Boss Battles
By blog on Apr. 4, 2009.
Sometimes when you are playing a game, you can travel along thinking all is fine and dandy. Then you hit the boss battle at the end of a world, and BAM! You’re no longer fine and dandy, no, your the opposite of that. You need the reflexes of a ninja and the patience of a master thief to get through this bloody battle. I am going to list a few that have bothered me over the years.
Firstly, because I am playing it right now, Henry Hatsworth is proving to have rather difficult boss battles. I mean, you have to bring your A+ Game and have good luck, half the time. It is very annoying, as much of the game alternates between this hyper difficulty, and then fairly easy. And yet I keep coming back. I am even dreaming about those damn blocks now, as if someone is throwing them at me.
Then there was, and this was a long time ago, Earthbound. This was one of those need to know a certain trick, boss guys. If you didn’t know this trick, this battle was completely impossible… I played this game for such a long time, in one great stretch, so I wasn’t forgetting things or missing things. Nonetheless, I didn’t actually beat the damn boss in this game, because I didn’t know to look it up on the net and find what the magic trick was that actually allowed you to beat him! The boss, Giygas, had a ‘resetting health bar’. At the end of every round, his health would completely reset, and you couldn’t beat him unless you used the attack ‘Pray’ and the final ‘Pray’ would deal more damage than ol’ Giygas had hitpoints. Gah, that was really annoying.
Next another older game, Gun, on the XBOX360. Annoyingly easy throughout the entire game, except the final boss battle. Oh yeah, that battle was next to impossible! And it was only the final boss too, the rest were easy enough, but that final boss was so frustratingly difficult. It was really hard to keep playing and trying to beat the schmoozer, when you kept being blown up whilst he is ya-hooing his way through the whole thing. Way to make a mediocre at best game leave a very bad impression on a gamer.
Lastly I will complain about Ninja Gaiden. This one is further back than Gun, but not as far back as Earthbound. This was a hard game, the easy mode was called ‘Ninja Dog’. This is a blow to ones pride if they have to play on this difficulty, so I certainly didn’t! It was fun, alright, but it was tough as nails. I am not the only one who thinks so, this game is renown for its difficulty. And the final boss battle was one of those that not only required great skills, but also a lot of luck and a bit of chance. At least the rest of the game was like that though, more understandable and less infuriating.
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