Miniboss Monday: Whelk

Bob Muir

Snails are some of the worst things you can base a cool video game character on.

blehman

Your mom!

*This is me stealing BlindSideDorks generic answer*

blehman

Ok, serious answer time. I think that the (name escapes me) boss fight Locke and Celes fight on the way back to Narsh would've been much better.

Teta

A bat phone to call Batman, so he can use one of his well known Anti-sprays.
Then Batman would have arrived and used the Anti-Bitch spray.
And the Anti-Imgonnacreatefanbasegivingthesamenamestotworandomguysoneverygameimake.

Morcant

Relm getting perpetually boned by Interceptor. The soldiers wouldn't go near it. Potential liability alone would ensure that.

king3vbo

Demon snail!!!

Im gonna go all out and say Atma Weapon.. he was a real bitch

F Whipple

Duh.....Ultros!

Kaikara

Phantom Train lol!!

Kaikara

Oh and these sorta bosses are a tradition of FF. The first boss in FFVI, the mist dragon has a similar counter if you attack him when he's mist. In FFVII, also the first main boss attacks you with it's tail if you attack it too early. A snail is the obvious candidate for one of these bosses I guess. It's only a matter of time before we see a tortoise boss (if FF hadn't gone off the rails....).

Robert

Tonberry

Pangloss

Oh, Final Fantasy 6. 90% of your bosses were completely unrelated to the rest of the story. Random kung-fu guy in Zozo? Unrelated. Nerapa, or Number 024? Unrelated. Dullahan? Where the hell did he come from? The list never ends, folks. And FF6 is still tied with Chrono Trigger for my #1 RPG.

Go ahead and replace Whelk with one of those random-encounter dinosaurs that busts out Meteo the instant you set eyes on it. Or ZoneEater, that would've been fun too. Also, didn't Tritoch itself turn out to be enough of a defense mechanism?

Pangloss

Oh shits, it's the Phantom Train! Somebody get me a Fenix Down, stat!

Savant

Now that Pangloss mentioned it, Tritoch DID kick some ass by itself. Well played.

KyleGamgee

I liked this boss fight. It was the first of many fun times with this game.

But to answer your question, it could've been a dude in front of say, an electric gate, and he would run/hide tricking you into activating the gate's offensive capabilities. Same game mechanics, just no snail.

Aaron Mxy Yost

I would have gone with an even bigger snail.

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