Top Ten Longest Bosses
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
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Fun fact about the Jubileus fight: when you punch out her soul, you control it as it flies into the sun…and hitting a planet instead of the sun counts as a death.
A death for the player, or a death for Jubileus?
@@Narrator007 The player
@@Big-Image oh so the game is like: "lol, you hit Mercury instead of the Sun? Have fun trying to get to this point again sucker!"
@@black97_0 It sends you back to the checkpoint, and that is the flying jubileus section. Josh got it wrong when he said that dying makes you start all over again from the beginning
I remember doing that and I was so close and I was not happy about it
The idea that Square showed off their “correct” way to defeat Absolute Virtue in an official video, and then patched that method out, REALLY rubs me the wrong way.
Yes. 😒
Frankly, that was pretty dumb of Square.
@@rorbot_SMFAnd then it was patched out…
@@rorbot_SMFand extremely dick headed
Even with their star franchises, Square STILL doesn't have a clue what the f@ck they're doing! 😫
So the boss at #14 has the balls to play the "Diplomatic Immunity" card, and you're not even allowed to just shoot him and say "Consider it revoked"?
He's smart unlike in Lethal Weapon
Diplomat Immunity does not work when actively committing a crime
"this really will be the final testimony"
Edgeworth is a prosecutor, not a rogue cop; he plays by the rules. Even his buddy Gumshoe would probably never kill anyone. Does he even carry a gun?
Also killing Tree Man would probably ignite a war between Allebahst and Babahl so...
@@WhiteFangofWar
Besides, Tree Man probably gets life or the death penalty
@@christiandauz3742 Hopefully. If Allebahst/Babahl's justice system is anything like the US' then...
I love how the final entry on the list itself has multiple forms, much like how a lot of the bosses on this list have multiple forms
It made me laugh, thinking, "oh, funny, the #1 long boss is oddly short" and then getting slapped by the updated version and the true longest boss(es) get revealed.
Very good observation! I wrote the entry and that never occurred to me. I just think fakeouts are funny
Watching it live, that didn’t click with me until after it ended. Very clever, indeed.
@@blackliquidsorrow8249 I know the horror of all 3 of them. The vanilla version of Yizmat, Absolute Virtue and pandamonium warden. I shit you not a guild I had in 11 took down both Warden and Virtue literally by running the fight in shifts. Parties would fight for 4 hours, then swap out and rinse lather repeat. If you could come in for extra time or put in extra time you were fine to do so as anything to drop the boss faster worked. However doing this was a nightmare of planning and was not liked by the Devs either.
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Calling it now: Yiazmat from Final Fantasy XII is going to be somewhere near the top.
Edit: Well damn, at least people might cut XII a little more slack now.
"Over 6,000 hits"
-Rabbidluigi
What about Absolute Virtue from Final Fantasy XI?
NOBODY SAID THERED BE MATH
Absolute Virtue: "Well, yes, but actually no."
Absolute Virtue and Pandemonium Warden: NO.
I was there at the start of Absolute Virtue. On the front lines. Before he got nerfed. I cannot begin to explain what a nightmare he was. To this day the thought of fighting it in that state again is my personal definition of Hell. I am eternally grateful to our lord and saviour Yoshi P that FFXIV doesn't have any of that nonsense.
How long does it take to beat him nowadays?
@@MacNava Due to the nerfs the boss received, as well as the continuous power scaling the game went through after AV's release making players stronger and giving them access to more abilities and systems - not very long at all. Found a vid from four years ago showing someone soloing AV in under 10 minutes (ua-cam.com/video/Xcz5hVp0nso/v-deo.html). The 18 hour kills were only the case right after the boss was launched in the game.
I sometimes feel like im the only living being alive that knows how to cheese Dark Mind's true form battle. Yes you can damage him through the eye....But during his true form battle, His MIRRORS are actually a weak spot as well, and unlike his eye which closes and becomes invunerable for a second after one hit, making combo attacks impossible...his mirrors dont get the same luxury and can be comboed to oblivion. In fact if you do enough damage to a single mirror, his entire attack gets cancelled as the mirror gets shattered, splitting apart into damaging shards before reforming and flying away. And with the Master sword being the ultimate weapon in the game, its easy enough to tear through his mirrors depending on the attacks he does.
wait those damage him? I thought they merely were enemies of their own?
It does seem pretty obvious that hitting the mirrors would hurt Dark Mind, considering that he's basically made of the things.
I thought the mirrors were an ATTACK, not a weak point. Wow, I may have to try that.
Even then, that would likely be counted as an “easter egg” to the actual fight.
Wow, I had no idea! Thank you for the info!
Yeah I never knew that myself and I was just rewatching the Runaway Guys playing Kirby and the Amazing Mirror lol
The moment I clicked this list I guessed what number 1 would be based on your rant in Top Annoying Bosses... I was right for about 3 minutes.
Holy crap I thought Yzmat would be number 1, but Absolute Virtue and Pandemonium Warden overtaking it by a ton of hours is just... wow.
Also, given the Fairly Oddparents references, I'm surprised near the end you didn't include a Spongebob reference where Squidward shouts "18 HOURS?!" from the Jellyfish Jam episode.
38:43
There it is, the elusive Joshcorcher praise for Okami
My personal honorable mention for this list is the final boss of Yakuza 5. He has 9 health bars, which is more than double that of any other non-optional boss in the series. The world record speedrun, which is played on Easy difficulty, does this fight in about 7 minutes. That doesn't sound like much, but keep in mind that Easy difficulty increases the damage the player deals by a good amount, the speedrun uses difficult strategies that most players won't know about or be able to do consistently, and Yakuza is an action brawler. Most bosses on Normal take around 5 minutes, this boss done perfectly on Easy takes 7 minutes from first input to last input. In my first playthrough the fight took me about 15 minutes, and that was on Normal. On Hard this boss could take upward of 20 minutes, and death means restarting from the beginning. There's also Legend difficulty, which is harder than Hard, and death sends you back to your last manual save. No checkpoints or just restarting from the beginning. Even with no deaths this boss on Legend is probably a half hour, IN AN ACTION GAME. Thank goodness the fight is fantastic and has amazing music, or else this would be miserable. (The song is called "Battle for the Dream" by the way, go listen to it I implore you it's phenomenal please the Yakuza soundtracks need more recognition)
Sounds like the battle for his dream is A NIGHTMARE ...
@@ramsey276 I wouldn't say THAT... it's not a bad or frustrating fight. It's as challenging as a final boss should be and super fun and cinematically awesome, just takes forever cause there's like 4 or 5 different phases (during one of which he heals himself multiple times) and in between each of those phases is a mini cutscene QTE segment. Still a badass fight.
Oh, and he has a QTE right at the end that, if you miss it, will Kill-ryu (Ha) instantly.
@@ethanedwards3357 Oh right, and that QTE has like a 1/3rd of a second window on Legend, so yeah it's kinda messed up
40:37 "camage dap." So exhausted from long bosses that his mind's gone.
For real, though. I don't blame you, Josh. Lord, it genuinely takes a ton of commitment to make a LONG video about LONG bosses.
You should do a countdown of video games that physically hurt players. I think your #1 pick would definitely count for that.
BTW, when I say physically hurt, I mean in single sessions, where the game pressures players into actions that actively their bodies, whether it's using their palm to spin the joystick, or playing nonstop for hours.
@z3eqm I think the one I was thinking of at the time was World of Warcraft. I don't remember the details, though.
"Julius' dodge rate makes me think Piccolo trained him!"
Huzzah! A man of Abridged
Nice to see Nyx Avatar. I know there might be some who doesn't really like that boss for its lenght, but it's one of my favourite bosses. Love the buildup to that boss, love the symbolism, some quotes and music. Sure it was long, but I appreciated the challenge it has and how satisfying the boss was.
43:21 the last call was about Adamantoise from final fantasy 15 wasn’t it? For those curious it takes 72 hours to beat Adamantoise, that’s right folks it takes *3 WHOLE ACTUAL DAYS TO BEAT THE FRICKING THING* !!!!!
Keep in mind, we're talking about the most optimized way to beat a boss. People have beaten Adamantoise in less than an hour. Long, yes but still nothing compared to the guys from XI
That was stated before the game's release. It is now even easier to beat with it now being vulnerable to the Ring of the Lucii as of version 1.13.
@@ultracross9405 yeah but if you didn’t have the ring you’re gonna have to fight it in 3 days
@@Exile19941 It doesn't take that long actually. If anything, it would be 3 days for in-game time (which, granted, would be about an hour and a half).
I'm pretty sure optimal strategy for this fight Is Instakill like Death and Alterna.
I remember playing an old, really obscure game called Totem Tribe when I was young. While it had a lot of interesting bits, the part I always remembered was the final boss, the Master of The Meteor. Not only was it incredibly difficult, but it was very long too, taking me over an hour to beat in one attempt alone.
Irony is that Yiazmat can take longer considering you can attempt to leave the area and come back to it later. Doing so runs the risk of it healing itself.
The moment I saw the thumbnail, I knew FF11 would be the number 1 spot xP
Never played it myself, but I have heard the horror stories.
Seeing Lost Odyssey finally get mentioned made me smile. That game is such a hidden gem and it always bothered me how so few people seem to even know it exists or that it's such a good game. It's still, to this day, one of my all-time favorite RPGs. And I'm an RPG nut to begin with!
my god, even the #1 segment had multiple phases... great video as always! (also love the friendlocke reference)
Reminds me of the time I smacked DeMasque II with the Primidux statue.
Some of the longest boss Battles I've fought include;
1. Case 6 (Danganronpa V3) Took me over 4-6 hours to beat. And roughly half of that case was nothing but exposition and the game's big reveal. Not to mention, but I played that case on the Switch, and right up to the part where we see hundreds of viewers, the game began to lag like crazy, making it feel longer.
2. Volo (Pokemon Legends Arceus) Not only does he have 6 Pokemon that're tough to beat, many of them are based on Cynthia's Pokemon, but in addition, he later has access to Giratina. Both forms I might add. Meaning Volo had access to 8 Pokemon at his disposal.
3. Darios (Fire Emblem Warriors) This fight is two chapters long. The first chapter has you reaching him first. Not to mention, when you do reach him, you need to disable the dragon statues that are launching dark energy blasts at you. After defeating Darios, you then need to go to the next chapter, of which you then have to retreat, disable the dark orbs that are empowering Darios, which there are three of them, go back take out his health, and then when you do, his health will replenish, meaning you have to fight Darios three times in order to beat him.
Volo, really? He was difficult for sure but I feel like overall length he was about on par with a regular champion
@@BJGvideos Did any of the champions have a 7th Pokemon at the disposal, of which that 7th Pokemon need to be taken out twice? Plus, in Legends Arceus, it was very rare to find Pokemon Trainers. With the exception of 3 or 4 of them, most of them had about 2 or 3 Pokemon at their disposal, making them short battles.
@@OmnicidalClown1992 Well yeah, longest in the specific game. But it didn't strike me as being especially long for a top level battle in the franchise
You know you're one hella tough boss fight when you can hurt even someone from the real world
Josh: *says Turnabout Ablaze is one of the longest cases in AA history*
Turnabout Revolution: Hold my grape juice and sake.
Well this should be interesting. Can’t think of too many bosses these days that drag out too long for me unless I just die repeatedly but that’s a different scenario altogether. Suppose the only one that comes to mind is star dream from Kirby Planet Robobot since you can’t use copy abilities to make it go faster.
The longest amount of time I ever recall facing a boss in a single sitting was about 3 hours against Angra Mainyu in FFX-2 when I was really young. I just hadn’t yet discovered the brokenness that was cat-nip + gunner.
I did not expect to see dark mind on this list, I really enjoyed that fight and there is a way to deal a nice bit of damage to him in his fifth phase, if you attack the mirrors he summons and shatter them he taken a decent amount of damage, though be careful as they shatter into four cutters that can hurt you.
If anything I was expecting the final fight against kamek from paper mario sticker bowser's castle to be on this list for how lucky you need to be to beat it and how all of your most powerful stickers are turned into flip flops that do one damage per hit, and don't even get me started on how he has clones you have to beat all at the same time to beat him.
So happy to see some Fire Emblem 4 representation, can't wait for it to get the remake treatment!
I remember the first time I played Super Mario RPG, and I though all of the bosses took forever. Turned out I was just bad at RPGs. To this day though, I think Smithy is one of the longest boss fights I've ever experienced. 2000 HP for his first form, 8000 for his second, and I'm almost always on defense the whole way.
One honorable mention for me would probably be Andross from Star Fox Adventures. It takes a while before you can even damage him, and your window of opportunity is pretty small. Not to mention your target is pretty darn fast.
The best summary of Quercus Alba is best said by JelloApocalypse: "You're the killer, just admit it."
You know seeing investigations on this list makes me happy cause the investigation 1 can is quite underrated
And Alba is a literal royal pain to take down
Love that Can't Defeat Airman instrumental in the background of that Alba in a nutshell clip.
Honestly I wasn't expecting you to know about Absolute Virtue. I remembered it from the horror stories of my friends (I just played FFXI much more casually) but I didn't think it would be on the list.
I honestly thought South Park and Family Guy's parodies of MMOs were a gross exaggeration until I found out about FF11s superbosses, some companies must truly believe their customers have no life outside videogames... :/
Also, I think there should be a standard for bosses THAT long and/or with THAT many stages to have CHECKPOINTS
agreed.
Funny thing about the transition using a clip of Shadow Okumura...there is a way to beat him extremly quickly:
Before you fight him, turn the difficulty of the game UP to Mercliess, the hardest difficulty in the game.
This is because in Merciless mode, while all damage you take hits the roof, at the same time so does your damage The end result quickly goes from a long slug fest through his army of robots into a blow through strategy where you cleave through them like paper, and other than the occasional smart time to guard in later phases it quickly becomes very manageable
19:45 If I'm not mistaken, Dark Mind also takes damage if you attack his mirrors. Nowhere in the game does it tell you that, so it's likely no surprise if you spend more than a few minutes on this phase.
23:11 There is a trinket added in the Repentance DLC (Strange Key) that bypasses this hurdle, but much like the Chaos Card, it is very much luck-based if you stumble upon this.
28:37 As soon as I saw that crown, I knew who this boss is. (DK64 fans rise up)
And Strange Key has a better use as the key to Pandora's Box item anyway
I noticed the clip from SFIV to talk about super armour.
I HEARD Max's scream in my head.
I know those games aren’t everyone’s thing, but I think Kaos from Skylanders Trap Team should have had some mention. Insanely High HP, not open for attack all the time, deals tons of damage and be able to regenerate health. Oh, and did I mention that Nightmare Mode also is an available difficulty?
I'm glad someone mentioned Greevil's boss fight. I've yet to fight a final boss in pokemon that's even remotely that hard
I swear the Dustflier fight (358/2 Days) feels longer than the entire final boss fight against Ansem in KH1, even factoring in the unskippable cutscenes. But that's probably because you have to go through a boss rush to get to Dustflier, and you have to redo it every time you lose to it.
You don't get to complain about Dustflier when Leechgrave and the RULER OF THE FUCKING SKY exist.
@@jarahknuckey9064 Oh, make no mistake: those two suck too, but Dustflier is worse than both and nothing will convince me otherwise.
The great thing about Julius is how powerful he is as a free unit in Fire Emblem Heroes lol
Julius is my favorite fire emblem villain.
Great video, and now I wonder how a shorted bosses list would look like
25:45 and there’s one other thing to keep in to consideration.
You only have control of your character, The other characters of your team are AI based.
In later installments they gave you the ability to change the settings so you can issue commands as all of the characters, but in three you don’t get that luxury.
P3P lets you control them
@@Lego3400 I had bought P3 from the PlayStation store because I wanted to play
“ The answer”
Unfortunately that didn’t pan out so well because apparently it doesn’t let you carry over anything from the game into the postgame segment
Meaning all of the characters are back to level 1.
Finally DK64 gets some love. I happen to love this boss battle, but I am surprised you didn't mention the TIME LIMIT. For me that was worse then ANY challenge. Oh, KH wise I would have taken Xemnas from KH2 because that took me longer and KH2 didn't originally have any skippable cut scenes either.
Nah, KH2 cutscenes ARE skippable. I've played that game on PS2 like a dozen times; I KNOW
I’ll never forget the feeling of beating Ansem on the ps2 the first time. I didn’t even play the game right, ie using aeroga to its full potential, and I was always intimidated by the absolute tank he was. That said, first fighting against him alone, then freeing Donald and goofy while wrecking his battleship, was freaking awesome!
Long boss fights require a long video, fitting, loved every minute!
One boss that can take a while is Death school Malistaire the Undying in Wizard101. As the final boss of the world Azteca and at the end of the final dungeon (the comet Xibalba, on which you fight 3 other bosses before him) he's immune to all damage and can only be defeated once all 3 of his minions are dead (fight auto ends afterwards) while he himself can still attack you with drains and dots and debuff you with Virulent Plague (-45% next damage spell to all enemies), Mass Infection (-65% next healing spell to all enemies) and the universal traps Curse (+25%) and Feint (+75% foe +25% self).
His minions include a Grim Calaca (Ice elite 3870 hp) who can stun and dot you (and remove your pips with Lord of Winter) and shield its allies (Ice has low damage but high health & utility like shields and stuns), Xipe Flayed One (Storm boss 17200 hp) who hits hard (Storm has the highest base damage & lowest accuracy of all schools), can remove your blades & reduce your accuracy and Youala Night Drinker (Ice boss 18800 hp) who has the same spell list as Grim Calaca minus Freeze (single target 1 rnd stun). Both Mali & his minions also start with 6 pips/power pips (3 for Grim Calaca) so they can use their more powerful spells right off the bat (power pips count as 2 pips for your schools spells).
One saving grace is that he has no cheats so it's just a relatively straightforward fight & that all 4 can be stunned & beguiled (target helps you for 1 rnd) (most bosses are immune to both) but it can still take a while due the high health pool & damage/debuff output of all 4.
I did the math. Assuming all of your attacks do 9999 HP, meaning you MUST use nothing but Dark magic, and factoring in the 30% health shield at half health, the original Yiezmat fight must be attacked a minimum of 6074 times.
If some brave hero wants to do the math for Absolute Virtue and Pandemonium Warden, proceed at your own peril.
NOBODY SAID THERE'D BE MATH!!!!
(Gunshot) *NO.*
…that’s a reference to the quarter guy. From top 15 Netnavis. With Green Scorpion.
Took a while for me to talk about the rest of the list... how fitting.
8: Even the tragedy that was Repentance didn't have this stubborn a boss. One that somehow reminds me of Elden Ring's Scarlet Rot, a poison that is as strong as you are. Oh, by the way, Repentance is great too in my opinion, but I just meant tragedy like "GOD that ending was depressing."
7: Never mind the self-sacrifice the Protag did, he probably died of exhaustion.
6: Even by raid boss standards, yikes! Wait till we get to 1 though.
5: Outside of Punch Out, I've not played a final boss that's also a pseudo boxing match before.
4: Fitting that he is Xehanort's Shadow. Even Ganon wasn't this hard to kill.
3: You could probably finish all of 3 Houses' final stages before you finish this final stage!
2: Say what you will about Death Stranding; Kojima's design choices are quite genius even now. But the End was one of the best.
1: Just... why, SquareEnix? Ever wonder why Hironobu left? His first game post SE was only at the start of the list. How ironic. And like one lovely commenter mentioned, it is kinda fitting that the number one segment had multiple phases to it, and was about a Final Fantasy boss.
Ka-BOOOOOOOOOOMM!!
Another honorable mention I would say is Metal Madness/Metal Overload from Sonic Heroes. A total of 4 phases each of them can last a long time due to having to wait until being able to hit Metal Sonic (meaning you can't just quickly damage him since he blocks his weakspot at times). That happens for the Metal Madness fights but then there is Metal Overlord itself where you only can hit him with Team Blasts meaning you have to wait till you build up the gauge in order to hit him. And since you're in your super state you have to watch your ring count so you won't end up dying meaning wasting more time to keep it refilled while dodging his absurd amount to attacks. Oh, and losing to Metal Overload meaning you HAVE to start back from the first stage of Metal Madness. It's a fight that can easily take over an hour if you mess up
#15 - Thanks for the heads up; if I ever get to that boss.
#13 - Once again, thanks for the heads up; not to mention unshadowing Lugia is gonna be a pain in the ass.
#10 - Funny enough because this one wasn't part of the collection, I refused to buy the HD remake.
#5 - I seriously need to get back to this game someday.
#4 - The only way you're surviving that drinking game is if you're Scottish or Irish.
HM - Legend of Dragoon - Melbu Frahma and Faust - Don't prep properly and these two can take forever; worst part game gives you seven characters and you can only use three.
Dark Mind has a second weakpoint with his mirrors. You have be careful though, because when one is destroyed, it can hurt you.
riddley:guys I can explain
ganon:nintendo gives you multyple excuses to justify how you keep coming back from the dead while I am just a reincarnation of myself
bowser:reincarnation of yourself?it is never explained how do I keep coming back from the dead.
king k.rool:you guys die in the of your games?
Before watching, I can think of one boss from Final Fantasy XII that should be on this list, so long as optional bosses count. I can't remember it's name because I never fought it, but the reason I didn't is it's reputation for being an absolute slog to get through.
Edit: Wow, turned on out to be number one. If you don't count Absolute Virtue, or Pandemonium Warden. Which I kinda don't because it legitimately sounds like they were created to spite players.
For me, from the Yakuza series, I'd put either 5's final boss where between his many phases you have to chase him throughout the Tojo Clan's base manually & dealing with some QTEs that could damage you (overall an epic fight to climax the story) or one of the Amon fights. The Amon clan for those unfamiliar, is the asssassin clan that acts as the superboss in every game as your reward for clearing all the sidequests (or 2 specific ones for some reason in 6's case) or in 7's case, a post-game dungeon (7 switched from brawler to turn based RPG).
Now I myself have only fought, not beat, fought a handful of them (5, 6 [the only one I've beaten], & both of the Judgement games) but out of those ones, they all share a gimmick of only being able to use a given Heat/EX move on them once (any future times make that Heat do jack shit in damage while wasting meter). As for longest, I'd have to give that to 5's just on the virtue that Yakuzas 4 & 5 share the gimmick of FOUR PLAYABLE CHARACTERS.
Now while 0, which also had Majima playable, also had an Amon for each character, they are completely separate boss fights as each side of the game's superboss. Yakuza 5? EACH ONE IS A PHASE IN BACK TO BACK FIGHTS! Better hope you're good with each playable character & have your healing items stocked up. Because you'll need it. One phase you're playing as the resident ex-baseball star who specializes in weapons (to the point where you always have some unbreakable ones in your inventory with him), the next you're the heavy hitter with super armor dealing with an Amon who can make SHADOW CLONES THAT BUM RUSH YOU! Honestly the only reason I don't consider 4's final segment on the Millennium Tower with all the cutscenes for this is because those are each character having their own climax at the same time that aside from the shared motive item, have nothing to really do with each other making it moreso 4 separate final bosses in a row.
I have the original Kingdom Hearts on PS2, and the cutscene issue isn't that bad. I've lost to battleship Ansem segments before, and each segment is a checkpoint
The handsome sorcerer from borderlands 2 tiny Tina assault on dragon keep. Dude has like 3 phases but every phase feels like an eternity until you complete it. For his first phase he uses basic spells,second he uses electricity that take a chunk of your health if you don’t have a higher level, and the last phase has him use fire and summon flocks of rakks to swoop and make the fight worse
Here's one you didn't cover, the true final boss of Devil Survivor 2 Record Breaker. It's basically three boss fights one after the other and if you're not minmaxed or overleveled can very easily kill your teams.
Shoutouts to Safi'Jiiva from Monster Hunter World. While most hunts can range from like 20-30 minutes, Safi is a... weird case.
See, safi's gimmick is that his arena is filled with Bioenergy that he can absorb at certain HP thresholds to heal himself. So while he only has a measly 20k HP, it comes up to be far, FAR more than that on average.
So instead, you have to whittle away at him over the course of multiple fights, breaking parts while dealing as much DPS as possible to drain the energy of each of the 3 arenas he goes to.
This, especially in a Solo run, can take literal HOURS to complete properly, since the energy drains so slowly that you could break every part possible and end up with no energy removed.
Mix this with his AI being some of the most erratic in the entire game, being able to attack at Rajang speeds despite being the size of a large yacht, and he's definitely a force to be reckoned with.
Honorable Mentions:
*Mogeanar - Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
-A damage sponge if there ever was.
*Jergingha - The Wonderful 101
-A multi-phase boss fight that keeps upping the anti with each phase
*Shadow Okumura - Persona 5
-This is easily the worst boss in the game.
One, the bosses' design is just really lazy! Its pretty much the same standard Shadow Okumura, but adding a floating throne. I would've expected something like a mech suit, a spaceship, or even an alien monster, but no, we get a guy in a chair.
Two, the "battle" is just an enemy rush and not even a fun one. Even if you clear out a swathe to try to damage Okumura, he'll immediately spawn a fresh set EVEN WHEN IT ISN'T HIS TURN! Heck, Okumura NEVER DIRECTLY ATTACKS YOU! All he does is apply debuffs and self-destruct orders to his robots.
Three, as if THAT wasn't bad enough, there's a time limit! You have 30 minutes to defeat him but the problem is that the timer DOESN'T pause during the intermission dialogue. Meaning you gotta work fast!
YOU MADE A BOSS FIGHT SOMEHOW BOTH BORING AND STRESSFUL JUST- HOW DO YOU EVEN DO THAT?!!!
*Terramorphus The Invincible - Borderlands 2
-This guy has so much health that he takes so long to beat! And he's easily the hardest boss in the game!
*Iblis Phase 2 - Sonic The Hedgehog (2006)
-This is my least favorite boss in the entire Sonic Series. You need to cross a series of stalactite platforms so you can hit a glowing orb that lures Iblis over, once he's in range, hit him with a homing attack. That's generally how to damage him, the problem is that the platforms appear in segments and they take FOREVER to appear! The only appear when Iblis does a little dance which shakes down more stalactites from the ceiling. He barely ever attacks you, only occasionally dive bombing your platforms to try to break them. It just goes on for what feels like forever! And if you mess up a jump and fall in the lava, big surprise, YOU GOTTA START OVER. Oh, and since he appears in both Sonic's AND Shadow's story, YOU HAVE TO FIGHT HIM AGAIN!!! I hated this boss SO much as a kid, and I was stuck for WEEKS trying to kill this stupid worm!
Baldur and The End share a voice actor, who also voiced Crypto in Destroy All Humans ! Talk about range.
My personal pick for longest boss is the Planade-G from Blaster Master Zero 2, mainly because the only way to damage it it with the Gaia system, but that only works when it’s eyes are open, so it’s a war of attrition to drain the bosses health while dealing the bombardment of Mutants.
A longest boss video with a twist ending
Jergingha from The Wonderful 101 is another boss that can easily take 30 minutes to beat.
I fought The End boss fight honestly, and if I remember correctly because of bad decisions and luck it took me 3-days IRL. It was still satisfying overall and at the though.
43:22 I love how he just yeets his phone into oblivion 😂
Just discovered your channel and I love it. You instantly earned a sub when I seen how many different games you play and your different top videos. I think it's really cool to see such variety especially in this video great work.
I'm pretty surprised King K. Rool's fight made it on the list. When i made that suggestion on Twitter it was the only boss i could think of in terms of bosses from non-rpg bosses. Still though I'm glad this boss is getting attention though. Personally i don't think that this boss is bad. I actually enjoy it.
Hold on. Hold everything, Joe Jutsu. I don't think any fight with a time limit, which makes the battle shorter by nature, can really count in the same way. Do-overs definitely don't count, since it's a battle to win the 'right' way.
That said, I'm a friend of the Persona games. It COULD take an hour to fight the Nyx Avatar, but mostly I would say no. Because apart from the Armageddon fusion, there is one other thing you can do. You take your 'I Win' button and you wander the Tartarus basement to your heart's content until your friends are max-level. Since you can destroy even the Reaper this way, it's quite easy, but even if you didn't have Armageddon (Yet) OR Victory Cry (Like I did) to replenish your SP after every battle won, you can still conquer the basement. All you have to do is fight and go back to the ground floor. Your SP is rejuvenated immediately, so you have effectively infinite SP for training purposes. Now, alot of this is just my own strats to make things go faster, but anyone can reach max level with enough patience, anyone can access Armageddon if they fuse Satan and Lucifer, and anyone can use that to power through the final boss. It's still long, but you can cut it down significantly.
Anyway, I would like to enter my own Dishonorable Mentiona here. You already referenced the longest Final Fantasy bosses in history, but there are others who are too long by half, and two of my mentions are from the same hateful game, Final Fantasy 8. First, if you know this game, you know it has the most counter-intuitive system in an RPG world. Leveling does not help you because every creature and every boss moves up with your levels no matter what you do, and that the only way to eek out an edge is to junction things to yourself for power, like all the spells you take a hundred hours to draw and all the summon creatures you look forever to find. These make your stats, better weapons take forever to build, and the less mentioned about the terrible card game, the better. Put that aside and join me at the end of this hackneyed plotline in the final dungeon.
The Sorceress Ultimecia is somewhere in yonder castle, and she has about a dozen guardians whose existence will be sealing your junctioned abilities, like the simple act of using items. In short, your ability to survive at all through the coming battle depends on you, at minimum, defeating enough bosses to get the abilities you want to fight the final boss, and anything that stands in your way to get to her. BUT WAIT! What's this? A new challenger has arrived. Strictly here for the bragging rights (No, seriously. That's your prize.), there is Omega Weapon. If you fought Ultima Weapon to get one of your other summons, you know this is going to be bad. Omega has several instant kill-you moves, both in the Death status category and in the Way Too Much Damage category. And because he is a Weapon creature built specifically to outpace ALL other Weapons in existence, he has way too much HP. Take all the difficulties to get the *capabilities* to properly fight him, and prepare for a slog. Even if you cheese it with the items that promise *total invincibility,* this is going to take a while, and you're going to see Terra Break shoot up reality alot.
Now, that's Omega, and that's one stage with lots of HP. Ultimecia has FOUR stages of Way Too Much HP in her battle in an effort to try and one-up Sephiroth just because, AND there are annoying cutscenes. You start with the sorceress herself, casting the most powerful of spells, and of course because she didn't have to DRAW any of her magic, her stats don't take a hit every time she casts one. (Your fighting ability WILL CHANGE as you progress through battles.) Then, she brings out her own summon creature, Griever, who will interrupt everything during his big cut scene attack that you can't shorten, unlike your own. Then, when both the sorceress AND her pet should be exhausted or dead, she decides to junction the monster to herself, to become a chimeric abomination that - by all rights - shouldn't even have any juice left. And after THAT falls apart (Literally), there is still the final (faceless) form of Ultimecia that she gets because...I dunno. Time? It's the 'Time to destroy all existence' form that was done alot cooler in Final Fantasy 5. And THAT is when it's finally over. The game itself is very irritating and this is one of the worst dungeons and final bosses I've ever had to face, if not THE worst.
Of course, I also mentioned that two OF my mentions were from the same game. I'm honestly surprised that Yunalesca wasn't mentioned here. She is a real pain. Cut past the grinding for abilities that I did after the first failure, and going literally back for alot of other things just to take care of alot of other things and really amp up my team, and the fight is STILL stupid long. It has, of course, the Effing Long Cutscene that everyone hates along with the Blitzball one that everyone hates. (Seventy-two times! Seventy-two times before I beat those guys, and to hell with ALL of them!) One oft-repeated cutscene, and then it's off to fight with Yunalesca's spellcasting segment, followed closely by her maddeningly hateful 'I am now part undead snake' second form, and then of course everybody's favotire-but-not-really portion, the Meduda Head form where the only way to not instantly die is to have someone be a zombie. I hated it. I hated it all. I hate it all, and so did everybody else. Probably should've been mentioned here, as well, so that's what I'm doing.
18 hours for the lengthiest boss fight ever that could of been trivialized under that amount if the dev's weren't stubborn.
I’m curious if Josh will ever make an analysis on Arvis from FE: Genealogy. Like seriously, Arvis is just as bad as Edelgard for trusting an evil underground group.
Edelgard is literally just female Arvis that you can choose to side with. The inspiration is very obvious. But even then Edelgard's situation is more understandable as she was tortured as a kid, is slowly dying, and the Agarthians that she sided with we still don't know a lot of the lore on and they may not even be connected to the group that experimented on Edelgard's family and Lysithia. The Argathians are a lot more mysterious and ambiguous, while the lopto sect from FE4 were evil cultists who sacrificed children and worshiped the literal god of evil. Not defending Edelgard as she's clearly a morally grey antagonist like Arvis, (who's only flaw was siding with the Lopto sect who would double cross him and screw over everyone) but the Agarthians are clearly more morally mysterious than the Lopto sect as the agarthian's lore is still very mysterious and unknown. We don't know their true motivations for anything and we don't know what really happened 1000 years ago and older since our only source is Rhea who is unreliable and only tells us the truth when she's on her deathbed and even then it's still very vague as Rhea doesn't know everything about what happened.
9:06 "good guy with squinty eyes persona"
Greevil literally has "EVIL" IN HIS NAME
no one realizes my rage, i made a vow early in my time (specifically around 9 years old) to only play games on hard mode or higher, i was fighting ansem since then on and off, im 19 now, beat him, watched the credits, then the cutscene foreshadowing the chain/rechain of memories game froze
For anyone who never played Ace Attorney Investigations let me ask you a question. Which of these do you think takes Quercus down in the end? The murder weapon, a hotdog or a damning testimony? I also loved how the Ace Attorney anime had a filler arc for Miles as a kid after Von Karma adopts him that is told in his Investigations style.
One thing we can all agree on is that long bosses with thousands (if not MILLIONS) of HP, are at most tedious damage sponges (as Josh once said via Top Ten Smartest Bosses).
Arvis did everything wrong.
Personal honorable mention is Wobblewok from Yo Kai Watch 2. I haven't gotten to Kat Kraydel so for now this is my candidate. The fight simply drags on due to Wobblewok's constant resistance swapping and even if you got the pattern down its humongous health bar will still drain minutes of your playtime in a game where except for Dame Dedtime, the bosses can often times be quite short in length.
the toothbrush thing wasn't a joke
I did not expect a Pete Ness quote in the Ace Attorney section. Hats off to Josh for being a fan of Saltydkdan, lmao.
This is like the time I paid Manny Coachen to kill my double agent's fake sister.
Greevil
Me thinking: well you could faint them or catch a few and leave the rest for later.
Josh: that's just increasing the time of the fight.
Me: d*mn that's a good point
Oh god in heaven I wasn't expecting a Friendlocke Season 2 reference, I'm so happy you also watch that, maybe we'll get a Joshscorcher Friendlocke at some point on twitch or wherever you stream?
If Josh gets a Cradily, you bet I'm jumping in to do the Alba voice lol
When your boss is so friggen long that it causes people to get sick, you know you fucked up. What the actual fuck was Square Enix thinking when they made those bosses? Not only that but they actively went out of their way to patch out ways to make it go faster? There is cruel and then there is evil, and there is downright sinister, seriously.
Man, I remember the Nyx boss fight took me 2 hours (counting cut scenes). I'm glad it had a place on the list!
Kind of appropriate that this video is longer than average.
I wonder if he has faced General Corrosive from Metal Arms?
Or Ghirahim from Skyward Sword , with all his fights and forms. Or - *KABOOOOOM*
I knew absolute virtue would at least be mentioned despite the nerfs.
Dragon's End in Guild Wars 2 is a 2-3 hour boss battle requiring an entire map of coordinated people.
oh HELLO. Was not expecting the great Lost Odyssey to actually make into someone's list! This exception needs to happen more often.
I wonder if king k rool from dk64 is on this list
Honerable Mention
Tsumugi Shirogane - Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony
Seriously, not even the Junko fights in Trigger Happy Havoc and Goodbye Despair was this unnecessarily long due to how much you had to micromanage compared to to previous entries.
Kirby bosses specialize in taking forever
-Me, a person who has played every mainline Kirby game and most of the spinoffs
I used to replay the Dark Mind boss fight for fun as a kid multiple times... I'm probably not right in the head.
Every summer vacation I would play Persona 3 and try to finish it before going back to school. So Nyx has A LOT of nostalgia for me. Strategizing how to beat Nyx as quick as possible during the last week of summer was weirdly fun. Especially considering Persona 3 is on a time limit as well.
The dweller of woe from sea of stars took me around 45 minutes. That’s probably the longest boss in my life.
18 HOURS!? In what universe did that sound like a good idea? Square was freaking lucky Josh didn't mention this in his Square Enix fails list. There's dedication, but making a boss take that long to beat is just flat out sadistic for no reason other than laughs. Companies like EA already sweatshop their workers, so don't emulate them Square by sweatshopping your own players!
When playing videogames becomes no different than doing an extra long shift at work (but with next to no breaks) you know something isn't right, iirc Absolute Virtue has a spell that full heals itself (which it can use multiple times).
I'm going to go into a bit more detail in my up-and-coming Xenosaga retrospective (yeah, yeah, acc shilling, I know...), but E.S Dan from Xenosaga III comes *immediately* to mind.
Voyager's main gimmick is that he changes weakness spreads on the fly, so at borderline complete random he can either be immune to Missiles/Lasers, and anything physically stronger, OR completely nocell Anima Specials (which for anyone who has played the game, knows how hard of a commitment those are). And yet at the same time, the Richard/Herman (E.S Gad/Joseph) fight before you get to the Michtam Cathedral prior to Voyager basically forces your E.S's to invest in bulk builds because of Richard's giant fuck-off cannon. Because of this, you are basically never dying after Richard goes down, and because of XSIII's ultimately mindless mech combat (not helped by 2x charge healing being so easy to come by), the optimal thing to do is just sit there chipping away at his health because he doesn't have the DPS to actually kill you. It's not an exaggeration that (at least for me) the fight devolved into a 1v1 vs E.S Zebulin and Dan just swapping lasers and healing because I overcommitted slightly with everyone else when Voyager was at like 1/10th of his health. That's an hour of your life you're *NEVER* getting back.
Hopefully, this won't take too long. Heh heh.
15: I WILL play the game myself, because I actually have the game. (The Immortal One (Lost Odyssey))
14: I MUST go and find some Ace Attorney games. I love puzzle games! (Quercus Alba (Ace Attorney Investigations))
13: I've been watching TheLoadingCrew's Pokemon Tabletop series recently (check it out, it's AWESOME), and since I grew up on XBOX and not GameCube, that was my first experience with anything relating to the GameCube games. (Greevil (Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness))
12: You forgot to mention how if you're bad enough at the game (like me), she can hit Bayo with this one attack that reduces her back into a child, where you're helpless against her. You can just keep moving to avoid attacks, but it still adds time. I agree, though, this boss fight was a MONSTER of one to fight. (Jubileus (Bayonetta))
11: Well that sounds... fun. Heh heh. (Abomination (Back 4 Blood))
10: Frieza is still my favorite Dragon Ball villain. (Kid Buu (DBZ Budokai 2))
9: I have literally never heard of this guy. Wait, is this the game that Dark Meta Knight comes from? (Dark Mind (Kirby & the Amazing Mirror))
8: So from my understanding, The Binding of Isaac is like the Dark Souls of its genre. (Hush (The Binding of Isaac))
7: This guys sounds ANNOYING! I think I may just take time to watch playthroughs to get the story of the game. I'll still play Persona 5, though. (Nyx Avatar (Persona 3))
6: Wow... See what I did there? XD (Kael'thas (World of Warcraft))
5: Who knew that K. Rool could be so intimidating? (King K. Rool (Donkey Kong 64))
4: How is it that Kingdom Hearts always has a character on your boss lists almost without fail? And how is it that despite all that, the lore still doesn't make sense? (Ansem (Kingdom Hearts))
3: Yikes. I can't deal with these kinds of strategy games. This is giving me a heart attack (Julius (Fire Emblem 4))
2: I feel you on your unsatisfying part. It can also just be really funny. (The End (MGS3: Snake Eater))
1: 18 hours to defeat a boss.... Square Enix, what the HELL were you thinking making bosses like that? (Absolute Virtue/Pandemonium Warden (Final Fantasy XI))
So glad that I called the #1 entry, or at least one of them, never heard of the other. You know it's too long when the time required is actually physically unhealthy, forget about mentally.
aside those on the video, arc the lad2 final boss , took me over 2 hours , in a game where battles are quick and fast, most of the game the hp of enemies start at 20 and end up at 400-600 , them come final boss with 9999 , extreme defense, almost entire field of range and heavy damage atacks , i had to cheese to win that .
I’m shocked Sephiroth wasn’t in this list! He’s so infamous that people hoped his final smash in Ultimate was gonna be the super long one from FF7
expert seven force is for me deserve its on list, its really long and tough fight, not too long, but long enough to make you tired of its pattern
I’m going to honorably mention senator armstrong from metal gear rising. If you count MG Excelus which he pilots and then walks out of his whole encounter takes just over 40 minutes. His boss fight feels much shorter because the music kicks ass and his personality is amazing.
#15 through #2: Don't really know most of these bosses and not really surprised.
#1: WTF WOULD YOU FIGHT A BOSS FOR 18 HOURS?!?!?!?!?!