My favorite boss intro is king dede in nightmare in dreamland for gba, if kirby uses a parasol he will slowly fall down with the music reaching it climax when kirby lands, it is just perfect
X7 was a flop too, but I liked X8. I am not sure why Capcom just won't make Mega Man X9 already and possibly finish the X series. Maybe they think the fans won't accept their game well.
I just love both Star Dream and Queen Sectonia's general buildups and themes. Star Dream's facemask slowly chipping away until we see Nova's face, all with this mysterious and nerve-wracking buildup... Sectonia's night-time seeming victory where darkness is slowly reigning until the Hypernova fruit brings forth a gorgeous new dawn... Modern Kirby Games might be bad in some places but it's not in their final bosses!
Then again, this game has the very first Ridley fight in the Metroid storyline and he thought he was such a badass when he came to the arena late. It was a nice introduction, where Samus turns around after realizing that the hatch won't open and is like "Wha-", but at the same time quite underwhelming when you know you can kill Ridley with just around 4-6 super missiles. Guess he thought he was too badass for her back then, but nope.
@@cloroxhammer3289 He is a lot harder when you fight him with all twelve energy tanks. His health is tripled and the damage dealed is doubled. So is not that easy if you have the patience to get maximum health before the fight
@@FelipeCar13 Nah, he is still easy. The fight scales in difficulty the more items you have, not just e-tanks. Mecha Ridley will be at his strongest when you collect everything in the game, yet he will still be no match for you. Just time your super missiles right and it won't take long before he will be down.
Some of my favourites are: -Asgore (Undertale): The music starts low, making a description of the enviroment, and after that is done, Asgore literally breaks the fourth wall and just destroys the Spare button, like yeah, that's aparently a thing. -Moon Lord (Terraria): After dealing with all 4 pillars (Also known as Santana, Esidisi, Whammu and Kars), it says "Impending Doom is aproaching", then you notice that music is gone, and there is a slight fade in and fade out that, as time goes on, it keeps increasing in intensity and frequence until the screen flashes, the sky goes black, and Cthulhu's brother (Not kidding, that's terraria's lore) appears for one last showdown (except that you are going to rebattle him cause he dropped a celebration) -The main legendary pokemon from gen 4 and 5 (Pokemon, duh): In Giratina's case: You don't even see it clearly at first, heck, it wasn't even supossed to show up in the first place, then you see how it extends it's wings and covers the entire screen, then all you see is a portal to a void devoid of physics, or any life aside from Cynthia, the lake trio, Giratin... ok, there are some life, but not as much as in the normal world, and after you beat Cyrus' ass for the last time, you go foward and face Giratina (and then end the battle with a masterball, cause that ball was made for something, ya know?) Then we have gen 2's remakes, specially Ho-Oh, since I can't remember Lugia (I own Heart Gold), after you finish climbing the tower, the music dissapears and you see the kimono girls that you met over the game, ready for the sacrif- I mean, ritual, the dance syncronized with the bell and then, from the sky you see a spark, and you see in Ho-Oh's perspective how it's flying around the tower while the music of the ritual reaches it's climax, and then when it lands, it's time to end it (with a masterball, duh) Last we have BW2, with Kyurem, you see the main villain from BW, which for him, being alive it's quite the feat, and then prepares Kyurem to use "Kill Child" against you, which, gotta say, it's super effective, but then N comes in with the legendary box pokemon and saves the day... except that he fell into his trap and then Kyurem fuses with whatever the pokemon was and see him transform into Kyurem-whatever (sadly you can't end this with a masterball, -519/10) -Magolor's soul (Kirby: Return to Dream Land): After you beat both the ship (the very thing you were working on for the entirety of the game, that's a low blow), and Magolor, you would think that's it, the screen turns white and everything is over, ain't it? Then C-R-O-W-N-E-D plays while you see the crown emanating a dark aura, then you see an eye coming from that aura, and then it turns into a smile, whose eye is said eyeball, which doesn't make that smile much friendly, at least in my opinion (also shotouts to the ending, where you finish him with every single EX ablility)
And some of mine: -Dame Demona (Yo-kai Watch 2) -Robobrood (Super Mario Odyssey) -Star Dream (Kirby: Planet Robobot) -Galeem and Dharkhon (Smash Ultimate) -Andross (Star Fox 64) -Mr. Sandman (Punch Out Wii) I would rant about these, but I don't feel like it...
Ridley and Mother Brain in Super Metroid. The Queen Metroid in AM2R (not SR or the original) And the SA-X and final boss of Metroid Fusion. The Metroid series is a gold mine for boss intros and buildups. The Mega Man Zero games, BOTW, Metal Gear Solid 1-4 and the Mother Trilogy all have great boss intros too though.
Protecting an egg. Ugh. Reminds me of Legacy Of Goku 2 when you have to relocate the dinosaur's eggs while avoiding the normally easily dealt with enemies. You basically have to use Vegeta to do it because he's the only playable character who can turn Super Saiyan yet (in other words the fastest character at that point). I remember that part drove me nuts as a kid. You could use Gohan or Piccolo too, but since they can't turn Super Saiyan (or Super Namekian) yet, the timing is difficult to get right. Slipping past the patrolling enemies with them is not easy since they will start to move towards you once you're within a certain distance. And since you're carrying these incredibly fragile eggs, you cannot fight back. I hated this section when I was a kid, but now that I'm older and smarter, I can get through it without getting frustrated. It's still a little annoying that you have to turn Super Saiyan BEFORE picking up the egg, since picking up the egg disables attack commands including the Super Saiyan transformation.
My favourite has to be the true final boss of Hollow Knight, the Radiance. You just entered the mind of the final boss and are ready to face the source of the Infection, it´s a open area like most dreams, the sun is shining for the first time inn the game. But there is no one there. You jump up a few platforms and on the top one, a prompt appears. )CHALLENGE(, it says. but who? You do it, and the sun opens its wings. Your´e screwed. -Spino
My Personal Favorite Boss Intros Are: Photoshop Flowey (I know you don't like Undertale,who cares,your opinion and I respect it) Bowser (2nd Phase) Super Mario Bros Wii Baby Bowser (Yoshi's Island SNES) All the Cuphead Bosses (mainly the Devil) The list goes on but I'm not gonna waste your time
Don't forget KKG who really sells the "Oh, you think HE was the toughest?" (obviously abrad is the strongest, but up until then the vampire moth was by far the most imposing)
Fusion Dragon's intro from Golden Sun is really great. I like it because the music starts during a cutscene and then the screen shatters and it breathes fire. Afterwards, the battle begins.
I'm glad i'm not the only one who like Necron's boss intro thanks to that creepy music and intense final boss theme. And i also love Dr.Weil final fight from Z4. Man, the chill....
11:50 What I love about some final bosses is that they are called as the title of the game (Majora's Mask, Hollow Knight or Metroid Prime), there are strong feelings when their names appear in the middle of the screen before fighting. It is like if you have reached the end of your goal finally, it is difficult to explain.
I love the intro to the Kuja fight too. You think the music is going to be the same theme of his You hear all game, but then it picks up and explodes just in time for the fight to start. FF9 is such a masterpiece, and Uematsu is a goddamn genius
My personal favorites are the super bosses from Octopath Traveler. Throughout the game, you'll find 8 shrines. The gods of the realm reside at these shrines, and when you visit them, they'll give you access to the 8 different classes as subclasses for further customization options. However, once you reach the Chapter 4 areas, you'll find 4 more shrines, named Archmagus, Starseer, Runelord, and Warmaster. They actually have a danger level, of level 50 (the Chapter 4 recommendations are level 45), and are actually dungeon length. At the actual shrines, you'll encounter 4 gods previously unmentioned anywhere in the game. Then, when you think you're getting a new subclass, you're hit with this: "Thou wish to seek the secrets I hold? Then thou must prove thy worth!" You're then prompted to leave or approach. Choose to approach and you engage that god in a battle. They have a unique battle theme, fittingly named "They Who Govern Reason", which is spine-chilling to me. And all this buildup is well-warranted, without proper setup, they will effortlessly wipe the floor with your party. Yeah, with the right setup, they're easily exploitable, but trying to fight them normally is a *huge* challenge to say the least. And your reward? Access to what I dub the "God Subclasses", which provide the strongest sets of skills in the whole game. Overall, the buildup and battle against these 4 gods is one of the biggest highlights of the game for me.
Some of my favourites: White Fatalis in monster hunter 4. Regarded as the all father of elder dragons you would expect he has an epic aura oozing off him at all times, and his intro serves that in spades. After walking to the very peak of a ruined fortress, the ambiance is quite. That is until you look up and see a solar eclipse, the moon moving to block the sun. Once it’s complete, all of the sudden the sky around it turns into a storm in an instant, and from the eclipse comes flying out the white dragon himself. Displaying some of his power before flying down to touch the ground in front of you. The music kicks in, it’s time for the hunt to begin.p Magus from Crono Trigger: “Once again the bitter black winds begins to howl...” the flames lights up, the music starts up, and the amplified once he flings his cape open. Omega Flowey, even if you don’t enjoy the game...come on, you can’t say that intro doesn’t leave a good impression. Bonus points to Hollow Knight: Boss comes out onto the scene, you get a name and title as they roar/shout a battle cry....say it with me. DUUUUUUUUUNG, DEEEEEFEEEEEEEENDER!”
My personal favorite boss introduction isn’t even a final boss, but rather an arc boss: Ninetails from Okami. Throughout the game, you receive your powers by rescuing the celestial brush gods by filling in the missing stars from the constellations they reside in. Ninetails fancies herself as more powerful than the gods, so she herself takes the form of a constellation that you must complete to begin the fight with her. The ominous bell chime when you do so really cinches it for me.
My favorite boss intro has got to be drawcia + drawcia soul in kirby Canvas curse, the way it's managed makes it really creepy, and she's literally one of the founding mothers of the soul fights in kirby.
*spoilers for ffx* My favorite has to be Braska's Final Aeon from FFX, the fire and the city lighting up is such an epic intro to such a devious bossfight
Tyler L I prefer Seymour flux as it shows you just how far Seymour is willing to go if he isn’t stopped. He nearly drives the rhonso to extinction and you can truly hear the madness in his voice. In addition you find out that Seymour knows knowledge that you thought only the main character and auron know. This intro let’s you know that only you have the power to oppose Seymour’s grand might as all the rhonso in the area who are all grand warriors didn’t even slow him down enough for you to get off the mountain. It also shows that Seymour isn’t afraid to kill anyone in his path and that if you fail to stop him he might actually achieve his goal of becoming sin and with his already great power over pyreflies due to him being a guado the even greater power because of being an unsent and his great magic him controlling sin would be unstoppable and would cause all of spira to die ending the spiral of death with one mass extinction. And then he becomes Seymour flux right before your eyes showing you just how powerful he has gotten and that he can now fly meaning there is no escaping him. Many people probably quit at this point as it is a massive difficulty spike.
The intro for the giratina battle is pretty unnerving. But hell the reveal is just nightmare fuel. Literally taking down Cyrus' basically completed plan as he had both diagla and palkia under his control and suddenly this huge shadowy mass just forms behind him, with a distorted tune playing, Cyrus being absolutely clueless and it all ending in a literal jumpscare.
Basically every Kirby final boss introduction has something going for it. Even Dark Nebula, the lamest final boss of the main series, has a great introduction with a really serene stage without too much going on while you chase the little dark star, then the fight begins in a really beautiful setting, shame the boss sucks so much. My favorite one, however, is Drawcia from Kirby Canvas Curse. After tons of beautiful colorful and atmospheric stages, stopping to fight summons by the witch herself in some goofy minigames after each world, you arrive on World 7: Wonder Lilane, where the final 3 stages are. Starting tamely-- Frozen Fantasy - is pretty much a maze: not the first ice stage you meet and only a mildly depressing background music to keep on your head. Then you move out to the second one: Mad Mechanism. Things are suddenly dead. A robotic and mostly monochromatic stage with a chaotic song playing in the background. Apart from the difficulty itself, however, you move on without much notice, again, then you go to the 3rd stage of the world and... Spectacle.. Space? I mean, things are HECTIC, but were you really expecting that?. It's so much chaotic stuff going on, the visuals are really different from everything else from the game and the song is a really weird, but not quite terrifying remix of a final boss from a past game. Things are progressing in a weird, wavy way. Peaking in chaos, then dropping down to calm and chill, you basically don't really expect anything consistent anymore from what lies ahead, but then-- You unlock the final world: World of Drawcia. Every world in the world select screen until then was based on a color, but this one doesn't have one. Well, it looks like some kind of colorful but dark place of sorts, but you enter it and... Every happy, energetic, melancholic, warm, cheerful and even chaotic aspects are suddenly gone, as you find yourself in a tasteless dark world adorned with out-of-place rainbow textures everywhere, not colors that bring life, however, they seem to only make everything look way more plastic and dead with the way they are structured around the stage. Then you have the music: arguably the most disturbing Kirby theme ever, with a loud string in the background that keeps hitting your ears in an almost painful way while you follow the disturbing melody. The stage layout itself is also really dead. You have no enemies anywhere, only spikes to deal damage and bottomless pits. Once you reach a point in the stage, you come across some blank frames that pop some creepy faces with a grim, all of them always looking straight at you all the time. You can drop them off-screen with the stylus if you want, but doing so just makes your presence there even more alone. After you climb through a vertical pass filled with spikes on the walls and creepy frames on the way, you arrive at the final canvas: The one that leads to the witch. Merely going through it brings dread to one's heart, as the frames around all look down at the same time as Kirby rolls into the final portal. All the darkness goes away, being vanished by a blindingly bright white background, where both Kirby and Drawcia descend to a dark yet rainbow-colored ground that is still appearing. With a sinister, but very fitting song playing, the witch finally reveals hear true appearance, as the white background gets corrupted with rippling paint and the lifebar-filling sound strikes in. TLDR: Paintings are cooler than reality-warp.
Another good one is the final boss Providence in Bravely Second. Fitting the "fourth wall breaking" theme the game sets for itself, having the second phase begin as a random encounter when leaving the area (leaving one utterly confused at the apparent lack of a second phase after finishing the first) was a total system shocker, cuz you assume it's over after you gain control over your characters and are allowed to leave.
Xenoblade bosses tend to have really good intros, so off the top of my head, Metal Face in Valak Mountain and (spoilers for the second game) The fight against Amalthus in the world tree are the ones that stand out the most.
Mother 3. Mecha-drago. Need I say more? You got a father who just lost his wife and now is searching desperately trying to find his son. Now he learns that his son may have been killed by the same drago that killed his wife the night before. Then you finally approach the ledge when the ground begins to shake and the mecha-drago reveals itself from behind a boulder and the battle begins! Its one of my all time favorites.
The final bosses intro in Ys Origin was amazing as for 2 characters Dallas was the final boss but for Toal there was another boss who suddenly appeared after defeating Dallas.
One of my favorites: The Mad Dog boss fight's beginning from Dynamite Headdy Trouble Bruin, the villain of the series, comes in to destroy Dynamite Headdy, but is then crushed by the Mad Dog. It's amazing.
Favorite boss intro I can remember, Moon Lord (terraria) the tension grows exponentially during the 60 second wait! Ridley (metroid zero mission) just.. doors locked, May as well go ba- AMBUSH! GET DOWN!
So are we just gonna gloss over the fact that Chaos just killed at least a million people with that flood? Also, how many manholes does a single street need!?
When it comes to boss intros, Punch out for the wii comes in my mind. Every fight has his unique intro, some of them are funny others are really intimidating. I also think in FE6 final boss [Spoilers] Idunn. Each time you attack her you can see the starting animation where you start from her claws slowly rising up to her dragon head all with a music that scream "Final boss" (The moment is quickly ruined by Roy doing a double 40 HP damage)
@@zmx132457 Ironic. You have a weak character in the enterly game but the last 3 chapters they give him an item extremly overpowered good against anything
Necron would almost have been more effective if he hadn't blown up. Death itself admires your resistance and is letting you go. You've won a REPRIEVE, not a pardon.
Never played this, but yeah it seemed weird that he was 'falling apart', then I figured that maybe he was just collapsing his physical body as he left your dimension. At first it LOOKS like he's dying, but then he composes himself and it looks deliberate.
@@RupertAndCheese Indeed. As said, as long as life and death exists, so will Necron, seeing as he is the physical representation of Death itself. According to the wiki, at least.
one of my personal favorite boss intros is Greygnarl from Dragon Quest IX. the cave creepily is there, and then his eyes flash in from the darkness of the cave as he stomps forward, then smoke pours out of his mouth and he reveals himself. Then the iconic boss sting plays. That’s a truly iconic way to start such an important boss battle.
I'm glad I wasn't the only one who liked the whole setup to Necron. Hell, I knew 9 wasn't fooling around at the end when it let you replace Zidane for the first time optionally
I always thought of that moment with Necron as Zidane and gang facing the Grim Reaper itself, defying their death at the hands of Kuja's Ultima. Infact, Necron used to be the secret boss Hades before undergoing a redesign and one of 9's main themes IS death, so it makes sense.
Here to remind people that a ton of people likely drowned in the movie for Perfect Chaos for Sonic Adventure. Even when I beat PC, I was like "Why is everyone so satisfied, everyone is drownded!!!" Thank you for messing chibi me up further, Sonic Adventure. You will always remain a bright spot in my childhood.
One of my favorite final boss intros has to be Exdeath from Final Fantasy V. After a fake-out final boss, come on his castle and boss fight had "Finale!" written all over it, we encounter him again in the final dungeon, The Interdimensional Rift. Exdeath commands the Void by changing into his true form, a Demonic Tree. And he is ugly! Beat him up and the game itself tells you that it's about to get worse. "Exdeath was swallowed.... By the Void!" And Neo-Exdeath slowly makes the scene...an amalgamation of many different monsters smashed together in a single monstrosity! Before he arrives, he gives you a chilling message. "I am Neo-Exdeath!" "All life...All memories shall disappear!" "Then I too shall disappear." "FOREVER!!!"
My fav boss intros are: *Omega flowey* (undertale): the tension on this boss fight is so great. After you defeated asgore the king of the monsters you start thinking the Game is over then *BAM* flowey kills asgore and gain control of the human souls becoming a giant creature that only wants to kill u for eternity *The Hollow Knight* (hollow knight): you spend the whole game thinking that you are the Hollow Knight, the guy who will be the hero and will stop the Radiance , but near the end of the Game you find out that's not the case and the Real Hollow knight is infected and will try to kill you
My favourite boss intros (Spoilers ahead!): -Pure Vessel, Nightmare King Grimm and finally Radiance from Hollow Knight -Nihilanth from Half-Life ("FREEEEEEEEMAAAAAAAAAAAN!") -Ghetsis' battle intro in Pokemon Black and White -Zero 2's intro in Kirby Crystal Shards and C.R.O.W.N.E.D. phase of Magolor fight in Kirby Return to Dreamland -Mordecai the Summoner from Serious Sam Second Encounter
You know how to make Necron lore wise horrible? Technically when you choose who to fight with, the others were still down probably agonizing. What if they stayed there and forced you to fight a second round against Necron with those that were left? As in, he's testing the will to live, who says all of your team is up for said test?
Favourite boss intros? Yeah, there are a lot of them and most of them are the same as the other guys' favourites. But there are actually 2 boss intros that are really interesting for me, in a game called Terraria. It is similar to Minecraft in terms of gameplay, but has lores and more interesting to play imo. -The first one is one of the two endgame bosses of Terraria: Lunatic Cultist. Simply, you kill 4 cultists that worship a tablet that has the image of a dark god and a mysterious man emerges all in a sudden. He drains the power of that tablet, starts ascending to the sky and does a demented laugh. Brought the chills to my spine the first time I saw it. - Also, the second one is Moon Lord, the final boss of Terraria. After you beat the Lunatic Cultist, four Lunar Towers emerge in your world and you have to kill them. After killing the final one, you see a message saying *"Impending doom approaches..."* and as time passes, the screen starts to distort into a darker shade of grey. This happens four times. When it happens consecutively, the music ingame starts to lower by itself. After the third distortion, the music stops. And after the 4th one, a white flash appears as Moon Lord appears with a feral scream. Really scary and chilly the first time you see it.
also the unique dialogue from destroying those pillars... some people mentioned fanmade games or mods, so I wanna include the sun boss (forgot it's name :/) from the GaMeTerraria mod. pretty neat and good concept there B)
Balore's fight was one of my favorite boss fights from AoS! That intro was so amazing. You think you have to fight an annoying flying enemy, but the true boss OHKOs the boss you thought you were going to fight! And his eye laser of doom is so awesome, like the world's most dangerous form of jump rope!
Curse of Darkness taught me what is behind that door. It was my favorite fight from that game! Finally beating that thing was a highlight of my youth. I look forward to you going over that boss in whichever game you use for it. That boss is so memorable. You never forget it long after you have left it. Unless you have already done it and I am being a doodle again.
When i fought Balore in his second phase the whole time i was just like "DIE ALREADY!" I didn't even know it was a second phase, I thought it was just another attack at first but then 8 lasers later i began to suspect something wasn't right.
My favorite boss intro in recent memory has to be Hyness from Star Allies. The creepy music, unsettling movements of the hooded figure, and the batshit insane monologue are all amazing at building unease. He stares directly into the camera for the first half of the fight, and once you knock his hood off, BAM! The music kicks into overdrive as his horrifying yet goofy scream shakes the screen. What’s more is he drains the life of his unconscious minions, using their lifeless bodies as weapons. Another of my favorites comes from the same game, in the form Astral Birth: Void’s splash screen. Comparing it to the initial final bosses’ intro and the soul melter intro, something about this last one just stands out (mainly if you are aware of the Kirby lore). That and Void’s death animation still give me goosebumps today.
My honorable mention goes to the final boss in Persona 5. As you progress through the story, you'll move deeper into Mementos where all the Shadows lurk until you reach the very end. There, you find the answer to what you've been doing as you go face-to-face with __________!
I really Like the build up to the broodmother in dragon age origins,the NPC telling what happened to the others and finishing with a single word "broodmother" right before the room you fight the thing. I love it.
Gasp! I’ve never actually finished sonic adventure. And that final, cheesy sentiment by tails about the emeralds positive and negative power, takes on whole new meaning of you know of the sonic bible. And the original purpose of the emeralds. As the emeralds are pretty much made up of sin and evil from across the world ( which is probably why there’s seven of them in the newer versions ), so the good side of the emerald makes sense, once Chaos absorbs the sin from the emeralds, all they have to draw from is the vastly more powerful good in the world, allowing sonic to reach new heights of his power, with the stronger side of the emeralds in him. This whole thing kindov reminds me of the Jiinjuriki from naruto. For one, having the good and evil sides of the emeralds ( Naruto and Sora ), and the idea of the emerald shells being more powerful than the spirit that inhabits them. Sorry for nerding out here, but I found it interesting.
Well I got something to call the great king of evil. Got the idea from Mety333, but it still works. The last form is Raging Pork Ganon. Though this is the enraged battle ox version.
If this counts, the cutscene right before the final boss of Spark the Electric Jester starts out in ominous silence, only for Spark to dash up to the final boss perfectly timed with the start of the god-tier final boss theme, and it gets me every single time.
YOU MAN ( or woman) HAVE MAKE ME HAPPY TOO NOW THAT THERES ANOTER FAN IN THIS COMMENT SECTION HOW ATLESS NOW THIS UNDERRATEND GAME! I'M WANT GOD TOO BLESS YOU! (Im sorry if I sound craize but that find some person how play this game and renember is soo reare like see a shiny pokemon of find the pink tail in final fantasy IV)
One of my favorite intros is molgera from legend of Zelda wind waker. You're on a giant field of sand and you know something is gonna pop up from it but what? Then the ground starts to shake and the sand begins to rise and then the music starts off low but quickly gets more intense then you hear a loud roar but you can't see what it is. Then it bursts out the sand and it's huge and roaring the whole time as the music reaches it's climax as it dives back into the sand with one final roar and the final notes of the music. Then fight begins...
My favorite boss intro comes from Metroid as well, though Mecha Ridley's is undeniably badass. Nightmare from Fusion is incredibly well-built up, so when you finally see him, the payoff is enormous. Here you are, just trying to collect an energy tank, when you suddenly fall into this empty room. That chilling prelude music plays as the full form of Nightmare rises from the floor, all while making those horrible sounds. It's fitting that the creature called "Nightmare" has the most terrifying entrance in the series. It honestly filled me with dread when I first played. That's the sign of an effective boss intro. Helps that the battle itself is the best in Fusion to boot.
Personally I liked Bowser's intro for the final fight in Super Mario 3D World. The cutscene starts with an ominous shot of the Great Tower of Bowser Land before the big guy drops down in front of you. That already looked badass in the dark clouds and the rainy weather, but then the music starts building up as he reveals the Super Bell he kept in hand before placing it on his collar. The piano then goes a bit crazy as he lets out an awesomely evil laugh while a shining light begins to envelope him...and there it is! The music reaches it's climax as the all-new Meowser stands in front of you, showcasing his increased agility as he drops to all fours and backflips away before letting out a chilling roar as lightning strikes to start the battle. It's a simple cutscene, but a very effective way of introducing a powerful new enemy.
Personal honorable mentions : - Final Bowser (Mario Odyssey) "Get ready Mario! Here's your happily. Ever. After!" Man, that quote is so badass it sends the good chills down my spine every single time. - Infinite Rematch 1 (Sonic Forces) A cool way of starting a fight for such a wasted potential of a character. - Marx Soul (Kirby Super Star Ultra) One of the best Soul boss intro cutscenes i've ever seen. - Shiny Robobowser (Paper Jam) One of the best Bowser variations that also has one of the best intro cutscenes, for a game that was nothing but a wasted potential. - Bowser Chaos Robot (Mario Mania) Bowser will always be badass, no matter the game. Whether it be rom hack or official, Bowser will always be crowned awesomeness royalty. - Fury Bowser/God Slayer Bowser (Mario 3D World Switch) The most badass Bowser has ever been
One of my favorite boss buildups is the sa-x fron metriod fusion. From pretty much after the first boss. The introduction to "it" is so tense and letsyou know your not alone and something is hunting you. Later, the computer informs you that at any time, the sa-x may appear and you cant fight it. You have to run if it sees you. 2 of the 3 times he appears, you have to just hide. But in the last one, you are dropped right into the room its in and you have to just run. At the end, before you set the ships orbit to sr388, the sa-x appears and you have to fight. You have the wave beam which can damage it when charged. After all the fear and pain it has put on you. Its time to take revenge.
I gotta hand it to NKG or the Radiance from Hollow knight personally, they both have extremely imposing (and musicless) intros that build suspense as to “what/where am I fighting” and then when the boss actually reveals the self (NKG cutting out of the nightmare heart or the fucking sun sprouting wings) and the full screen intro card kicks in, you know that shit has gotten real
Facts: You should've had the choice to give Kuja a second chance and help fight Necron alongside you and then, in the end, he cannot return to life because he's already dead, but he's satisfied.
One of my favorites is all of the Four Heavenly Knights from MGQ in chapter 2, they all have good intros before the fight and have great boss fight music
I think Splatoon 2's DLC had my favorite boss build up in recent times. You slowly climb up an eerie, underground tower, whose rooms and sections bear weird, unusual names (for a world made of anthropomorphic sea creatures). The levels tend to look more like an actual facility instead of just platforming setpieces, and you also have a showdown with Splatoon 1's hero, possessed by a weird foe. And when you're out, finally no more underground, and think everything is over, finally meeting the people who helped you through your quest through phonecalls and whatnot, the tower's head arises from the waves: it's a human head?! But humans were extinct in this world! It was so eerie, because humans are completely gone from Splatoon's world and you never, ever see them properly, but also because the head clearly was modelled after a greek statue, which represent a godly, yet human perfection. And the rest of the tower's rooms? Those were none other than the statue's body parts. You find out the villain behind all of it, controlling the statue, was a super intelligent AI set to revive the human race, who now wants to wipe out the new life on earth because it deems it worthless and imperfect. The main character and their friends decide to plan out an all out attack on it (complete with Splatoon humor), to stop its dreams of annhilation. I was really left surprised by that scene. First party Nintendo knows how to make cool boss intros. In general, for being a simple DLC side story, Octo Expansion was full of callbacks and symbolism to pretty crazy stuff you don't see in kids' games.
Fun Fact: FFXIV's Shadowbringers expansion has the same intro text trick as Ocarina of Time. HAL even gets in on the action a little as well in Kirby Star Allies, even if it does happen to be a little bit late, but it's better than never.
6:23 *Internal screaming* But seriously, it brought to mind another set of stairs in Castevania's Curse of Darkness. In Garibaldi Temple, there's a set of stairs that go down and everything is normal for a while as you descend. Then suddenly you're surrounded by fleshy walls and floating embryos that attempt to suck the life from you. At the bottom is a boss door, and let me tell you: behind that door is one epic, nightmare inducing boss...
Ah yes, The Forgotten One. The reason that Lament of Innocence earned its M rating. It's well deserved honestly. The blood and gore from that boss with the maggots eating him at the same time as he regenerates use to send shivers as I saw him. He left a bigger impression on me than The Forgotten One from Lord's of Shadow.
God I love the end of a “Final Boss Battle” in every Final Fantasy game. They arrive flamboyant and terrifying and when then leave, they slowly sometimes crumble away in pieces or explode very loud to the point to where the entirety of the universe feels their demise and we are left with so many feelings. That’s how you end a game, in my opinion.
I still enjoy the build-up to the final boss of Radiata Stories on the PS2. The trek through the desert with Scarlet Winds playing in the background instills a somber tone along side the narrative as the player makes their way to the End of the World, which, while I won't spoil anything, is still to this day my favourite final dungeon visually and musically speaking (the use of the pipe organ in the tracks Labyrinth of Fortune and Cataract of Maelstrom and Consciousness served the atmosphere brilliantly). Honestly, I'm surprised you've yet to talk about Radiata Stories; I think you'd probably enjoyed it if you hadn't already played it.
Not my all time favorite, but the giant boss in Contra 3: The Alien Wars that rips open the big metal gates and sticks it's head out was always very memorable for me. Couple other notable ones: Gilgamesh from Final Fantasy, Luca Blight from Suikoden II, and Sinistar from the arcade game of the same name.
The Metal Gear series has some legendary boss intros. Though some find them rather wordy for two trained soldiers about to fight to the death, I like how much detail they give you on the character and what their abilities are all about. The only one who doesn't have one is Sniper Wolf, who unceremoniously shoots Meryl and just waits silently for you to expose yourself trying to save her. I really like how the music sets up Blizzeta in LoZ: Twilight Princess, starting in wind-up toy/nursery rhyme tones, growing more sinister as Yeta is corrupted by the mirror before dropping a scare chord at the reveal and proceeding into rising eerie gospel chorus, followed by what more than one commenter has described as 'Christmas in Hell' for the actual boss. I also don't like Necron much, but lots of other FF bosses have great intros- who can forget Safer/Seraph Sephiroth?
If you want to talk about boss entrance, don't forget Kefka from FF6. After the first 3 phases, Kefka floats down from the holy heaven in god-form while laughing manically, with Dancing Mad as BGM.
I love how Tails says “All’s well that ends well” after beating Perfect Chaos despite Station Square literally being flooded and in ruins
I mean at least the water god is finsished the
y can still rebuild the city afterwards
My favorite boss intro is king dede in nightmare in dreamland for gba, if kirby uses a parasol he will slowly fall down with the music reaching it climax when kirby lands, it is just perfect
Playtroll 64 ye, the nostalgia still hits me hard.
I need to try this
I’ve passed this game last week. The final battle with nightmare was difficult
Fredbit Gaming try arena. It’s pretty fuq. :]]]]
@@trongtran8951 I am doing that its difficult
Other incredible intros:
-Fusion Dragon (Golden Sun)
-Doom Dragon (GS-The lost Age)
-Estark and Psaro(Dragon Quest 4)
-Dark Bowser(Bowser Inside story)
-Zeromus(Final Fantasy 4)
-Exdeath and Neo Exdeath(FF5)
-Kefka(FF6)
-Dark Dialga(PMD Explores)
-Ultra Necrozma (Pokemon USUM)
Alessio Scoppa
Hate to be that guy, but its called Primal Dialga, not Dark Dialga. The intro to that fight was incredible though.
@@Void_Echoes Dark Dialga is its Japanese(original) name
Alessio Scoppa
Oh I didn’t know that
@@Void_Echoes Don't worry, we can still agree he has an amazing intro
Kefka was just an epic antagonist in general
Like handsome jack levels of antagonist
Belmonts (and other Vampire Hunters): *GRAND CROSS!*
Necron: Ooh that's good! Write that down!
Exdeath from Final Fantasy V did it before
@@youarereadingmynamerightno4311
So he's plagiarising as well
@@Zwyrx_Hgqfyggz Yes, plagiarizing. He also quoted Yoda's words to young Anakin word for word about "Fear leads to anger..."
Sigma's true form from Megaman X5 always gets me. An absolutely epic intro to what was supposed to be the final boss of the series.
He would have been the absolute best final boss in X series if x5 was the last game
@@d7603 Absolutely, that's one of the many reasons I despise X6.
X7 was a flop too, but I liked X8. I am not sure why Capcom just won't make Mega Man X9 already and possibly finish the X series. Maybe they think the fans won't accept their game well.
@@cloroxhammer3289 It's because X7 and X8 sold like utter shit. It's sad cuz I agree about X8 being good.
Lumine and Σ8 are better
I just love both Star Dream and Queen Sectonia's general buildups and themes.
Star Dream's facemask slowly chipping away until we see Nova's face, all with this mysterious and nerve-wracking buildup...
Sectonia's night-time seeming victory where darkness is slowly reigning until the Hypernova fruit brings forth a gorgeous new dawn...
Modern Kirby Games might be bad in some places but it's not in their final bosses!
Finally, someone feels almost the exact same way about the Mecha Ridley fight introduction!
@@Grey-The-Skeleton Oh yesss.
Then again, this game has the very first Ridley fight in the Metroid storyline and he thought he was such a badass when he came to the arena late. It was a nice introduction, where Samus turns around after realizing that the hatch won't open and is like "Wha-", but at the same time quite underwhelming when you know you can kill Ridley with just around 4-6 super missiles. Guess he thought he was too badass for her back then, but nope.
Milk
@@cloroxhammer3289 He is a lot harder when you fight him with all twelve energy tanks. His health is tripled and the damage dealed is doubled. So is not that easy if you have the patience to get maximum health before the fight
@@FelipeCar13 Nah, he is still easy. The fight scales in difficulty the more items you have, not just e-tanks. Mecha Ridley will be at his strongest when you collect everything in the game, yet he will still be no match for you. Just time your super missiles right and it won't take long before he will be down.
Some of my favourites are:
-Asgore (Undertale): The music starts low, making a description of the enviroment, and after that is done, Asgore literally breaks the fourth wall and just destroys the Spare button, like yeah, that's aparently a thing.
-Moon Lord (Terraria): After dealing with all 4 pillars (Also known as Santana, Esidisi, Whammu and Kars), it says "Impending Doom is aproaching", then you notice that music is gone, and there is a slight fade in and fade out that, as time goes on, it keeps increasing in intensity and frequence until the screen flashes, the sky goes black, and Cthulhu's brother (Not kidding, that's terraria's lore) appears for one last showdown (except that you are going to rebattle him cause he dropped a celebration)
-The main legendary pokemon from gen 4 and 5 (Pokemon, duh): In Giratina's case: You don't even see it clearly at first, heck, it wasn't even supossed to show up in the first place, then you see how it extends it's wings and covers the entire screen, then all you see is a portal to a void devoid of physics, or any life aside from Cynthia, the lake trio, Giratin... ok, there are some life, but not as much as in the normal world, and after you beat Cyrus' ass for the last time, you go foward and face Giratina (and then end the battle with a masterball, cause that ball was made for something, ya know?)
Then we have gen 2's remakes, specially Ho-Oh, since I can't remember Lugia (I own Heart Gold), after you finish climbing the tower, the music dissapears and you see the kimono girls that you met over the game, ready for the sacrif- I mean, ritual, the dance syncronized with the bell and then, from the sky you see a spark, and you see in Ho-Oh's perspective how it's flying around the tower while the music of the ritual reaches it's climax, and then when it lands, it's time to end it (with a masterball, duh)
Last we have BW2, with Kyurem, you see the main villain from BW, which for him, being alive it's quite the feat, and then prepares Kyurem to use "Kill Child" against you, which, gotta say, it's super effective, but then N comes in with the legendary box pokemon and saves the day... except that he fell into his trap and then Kyurem fuses with whatever the pokemon was and see him transform into Kyurem-whatever (sadly you can't end this with a masterball, -519/10)
-Magolor's soul (Kirby: Return to Dream Land): After you beat both the ship (the very thing you were working on for the entirety of the game, that's a low blow), and Magolor, you would think that's it, the screen turns white and everything is over, ain't it? Then C-R-O-W-N-E-D plays while you see the crown emanating a dark aura, then you see an eye coming from that aura, and then it turns into a smile, whose eye is said eyeball, which doesn't make that smile much friendly, at least in my opinion (also shotouts to the ending, where you finish him with every single EX ablility)
@Agent Mcdumbo the best kind of references
Wait, the pillars have names??!
@@Grey-The-Skeleton jojo.fandom.com/wiki/Pillar_Men
More or less...
And some of mine:
-Dame Demona (Yo-kai Watch 2)
-Robobrood (Super Mario Odyssey)
-Star Dream (Kirby: Planet Robobot)
-Galeem and Dharkhon (Smash Ultimate)
-Andross (Star Fox 64)
-Mr. Sandman (Punch Out Wii)
I would rant about these, but I don't feel like it...
seriously the 4 pillars from terraria includes whammu esidusi and 🚗 kars
Ridley and Mother Brain in Super Metroid.
The Queen Metroid in AM2R (not SR or the original)
And the SA-X and final boss of Metroid Fusion.
The Metroid series is a gold mine for boss intros and buildups.
The Mega Man Zero games, BOTW, Metal Gear Solid 1-4 and the Mother Trilogy all have great boss intros too though.
AM2R is a fan game though, but a well made one. Personally I think SR and AM2R are even games.
*WARE WA MESSIAH NARI!*
*_-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH-_*
"the only experience equal to this is protecting an egg in a minecart"
I see what you did there, man. That takes me 10 years or so back!
wait
he used this song for that, didn't he
neat
What’s it a reference to? I’m guessing it’s dizzy.
@@SuperFroakie82: guessed right
Protecting an egg. Ugh. Reminds me of Legacy Of Goku 2 when you have to relocate the dinosaur's eggs while avoiding the normally easily dealt with enemies. You basically have to use Vegeta to do it because he's the only playable character who can turn Super Saiyan yet (in other words the fastest character at that point). I remember that part drove me nuts as a kid. You could use Gohan or Piccolo too, but since they can't turn Super Saiyan (or Super Namekian) yet, the timing is difficult to get right. Slipping past the patrolling enemies with them is not easy since they will start to move towards you once you're within a certain distance. And since you're carrying these incredibly fragile eggs, you cannot fight back. I hated this section when I was a kid, but now that I'm older and smarter, I can get through it without getting frustrated. It's still a little annoying that you have to turn Super Saiyan BEFORE picking up the egg, since picking up the egg disables attack commands including the Super Saiyan transformation.
*INTENSE DIZZY FLASHBACKS*
My favourite has to be the true final boss of Hollow Knight, the Radiance.
You just entered the mind of the final boss and are ready to face the source of the Infection,
it´s a open area like most dreams, the sun is shining for the first time inn the game.
But there is no one there. You jump up a few platforms and on the top one, a prompt appears.
)CHALLENGE(, it says. but who? You do it, and the sun opens its wings.
Your´e screwed.
-Spino
And then you're treated to a white screen with the words THE RADIANCE on it, it's so sick
omg ikr
Spinosaurus III oh true
Not to mention you do it right after Hornet flies her needle right into the Hollow Knight's eye and you dream nail him...
My Personal Favorite Boss Intros Are:
Photoshop Flowey (I know you don't like Undertale,who cares,your opinion and I respect it)
Bowser (2nd Phase) Super Mario Bros Wii
Baby Bowser (Yoshi's Island SNES)
All the Cuphead Bosses (mainly the Devil)
The list goes on but I'm not gonna waste your time
I mean, what intro could match omega flowey's?
Karol Di Fede Seriously though,the way he creeper on to the screen and then.... THAT LAUGH
Undertale bad.
@@kjone5086 your opinion,and I respect it,the game is not perfect
Asgore Intro is my favorite.
A good one that uses text is The Radiance from Hollow Knight
Don't forget KKG who really sells the "Oh, you think HE was the toughest?"
(obviously abrad is the strongest, but up until then the vampire moth was by far the most imposing)
Almost every boss has a great intro
@@metamarx8409 personal favorite is nosk, but it's too bad he's as easy as heck
@@masonjones7777 I feel ashamed that I died to nosk once but never died to gp zote
Nightmare King Grimm does as well.
Hmm would the walk you have to take to reach giygas in earthbound be a good one?
@@paigto8144 I still respect his opinion, even tho im a earthbound series fan.
My favorite part about it is not the walk to reach Giygas but Porky/Pokey's dialogue.
@@paigto8144 really? I knew the git didin't like _that_ game whose name is prohibited in this channel, but that one's new for me
@@turn.103 does he have an opinion on Deltarune?
I'm guessing no, since he wants to distance himself as far a way as possible from, you know.
If you dont know, he has a video called "why I HATE undertale" so that basically explains itself.
3:10 i can never get enough of your boss stat screens.
My favourite part of this videos are those.
Fusion Dragon's intro from Golden Sun is really great. I like it because the music starts during a cutscene and then the screen shatters and it breathes fire. Afterwards, the battle begins.
I'm glad i'm not the only one who like Necron's boss intro thanks to that creepy music and intense final boss theme.
And i also love Dr.Weil final fight from Z4. Man, the chill....
11:50 What I love about some final bosses is that they are called as the title of the game (Majora's Mask, Hollow Knight or Metroid Prime), there are strong feelings when their names appear in the middle of the screen before fighting. It is like if you have reached the end of your goal finally, it is difficult to explain.
I love the intro to the Kuja fight too. You think the music is going to be the same theme of his You hear all game, but then it picks up and explodes just in time for the fight to start.
FF9 is such a masterpiece, and Uematsu is a goddamn genius
My personal favorites are the super bosses from Octopath Traveler.
Throughout the game, you'll find 8 shrines. The gods of the realm reside at these shrines, and when you visit them, they'll give you access to the 8 different classes as subclasses for further customization options. However, once you reach the Chapter 4 areas, you'll find 4 more shrines, named Archmagus, Starseer, Runelord, and Warmaster. They actually have a danger level, of level 50 (the Chapter 4 recommendations are level 45), and are actually dungeon length. At the actual shrines, you'll encounter 4 gods previously unmentioned anywhere in the game. Then, when you think you're getting a new subclass, you're hit with this:
"Thou wish to seek the secrets I hold? Then thou must prove thy worth!"
You're then prompted to leave or approach. Choose to approach and you engage that god in a battle. They have a unique battle theme, fittingly named "They Who Govern Reason", which is spine-chilling to me. And all this buildup is well-warranted, without proper setup, they will effortlessly wipe the floor with your party.
Yeah, with the right setup, they're easily exploitable, but trying to fight them normally is a *huge* challenge to say the least. And your reward? Access to what I dub the "God Subclasses", which provide the strongest sets of skills in the whole game.
Overall, the buildup and battle against these 4 gods is one of the biggest highlights of the game for me.
Some of my favourites:
White Fatalis in monster hunter 4. Regarded as the all father of elder dragons you would expect he has an epic aura oozing off him at all times, and his intro serves that in spades. After walking to the very peak of a ruined fortress, the ambiance is quite. That is until you look up and see a solar eclipse, the moon moving to block the sun. Once it’s complete, all of the sudden the sky around it turns into a storm in an instant, and from the eclipse comes flying out the white dragon himself. Displaying some of his power before flying down to touch the ground in front of you. The music kicks in, it’s time for the hunt to begin.p
Magus from Crono Trigger: “Once again the bitter black winds begins to howl...” the flames lights up, the music starts up, and the amplified once he flings his cape open.
Omega Flowey, even if you don’t enjoy the game...come on, you can’t say that intro doesn’t leave a good impression.
Bonus points to Hollow Knight: Boss comes out onto the scene, you get a name and title as they roar/shout a battle cry....say it with me. DUUUUUUUUUNG, DEEEEEFEEEEEEEENDER!”
AAAAAAAAAAAAA
ROOOOMBAAAAAAAAAAA
Fede 64 that works as well~
My personal favorite boss introduction isn’t even a final boss, but rather an arc boss: Ninetails from Okami. Throughout the game, you receive your powers by rescuing the celestial brush gods by filling in the missing stars from the constellations they reside in. Ninetails fancies herself as more powerful than the gods, so she herself takes the form of a constellation that you must complete to begin the fight with her. The ominous bell chime when you do so really cinches it for me.
The Persona 4/5 Bosses have great intros.
Kaos from Trap Team. I mean, that's just a great boss in general.
Only ones I can think of.
Nyx Avatar from Persona 3?
Jett Hazard holy shit someone recognizes that the skylanders series exists, one of my faves was the final boss of giants
9:18 Text on screen, huh? That's the main reason I love the Zelda and Ys bosses.
My favorite boss intro has got to be drawcia + drawcia soul in kirby Canvas curse, the way it's managed makes it really creepy, and she's literally one of the founding mothers of the soul fights in kirby.
14:46 that talk made me cry... such emotion
*spoilers for ffx*
My favorite has to be Braska's Final Aeon from FFX, the fire and the city lighting up is such an epic intro to such a devious bossfight
Tyler L I prefer Seymour flux as it shows you just how far Seymour is willing to go if he isn’t stopped. He nearly drives the rhonso to extinction and you can truly hear the madness in his voice. In addition you find out that Seymour knows knowledge that you thought only the main character and auron know. This intro let’s you know that only you have the power to oppose Seymour’s grand might as all the rhonso in the area who are all grand warriors didn’t even slow him down enough for you to get off the mountain. It also shows that Seymour isn’t afraid to kill anyone in his path and that if you fail to stop him he might actually achieve his goal of becoming sin and with his already great power over pyreflies due to him being a guado the even greater power because of being an unsent and his great magic him controlling sin would be unstoppable and would cause all of spira to die ending the spiral of death with one mass extinction. And then he becomes Seymour flux right before your eyes showing you just how powerful he has gotten and that he can now fly meaning there is no escaping him. Many people probably quit at this point as it is a massive difficulty spike.
The intro for the giratina battle is pretty unnerving. But hell the reveal is just nightmare fuel. Literally taking down Cyrus' basically completed plan as he had both diagla and palkia under his control and suddenly this huge shadowy mass just forms behind him, with a distorted tune playing, Cyrus being absolutely clueless and it all ending in a literal jumpscare.
Basically every Kirby final boss introduction has something going for it. Even Dark Nebula, the lamest final boss of the main series, has a great introduction with a really serene stage without too much going on while you chase the little dark star, then the fight begins in a really beautiful setting, shame the boss sucks so much.
My favorite one, however, is Drawcia from Kirby Canvas Curse. After tons of beautiful colorful and atmospheric stages, stopping to fight summons by the witch herself in some goofy minigames after each world, you arrive on World 7: Wonder Lilane, where the final 3 stages are. Starting tamely-- Frozen Fantasy - is pretty much a maze: not the first ice stage you meet and only a mildly depressing background music to keep on your head. Then you move out to the second one: Mad Mechanism. Things are suddenly dead. A robotic and mostly monochromatic stage with a chaotic song playing in the background. Apart from the difficulty itself, however, you move on without much notice, again, then you go to the 3rd stage of the world and... Spectacle.. Space? I mean, things are HECTIC, but were you really expecting that?. It's so much chaotic stuff going on, the visuals are really different from everything else from the game and the song is a really weird, but not quite terrifying remix of a final boss from a past game. Things are progressing in a weird, wavy way. Peaking in chaos, then dropping down to calm and chill, you basically don't really expect anything consistent anymore from what lies ahead, but then-- You unlock the final world: World of Drawcia. Every world in the world select screen until then was based on a color, but this one doesn't have one. Well, it looks like some kind of colorful but dark place of sorts, but you enter it and...
Every happy, energetic, melancholic, warm, cheerful and even chaotic aspects are suddenly gone, as you find yourself in a tasteless dark world adorned with out-of-place rainbow textures everywhere, not colors that bring life, however, they seem to only make everything look way more plastic and dead with the way they are structured around the stage. Then you have the music: arguably the most disturbing Kirby theme ever, with a loud string in the background that keeps hitting your ears in an almost painful way while you follow the disturbing melody. The stage layout itself is also really dead. You have no enemies anywhere, only spikes to deal damage and bottomless pits. Once you reach a point in the stage, you come across some blank frames that pop some creepy faces with a grim, all of them always looking straight at you all the time. You can drop them off-screen with the stylus if you want, but doing so just makes your presence there even more alone.
After you climb through a vertical pass filled with spikes on the walls and creepy frames on the way, you arrive at the final canvas: The one that leads to the witch. Merely going through it brings dread to one's heart, as the frames around all look down at the same time as Kirby rolls into the final portal.
All the darkness goes away, being vanished by a blindingly bright white background, where both Kirby and Drawcia descend to a dark yet rainbow-colored ground that is still appearing. With a sinister, but very fitting song playing, the witch finally reveals hear true appearance, as the white background gets corrupted with rippling paint and the lifebar-filling sound strikes in.
TLDR: Paintings are cooler than reality-warp.
Does anyone else think that"I'll watch you die" was a pun on the developers part considering it's shape?
my favorite one is the boss of just shapes and beats. it make the perfect real final boss feel
Another good one is the final boss Providence in Bravely Second. Fitting the "fourth wall breaking" theme the game sets for itself, having the second phase begin as a random encounter when leaving the area (leaving one utterly confused at the apparent lack of a second phase after finishing the first) was a total system shocker, cuz you assume it's over after you gain control over your characters and are allowed to leave.
or when it tries to delete the fucking game file
no yeah that was a pretty shocking moment
Xenoblade bosses tend to have really good intros, so off the top of my head, Metal Face in Valak Mountain and (spoilers for the second game)
The fight against Amalthus in the world tree are the ones that stand out the most.
Mother 3. Mecha-drago. Need I say more? You got a father who just lost his wife and now is searching desperately trying to find his son. Now he learns that his son may have been killed by the same drago that killed his wife the night before. Then you finally approach the ledge when the ground begins to shake and the mecha-drago reveals itself from behind a boulder and the battle begins! Its one of my all time favorites.
7:25 one of my favorite prefight lines for no particular reason
Not gonna lie, first time playing SMW (I was like 6...) I was terrified of Bowser's appearance and quit playing for a while.
The final bosses intro in Ys Origin was amazing as for 2 characters Dallas was the final boss but for Toal there was another boss who suddenly appeared after defeating Dallas.
My two favorite intros are both from Hollow Knight. The fight against The Hollow Knight, and against The Radiance.
Well, Hollow Knight has like seven good intros. Broken Vessel, Nosk, Mantis Lords, Grimm, NKG, The Hollow Knight and The Radiance
@@animarthur5297 Soul Master is also top-tier
One of my favorites:
The Mad Dog boss fight's beginning from Dynamite Headdy
Trouble Bruin, the villain of the series, comes in to destroy Dynamite Headdy, but is then crushed by the Mad Dog. It's amazing.
Favorite boss intro I can remember,
Moon Lord (terraria) the tension grows exponentially during the 60 second wait!
Ridley (metroid zero mission) just.. doors locked, May as well go ba- AMBUSH! GET DOWN!
My favourite boss intro is from Ballos from Cave Storry.
So are we just gonna gloss over the fact that Chaos just killed at least a million people with that flood?
Also, how many manholes does a single street need!?
When it comes to boss intros, Punch out for the wii comes in my mind. Every fight has his unique intro, some of them are funny others are really intimidating. I also think in FE6 final boss [Spoilers]
Idunn. Each time you attack her you can see the starting animation where you start from her claws slowly rising up to her dragon head all with a music that scream "Final boss" (The moment is quickly ruined by Roy doing a double 40 HP damage)
Knew I'd see you here! XD :P I agree completely about the punch out btw.
I mean, the binding blade is stupid broken, even with Idunn using the scrapped item the Dark stone which gives a huge buff to Idunn
@@zmx132457 Ironic. You have a weak character in the enterly game but the last 3 chapters they give him an item extremly overpowered good against anything
You'd looooooooooove the boss intros from the Daruis series (G Darius and Darius Gaiden in particular).
Necron would almost have been more effective if he hadn't blown up. Death itself admires your resistance and is letting you go. You've won a REPRIEVE, not a pardon.
Never played this, but yeah it seemed weird that he was 'falling apart', then I figured that maybe he was just collapsing his physical body as he left your dimension.
At first it LOOKS like he's dying, but then he composes himself and it looks deliberate.
@@RupertAndCheese Indeed. As said, as long as life and death exists, so will Necron, seeing as he is the physical representation of Death itself. According to the wiki, at least.
one of my personal favorite boss intros is Greygnarl from Dragon Quest IX. the cave creepily is there, and then his eyes flash in from the darkness of the cave as he stomps forward, then smoke pours out of his mouth and he reveals himself. Then the iconic boss sting plays. That’s a truly iconic way to start such an important boss battle.
I'm glad I wasn't the only one who liked the whole setup to Necron. Hell, I knew 9 wasn't fooling around at the end when it let you replace Zidane for the first time optionally
I always thought of that moment with Necron as Zidane and gang facing the Grim Reaper itself, defying their death at the hands of Kuja's Ultima.
Infact, Necron used to be the secret boss Hades before undergoing a redesign and one of 9's main themes IS death, so it makes sense.
Here to remind people that a ton of people likely drowned in the movie for Perfect Chaos for Sonic Adventure. Even when I beat PC, I was like "Why is everyone so satisfied, everyone is drownded!!!" Thank you for messing chibi me up further, Sonic Adventure. You will always remain a bright spot in my childhood.
One of my favorite final boss intros has to be Exdeath from Final Fantasy V.
After a fake-out final boss, come on his castle and boss fight had "Finale!" written all over it, we encounter him again in the final dungeon, The Interdimensional Rift.
Exdeath commands the Void by changing into his true form, a Demonic Tree. And he is ugly!
Beat him up and the game itself tells you that it's about to get worse.
"Exdeath was swallowed....
By the Void!"
And Neo-Exdeath slowly makes the scene...an amalgamation of many different monsters smashed together in a single monstrosity!
Before he arrives, he gives you a chilling message.
"I am Neo-Exdeath!"
"All life...All memories shall disappear!"
"Then I too shall disappear."
"FOREVER!!!"
My fav boss intros are:
*Omega flowey* (undertale): the tension on this boss fight is so great. After you defeated asgore the king of the monsters you start thinking the Game is over then *BAM* flowey kills asgore and gain control of the human souls becoming a giant creature that only wants to kill u for eternity
*The Hollow Knight* (hollow knight): you spend the whole game thinking that you are the Hollow Knight, the guy who will be the hero and will stop the Radiance , but near the end of the Game you find out that's not the case and the Real Hollow knight is infected and will try to kill you
I think it's pretty clear that you're not the hollow knight since you arrive in city of tears lol
My favourite boss intros (Spoilers ahead!):
-Pure Vessel, Nightmare King Grimm and finally Radiance from Hollow Knight
-Nihilanth from Half-Life ("FREEEEEEEEMAAAAAAAAAAAN!")
-Ghetsis' battle intro in Pokemon Black and White
-Zero 2's intro in Kirby Crystal Shards and C.R.O.W.N.E.D. phase of Magolor fight in Kirby Return to Dreamland
-Mordecai the Summoner from Serious Sam Second Encounter
The music builds up so nicely in alot of the boss entrances
You know how to make Necron lore wise horrible? Technically when you choose who to fight with, the others were still down probably agonizing. What if they stayed there and forced you to fight a second round against Necron with those that were left? As in, he's testing the will to live, who says all of your team is up for said test?
Mecha Ridley is doing a Terminator.
There target are both Women..
Their*
Yeah but sarah connor wasnt a badass space warrior and the terminator wasnt a complete pushover
Favourite boss intros? Yeah, there are a lot of them and most of them are the same as the other guys' favourites. But there are actually 2 boss intros that are really interesting for me, in a game called Terraria. It is similar to Minecraft in terms of gameplay, but has lores and more interesting to play imo.
-The first one is one of the two endgame bosses of Terraria: Lunatic Cultist. Simply, you kill 4 cultists that worship a tablet that has the image of a dark god and a mysterious man emerges all in a sudden. He drains the power of that tablet, starts ascending to the sky and does a demented laugh. Brought the chills to my spine the first time I saw it.
- Also, the second one is Moon Lord, the final boss of Terraria. After you beat the Lunatic Cultist, four Lunar Towers emerge in your world and you have to kill them. After killing the final one, you see a message saying *"Impending doom approaches..."* and as time passes, the screen starts to distort into a darker shade of grey. This happens four times. When it happens consecutively, the music ingame starts to lower by itself. After the third distortion, the music stops. And after the 4th one, a white flash appears as Moon Lord appears with a feral scream. Really scary and chilly the first time you see it.
also the unique dialogue from destroying those pillars... some people mentioned fanmade games or mods, so I wanna include the sun boss (forgot it's name :/) from the GaMeTerraria mod. pretty neat and good concept there B)
Lub Lub is... a QR code?
Yakuza 0 kuze's fight in the sewers, holy shit it's soooooo good.
Many of Yakuza 0's boss fights in general have fantastic intros, but Kuze's sewer fight definitely stands out among them
speaking of metroid, the nightmare intro in fusion is really great too!
Balore's fight was one of my favorite boss fights from AoS! That intro was so amazing. You think you have to fight an annoying flying enemy, but the true boss OHKOs the boss you thought you were going to fight! And his eye laser of doom is so awesome, like the world's most dangerous form of jump rope!
Curse of Darkness taught me what is behind that door. It was my favorite fight from that game! Finally beating that thing was a highlight of my youth. I look forward to you going over that boss in whichever game you use for it. That boss is so memorable. You never forget it long after you have left it. Unless you have already done it and I am being a doodle again.
When i fought Balore in his second phase the whole time i was just like "DIE ALREADY!" I didn't even know it was a second phase, I thought it was just another attack at first but then 8 lasers later i began to suspect something wasn't right.
My favorite boss intro in recent memory has to be Hyness from Star Allies. The creepy music, unsettling movements of the hooded figure, and the batshit insane monologue are all amazing at building unease. He stares directly into the camera for the first half of the fight, and once you knock his hood off, BAM! The music kicks into overdrive as his horrifying yet goofy scream shakes the screen. What’s more is he drains the life of his unconscious minions, using their lifeless bodies as weapons. Another of my favorites comes from the same game, in the form Astral Birth: Void’s splash screen. Comparing it to the initial final bosses’ intro and the soul melter intro, something about this last one just stands out (mainly if you are aware of the Kirby lore). That and Void’s death animation still give me goosebumps today.
Did Git ever do that thing with the big thing behind that door?
My honorable mention goes to the final boss in Persona 5. As you progress through the story, you'll move deeper into Mementos where all the Shadows lurk until you reach the very end. There, you find the answer to what you've been doing as you go face-to-face with __________!
Almost every bosses from Final fantasy have good intros. Kefka, Sephirot, Exdeath, Ultimecia and Griever even that damn Octopus.
I really Like the build up to the broodmother in dragon age origins,the NPC telling what happened to the others and finishing with a single word "broodmother" right before the room you fight the thing. I love it.
I personally think Sans out-of-nowhere strength is a great way to show how powerful he is in the first attack alone.
He is strong only because of your Karma
7:52 The only thing better than that intro line is git's response to the intro line
Gasp! I’ve never actually finished sonic adventure. And that final, cheesy sentiment by tails about the emeralds positive and negative power, takes on whole new meaning of you know of the sonic bible. And the original purpose of the emeralds. As the emeralds are pretty much made up of sin and evil from across the world ( which is probably why there’s seven of them in the newer versions ), so the good side of the emerald makes sense, once Chaos absorbs the sin from the emeralds, all they have to draw from is the vastly more powerful good in the world, allowing sonic to reach new heights of his power, with the stronger side of the emeralds in him.
This whole thing kindov reminds me of the Jiinjuriki from naruto. For one, having the good and evil sides of the emeralds ( Naruto and Sora ), and the idea of the emerald shells being more powerful than the spirit that inhabits them.
Sorry for nerding out here, but I found it interesting.
You do know the Sonic Bible was never uses, ever, not even in early American Sonic media
I’m sorry the SONIC BIBLE
Well I got something to call the great king of evil. Got the idea from Mety333, but it still works. The last form is Raging Pork Ganon. Though this is the enraged battle ox version.
I really like the abyss watchers intro from dark souls III
I like that you appreciate necron's boss introduction. It's honestly haunting
If this counts, the cutscene right before the final boss of Spark the Electric Jester starts out in ominous silence, only for Spark to dash up to the final boss perfectly timed with the start of the god-tier final boss theme, and it gets me every single time.
YOU MAN ( or woman) HAVE MAKE ME HAPPY TOO NOW THAT THERES ANOTER FAN IN THIS COMMENT SECTION HOW ATLESS NOW THIS UNDERRATEND GAME! I'M WANT GOD TOO BLESS YOU! (Im sorry if I sound craize but that find some person how play this game and renember is soo reare like see a shiny pokemon of find the pink tail in final fantasy IV)
Yooo makes me think of jedah’s intro from darkstalkers vampire savior
One of my favorite intros is molgera from legend of Zelda wind waker. You're on a giant field of sand and you know something is gonna pop up from it but what? Then the ground starts to shake and the sand begins to rise and then the music starts off low but quickly gets more intense then you hear a loud roar but you can't see what it is. Then it bursts out the sand and it's huge and roaring the whole time as the music reaches it's climax as it dives back into the sand with one final roar and the final notes of the music. Then fight begins...
My favorite boss intro comes from Metroid as well, though Mecha Ridley's is undeniably badass. Nightmare from Fusion is incredibly well-built up, so when you finally see him, the payoff is enormous. Here you are, just trying to collect an energy tank, when you suddenly fall into this empty room. That chilling prelude music plays as the full form of Nightmare rises from the floor, all while making those horrible sounds. It's fitting that the creature called "Nightmare" has the most terrifying entrance in the series. It honestly filled me with dread when I first played. That's the sign of an effective boss intro. Helps that the battle itself is the best in Fusion to boot.
WHAT'S BEYOND THE DOOR
SOON
Beyond the door is the main reason Lement of innocence is an M rated game
Personally I liked Bowser's intro for the final fight in Super Mario 3D World. The cutscene starts with an ominous shot of the Great Tower of Bowser Land before the big guy drops down in front of you. That already looked badass in the dark clouds and the rainy weather, but then the music starts building up as he reveals the Super Bell he kept in hand before placing it on his collar. The piano then goes a bit crazy as he lets out an awesomely evil laugh while a shining light begins to envelope him...and there it is! The music reaches it's climax as the all-new Meowser stands in front of you, showcasing his increased agility as he drops to all fours and backflips away before letting out a chilling roar as lightning strikes to start the battle. It's a simple cutscene, but a very effective way of introducing a powerful new enemy.
Personal honorable mentions :
- Final Bowser (Mario Odyssey)
"Get ready Mario! Here's your happily. Ever. After!" Man, that quote is so badass it sends the good chills down my spine every single time.
- Infinite Rematch 1 (Sonic Forces)
A cool way of starting a fight for such a wasted potential of a character.
- Marx Soul (Kirby Super Star Ultra)
One of the best Soul boss intro cutscenes i've ever seen.
- Shiny Robobowser (Paper Jam)
One of the best Bowser variations that also has one of the best intro cutscenes, for a game that was nothing but a wasted potential.
- Bowser Chaos Robot (Mario Mania)
Bowser will always be badass, no matter the game. Whether it be rom hack or official, Bowser will always be crowned awesomeness royalty.
- Fury Bowser/God Slayer Bowser (Mario 3D World Switch)
The most badass Bowser has ever been
One of my favorite boss buildups is the sa-x fron metriod fusion. From pretty much after the first boss. The introduction to "it" is so tense and letsyou know your not alone and something is hunting you. Later, the computer informs you that at any time, the sa-x may appear and you cant fight it. You have to run if it sees you. 2 of the 3 times he appears, you have to just hide. But in the last one, you are dropped right into the room its in and you have to just run. At the end, before you set the ships orbit to sr388, the sa-x appears and you have to fight. You have the wave beam which can damage it when charged. After all the fear and pain it has put on you. Its time to take revenge.
6:22
GIT YOU SON OF A....
My favourite boss intro is radiance from hollow knight
Mine is the egg robo in generations
In the Final - Bowser's Inside Story
Dialga's Fight to to Finish - Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, Explorers of Sky
Cynthia's Theme - Pokemon Platinum
I gotta hand it to NKG or the Radiance from Hollow knight personally, they both have extremely imposing (and musicless) intros that build suspense as to “what/where am I fighting” and then when the boss actually reveals the self (NKG cutting out of the nightmare heart or the fucking sun sprouting wings) and the full screen intro card kicks in, you know that shit has gotten real
Facts:
You should've had the choice to give Kuja a second chance and help fight Necron alongside you and then, in the end, he cannot return to life because he's already dead, but he's satisfied.
One of my favorites is all of the Four Heavenly Knights from MGQ in chapter 2, they all have good intros before the fight and have great boss fight music
I think Splatoon 2's DLC had my favorite boss build up in recent times. You slowly climb up an eerie, underground tower, whose rooms and sections bear weird, unusual names (for a world made of anthropomorphic sea creatures). The levels tend to look more like an actual facility instead of just platforming setpieces, and you also have a showdown with Splatoon 1's hero, possessed by a weird foe.
And when you're out, finally no more underground, and think everything is over, finally meeting the people who helped you through your quest through phonecalls and whatnot, the tower's head arises from the waves: it's a human head?! But humans were extinct in this world! It was so eerie, because humans are completely gone from Splatoon's world and you never, ever see them properly, but also because the head clearly was modelled after a greek statue, which represent a godly, yet human perfection. And the rest of the tower's rooms? Those were none other than the statue's body parts.
You find out the villain behind all of it, controlling the statue, was a super intelligent AI set to revive the human race, who now wants to wipe out the new life on earth because it deems it worthless and imperfect. The main character and their friends decide to plan out an all out attack on it (complete with Splatoon humor), to stop its dreams of annhilation.
I was really left surprised by that scene. First party Nintendo knows how to make cool boss intros. In general, for being a simple DLC side story, Octo Expansion was full of callbacks and symbolism to pretty crazy stuff you don't see in kids' games.
I also love Yaldabaoth's from P5, he could have been in this video easily
Edit: Same for Undyne the Undying from the genocide route of Undertale
Fun Fact: FFXIV's Shadowbringers expansion has the same intro text trick as Ocarina of Time.
HAL even gets in on the action a little as well in Kirby Star Allies, even if it does happen to be a little bit late, but it's better than never.
On the theme of cool boss intros, ultrakill has a few of them. But i'd rather have YOU play it than tell it myself
6:23 *Internal screaming*
But seriously, it brought to mind another set of stairs in Castevania's Curse of Darkness. In Garibaldi Temple, there's a set of stairs that go down and everything is normal for a while as you descend. Then suddenly you're surrounded by fleshy walls and floating embryos that attempt to suck the life from you. At the bottom is a boss door, and let me tell you: behind that door is one epic, nightmare inducing boss...
Ah yes, The Forgotten One. The reason that Lament of Innocence earned its M rating. It's well deserved honestly. The blood and gore from that boss with the maggots eating him at the same time as he regenerates use to send shivers as I saw him. He left a bigger impression on me than The Forgotten One from Lord's of Shadow.
Great video; pretty much everything is spot-on, and I agree with it all. Really can't put it better myself.
Y'know, revolving around the boss descriptions that whoisthisgit talked about for TLOZ, I feel that Risk of Rain 2 does a great job of that.
God I love the end of a “Final Boss Battle” in every Final Fantasy game.
They arrive flamboyant and terrifying and when then leave, they slowly sometimes crumble away in pieces or explode very loud to the point to where the entirety of the universe feels their demise and we are left with so many feelings.
That’s how you end a game, in my opinion.
I still enjoy the build-up to the final boss of Radiata Stories on the PS2. The trek through the desert with Scarlet Winds playing in the background instills a somber tone along side the narrative as the player makes their way to the End of the World, which, while I won't spoil anything, is still to this day my favourite final dungeon visually and musically speaking (the use of the pipe organ in the tracks Labyrinth of Fortune and Cataract of Maelstrom and Consciousness served the atmosphere brilliantly). Honestly, I'm surprised you've yet to talk about Radiata Stories; I think you'd probably enjoyed it if you hadn't already played it.
Not my all time favorite, but the giant boss in Contra 3: The Alien Wars that rips open the big metal gates and sticks it's head out was always very memorable for me. Couple other notable ones: Gilgamesh from Final Fantasy, Luca Blight from Suikoden II, and Sinistar from the arcade game of the same name.
The Metal Gear series has some legendary boss intros. Though some find them rather wordy for two trained soldiers about to fight to the death, I like how much detail they give you on the character and what their abilities are all about. The only one who doesn't have one is Sniper Wolf, who unceremoniously shoots Meryl and just waits silently for you to expose yourself trying to save her.
I really like how the music sets up Blizzeta in LoZ: Twilight Princess, starting in wind-up toy/nursery rhyme tones, growing more sinister as Yeta is corrupted by the mirror before dropping a scare chord at the reveal and proceeding into rising eerie gospel chorus, followed by what more than one commenter has described as 'Christmas in Hell' for the actual boss.
I also don't like Necron much, but lots of other FF bosses have great intros- who can forget Safer/Seraph Sephiroth?
If you want to talk about boss entrance, don't forget Kefka from FF6. After the first 3 phases, Kefka floats down from the holy heaven in god-form while laughing manically, with Dancing Mad as BGM.