9 Most Unique Boss Battles In Video Games

6. Famed Mimic Gogo - Final Fantasy V

When it comes to boss battles that subvert your expectations, Famed Mimic Gogo is a great example that does something very special. You’d be forgiven for seeing this encounter as the same as any other and just throwing everything you’ve got at him waiting for that health bar to drop but unfortunately it’s not that simple. You see, Famed Mimic Gogo is a famed mimic after all. So everything you hit him with, he’ll hit you back and harder.

What you’ll need to do is apply some critical thinking and do something you’d never want to do in a boss fight with a timer, that is, do nothing.

Of course, doing nothing is agonising while you’re watching your precious time tick away but Famed Mimic Gogo is trying to ascertain whether you’re worthy of the mimic shard so the way to do that is to mimic everything he does to you, which is nothing. In the end he’ll praise you for doing, quote, “perfectly nothing perfectly” and drop you the shard. It’s very cool.