/vr/ - Retro Games

>>504137
Seconding, it also had a badass boss theme.

that looks pretty neato

Mother Brain from Super Metroid, gave me such a creepy feeling when she first came to life

>>504201
Forgot picture

>>504137

Basically every boss from Shinobi.

If you like that boss, OP, you'll probably like several bosses from Alissia Dragoon

Didn't care for him story wise, but love the look of his design.

Sauce, OP?

>>504312
Shinobi III, one of the best Genesis games.

Despite the tediousness, SOTN Beelzebub was a pretty cool boss.

Apparently it's impossible to find a non-shitty screenshot of it, but that 'boss' in Breath of Fire 2, where it's the old man fused with the gross demonic machine, and he begs you to kill him.

Before I knew you could save him by just killing the machine, I totally put him out of his misery. Felt horrible. Twisted even.

And I also fucked myself out of having the flying town later on, which I didn't learn for a long time. I was a dumb kid sometimes.

This one gives me the willies.

>>504864

Kirby 64 right? I think I remember fighting this guy in Dreamland 3 also.

>>504873
>Shinobi III, one of the best ANYTHING games.
Fixed that for you. It's a goddamn masterpiece.

Also:
>Watching people who haven't figured out the dashing slash has invincibility frames try to kill that boss.
My face when, etc.

The leadup to that fight and the music change make it epic. The first two stages had pretty normal boss fights, and then out of nowhere it throws this guy at you.

>>504908
No, this guy is only in Super Star (Ultra).

You're thinking of Acro.

>>504901
Why, anon? It's just a bunch of corpses wrapped around minor Elder God.

>>504912
I just jump kick the shit out of his face...

Thunder Force IV (pic related) has some really cool looking bosses and just design all around, not to mention the soundtrack. There's no way to justify how awesome bosses and shit are, you just have to play the game.

I love the silliness of Parodius and Sexy Parodius. Enough said.

I need to give a shout out to Bio-Hazard Battle, which has some of the most unique and weirdest overall designs I've seen in a sidescroller. Pretty much everything is alive in a sense your ship and the enemies aren't constructed metal aircraft, but instead biologically engineered living weapons.

>>505034
You don't find the movement of the hand and a safe landing spot tough to judge? I've been playing the game since release and something about how it moves still throws me off if I don't just 'cheat' and slash through it.

Everyone else I've watched seems to have the same timing problem as me. Maybe you just don't suck at vidya.

Hehehe, I'm an evil mad scientist who goes around doing insane things and making my creations based off of me, because I'm such an egomaniac! Clearly a giant robot based off of me would just be goofy and not a serious threat at all.

Yeah, no. Fuck you. And fuck you again in the next game. Twice.

Anything with Green. Even in the sequel.

>>505080
>eggomaniac
fixed.

>>505116
This is a thread for boss designs.
Just letting you know because I can't tell whether you're aware of that or not.

>>505168

And he's great because he has 8 designs.

>>505154
tyft.

>>505171
The designs never really did much for me. For me Seven Force was just a fun as fuck fight all five (?) times it happened.

clean and simple design

My favorite is enemies/bosses that don't even try to look cool

I mean look at this pimpin bitch
I bet he gets all the cake

Shortly after getting the internet in 2001, I found out that shooters were considered an actual genre of game.

In the research that followed (which was really just me spending entire afternoons reading about all these fuck-awesome games like Radiant Silvergun and Xexex) I came across what was the most disturbing end game boss I had ever seen.

>>505201
And then you shoot him twice and he dies.

>>505206
"I am just a sm- AAAAAAAAARGH"

>>505201
that looks really awesome. i dont know why i have never given the gradius games a try.

One of the best final bosses.

>>505214
my jaw dropped when i saw this as a kid.

>>505180

Visual designs are one thing, but there's more than just that for a boss. When you beat his seven forms, he just hops on his floating platform, not even phased and is all "you want your gem? Whatever, take it" and flies off like it was nothing.

>>504137
meat cthulhu

>>505080
"Yo Sonic, check it out. Finally stole the Master Emerald and used it to power my Death Egg. Wait, you expected me to just have it lying out in the open? Too bad, I turned it into a giant beam of go fuck yourself."

>>505037
That boss is one of my favorites in Thunder Force IV. The music for it is great too.

>>505247
>phased

The word you're looking for is "fazed."

>>505341
no, the word he was looking for was phased

>>505037
I love how most of the bosses in TFIV have an organic or creature-like appearance. Stage 8(?)'s boss with the moths was quite unsettling for some reason.

>>505753

no, it was "fazed".

>>505753

>As a verb, phase means to plan or carry out systematically. It’s usually followed by in or out. For example, when you implement a plan little by little, you phase it in. When you abandon a plan little by little, you phase it out. Faze means to disrupt the composure of. If you are not bothered by something, you are unfazed.

>>505080

Is that some new version?

>>505830
>verb (used with object)
>fazed, faz·ing.
>to cause to be disturbed or disconcerted; daunt: The worst insults cannot faze him.

>>505184
Kaneko is simply a god (goddess? I don't actually know).
While every other jap artist throws shit on badly drawn people like a christmas tree, this guy knows how to use silhouette and visual accents.

>>505201
>did I just hear an opinion.gif

Pretty much any boss from Wings of Wor (Gynoug) or Splatterhouse 1, 2, or 3.

>>504912

Those invincibility frames are the only way I could beat the final boss

>>504137
HOP HOP HOP

>>507927
I actually beat the final boss the first time I encountered him, which was a little disappointing. Basically, I made sure to have POW and two ninjutsus when I faced him, so I just used the lightning one twice which enabled me to keep my fireballs for a really long time. I kind of wish they had put in some precaution against that, like maybe making POW less effective against him than against the other bosses.

>>507956

How the fuck do you avoid the attack where he hops around and the spikes come up from the bottom?

I can avoid everything but that. I mean, I can still beat him, but I'd like to know.

>>507985
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szkc0s6AZuU

Almost everything from the earlier Metal Slug games is surprisingly good.

>>504137
You can tell that Shiny had a great time designing these bosses.

>>508151
I used to find her hot for some reason

Demon's Crest.

Just about everything except the final bosses are amazingly designed.

>>508212
Agreed, it's a very well-designed game overall.

>>504989
Wait so Leigon is actually in the center of that?

>>508264
was going to post this, great taste anon.

Pretty much any boss in a Metal Slug.
Zog, Jade, and Tyr from Breath of Fire.
Kraid in Super Metroid after he stands the fuck up. Novelty goes away when you then kill him a few seconds later.
The Mothership in R-Type Final, which was one of those the entire stage is the boss fight deals.

>>508906
Legion, and yes. They are also in one of the handheld Castlevanias.