better to focus on the up close and personal vengeance dealt to the mastermind behind all the chaos despite them being a mere mortal man instead of a titan.
why are your videos so good mang
Can't wait for a Boss Analysis on The Simpsons for the Arcade
About the final boss of the binding blade: It turns out there is a cut weapon the final boss was supposed to use on the highest difficulty. This wouldve made the boss an actual nightmare to fight against
I don't remember if those bosses were listed before or not, but there is surprisingly more final bosses that are easier or just... there.
Spoilers are in order
- Evelyn from RE7 is just glorified cutscene (which works for finale but doesn't for boss itself)
- Didact from Halo 4 which is the same as up there, just with pressing one button instead
- Time Eater from Sonic Generations for consoles is a joke. Same with Egg Robot from Lost World.
- We all know of Titan Powered Joker from Arkham Asylum.
- Omega from Zero 3 is a joke. Being hyped up and at the end being a joke in all three phases. Phase 2 is propably hardest of them but still not that big of a deal.
- Talking about Mega Man. there is also CRO-RQ from Mega Man DOS, or Wily Machine No. I from Dr. Wily's Revenge.
- Does GTA final bosses count? Because Sonny from VC and Uncle from Chinatown Wars and have to be the bottom of them.
Propably there are more easiest final bosses but that's all I remember.
If they some were shown before, my bad.
Please do a Boss Analysis with Bug from Parodius: Octopus Saves the Earth, Doom from Salamander 2, and the final bosses from the two Game Boy Gradius games. Gradius fans may take them on expecting the typical zero-effort boss...then get shocked when these four final bosses turn out to actually be difficult.
25:02 I have admittedly died to Dark Nebula a few times
Say what you will about the lack of difficulty of these bosses, but at least the music is good.
Love ya videos~
By the way I'd love to see you cover another most powerful characters in gaming ever video, except it's catdog in nickelodeon all star brawl
Future King of Renais: I remember the tales of my Grandfather Ephraim and my Grandmother L'Arachel fighting against the devil
I have some ideas to improve formotis, after you defeat the original formitis he returns once more with this bonus:
Can only be damaged by sacred arms and dragonstones
His attacks have infinite uses and a range of 1 to 3
200 HP
Attack, skill, defense and resistance at 30
Luck and speed at 25.
Give the +bonus should be all 15.
A 30% HP restore at start of his turn.
Once every three turns he cast a sleep/berserk/petrification to all units
The monsters summoned at the first turn have +10 in all theur stats
The only thing with that is that all those weapons are breakable, so it could technically lead to a softlock unless some of them (probably Seiglinde and Seigmund) were also given infinite durability as well.
The only weak final boss that comes to mind for me is the one from an obscure DS port of De Blob 2 lol. (But ig it's also a weak first boss at the same time)
The queen scream is ear piercing
Do one on Most out of nowhere final bosses like Necron
He typically doesn’t take requests.
Needs more Life Virus/Mithos' second form/Dad of Boi: Ragnarok Odin.
Uh, the only source I recognize out of those three is the first MMBN, although you're probably talking about how you have Hub.BAT at your disposal for that instead of how you can skip the fight altogether with a glitch I've nicknamed the Finger Flick.
What are the other two from?
@@RaceBandit Tales of Symphonia for Mithos and God of War: Ragnarok for Odin.
Try doing a boss analysis on Melfice from Grandia 2
Melfice is by far the hardest boss in the game for being...not the final boss.
Out of curiosity, are you planning on doing the inverse (The Most Difficult Final Bosses) in a similar fashion?
It was a very enjoyable video the first time around.
I can't seem to think of many first bosses that meet the requirements, but there's probably some I'm forgetting about.
I was talking about brutal FINAL bosses such as in Boss Analysis #19. Sorry for the mix-up.
For instance, some of my own personal inclusions would be:
-Dark Link from Zelda II
(Though this was already mentioned in a previous video)
-Sonic Mania's Super Sonic Boss
(Seriously, you get way too little rings!)
-Evice and Greevil from Pokemon Colosseum and XD respectively
(Haven't fought these two personally, and I honestly don't want to...)
-Ashnard from FE Path of Radiance
(You have YET to talk about this dude, and I really want you to!)
Oops, sorry, I read final as first, for some reason. I must be going blind.
Yeah, there are plenty of brutal final bosses to cover, I'll have to think about the ones that really got under my skin. Also, I did cover Ashnard in Boss Analysis # 67, which was about the bosses I fear.
Thanks for letting me know about Ashnard.
Was not disappointed!
@@whoisthisgit Here are some:
Bullet King from Enter the Gungeon
Buzz from Spyro 3
Samurai Goroh from F Zero GX
Expert/Master Eye of Cthulhu from Terraria
Megaera from Hades
Falkner from Pokémon Stadium 2
Period/Marduk from Shin Megami Tensei Dx2. Seeing as he's the leader of a Chaos faction, the final boss of Season 2 *and* a high ranking god, you'd expect him to be a threat worthy of being a final boss. Unfortunately, the game didn't actually provide a unique encounter, with phase 1 just being represented by Fenrir and phase 2 by Horcos. These are both demons you've faced before with no fanfare and have little to no connection to his source matetial. The game even uses the normal boss theme.
For comparison, the final boss of season 1 was represented by Lucifer in his Hellel form, the Law faction in season 2 has some of the most interesting story fights in the game and siding with his own faction has you fight a corrupted Metatron.
Another example is phase 2 of the final boss of Hollow World. While phase 1 is a fun challenge, the next battle is just a victory lap as they came back wrong and all of their "attacks" are wallowing in self pity.
I'm not sure mobile games are eligible for Boss Analysis.
@@RaceBandit I can imagine, I mostly just remembered for a brand new reason why Period's fight is underwhelming- Marduk is part of Vengeance's lore
The only boss fights I can think of that are more pathetic than these are the final bosses that are merely Quicktime Events. Sauron in Shadow of Mordor comes to mind, as does Rais from Dying Light.
Boss Analysis 72: Complete?
Not only does Dark Nebula sucks as a final boss, his boss theme is also very meh and forgettable. He is the least memorable Dark Matter form.
It's weirdly coincidental that Nintendo Unity has been cranking out pathetic bosses videos right after you've made videos on several pathetic final bosses.