Scary Bosses In Non-Horror Games

When you pick up a copy of the latest Resident Evil or revisit a classic Silent Hill game, you expect to encounter a terrifying boss or two during your playthrough. The 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:occasional Pyramidღ Head or Nemesis encounter is part of what makes these horror serౠies so memorable. But running in🐈to a giant, parasitic crab-spider in a Legend of Zelda game is a different experience.

Facing off against a menacingly grotesque, unnervingly supernatural, or just plain spooky foe is a bit more jarring when your name isn’t Ethan Winters. While taking on the role of a platforming plumber on a quest to save the princess or 🍒a mountain climber on a journey of self-discovery, tﷺhe last thing you expect is to fill up on nightmare fuel.

10 ꦰ Calasmos - Dragon Quest 11 ꦆ

The true final boss of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dragon Quest 11, Calasmos’ party-wiping offense is matched only by his otherworldly creepiness. With a design that looks like a cross between Galactus and Perfect Cell, this force of absolute evil aims to plunge the world into e💜ternal darkness.

Although he’s not exactly terrifying, Calasmos' strange combination of infant-, insect-, and crustacean-like features is at least slightly unnerving. Couple this with the fact that he represents a significant difficulty spike compared to the rest of Dragon Quest XI, and Calasmos becomes one of the most unsettling enemies the series’ bestiary has to offer.

9 ⛄ Lord Of Lightning 🎐- Super Mario Odyssey

At times, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Super Mario Odyssey embraces the out-of-place. In New Donk City, for instance, Mario is running, jumping, ꩲand coin-collecting among human characters with weirdly normal proportions. The boss fight with the Lord of Lightning has a similarly uncanny effect.

Despite being designed as a challenge for Nintendo’s overall-wearing Italian plumber, the Lord of Lightning would look more at home in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a Souls-like game. (Fittingly enough, you encounter this boss in an area called the “Ruined Kingdom.”) While this dragon wouldn’t be particularly horrifying in a more action-focused series, how much it and its home stands apart from your typical Mario fare secures its spooky credentia🦂ls.

8 Gohma - The Legend Of Zelda ༺

A recurring boss in the Zelda series, Gohma may be most recognizable as the first boss in Ocarina of Time. While basically every version of this one-eyed ara🌺chnid is certifiably spooky, facing off against this giant crab-spider-parasite as the young Link stands out in particular since you battle inside the Queen Gohma’s lair in the heart of the Deku Tree.

The runner-up for most striking Gohma boss battles has to be the creature’s appearance in Wind Waker. Although not quite as creepy as the N64 version, this Gohma has a uniquely centipede-ℱlike appearance and lives in a pool of magma.

7 Specimen H0512 - Final Fantasy 7 Rem🏅ake

Created by 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Final Fantasy 7’s Professor Hojo (someone who’s plenty spooky in his own right), Specimen H0512 is a slimy jumble ♑of talons, tentacles, and teeth. This is the classic “we were too busy a💖sking if we could” monster from the dark depths of the lab, only it also knows magic.

The 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Final Fantasy 7 R⛎emake certainly has a few bosses approaching horror territory — an honorable mention going to the Hell House. But Sꦫpecimen H0512’s dramatic entrance, when released from its contai🍨nment chamber, gives it the edge over its colleagues. Its overall grossness helps too.

6 ඣ General RAAM - Geaꦅrs Of War

While the actual battle against General RAAM in the original 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Gears of War is far from the most terrifying moment in the series, this particular Locust’s command over Kryll is horror movie material. Kryll are vicious bat-like creatures that come from deep underground and descend in swarms, devouring any living thin꧒g in their path when night falls.

During the first Gears o🌳f War, there are multiple segments where you must avoid these lethal, light-sensitive creatures by staying nearest ligh꧅t source. Linger in the darkness for a second too long, and your character will meet a gruesome demise. The fact that RAAM — who mostly speaks in violent grunts, by the way — has total control over these flying demon piranhas cements his status as the most menacing Gears villain.

5 ꦏ Mr. Oshiro - Celeste 📖

When you first encounter Mr. Oshiro in Celeste, he’s the owner of the Celestial Resort, a seemingl♒y abandoned hotel located in the titular mountain. Oshiro’s spookiness starts showing when he ignores the game’s protagonist, Madeline, when she asks him for directions to the hotel’s exit. And as you explore the hotel — and help tidy the place up — you start to piece together that Oshiro is not what he seems.

It turns out that Mr. Oshiro is a ghost who haunts the hotel because he had difficul꧂ty letting go of it after it closed down. And when Madeline angers him, Oshiro temporarily tran🌠sforms into a vengeful spirit that pursues you in a boss encounter that concludes the chapter.

4 The Contessa - Sly Cooper ꦡ

With a design based on a black widow spider and a mastery of hypnosis, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Sly Cooper's Contessa wouldn’t seem at all out of place in a Tim Burton movie. Posing as a warden for INTERPOL, Contessa is secretly a member of the criminal Klaww Gang during the events of Sly 2. As part of the Klaww Gang, she took possession of the Clockwerk Eyes, a valuable item that she aimed to use to perfect her brainwashing machine.

During﷽ her boss battle, the Contessa summons exploding spiders that lunge at Sly. So if being brainwashed by a spider-person isn’t creepy e⛄nough, maybe being swarmed by spiderlings will make up for it.

3 ཧ Linda - Psychonauts✃

Also referred to as the Hideous Hulking Lungfish of Lake Oblongata, it’s no wonder why the otherwise friendly Linda and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Psychonaut’s Raz get off on such an I’m-going-to-drag-you-screaming-into-a-watery-grave sort of wrong foot. A mutated lungfish, Linda kidnapped a series of campers while under the control of Coach Oleande🌊r, an actual villain.

While Linda fits the role of a friendly fish mutant, this boss is more or less typical of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Double Fine’s classic psychic summer camp adventure in terms of appe🍎arance. What makes this 🍃boss truly spooky is how the first half of Psychonauts presents Linda as a mysterious creature lurking in the lake, initially leaving its true nature — and appearance — to the imagination.

2 Hades - G💝od Of Warꦕ 3

As the god of the Underworld, it’s only fitting that Hades has some chilling abilities. During his fight with Kratos in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:God of War 3, he attempts to steal the Spartan’s soul, summons the undea💎d, and attempts to drag him into t෴he River Styx.

If his supernatural powers aren&rsquo💯;t horrifying e༺nough, Hades’ design certainly is. With spikes rammed through his skin and a helmet that looks like an incinerator, God of War’s take on Hades and his Underworld is about as far removed from Mount Olympus as there can be.

1 Psycho Mantis - Metal Gear Solid 𝓡

While Psycho Mantis isn’t a cosmic horror, a god of death, or a mutated fish monster, he manages to spook us just the same. Delivering one of the most iconic fourth-wall breaks in gaming, Psycho Mantis made a generation of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Metal Gear Solid fans think that maybe — just maybe — he r🐎eally could read thei♋r minds.

Messing with the TV screen, triggering the rumble feature on the controller, and, of course, reading the memory card all go into Mantis' unnerving psychic show. But the true terror of Psycho Mantis is revealed when you consider the sinister potential of psychic access to the memory card: “What if he can delete my save data?”

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