These Video Game Villains SUCK!

3. The General - Kaiser Knuckle

These Villains SUCK
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While other villains on this NOT LIST may suffer from performance issues (also known as digital droop) when it comes to either being totally ineffectual, or just being about as appealing to battle as giving Maggie Thatcher a full body oil massage, the General from Kaiser Knuckle is no slouch when it comes to presenting a stiff challenge.

However, this becomes very much its own problem as this mighty military monster goes too far the other way and becomes a boss battle that is nigh on un-winnable!

Using every cheating bastard trick in the cheating bastard book, The General can teleport, unleash copies of himself, pass through your defence, break your guard with grabs and does all of this with little wind up to his attacks making it almost impossible to predict.

In the grand halls of cheap fighting video game boss battles, Shao Kahn and Seth are feasting at the kiddies table when compared to The General who is gorging himself on the pain and misery of players like it was an all you could eat buffet.

The General sucks as a boss battle and as a piece of game design as it breaks the otherwise fun Kaiser Knuckle experience, and means that his biggest sin as a video game villain is being too good at his bloody job.

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