10 Video Game Bosses That Made You Cheat To Win

Sometimes cheaters do prosper.

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Under normal circumstances, cheating to beat a boss feels more than a little unsatisfying. Instead of the glorious battle you could have had, you're left with a gimmick that lets you win, generally resulting in a hollow victory.

But generally does not mean always. Some bosses are so irritating - or so difficult - that sometimes it's easier to bite the bullet and take to less morally upright methods. In fact, it's pretty common for the enemies you're fighting to take to tactics that are either practically impossible to beat through legitimate means, or otherwise technically cheating themselves.

While winning through cheating isn't the most righteous victory, it can still be incredibly satisfying to finally get one over on a boss or enemy that's been making your life hell for however long you've been trying to best them. And sometimes, cheating is the only way to counter a cheating AI.

The one sure sign that we could fight a robot uprising is humanity's willingness to cheat to beat them in anything, even Mario Party - and in a really messed up way, that's beautiful.

10. CPU Players - Mario Party 1

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In theory, the CPU players in a game of Mario Party should operate as totally individual figures. They're intended to emulate human players, in the end, so you'd obviously expect them to mostly just look out for themselves, like a competitive game entails.

Only, if you play it for long enough, you can start to get more than a little suspicious. The AI players always seem to... win certain mini games, it seems like. But that's clearly just your paranoia, right? They wouldn't make the AI unbeatable at mini games when they're 90% of the game... right?

Well, to rest possibly years long paranoia - you were right. The robots are made to be better than you. It's okay to be mad.

In the first game, the AI is literally capable of pushing buttons faster than your controller can physically register them. This is especially true for those god-awful mini games that required you to rotate the joystick with your palm, since you could literally tear the skin off your hand if you did it too fast - whereas the computer has no hands and thus no issue.

As such, nobody can blame you for almost definitely forming a sketchy and also sort of unfair alliance with other human players against the robot threat. Sacrifices have to be made, after all.

 
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