10 Most Satisfying Final Boss Kills In Gaming History

4. Senator Armstrong - Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

Platinum Games know action games better than most, but until MGS Rising's finale, they weren't especially known for difficulty.

Because although he sure talks a big game, Senator Armstrong comes at you with equal parts damage and speed. His skin and biological makeup is infused with nanomachines, meaning every last one of your attacks does very little damage.

It's a setup designed to force you into listening to every last monologuing sentiment he has about "making America great again" (yes, really), and after suffering a handful of deaths and button-mashing your way through every phase of the duel, you'll be ready to put him down.

Doing so brings the well-named "Blade Mode" back into the fray, as this over-shoulder time-slowing toggle is used to dice enemies and objects into hundreds of pieces.

Come the point in the fight where Armstrong is weakened enough to let you do this, Raiden goes hell for leather on the guy's chest, punching enough of a hole in the surface to reach in, and straight up tear his still-beating heart out.

Like a Mortal Kombat fatality, he then crushes it with one hand, standing bloody and victorious over his most challenging foe.