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End Bosses, and why they bug me
Tenerence | 2:04 PM on 09.01.2009 4 comments


(Batman: Arkham Asylum Spoilers, I guess)

So, I just finished Batman: Arkham Asylum. If you've read anything about that game, you might have heard that people don't really like the final boss. I'm not exactly crazy about it, either. I mean, almost all of the bosses in the game are weak in general, with the trippy expetion of the Scarecrow. But I was under the impression that the final fight would be this awesome, one-on-one fistfight between Batman and the Joker. In my mind, I was formulating the best scenario ever. "OH MY GOD. THIS COULD BE SO AWESOME! So, Batman will have to try to dodge Joker Gas while he has to plummel his adversary, and the Joker will have that awesome retractable boxing glove from the Tim Burton movie, and he'll use the acidic lapel flower, too! This is RAD!"
...So when I reach the end, and see that I have to fight a giant, Hulked Out Joker in a arena, I was more than a little dissapointed. If you've ever played any of the PSone Crash Bandicoot games and fought a boss, you will get an idea of what this fight is like. Run around, don't get hit, wait for the boss to reveal his weak point, fight smaller enemies, run around, and repeat 3 times untill a cutscene cues up. This bugs me, seeing as this is the worst sort of boss fight in my mind. Maybe I'm just nitpicking, but I feel it's a considerable blotch on an otherwise awesome game.



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GEMPadre036's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/01/2009 16:47
GEMPadre036
Like Tiny Tiger? Or Kommodo Joe? I pictured a Joker fight being more RippaRoo style. I mean come on, both are Utterly Insane and the Joker seems like the kind of guy who would lose by blowing himself up by accident. Am I right?
Holyetheline's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/01/2009 18:05
Holyetheline
End boss battles are so overrated. I'm going to make a game where at the end of it you talk things out with the "final boss" until some sort of agreement is made... and then the boss battle will begin!... I don't know... I'm tired, it's been a long day and I haven't played batmeng yet.
ace of knaves's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/01/2009 18:14
ace of knaves
Yep, pretty much.
mxs102's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/02/2009 14:04
mxs102
Yeah. I just beat the game last night and I kind of felt the same way. I was really hoping that Joker didn't go into Titan mode, or at least, if he did allow me to have a more epic battle. I fought his tiny scrotum henchmen the entire game, I wanted to fight the Joker. I mean... you can go entire fight without losing health with relative ease...I feel like this shouldn't be the case.

It would have been sweet if you had to knock the Joker into pillars or walls then beat his ass, jump on his back and break his vertebrae one by one. THEN you go into the final part of the battle where Joker is in pain swinging blindly at you and you have to dodge his attacks by jump rolling out of the way, then Ultra Batclaw his back, pull him to the ground and finally punch his lights out. That would have been cooler. Sorry for any run on sentences I just needed to rant.
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