Finest Fights
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Welcome to Finest Fights. A channel dedicated to video game boss fight design. Bosses are often the most memorable and engaging parts of any video game. A truly spectacular boss will stick with you for years, and completely change the way you remember a game. That's why we are taking a tour of some of the best ones ever made. On each episode, we will carefully dissect the gameplay, context and design concepts that makes that particular fight stand out. The goal is to create a series that celebrates bosses of all types from all over the video game landscape.
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The Corrupt Heart (Or Heart of Darkness, as i thought it was called) is definitely one of the hardest fights I've seen, but is actually only my second favorite literal heart of pure evil in fiction (Darkest Dungeon's final fight, if you haven't covered it, definitely has a place here, too). The heart is designed to be cheese-proof, and the first time I saw that +50 strength instantly punched through a 999 barricade that, unfortunately, never got Body Slam. I at least TRY to fight the Heart every run, but only about one in three decks actually break it, though, weirdly, Ascenion level 13 was beaten by a Grand Finale/Mirror Image infinite combo deck. This is actually a really good thing bc it means that the Heart will always feel like an earned victory because it cannot be cheesed, but you can still pull out a masterpiece going-infinite deck and shatter it into a thousand pieces.
The insane mode Necromancer Is the ultimate skill check in any game I've ever played , the boss itself is roughly as strong you are but that's not why I'd say that he's the ultimate skill check , the enemies he revives during wave 2 specifically challenge you to learn how to do all variants of Juggling your enemy due to the 3 weigh classes and the beefies actively punish you for trying to hide in the sky , wave 1 is hard as well but it is so easy to die to this boss because the enemy's move very fast and hit so hard , this is much harder during wave 2
Video suggestion: Memes aside, the Sans encounter in Undertale has to be my all-time favorite boss fight. It's just an incredibly clever and inventive fight, somehow managing to surprise even at the end of a game that was filled to the brim with subversive mechanics. Couple that with its brutal (but fair) difficulty, the emotional impact of the moment and a killer soundtrack, and I think the fight well earns its notoriety.
Nah. Time Snail is the greater run ender.
I really hate finding a solid video on a channel that I'm excited to possibly subscribe to only to find out it's long dead.
oh wait
I'm a year late but... sengoku rance, xavier first fight. Unlike the usual 6 party limit, this boss fight tests your current commander list and understanding of mechanics by shifting out fallen party members with ones still standing. If you only invested in 1 pokemon, you're not going to make it through this fight without asking the game to put you on babymode on the gameover screen, which doesn't lock you out of the game but does take away from your score total if you're aiming for a highscore. It's the first time I really bumped into a problem in the game bc on the first run, the enemies only attack you once per turn so you only need two teams - one for offense one for defense. Any extra members can sort of become a t2 attack team but it's not necessary. However, as the difficulty raises the enemies start hitting multiple times or story beats can stretch your army thinner. It's not exactly a big brain 4x strat game but rewarding knowledge of understanding your character list AND how it's a very character driven story really feeds back into itself from a mechanics perspective. NotOK/10 would play again and again. Really memerable characters. Felt like playing pkmn.
The heart kicks my ass more than 9 out of 10 times.
Defect with an Unceasing Top, a, Claw, and a Good Instincts however... Edit: Oh, right, uhhh, add in a Purity to get rid of the statuses I guess.
Love the concept of your channel, I hope you make more videos!
Where snail?
I don't think you'll ever convince me a slay the spire boss is well designed given they are almost always just stat checks that aren't balanced well
Okay. Having at least 3 blade dances + and at least 2 infinite blades is not optimal. Lol
I would love to see your take on the trope of the "roaming elite enemy in a beginner zone" like the black knights in dark souls. Bosses that test your knowledge on a first playthrough and make repeat playthroughs extra interesting
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Bro, why isn't this time eater?
I don't think time eater is that bad honestly. Sure he's a hard counter for combo decks, but his stats and attacks are weak enough that you can still win relatively easily if you have a good strategy. Donu and Deca can go f themselves for hard countering any decks with less than completely absurd damage though.
That isnt slay the spires most difficult boss, Time Eater is. I have walked over the Heart everytime i reached it, Time Eater has ended the vast majority of all my runs and if Time Eater shows up in a run you are building to fight the heart its game over just restart.
I personally have way more issues with The Awoken than Time Eater. Time Eater just asks you to be mindful of what cards you play and avoid anything that doesn't offer significant value. The Awoken attacks relentlessly requiring block generation on every turn and tears any build reliant on playing Powers to shreds.
Does anyone know how to unlock this boss?
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"Single use relics", what is this referring to?
7:50 'Acubus'? Did you mean 'abacus'? The tool that is designed to help one to count things and do basic arithmetic?
lol
Man, I thought this video was gonna be about the Jaw Worm
Long story short: - In a game all about buffs and debuffs the most uses said skills. - challenging but ot impossible. - has anti cheese protection while allowing for some hard to assemble strategies to work against it. - devs made sure the battle ends by adding a fair time limit that will kill the player no matter what.
I love the heart fight, I'm still preatty new to the game, but every time I face him is tense, today I had a defect run were I had a good build, but it took time to get going, I got to like 12 HP playing as best as I could when I finally got my engine going and them I almost jumped from the chair, I got like 1000 armor by the end of the fight
the heart is the bossfight of all time in the best way possible, surprised you didn't mention how it cleanses debuffs and gives artifact during buff
It is not a full debuff cleanse. The only thing it purges is negative strength. That's why things like poison still work on it.
solid vid, good break down.
Shame the channel is dead
sad you gave up
I enjoyed the video. Have you played Monster Train? I think Seraph is a fantastic final boss for a run. He is consistent yet variable.
Great video! Would've liked some background music or ambiance or something.
One of my favorite facets about the Heart fight is that, every once in a while, you string together the *perfect* set of deck and relic syngergies such that even the most difficult fight in the entire game becomes an absolute cakewalk. I had a Prismatic Shard Ironclad run once, where I got Dual Wield, Juggernaut, Talk to the Hand, and Barricade - I was generating so much block each turn and dealing such an obscene amount of damage that I ended the fight before I even finished setting up my block scaling by infinitely copying Talk to the Hand with Dual Wield. It was glorious.
Iron Clad should have learned martial arts instead of making a deal with the devil! :P
I’ve been playing this game for 4 years but still can’t beat the heart on ascension 20. i’ve beaten ascension 20 as the silent and as the watcher, but haven’t beaten the heart as either
Wtf!? didn’t realize people were consistently beating the heart. Never beat it on ascension 1 😢
this game is top 10 best games of all time in my book, up there with dark souls, tetris, world of warcraft and counter strike lol
My most distinct memory of this fight was watching one of my friends reach it, with a defensive Defect deck focused on weathering hits while slowly dealing damage, stacking up Powers with Hello World to win a slow fight. Then the Corrupt Heart buffed strength by 50 (to like +65?) and went for the 24 strike attack. it was really funny
That attack is my favourite part about heart It's like the heart tell you "Yeah those Turns are nice , catch these 65×12 won't you?" Making some slow deck (by slow i mean EXTREMELY SLOW) mostly dead against it
hope this channel isn’t dead, great vid!! would love to see the heart of the world from darkest dungeon and/or mithrix from ror2
Ive played like 30 hours of slay the spire and i have literally never seen any of these keys. Where is all this crap coming from? Ive never seen the option to take a key instead of resting. Never seen a key in a chest. And never even heard of super elites.
you need to beat act 3 with iron clad, silent and defect to unlock the keys
I kinda Wish the Heart Still Kept A Total Count of all the Damage done to it like befoee
You meed more subscribers.
I would vote Fatalis from monster hunter world. As a massive souls fan I've seen many different incredibly crafted and incredibly difficult bosses but somehow I believe Fatalis is the hardest but most fair fight I've played. Great vid and I always love running into the heart mostly because of how fantastic the music is as well as the fight
Fuck Fatalis 😅
Everyone hates time eater
Weird, the title says hardest boss in the game but it isn't about the time eater
I just watched your slay the spire video and was so impressed! Id really love to see more if you ever come back to this format
That last clip of the watcher gaining 68 block with 90 damage headed their way and only 19 hp... RIP...Except wait! The heart only has 33 HP left and will take 3 damage for every 6 it deals meaning it dies in 11 hits! So they only had to eat 66 damage before winning. Sooooo clutch!!
I know that these videos are over a year old but i ahve really enjoyed them! I hope that you make more in the future, i enjoy ypur analysis.
It's a shame you gave up on the channel...
Slay the spire's hardest boss isnt the heart, its jaw worm.
False, Strongest Boss is Time Eater
By "hardest boss" you mean the act 4 elite, right? Cause those guys have ended my run more times than I've even gotten to the heart.
I'm glad this vid popped up in my recommendations, watched your other vids as well, solid work all around! I hope you to see another vid from you in the future, have my notifications on and everything :) Keep being awesome!
I don’t know if you’re still making videos but The Lich from Enter The Gungeon is one of my favorite fights of all time.
Wish you made more man, this is amazing!