10 Video Games That Reused Bosses (And Made Them BETTER)

10. The Guardian (Evil Within 2)

You first encounter the Guardian as a mid-boss in the Evil Within sequel: a horrid amalgamation of butchered woman's bodies, combined into one terrifying monster with a buzzsaw for a hand. The fight is intense, but the whole area is specifically arranged for it and it's a big to-do.

Cut to a level or two later and you learn that more Guardians can be fought...randomly spawning on the map. It's one thing, in a horror game, to fight an abomination of tortured women's bodies swinging a sinew-covered buzzsaw at you in a room designed for it. It is another thing entirely to find it while rounding a corner when you're just hunting to replenish your dangerously low stock of ammo.

In an action game it would probably just be annoying, but because the Evil Within 2 is a horror game – every time you cross paths with the Guardian, unexpectedly, adds to the horror of the situation. It's especially disconcerting when you're trying to skirt around another enemy that you want to avoid and suddenly there's a walking pile of corpses swinging spinning blades at you. Lucky the enemies in the game can't hear your real screams of terror from your couch.