7 Games Where You Can Go Straight to the Final Boss: Commenter Edition 

Linguistic anthropologist here. The phenomenon in which a word or phrase temporarily loses meaning due to repeated use is called semantic satiation.

"I know you just beat this fight meant to teach you a lesson in humility, but you shouldn't be so confident." 😂

If you kill John Bernthal as soon as possible in Ghost Recon: Breakpoint, you also break the story as his character is sometimes referred to as still being alive in other cutscenes.

It's actually possible to reach Ganondorf in Tears of the Kingdom without even getting the glider from Purah. There are multiple ways to survive the fall down there without it. The glider just makes it significantly easier.

I love how Terrry Crews absolutely refuses to deliver anything but peak performance

monopoly the board game: just start a fist fight and rob the bank before you have ever passed go. Ez win.

Feral means once domesticated, now returned to the wild, I'd love to see the tragic tale of the person who thought they had tamed chaos and how it all went wrong.

Gru: "It was cold, I was lonely..."

“You need to get the Paraglider from Lookout Landing”. Speedrunners are laughing at you right now.

Referring to Vaan as "and more" is so true to the FFXII experience.

'Beeless as the day you were born' is the greatest sentence that has ever been said. All the rest can go home. Kudos to whoever wrote it 😆

Don't know if it counts because it's only in New Game plus, but in Chrono Trigger you can go straight to Lavos using the right side pad of Lucca's teleporter in the science fair.

I love the enthusiasm Crews brings to all his roles lol

The real reason we haven't heard about Jane's not so secret science lair in a while.

By now, everybody knows the recent Far Cry games (4-6) all have alternate endings you can immediately access if you do, or don't do certain things at the start. That "thing" depends on the game. Far Cry 4, for example, has you just wait at the table until Pagan Min, returns, instead of go off on an adventure liberating the country from him. These endings include full cutscenes that wrap up the story (prematurely), and by triggering these endings, players usually get an achievement, or trophy for doing so.

Princess Lair is definitely my favourite star wars character.

I'm more surprised that anyone remembered Ghost Recon: Breakpoint even exists. Same with Crackdown 3

You don't actually need the paraglider to get to or defeat Ganondorf. Heck, if you're crazy enough you can use several glitches (and hours of setup and waiting) to go from the Great Sky Island to the final fights without collecting any of the abilities on the Great Sky Island.

You know, IF you make the right choices while talking to the master in fallout he will actually kill himself because he thinks his lifes work has failed *Edit: OK OK I GET IT It's NOT a straight shot but I didn't say it was I just said a cool little thing that gives some extra dialogue and saves you a boss fight

15:10 I think I’m losing it, but wasn’t dissidia already in the first video? Or another oxboxtra vid of some kind

This video is like an onion; it has many Lairs. -Jane Douglairs

Just a note about the impossible lair, the game actually starts you off at the lair outright, you have to die to get access to the rest of the game.

If I was a teacher, I would offer the final exam on the first day of class. Anyone who gets an A can skip my class for the rest of the year/semester.

It's kinda funny how unmemorable the Ghost Recon Wildlands Squad is but how I immediately recognized Weaver in that Breakpoint cutscene anyway.

4:44 *Jane:* Or, if you're in a hurry, you can launch yourself straight into the final level - bee-less as the day you were born. Jane Jennifer Douglas! Bee-have!

"Impossible lair should be impossible" ? Looks like Jane never watched one the Tom Cruise runnin' and stuntin' movies called Mission : impossible.

It could have been worse. You could have caught Ganondorf, Mid-Suavemente! XD

First game i thought of was DMC5, even tho 99% of us would be destroyed it is possible to fight him & win in the beginning

Finally one of the ones I've suggested, Fallout. Although they missed that you can just convince the master to destroy himself with high enough persuasion. I did this entirely by accident. I went to a couple towns and gained a follower who did most of the fighting, then got the water chip, visited the brotherhood once, then found the final boss entirely by accident. Getting to him was a bit difficult, but at the time I didn't know I was in the final dungeon so I just kept reloading. Then I talked him to death. I got a rather bad ending mentioning factions I never actually interacted with.

And if you want to skip to the final boss of this video, simply click on this neat timestamp 17:47 Oddly fitting that it's Jane...

My first run through Fallout 3 I accidentally found Vault 112 just wandering around right after Megaton.. boy was I surprised.

You can technically do this in Binding of Isaac: Rebirth as well if you have the Repentance DLC. It's not a reliable way to do it, but if you play Eden, who starts with two random items each time you play them, and you start with an active item called Glowing Hourglass, you can use it in the very first room and go straight to one of the game's final enemies. Glowing Hourglass typically takes you back to exactly how you right before you entered your current room, including any items, health, or resources. But if you use the item before you've gone anywhere, it actually takes you to the floor that canonically proceeds every run, Home. So with only two items and random stats, thanks to Eden's ability, you can challenge Dogma, The Horsemen, and The Beast.

There are inevitable consequences to things in our universe. Water when heated, boils. I, when presented with Dissidia 012 will always throw some love in the direction of those mentioning it. Great entry, great list, no flaws in this video at all. Now I’m going to mouth off to a Moogle, I foresee no unintended consequences. 😂

I have to confess that 'lair' is a word that's positively layered with nuance. One might even be called a liar for suggesting otherwise.

love it when a game allows you to do this, i remember going for the end boss in the original crackdown from the start though i don't remember if i tried it in crackdown 3 all i know is now i will be thinking about the word lair now for the rest of the day

Just remembered this channel, still love it so much

Thanks for entertaining us for the more than a decade. I and many others appreciate your work and we hope you know it. Thanks and we hope you keep it up. Love you guys!❤

Wasn't dissidia 12 the first entry in the previous video?

Its been so long since ive watched one of ur vids glad to see nothings changed!

Love your stuff keep up the great work 😁

You make some bold assumptions about the lack of bees present at my birth Jane!

I believe I mentioned it on the previous one of this, but of course I'll mention it again, since it's my favorite game: in Nomad (released by GameTek for DOS in 1993), you can go anywhere you want from the end of interacting with the first alien you talk to. Even though it would be suicide, you can go immediately to the planet Losten (granted, you don't have it marked on your map since you haven't been exploring yet, but you can get there randomly, or if you already remembered where from a previous playthrough), where the main boss the Master Control Robot is hanging around in his ship, flanked by his second in command in a ship just as powerful as his, along with other fighters. At this point, you would not have enough missiles to defeat him, and one of his shots would destroy you, but you can still show up and engage in a battle. The quickest route (in game time, but may take you quite some time otherwise) to defeat him is to take on a diplomatic mission for the Alliance (it's one of the ones which is available from the beginning), where you take a diplomatic pouch to a planet leader (and a glitch makes sure you can have untold amount of diplomatic pouches and can constantly complete the mission if you know how to take advantage of said glitch) and as a thank you he gifts you a Spy Bot (which can be sent onto inhabited worlds). Send that bot onto the same planet and it will pick up an Arch Bot (though it may take some tries before it does so). Now, travel to the Losten system, but not the planet itself, and send out a distress call, which will cause the MCR and his armada to come to your location. Immediately travel to Losten before they can attack you (but after they've arrived, or they might not actually go there). Save your game (because you'll need it) and then immediately try to go through the gateway around Losten. Its combination is random at the start of each game, and it will destroy your ship if you get it wrong, so you'll need to keep reloading your save, but you can eventually cheese the sequence. Now you've gotten to Losten and can send down that Arch Bot, which should pick up the MCR Override. Travel to where the boss is, use the Override, and watch the ending sequence. How it's supposed to go, though, is that you need to talk and trade trade with the various aliens in the game until you've gotten the best ship enhancements and missiles you can, in order to properly go toe to toe with the MCR. The Losten gateway code is supposed to be obtained by finding it through various EX-class robots, each of which is in a different situation it seems (one is just an inventory item as a severed head, another is a planet representative pretending to be under the MCR's control, and such), but the most difficult is that one of them is that same second-in-command I mentioned before. To even talk to him, you need to have gone through a convoluted process to get the secretive prototype shield booster called the Stealth Shield (which keeps the robot's scanners from telling it you're organic). You also need to have achieved the fact "Paramis" to tell him, which is the code for him to tell you his portion of the gateway combination. All this, and one piece of the code may be inaccessible, since some versions of the game have a faulty line of code to make it impossible to properly interact with one of the EXs. Though, having most of the code makes cheesing the combo so much easier than having none of it going in.

In crackdown 1, the upgraded monster truck can drive right up the skyscraper that the final boss is on due to a weird quirk in how the physics of its "jump" ability works. If you hold down the button to charge up a jump, it pushes itself against the wall, and you can continue to drive vertically

There's also Darkest Dungeon. After the tutorial levels, you can jump straight to the final dungeon, the titular Darkest Dungeon. There is even an achievement for bringing a full party of level 0 heroes to it, called "Lambs to the Slaughter."

This is also very true in Fallout New Vegas, it's possible to head directly to the strip to deal with the main story, and the entire game can be closed out in less than an hour(without glitches). This was very helpful as the game launched in such a compromised and buggy mess, that data corruption issues marred the play experiences of thousands at release. Skipping to the end of the game was the best way to avoid those until Obsidian could be bothered to fix the errors roughly 6 months after release.

She's not a boss in the traditional sense of the word, but in Doki Doki Literature Club dealing with the club's president Monika is required to finish the game completely. This is done by going into the character files and delete hers. There's nothing stopping you from deleting Monika's character file at the start of the game, doing this causes Sayori to have a mental breakdown realizing that her world isn't real and forcibly close the game while deleting her, Yuri and Natsuki's character files in the process.

"-Lightning, the best one!" Them's fightin' words, Jane! /j Great video!

I accidentally beat Crackdown 3 after something like 5 hours because I just wanted to see the top of the cool building and I wasn't gonna let all those enemies stop me. It took a long time, and then the game was done.

I've always respected how they do a list for the spoilers.

To be fair, the final boss in Crackdown 3 can be easily cheesed by jumping to a small platform behind the elevator you rude up on. The regular enemies can't hit you, the gas doesn't go that far and the biss rarely fires on you from an angle that matters while you constantly get free shots as she flies past.

TBH, moogles are definitely *more* dangerous than they appear...

10:28 Oh wow that man is tall! "Listen up!" TERRYYYYY

This video: Totk has a longer tutorial to make it through including the great sky island... RU-vid recommended video to watch next: A video about how speedrunners managed to skip the great sky island...

Thanks to a few additions, you don't technically have to even get the paraglider in TotK, and with some serious glitches, you don't even have to complete the Great Sky Island, unlike with BotW where you *did* have to complete the Great Plateau, even with glitches

Not for nothing but wasn't the moogle it in the last video? 'Cause I got a slice of deja vu.

Every game should be doing this. If the game is boring you should be able to finish it this way.

Still at it, huh Outside Xbox? Good to see.

That moogle was pure evil!!! 😂😂😂

Gru crossed with a minion is going to be in my head every time I watch any despicable me movie from now on, thanks Jane 😵😂

To be fair, Spider-Man: The Animated Series and the TMNT movie Turtles Forever did Multiversal schticks before even Dissidia, far as I know.

still waiting on the iconic sounds quiz you guys teased years ago..xD

Funny you said "level 1 noob" on Duodecim, since you can (after getting certain accessories and adjusting your level) beat Feral Chaos as a "Level 1 Mafia Boss".

12:40 "Niemand" is Dutch for "Nobody" which may or may not be a reference to Odysseus, from Greek Mythology.

Far Cry 4, if you wait for Pagan when he tells you to wait at the beginning of the game, after 30 minutes he will return and the game would be complete. In Modern Warfare Remastered you can kill Makarov in the "All Ghillied Up" mission which than skips the next two games. Not exactly fitting to the title but a couple of fun easter eggs

I'd say that NEO Scavenger would fall under the category of one of these games. While there's not a real "person" to fight, the place you need to go in order to complete the game is always at the same coordinates, and is essentially a trial where you must choose the right options and have the right items or perks. Thing is, though? If you select the right perks in a new run, you can use them to have everything you need to both go there right away (and get there in one piece) and pass all of the trials without scavenging any tiles other than the one you spawn in.

ha! i knew that flying metalic snake was familiar to me!

Interesting choice to put DISSIDIA in both videos.

"melted ken doll" is the funniest and most accurate description of that abomination. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I NEED Janes t-shirt to add to my collection...*keeps hitting refresh on the oxbox store*

I got back to playing Ghost Recon again, litterally a few days ago. When you go from conquest mode back to story, i think the story mode resets. I can't confirm this, though. I just happened to have a lot of stuff unlocked when i went back to the story mode. Anyway, when i got to this scene, I wondered if I could just shoot the helicopter with my rocket launcher. Thanks for confirming this!

How about boss fights you can beat by avoiding altogether? The Master in Fallout for example: You can rig a nuclear device to blow up, get the heck out of there, and pat yourself on the back without him ever knowing what even happened.

Yup, my eldest ran right to Ganondorf in Tears of the Kingdom. He was the only one out of the four of us who did it that way.

You just know Terry Crews was having a blast recording the lines for that cutscene

Btw in Two Worlds the final boss is also just standing around in a village you can reach at the very start of the game, you just can't kill him at that point - usually. However that makes it a viable speedrun strategy where the player can beat the game in less than 5 minutes by running straight to that village and then making the boss aggro all the villagers which then overwhelm him, and once he's dead the final cutscene plays lol.

I could go up against Ganondorf with three hearts and do just fine. I'm working on eventually speedrunning that battle (not cheesing it with a bow, actually _fighting_ him) so I regularly get through it without getting touched even once. You just need to learn his flurry rush timing, which is really fun and rewarding.

Repeating Lair reminded me of Wheatley on Portal 2. 😂

To be fair, 45 minutes is about all the time I spent on Crackdown 3.

Reverse psychology. Now I can't stop thinking about "Lair"😂

Shows guy stabbing people to death, then hides bad words. We are really in the worst timeline.

Bernthal was amazing in breakpoint and hes my favorite punisher

Okay, I got it. I'll just head back to my Lair. CRAP. I'll just sit quietly over here crying for a bit. Thanks for the fun.

Andy's last comment on Zelda is why I don't understand speed runners claiming to beat games, no all they do is glitch to the game over screen.

Yeah, Terry Crews is going to be the only thing I remember from Crackdown 3's entry on this list too. XD

I didnt even know walker was supposed to be fought later. That was the first mission i did when i played the game. Some of the cutscenes being different is cool though

Didnt you mention the final fantasy in the original video too?

5:55 dare I say return of the beeple?

Chrono Trigger. That’s the earliest one I can think of.

Kinda odd since normally when you try to approach Heldalf out in the field before you do all the macguffins, his mere presence makes you unable to move very fast or use skills.

Wait, punisher in Ghost Recon? Imma buy it right now

Ah yes, my favorite anime, Demon's Lair, which I watch after my favorite live-action show, Buffy The Vampire's Lair, which I watch while eating Lasagna and Nachos and other foods with Lairs, after which I think of jokes that I think are lair'd but are really just puns centered around one single word that now has no meaning. Lair.

So what I've learned today is there there's to many games where you can play about 5 dollars worth of your 6 dollar game and be done with it. Also don't diss Moogles.

The original Dissidia is one of my favorite games. I've sadly not played this

Fallout 1... My childhood in one word (and a number I guess). Excuse me while I cry tears of nostalgia for a second. Scratch that, my kid is crying.

havent seen the video yet, if it has dmc5 im gonna go crazy

Like the mech your wearing will that be on sale soon ?

Unless I'm misremembering (and given how often i completed fallout 1), you also need to go to the military base to blow up the FEV vats. And you dont even need to go into the hidden vault, you can blow the cathedral up from a console on the upper floors.

Surprised two worlds wasn’t on this list or even a honorable mention. They literally have the main boss in the first town you visit lol and you can get all the town npcs to kill him too

why does she bring up all my memories of X-play on the G4 station

5:58 - So, you could say 'as busy as a bee', Jane?

Jane with the retro OX t-shirt.