What are some of the most abstract boss fights in vidya?
the fear and the end in mgs3
>>10883290i meant the sorro, not the fear. i get those two mixed up sometimes. the fight with the fear is much more straight forward.
fake crash in Crash 2: N-tranced on the GBA. he perfectly mirrors your movement and you can't hit him directly. not a very hard or long fight, but pretty original compared to any other crash boss, including console games.https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=miQIoHqmw1M
>>10883287Nothing I have seen tops Riot.https://youtu.be/Cc924pLlSVU?t=512
>>10883287probably not a boss fight but the shadow part of prince of persia
>>10883305that escalated quickly
>>10883287Tetris
>>10883287Giygas
>>10883305this game is fucking hilarious, can't believe it's so obscure anything else like this? a review says it's 'stream-of-consciousness' and that's exactly what this feels like maybe Ai Cho Aniki, Contra Hard Corps, WarioWare
>>10883287literally every boss is abstract, the only thing tangible is the hitbox which is a universal concept
>>10883305Damn, the intro to this looked amazing, but then it's an up'n'shoot...
>>10883305JCon at 22:24
Saturn Devouring His Children on Mario Paint
>>10883305Ah I understand. the Becoming-Bird
>>10884023Damn, E.T. got nice titties.
>>10883305>SHMUP where aiming and moving are separatedOh shit that's my jam.
>>10886287Isn't that called Cabal-like?
>>10886292Haven't played Cabal but I've played a few similar games like Wild Guns and they're great but don't come close to the game that gave me this fetish, the game you posted. God I love Sin and Punishment.
>>10883287>abstractAnon, it's fucking tennis
>>10886365It's like panopticon tennis more like
>be fighting final boss>suddenly you're in space
>>10889203>naming your black mage vivibrainlet shit
>>10883287this is probably one of my favourite boss fights in vidya and being in the middle of nowhere in a forest overrun temple, the semi-randomness of the portrait / gallery theming only highlights it.>>10883304daily reminder fake crash is a canon character in the Crash series.
>>10889197I was disappointed Knuckles wasn't a boss fight in Sonic 3.By the time S&K came out all the mystery was gone and anyway you could play as Knuckles from the get go anywah.
>>10883526This. It doesn't get more abstract than praying into the void against the mebodiment of sheer terror.
>>10889197>playing Sonic 3 in front of cousin>This part comes up>Feel ashamed and pretend that I'm actually, manually controlling Sonic's flying ship until it awkwardly is overI can't be the only one who did this as a kid
>>10889197>>10890212lol I remember having a similar experience. It was an awkward cutscene for sure. I told my friend that you needed to rapidly tap the C button to keep the ship on float
>>10883287
>>10890314as much as i love CD all the boss fights were fairly mediocre outside of metal sonicfuck sega for not letting final fever be real
>>10890476I agree but as far as inventive boss fights go this one sticks out to me.
>>10890314There's also the pinball boss from Collision Chaos.
>>10883287>Final boss turns into a rhythm game
>>10891631>semifinal boss is a rhythm game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNSXruAaLBs
>>10891631https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOmM8bTgnzg
>>10891631What game?
No one mentioning D2’s final boss? Halfway through the fight it steals your ability to see and hear, you have to just go off of the controller’s rumble and pray you have enough resources to slog it out until ——- happens.Massively underrated game, need to start shilling it here until more people experience it
>>10893187Or hell the boss that came right before it, the giant AI mother’s body you have to shoot in the vagina while it begs you for death
>>10892564That's Drakengard. It's the series that spun-off into Nier
>>10890212Stop with this gay pasta.
>>10893535?
>>10896347My gf loved this boss fight
>>10891631>they do it again
i win
>>10891631I can't believe that manga about sadistic lesbian magical girls made a reference to this
>>10900094Not really an abstract boss, just an abstract solution.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajk08NEETkw&t=2593s
Sigma turning into a wireframe head in X2 was pretty weird.
>>10901191First time beating X3 I thought you were gonna have to fight the wireframe head after reaching the top. I had no subtanks left, so holy fuck was I happy there was no third fight.
>>10893187Not sure about that endong though. Came off pretty preachy and overzealous.
>>10901204>I'll possess you!>With lava!
>>10890212Why do you keep posting this weird thing?
>>10901280NTA but I had a similar experience, it's such a strangely embarrassing cutscene.
>>10883287The part midway through the final battle in Genesis Sparkster where he switches bodies with you and now he's the one playing jetpack billiards all over the screen and you can only move left and right
Still don't get it
>>10903520They're balloons
Weird game in general, but I remember being particularly caught off guard when getting sucked into a random art gallery painting resulted in an fully voiceacted asshole demon dolphin insulting me for a few minuteshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKuT-5k7C8M
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>>10883287it's literally a hellish glory hole
>>10904414I would just walk past it on god mode lmao
>>10898268https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnVXIUyshng
>>10889203>remakeslop