Summary

• Memorable final bosses like Fatalis in Monster Hunter led to iconic gaming moments.
• Classic bosses like Gwyn in Dark Souls offer challenging yet impactful battles.
• Diverse final bosses like Senator Armstrong in Metal Gear Rising provide adrenaline-pumping showdowns.

Bosses are one of those staple things in gaming that's been around from the beginning. The big bad that's usually the final challenge that's halting your progress in your journey, bosses make some of t🌟he most iconic moments in gaming.

Considering how classic a staple they are, there are quite a few to choose from, new and old. Sometimes the best battles are against someone who has𓃲 a deep connection to the protagonist, or maybe you're just the only person who can put an en༒d to them. Sometimes it can even be more abstract, but what matters most is how memorable they are.

Updated on March 30th 2025, by Hilton Webster: Games have changed a lot over the decades since they first came into being. Those simple 2D sprites have turned to 3D models almost inseparable from real humans, manuals are a thing of the past, and actually teaching you a game's mechanics are standard, for the most part. BUt what's never changed is the love of a good final boss to put a bow on your adventure. So let's have a look at even more. We have plenty of great choices.

Fatalis

Monster Hunter

There are a lot of monsters in the Monster Hunter series. It's൲ in the name, it's the whole point. Every game of course has a particularly nasty monster for you to contend with, the one that sets the events of the game in motion. Yet amongst them all across the whole series, few can hold a c🐟andle to the original menace - Fatalis.

Fatalis appea💜red as the final boss of the original Monster Hunter, and has appeared in other forms as the final boss in multiple other games in the series as well. One of their most bombastic appearances was in Monster Hunter World, appearing in the very last update to the game as a beast risen from the ashes of history to wreak havoc upon humanity once again.

Lavos

Chrono Trigger

Chrono Trigger is oftentimes heralded as one of the greatest games there is. There's a lot going into that title, with the star-studded developers being a big part of it, but it really is a unique experience. Packed with choices for you to make that determinꦆe the ultimate course of the game, it still has a central story it tell, one that centers around the acts of Lavos.

There is no quite describing exactly what Lavos is. They are the impetus for the destruction of the world, yet also a tool of others, but perhaps also a cognizant being of its own. The entire game builds up t𓂃o your final encounter with them, with the battle taking place across every time period in the game. And even when you win, you don't know what Lavos is, or if they'll come back again. But for right now, time is safe.

Red

Pokemon

Pokemon is a complicated series to talk about. It's massive, spanning countless entries, and is one of the mos🦄t ubiquitous brands in the world. Many of those games ar𒈔e also very, very broken under unsustainable development cycles. But when you have such a powerful cultural cache, anything can and must sell.

Part of that selling power comes from its charactꦦers, and who is more popular than Red, t🌳he earliest face of the franchise? The protagonist of the original game, he became a secret boss atop Mt. Silver in the Gen 2 games, and even appeared again as an adult in Sun & Moon. He also never talks, because he's technically the player. That he's so powerful is a compliment, really.

The Boss

Metal Gear Solid 3

Very few games get to be as openly *gasp* political as 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Metal Gear Solid does. Oh, you can bet there are politics in all your games, Metal Gear just doesn't w🥂ant you to mꦅiss them. Previous entries dealt with a hypothetical future though, Metal Gear Solid 3 went all-in on real-world history. What better place for tension and espionage than the literal Cold War?

And what better symbolism of a♕ pointless war than being forced to kill your own parental figure? The Boss raised Snake, betrayed him, but 🐷never stopped loving him. And in trying to save the world, was killed by him amongst the Stars of Bethlehem. Having Snake Eater blare in your years during these final moments just makes the moment all the more bitter.

Mother Miranda

Resident Evil Village

The Resident Evil games have always suffered from less-than-stellar final bosses. That's not to say they're terrible (though some are indeed of questionable quality) but that they frequently pale in comparison to even earlier bosses in the same game. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Resident Evil Village thankfully rectifies that.

Village features a swathe of varied ဣbosses, and Mother Miranda somehow manages to avoid the fate of the majority of them by staying roughly humanoid in her final encounter. She cha꧋nges forms, plays with your visions, and taunts you. Despite her limited appearances, she feels more personal. She also doesn't have glowing bits to shoot either.

Zanza

Xenoblade Chronicles

Though a series now much larger than what it started as, the original 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Xenoblade Chronicles still holds a special pl🌌ace in thꦦe hearts of many. With a voice-acting direction uncommon still to this day and a keen understanding of the philosophical ideals it examines, it is a game as defined by its sheer scale as by the ideas it explores.

Which is why when you fight literal god꧃ at the end, it feels less like the result of power-scaling ambitions, but an intentional point of its own literary critique. That gods are an idea made by man, and ones they need not be beholden to. Birth the new world you desire, even if a god would try to deny it.

Did you know that the symbols shown in the Monado throughout the game areও actually Kanji, showing the most po♈werful thing the Monado can currently damage?

Royce

Transistor

Supergiant Games has gone from strength to strength with each of its releases, from the humble Bastion to the world-renowned Hades. Nestled in between all those major releases is 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Transistor, a work of sci-fi and silenced voices.

In Transistor, you can freeze the game to plan ahead your attacks, an ability seemingly only you have. Until you meet Royc🗹e. He quickly turns the table🅠s on you, able to stall time to enact his own attacks against you, utilising many of the same abilities you wield. He is exhilarating to fight, giving you a taste of what your own enemies faced throughout the game.

Oralech

Pyre

Pyre often goes unrecognised as one of Supergiant's greatest games. It's not simply their best game, but one of the best games ever. It really is a testament to gaming as an art form where every choice and every character is organic yet feeds into itself. Tꦇhis highlights itself tremendously through Oralech, the otherwise invisible antagonist, until the game's waning hours.

Betr🌠ayed by the people he wished to help, he bꩵecame a vengeful demon wandering the Downside. With heightened stakes, the final match against him is as much an intentional choice as it is your own ability. Will you lose to set him free and doom your own people to the Downside? Or keep him locked away for your own freedom, reducing the chance of a bloodless revolution?

The Demon King

Tears Of The Kingdom

After a long break since the days of Twilight Princess, Ganondorf finally made his triumphant return in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Tears of the Kingdom, full-bodied and hydrated enough to quench your thirst. For the majority of the game, he is more of an ominous presence, his crippled body as🔯cended to areas unknown. The visions of the past make up the most of his appear𒀰ances.

This changes once you hit the end. Ganondorf rejuvenates himself, fighting you one-on-one in the deepest Depths of Hyrule. Ah, but one stage is not enough. He awakens his latent power, summoning phantom💯s to keep you at bay. Yet even more power is needed. The Secret Stone is consumed, and he becomes the Demon Dragon. A dance across the skies of Hyrule finally spells the end of the Demon King's rule.

Ganondorf has three stages in this final showdown, with💟 the second havin♓g a health bar so long that it almost stretches off the screen.

Raven Beak

Metroid Dread

With the proliferation of the Metroidvania genre, it's hard to say exactly what defines a Metroid game anymore. In many ways, Metroid Dread played to the tried-and-true strengths of previous games, but played enough with mobility and storytelling to carve out its own new direction, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:somethi൩ng we attest to in🍷 our own review. And while Metroid games have never faltered in bosses, Dread takes them�𓆏� to the next level.

The fight against Raven Beak is potent. You can anticipate from the very begﷺinning that he will be your final encounter, but that doesn't take away from its power. He has multiple stages, each testing your skills. Massive lasers, cinematic camera angles, dynamic backgrounds, all of it keeping Samus on the move. And it all culminates in a moment that sets new implications for Samus as a character.

Raven Beak can be a pretty challenging battle, so 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:feel free to use our guide to help you out.