toraneko said:
Gonna sound typical with this, but my most hated final boss is...
Well, it's every boss in any King of Fighters game after KoF'98.
SNK Boss Syndrome. Look it up.
fucking Brutal God Project.
Final Fantasy has had its ups and downs for me. I started waaaay back with Final Fantasy II - which I later found out was really Final Fantasy IV. It was cheesy, but fun - and I had SUCH a moment of triumph when I finally beat that fucker Zeromus.
Final Fantasy VI actually didn't draw me in that much, though it was a great game.
Regardless of the general opinion the group here seems to have, and especially regardless of the overall fandom/anti-fandom out there, I liked FF7. My only major complaint with it is that it was too easy. Say whatever you like, but both the final Jenova incarnation and Sephiroth were way too easy to kill, even without Knights of the Round.
FF8... well, I now regret spending money on it. It had a half-decent premise at first, but the plot descended into absolute suckage in short order. The only characters I liked in 8 were Fuujin, Raijin, and Irvine (who I cosplayed at a convention a few years back, and got glomped repeatedly for it). Everyone else was pretty much boring - a fault on which I blame the creators, because it's clear that they could have gone somewhere awesome with them.
I didn't even bother with FF9. Art style turned me off.
FFX, I liked reasonably well. Virtually no replay value after the first time, though. Maybe I ought to get the International version, since there are some (reportedly) extremely difficult bosses to fight in that one.
Didn't play FFX-2. Couldn't get past the whole transformation sequences thing. (I mean, seriously. WTF.)
DID play through and enjoy Kingdom Hearts I and II.
Tp be fair, SNK boss syndrome started before KoF98. In fact, it started with Fatal Fury, where Geese Howard could literally snatch you out of the air and make you eat concrete after blocking.
Then KoF94, Rugal Bernstein.
Then KoF95, Omega Rugal. Fucking Genocide Cutter.
Also, Samurai Shodown. Do you know that Amakusa can one-hit kill you with his flaming divebomb attack if he hits you in the head?
Samurai Shodown 2. Mizuki's super move must be blocked low, has no startup to speak of, does an ungodly 75% damage, AND breaks your weapon. Ugh ugh ugh.
World Heroes 2 and Perfect. Goddamn Dio.
Rage of the Dragons. Johann.
...yeah, there's a metric fuckton of unfair bosses.
Of course, THE most unfair fighting game boss has to be Dizzy in GGX2#Reload. Hikari no Tsubasa equals an unavoidable 85-hits counter (!) which does 150% damage, instantly killing you. And Dizzy in general has Gold boss powers (infinite tension, regeneration, higher damage). Ad gamma Ray, of course.
Her mom Justice in the original GG is nearly as bad. If you don't kill her immediately after she drops to half health, she'll start spamming Gamma Ray, killing you with chip damage.