Videogame villains/bosses, Sorry if this was already done

I was debating whether or not to rent this game. Demon's Souls, you had me at the Armor Spider.

You can't get Demon's Souls in the UK

Tried it. It's fucking hard and cheap as hell. Your character is ludicrously fragile with a few enemies being way overpowered and cheap deaths galore, with no checkpoints. And that's the first level

Aw man, I just pulled a Scythe and managed to COMPLETELY misinterpret Storm King's appearance from the picture. I thought he was a massive, kitelike creature with stumpy legs and a pair of tiny, beady eyes buried amongst the massive flapping kite of flesh that was its body.

Then I watch the video and find it's just a big flying stingray. LAME. The rest look pretty cool though.

Also, another one of my favorite boss battles EVER:

Mr.Patch...holy shit, this guy is just AWESOME.
He's a giant inflatable dinosaur you fight in a Big Top tent, he's the size of a goddamn skyscraper, he regurgitates beach balls that VIOLENTLY EXPLODE on impact with something, and after taking damage the first time, he summons a burrowing boxing glove that follows you about and pops out of the ground to punch you so you can't stay still, pretty much forcing you to fight him while flying. And he has the most gloriously demented boss theme I've ever heard.

Of course, you can watch all this lunacy unfold on the youtubes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80AexsC8EcE
The music, the concept, and the execution comes together to form one incredibly memorable and awesome boss fight, matched only by the Gruntilda fights in both games, but I ain't going onto those now.

That is how we know the real problem does not lie with the game, but rather, in the mirror.

You know, if you payed attention, you would realize that almost every death is actually your own fault. The game provides little in the way of "cheapness", except for one or two isolated instances, and even those are forgivable. You're a normal human being against hordes of demons, you can't just run at someone and mash the trigger expecting to win. It's a game that involves careful thought and strategy. And a good shield.

No you can not and Atlus it's Publisher do not Publish games in Europe but get other companys do publish their games so we miss out on lots of their games in europe Shin megami Tensei Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha 2 will never reach Europe just because its a Ps2 game probally .

The Ps3 is Region Free so any Ps3 game from any Country will work on it although not work with Blu Ray films/ regular Dvds or Ps2 games from other regions.

The developer From Software have loads of other games with creative monsters in them though such as.

Lost Kingdoms 1 and 2 for Gamecube
Eternal Ring for Ps2
Evergrace for Ps2
Folklore for Ps3
Encanted Arms for Ps3 and 360 (This is the closest 360 has to a monster trainer game)

Bayonetta has got some awesome bosses. For angels they are either very loose intepretations or very literal

the cardinal virtue of fortitude, can shoot fireballs from both heads, cause the ground to erupt with magma, and shoot lasers out of the central head


the cardinal virtue of temperance. not only is the area contstantly around it in a tornado, but it can shoot energy balls out of it's fingers and fire all sorts of projectiles from his face. This boss battle was awesome as you get the run on his body attacking weak points and slowly rip his body to pieces.


the cardinal virtue of justice. You have to stun it's tentacles so you can run on them up to the main body to finish it off.


the cardinal virtue of prudence. controls the seas. can shoot lasers and missiles from its legs and has a wicked bite. You fight this boss in the open ocean while surfing on airplane debris.

also, the pictures fail to show how gargantuan the bosses are. They're shadow of the colossus big

Been thinking of posting Bayonetta since I got it.

The angel designs kick all sorts of ass.

ScutigeraColeoptrata posted videos of those Bayonneta bosses (just not the second one), which also show those awesome "hair demons" things.

An older example, but one that I just flashed back to recently and that I think deserves a spot here.


Count Razoff. Holy shit, Count Razoff.

I played Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc for the first time when I was about eight years old. I loved it and still do, because of the unique gameplay and the quirky universe it was set in. However, when I reached the end of the area known as the Bog of Murk and entered a mysterious giant mansion, I encountered an unexplained boss that still unnerves me a little bit to this day, and that boss is Count Razoff.

Video evidence of the Count Razoff boss fight, part 1.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34Y5bslrJos
When you first enter the domain, Count Razoff is watching you on his crazy security camera setup. You have to run around his mansion, periodically encountering him; he attacks you with a fucking spear gun, haphazardly firing harpoons all around the room and destroying large amounts of his own swag while you try desperately not to get hit and to punch him with Rayman's detachable meteoric fists. For some reason I think the music is really effective, being lighthearted while at the same time being completely fucking creepy. Those buzzing parts strike a weird chord with me.
The scariest parts, in my opinion, were when you entered a room and the point of view switched to Razoff's sniper scope, and you had to desperately scramble around the room to try and hide behind something before he penetrated your kidneys with a harpoon. Something that never happens in the video, but that does occur in the game and which scared the pants off me, is one of Razoff's random quotes that he says when you enter the sniper rooms. Something to the degree of "You'll fit in nicely here! ...STUFFED AND MOUNTED ON MY WALL!" Eeugh.
Also, he apparently chains small animals to his walls. Christ.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4qEnetFkyQ&feature=related
However, the second part of the boss fight with Count Razoff is something else entirely. You chase Razoff into his basement, which is apparently a nightmarish arena with a spiked cage for walls and a honeycomb of bottomless pits for a floor, and he attacks you there by riding a ceiling-mounted metal ball on a chain that he tries to crash into you. Some sort of tentacled monstrosity or monstrosities apparently lives in these pits, and they eventually deposit power-ups onto the stone you can walk on; using these power-ups you have to hit Razoff off the ball and chain into a pit. Unfortunately , he persists in leaping back onto the ball and chain and smahsing a section of traversable terrain. Finally the chain breaks, and one of the weirdest cutscenes of all time occurs.

So that was Count Razoff. Certainly a memorable boss, from a memorable game. If you've never played Rayman, I'd suggest checking it out. (The first three, preferably. Not the Rabbids games.)

Aw man, that guy looks so rad. He's like a once-great but now psychopathic hunter of some sort living as a recluse in a freaking swamp. Probably deluded by his past glories too, but that's just the impression I get. Also, I cannot make out ANYTHING that is said or happens in that after-boss cutscene.

Now that you've got me on the topic of childhood and video game bosses/villains, I feel like I should post a couple from Kirby 64, which took like an age for me to finally beat the first time and was considered by me to be the best game ever made.

I liked pretty much all of the bosses, but these are the ones that stood out most to me as a kid:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4YIf2pv6HA
Acro, a possessed Orca whale that I always made fun of for his bad aim. "Ha ha! You missed by a mile!" I'd laugh as he crashed into the floor a few feet behind me. He's boss of Aqua Star, which is by far my favorite world. He attacks by using his bulk to hit you with flips and dive bombs, and also regurgitates all manner of minor enemies and objects (like torpedoes and cartoon skulls) as projectiles. When you deplete his lifebar, he collapses to the floor and the underwater cave you fight him in begins to collapse, leaving you to start to escape up a long shaft....only for him to return for his obligatory second phase (almost all Kirby 64 bosses have one), swimming upwards after you regurgitating torpedoes and occasionally charging.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fp_Jyudh4w
HR-H, a giant robot who is the boss of Shiver Star, which is another one of my favorite worlds due to its sugary-sweet winter wonderland setting fading into a much less sweet industrial setting nearing the end. Kirby 64 has a pretty large quantity of dark settings.
Anyway, you fight HR-H on some sort of frozen highway, a looming cityscape in the background. HR-H stays in the background through his first phase, attacking with missiles, a fast sweeping laser, and by simply trying to smack and crush you with his large, club-like arms. The aforementioned arms are also his weak point, as they're the only part of his body you can reach. After battering his arms, he rises up, lands on the highway, and transforms into his second form....

A jet-like robot called HR-E.
He then starts to slowly pursue you along the highway, launching barrages of small missiles and solitary larger missiles, occasionally snapping at you with his pincers. This phase can be fairly difficult to deal with, but since you can damage him at any time instead of having to wait for him to perform a specific attack, he goes down fairly quickly depending on what ability you have.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssj1OS-tbXI
Miracle Matter, boss of the Dark Matter-possessed Ripple Star and the "fake" final boss. Don't let his "fake" final boss status fool you into thinking he's a piece of cake, though; he's more than a match for you, and also one of the most unique and interesting bosses in the Kirby series. How so, you ask?

He can use all of the basic abilities Kirby has access to, and transforms into a different form and uses a different attack pattern for each ability. Additionally, he can only be damaged by whatever ability he's using-so you can grab a power beforehand, or during the battle, but it'll be useless against all but one or two forms so it's better to stay without a power, and just grab the little ability-giving things his attacks leave behind and throw them back at him.
Finally, you have to defeat all seven of his forms, each one taking three or so hits to defeat, so you have to hit him like 21 times to finally kill him, making for a long and challenging battle.

Basically, yeah, he's a unique and fairly challenging take on the ditto fighter concept, and probably one of my favorite Kirby bosses. Also, his theme kicks ass.

No O2 because everyone knows who he is and shit. And there's only so much you can say about him after the fifth or so time.

I think that your idea is what they were going for. It's pretty radical.

In that cutscene, Rayman and Razoff both fell down one of the pits, and Razoff gets attacked by a horde of the small creatures that he enjoys chaining to his walls. Then a witch you meet earlier in the swamp (and who is your enemy in one of the most annoying boss fights of all time), who is apparenty in love with him, shows up. Rayman and his giant blue frog friend Globox make their way to the next objective through a magic portal mirror they find.

Anyway, so who in God's name remembers Tak and the Power of Juju? That video game where you played as a young tribesman who wandered throughout the tropical lands, interacting with godlike creatures known as Jujus, solving puzzles and fighting crazy demons all set to rockin' jungle tunes? I love that game, slightly more than the TV series it spawned. There were apparently a number of sequels, none of which I played... But anyway.

The main villian is Tlaloc, an evil shaman who is nothing special appearance-wise (as nothing special as evil shamans can be, at any rate). However, he had two henchmen that stuck in my mind, and probably many other peoples'. I can't find a single fucking picture of them, so feel free to look for yourself, but this is what they were.

They were two walking, talking voodoo dolls named Pins and Needles. Yes, that's right. Pins and Needles. Pins was a short, fat, grey voodoo doll, while Needles was tall, thin and yellow. Needles was voiced by the guy who voiced Sparx in the Spyro games, and spoke the same way; he buzzed in vaguely word-like patterns, since his mouth was stitched shut. Pins translated for him. The two were standard bumbling villians who fought amongst themselves as much as with Tak.

Kirby has always had a wonderfully surreal array of bosses. Some of the final bosses are especially memorable.

I see what you mean about Count Razoff having a certain creepiness factor despite the light hearted nature of the game. Just what is that thing he has in those pits?

I think the earliest scare moment I had playing a video game was fighting some of the bosses in the NES Godzilla Monster of Monsters. The visuals were at times nightmarishly surreal, and the music for Gezora, Varan and Hedorah sounded exceptionally haunting (to me anyway):

Gezora and Varan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuxxgT-dXrg

Hedorah (well, the entire Jupiter stage):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjS2ebKo7L0

I also found this Mugen video using modified Hedorah sprites from the NES game, and which features a really strange cheery Japanese song about the Smog Monster. Weird.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1igHeGgn0g&feature=fvsr

And just while we are on the subject of Hedorah, I am so glad someone finally made a music video of him set to Tim Currey's "Toxic Love":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oma_KsW1AAQ

He doesn't really have forms, lol.

He just loses some of those red blood cells whenever you damage them.

Also, those pics are awesome, and I think I remember the actual N64 game having a different background.