[Falcon] Bosses are meant to have exaggerated move sets,things that you would never see a regular enemy do,but some of them are so over the top that it’s worth putting them togetherand having a look at ’em.
It’s Falcon,and today on Gameranx,10 over the top boss moves.
Starting off with number 10,
when Cronos tries to crush
Now, of course, everything
is over the top, the
the level of violence, and
It’s all about as crazy
Picking just one boss, let
was a tall order because there
The move where Hades
almost made this list,
with something more suitably bombastic.
The fight with Cronos goes
with this gigantic Titan
between his thumb and index finger
while the camera zooms out
to really give you a sense
hey, this guy is that
You’re not even an ant
He’s basically messing with
When he gets really serious,
that’s when he just straight
with the palm of his hand,
which is obviously not
of course, but pretty impressive.
And at number nine, the
from “Guardians of the Galaxy.”
I don’t know about you,
but I did not expect the
to escalate as fast as it
The final boss is the
to a JRPG boss in a Western action game
based on a comic book
It’s totally nuts.
After the fake-out ending,
it’s revealed the true
again, perhaps a funny coincidence in that
it’s kind of the inverse
where Magus wasn’t the actual bad guy,
but Vegas took control of Adam Warlock,
which basically means
And if none of that
just remember it’s comic books.
You kinda have to roll with it.
But you battle this guy
where he summons shadow
while trying to pelt you with projectiles.
For most of the fight,
but get far enough,
and he suddenly whips out an entire planet
that he sends crashing towards you.
The only way to survive
that Nikki generates.
Otherwise, you’re just dead.
It doesn’t get much more over the top
than using a planet like a snowball,
but believe me, it’s
when it comes to the top
At number eight, “Asura’s
for lack of a better word.
The true final boss in “Asura’s Wrath,”
the one that we’re contractually
that you had to pay money to actually see,
is one of the most
in video game history.
If we’re just talking about scale,
this would probably be the
Like the leading up to the fight,
this guy doesn’t just
He throws entire solar systems at you.
You blow up suns while trying to kill him.
The scale is insane.
It’s also over the top that
getting thrown at you,
I mean it doesn’t, but when
as a planet, and the final
these kind of attacks
So instead of just
getting thrown at you,
I want talk about one of the
This guy pulls this
and he generates his orb
it gets frozen solid, and
by giving you this insane beatdown.
Even if you manage to
he still taunts the hell out of you
by teleporting in your way
and just looking at you
It’s probably one of the
teleport spam beatdowns,
and you basically have to be
And at number seven is
from “Kirby and the Forgotten Land.”
Looking at the little cute puffball,
you would assume that a Kirby game
would probably be one of
that you’d see insane,
but you would be wrong.
For whatever reason, some of
goes down in the Kirby series,
but then again, the game is
that can absorb basically
kind of like a cute vacuum or something.
I don’t know.
It’s weird enough to expect
you don’t really expect
But then you get to the final boss,
and this goes for
but in this case, the most
happens at the end of the True Arena,
the final challenge of the game.
You get to the end.
You take on the Chaos Elfilis,
the ultimate form of
with an entirely new second form.
He’s basically already
with some pretty impressive attacks,
but in the ultimate
When you get to the
that’s also when the stops
It catches on fire. The skies turn red.
It starts causing explosive
from the sky.
Some of it falls down in piles,
and the only way to avoid the next attack,
the massive deadly shockwave,
is to platform up the debris to avoid it.
It doesn’t sound that
it’s actually pretty
“Kirby and the Forgotten Lands”
actually has some pretty
but obviously, Chaos
At number six is the
from “Elden Ring.”
We had to mention at least
and while most of the bosses
are more down to earth
this guy is anything but.
The Elden Beast is the
with the fight taking place in
A lot of its attacks are over the top.
It’s got a massive sword that
it fires homing projectiles that shoot out
dozens of additional homing projectiles,
it flies through the air
and it’s an all around weird fight
that’s a little more abstract
than what you’re used to
where the standard boss is
Of course, its most over-the-top attack
has got to be its grab.
If you’ve seen it,
you know exactly what we’re talking about.
If you’re unlucky enough to
it literally crucifies
just like Marika,
then impales you with
before blowing you up
It’s an attack that does a ton of damage,
and you’re unlikely to survive it.
And the very idea of surviving the attack
is actually ridiculous itself.
I mean, it impales you
If you got hit with that,
Arguing the logistics of this thing
is kind of pointless, though.
It’s an over-the-top attack
meant to show you how
and it serves that purpose very well.
And at number five,
the Data Zemnas from
All the Data bosses you take on
in the “Kingdom Hearts
Every last one of ’em seems to pull out
some totally nutso attack.
It’s very dangerous.
So while you might not
it’s probably my personal favorite
as far as over-the-top attacks go.
I’m talking about the laser orb
where he literally surrounds the arena
with hundreds of dots of lasers
and then fires them all in sequence.
This all happens while he’s attacking you
with a ton of other attacks as well,
so the visual alone is
At first, you can’t even really tell
it’s supposed to be an attack.
It looks like a background change
to some new abstract visual,
but then the little lights start to glow
and you find yourself pinned down
by an endless rain of lasers.
It’s kind of one of those
it’s practically abstract.
And at number four, when a
in “Sonic the Hedgehog 2006.”
Now, not every boss with
is automatically good, as this
“Sonic the Hedgehog”
is a miserable game,
with some of the worst bosses out there,
and I don’t just mean in the Sonic series.
I mean any game ever.
They’re really, really god awful.
Iblis is no exception.
Most of this fight, you’re sitting around
waiting for things to
and be forced to play the
Most of its attacks aren’t
at all, until just out of the blue,
it suddenly picks up a whole building
and tries to flatten you.
If you attack it, you
but good luck actually hitting it
with these terrible aiming controls.
The fact that a gigantic
with an entire building should be awesome,
but in practice, it’s pretty laughable.
Half the time, the building
and then disappears when it hits you.
It’s really not impressive.
It is over the top, though.
In a better game, having a psychic battle
with a Godzilla-sized
but we are also talking about “Sonic ’06,”
so it is not great.
It is the opposite of great.
(dramatic music)
And at number three is an Anima’s Oblivion
from “Final Fantasy X.”
Some of the most over-the-top
come from the summons in “Final Fantasy.”
These are the most wild
and the series is insane
But it’s important to note that
you’re for the most part
not the other way around.
This changes when you
for the first time in “Final Fantasy X.”
On his own, he’s not that dangerous,
but what really makes him
When this thing gets
that’s when you get a
and it pulls out this Oblivion attack,
where this weird mummy thing
pulls your party into the
where Anima’s bottom half is revealed
to be an upside-down demon
that punches the hell out of your party.
If you’re not prepared,
this attack can and will end right there.
It is a brutal one.
It’s also another one where
that makes it over the
Few boss attacks really
you’re totally screwed than this one.
It’s just got the perfect
and weirdness, and also,
you’re not going survive it.
At number two is Sans’ first
Usually, bosses have
later in the fight.
They save it,
just to make it really
after a long battle.
This guy, though, not messing around.
He pulls out all the
attacking with an absolutely
of deadly attacks that few
the first time, or the
Generally considered the
the Genocide route Sans
if you killed literally
You’d think that would prepare you,
but it’s not even close.
Even if you do manage to
it’s not like the fight’s
You still need to beat him.
And this is a fight
where it could be considered challenging
even without that initial attack.
Visually, it looks like
a suspiciously smooth-playing NES game,
so while it’s not that
it’s incredibly over the top in challenge.
Everyone always jokes about why a boss
just doesn’t use the
but this guy did it.
(upbeat music)
At number one is Safer
from “Final Fantasy VII.”
So there’s nothing really
Safer Sephiroth is the final
and there was nothing
when this game first came out.
The choir, the strange
it’s all about as perfect
(choir chanting)
Just look at this madness.
He somehow causes Pluto
through the solar system,
destroying everything in its path
before crashing into the sun
and causing a literal supernova.
The entire solar system is destroyed,
and the attack ends with
hitting the party.
Of course, it doesn’t even kill you.
He literally whipped out an attack
that destroyed every planet in our system,
but that’s not enough to stop you.
Also, logistically,
these games don’t take
so did he kill all of us?
Is that what happened?
Did he transport the party there
or use the energy from the
I don’t know.
All you can do is really
because I’m not really sure
It’s so over the top that it’s
In every way, it’s one of the
in video game history,
and I’m not sure if
A couple of smaller bonus ones for you.
The Great Attractor from
I mean, they tried to top the
while they didn’t do it,
where the final boss
in that they tether a bunch
and slam them all into you at once.
It’s bizarre and really over the top,
but still not quite as crazy
I don’t know.
You definitely get points for
There’s also a really crazy one
from “Super Robot Wars
It just goes beyond the impossible,
not that none of these did,
but the final boss in this edition
of the long running
laughs at destroying just a solar system.
This guy’s attack called
seems to destroy the entire
If you thought Super Nova was ridiculous,
you haven’t seen anything yet.
As epic? I don’t know.
Definitely more ridiculous, though.
And that’s all for today.
Leave us a comment. Let
If you liked this video, click Like.
If you’re not subscribed,
We upload brand-new videos
The best way to see them first
so click Subscribe,
don’t forget to enable all
we thank you very much
We’ll see you next time,
VIDEO
It’s Falcon,on Gameranx,10 over the top boss moves
[Falcon] Bosses are meant to have exaggerated move sets,things that you would never see a regular enemy do,but some of them are so over the top that it’s worth putting them togetherand having a look at ’em.
It’s Falcon,and today on Gameranx,10 over the top boss moves.
Starting off with number 10,
when Cronos tries to crush
you in “God of War 3.”
Now, of course, everything
about “God of War 3”
is over the top, the
set pieces, the combat,
the level of violence, and
scale of the boss fights.
It’s all about as crazy
as an action game can get.
Picking just one boss, let
alone one attack for this list,
was a tall order because there
are a lot of options here.
The move where Hades
tries to steal your soul
almost made this list,
but we decided to start
with something more suitably bombastic.
The fight with Cronos goes
to 100 right from the start,
with this gigantic Titan
trying to crush Kratos
between his thumb and index finger
while the camera zooms out
to really give you a sense
of scale, just telling you,
hey, this guy is that
much bigger than you.
You’re not even an ant
compared to this guy.
He’s basically messing with
you at that point, though.
When he gets really serious,
that’s when he just straight
up tries to crush you flat
with the palm of his hand,
which is obviously not
good enough to stop Kratos,
of course, but pretty impressive.
And at number nine, the
throw-a-planet attack
from “Guardians of the Galaxy.”
I don’t know about you,
but I did not expect the
“Guardians of the Galaxy” game
to escalate as fast as it
did, or as far as it did.
The final boss is the
closest thing we’ve seen
to a JRPG boss in a Western action game
based on a comic book
that we’ve ever seen.
It’s totally nuts.
After the fake-out ending,
it’s revealed the true
enemy of the game, Magus,
again, perhaps a funny coincidence in that
it’s kind of the inverse
of “Chrono Trigger,”
where Magus wasn’t the actual bad guy,
but Vegas took control of Adam Warlock,
which basically means
he has infinite power.
And if none of that
makes any sense to you,
just remember it’s comic books.
You kinda have to roll with it.
But you battle this guy
floating on a platform in space
where he summons shadow
enemies to fight you
while trying to pelt you with projectiles.
For most of the fight,
it’s nothing too wild,
but get far enough,
and he suddenly whips out an entire planet
that he sends crashing towards you.
The only way to survive
is to reach the shield
that Nikki generates.
Otherwise, you’re just dead.
It doesn’t get much more over the top
than using a planet like a snowball,
but believe me, it’s
the tip of the iceberg
when it comes to the top
attacks in video games.
At number eight, “Asura’s
Wrath’s” time-stop ass-kicking,
for lack of a better word.
The true final boss in “Asura’s Wrath,”
the one that we’re contractually
obligated to remind you
that you had to pay money to actually see,
is one of the most
over-the-top final encounters
in video game history.
If we’re just talking about scale,
this would probably be the
number one out of all of them.
Like the leading up to the fight,
this guy doesn’t just
throw planets at you.
He throws entire solar systems at you.
You blow up suns while trying to kill him.
The scale is insane.
It’s also over the top that
regular gigantic things
getting thrown at you,
they almost feel mundane.
I mean it doesn’t, but when
your main guy is suddenly as big
as a planet, and the final
boss is bigger than the galaxy,
these kind of attacks
stop being as impressive.
So instead of just
talking about big things
getting thrown at you,
I want talk about one of the
crazier boss attacks out there.
This guy pulls this
time-stop ability on you,
and he generates his orb
that if you’re in it,
it gets frozen solid, and
he takes advantage of that
by giving you this insane beatdown.
Even if you manage to
avoid some of his attacks,
he still taunts the hell out of you
by teleporting in your way
and just looking at you
like you’re nothing.
It’s probably one of the
most “Dragon Ball Z”-style
teleport spam beatdowns,
but taken to the next level,
and you basically have to be
on the receiving end of it.
And at number seven is
the Psychic Meteor attack
from “Kirby and the Forgotten Land.”
Looking at the little cute puffball,
you would assume that a Kirby game
would probably be one of
the last types of games
that you’d see insane,
over-the-top bosses,
but you would be wrong.
For whatever reason, some of
the most wild stuff of all time
goes down in the Kirby series,
but then again, the game is
about a little fluff ball
that can absorb basically
anything and steal its powers,
kind of like a cute vacuum or something.
I don’t know.
It’s weird enough to expect
some weird stuff in, but still,
you don’t really expect
“Devil May Cry” level bosses.
But then you get to the final boss,
and this goes for
basically any Kirby game,
but in this case, the most
over-the-top attack in the game
happens at the end of the True Arena,
the final challenge of the game.
You get to the end.
You take on the Chaos Elfilis,
the ultimate form of
the regular final boss,
with an entirely new second form.
He’s basically already
a “Devil May Cry” boss
with some pretty impressive attacks,
but in the ultimate
form, it goes next level.
When you get to the
second part of the fight,
that’s also when the stops
really get pulled out.
It catches on fire. The skies turn red.
It starts causing explosive
debris to rain down
from the sky.
Some of it falls down in piles,
and the only way to avoid the next attack,
the massive deadly shockwave,
is to platform up the debris to avoid it.
It doesn’t sound that
crazy, but in action,
it’s actually pretty
tough and insane looking.
“Kirby and the Forgotten Lands”
actually has some pretty
wild bosses other than this,
but obviously, Chaos
Elfilis tops all of them.
At number six is the
Elden Beast grab attack
from “Elden Ring.”
We had to mention at least
one Souls game boss here,
and while most of the bosses
in these kinds of games
are more down to earth
with less flashy attacks,
this guy is anything but.
The Elden Beast is the
final boss of the game,
with the fight taking place in
a suitably epic environment.
A lot of its attacks are over the top.
It’s got a massive sword that
generates holy explosions,
it fires homing projectiles that shoot out
dozens of additional homing projectiles,
it flies through the air
shooting stuff at you,
and it’s an all around weird fight
that’s a little more abstract
than what you’re used to
seeing in these kinds of games,
where the standard boss is
usually just a guy with a sword.
Of course, its most over-the-top attack
has got to be its grab.
If you’ve seen it,
you know exactly what we’re talking about.
If you’re unlucky enough to
get caught by this thing,
it literally crucifies
you on the Elden Ring
just like Marika,
then impales you with
multiple magic spears
before blowing you up
in a massive explosion.
It’s an attack that does a ton of damage,
and you’re unlikely to survive it.
And the very idea of surviving the attack
is actually ridiculous itself.
I mean, it impales you
about a dozen times.
If you got hit with that,
you should probably be dead.
Arguing the logistics of this thing
is kind of pointless, though.
It’s an over-the-top attack
meant to show you how
powerful the boss is,
and it serves that purpose very well.
And at number five,
the Data Zemnas from
“Kingdom Hearts 3 ReMind.”
All the Data bosses you take on
in the “Kingdom Hearts
III DLC” are pretty nuts.
Every last one of ’em seems to pull out
some totally nutso attack.
It’s very dangerous.
So while you might not
agree with this one,
it’s probably my personal favorite
as far as over-the-top attacks go.
I’m talking about the laser orb
attack from the Data Xemnas,
where he literally surrounds the arena
with hundreds of dots of lasers
and then fires them all in sequence.
This all happens while he’s attacking you
with a ton of other attacks as well,
so the visual alone is
really over the top.
At first, you can’t even really tell
it’s supposed to be an attack.
It looks like a background change
to some new abstract visual,
but then the little lights start to glow
and you find yourself pinned down
by an endless rain of lasers.
It’s kind of one of those
attacks that’s so over the top,
it’s practically abstract.
And at number four, when a
boss throws a building at you
in “Sonic the Hedgehog 2006.”
Now, not every boss with
larger-than-life attacks
is automatically good, as this
entry makes abundantly clear.
“Sonic the Hedgehog”
on the PS3 and Xbox 360
is a miserable game,
with some of the worst bosses out there,
and I don’t just mean in the Sonic series.
I mean any game ever.
They’re really, really god awful.
Iblis is no exception.
Most of this fight, you’re sitting around
waiting for things to
happen, only to suddenly die
and be forced to play the
whole thing over again.
Most of its attacks aren’t
anything to write home about
at all, until just out of the blue,
it suddenly picks up a whole building
and tries to flatten you.
If you attack it, you
can interrupt the attack,
but good luck actually hitting it
with these terrible aiming controls.
The fact that a gigantic
enemy tries to kill you
with an entire building should be awesome,
but in practice, it’s pretty laughable.
Half the time, the building
just kind of jutters around
and then disappears when it hits you.
It’s really not impressive.
It is over the top, though.
In a better game, having a psychic battle
with a Godzilla-sized
monster would be great,
but we are also talking about “Sonic ’06,”
so it is not great.
It is the opposite of great.
(dramatic music)
And at number three is an Anima’s Oblivion
from “Final Fantasy X.”
Some of the most over-the-top
attacks in gaming, period,
come from the summons in “Final Fantasy.”
These are the most wild
moves in the series,
and the series is insane
in so many respects.
But it’s important to note that
while these moves are wild,
you’re for the most part
using them on enemies,
not the other way around.
This changes when you
face off against Seymour
for the first time in “Final Fantasy X.”
On his own, he’s not that dangerous,
but what really makes him
threatening is his aeon, Anima.
When this thing gets
summoned into the fight,
that’s when you get a
taste to your own medicine,
and it pulls out this Oblivion attack,
where this weird mummy thing
pulls your party into the
netherworld or something,
where Anima’s bottom half is revealed
to be an upside-down demon
that punches the hell out of your party.
If you’re not prepared,
this attack can and will end right there.
It is a brutal one.
It’s also another one where
it’s not necessarily the scale
that makes it over the
top but the presentation.
Few boss attacks really
give you that feeling
you’re totally screwed than this one.
It’s just got the perfect
level of intimidation
and weirdness, and also,
again, if you’re not prepared,
you’re not going survive it.
At number two is Sans’ first
attack from “Undertale.”
Usually, bosses have
their over-the-top stuff
later in the fight.
They save it,
just to make it really
hard to survive with low HP
after a long battle.
This guy, though, not messing around.
He pulls out all the
stops right from turn one,
attacking with an absolutely
overwhelming barrage
of deadly attacks that few
actually manage to survive
the first time, or the
second or third time.
Generally considered the
hardest boss in the game,
the Genocide route Sans
boss can only be fought
if you killed literally
everything else in the game.
You’d think that would prepare you,
but it’s not even close.
Even if you do manage to
survive the initial onslaught,
it’s not like the fight’s
just over after that.
You still need to beat him.
And this is a fight
where it could be considered challenging
even without that initial attack.
Visually, it looks like
a suspiciously smooth-playing NES game,
so while it’s not that
over the top in detail,
it’s incredibly over the top in challenge.
Everyone always jokes about why a boss
just doesn’t use the
ultimate attack at the start,
but this guy did it.
(upbeat music)
At number one is Safer
Sephiroth’s Super Nova
from “Final Fantasy VII.”
So there’s nothing really
that can compare with this.
Safer Sephiroth is the final
boss of “Final Fantasy VII,”
and there was nothing
more epic back in 1997
when this game first came out.
The choir, the strange
heavenly background,
it’s all about as perfect
as a final boss can get.
(choir chanting)
Just look at this madness.
He somehow causes Pluto
to come crashing down
through the solar system,
destroying everything in its path
before crashing into the sun
and causing a literal supernova.
The entire solar system is destroyed,
and the attack ends with
an expanding ball of fire
hitting the party.
Of course, it doesn’t even kill you.
He literally whipped out an attack
that destroyed every planet in our system,
but that’s not enough to stop you.
Also, logistically,
these games don’t take
place in our solar system,
so did he kill all of us?
Is that what happened?
Did he transport the party there
or use the energy from the
destruction of our sun?
I don’t know.
All you can do is really
imagine some kind of illusion
because I’m not really sure
what the alternative even is.
It’s so over the top that it’s
not even canon what it is.
In every way, it’s one of the
most ridiculous single attacks
in video game history,
and I’m not sure if
anyone’s managed to top it.
A couple of smaller bonus ones for you.
The Great Attractor from
“Final Fantasy VIII.”
I mean, they tried to top the
Sephiroth attack, but I mean,
while they didn’t do it,
this is a really crazy attack
where the final boss
pulls out a similar move
in that they tether a bunch
of planets to your party
and slam them all into you at once.
It’s bizarre and really over the top,
but still not quite as crazy
as that Sephiroth attack.
I don’t know.
You definitely get points for
trying, “Final Fantasy VIII.”
There’s also a really crazy one
from “Super Robot Wars
OG: The Moon Dwellers.”
It just goes beyond the impossible,
not that none of these did,
but the final boss in this edition
of the long running
strategy-RPG crossover series
laughs at destroying just a solar system.
This guy’s attack called
the Degenerative Cannon
seems to destroy the entire
galaxy with a single blast.
If you thought Super Nova was ridiculous,
you haven’t seen anything yet.
As epic? I don’t know.
Definitely more ridiculous, though.
And that’s all for today.
Leave us a comment. Let
us know what you think.
If you liked this video, click Like.
If you’re not subscribed,
now is a great time to do so.
We upload brand-new videos
every day of the week.
The best way to see them first
is of course a subscription,
so click Subscribe,
don’t forget to enable all
notifications, and as always,
we thank you very much
for watching this video.
We’ll see you next time,
right here on Gameranx.
Related posts: