Ranking Every Dead Rising Boss and Psychopath Fight From Worst to Best 

Fun fact: Adam starts singing at the end of his introduction cutscene. Thats character.

Cliff is my favorite boss in the entire series. I love his cat and mouse gameplay where it constantly switches from being the hunter to the hunted. I also appreciate how the fight makes me use the environment around me to win, as one of my favorite strategies is to use the saw blades to hit Cliff off the shelves.

There is but one thing that’s missing from Antoine’s fight: Chuck doesn’t say a funny quote after beating him.

13:20 the song that strikes fear into the heart on any man

I remember playing DR2 and for some reason, Antoine dying genuinely made me sick. The cannibal thing was whatever, but as a kid seeing him fall into the deepfrier was horrifying. Also, Seymore dying on the table saw was also really gross out for me.

What I think could have helped Boykin stand out more and be more sensible is if you could have actually seen him and his squad fight the zombies during gameplay instead of just cutscenes. Like have him and his squad try to clear out areas from the zombies, but end up getting overwhelmed by their numbers and having to retreat, showing by his sqaud members losing health. And if Chuck or Frank would talk to him he would tell them to get to safety until they brought it under control, with a part of him doubting if there is even a way to control it. Then when the gas zombies come out, Boykin and his squad are already exhausted and on their last leg, unable to even put up a real fight against them as Boykin has to abbandon his squad while they get mauled infront of his eyes. Granted, to have this make any sense would probably mean having Boykin arrive earlier or have some extra filler cases between their arrival and the gas zombies, but in my eyes this would give Boykin more character besides being "PTSD soldier" because you actually see him desperatly trying to win an already lost fight and refusing to acknowledge the hopelessness of the situation, no matter how pressing it is.

Chef Antoine being in S makes me immensely happy, awesome

honestly? crystal and amber fight is just hard enough that you need to be focused but not hard enough to piss you off, which is very very good. also one of my favorites purely for the fact that you have health items in the room... but if u have too much, it makes you vomit and you go through the fiasco of stun locks lmao

About the music; The Hall Family do have a theme, however it is bugged on the Xbox 360 and Remastered versions. But it plays normally for their boss fight on the Wii version. Isabela has a theme, called "Kick The Pedal". The lab scientists share a theme with the looters in DR2, "Chuck Fixin' Time", but both enemies gain their own themes in OTR. While Kane himself doesn't have a specific theme designated for him, the battle he appears in uses 2 variants of Hilde's first theme, "Sergeant Battle Pt1". Marian has a theme, called "Director Battle". Red has 2 themes. One for the crane ("Red Battle Pt1"), and one for Red himself ("Red Battle Pt2"). Hilde has 3 themes. One for the initial fight with the soldiers ("Sergeant Battle Pt1"), one in the hallway before the final fight ("Sergeant Battle Pt2"), and one during Hilde's own fight ("Sergeant Battle Pt3"). Stacey has 3 themes, with only the first one being released in DR4's soundtrack, named "Stacey 1". The optional maniacs in 4 in the inital version of DR4 used the track "Prologue", with Sandra using "ZT Horde 2". But in the updated game, each side maniac gets a theme from the prior 3 games: Flametrooper gets his own unreleased theme Sandra gets "Diego Battle" from DR3 Sadistic Claus gets OTR's Race Challenge theme Grim Gobbler gets OTR's Action challenge theme Captain Black Fridaybeard gets "Pirate Ship 2" Cult Leader gets "Greed Battle" from DR3 Sibyle gets "The Twins (Heavy Version)" from DR2 Scare King gets "Militiamen Rooftop" from DR2 p.s. sorry if i sounded nitpicky, great video

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I'm so happy there are more people who love the psycho bosses from these games. Any other zombie game would have you battle a generic giant zombie with a chain gun arm or something.

The guy who said Seymour terrified me from stepping foot in the south plaza for years is so real😂😂

I spent nearly my whole crystal+amber fight puking from spam drinking and getting spam knocked down XD I think my sucking at the game would have me put a lot of these in F tier... it took me ages to kill antoine for example. Love your perspective into all your ranking positions

If I remember correctly, the Dead Rising 4 Maniacs do have boss themes, but they are just re-used themes from the previous games. I can't remember all of them, but I do know that the Dead Rising 2 Snipers' theme is used for the Scarecrow maniac, and I remember hearing Diego's boss theme in I think Queen Sandra's fight.

32:55 The moment you hear the theme you know where it’s going

Cletus is F tier in terms of gameplay, I don't think I've ever beaten him without just visiting the gun shop before he exists so I can cheese him through the door, and even then its still an annoying fight. I'd love to know how Capcom intended us to beat that fight, especially on a first time run when you are not only unprepared for him, you are probably also low on weapons since you have taken an unprompted detour to the gunshop. It also despawns most of the guns in the shop for that fight, so a new player who powers through it might leave thinking there isn't much reason to ever go back

I’d put adam and the convicts s tier. The convicts are the most memorable enemies to me and Adam has the chainsaws and the wonderland to paradise plaza shortcut.

I can make a case that kent deserves a high c or low b if you get the other variation of his boss fight where you are chained up and have no weapons. The concept is unique in the game and its a bit more challenging which I enjoyed.

I just finished a playthrough of Deadrising 2, and Randy's fight had me on my toes. I had to leave the arena to get food but he chased me out just to land a hit, then run back inside. What really cemented this fight for me was this; I got my health back up and reentered only to see the man CARRYING AND GRINDING ON DANNI!!

the goat for this vid. i tried looking this up the other day and you have blessed me today

Tbh I’d say Steven is S rank strictly because of his theme, probably one of my favorite boss themes in the entire series next to Antoine, Slappy and The Convicts

They don't call him the King of Cuisine for nothin

I remember being stuck on the twins back in the day. Shit was hard! But I was also just a wee lad going for S ending at level 6 lmao.

Sean may be one of the coolest characters of Dead Rising... but I never managed to find him lmao Anyway I just discovered your channel and I like your content !

larry has my favorite gimmick of all the mandatory fights he's passive until frank takes action, one of the few psychos that frank actually has to be the aggressor towards

I'm kind of mad because you put Kenny in D tier it doesn't make much sense to me he's great! its cool that you save him but most people just forget that he was in a past mission and he has a top notch theme. He also has a combo weapon and his voice acting is great! along with his fight the fact that he is jealous in my eyes he's very redeemable he's just sad he watched so many people die in front of him and the fact that he kidnapped Regina and tied her up to try to have an opportunity to save someone and its great that you get a good combo weapon from it but he's very tanky compared to the other bosses and he is strong and he's very fun to fight. and he's not really a bad person he just wanted a chance to redeem himself and he also just wanted a time to shine in his life and his ending cutsene is very good and how nick's face looked and showed he's not sure if he should let him die. i'm sorry if you think this a hate comment, its not i'm fine other people should have their opinions i'm just stating my opinion.

I remember Stevens fight and I still put the man in S tier. Makes my day seeing that guy. "THIS IS MY STORE!"

the scientists sold me crack at the back of a Denny’s

Teddy is such a cool idea for a Psychopath fight, they just way undercooked it Use explosive RC cars, Freedom Bears, Flamethrower Squirt Guns set up all around the house. ANYTHING then just the gun helicopters

Thomas sparable in the remaster was the best change

The mad man finally did it.

thanks to you i now can’t get my own little world out of my head and i love it. “HOW DARE YOU. I AM ANTOINE KING. OF CUISINE.”

Imagine if Chef Antoine met the terminus survivors in the walking dead he’d fit in plus maybe be 2nd in charge behind Gareth

You had me for a second there when you had Antoine floating over F tier at first

You should do a survivor tierlist, every savable survivor

15:10 I'd say Cletus is at least forgivable to some extent - he does warn James the dumbass to stay away - at that point James is just a Darwin award winner for walking towards a visibly agitated, paranoid, drunken guy training a shotgun on him. Him being paranoid (probably exacerbated by being at least somewhat drunk) is completely understandable given the amount of psychos in the mall. That's something I kinda miss from DR2 and DR3, where the psychos don't get as much (if any) foreshadowing unlike with i.e Ross and Tanya foreshadowing Jo or David foreshadowing Steven. 18:51 I'm sure you already know this by now, but I think Jo's "big attack" is supposed to be one of her possible follow-ups to tazing Frank. Instead of beating on the survivors, she'll sometimes do a big stomp on Frank's crotch, twice, in a rather prolonged fashion - looks more painful than when DR2's Twins do it. Shame that it's rare for her to do it, though. 35:17 I like Seymour's cowboy gimmick personally - his lasso move and the resulting QTE from it are pretty damn brutal, especially if you let it play out in full. I personally think the fight arena kinda takes away from his fight, because Seymour gets sidetracked by keeping zombies off of himself and it just makes him a sitting duck for the player as he swats them away - he (and also Carl and the Rednecks) has a surprisingly wide range of different melee attack animations, even including some rather painful combos (each hit being almost guaranteed to take off atleast one health block - Rednecks also similarly have a ridiculously high damage output in melee even with their quicker attacks) - it's just rare to see them since they're all more likely to do their knockdown move than their other attacks. 38:40 - Gross tidbit about Randy - if you leave the chapel in order to heal, he'll actually pick up Danni (one-handed, at that) and dry-hump her, which actually does damage to her. I think in OTR it's a photo-op but he puts her down so fast it's almost impossible to get. If she's already dead then he'll just wander around the chapel and do a weird pose when he gets to the entrance (looks like he's throwing a tantrum, to be honest). 46:19 Ted being particularly boring is probably because he just uses hostile survivor AI with a couple of unique melee attacks thrown in. 52:47 Scientists in DR2 use the same short version of Chuck's theme that you hear when fighting the looters in the pharmacy at the beginning of the game - for whatever reason, in OTR they gave them their own theme and it's kind of a banger? But you don't even get to hear the really good part in-game because they die that fast. 55:10 I think the funniest thing about Bibi is she doesn't even have a "whoops sorry" moment like Paul does - her dialogue indicates she's still at least somewhat delusional, she just lets herself be escorted, she doesn't seem apologetic in the slightest. 1:00:30 Yeah, definitely agreed - I'd much rather have had a ground fight with Stacey as the phase 3 than what they went with. Missed opportunity imo, could have been a neat contrast between her being a more over-the-top acrobatic agent compared to Sullivan being more grounded and no-nonsense. 1:05:05 Diego apparently was supposed to have a caveman phase prior to the astronaut one, but it was cut, though there's some data still in the files pertaining to it - probably why the fight feels so weird, there's an entire first half missing. 1:10:00 Red's boring as hell but his knife is pretty cool - stupid that you don't unlock it for use after beating him, same with TK's uzi and microphone-mace in DR2. 1:19:20 I really miss the more metal themes from DR1 and 2 compared to 3's to be honest. DR3 still has a good soundtrack overall, just a matter of preference. 1:20:44 Teddy's "fight" could definitely have used hiding the objective markers, maybe additional traps in the mansion itself - only ways I can see it being more interesting without changing the "spoiled trust fund baby" theme of Teddy. 1:23:00 The gimmick should definitely have been more visible in the fight itself, cause he only makes the junk ball - if he switched between different janky, crappy-looking combo weapons, resulting in him switching tactics, it would have been a much cooler fight. I do still like the junk ball just for how stupid it is, though its a shame that when you actually use it it doesn't launch knives and sawblades like when Kenny uses it. Something you also don't see a lot is that Kenny will actually get distracted and kill zombies swarming his hostage, which is actually fairly unique - hasn't been a psycho that actively tries to protect their hostage rather than trying to kill them. Also, while I enjoy the seven deadly sins motif (and the fact that Red plays into the "eighth" sin that is still present in some orthodox teachings, namely Despair), I definitely think DR3 needed some additional side psychos unrelated to that motif, maybe some parodies of typical Cali culture considering Los Perdidos is supposed to be somewhat like Los Angeles. 1 and 2 give you plenty of fights to do each day, whereas I feel like in 3 there's somewhat long stretches without any fights (or at most, there's quasi-fights like Big D or Kent the 2nd, but they're more akin to the Scientists than real psychos) I also wonder - after 1 year of difference and doing various challenges in these games, would you change any of the positions in this video?

Perfect list my friend if I say so myself. You have great taste.

The Militia Men in DR2 is about a high C or low B. I kinda view them as the DR2 convicts. In Off the Record, they’re an absolute F tier.

For as many times as you said “thematically”, I’m not fully sure you know what it means lol Fun video though!

I can only imagine the Scientists are a 'Boss' so they have the cutscene at the end

Jo's extra survivors actually die not based on the mission expiration but based on an invisible countdown that kills them one by one if you enter and leave wonderland plaza. That happened to me once, I used the wonderland plaza shortcut and went over to north plaza for a while, then when I was done there I came back to Wonderland with plenty of time on her mission left and only Kay was there. I didn't even get a pop up that the others died, fucking hate that and easily put her in D tier for me.

Awesome list. I recently just bought all of the games except DR4 on xbox. So i will be running through these soon. Will try DR4 some day as well

The rerelease of dead rising 2 on ps5 is insanely glitchy so most of the psychopaths are no issues cause the get stuck allowing you to just stand there and wack them with knife gloves

I’d personally switch Dylan with Zhi or Hunter, mainly because DR3 has the problem where you just get too powerful and too quickly. Thus I feel on a fresh file Zhi and Hunter will always provide a more interesting boss fight that makes you think about resources and your method of attack. By the time you get to Dylan you’ve probably got at least one OP combo weapon you can just spawn at the safe houses to tear him apart.

45:08 I thought the whole thing with Carl's fight was that you're supposed to melee him when he reloads his Shotgun?

Harjit was in the comics, actually.

Thought I was the only one who has Dylan in their high tier

Leon's fight is entirely carried by his theme Edit:Chuck's Theme is still better tho

From how often Diego's fight gets buggy or frustratingly busted I put it below Stacy because it's just as outlandish imo but even worse in functionality and character.

I actually like how most of the psychos in Dead Rising 1 become jokes with Quickstep and a decent melee weapon.

Actually after reading the comments there's actually 6 survivors from Shawn (5 in the room with 4 being tied up and one in a back room) but also you get a free survivor provided you prepare for the cultists appearance otherwise you can have a rough time with them, otherwise I do agree

Slappy as s rank purely because richard horvitz was his voice actor. Cliff gets s rank for his theme, concept, and steve blum as a voice actor. Adam over time became an s rank to me because his character was always first boss fight in deadrising to me but i hated his damage. I think TK, Brock and Sullivan are A rank fights because they typically are fought without any major advantages. Same with carlito.

Zhi doesn't sell refrigerators. His wife left him for a guy who sells refrigerators. And Albert that low? Are you crazy? S-tier fight, hands down. The reason Nick keeps passing out is because he's heavily drugged. That's kinda the whole point of the fight, that you're severely inhibited by all the drugs in your system. You're so doped up that you are not only hallucinating, but struggling to keep conscious. I thought it was not only atmospheric and legitimately scary, but was one of the most innovative boss fights in the series. It takes players out of their comfort zone, and makes the boss fight more than just "use big weapon, whack bad guy over and over".

You know i want to see Boss vs boss fight in every dead rising game's

Whats the seven minute boss

I was surprised not meny got that steamed hams joke

Hard disagree on Kent, he's the only psychopath in the game who Frank knows as a person before fighting him, he has two different boss fights depending on how fast you are, one being more challening, and his story is integral to Frank's development as a character from careless photo journalslist to valuing people's lives

Gone Guru works for any boss fight btw. Try it yourself.

If the convicts didn’t get stuck, didn’t respawn and had a death cutscene as good as their intro, they’d be the best boss in the series and it wouldn’t be that close.

Think my favourite boss from DR1 is either Cliff or Adam.

I havent watched it yet but I was on the stream earlier so I'm going to ask again. When we getting a hottest Dead Rising Bosses Ecdy??? Jk jk, great content keep it up

bro I was stuck on Marian's fight for so long, I raged so badly I could barely take down the second robotic arm before the arena engulfed me, plus I was always unlucky enough to get slammed into the box car of zombies any time I made good time on the arms which would take me out.. it was so bad I stopped playing for a while I wish I could get further in the first dead rising but Frank is so slow for some reason I can't get past Carlito's first battle.. and in DR2 I'm stuck at Randy basically

i hope we can save the sniper kid in the remaster

Cletus feels forgivable to me, honestly. Larry and Stephen to some extent too.

Steven has one of the best themes like top 3 maybe 2

Bibi in F tier is an actual crime tbh

I would put all of dead rising 4 bosses in there own tier under f and nerd called mistake

Sullivan is F tier for me. I hate that he has invincibility after doing his roll. And that spartan kick is especially annoying if he knocks you off the platform and into a hole. I thought Brock was annoying in the first game but looking back, Brock was a cake walk compared to Sullivan. I'm not proud for having to resort to doing the double drop kick trick for Sullivan but I was gonna lose my mind if I didn't. 😂

Ngl i hate the stacy boss fight two times rarely happens on last phase she will squash while tryna climb and get rid of all hp bars leaving 1 almost dead bar

I’ll say it Dylan my all time favorite fight controversial maybe but whatever

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My favorite was always Paul Heres a present for ya You go Boom Now Also Leon from dead rising 2 did it way better than isabela when it comes to Motorcycle boss fights

I feel that Diego should be above Fontana but that's just what I think.

I didn’t know Kent was a boss fight 😂😂

it would be kinda weird to save thomas after killing his brother and father

Honestly every dead rising 4 boss should've been F tier off rip

Bibi love!

I was told to 😂

I like Dylan

When I first saw Larry I thought it was a woman.