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Top 5 favorite boss battles, Tag


Rules: Pick a boss, explain where he's from, what he does, how you beat the boss and how long it took you to beat him or her. Then find a video from youtube of the boss by posting the link to show us what he looks like.


1. Transformers: Armada (PS2) - Taking on a giant Transformer by yourself

Ah yes, the first ever full-3D epic battle in a Transformers game in which you fight a gigantic Transformer, and this behemoth is none other than Tidal Wave (when do we get to fight G1 Trypticon or G1 Scorponok in a TF video game, BTW?).

The battle starts off with a rather impressive FMV sequence in which the giant Decepticon warship your character is in transforms. As your character jumps out of a hatch, the ship finishes its transformation, and turns out to be none other than Tidal Wave himself.

And now begins another "David vs. Goliath" fight...

The problem here, is that Tidal Wave will unleash volleys of missiles at you, as well as deploy flying Decepticlones to assist him. He will pound at you with his battleship cannons as well. The best thing to do is to run away from him like crazy, dodging his firepower and sniping at his head from a distance. Problem is, he'll try to block your shots at certain points (and you'll also have to avoid falling into the water, lest you wanna go on a trip to the Well of All Sparks).

Once you defeat him, sit back and watch the FMV sequence of Megatron's biggest minion topple down like a giant beanstalk.


Tidal Wave transforming: [link]

The battle itself: [link] (played at the hardest difficulty)

Tidal Wave defeated: [link]



2. Transformers: Armada (PS2) - Final battle with the Chaos Bringer himself

Unicron - possibly the biggest Transformer ever, just short of the mighty Primus himself. Remember him from the 1986 Transformers animated movie? Well, you finally get to fight him in TF: Armada for the PS2, as long as you collect every single Mini-Con in the game.

Before the battle begins, all the Mini-Cons power up your character, allowing him to fly and use a "Matrix Cannon" to fight against the Chaos Bringer. As the battle begins, you'll have to chase him across Cybertron. When he stops and opens his giant maw, fly into it and shoot at the core before he fires his giant death ray. Upon doing so, you will come back out, and the power core will open up more. Rinse and repeat until you finally have access to his very core, then put an end the Chaos Bringer's very existence once and for all.

Once he is finally defeated, sit back and watch as he is finally destroyed in a massive explosion, and the Autobots and Mini-Cons celebrating their long-sought after victory.


Unicron arriving at Cybertron: [link]

The battle itself: [link] (played at the hardest difficulty)

Some highlights of the final battle, along with the sequence showing Unicron's demise: [link]


Additional notes:

Unlike in TFTM as well as the Armada cartoon, Unicron doesn't transform into robot mode - for gameplay purposes.

Notice that many of the spoken lines by the characters in the FMV sequences are taken straight (or slightly modified) from TFTM, such as Unicron's famous last words ("Destiny... you cannot destroy... my destinyyyy--").



3. Metal Slug 3 (multi-platform) - Final battle with the Martian leader

Metal Slug 3 is undoubtedly the most epic Metal Slug game ever, and the game's final mission is the longest one ever in Metal Slug history. So much that you get to fight the final boss, Rootmars, twice - after the first battle, you'll have to rescue your captured comrade by fighting your way through clones of him/her and breaking him/her out of the cloning machine. Then you'll have to escape the self-destructing mothership by opening some blast doors, and then just when you think you've finally escaped the destroyed mothership in a SV-001 Metal Slug (or two), Rootmars comes and grabs you for a final fight.

Yes, you'll be fighting the Martian leader at freefall (a very breathtaking idea by the SNK folks) - just don't fall off the boss's giant head/body and you'll be fine. The boss has two main attacks - a shockwave (which you can jump over with good timing) generated by the boss's exposed brain, and toxic bubbles it spews out of its mouth (sometimes hard to dodge; the orange ones turn into powerups when shot at, BTW). Naturally enough, the boss's weakness is its exposed brain - a gazillion (sorry, can't count ) knife stabs or shots to it will finally put an end to Rootmars once and for all (the game's plot-wise).

You can also use the Metal Slug against the boss, but always remember to jump out of the vehicle before it gets hit, otherwise you'll permanently lose the ability to use it after it takes too many hits.

Lastly enough, your rescued partner will come and assist you midway through the battle by flying a Martian craft and shooting lasers at the boss's brain.


2nd 1/3rds of the final mission: [link]

3rd and final 1/3rds of the final mission: [link]



4. Metal Slug 7 - Robot vs. robot fight!!!

Possibly for the first time ever in a run & gun shooter IIRC, you get to fight a boss battle that has you and your opponent both riding mechanized battle walkers - not the best ever, but a truly epic moment in itself.

First off, the act before this boss battle already has you pwning Rebel ass in the Slug Gigant battlewalker.

And yes, what makes this boss battle even more memorable is the fact that Allen O'Neil, Morden's own tougher-than-nails commando, is the one riding the enemy walker.


See all the action for yourself in this video (the real PWNAGE starts at 4:36): [link]



5. Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (PS2) - Final battle with your former buddy

Probably one of the best boss battles ever in all of the Ace Combat series (if not the best overall), you'll be fighting against your former buddy, Solo Wing Pixy, in a one-on-one dogfight for the game's final mission. Yes, this idea of a one-on-one dogfight for a final mission is just like in the first Airforce Delta game for the Dreamcast, but WAY more epic.
And remember, bring with you the best plane you have, since the final Round Table fight before all this is real tough!

The boss battle is split in three parts - the first two parts involve destroying the ADFX-02's first two SP weapons (by just hitting Pixy with missiles/gunfire like normal); the TLS, which he waves around like a lightsaber instead of directly frying you with it, and the burst missiles, which he would fire to try and ward you off when pursuing him.

By the time you finally destroy his burst missiles, the V2 will finally lift off from its silo, giving you only four minutes to finally defeat Pixy once and for all. Another problem is that his ECM system will be active all the time, which means you can only fire missiles at him from head-on (and puts you in the risk of being hit by missiles from the front as well - kinda like a jousting match).

And when you finally defeat him, you'll be rewarded with a cutscene showing you and Pixy flying mere inches by each other (accompanied by a slow-motion sequence), before Pixy's ADFX-02 finally explodes for good. Which, of course also causes the V2 to self-destruct, thus finally saving the world from destruction (again).


Video: [link]



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