Boss (video games)
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Recent Final Fantasy games have become known for their challenging optional bosses, such as Omega and Shinryu from , the various [[Weapon , FFVIII and FFX, from ''FFIX'', and theDark Aeons from FFX. Other examples Organization XIII|Enigmatic Man]] and Kurt Zisa. Culex is also a hidden boss in Super Perhaps]]. The opportunity to fight her only comes after completing an extremely chall, multi-level hidden dungeon called The impervious to all r damage.
Team bosses are different from all other forms of bosses in the sense that normal or half-as-powerful-as-a-boss enemies. Common characteristics include:
- Tag Team battles in which usually two opponents may leave the fight and aluntil the health bar is drained and they both die regardless of how much hits were delivered to either of them. An example is the zombie dogs from Medievil.
- Minion battles in which there will be one normal boss along with a few (2 or 3) mini-bosses or plain enemies. killing the "leader". Examples include many of the bosses in Tales of Symphonia, and most Boss battles in Tactical RPGs.
- Army battles in which aenemies will come at wave after wave. The waves usually get harder as you proceed through the fight. Examples include the "Robot" and "
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", often found in RPGs. This rare boss is actually undefeatable—t in a game over. Often the unbeatable boss will become defeatable eapon/item or when some story element has removed the boss' invincibility. Examples of this are Lavos from "[[Chrono the unicorn brotheof Mega Man X, L'hWizardry]] III, [[Final Fantasy VI, in Final Fantasy X, the first fight against Bowser in Paper Mario,
In some cases, a boss may seem unbeatable, but it can be beat, either by ve leveling, or amazing player skill; since the player is early in the game, and he is utterly und; even with cheats, the game will freeze upon his defeat. However, in Lufia II, a player is still rewarded with tr.
Some bosses go through phases, where in one phase the boss is unbeatable, but some stexample, in the final chapter of The Thousand-Year Door]], the player is forced to fight the Shadow Queen in what seems like the final battle. But the battle is scripted so that the Shadow Queen at one point heals completely, rendering the efforts of the player useless. The battle then ends, and more of the final chapter unfolds before the true final battle.
In some cases, the unbeatable boss may seem like a very difficult boss, which may trick the player into fighting it out and possibly using up large amounts of curative and , and the items are being wasted. In the game Breath Fire II, Ryu may get in a fight with Tiga, who wants to marry Katt; Tiga seems like an average boss, and shows no , unownst to the player. In other cases, the undefeatable very apparent, and the boss will use attacks that simply wipe out the by Beatr unleasg a powerful move to wipe out the whole team.
complex games (particularly that decrease their abilities, and so forth. Bosses are often immune to certain abilities that the , and often can only be defeated specific attacks and strategies, or by using the environment or their own attacks against them. A common way of per make the boss much larger than the player's on-screen representation as opposed to normal enemies, who are more commonly smaller than
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