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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 พ.ค. 2024
- Remember how I said this video might be out in the first week of May?
Yeah, I appear to have underestimated myself again.
0:00 - Introduction
0:47 - Number 10
2:49 - Number 9
4:47 - Number 8
6:10 - Number 7
8:29 - Number 6
10:16 - Number 5
12:20 - Number 4
14:21 - Number 3
17:01 - Number 2
17:52 - Number 1
21:36 - Ending
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Calling it now, the #1 worst boss is the CEO of Activision
Watch him being close to saying it at the start. Only for Quarter Guy to show up for a surprise cameo and say "DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT RIPPING OFF MY JOKE BEN!"
Wait, was that bit from the Worst Castlevania Bosses list?
No Universal Interactive. They're were bad publishers that rushed games like Wrath of Cortex
And now he’s no longer at Activision
Thankfully dear Bobby is now the former CEO of Activision. Good riddance to him.
The segment on Koala Kong reminded me just how forgettable of a character he is, but what I didn't realise until you mentioned it was how much and how easily Tiny Tiger replaced him.
Reminds me of a certain character from a certain card game anime who also got phased out in the second season and replaced with someone else *COUGH* Chumley Huffington from Yugioh GX *COUGH*
@@Rabbitlord108 you mean Chumley Huffington getting replaced by Tyranno Hasslebarry because he became a card designer for Industrial Illusions after Pegasus saw his Ayers Rock Sunrise Field Spell card?
@@wolfhurricane897 CORRECT!
@@wolfhurricane897 And the funniest part, both have a Koala design, looks like Koalas are forgettable
At least Chumley was able to get a JOB while helping Jaden and other future generations of Duelists. Koala Kong… not so much in terms of things to do.
What makes the Uka Uka fight even more embarrassing is that the secret ending of N Tranced that you get by beating N Tropy is a cliffhanger that implied Uka Uka would become the next portable game's main antagonist.
At least he had a good boss fight in Crash of the Titans
Fun Fact: Alpha Builds of Crash Bash have the Komodo Bros boss fight with placeholder images of, hilariously enough, Homer and Bart Simpson for their portraits.
Fun fact! If you unlock all the levels using the debug code in demos of crash bash you can fight the komodo bros before they got their own unique health bar icons. Instead above their health will be Home and Bart Simpson as place holders.
Caddicarus and OneyPlays made good on pointing that out
I don't think Universal were happy that Eurocom basically gave Crash Bash away for free for those who knew the debug code, what a nice developer. Universal must have been pissed.
@@ObsoleteMule think the debug code was found ages later after the game released, so, this time they got lucky.
There was another game that did something of the sort, letting you play the first stage before booting you back to the title screen, but you could get around that by using a level select/skip code, and that one was found basically immediately along with the demo, heh...
@@ObsoleteMule the reason that happened was because the devs had zero time to make a proper demo build so they just slapped that together.
What's funny about Crash Purple's Spyro fight is that the playstyle within it is only in that particular game this SINGLE time outside of a multiplayer option that most wouldn't bother with. Spyro Orange has several minigames of this "molotov cocktail bridge" type, but Crash Purple just has this one. And its even more underwhelming considering how braindead easy it is.
Also I just finished Crash 2 and agree that Cortex is a bad fight. I actually failed the first few times against him but only because the jetpack is just something I cannot get a grip on.
The jet pack is better when using the shoulder buttons for forward and backwards movement, but yeah, I can't stand it.
I really wanted all the playable characters to go up against the two Tropy's in Crash 4 as the final boss (and maybe save the second Cortex boss for Crash 5). It would've given Tawna, Dingodile, and Cortex more to do than just be Timeline characters.
Imo, everything about the Tropy's in It's About Time ended up being disappointing for me.
Yeah, it was a disappointing fight, but we still ended up getting one of the best bosses in Crash instead.
Velo: Enjoy your lead. You won't have it for long.
He wasn't bluffing. I get that Velo is difficult because he's the final boss but the devs took it too far.
Yeah,i doent' beat Velo any time then i playes cnk in Ps2. Sorry for my bad english.
“Does your mother tie your shoes as well?”
I love that line! Wish it was in Nitro-Fueled!
@@greatsageclok-roo9013 "You'll never escape my wrath. Ever!"
@@justinnzamora5366 "Are you still trying to win?"
I never beat Nitro Kart solely because of that Velo race. It's WAY too brutal even for the final boss. And having to beat him 4 times just to unlock stupid gremlin Velo? Yeah, I think I'm just gonna stick with Nitro Fueled. XD
I beat velo when I was 10 on my first try (rematch).
Im just like insane tho because I think that nitro kart is better than car in every way.
Same Sparda
@@ebiceric1050 i lost braincells reading your comment
@@hououinkyouma36 Yeah. No offense Eric but that reply is what I consider grade A verbal diarrhea.
I agree, I have nitro fueled myself
You don’t necessarily need to beat Velo 4 times. If you just ignore fighting him until you get everything, then you only need to the one time. Did so on my playthrough, and beat him my first try since he doesn’t use shortcuts and his missiles are out of reach.
I also just remembered that he throws at least his bombs in designated spots of the track, (usually before one of the portals.) and doesn’t throw them most other times. I can’t remember if the missiles work like that too, but if you use the shortcuts, throw items backwards in the straight parts of the track near boxes, as he will almost always hit it since he stays in the middle, and keep items until close to boxes to be safe, it should at least makes things a little easier
Thanks for the tip.
I always tought that the Velo boss fight was exactly what N.Oxide should have been.
Its the last race in the game and the Oxide race is a joke in that department
Ironically the one fight I thi k its designed atrociously too hard is the Oxide fight from Crash bash, that fight AI is so bs and the obstacles so unfairly dificult that there's no way anyone gonna beat that until the dynamic dificulty kicks it and make his AI braindead easy.
If Koala Kong, The Komodo Bros, along with Papu Papu ever makes a grand comeabck In Crash Bandicoot 5; then they might get a chance to have some new mechanics and gimmicks that aren't rehashes to there previous fights. I'm still looking at you N. Brio of Crash Bandicoot 4: It's about Time!
Crash 5 if it ever happens will likely be a reboot of twinsanity since that game was beyond rushed and over 60% of the original content had to be cut. That is, if another crash game ever gets made since Activision shortly before they got bought by Microsoft forced Vicarious Visions and Toys for Bob, the developers of the modern crash/Spyro games and Skylanders, to work as support developers in the COD mines. Now that the IPs are owned by Microsoft the future seems VERY uncertain for both Crash AND Spyro.
Brio might be a rehash but at least it does have some major differences to make it stick out
I don't mind the Koala Kong and Komodo Bros original fights but yeah they need something to give them a bit more oomph
@@MelancholyJoker19 Plus you get to smack Brio with the Dark Matter Tornado(Kirby fans, beware) when he’s buffed up.
@@MelancholyJoker19 yeah i totally love koala kong, and i'm sad he can't have the boss fights he deserves... some big epic battle must happen in crash 5
@@krimsonkatt crash 5 not gotta be twinsanity an crash 4 to instead it won’t be crash twinsanity or wrath of cortex remastered or remake like n sane trilogy and you wrong man no offense but we getting wumpa league and Spyro 4 2023 that’s it there done an through that means it be end of crash an Spyro
The only real hard part about the Number 8 fight is trying not to laugh when Uka Uka asks "I don't whether to *kiss* you or *KILL* you?" and then Crash puckers up hoping for a kiss
I love how Crash's ducking animation in N. Tranced is just him doing the "Boi!" pose; ya know...inhale with hands raised towards the mouth, then bring 'em down with the exhale and exclaiming, "Boi!" They knew what they did here. XD
Also, in regards to the Crash 2 Cortex fight, I feel like, though annoying given the relative new introduction of the jetpac by that point, dying to the asteroids and mines would have increased the challenge factor and made the fight at least somewhat decent; maybe they just didn't want the boss fight to remind people of Koala Kong from the first game so that's why they didn't make the "spin asteroids in to Cortex to win" the answer? If that IS the case, that's kinda silly. Plus, yeah, he's holding a ray gun, why doesn't he fire it off every so often, being one of 3 possible ways to die? Maybe Naughty Dog had that programmed in to his A.I., but a coding error/typo caused him to never use it? I dunno, that's the best guess I can make. What do you think?
Ben is such a god at Crash Boom Bang, the bosses and the boards play themselves for him and he still wins.
I wonder if we'll get an idea from QG's worst Castlevania Bosses list where he faked out putting Hideki Hayakawa on that with a fake out of Bobby Kottick being number 1 here (Well I'm glad you didn't go for THAT bit of extremely low hanging fruit. Also now I can't help but imagine Lex Lang's Cortex saying to Luigi "HA! You can win simple minigames by doing absolutely nothing. Child's play. One time I won an entire match by doing absolutely nothing")
That's more of Josh Scorcher and The Quarter Guy's thing, who both have very similar styles. (though Scorcher tends to be a lot more negative and TQG tends to be a lot more positive) Benjamage has a very different style compared to them, so the joke wouldn't work as well. He's more like a clean PNGtuber version of modern J's Reviews than a quarter guy clone. (though they were more similar back in the classic era of BM when he was called MaverickHunterZero75.)
@@krimsonkatt Touche. I was just joking cause Ben & QG have collaborated in the past.
You technically (and I stress, TECHNICALLY) only need to beat number 3 twice if you go for all the relics first.
Fair point, I hadn't thought about that.
A bit earlier than expected... a surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one!
From the thumbnail alone, we can expect to see Koala Kong from Crash 1, Cortex from Crash 2, and the Komodo Bros from Crash Bash.
Aside from those three bosses, I think the only other boss I can expect from this list is the N. Tropys from Crash 4.
Yes. That fight from It's About Time was just-...
What the hell happened?! Who thought that that would be a good idea after all the build-up they gave literally just before it?
The 2nd NGin fight and Trophy + Brio fight from Twinsanity could qualify for this list cause they're very mindlessly easy.
Never forget that during said fight N Tropy will T-Pose after a while.
If we're just talking the Naughty Dog games, the entire list would be taken up by the first two games.
For real. Some of those bosses were just pathetic.
About Number 3’s ending, you actually do get to use the Titan Velo in Crash Nitro Kart. The big catch is simple. GBA only. You know, the same version that lets you race with Spyro the Dragon?
I absolutely agree with N.Trophy from N.Tranced. It’s the definition of padding and I’m going to be honest, I didn’t even know the second phase also has a set pattern (Embarrassingly). Seriously, how did N.Trance get a better boss fight than his own master is beyond me.
8:07 Oh my god, YES! I was so excited to play this "group" boss fight and see all the characters work together, especially since we didn't get a whole lot of actual story from the side character levels. Then we got... that, and the only thing they did together as a group was get space macdonalds. *deep sigh*
(Cute avatar btw!)
10:50 Well, the Big Bad Fox stage from Crash Bash was pretty good at least. It's strange because the Komodo Brothers are better known for their skills with swords and they are suddenly guiding war tanks, but it's a fun challenge.
You know, given how you do see it teased in places (and the overall infamy of the games) I'm surprised no boss from either Titans game are here.
I'm surprised no bosses from Titans or Mind over Mutant showed up. Even as a fan of that "era" of crash (or, at least Titans specifically), the bosses are probably the weakest aspect of those games. Then again, I don't remember them being as bad as some of the ones on this list.
Probably closest to being worthy of this list is the Uka Uka fight, simply for being so stupid hard!
You need to jack a mutant and then stun Uka Uka... while everything else is bombarding you at once! Including Uka Uka, who's attacks can hit you from ANYWHERE!
Not even Nina was this hard!
Still, at least they made him a challenge...
Unlike the one that appeared on this list.
@@greatsageclok-roo9013 I remember dying a lot on that fight. Hell, I remember actually beating it, but I was killed after destroying the last generator (I think by a Battler or something), so when the cutscene after the boss had finished, I was taken to the game over screen and had to start the fight over.
Actually, yeah, I think that fight was worthy of being considered one of the worst. Though, I understand why he wouldn't be on this list, considering the other Uka Uka fight.
Well to be fair most of the "boss fight" from that era could be argued to even be considered boss fight. Except the uka uka one, non of the other boss fight can be considered hard (even for a Crash game), the N. Brio boss fight from Crash 1 was hard compared to the one in MoM. If I have to choose the worst in the radical era it wouldn't be the Uka Uka but the N. Gin one from Titans, it's the same level of difficulty as the spyro fight, we are talking of N. Gin the one with the coolest boss fights in the franchise and yet we got this boring fight with minions and titans which will keep spawning if you don't destroy those wooden things, and after you do the fight end instantly. At least the Uka Uka one is memorable, this one is not
Buff cortex isn’t real it can’t hurt you
Buff cortex:
Couldn't agree you more about the final boss of N Tranced, I was 7 years old and I couldn't beat N Trophy, it took me 8 whole years for me to finally beat N Trophy, once I got a lot smarter that is
13:42 I did too as a kid, in fact I had so much difficulty doing so, and then felt accomplish beating him using that method, leading me to thinking he was a hard boss. And then hearing list saying he was easy, which got me to mention the method that I thought was the only way.
Mostly agree with this list, but pronouncing the S in viscount made my grandson cry 😭
I don’t think the N. Tropies we’re meant to be the final fight. But I think they were meant to SEEM like the final fight. So we’d just go have fun in the next world before the ‘twist’ that led to the last word. It would have been great if not for the cut down fight and the fact that the ads showed literally every single world.
You ever notice how so many Crash bosses are either his size or have, like, really tiny legs and massive torsos?
They skipped leg day lmao
10: Sooo... Cortex is this game's Luigi?
9: At least the rest of the bosses had some memorable personalities even if Papu-Papu's is that he's clumsy.
8: Him turning into an ice golem not to mention the rest of his powers makes me wonder why he needed the Evolvoray in Crash of the Titans. Just as well, I can see how the Evil Twins were able to beat him and Aku-Aku.
7: I remember saying that they're kinda like the evil version of the Lutece twins from Bioshock Infinite. I mean, one's a genderbent version of the other and they have some really weird implications at play.
6: Feh. If they messed up implementing a monkey ball into a boss fight, I'm glad they didn't do the same with the submersible. Glad they didn't do R. Lee Ermey THAT dirty.
5: I'm just surprised Crash Bash had something akin to a boss fight in the first place... I also feel like Let's Play Curse is due to divided attention in some cases. Not that I mind someone interacting with their viewerbase inherently.
4: At the very least, this is the worst boss in the main series. And I'm not sure how things will go from here...
3: My guess is that Velo's robo-suit is permanently destroyed, but when has logic stopped cartoony video games? Speaking of which, the robo suit CAN be unlocked... in the GBA version. What a strange exclusivity.
2: The exact same boss fight applies to Spyro Orange. So we could have that boss on a potential worst Spyro boss list.
1: Well, speak of the drill sergeant because it should not be this tedious to get through what's basically a Wa-Wa clone!
Oh, Koala Kong had personality. ...It was just super ****ing annoying.
If spyro had a worst boss list most of spyro 1 fights would be on the list.
@@purebred0394 I think we should pick only 1 boss from that game or maybe group them all into an entry because they all suffer from one major flaw; they're cowards.
@@baalfgames5318 To me, he's also rather forgettable.
Ahoy! I recently found your channel and I just wanna say, I love your content so far. I've been binge watching a lot of your videos and they're great. Crash has always been one of my favorite game franchises since I was a kid playing the first one, yet until now, I've never really watched Crash content on TH-cam. I'm glad your vids were in my recommended feed.
Well, thank you for giving my stuff a watch! And welcome to the channel! ^^
I have to admit that I can see why you either did me or did struggle on some of these bosses. I’ll be honest I never have played any of these crash bandicoot games except for one, crash bandicoot team racing nitro fueled, but I will admit that I did battle nitrous oxide and he gave me quite a bit of trouble, but I did manage to beat him. I have to say overall this list is really solid, and while I have not played some of these games at all, I can feel your pain for some of these fights, especially on that last one. I would struggle on that just as much as some fights in Kirby games, but I’m glad you pushed through and showed those bosses who is the real boss, no matter if it’s the best or worst. Keep up the good work my friend, I liked this video, and I’m sure your other videos are just as amazing as this one!
I might also want to immediately say up front that the name of your channel might be one of the best names I think I have ever seen a TH-cam channel being called, and I have to admit I give you extra points for the creativity of the name, keep up the good work my friend!
Uka-Uka might be an easy boss fight, but his theme in twinsanity is a total banger
5:53 I agree. Despite Crash Twinsanity having some of the greatest boss battles in the series (the overall quality is definitely superior to Crash 1 or Crash 2), Uka Uka was underwhelming here. Then you face it in Crash of the Titans and it's an even worse boss fight.
We have the Ultimate Mask of Evil or something and the best boss fight against him is in Crash on the Run.
We're still waiting for something that can top the intense climax of Warped's final boss (which was Cortex btw; Uka Uka is more of an obstacle)
Shocked he didn't do at least one dishonorable mention for the tiki boss in Twinsanity whose hitbox is still active when the fight is over.
@@Rabbitlord108 Despite that issue, it's a solid boss fight involving both Crash and Cortex
@@crashtefano Fair enough.
I dunno man, his boss fight in Crash of the Titans was actually really difficult I hear.
@@blusterthebenevolpede4137 It's pretty hard when you're not prepared, but also unpleasant because its difficulty comes from bad level design. Then you can overpower him with both the Eelectric and the Battler with patience and it becomes easy
Interresting to find my favourite of them all on this one. Komodo from Crash Bash is my favourite haha. Love the tank minigame as well
Regarding the repetition of Velo’s boss race: I recently replayed CNK to 101% both teams, and I collected all the relics before Velo’s first boss race. By doing this, I got the true ending and 101% after each first race against Velo. I only had to race Velo once per team, instead of twice like the game’s structure and cutscenes imply.
Uka Uka’s fight in Titans is way worse. Dude never shuts up, his attacks are unfairly powerful and since the titans can’t jump, you have to sacrifice your titans when he rips off the spike’s special move
Also the constant spawning mutants will definitely get on your nerves
I'm not much of a crash fan nor have I played a single game from the bandicoot but I always get a kick out of people talking about him including you benjamage
I totally agree with you about the N. Tropy boss from Crash 4. It could’ve been so much more! I personally would’ve loved if they did something where you need to force them to aim their laser cannon at machine setting up force fields during the asteroid segments with the masks so that you can get closer towards the Rift Generator, that would’ve been amazing!!
Nice list. I would have included N. Gin's fight from Twinsanity on here. For a character who is the subject of some of the series' best bosses -- even earlier in that same game -- the fight in the crow's nest is just painfully basic.
100%
Interesting list ! Mostly agree with the choices, with my own opinions below (should you wish to read them) :
# 9 - Koala Kong could have benefited in a battle arena like N. Tropy where you dodge projectiles then make your way across platforms to hit him, perhaps using the rotating platforms from the previous stages of Crash 1. In it's current form, it is true that it's mostly just waiting in one spot, and it's annoying to start over and over again if you die once.
# 8 - Uka could have benefited with a brief invincibility "Rage" period where he unleashes a powerful barrage of attacks while the switches are temporarily down to give the fight a bit more length to it.
# 7 - N.Tropy's fight is way too short and easy, feels like a first phase to a second ultimate phase, I wish there was a second phase where Crash and his friends work together to perhaps take down a fused N.Tropy who uses the masks (or maybe even the Elemental Masks from Crash WoC) as an epic conclusion.
# 6 - I could imagine Tiny replacing Crunch as this boss, replacing the whole ball gimmick with a platforming boss fight as Rokko destroys the platforms, would be like Crash 2's fight, and it would probably be a much better usage of older crash bosses.
# 4 - I wonder why Cortex didn't attack Crash with his spaceship or some kind of battle-mech, heck, he doesn't even attack back at you. I wouldn't call this a boss fight, and more of a glorified cutscene.
# 1 - They should have cut this fight down to 3 hitpoints, giving him a new attack for each phase. That would have made the fight much more shorter and varied, eg. Fireball, Blue Energy Wave, Green Homing shots etc. They could have also varied the platforming on different hazards such as the lava pits in the prehistoric ages etc.
The Neo Cortex entry made me feel ashamed of how many times I had to retry that stupid fight...
I made a couple predictions for this video, and some of them came true. Didn't expect N. Tropy to be number one though.
I guess everyone forgets that this boss even exists
You can actually get a mask for dying too many times in the N.Tropy fight from N.tranced, but it takes a lot of lives, but the thing is the hidden death counter resets if you get a gameover in this game, so if you enter the fight with too few lives, there's no chance to trigger the effect.
The one trick I used on this fight was getting 2 masks from any other level and then fighting, if you die during the fight, press start+select and you get your two masks back since the game resets your masks if you leave a level.
But yeah, still bad game design and one of the worst fights ever
Oh my god. Thank you for this WONDERFUL information.
My least favourites:
#10 Komodo Bros. (Bash)
#9 N. Tropy and Fem Tropy (It's About Time)
#8 Tiny (Crash of the Titans)
#7 Oxide (Bash)
#6 N. Gin (Twinsanity)
#5 Coco (Mind Over Mutant)
#4 Crunch (Mind Over Mutant)
#3 Cortex (Crash 2)
#2 Spyro (Fusion)
#1 N. Tropy (N-Tranced)
Honestly feel like Dreams is the perfect title for you to cover considering its complete creative freedom not to mention its hidden gem status
Always down for these crash bandicoot vids.
This feels like a classic maverickhunterzero75 video and I do love it quite a bit
lmao i never beat n. tropy as a kid and i played n. tranced constantly for years. love that game but now i feel like the trouble with the final boss wasn’t just me being a dumb child
In Uka Uka's defense, he did just wake up from his slumber and isn't at full power.
Nice video Ben! :D
Hey Benjamin, can you please re-do your Top 10 best/worst final fantasy bosses list? I've been waiting to see how your opinion has changed after all these years especially since so many new games came out to shake up the list compared to the OG.
I'll be honest, seeing that video title made me quite anxious, but by the end I was overjoyed that you think that my favourite boss, Will Wumpacheeks from CTTR, is better than all of these.
I had the same thoughts regarding the N. Tropy fight in Crash 4. It really seemed like they were hyping it up to be a big team effort where you're swapping between the different characters in each phase, but that doesn't happen.
Me playing it the first time: Rumble in the Roks shouldn't be too frustrated.
Rocko: Yeah, except you forgot the part where I kick your butt!.
Aw, man!
I wish I could see this live, but I'll be in bed when it goes up...
But I won't be surprised if the final boss of Crash 2 is number 1. That boss is just TERRIBLE!!!!
If you can call it a f*cking boss!
Beyond that, the N. Tropy fight from It's About Time was such a letdown...
All the build-up for two hits that feel more like platforming?! Did Toys for Bob ironically run out time during development? There should be no excuse for this boss being so lackluster!
If you think that N Tropy fight's bad. Have you heard of his fight in N Tranced? There you have to go through MULTIPLE PHASES with only TWO HITS (And to clarify. By that I mean the fight has NO CHECKPOINTS!) The only thing that could keep it lower on the list is that it's TECHNICALLY the true final boss of that game. But still (OH WAIT! I was wrong about something. You have to go through ALL 3 PHASES without getting hit ONCE! And THAT'S NO GOOD!)
I mean, you were technically right on the number 1, just thinking of the wrong Crash 2.
You should do a video on your top 10 favourite pieces or Crash music - that'd be a fun one
Great video btw, Not sure if you've done it but I think you should do a video on the old Donkey Kong Country games
I have thought about doing a DKC video before, given how much I enjoy those games.
Crash 2 Cortex: You haven’t seen the last of me, Crash Bandicoot!
Caddicarus: Oh I bloody hope so, because I want a better fight next time.
(GASP)
Caddicarus: Oh yeah, I got him good there.
nice list i think i had a minor ptsd attack from rembering the Empeor Velo Boss race i rember being stuck SO DAMN FREAKING HARD on that boss for HOURS the first time i got to him i think in a future 100% or is it 200% run i found it easier but not by much i think i was BEGGING i get beakers from the item boxes to negate the missles which dose not always work out
"Vis-count"........ MY BONES ITCH!! MY BRAIN TREMBLES!!
Perhaps for a Koala Kong comeback fight it can be modeled after pro wrestling. Maybe trick him into hitting himself with something at ringside that he gets.
And thus I remain the only person fond of the Crash 2 final boss. ^^;
I think it would be cool if that chase would be a first phase of a two-phase battle like Oxide in Crash Bash
i choose to think that twinsanity uka uka is so easy because he's 1. working with what he's got in the immediate moment, and 2. he JUST came out of that ice block, he's probably not gonna be able to fight his best like that
Love the new channel name
6:00 Yeah Uka Uka's Crash of the Titans boss fight was at least a little more intimidating (although I'm not sure what was going on with his face tho)
The first boss from this franchise I immediately hated was Ripper Roo from Crash 1.
I feel like the N. Tropy fight would be better if the second phase was an auto scroller where you have to chase after N. Tropy while platforming and avoiding his attacks.
Afterwards you could have the final phase take place on a cliff and play out sort of like the Koala Kong fight with N. Tropy firing his attacks from the background, along with the occasional coconut which you have to spin back at him. It's not much better I guess but it would at least be more varied, also I just think Koala Kong's fight would work a bit better.
5:06 I understand that Uka Uka goes down pathetically in twinsanity, but let me be real, I battled against Uka Uka twice already in Crash on the run, and LOST ON THE FIRST TRY TWICE…. Which to this day really angers me since his attacks were difficult for me to predict, the first attempt I didn’t think know the lasers would kill you even if you have Aku Aku, and then the second attempt I got hit by his unexpected fireballs, AND lost on the very last health of his boss battle, but restarted it just to beat him for real.
Honestly, as much as I think crash 4 final boss is objectively pretty good, i can't bring myself to like it.
The reason for me isn't because the boss is boring (which isn't), or has a mindless pattern to learn and dodge, but my problem is the fact that cortex has become another generic "A plataforming game final boss that is a giant mech" like dr willy or dr eggman. Don't get me wrong, i really like a majority of the fights against these two (or other evil scientists), but for me, cortex just going all out and trying to beat him in a one-on-one fight was MUCH cooler than any giant mech ever was. Granted he would actually bring guns and other gadgets, like granades, to his fights, but still felt like a actual fight against him, instead of hiding behind a giant robot and let it do his job like so many other villains like to do.
I wouldn't have much of a problem with this if wasn't for two reasons, the fact the Ngin already had the role of the giant mech boss fight (we REALLY didn't need 3 giant robots boss fights in the same game) and even the games post ND got that right, like how twinsanity's first fight against him is so fun, or even mind of mutant final boss were he just decides do beat crash with his own hands (literally).
I always thought it would be much cooler if cortex decided to use his hoverboard and the masks in the fight, like use kapuna-wa time slow ability and tried to make his mines explode way faster, making it harder for the player to dodge, and then he would get caught in one of these explosions, getting dizzy for a few seconds giving the player a opportunity to hit him.
But hey, at least still is a good boss, just not a good CORTEX fight, and it is way better than whatever that n tropy fight was.
Really all the IAT bosses feel more like obstacle courses rather than direct battles. Maybe that's why the Tropy fight sucked in the end, they aren't good doing the actual toe-to-toe part.
I honestly had to save state just to make the n trance N Tropy fight bareble
Thats a great list, haven't seen you do one in over three months, so I'll go over my though on each of the bosses that are talked about in the list.
WARNING: This list will be a spoiler the bosses that are on this video so don't read it if you don't want to be soiled.
10: Crash Boom Bang has bosses?? Hu, I didn't think about that until now, but yeah this looks like that Sonic Spinball boss from Sonic CD.
9: I remember many years ago asking as to why you dislike this boss since your mention about him in your original Top Ten Favorite Crash Bandicoot bosses, but after watching it I can see why, music's great tho.
8: Yeah not gonna lie, this boss for Uka-Uka looks pathetic, and after thinking about it, I just relized somthing....what is it with video games that are labbed in odds having underwhelming bosses that are also (well sometimes) labbed in odds (such as Super Paper Mario, Pokémon Black & White and Kirby and the Forgotten Land)???
7: Now that you mentioned it, I kind of wish that they put in more effort in the N. Tropys (as in both the male and female N. Tropy) fight and even made them the final boss, rather then have them rehash Cortex as the final boss again (Tho that's my opinion).
6: Another hate on the first boss fight against Crunch in Crash Bandicoot: Wrath of Cortex? I may have never played that game, but I seen the fight a few times and it looks interesting.
5: Firstly, what you said from 10:22 to 10:34, I always though you like the battle against the Kamado Brothers in Crash 2 from your Top Ten Favorite Crash Bandicoot Bosses, and secondly, thats the third time you mention their battle in Crash Bash, they must be that bad.
4: Wow, not number 1? But yeah, the final boss against Cortex in Crash Bandicoot 2 is indeed a letdown when in comparison to the previous game, and it was a REAL shame that they didn't do anything new for the remake.
3: So basically, the final boss for Crash Nitro Kart is a rehash of Crash Team Racing but with two enemies adding the boss and he spams the moves more hacked then a SNK Boss spamming projectiles...in a racing game.........yikes......
2: So the first boss in Crash: Purple is the big epic battle between Spyro and Crash throwing Cocktail Bombs at each other.......it sounds neat....but even Lemmy in New Super Mario Bros Wii U (who is also the first boss) did the whole bomb thing right.
1: Wow, one mess up and your force to start the WHOLE fight again, and the final phase has RAMDOMIZED attacks???? Yeah thats bad game design, but seeing this list It makes me wonder, is that your new least favorite Crash Bandicoot boss in your Top Ten Least Favorite Bosses? Just cerious.
But yeah above all eles, great list there BenjaMage, can't wait to see what you have in store next. ;)
I just came up with a way to improve the Cortex final boss from Cortex Strikes Back. Keep the Jetpack chase but Cortex has a shield and you spin attack the asteroids to stun him and destroy his force field, once destroyed you spin attack him to do damage. (Anything else I could add)
How about when Cortex has 2 or 1 HP left, he uses his ray gun to fire back and it can kill you.
The n tropy boss form n tranced made me break my GBA as a kid
The coretex fight from mind over mutant kinda is familiar wait a usually smart villian ejecting himself with a formula that makes him buff to make a bad final boss. Oh god it titan joker all over again
BenjaMage: *Does a No Input Run*
Luigi Doing Absolutely Nothing: Finally, a worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary!!!
*Both stand there doing nothing as time & space distorts & collapses around them*
Then the evil twins show up and say "BORING" and procede to have Shadow The Hedgehog use a powered up Chaos Control to save the universe.
@@Rabbitlord108 OOF
One redeeming quality I will give to the N. Tranced Tropy fight is I think the music is really good. I like it better than the Warped version.
Sad that Black Mage Benjamin had to end on a rather sad note with Chocobo GP... Could have used one last positive review video under the Black Mage name, but oh, well...
At least Benjamage has a nice ring to it...
Choosing Koala Kong instead of Papu Papu as one of the worst fights? Interesting.
I understand your point, but I would have done the opposite (although, to be honest, Koala Kong wasn't tough or remarkable either)
For Velo i don't find it that difficult as the shortcut skips a good amount of the track.
Btw, i'm surprised you didn't include the Uka-Uka boss fight in titans as it is brutally hard as it constantly spams enemies on you
He hasn’t had the chance to play Titans as of now.
@@blizzardforonline1954 Maybe as a replacement for that Crash Team Rumble video he had to cancel?
12:17 - 12:20
Benjamage: Like I said. The Komodo Brothers could really use a redemption
Me: *singsong voice* Oh Mavy~
Benjamage: What?
Me: *singsong voice* You forgot something~
Benjamage: Uh.....what did I forget?
Me: This!! *shows the You Fail meme that he made*
Benjamage: Oh. Right....I forgot about that.
In the segment with velo another thing he has in his favor is his carts design which looks like something out of star wars
Maybe it's just me, but I'm a little surprised the Pyro-Crunch fight from TWOC didn't end up on here somewhere. That fight is annoying because a) They don't tell you the mech moves slower while shooting so if you just hold the button down you won't reach Crunch b) While he's running away from you, Crunch drops these tiny rocks that very hard to see and can spawn right on top of you c) Why does the lighting become entirely black partway through?
IMO the only thing that saves this fight (like much of TWOC) is the boss music.
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I'm glad I wasn't the only one disappointed with the fight against N tropy's in Crash 4. I wish they fully incorporated the fight with all the masks and characters to trick the player into thinking that this was the true final boss of the game and then hit us with the Cortex fight or at least add the full fight in as an update or dlc. But I guess activision was too quick to have this game out the door to bring in the cash.
16:46 actually you can beat him 2 times to unlock velo because after you beat each worlds bosses you can get the other items then do the gem cups and the final relic
I figured it'd either be Crash 2 Cortex, Twin Tropy battle, or N-Tranced Tropy at #1. Out of all the bosses I don't like, that's the number 1 worst boss in my book as well.
What's worse is you have to unlock his battle by 100%-ing the game. Collecting all the colored gem shards was BS. Worst instance of story padding on Crash History.
The more I watch Crash-related lists, the more I realize how much I actually like the boss roster. Mind you, they're far from perfect but most have such a sense of charm to them I can constantly overlook their shortcomings to a fault admittedly.
But I do have some stinkers...
Evil Coco (N-Traced)
This fight more has mostly to do with my own poor eyesight. I have a atrocious depth perception problems and will of find myself getting strafed by her projectiles more often than I'd like to admit.
Komodo Joe (Nitro Fueled)
I really don't like how Beenox handled the controls for the remake. Breaking and powersliding have been nerfed so much, holding momentum is a huge chore now. I was an unsung CTR king back in the day, however nowadays I lose momentum like like an old Buick. Joe himself is still a decent challenge but the overcorrection on the controls boils my blood. And Dragon Mines used to be a favorite racecourse of mine on the original CTR
Oxide Ride (Crash Bash)
Oxide's appearance and boss fight in Crash Bash is one of my favorite boss fights in the franchise.
On Single Player any ways. When I played it on 2 Player my siblings _literally_ got in the way. I don't understand why we had to share the same track for the Ballistix game, but maybe that's the salt talking. Seriously though, co-op Adventure mode was aggravating because the difficulty became a total crapshoot with another player.
Nina (Crash of the Titans)
I'm kinda hesitant to even put a Crash of the Titans boss in this list because you don't really fight the bosses directly, you really just cause massive AoE destruction around the boss arena by either directly controlling them or fighting a huge mob of fodder and mutants. And it was super annoying because in the last arena you had to destroy the gears in Nina's giant airship or whatever. The issue is the gears around the final areas blend in so well I wasted a good 10 minutes wandering aimlessly unsure of what I'm doing and firing the spider mutant's laser indiscriminately in all directions until the final cutscene triggered it felt like. lol
On top of that, the Evil Coco fight in N Tranced is just boring.
You can literally win the fight by staying on the left side of the arena, only moving to avoid 1 missile that she drops on the 3rd healthbar, and to hit her when her electric field goes down.
Last night, I actually beat Crash 3. The N-Sane version and not 106% with all gems, but it was still epic! Definitely one of the hardest games I’ve ever beaten, even with all the powers.
Makes me think that the Tropy battle would be something on Evil twins theme
I'll guess that cortex from crash 2 is number 1
I hope you can do top 10 best and worst spyro bosses
I honestly though the N Trophies were the final boss and caught off guard the game is still going.
Benjamage- New name, same great content.
When I was young I loved koala Kong , not so much the fight but the character and the stage.
I know you probably won't see this but velo oxide pinstripe geary and norm are all bosses that shoot moving projectiles in crash racing games
I love the N tropy crash 4 boss and the wrath of cortex ball fight tbh.
Hi Benjamage
Have you played Tunic lately, the game is a love letter to the old first zelda title from the nes days using the game manual as a guide in game if you into that sort of game.
The game has soul like elements and also has cryptic vague puzzles you need to solve using the help of ingame game manual.
I've heard of it, but I haven't played it. It does seem interesting though!
It would of been interesting if you had N Tropy be the regular final boss while making it so for the first time having it so you need to collect the equivalent of the every gem in the regular stage which would be a count in the level of regular and N verted stages (linked to each level) and when you beat N Tropy, the events that lead to Cortex becoming the final boss like he does in Crash 4. It could make it so the true ending is behind gems but the true true ending is behind 100% and would of made getting gems more worth it that just getting costumes.
I'm ALREADY seeing Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage/ Crash Bandicoot and Spyro FUSION, and Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath Of Cortex bosses on this list and the video hasn't even STARTED YET, but it's OBVIOUS koala Kong and komodo brothers are gonna be on this list for a FACT because of the thumbnail, and possibly the cortex "fight" from crash 2. Because cortex is also on the thumbnail as well. Who knows, maybe we'll see bosses from mind over mutant or crash of the titans on this list, who knows?
Emperor Velo is somewhat so nostalgic, good times