Boss battles can make or break a video game; they can be the supreme pay-off of all that hard graft getting through a tough section of a game, or they can seem arbitrary and simply bog things down.
What’s clear is that throughout the lineage of gaming, we’ve been treated to our fair share of loopy, crazy and ridiculous boss battles, either a case of the developers clearly not giving a damn and just going for broke, or through lazy programming that results in a bizarre boss fight you would never have expected.
Whatever the reason, it’s fair to suggest that a good amount of the programmers working on these games must’ve had some chemical influence, if you catch my drift, because no sober, cogent mind could possibly dare come up with these ideas.
Here are the 10 most ridiculous video game boss battles of all time…
10. Prince Froggy – Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island
You normally know what you’re getting with Super Mario games, though Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island did break the mold in as much as it featured one of the most batty and bizarre bosses that Nintendo has ever come up with.
The game involves Yoshi trying to reunite baby Mario with Luigi, and along the way you face a number of mystical enemies, the most freaky of which is Prince Froggy in World 3. Kamek, Koopa’s wizard genius, shrinks Yoshi and baby Mario, at which point Froggy eats them. Yes, you guessed it, this fight takes place inside Prince Froggy’s intestinal tract!
The fight consists of swallowing Shy Guys and to make gigantic eggs that can then be thrown at Foggy’s uvula (that’s the dangly bit at the top of the throat), and once he’s done, you have to make your exit in the only way food is processed through the body…Yup, didn’t expect that in a Mario game, did you?
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The Great Mighty Poo is ridiculous but it’s song is amazing and so is the game!
The entire Metal Gear Solid series is just insane. That last line about setting the clock a week forward… is that for real? Like why would they even do that? It’s metal gear so I totally believe it. Anyone who saw the ending of Metal Gear 2 would be willing to believe anything.
And giant Joker? Five open fingers to the face of whichever game developer made that decision.
Perhaps the best boss fight ever in terms of pure achievement once you did it has to be The End from MGS3: Snake Eater. I’m glad you didn’t put this game down as it deserves credit for what it brought out of you. if you beat him you were damn good!
I think that The Mad Hatter in Batman: Arkham City was a very clever boss, from the way he stalked you through the game through to when he captured you in his house. I thought it was brilliant and really gave a rather stale character some deep history and genuine fear.
I completely missed him on my first playthrough. Was delighted to find so much content I’d missed when I played it through again!
“It will only take one thrust to penetrate your frail form.” That is absolutely terrifying!
I think I’d have to include the Marvel Vs Capcom games which end with people like Mike Haggar or Jill Valentine going up against the beyond planet-sized, galaxy-busting cosmic entity Galactus and actually having a chance of being noticed by him, let alone winning.
Isn’t that a failure of most fighting games, though? Ultimately they all end up unrealistically balanced?
I’ve never heard anyone beat The End the same as i did when i just ran about and eventually found him, equipped the shotgun and ran him down. Superb boss fight BUT i would say all the boss’s in the MGS are just incredible and usually quite rediculous