In Sonic and Knuckles, the boss of Sandopolis Act 1 is an invincible stone golem. To defeat it, you just walk to the left side of the screen and wait for the golem to jump in quicksand while trying to attack you
I mean, Prince Of Persia Two Thrones literally ends with a boss like this. Strike the dark Prince and he multiplies, meaning you quickly get overran and pin cushioned. Or, better idea, just leg it to the shiny staircase nearby. I'm not even kidding, you just run forward and that's it, there's no tricks or traps, you just go forward and he dies. It's actually kinda comical given he's an edgelord all game (though not as bad as Warrior Within Prince.)
In the second Silent Hill game, the easiest way to defeat Pyramid Head is to just not attack as he can't be killed and let the fight end automatically after a few minutes have passed.
same thing with the last boss of first SIlent Hill. Just spend all ammo before the fight and it dies automatically, probably a measure not to soft lock the game.
The K. Round boss fight in Deltarune chapter 1 follows this logic. Whenever it loses a certain amount of health, it will heal itself almost fully. The only way to win is to compliment it, which causes the crown it's wearing to fall off its head and therefore end the fight
Technically this is more "Hard Bosses You Can Cheese Easily", but I think it counts here, too: The final boss, Fat Cat Robot, from Chip & Dale Rescue Rangers 2 for NES. You're supposed to throw the time bombs it drops, which is extremely difficult, because they bounce off harmlessly, unless you time it just right so they explode the nano-second they touch him. However, most of the time, he just lands on top of them, thus damaging him anyway if you just leave them there, and focus on dodging his projectiles.
Come to think of it... for the Root Pack, you'll technically be one soul short because you didn't kill Ollie during his phase of the Root Pack fight. But finishing the fight gets you the soul contract anyway, for some reason. Guess the Devil doesn't care how you get the contracts, as long as you get them one way or another, so *shrug*
You know you can save BiBi Love, right? After she stage dives, you have a few seconds to fight off the zombies that attack her. She then joins your survivors group. You can also save the tiger by feeding it meat a few times. It'll eventually turn on it's handler and join you.
I remember playing The Darkness with a friend, and at that part one of us was freaking out, the other was yelling HUG HIM! HUG HIIM!!!! And then the character hugged him and we both uncontrollaby went YEEEEEEES!!!!!
In Undertale, you can notoriously spare or kill just about every monster you come across (outside of Shop keepers, and So Sorry on a Genocide Run) but there are a chuck on bosses/monster you can't kill: Those in the True Lab, and the true final boss. The only way to win is appealing to who they were- One notable exception is Lemon bread, (the Amalgamation that's disguised as a Save point), while you can spare them like normal, the fight is technically optional. If you do the Frisk wall dance around them, they won't fight you.
I honestly love the "boss fight" with Odin and how you need to just unequip your weapon to beat it Assassin's creed valhalla is such a fantastic game and didn't get the love it deserved
I think I remember from one of the older lists of this you did a bit on the time it happens in the darkness but in case I'm misremembering that's also a time that happens. Edit lol I should finish the list of included games before commenting.
I've actually beaten the first Baldur's Gate a couple of times, but I never got around to finishing Baldur's Gate 2. I barely rembered this boss from the name, but seeing the encounter brings it back. Imagine playing this in 2000, when it came out. If you were stuck on this boss, it's off to GameFAQs for an enormous text based walkthrough (the game is a very long one) and then hope that the author puts codes in the table of contents for you to Ctrl+F to find the general area that the boss explanation would be. Ah, nostalgia
Gebel from Bloodstained:Ritual of the Night. He's set up as the final boss but you can reach him at about 50% completion. You can kill him, but doing so gets you a bad ending. What you are supposed to do is explore the rest of the castle which leads to a rematch with rival demon hunter Zengetsu. Defeating him causes him to give you his katana "moonkiller" and the information that Gebel's moon demon familiar is actually controlling him. Go back to Gebel and instead avoid his attacks and the moon in the background of the boss arena will turn red, signifying that the demon is watching through the moon. Attack the moon with the katana and the demon will kill Gebel and flee, unlocking the final two area's of the game and giving you access to the real final bosses.
Final fantasy 5 Famed Mimic Gogo at the bottom of the sunken tower in world 3. The boss guarding the Mime Job. Also does Giygas count? U start fighting but to finish it u have to Pray instead.
in the gameboy game kid dracula the boss of the first level is the kid of the grim reaper. once youve beaten it, it cries, runs away and gets his dad to kill you. if you manage to defeat him as well, he also go and gets his father, needless to say a very very old reaper. if i remember correctly, he is invincible, but after evading him for a bit he faints of exhaustion
This is a miniboss in Nioh and not an actual boss, but the last main mission of the Tokai region is the Defiled Castle. It's a pretty crappy mission; pun intended, as you go through literal sewers and there's a samurai in there who begs you to give him balls of poop. Tadakatsu Honda is the miniboss here and he is invincible, but has three large purple crystals in his arena controlling him. Destroy those, and he'll just snap out of mind control and surrender. I heard that it's pretty difficult, but I just turned on the jets to get to those crystals; destroying one from outside the arena before I even fought him; and took him down that way.
i saw the title of this and im like they better include Cecil from FF IV, if they dont we will all riot..hes the most iconic and most notable "do nothing" boss battle.
Technically two of these weren't "defeat bosses by not defeating them", because the onion in vuphead is only a part of a bossfight, and Bibi in dead rising is actually recruitable afterward, so she's less "defeated" and more "reasoned with"
I don't know if this counts, but fighting Songbird in Bioshock Infinite never actually happens? For the majority of the game, they keep building up the fight between Booker and Songbird to free Elizabeth, but in the end, Songbird defeats itself in a cutscene. If I'm remembering this wrong, I'm sure everybody will let me know, but I think this may fit the definition of "Not fighting the boss is the only way to beat them"?
I expected Final Fantasy 5 one. You know, the one with a mime in a sunken temple. You are on a time limit and can't do anything in order. Who thought of that idea?
8:14 That’s cool and all but it’s not true to the video’s title or premise. The whole point of this is bosses you can *ONLY* beat without killing them but despite this you are still able to beat the root pack via killing the onion. I love the videos these guys make but this is just wrong.
Clive might sound like a very conventional name for a hero, but his brother and his friend from childhood take the bland cake with Joshua and Jill. A far cry from your Barrets and Tifas and Aeriths
Spoilers! The penultimate boss in Another Crab's treasure second phase can only be beaten by waiting it out and avoiding their attacks untill their health slowly drains
In Sonic and Knuckles, the boss of Sandopolis Act 1 is an invincible stone golem. To defeat it, you just walk to the left side of the screen and wait for the golem to jump in quicksand while trying to attack you
I mean, Prince Of Persia Two Thrones literally ends with a boss like this. Strike the dark Prince and he multiplies, meaning you quickly get overran and pin cushioned. Or, better idea, just leg it to the shiny staircase nearby. I'm not even kidding, you just run forward and that's it, there's no tricks or traps, you just go forward and he dies. It's actually kinda comical given he's an edgelord all game (though not as bad as Warrior Within Prince.)
In the second Silent Hill game, the easiest way to defeat Pyramid Head is to just not attack as he can't be killed and let the fight end automatically after a few minutes have passed.
same thing with the last boss of first SIlent Hill. Just spend all ammo before the fight and it dies automatically, probably a measure not to soft lock the game.
The K. Round boss fight in Deltarune chapter 1 follows this logic. Whenever it loses a certain amount of health, it will heal itself almost fully. The only way to win is to compliment it, which causes the crown it's wearing to fall off its head and therefore end the fight
Technically the Dark Knight in FF 4 ain't immortal, he has a lot of health, it is possible to kill him, but it's easier to just defend and heal
Technically this is more "Hard Bosses You Can Cheese Easily", but I think it counts here, too:
The final boss, Fat Cat Robot, from Chip & Dale Rescue Rangers 2 for NES. You're supposed to throw the time bombs it drops, which is extremely difficult, because they bounce off harmlessly, unless you time it just right so they explode the nano-second they touch him. However, most of the time, he just lands on top of them, thus damaging him anyway if you just leave them there, and focus on dodging his projectiles.
Come to think of it... for the Root Pack, you'll technically be one soul short because you didn't kill Ollie during his phase of the Root Pack fight. But finishing the fight gets you the soul contract anyway, for some reason. Guess the Devil doesn't care how you get the contracts, as long as you get them one way or another, so *shrug*
You know you can save BiBi Love, right? After she stage dives, you have a few seconds to fight off the zombies that attack her. She then joins your survivors group. You can also save the tiger by feeding it meat a few times. It'll eventually turn on it's handler and join you.
I remember playing The Darkness with a friend, and at that part one of us was freaking out, the other was yelling HUG HIM! HUG HIIM!!!! And then the character hugged him and we both uncontrollaby went YEEEEEEES!!!!!
In Undertale, you can notoriously spare or kill just about every monster you come across (outside of Shop keepers, and So Sorry on a Genocide Run) but there are a chuck on bosses/monster you can't kill: Those in the True Lab, and the true final boss. The only way to win is appealing to who they were-
One notable exception is Lemon bread, (the Amalgamation that's disguised as a Save point), while you can spare them like normal, the fight is technically optional. If you do the Frisk wall dance around them, they won't fight you.
The wall Lemonbread skip glitch is only for Nintendo Switch , I think
@Kowery105 Huh, TIL. Not exactly like I have another version of Undertale to test that
Love the insult contests, but it'd be even better if they fought while doing it. Wonder if any of them have the surname Threepwood
I honestly love the "boss fight" with Odin and how you need to just unequip your weapon to beat it
Assassin's creed valhalla is such a fantastic game and didn't get the love it deserved
That Baldur's Gate 2 bit juuust reminded me of a good way to defeat the Royal Revenants in Elden Ring: Healing damage.
You can do that. I just fought them with a sword. I didn't know that healing magic could be used on the royal revenants.
I think I remember from one of the older lists of this you did a bit on the time it happens in the darkness but in case I'm misremembering that's also a time that happens. Edit lol I should finish the list of included games before commenting.
I've actually beaten the first Baldur's Gate a couple of times, but I never got around to finishing Baldur's Gate 2. I barely rembered this boss from the name, but seeing the encounter brings it back. Imagine playing this in 2000, when it came out. If you were stuck on this boss, it's off to GameFAQs for an enormous text based walkthrough (the game is a very long one) and then hope that the author puts codes in the table of contents for you to Ctrl+F to find the general area that the boss explanation would be. Ah, nostalgia
Empathetic Manifestation is only making me think of the “Emptiness Machine” by Linkin Park and I have no idea why.
Gebel from Bloodstained:Ritual of the Night. He's set up as the final boss but you can reach him at about 50% completion. You can kill him, but doing so gets you a bad ending. What you are supposed to do is explore the rest of the castle which leads to a rematch with rival demon hunter Zengetsu. Defeating him causes him to give you his katana "moonkiller" and the information that Gebel's moon demon familiar is actually controlling him. Go back to Gebel and instead avoid his attacks and the moon in the background of the boss arena will turn red, signifying that the demon is watching through the moon. Attack the moon with the katana and the demon will kill Gebel and flee, unlocking the final two area's of the game and giving you access to the real final bosses.
What about the Mimic from Final Fantasy 5, or Gogo from Final Fantasy 6?
Yes gogo the mimic from FF5 is that. Gogo from FF6 is a hidden character.
You don't fight Gogo in 6, only recruit them.
I was going to mention the demon in the Amanuator temple. Glad you did it before me. :)
Final fantasy 5 Famed Mimic Gogo at the bottom of the sunken tower in world 3. The boss guarding the Mime Job.
Also does Giygas count? U start fighting but to finish it u have to Pray instead.
The first one that came to mind for me was Gogo from Final Fantasy 5.
Also, verse battles were apparently a thing Vikings did.
Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith. The final boss of the game can only be beaten by shutting off your lightsaber, which leads to a cutscene
in the gameboy game kid dracula the boss of the first level is the kid of the grim reaper.
once youve beaten it, it cries, runs away and gets his dad to kill you.
if you manage to defeat him as well, he also go and gets his father, needless to say a very very old reaper.
if i remember correctly, he is invincible, but after evading him for a bit he faints of exhaustion
In Mysteries of The Sith you have to turn off your lightsaber and refuse to fight evil Kyle Katarn
This is a miniboss in Nioh and not an actual boss, but the last main mission of the Tokai region is the Defiled Castle. It's a pretty crappy mission; pun intended, as you go through literal sewers and there's a samurai in there who begs you to give him balls of poop.
Tadakatsu Honda is the miniboss here and he is invincible, but has three large purple crystals in his arena controlling him. Destroy those, and he'll just snap out of mind control and surrender. I heard that it's pretty difficult, but I just turned on the jets to get to those crystals; destroying one from outside the arena before I even fought him; and took him down that way.
Final Fantasy 4 also have the fight VS the King and Queen of Eblan
i saw the title of this and im like they better include Cecil from FF IV, if they dont we will all riot..hes the most iconic and most notable "do nothing" boss battle.
Technically two of these weren't "defeat bosses by not defeating them", because the onion in vuphead is only a part of a bossfight, and Bibi in dead rising is actually recruitable afterward, so she's less "defeated" and more "reasoned with"
Why isn’t Jane in this list? Surely in the top 4!
Wow, great timing. What a way to start my day.
I don't know if this counts, but fighting Songbird in Bioshock Infinite never actually happens? For the majority of the game, they keep building up the fight between Booker and Songbird to free Elizabeth, but in the end, Songbird defeats itself in a cutscene. If I'm remembering this wrong, I'm sure everybody will let me know, but I think this may fit the definition of "Not fighting the boss is the only way to beat them"?
The Legend of Dragoon, Shirley
you just block and she asks questions to know if you are a good person
I expected Final Fantasy 5 one. You know, the one with a mime in a sunken temple. You are on a time limit and can't do anything in order. Who thought of that idea?
Lets not forget OG Final Fantasy 7 where you just chuck an x-potion at Gi-Nattack
That's any undead boss though
Gogo is more iconic than Cecil²
8:14 That’s cool and all but it’s not true to the video’s title or premise. The whole point of this is bosses you can *ONLY* beat without killing them but despite this you are still able to beat the root pack via killing the onion. I love the videos these guys make but this is just wrong.
Odin vs Psycho Mantis, place your bets
“The only way to win is not to play”
-pistol duelists, probably
Where’s Monster Party? With the twin dancers?
Clive might sound like a very conventional name for a hero, but his brother and his friend from childhood take the bland cake with Joshua and Jill. A far cry from your Barrets and Tifas and Aeriths
Yeah but then older games also had "Guy" and "Edgar" and "Rosa".
@BJGvideos "Guy" always sounds like a placeholder name to me. "Let's just call him Guy for now, we'll come up with something cool later"
No love for the Mirror Copy of OG Prince of Persia?
So what you are saying is, "healing damage" is real
Shouldn't Asgore from Undertale be on this list? Basically all Undertale bosses? The Pacifist Route?
Not really. Because they still can be defeated by fighting. Not fighting in Undertale is always a choice.
Spoilers!
The penultimate boss in Another Crab's treasure second phase can only be beaten by waiting it out and avoiding their attacks untill their health slowly drains
I love a good Pacifist Fight!
3. Heal Turn
Y U NO USE CANON EIVOR!?!?!?
I'm really happy with the notification system right now. It only took 6 minutes.
I’m gay
Okay
You can skip all the bosses in Undertale by not playing that shitty game.
4th!
First!
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love the animal abuse jokes. maybe you could try a little light transphobia next video
The hell is wrong with you
My cat keeps watching me whenever I try to be intimate with my boyfriend. I think she's judging my technique or plotting to take over my spot in bed🐱