12 Most Bizarre Boss Battles In Video Game History
10. Iustitia - Bayonetta
Bayonetta is full of campy, pseudo-religious weirdness. But with its bizarre fusion of Japanese art styles and Christian iconography, the game manages to create a stylish and unique aesthetic of the sort that gamers really hadn't seen before. Of its fine roster of strange bosses - eclectic combinations of statue-esque faces with gold metallic limbs and halos - Iustitia stands out as the strangest among them. It's hard to know what to focus on when looking at this chimera-like being. Do you look at one of the three faces on its main body, the bird-like wings sprouting from it, the cherub head on the end of the central face's tongue, or at the giant Mario-style piranha plants sprouting from its other two faces? Of course, when you fight this anomaly, it's quite clear that you aim for its multi-faced main body, but you'll still be baffled by its visual complexity, as it emerges from a pool of inexplicably purple goo to flail at you with its mish-mash of bodily extensions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgh6uFiwbos
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