10 Video Game Bosses You Can Beat By Doing NOTHING
5. Balrog - Cave Story
Cave Story's lunchbox-shaped Balrog is a recurring boss enemy you'll battle four times throughout the game, though there's a devilishly simple way to bypass that first fight entirely without firing a shot. The solution's so simple, in fact, that you might not even consider it.
After bursting into the room, Balrog will ask you, "So what's your deal? You gonna fight me with that thing?," at which point the player can select in the affirmative or negative.
Picking "yes" will start a conventional boss battle in which you need to rinse Balrog's huge life bar by riddling him with bullets from your Polar Star, but there's a much easier way to get through it.
Simply pick "no" and Balrog will indeed pack up shop and leave you alone - at least for now. His three other boss fights see him present no such generous offer, though.
If most surely assumed that there wasn't a way to weasel out of the fight, the game was indeed playing things totally straight here.