20 Best Boss Battles From Recent Video Games
19. Taiga Saejima - Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii
The Like a Dragon franchise sure as hell knows how to deliver a memorable boss fight, and though the recent Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii wasn't among the series' stronger entries, it still served up a share of banger bosses.
And chief among them was the mid-game clash with one of the series' all-time fan favourite characters, the supremely badass Taiga Saejima.
The terrific, WWE-style pre-fight trash talking between Majima and Saejima gets things off to a great start, and while the fight doesn't last long, duking it out with one of the strongest pound-for-pound combatants in the entire Like a Dragon franchise is always a hoot.
In the later phases Saejima will deal some insane damage to unprepared players, ensuring that even in defeat he comes off looking strong.
But because losing apparently isn't enough, Saejima also has to suffer the indignity of baby tiger Goro pissing on his shoes a few moments later.
While it's a shame that Saejima wasn't featured more prominently in the game, this boss fight was nevertheless one of its easy high points.