Uncharted 4: 20 Amazing Moments

3. Final Boss: The Rafe Swordfight

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The game's concluding 22nd Chapter (A Thief's End), sees Nate head towards Avery's ship as an explosion is triggered from it. Inside he find Sam unconscious and Rafe holds him at gunpoint, at least until Nadine disarms them both and leaves them inside the burning ship.

Cue the start of the final boss fight, as Rafe grabs a sword and begins slashing away at Nate. The player must evade the attacks while occasionally landing some blows on Rafe, until they're also able to grab a sword from one of the corpses and make it a fair fight.

The pair duel until Rafe breaks Nate's sword in half, and when it seems all over, Nate uses the end of his sword to cut a rope, causing a gigantic net of treasure to fall on Rafe.

As the ship burns down, Nate barely rescues Sam in time, and the pair swim out of the collapsing cavern moments before they'd be sealed in forever, getting rescued by Sully and Elena on the outside.

It may have been a glorified QTE, but that is how you do a final boss fight, and it was great to close things out with something so appropriate to the series' themes: a swashbuckling swordfight.

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