@@joshscorcher Hello, I have a question. Why did you choose Starfire vs Blaze, because you may not know this, but we all know Starfire will beat Blaze easily due to a massive power differences between DC and Sonic and the possibility of Starfire scaling to other DC heroes? I'm not mean, just curious, because I was hoping we can choose Blaze vs Mereoleoana from Black Clover and save Starfire for another opponent like Captain Marvel.
Kinda a shame that none of the WoW Old Gods were on this list. I feel like the lore, boss fight and personality of Yogg-Saron would have at least got it up into the top 5.
When you spoke of The Girl, right when you said "ascend," I got an ad for Pizza Hut... A Pizza Hut advert... in Fear and HUNGER That is just filthy add placement.
It's interesting to think about Giygas in this context. Yes, he's scary and since most kids have never played Mother 1, they wouldn't know who he was. But Eldritch creatures (At least in my mind) can't be properly defined or be something beyond our comprehension. Giygas is big, scary, and weird, but he DOES have a concrete explanation as to what he is. He's an alien with psychic powers driven mad by his own uncontrolled emotions. Granted, there's still unknowable variables that justify his placement, like why the Devil's machine makes him look the way he does or what exactly happened to him between Mother 1 and Earthbound. At least I think so
The thing is though by Mother 2 he's no longer just a lonely alien who misses his mom. He's driven to the point of such insanity that he literally wants to destroy everything blindly. You literally can't comprehend what it's doing to your party.
Yeah, I haven't played earthbound, but what I think could add to this would be if the other Aliens were the ones asking for your help after Giygas mutated. Like, "We are an advanced civilization who can travel between galaxies and time itself and even we have no idea what we're looking at."
@@bradleyadams5252 Exactly. What he *WAS,* was a psychic alien with Mommy issues. What he *IS,* is an entity that is no longer bound by the constraints of four dimensional Space-Time.
Not surprised on who won the list The film Josh was talking about is _Kenpei to Barabara Shibijin._ Never heard of it before but it's basically where the path to creating Giygas started so…
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who once had the childhood experience of walking into a movie night at the right time, though the movie that traumatized me was Raiders of the Lost Ark… and I’m pretty sure most of you know which scene I’m talking about!
I love Cult of the Lamb so just seeing it get mentioned makes my day! On tiny thing to mention about Lavos though. If you take the Epoch and crash into Lavos with it, you skip the first phase entirely. But what is really strange if you go through the Black Omen, beat the first Lavos phase and back out, then go back to 1999 A D... If you go by foot, the music dies down as you don't have to redo the first phase again.
@@dragonrider7649 I mean tv tropes lists Fecto as an eldritch abomination, and Leongar calling him “the great one” is similar to Lovecraft’s “Great old ones”
Honestly, like the list, kinda glad there was mention of Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass in there, super underrated game. Hope we see it in more countdowns in the future.
fun fact: it was recentl;y discovered that giygases boss form, which had long been therosied to resemble a fetus....is actually a HEAVILLY distorted, twisted and horrific take on his alien form upside down. the 'fangs' in his mouth are his weird little mewtwo horns.
probably worth clarifying that fans have proposed this as a theory for at least a decade as far as i remember, usually as a more likely explanation by people who didn't like the fetus one, it's just it has recently usurped said fetus theory as the most agreed upon explanation.
I may not be all-too fond of everything Lovecraft put in his books, but credit where it's due, he definitely gave the genre of horror a truly iconic concept :)
@@C0ZMIK5K1TTL35 actually it was his father who named the cat. and his inclusion in the book was a tribute to a cat he loved. so yeah, terrible name but a not horrible reason for why we know it.
The fact that the first boss in every Kirby game is a cute tree and the final boss of almost every game is an Eldritch abomination really shows that Kirby lore is gigantic. And the best part is that every future game will reveal something that will make us rethink everything we knew about Kirby lore.
If I had to guess something from Bloodborne, my money’s on Ebrietas, Daughter of the Cosmos. She’s even an Eldritch-being by canon according to FromSoftware…
Simple as it sounds… that plays into the eldritch theme. It never provides a name for itself, and existed well before humans had invented the words to properly describe it. The only thing familiar about it was the destruction - “Big Fire” - that it caused.
19:44 I really didn't expect you to cover Mago, especially here! I like to watch the videos of the guy who directed the game, Pepe el Mago. Yes, the main character is a self-insert of himself... XD
Here are some List Ideas for the possible future Top Ten Horror Game Monsters Top Ten Good Moments in Bad Games Top Ten Bad Moments in Good Games Top Ten Food Themed Bosses Top Ten Sociopaths Top Ten Death Battles Top Ten Movie Games Top Ten Most Hated Game Companies
I got one for the movie list: Peter Jackson's King Kong. Somehow made a game where it's half a dinosaur horror game when you play as Jack (especially when you encounter the Vastatosaurus Rex or V. Rex), while the other half is a satisfying Dino beat 'em up when you play as Kong (again, when you encounter the V. Rex's... Notice I made it plural meaning up to 3 at once). It also has the bonus of an alternate ending if you meet the proper requirements.
For sociopaths, I’d definitely say Simeon Saint (aka Simon Keyes) from Ace Attorney Investigations 2. He may have seemed harmless when you first meet him, but by the end of the game, you uncover his true face, and his revealed backstory is quite insane.
I absolutely agree with number 1# because Giygas was honestly the most terrifying unknown and built boss i had ever seen or felt. His presence is great his power is great his build up is great his atmosphere is great and his boss fight is great. Amazing list Josh especially for the Halloween season.
To give people the simple definition of “Eldritch”, if you were to google its definition in an instant that is: *Weird and sinister or ghostly* I’d argue ghosts deserve their own boss list honestly, but that’s your average definition for these types of bosses…
I think ghostly doesn't quite sum these things up. Eldrich implies an aura of mystery, something that we don't or can't understand, that doesn't play by our rules and has motives we can't decifier.
For something to be considered eldritch, it must defy the natural laws of the universe as mortals understand them. It breaks the internal logic of the work and lies beyond mortal comprehension. It’s very presence strikes fear and madness into the hearts of mortals.
For something to be considered eldritch, it must defy the natural laws of the universe as mortals understand them. It breaks the internal logic of the work and lies beyond mortal comprehension. It’s very presence strikes fear and madness into the hearts of mortals.
For the darkest dungeon: The local man ruins EVERYTHING, and a descendant has to make a deal with an eldrich thing beyond even the heart to deal with local mans mistakes and experiment's
Let's see, obviously there will be a Kirby Boss. I think Void is the most Eldritch of the Roster. Other creatures I think would be good here are Giygas (Earthbound), Lavos (Chrono Trigger), Phantoon (Metroid), Omega Flowey (Undertale), and Maruki/Azathoth (Persona 5). Also something from Bloodbourne.
An honorable Eldritch boss in my opinion is Riven, of a thousand voices She is an Ahamkara, a “Wish Dragon”. They feed off of the wishes they grant but not exactly. They feed off of the reality between what you actually want and what you’ll going to get, Like monkeys paw. It takes 6 guardians sent to kill this monster, but in reality it was a trap. Through the gaurdians effort and will, they have indirectly made a wish. The wish placed the dreaming city into a time loop, forever trapping and tormenting
Right when I’m getting ready for the best part of October you appear in a blaze of glory to give us the spoopiest kind of Top 10 😎😎😎 Thanks for the new Top 10, Josh and go hug your furbabies all 💙🐱💙
"Then in the darkness, someone shouted, "It's The Beast! Big, scary beast appears in the Black Forest!" " "Yes I have been so afraid" (Insert all the ordeal texts here, aside from Indigo all the ordeals literally qualify here) "Have I not chosen you the twelve? And yet one of you is a heretic!"
As much as I would've loved a Project Moon boss here, all of them aren't really what I'd qualify as amazing bosses. But then again, Narinder was included at number 10...
Ideas for future videos: Top Ten Worst Universes in Fiction to live in Top Ten MLP Community creations Top Ten Disney Villan Songs (Lets be honest there wont be any good disney movies or villians in a while) Top Ten Worst Cannon Endings
@@UltimateGamerCC there are people who asked and liked said remakes, there are more good ones then bad. If things like sequels worked like Inside Out 2 and Deadpool & Wolverine then so can remakes and live-actions too, Little Mermaid from 2023 respected, had soul and it was really good. Also this whole "nobody asked for" is one of the biggest lies on pop culture ever.
@@UltimateGamerCC It is a lie. And there are way more good ones then bad. Generalizing is wrong and unjust. Pop culture fans need to be better then this.
Eldritch Abominations are very tricky to locate and define, considering how inherently abject and uncanny they are. Because what makes them terrifying is not just the unknown - it's how their very nature supercedes what is natural. While the word "eldritch" means weird or sinsiter, the heart of Eldritch Horror is that they are beyond the natural. The choices in this countdown are, for the most part, good picks for such a difficult topic. I will admit that I do not agree with all on this one (such as Mergo's Wet Nurse and I think the Pulsating Mass kind of eliminates itself from this list), but I would agree on many other things such as Majora, The God of Fear and Hunger and of course Giygas. Especially when considering how the eldritch thematics play into the boss fights themselves.
seeing Chaos as an entry for this list makes me happy, im just glad to have fought and recognized one of these bosses before having seen the video, because thats usually not quite the case when i watch these types of videos
On the subject of characters fighting characters, in a potentially less killy way like Death Battle does, and it being the Halloween season, I think it could be fun to see the Pines Twins (Dipper and Mabel from Gravity Falls) vs the Carver twins (Wren and Reynold from Costume Quest, both games and the Amazon animated series). None of the bosses from the Costume Quest games qualify as Eldritch entities, to my understanding, but some of the bosses are definitely different takes on monsters than you would likely suspect.
My honorable mentions. The witness Destiny 2 the final shape. Shub Niggurath Quake. Drawcia Kirby canvas curse. Double Skullgirls. Leviathan Dead Space. The indignation Fallout New Vegas the frontier mod. And The mystery boss low G-Man.
15:19 I think that's kind of the point. A lot of things are unseen without Insight, and it seems the Wetnurse is beyond what even the players can acheive in terms of sight.
Growing up, I used to be afraid of clowns, from my point of view they were Eldritch horror I couldn't comprehend. In reality, they were just dudes in makeup.
I was not expecting to see a glimpse of the final boss from Fossil Fighters in the short that linked to this, but you have my full attention because to this day, I have no idea what that thing was.
I'm surprised Kirby didn't make it past the honorable mentions, given how bizarrely eldritch the franchise's bosses can be, especially in stark contrast to the protagonist and 90% of each game.
Hey! Illusion of Gaia wasn't by Square, it was by Enix (and Quintet)! But oh god I'm very glad to even see it referenced. Playing as Skull Kid in Hyrule Warriors gives a very interesting view of Majora since it's clear at parts that Skull Kid is very much not in control here. But...how much? What does it feel like when that happens? After some attacks, Skull Kid just...hangs there loosely in mid-air, dangled from the mask, before regaining what he can of himself. I didn't see anything that would require a trypophobia warning in the Bloodborne segment. Gore sure but trypophobia? For an embodiment of chaos to have a predictable attack pattern seems to defeat the purpose. Wait how would Giygas, the clearly most obvious boss in all video game history for this list, not meet your entertainment standards? Y'know what gets me is how Giratina is described in canon as eldritch but to us it appears in a perfectly understandable form. Forms. But... it's said by Volo, who at that point is essentially Giratina's personal emissary and priest. What has he seen that we don't?
Hoping this leads to some Hachetfield representation in the next volume of Great Villain Song (I will never give this up until we get a volume including Let It Out)
20:56 I didn't expect to see Pepe el mago's game here but what do you know, cool that you enjoyed it josh, oh and yeahm this game was made for a Latino youtuber
Null from Echoes of Wisdom might be too new to join this list, but for a Zelda villain that existed in the Void before creation...that's at least worth an Honorable Mention.
@@CountShaman Of course Majora deserved a spot on this list especially when Majora's forms seemingly came out of nowhere to shock many young LoZ fans in the early 2000s. My point is that Null from EoW could've gotten at least a Honorable Mention or a small shout out here. The journey to Null is also worth mentioning as it appears as though Link and Zelda are traveling through a cold, rotting, purple corpse complete with sickly wet floors, large strands of double-helix DNA, odd bodily fluids, the remnants of things that fell into the rifts long ago, and the fact that none of it is pulsating as if it were still alive. That said, EoW is still relatively new, and trying to explain Null could be seen as a spoiler for those who haven't beaten/played the game yet. Nightmare from Link's Awakening, Vatti from Minish Cap (or one of the Four Swords titles), or Bellum from Phantom Hourglass could also be seen as an Eldritch Boss, but I wouldn't expect them to receive anything higher than a Honorable Mention either.
I have to mention one in sad is not so well known, Thalamus from Deaths Gambit, I mean to meet him you are taken to the depths of some kind of ocean(at least in appearance) where the enemies form become even more grotesque (and some phases lean heavily into eldritch territory itself) the way has a boss that you have to let yourself be killed, attacking it harms you, all the way there are scenes where he taunts you and attacks the main character mentally, and his boss fight alters controls, splits the screen and in general messes with your perception of where the attack is, and that's on the first time (I won't go into too much details cause this is already long enough but yes, it's literally an eldritch abomination boss)
The mythos and questions around Lavos gets even more crazy once you get into Chrono Cross. I feel like if you included that Lavos would be a lot higher on this list.
I personally was hoping to see The Nameless God from Salt & Sanctuary on the list, but I have to tell you Mr. Scorcher : you putting Giygas at Number 1 was absolutely: the correct decision , just because a choice is "predictable" or "expected" doesn't make it wrong.
Josh: We need to try to keep things kosher for this next entry Me: Whatever it is I'm sure it's not that intense Josh: Fear and Hunger Me: Nevermind. Fair enough.
The thing with Giygas that terrifies me is that we're not even facing the strongest it's ever been. Meaning, in another timeline, there's a Giygas that's way worse than what we've met.
The unknown, the incomprehensible, the illogical. These are usually the main characteristics of Eldritch/Lovecraft beings and images. I always am inspired by this type of story and art since if the image cannot be described by mortal understanding, it leaves a large window to the imagination.
Surpised that not even one of the bosses from World of Horror (a game based on Junji Ito's stories) made the cut. Not only are the major bosses some of the most well known Eldritch Horror characters, but even the smaller bosses you have to fight at the end of a Mystery are based on them as well.
I think the Elder God from Legacy of Kain deserves a mention on this list. Fought as the final boss of the last (though hopefully not final) game in the series, Defiance, it is revealed that it has been the prime mover of the entire conflict that has pervaded the story of the series and its world of Nosgoth, representing the "Wheel of Fate", a never-ending cycle of birth, death, and rebirth that it purports is necessary to the natural order of the world, and led to it being worshipped as an all-powerful deity by the race of Ancient Vampires who initially ruled Nosgoth. After the vampires warred with a race called the Hylden, who refused to submit to the Wheel and worship it, they sealed them away in another dimension, which warped them slowly into demons, but before they were banished, the Hylden retaliated with a final revenge in the form of what initially appears to be the curse that forces the vampires to drink blood, which drove them mad. However, the true nature of the madness wasn't in the blood curse, but rather the immorality it inflicted upon the vampires, who were thus forcibly removed from the Wheel of Fate. Because of this the Elder turned from them in disgust and came to view them as abominations who were of no further use to it. This is because the Elder itself is really just a massive, ravenous parasite that feeds eternally on souls, and uses the Wheel of Fate and the cycle it perpetuates to ensure it has a never-ending supply of them. I won't get into the rest of the plot details, because it absolutely should be experienced, but the Elder's ominous, omnipresent nature makes it one of the most memorable and most loathsome antagonists in all of gaming, and while the final showdown between a purified Kain and the monstrous entity itself isn't exactly an especially epic one, the sheer magnitude of the moment lives up to it, as the legendary Tony Jay's menacing voice booms and rumbles with pure malice in every scene he's in. The Elder begins the final confrontation arrogantly assured of its victory, only to have its omniscience and certainty shaken as the purified Soul Reaver is able to harm it. At the end, after its momentary defeat, it angrily declares the inevitability of its claim upon Kain's soul, to which the vampire retorts with one of the greatest comebacks ever: "Till then, you'd best *_burrow deep."_*
One of my favorites is the Darkness from Skylanders: Superchargers. He’s an incredibly powerful being from another world that wants to conquer the universe and also happens to have a weirdly sexy voice
I wonder how many people besides me saw the design connection between Lavos' second form and pre-Imperfect Cell? I understand Akira Toriyama has an artstyle, but you'd think he would try and make things unique for each of his major projects
'Eldritch' is one of those things the meaning of which has been unfortunately diluted by overuse until it means different things to different people. For some all you need is enough pulsating flesh and tentacles to earn the moniker, while other versions are judged by the negative effects of merely mentioning their name ('Beetlejuice!') or something related to them. I suppose Eve/her baby U.B. from Parasite Eve doesn't count because they come from SCIENCE, or rather a radical mutation caused by SCIENCE? Hoping to see top ten ghosts or werewolves later on this month.
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@@joshscorcher Hello, I have a question. Why did you choose Starfire vs Blaze, because you may not know this, but we all know Starfire will beat Blaze easily due to a massive power differences between DC and Sonic and the possibility of Starfire scaling to other DC heroes? I'm not mean, just curious, because I was hoping we can choose Blaze vs Mereoleoana from Black Clover and save Starfire for another opponent like Captain Marvel.
Someone hasn’t beat echos of wisdom if they’re putting major as there Zelda pick
You got Kizakoto on that? Nice.
I really hope Josh doesn't screw up this boss list like he did for both the Demon and Holy boss lists.
Kinda a shame that none of the WoW Old Gods were on this list. I feel like the lore, boss fight and personality of Yogg-Saron would have at least got it up into the top 5.
Girl: _Unites mankind_
Legarde: But... this isn't how I want it.
Girl: _Peels Legarde's face off with purifying ember_
you're that guy from a fails list nintendo i think!
Glad to see that "Darkest Dungeon" made the list :)
You can't have eldritch abominations without Darkest Dungeon/Fungeon.
Wait… are _you_ one of the wolves he was talking about?
@@kylestubbs8867 ....... No comment.
I didn’t know Josh played that game
drwolf!
When you spoke of The Girl, right when you said "ascend," I got an ad for Pizza Hut...
A Pizza Hut advert... in Fear and HUNGER
That is just filthy add placement.
I got one for football
I got one for Cult of the Lamb.
At least mine is appropriate? 😂
NO ONE out pizza's the hut, their power is beyond what we can fathom!
I'm surprised that he didn't mention that if you turn No.1 upside down its "face" is actually what it used to look like before it got all distorted.
@harryguidotti3815 I'm surprised he didn't put any sea of stars bosses on the list.
It's interesting to think about Giygas in this context. Yes, he's scary and since most kids have never played Mother 1, they wouldn't know who he was. But Eldritch creatures (At least in my mind) can't be properly defined or be something beyond our comprehension.
Giygas is big, scary, and weird, but he DOES have a concrete explanation as to what he is. He's an alien with psychic powers driven mad by his own uncontrolled emotions. Granted, there's still unknowable variables that justify his placement, like why the Devil's machine makes him look the way he does or what exactly happened to him between Mother 1 and Earthbound. At least I think so
The thing is though by Mother 2 he's no longer just a lonely alien who misses his mom. He's driven to the point of such insanity that he literally wants to destroy everything blindly. You literally can't comprehend what it's doing to your party.
Yeah, I haven't played earthbound, but what I think could add to this would be if the other Aliens were the ones asking for your help after Giygas mutated. Like, "We are an advanced civilization who can travel between galaxies and time itself and even we have no idea what we're looking at."
@@bradleyadams5252 Exactly. What he *WAS,* was a psychic alien with Mommy issues. What he *IS,* is an entity that is no longer bound by the constraints of four dimensional Space-Time.
"You got a lotta nerve being alive!"
Best quote.
_Is_ that thing even alive?
Not surprised on who won the list
The film Josh was talking about is _Kenpei to Barabara Shibijin._ Never heard of it before but it's basically where the path to creating Giygas started so…
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who once had the childhood experience of walking into a movie night at the right time, though the movie that traumatized me was Raiders of the Lost Ark… and I’m pretty sure most of you know which scene I’m talking about!
@@princesspixel3151 Melting faces?
@@bradleyadams5252 Yup. It was THAT scene.
@@princesspixel3151 God told those Nazis " don't touch my stuff."
The movie's English name is actually the Military Policeman.
Fear and Hunger. Because Super Eyepatch Wolf did a very good job at showing you why the game is brilliant but also deeply disturbing!
I love Cult of the Lamb so just seeing it get mentioned makes my day!
On tiny thing to mention about Lavos though. If you take the Epoch and crash into Lavos with it, you skip the first phase entirely. But what is really strange if you go through the Black Omen, beat the first Lavos phase and back out, then go back to 1999 A D... If you go by foot, the music dies down as you don't have to redo the first phase again.
I’m expecting at least one Kirby boss to appear here.
Out of all the Kirby bosses which one do you feel like is the most Eldritch?
And one Sonic final boss.
@@dragonrider7649Probably the Void Termina or Fecto Elfilis.
@@Thenumber1yoshi I wouldn't really consider Fecto Elfilis as eldritch, but Void Termina on the other hand. Yeah, he's definitely eldritch
@@dragonrider7649 I mean tv tropes lists Fecto as an eldritch abomination, and Leongar calling him “the great one” is similar to Lovecraft’s “Great old ones”
Honestly, like the list, kinda glad there was mention of Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass in there, super underrated game. Hope we see it in more countdowns in the future.
fun fact: it was recentl;y discovered that giygases boss form, which had long been therosied to resemble a fetus....is actually a HEAVILLY distorted, twisted and horrific take on his alien form upside down. the 'fangs' in his mouth are his weird little mewtwo horns.
probably worth clarifying that fans have proposed this as a theory for at least a decade as far as i remember, usually as a more likely explanation by people who didn't like the fetus one, it's just it has recently usurped said fetus theory as the most agreed upon explanation.
I may not be all-too fond of everything Lovecraft put in his books, but credit where it's due, he definitely gave the genre of horror a truly iconic concept :)
In many ways he was a product of his time and his life nothing but bad luck.
He gave his cat a most unfortunate name. Poor cat.
@@C0ZMIK5K1TTL35 actually it was his father who named the cat. and his inclusion in the book was a tribute to a cat he loved. so yeah, terrible name but a not horrible reason for why we know it.
The fact that the first boss in every Kirby game is a cute tree and the final boss of almost every game is an Eldritch abomination really shows that Kirby lore is gigantic. And the best part is that every future game will reveal something that will make us rethink everything we knew about Kirby lore.
I'm not sure if you done this one yet.
Top 10 Cutest Boss Battles
I already made that suggestion and recapped it to him several times, so you’re not the first I will say!
I vote Jose's [optional] boss fight from Persona 5!
Like the whole battle is cute or the boss is cute?
@@BJGvideos The person you encounter
may LOOK cute, but was able to pack quite
a punch! Bonus points for a cute setting
or music track.
@@BJGvideos ...Yes.
Predictions
Obligatory Giygas
A Kirby boss
Something from Bloodborne
If I had to guess something from Bloodborne, my money’s on Ebrietas, Daughter of the Cosmos. She’s even an Eldritch-being by canon according to FromSoftware…
You’re right on all three in some way.
2/3 ain't bad.
@@jameslawrenson1208 technically all 3 if you count honourable mentions
Any form of Dark Matter from anyone game counts
Cavemen sees fire:-
"Fire big! Fire big!"
Simple as it sounds… that plays into the eldritch theme. It never provides a name for itself, and existed well before humans had invented the words to properly describe it.
The only thing familiar about it was the destruction - “Big Fire” - that it caused.
19:44 I really didn't expect you to cover Mago, especially here! I like to watch the videos of the guy who directed the game, Pepe el Mago. Yes, the main character is a self-insert of himself... XD
I didn't expect to see Pepe el Mago's game in one of joshcorcher's video
Ok, now you got me interested in looking up Mago!
The creator, pepe el mago, is a good video game youtuber, you should check it out
i did not expect Mago to be here, good to see that latinamerican developers are getting attention
Here are some List Ideas for the possible future
Top Ten Horror Game Monsters
Top Ten Good Moments in Bad Games
Top Ten Bad Moments in Good Games
Top Ten Food Themed Bosses
Top Ten Sociopaths
Top Ten Death Battles
Top Ten Movie Games
Top Ten Most Hated Game Companies
I got one for the movie list: Peter Jackson's King Kong. Somehow made a game where it's half a dinosaur horror game when you play as Jack (especially when you encounter the Vastatosaurus Rex or V. Rex), while the other half is a satisfying Dino beat 'em up when you play as Kong (again, when you encounter the V. Rex's... Notice I made it plural meaning up to 3 at once). It also has the bonus of an alternate ending if you meet the proper requirements.
Your 2nd and 3rd ideas are lists he already did, but they’re quite old, so I wouldn’t mind seeing updated versions.
For sociopaths, I’d definitely say Simeon Saint (aka Simon Keyes) from Ace Attorney Investigations 2. He may have seemed harmless when you first meet him, but by the end of the game, you uncover his true face, and his revealed backstory is quite insane.
23:23 I can hear that noise in the background. Trying to trigger everyone's PTSD without even naming the game first? Brutal.
23:02 Failboat Jumpscare
I absolutely agree with number 1# because Giygas was honestly the most terrifying unknown and built boss i had ever seen or felt. His presence is great his power is great his build up is great his atmosphere is great and his boss fight is great. Amazing list Josh especially for the Halloween season.
To give people the simple definition of “Eldritch”, if you were to google its definition in an instant that is: *Weird and sinister or ghostly*
I’d argue ghosts deserve their own boss list honestly, but that’s your average definition for these types of bosses…
I think ghostly doesn't quite sum these things up. Eldrich implies an aura of mystery, something that we don't or can't understand, that doesn't play by our rules and has motives we can't decifier.
I would add "taking on vague, hard to describe characteristics, that are unpleasant."
Besides, Josh already did do a Ghost Bosses list. Check back in the list. I don't think you have to go back that far.
For something to be considered eldritch, it must defy the natural laws of the universe as mortals understand them. It breaks the internal logic of the work and lies beyond mortal comprehension. It’s very presence strikes fear and madness into the hearts of mortals.
For something to be considered eldritch, it must defy the natural laws of the universe as mortals understand them. It breaks the internal logic of the work and lies beyond mortal comprehension. It’s very presence strikes fear and madness into the hearts of mortals.
Some honorable mentions from me:
The Morrigan (Vampyr)
Ishmelga (Trails of Cold Steel)
Atra Nox Philius (YS IX: Monstrum Nox)
Yuris (Tales of Rebirth)
I think the queen beast would have make it as a honorable mention
You got a lot of nerve being alive!
That made me laugh out loud.
And no Grima from Fire Emblem Awakneing?
RE #8: That final boss theme is a banger.
For the darkest dungeon: The local man ruins EVERYTHING, and a descendant has to make a deal with an eldrich thing beyond even the heart to deal with local mans mistakes and experiment's
Yeah when you think of Eldridge horror bosses, I pretty much guessed what was #1.
20:35
HOFFY1138! You have good taste
You got 29 cool points for showing Hoodwinked!
Man's talking mad smack about Lavos' name when he goes by Josh Scorcher XD
Plus the fact that it was named by _cave people_ who aren't exactly a creative lot.
An idea for the first countdown of November: Top Ten Virus Bosses. Also, an idea for your next battle: Boba Fett vs Kraven The Hunter.
There has to at least be one Kirby boss here lol. Called it. Also I had a feeling Majora was gonna show up.
The subject of this video makes me wonder if Josh ever played the Sucker For Love games
The average video game experience is where you fight an Elkridge horror by turning into a penguin
A new horror awakens; Eldritch horror. I'm expecting some crazy intense choices for this list with how Eldritch lore can be.
Let's see, obviously there will be a Kirby Boss. I think Void is the most Eldritch of the Roster. Other creatures I think would be good here are Giygas (Earthbound), Lavos (Chrono Trigger), Phantoon (Metroid), Omega Flowey (Undertale), and Maruki/Azathoth (Persona 5). Also something from Bloodbourne.
An honorable Eldritch boss in my opinion is Riven, of a thousand voices
She is an Ahamkara, a “Wish Dragon”. They feed off of the wishes they grant but not exactly. They feed off of the reality between what you actually want and what you’ll going to get, Like monkeys paw.
It takes 6 guardians sent to kill this monster, but in reality it was a trap. Through the gaurdians effort and will, they have indirectly made a wish. The wish placed the dreaming city into a time loop, forever trapping and tormenting
I hope this gets a part 2
Right when I’m getting ready for the best part of October you appear in a blaze of glory to give us the spoopiest kind of Top 10 😎😎😎
Thanks for the new Top 10, Josh and go hug your furbabies all 💙🐱💙
"Then in the darkness, someone shouted, "It's The Beast! Big, scary beast appears in the Black Forest!" "
"Yes I have been so afraid"
(Insert all the ordeal texts here, aside from Indigo all the ordeals literally qualify here)
"Have I not chosen you the twelve? And yet one of you is a heretic!"
Was expecting for at least one Project Moon entry on this.
Maybe next time.
As much as I would've loved a Project Moon boss here, all of them aren't really what I'd qualify as amazing bosses.
But then again, Narinder was included at number 10...
Im so glad I suggested eldritch horrors for a list.
I CALLED IT!!! I typed in the live chat that there’s gonna be a cult of the lamb boss in this list and I freaking called it. 1:22
Ideas for future videos:
Top Ten Worst Universes in Fiction to live in
Top Ten MLP Community creations
Top Ten Disney Villan Songs (Lets be honest there wont be any good disney movies or villians in a while)
Top Ten Worst Cannon Endings
Wait till Moana 2 to prove that there are good Disney movies and villains nowdays.
@@0XDDCC Disney can write good villains as always, they just are too busy doing REMAKES THAT NOBODY ASKED FOR!
@@UltimateGamerCC there are people who asked and liked said remakes, there are more good ones then bad. If things like sequels worked like Inside Out 2 and Deadpool & Wolverine then so can remakes and live-actions too, Little Mermaid from 2023 respected, had soul and it was really good. Also this whole "nobody asked for" is one of the biggest lies on pop culture ever.
@@0XDDCC aint a lie imo, if people DID want these remakes, then i want to know who, so i can slap them with a fish for the ones that SUCK.
@@UltimateGamerCC It is a lie. And there are way more good ones then bad. Generalizing is wrong and unjust. Pop culture fans need to be better then this.
I'm surprised no Splatterhouse bosses appeared here.
...in fact, has Josh ever talked about Splatterhouse in these Top 10s?
Not in any I've seen.
Eldritch Abominations are very tricky to locate and define, considering how inherently abject and uncanny they are. Because what makes them terrifying is not just the unknown - it's how their very nature supercedes what is natural. While the word "eldritch" means weird or sinsiter, the heart of Eldritch Horror is that they are beyond the natural.
The choices in this countdown are, for the most part, good picks for such a difficult topic. I will admit that I do not agree with all on this one (such as Mergo's Wet Nurse and I think the Pulsating Mass kind of eliminates itself from this list), but I would agree on many other things such as Majora, The God of Fear and Hunger and of course Giygas. Especially when considering how the eldritch thematics play into the boss fights themselves.
seeing Chaos as an entry for this list makes me happy, im just glad to have fought and recognized one of these bosses before having seen the video, because thats usually not quite the case when i watch these types of videos
3:40 WOW THIS AGED WAY FASTER THAN IT HAS ANY RIGHT TO
On the subject of characters fighting characters, in a potentially less killy way like Death Battle does, and it being the Halloween season, I think it could be fun to see the Pines Twins (Dipper and Mabel from Gravity Falls) vs the Carver twins (Wren and Reynold from Costume Quest, both games and the Amazon animated series).
None of the bosses from the Costume Quest games qualify as Eldritch entities, to my understanding, but some of the bosses are definitely different takes on monsters than you would likely suspect.
My honorable mentions.
The witness Destiny 2 the final shape.
Shub Niggurath Quake.
Drawcia Kirby canvas curse.
Double Skullgirls.
Leviathan Dead Space.
The indignation Fallout New Vegas the frontier mod.
And
The mystery boss low G-Man.
If we're talking eldritch, Zelda echoes of Wisdoms final boss may have Majora beat
the fack that an inide game created for a Spain content creator was able to get in the top, and in a pretty higt spot, it's just simply amazing
15:19 I think that's kind of the point. A lot of things are unseen without Insight, and it seems the Wetnurse is beyond what even the players can acheive in terms of sight.
Growing up, I used to be afraid of clowns, from my point of view they were Eldritch horror I couldn't comprehend. In reality, they were just dudes in makeup.
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My prediction for the eldrich Kirby boss would be drawcia soul or void termina if it makes the list.
Void Termina’s only an Honorable mention.
I was not expecting to see a glimpse of the final boss from Fossil Fighters in the short that linked to this, but you have my full attention because to this day, I have no idea what that thing was.
RPG Monger calls it a massive space tadpole.
I was bamboozled, and I dare say hoodwinked by the short.
1:26 …of COURSE you used THAT HB short scene!
I'm surprised Kirby didn't make it past the honorable mentions, given how bizarrely eldritch the franchise's bosses can be, especially in stark contrast to the protagonist and 90% of each game.
"Ah sweet, man made horrors beyond my comprehension!"
-Peter Griffin, Family Guy
I didn’t expect to see Guhnash in this video! That brought back childhood memories!
Wait... Pepe el mago mention
¡VAAAMOOOSS!
Hey! Illusion of Gaia wasn't by Square, it was by Enix (and Quintet)! But oh god I'm very glad to even see it referenced.
Playing as Skull Kid in Hyrule Warriors gives a very interesting view of Majora since it's clear at parts that Skull Kid is very much not in control here. But...how much? What does it feel like when that happens? After some attacks, Skull Kid just...hangs there loosely in mid-air, dangled from the mask, before regaining what he can of himself.
I didn't see anything that would require a trypophobia warning in the Bloodborne segment. Gore sure but trypophobia?
For an embodiment of chaos to have a predictable attack pattern seems to defeat the purpose.
Wait how would Giygas, the clearly most obvious boss in all video game history for this list, not meet your entertainment standards?
Y'know what gets me is how Giratina is described in canon as eldritch but to us it appears in a perfectly understandable form. Forms.
But... it's said by Volo, who at that point is essentially Giratina's personal emissary and priest. What has he seen that we don't?
28:06 the scream from The Blair Witch Project is a valid one.
Mago was NOT on my bingo card for this but I’m not complaining in the slightest
Hoping this leads to some Hachetfield representation in the next volume of Great Villain Song (I will never give this up until we get a volume including Let It Out)
6:50 - this moment might live rent free in my head 😂
20:56 I didn't expect to see Pepe el mago's game here but what do you know, cool that you enjoyed it josh, oh and yeahm this game was made for a Latino youtuber
The other other other other one! Fun list as always.
Null from Echoes of Wisdom might be too new to join this list, but for a Zelda villain that existed in the Void before creation...that's at least worth an Honorable Mention.
Null's fight is defintiely better than Majora's, but I feel like Majora might still win its spot on the list for being much stranger and scarier.
@@CountShaman Of course Majora deserved a spot on this list especially when Majora's forms seemingly came out of nowhere to shock many young LoZ fans in the early 2000s. My point is that Null from EoW could've gotten at least a Honorable Mention or a small shout out here. The journey to Null is also worth mentioning as it appears as though Link and Zelda are traveling through a cold, rotting, purple corpse complete with sickly wet floors, large strands of double-helix DNA, odd bodily fluids, the remnants of things that fell into the rifts long ago, and the fact that none of it is pulsating as if it were still alive. That said, EoW is still relatively new, and trying to explain Null could be seen as a spoiler for those who haven't beaten/played the game yet.
Nightmare from Link's Awakening, Vatti from Minish Cap (or one of the Four Swords titles), or Bellum from Phantom Hourglass could also be seen as an Eldritch Boss, but I wouldn't expect them to receive anything higher than a Honorable Mention either.
16:29 Damn you got basically THE versus music guy
I have to mention one in sad is not so well known, Thalamus from Deaths Gambit, I mean to meet him you are taken to the depths of some kind of ocean(at least in appearance) where the enemies form become even more grotesque (and some phases lean heavily into eldritch territory itself) the way has a boss that you have to let yourself be killed, attacking it harms you, all the way there are scenes where he taunts you and attacks the main character mentally, and his boss fight alters controls, splits the screen and in general messes with your perception of where the attack is, and that's on the first time (I won't go into too much details cause this is already long enough but yes, it's literally an eldritch abomination boss)
I am a little disappointed that Yogg-Saron from World of Warcraft didn't get at least an honorable mention.
The mythos and questions around Lavos gets even more crazy once you get into Chrono Cross.
I feel like if you included that Lavos would be a lot higher on this list.
I personally was hoping to see The Nameless God from Salt & Sanctuary on the list, but I have to tell you Mr. Scorcher : you putting Giygas at Number 1 was absolutely: the correct decision , just because a choice is "predictable" or "expected" doesn't make it wrong.
Josh: We need to try to keep things kosher for this next entry
Me: Whatever it is I'm sure it's not that intense
Josh: Fear and Hunger
Me: Nevermind. Fair enough.
The thing with Giygas that terrifies me is that we're not even facing the strongest it's ever been.
Meaning, in another timeline, there's a Giygas that's way worse than what we've met.
The unknown, the incomprehensible, the illogical. These are usually the main characteristics of Eldritch/Lovecraft beings and images. I always am inspired by this type of story and art since if the image cannot be described by mortal understanding, it leaves a large window to the imagination.
not even mentioning cassette beasts archangels is a criminal oversight
My pick is the Abomination Beyond Words from The Messenger.
Surpised that not even one of the bosses from World of Horror (a game based on Junji Ito's stories) made the cut. Not only are the major bosses some of the most well known Eldritch Horror characters, but even the smaller bosses you have to fight at the end of a Mystery are based on them as well.
The lesson? Call Kirby to deal with everyone on this list.
I've always imagined Giygas to be attributed to a Swirling Mass of Chaos.
I think the Elder God from Legacy of Kain deserves a mention on this list. Fought as the final boss of the last (though hopefully not final) game in the series, Defiance, it is revealed that it has been the prime mover of the entire conflict that has pervaded the story of the series and its world of Nosgoth, representing the "Wheel of Fate", a never-ending cycle of birth, death, and rebirth that it purports is necessary to the natural order of the world, and led to it being worshipped as an all-powerful deity by the race of Ancient Vampires who initially ruled Nosgoth. After the vampires warred with a race called the Hylden, who refused to submit to the Wheel and worship it, they sealed them away in another dimension, which warped them slowly into demons, but before they were banished, the Hylden retaliated with a final revenge in the form of what initially appears to be the curse that forces the vampires to drink blood, which drove them mad. However, the true nature of the madness wasn't in the blood curse, but rather the immorality it inflicted upon the vampires, who were thus forcibly removed from the Wheel of Fate. Because of this the Elder turned from them in disgust and came to view them as abominations who were of no further use to it. This is because the Elder itself is really just a massive, ravenous parasite that feeds eternally on souls, and uses the Wheel of Fate and the cycle it perpetuates to ensure it has a never-ending supply of them. I won't get into the rest of the plot details, because it absolutely should be experienced, but the Elder's ominous, omnipresent nature makes it one of the most memorable and most loathsome antagonists in all of gaming, and while the final showdown between a purified Kain and the monstrous entity itself isn't exactly an especially epic one, the sheer magnitude of the moment lives up to it, as the legendary Tony Jay's menacing voice booms and rumbles with pure malice in every scene he's in. The Elder begins the final confrontation arrogantly assured of its victory, only to have its omniscience and certainty shaken as the purified Soul Reaver is able to harm it. At the end, after its momentary defeat, it angrily declares the inevitability of its claim upon Kain's soul, to which the vampire retorts with one of the greatest comebacks ever: "Till then, you'd best *_burrow deep."_*
And here I thought “The one who waits” was just a waisted surprise villain for The Doctor to fight.
PLEASE do Top 10 Mech Bosses!!
So what became of the guy The Gourmet was controlling? Is he dead?
One of my favorites is the Darkness from Skylanders: Superchargers. He’s an incredibly powerful being from another world that wants to conquer the universe and also happens to have a weirdly sexy voice
Oh this is going to be good.
I'm glad you played fesr and hunger.
HOFFY 1138 REFERENCE! A true man of culture.
I saw Kirby in 10 seconds flat.
Awesome.
I wasn't expecting pepe el mago a hispanic youtuber Game in this top is number 3 btw
I wonder how many people besides me saw the design connection between Lavos' second form and pre-Imperfect Cell? I understand Akira Toriyama has an artstyle, but you'd think he would try and make things unique for each of his major projects
'Eldritch' is one of those things the meaning of which has been unfortunately diluted by overuse until it means different things to different people. For some all you need is enough pulsating flesh and tentacles to earn the moniker, while other versions are judged by the negative effects of merely mentioning their name ('Beetlejuice!') or something related to them.
I suppose Eve/her baby U.B. from Parasite Eve doesn't count because they come from SCIENCE, or rather a radical mutation caused by SCIENCE?
Hoping to see top ten ghosts or werewolves later on this month.