8 Best Video Game Boss Battles Of 2022
7. Super Shredder - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredders Revenge
Sometimes a boss need not be an arduous challenge in order to become notorious enough for a list like this, as after all painting the Mona Lisa only with brushes that have been stabbed into your eyeballs sure is a trial but not one I'll be volunteering for any time soon. No, what makes a great boss battle is how the devs balance that challenge with the concept of fun, and sometimes that factor alone can elevate a standard boss encounter to a brilliant one.
Case and point, Super Shredder from the outstandingly fun TMNT: Shredder's Revenge, never once feels like it forgets what this title is all about, that being a sugar-rush explosion of over-the-top combat wrapped in the nostalgia of Saturday morning cartoons. His design is reminiscent of his SNES and ill-fated live-action outings, resembling the sort of cheese grater you'd find on the dark web, and holds nothing back when the battle starts.
What makes this fight so refreshing is that it actively pushes the players to use their evasive skills as much as their honed combat practices. If you try to go toe to toe with Super Shredder you'll be left in tatters within moments, so what follows is a tense game of dodging and jumping to avoid his attacks then coalescing on his weakened state to poke a bo staff up his nostrils.
Set to a fist-pumping soundtrack, this battle feels like it's been decades in the making, effortlessly giving fans of the series a power fantasy for the ages.