7 Boss Battles You Won But Not Really 

i 100% completed botw and was so worried about the fight against ganon that i had about 500 pieces of cooked meat alone, all my op weapons, as many arrows as i could collect....needless to say i barely needed any of that. could’ve finished it with the mastersword alone -_-

Or even worse, you absolutely demolish the boss, and suddenly the cutscene tells you that the boss was actually wrecking you

Ninja gaiden 2 is like that lol I hear ya man

Does Pokémon also count? Always getting that one off comment about how “close the match was” and like lol no, I didn’t even need to change my starter

First mini-boss in Tales of Symphonia is my big example for this.

Wow wow wow

Boss resurrections are tight 👌

So, you have a boss battle for me?

Oh man, Bosses getting away unscathed is TIGHT!

Think I crossed over... whoops whoopsie!

* He looks pointedly away from what you discern as RWBY, Naruto, Soul Eater, and assassin classroom. * Anime are different from games kiddo.

Monokuma's laughter fading in the distance

*laughs in monokuma*

I forgot I left this comment. That save file is over 660 hours now.

@@mattball8622 a true gamer

*Basically yes.*

"I can do this all day/"

Screw that kid.

I fire the nothing gun, which is effective because it’s the opposite of everything

you mean batmans

Joker is a precious angel who just does his best

@@-leezha- precious angel? Talking a psychopathic nightmare clown that loves torturing men, women, and children

@@deathbykonami5487.... Not the DC Joker. A character from the Mass Effect trilogy...

@@-leezha- oh that Joker must be protected, sorry I misunderstood Due to seeing too many DC Joker fan comments

He could have been toned down a bit

Its a recurring term they use to describe rock hard bosses

@@deathbykonami5487 But Jason Statham is already rock hard.

@@LnPPersonified that's the point. (?)

Actually in that form diamond would probably be pretty easy to break. Diamond is really brittle because it is so stiff. Just saying....

Devil May Cry 5 ; The Vergil Boss. No matter how good you are at beating Virgil in the boss battle in the cut scene afterward he's knocking Dante into a wall.

Lol

Yeah, they should have made that one of those super-hard fights that progresses whether you win or lose. Would have made the cutscene much more realistic.

Bruh. I literally just played that part last night! 🤣

I killed Malak in 2 hits and the game crashed 5 times in a row. Game needed to get to the cuisine were he drains jedi. So I ran up hit him once and ran away.

After you see what they make....they can go without a pay raise for years. This is what they are paid for, you don't get a pay raise at your work when you do your job like your supposed to right?

To be fair it's duad, he beat the second games antagonist, and had the power of the outsuder when you don't

That whole first chapter was a no win scenario, mostly because it's before you meet the outsider to get your void powers

At least you get revenge

Eggman died to Shadow on purpose just to make Sonic feel weak

I love to imagine that Shadow's karate chop split eggman's skull in two

Egg who? ah yes. Dr. Robotnik.

And even then, he somehow came back for sure cause you can't have a good Sonic game without Eggman~ he's the must have villain

Yeah, but then he got better.

Probably Cameraman James.

I think she snuck into Andy's Outer Worlds save and amused herself by hitting the mayor over and over again with the Mandibular Rearranger.

@@cthulhufhtagn2483 This does sound like a Jane-thing to do.

Sounds like she's got a cold or something to me.

@@DylanGarcia1619 We never see James, so he's probably an all powerful godly figure that the dark lady can't kill I mean have we actually seen him in the list videos and the d&d segments

becomes one with the universe and turns into a trash bag

Personally, I liked his DCAU incarnation best, but reading about the original was cool. Lois even backed Steel as John came the closest to living up to Clark's ideals as Superman.

Mugen Kagemaru "A barber shop? Gotta hand it to you, Lex. No one would think to look for you here."

You apparently didn't actually pay attention to the "REAL" story of John Henry...John Henry lost to the machine by a few strokes....

@@jamesmeppler6375 My greatest apologies.

@@basilanan no worries, some things now days change the story a little bit. The story was of modernization and how man can still keep up. You're dead on with your comic knowledge, so good one on ya for knowing that ^_^ My favorite Japanese movie, harakiri is about samurai honor and how it became a facade. The remake made the main character look cowardly and thusly took away from the true message

The worst part is, if you take the practical route and shoot him, the game pretends you stabbed him so everything could be all drama-y.

What about Gangrel and Aversa from Awakening? You spend most the game chasing after one or the other

I think most if not all Fire Emblem baddies dont like staying down and just run away, or possess your character to stab your best friend and kill him.

Also Luca in suikoden 2, xenogears had a few too

On the one hand, the health bar is a representation of your progress in a fight. Having a villain escape when on low health makes some sense. It's the ones where they get up and beat you down that really annoy me. Hey, if I was fighting all this time an noticed I was barely actually hurting him, can I escape instead? Hmm, interesting twist. You get the enemy's HP bar down, and you realise that was only a layer of armour you broke through. The fight continues but now you can escape or continue fighting them. If you continue the fight gets harder, but beating them again gives you some reward while not actually killing them off.

@@Coldheart322 That's a neat idea. I also agree with kain that it's dumb to reduce their health to 0 only for them to get up and win anyway. Imagine chopping off someone's head and then they just get back up, punch you and put their head back on. They're not a zombie or anything, they merely survived you chopping their head off.

Not to mention, you can not fail to not win. If you die, you have to start the fight again 'cause that's a game over

But at least you can shoot him

Joker was one of my faves. I warmed up to Conrad after he gave me war table assets.

@@SleepyQuiet Verner had his perks if you kept him alive through all three games. He wasn't *useless*, but he was certainly annoying at times. Joker was never annoying to me. He was brutally honest and hilariously awkward, but not annoying.

Scorpious187 I'm not saying Conrad is useless but he was... Odd. Don't build a shrine of me, it's weird. I couldn't get past the tasteful shine of Shepard. No one can tell me Joker was annoying. He's fun. Also it was established as making jokes to ease the tension in me1. Liars gets mad and Shep can say it's just him trying to help. I freaking love Joker. I say into the universe to hopefully increase my chances of getting an SR1 hat. I need it.

@@SleepyQuiet I wasn't trying to imply that you said Verner was useless, I was clarifying that *I* wasn't saying he was useless, just a bit annoying at first. He gets considerably less annoying in ME3.

Right! But would you prefer for the entire battle to be cutscene, or would you prefer to just have an unwinnable fight?

DELVARO - 6 I’d prefer that my efforts had at least a little affect, like the cutscene changing... y’know, like Sekiro.

Especially if you manage a flawless victory and the cutscene has the boss fine a you a bloody mess

@@captainsix5640 it could just be an alternate story

@@cortezjolly1604 an alternate story? That would be hundreds of hours of work. Unless you just mean oh you beat the main villain role credits

The other one is microtransactions

@@TowkayCC absolutely microtransactions need to go dig their own grave and die slowly as they are buried up to the neck....if microtransactions had necks...or a physical form....whatever you get my point.

@@mitchellneuda fug did they do to you?

@@failure2946 more than enough.

Julien ARMAND Yes, totally malak

Julien ARMAND write it and send me a link when you finish it

To be fair, Malak in the first encounter is nerfed to the point of absurdity. He has way better everything the second time you fight him, so I guess he was holding back a little the first time around.

@@Talyrion Nah, it's explicitly mentioned by Malak himself before the final confrontation that he is being boosted by the very location where you are fighting him.

I know it's like yea, I'm brutally beating the shit outta him but he doesn't even feel it so it's just not as satisfying lol

And when he does feel it, HE LIKES IT, DAMNIT

Well it makes sense, in the lore of Baldur Freja went around the world asking everything to not harm Baldur for he was so beloved, the only thing she did not ask was the mistletoe because she felt it was too young. People actually would throw objects at Baldur as a sort of game because he was not harmed by anything. Until Loki learned of the situation with the mistletoe and fashioned an arrowhead from it, then handed a bow and the arrow to Hod who was blind and urged him to join in on the fun with everyone else. So Hod fired the arrow and it ended up killing Baldur.

Should've used mistletoe on him.

@@JohnZ117 well funny you should say that. That may or may not come into play eventually...

@@orangecat862002 Only played the first 2, only know the myth.

No one is allowed to do that.

Tell me about it, the ableist bigot!

No he is not

His own jokes are worse tbh.

Jokers annoying...he should have been toned down

At least he gives you something for that. I think it's a Megalixer?

@@SuperMagicUnderwear Just an elixir, but yeah, at least you get rewarded for it.

The cutscene is slightly different too. If you lose he’s all fine, while if you win he’s worn out and Yuffie mocks him a bit for struggling to beat a child

@@TheDjbz Was it Yuffie? Oops. Been a long time since I played.

@@ChristyTina22 It was Yuffie. Tifa doesn't show up until KH2.

True, he's so generic and bland, he makes Connor from Assassin's Creed III look more interesting

@@deathbykonami5487 See there's shade, but what you just did there was straight savage

@@mathieushifera9555 how so? It's true

@@deathbykonami5487 yes, but Connor??? The shade!

@@mathieushifera9555 at least Connor had character, nightwolf is every native American stereotype rolled into one

Eww

I don't believe there is a DMC entry on this video.

So could Eggman.

So could your mom 😂 jk

Meanwhile, in another castle...

Hell yeah

Or Dr Wiley/Sigma. Kinda surprised that only a fighting game version made this list.

Cries in 2021 too.

Would you rather have an unwinnable fight or a cutscene for t he entire fight

@@captainsix5640 its not impossible to make a good rewarding Boss fight without these two options you know?

@@woodpecker8116 you (for the most part) are always playing through a story completely crafted by a hand full of people to be cinematic and provide tension, drama, and weight. The problem is that most gamers have been programmed to believe they should win all fights handily and not lose due to the mass majority of games having zero mechanics outside of hp, power meter/mag size/mana bar, and damage. So if you need to face someone and lose for the story people will riot if they actually have to lose so it becomes a choice of unbeatable boss in gameplay where people will complain about lack of control and having the game taken away from them or, loss in the cutscene after the fight which just leads to even more complaining. For game developers who have very small time frames to make these games it can be incredibly hard to create a good reason outside of these two options for you to lose a fight.

Oh hey, just remember another mechanic. Dodge roll because everyone wants to be darks souls but the game they make is easier than demon's souls

Kai Leng looks like the Chinese knock of of Night Wing.

I know I'm five months too late, but they do this very well in Skies of Arcadia Legends. This badass dude gives you the option to surrender, which one of your party members strongly encourages saying you can't beat him. If you choose to fight him, he completely wrecks you in a couple of turns and captures you anyway haha.

@@zjoee Late here too, PS1 tales of destiny. Beat leon before he joins your party for a secret ending. he can wreck your team fast though

Agreed, it's stupid for me to beat someone in a game and then die in a cut scene

Sometimes devs _do_ reward you for winning an "unwinnable" fight though, like the first boss in Dark Souls.

@@alrightalright4585 or the first boss in demon's souls! A great example of "okay yeah, you beat the boss, but you were supposed to die" that doesn't make the player feel like they were cheated.

Honestly, I would have been more devastated by losing Captain Kirrahe than Thane. But emailing me crosses the line.

I'm super curious what happens if both Than and Kirrahe have died now... but not curious enough to actually kill Thane and Kirrahe >.>

@@GiftedContractor the councillor dies.

@@taln0reich oh. Good, they were a shitty person anyway

I love the "if X is gone" stuff in ME3. Did you know you can convince Mordin not to fix the sabotaged cure? Wrex and Eve both have to be dead, so it's not worth it, but it's possible. He'll still WANT to cure it, but he'll concede that now (with Wreav in sole control of an autocracy) is not the time to do it. Mordin will fake his death, go into hiding, and work on the Crucible. If Mordin's dead too, his replacement can't be persuaded though and will try to cure it even with Wreav in sole control. It's also kind of possible to get Thane through the game. If he's alive but you ignore his email and never meet him on the Citadel, then he won't show up for that Kai Lame sequence. I mean, he's still going to die of space lung cancer, but he doesn't actually die in the game. Legion is actually the only squadmate through all three games that absolutely 100% must die.

Crow, Vita, McBurn, Duvalie, even freaking Bleublanc of all people...you'd expect him to go down easy you don't become No. X enforcer by being a pushover

Never! Holidays are for content! Only 3 videos between Oxbox & Oxtra today? Bunch of slackers!

Nomura has a weird way of making battles rewarding. Because you still miss somehow? I feel like we missed a cutscene related to Sora being weak? KH3 same feels

That was in a video about "boss fights you are not supposed to win but you can if you are good" or something like that.

Amen to that.

you beat me by an entire day, yes after a while every time I beat anyone in a battle I'd think "welp here we go, show me why I lost this battle actually".

I remember that title. And yes, yes it was brutal 😞

I had the same idea mate

And one

Don't forget 'Fox...." "Die"

You forgot “fight me in this attack helicopter!” Crashes, burns, lives to do everything else you said.

Apparently he wore himself out

@@joeschmo3844 You're totally correct.

Forgot the first round, which neither means anything, and the transition to the second phase literally isn't done by you.

Not only that. He's also a weak boss outside of cutscenes. So it's even more frustrating to watch Sheppard lose to him like a chump.

@@aquelegabriel absolutely true! I regularly and easily crippled him only for him to be revived by the game. Very frustrating and immersion breaking.

I think he is not here cuz thats an optional win. You dont have to actually beat him to move forward in the game

@@keyblademasterkatsu7839 I mean, if we're talking optional wins then Edea, Napstablook, and Ultron Sigma wouldn't be on this list. You don't have to beat all three of them in combat, either.

I think the key here is that victory/defeat didn't change the outcome at all (including in the cutscene itself) or the boss is protected because of plot armor (like Kai Leng) even though you're clearly wrecking their turds. Genichiro features two cutscenes with the same result. So that would be why he doesn't fit on this list. Besides, he was featured in "boss fights you're not supposed to win, but you can anyway" list.

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