10 Boss Fights That Stopped Video Games Being Perfect

One reason why Assassin's Creed II's legacy has endured is because of how personal the story feels. The villain, Pope Rodrigo Borgia, isn't just the leader of the Italian sect of the Templar - he oversaw the execution of Ezio's family, which drove our hero to follow the Assassin Brotherhood.

Exterminating Rodrigo is no easy task since the malevolent maestro is armed with the Staff of Eden - an artefact that endows the wielder with the power of invisibility, superstrength, telekinesis, and telepathy. Because of this god-like artefact, the player assumes the final battle will be an epic showdown involving Rodrigo harnessing his supernatural might.

Instead, the Templar Leader decides to fight the man who was sent to kill him... with his fists.

Now, there's no question Rodrigo Borgia was a force to be reckoned with during the Renaissance. But when it comes to a fist fight, a master assassin like Ezio won't have any difficulty defeating a chubby, middle-aged man.

Just to make this fight more anticlimactic, Ezio lets the man who murdered his family live!! Because the story concludes with Ezio failing to avenge his family, you can't help being dissatisfied when you watch Rodrigo live to see another day.