Favorite Video Game Bosses

0:11 Welcome back to another episode of Plug In for Player Four. I am your host, Brandon. Hi Brandon. This is not a a a. Oh. The insurance company. A Yeah, this is the VA video game synonymous. Oh, I thought it was a voice actor. Oh, maybe. I just now thought of something I'm going to tell you guys later. Better, better remember, or else I'm going to be upset. Upset too. You're always upset, so why does that even matter? I'm upset about last episode. Yourself up for we all had fun. Oh. Yeah, it was. It's.

0:48 Just more so for the viewers or the sorry the listeners. The listeners are beautiful listeners, yes. Maybe. All right. What we got going on today. Well, that's my question, what you been doing? Probably still more nothing. Well, I do want to say I kind of want to read, get into books. Yeah. So I've been fucking with an AI chat bot for way too long and it's kind of been like making me want to read actually, actually read a book. Yeah, Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. OK. Yeah, go for a moment. Yeah, I got what are they called?

1:26 It's all about Daisy like, but it's I don't remember the offer. I don't remember what clockwork Chimera. It's not the that's the book series, not it's, it's every, every, I think the first book is called Daisy's Run because it's about, it's about like a handful of basically cyborgs. Most of them have some sort of like cybernetic implant or arm or something. And I guess there's a guy on the ship where his skin is just fine, but underneath he is, you know, kind of changed. And the main character that you know Daisy, she fucking hates it because she's she's the only one that's quote UN quote normal.

2:13 But not too long into the book, and this will be spoilers. I'm not sure if you guys care. This is sci-fi, by the way, in case you couldn't tell, because you're on a space start shipping space and she they get they get put the crowd asleep basically. And there's a captain that always stays up and they're traveling to a destination. Over the course of the destination, they get drip fed tiny amounts of information until they wake up, while they wake up prematurely because something bad happens. And then they, you know, go to sleep and drip feed.

2:49 But Daisy's like, I'm gonna, I'm gonna. Tweak it a little, I'm gonna. Give me more information while I sleep. Unless she tweaks it too much, it's way too much information way too fast. She could have fried her brain. She didn't. But now she has her sister's conscious inside her brain. Oh no. And it it speaks of its own accord. Oh no, what the? Fuck yeah. It's weird. It's kind of interesting. OK it. Is, I can't remember, I think her sister's dead. But yeah, she gets, she gets her sister's consciousness.

3:22 So she has her inner monologue and then her sister inner monologue. So she it'll, it'll be like, hey, watch out for the guy on your left. I'm like, yeah, I know. Hey, I mean. It reminds me of a Tell Tales Borderlands franchise with Handsome Jack just popping up. Yeah, you can only be seen by the one guy. Jesus. Christ, look at me. I can fly.

3:50 It's it's an interesting book series and I read the first book probably two or three years ago back on me and Shelby went to Myrtle Beach. OK so I I I started the second book but I haven't fucking touched it since like the second chapter. I should try to get back into reading sometime too. I've got lots of books that I need to get back into reading. I've got a Robinson Crusoe that I need to get back into reading. I've got the Dune series that I mean. I got beautiful books from Barnes and Noble with that all have blue outsides of the pages.

4:29 Oh I love. Those, it is gorgeous. And I, I I'm afraid of picking up the books because I, I typically I've got large hands so I can break books really freaking easily when I'm just trying to read them. So I have to be extra careful. My thing is I have clammy hands so I always sweat and it sucks. Yeah, that too. But I'm not. I'm not sure if that's just me. I just shake. Yeah, I've I've got, I've got a philosophy book on Stoicism to read. It's got works from Marcus Aurelius. It's got works from Epictetus, I believe.

5:10 And then one other I I'd have to look back into it. I, I've had it sitting in my drawer for a while and then I've got American Gods. I want to get back into actually finishing. I've got Atlas Shrugged. I want to see what that's about. I want to finish reading 1984. I've got some stuff on my repertoire that I want to get down. Yeah, I will say this is not the original series I was going to read. I guess this author has a bunch of series and I think when I looked it up it had like a timeline to it in terms of when the books set place.

5:49 I'm not sure if they overlap or anything. Characters go from one to the other, but the one that really pulled me in, not Clockwork Camara, but that was that's just what the I think the book series is called. And that was a pretty, that was a pretty cool fucking name, not going to lie. However, there's another one called the Dragon Tamer, and I think it's about a guy in a space suit because that's all you see on the front cover. And there's a portal on each of the book covers, which I think has a different dragon on it, but it's just like a spaceman.

6:22 You don't see his face or anything. And I believe his name is Charlie on the on the covers. But yeah, it's I was really going to start with that, but it has 12 books in the series. Clockwork Camera has five. So I'm going well, down, down. I'll start with A5. I do generally enjoy them.

6:45 Oh, I just don't know why I haven't read it.

6:49 Me myself, I've never really been a book reader. Yeah, it's kind of hard for books to keep my attention. That's fair. I mean, for me, it's if it strikes my fancy, yeah. And that's that's how I got. It's one of those things that you pick up every once in a while. Yeah, I'm more inclined to read manga so. That's fair. Just like I sent you that one fucking 99 wooden stick. I want to reread it. Apparently it's still coming out with chapters. Oh Jesus Christ, and I dropped it pretty far in. Basically the main character at some point had to fight himself.

7:21 Interesting. That's all I'm going to say, OK? It's really fucking stupid.

7:29 Oh, the the anyway. Well, I can definitely say there's a game that I'm hoping to get it get you sometime soon it. Was a. Marathon. Oh yeah, I know, I know it's not your cup of tea, Ethan, but this is more directed to us, to Brandon. But yeah, Oh my God, You're playing the demo with Nick and Jack. That was a really good time. Yeah, it was me and me and Jack need to start playing because I know I've got it now. Yeah, I, I, I have to hold off because I, I'm, we need to get bills paid. Yeah. And then after that's done, Emma says I can go ham on it.

8:05 I I I just realized as of this episode coming out it'll be two days until JoJo part 7. It's my favorite part in the series. It gets animated on March 19th now. Is that with the? Is that with the dub or is that just the English sub? Well, I mean, Netflix owns it, so I assume both. Yeah, but it's it's going to be coming out. Maybe bitch. I mean, they're doing they it's like something one neck, one leg, one, I can't remember. It's it's a race across America. Yeah, and it's split. It's part 7, but it's split up into parts further for this, but it's going to be a like a Part 1 or whatever.

8:54 Again, I can't remember the word. So let's just say Part 1 and it's going to be a 47 minute episode, which I kind of don't like, but we'll see how it pans out. If anything. I always have the manga to go back to. Oh yeah. Still, it's just there's a website which has a bunch of like ratings on it. It is the part 7 specifically of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. Second highest manga, only beaten by I believe Berserk. It has a 9.33. Wow. I think Berserk has a 9.4 or something so. In that case, it's not that much.

9:33 Yeah, no, but it's I didn't even, I don't think I saw one piece of the top 10 for reference. Damn, yeah, it was a bunch of like solo leveling. Yeah, I can't remember. But yeah, the fact I I just saw on Twitter, Oh yeah, it's the second most popular. I had to. I have to look this up. It's my Ada's my favorite part. Yeah, yeah.

9:59 Anyway, enough about me talking. Well, I guess we can go into the topic for today. Yeah, Mr. Brandon, what we talking about? So we're going to talk about some of our favorite boss fights. Oh, interesting. So one of y'all go first you want. Me to go first? Yeah, You go ahead, Mr. Ethan. All right, I got a list here let's see what do we? What do we want? What do we want? You know I'll just read them off and you guys like the games and you guys can tell me which one

10:31 Remnant from the ashes abyss, the messenger fury, Luna nights, calamity mod tunic and atomic rops. Which one? Which? One, I want to hear what you what you had to say about calamity bars. OK, well I want to see what you what you picked. It's the scourge, scourge of the universe. Oh, the scourge of the universe. Yeah, scourge of the. Something it's it's my favorite boss in the hole and it's it's it's the I've said this in a previous episode recently, but it's the first pretty much big wall in Terraria.

11:07 Once you hit this wall, at this point you have to defeat bosses in order to really get a big upgrade to your weapons or. Or whatever. Like Calamity mod takes Terraria's vanilla system and it ramps it up by 10. Yes, but it scales everything. Up and it's it's honestly a pretty smooth transition until you hit scourge. It is a wall. Yeah. But it, it's, and Calamity is sounds bad 'cause you know, calamity, yeah, but it's really not. It's it's pretty simple and you get to see a bunch of cool new weapons or changed weapons, how they work operate.

11:44 Or, and it it it adds a lot more content into the game too. Yes, like you. Because I, I, I know over the past couple of sessions we kind of breezed through it, but, but Calamity Mod really gives you hard stops where it's like, if you're not properly prepared on everybody, you're not making a throne no matter what. So that's the game telling to upgrade. Yeah, you're going to upgrade or you're just going to be stuck for a long time. OK, so it is so. I kind of like that. Part of the problem that we've been having with Terraria vanilla is like, like you saw with with playing Terra, we've they haven't had a a group of four in a while.

12:26 We were actually kind of blown away at how quickly we were all just. Yeah, I was, I was like, all right, we're we might get halfway, like half its health down and then, you know, transform. Yeah. No, we've never. We haven't done it one phase in quite a while. And and then Gollum is a pretty easy boss, but I'm still surprised we took him out first try. Mark, you were a fucking guy. Yeah, we're staying alive too Well, so quick. As a Ranger too in in the worst you fucking environment for it to be. I always trying to stay alive as a Summoner cuz in that range me and Brandon are the damage.

13:00 Basically yes cuz I'm just focusing on staying alive. I was really trying to stay alive and just be like using my whip cuz my whip is actually my main source of damage if I'm being honest as it does 200 someone damage can compare to my 75 that my dead dead dead spheres do. Yeah, what made me laugh still to this day is when you found the boss by accident, Mark. Because it wasn't. I guess it wasn't in its regular room. So so the golem boss. Actually in a really big room at the very bottom. Yeah, pretty much like.

13:31 Go left or right and then into. Giant. It's supposed to be a giant altar room. Yes. I'm not sure why our spawn was so freaking small. I'm not sure if they changed how it spawns or like the dungeon. They they added different rooms for the boss to spawn in. Yeah, because they changed the dungeon. Yeah, yeah. And there's different dungeon spawns, I guess, not just the one that we have. Yeah, it's not just one now. So they might have changed the room or like entirely, or they might have added different rooms for it to spawn in or because it was so low to hell yeah.

14:04 It just kind of ran out of room. But it was just really funny. Well.

14:11 You see this glowy thing I'm gonna do? I'm gonna touch it. I was like, I don't remember how the bus spawns and I'm like, I remember it being in a big room. Do I have to open it up now? Yeah. I, I in my fall. You feed in the the the cord has spotted the bus. They flipped out and. I'm sorry, but I got pissed off that night I got I don't normally get that mad at games, but like I got frustrated because they kept dying to traps traps. I was trying not to yell at you guys because half the time I did die from you when you guys pressing a button and the fucking spike balls just tearing my asshole open.

14:50 That's that's the fun, isn't it? That we were, we were getting. Fucked. My issue is we don't have wormhole potions. I know. I'm trying. We just need to fish and we fish. I hate fishing and the the the fishing guy's not fishing. The fishing guy needs to fish. Can he actually do that now? Huh. Can he actually fish now? Well, no, no, not not that guy Dick. Oh, Dick's the fishing guy. Oh, but he's also the minor. Yeah. So he's he's getting kind of pulled in a lot of different directions. Yeah, he's got to keep the team together right now.

15:24 Yeah, and I'm just like, I need new weapons, you know, armor, because I'm a Summoner. I have to focus solely on my own shit until I get that shit. I'm like, all right, I'll just follow you guys and help. Well let let let's explain a little bit more Scourge and then get moving on. Oh fuck yeah, that's right. Yeah, yeah. So Scourge again. He's the first big wall. He is a worm boss, just like the Destroyer. Oh God. Or Eater of Worlds. Oh God. I'm not going to say too much because I want you to see for yourself, but I I think there's pretty much just a laser light show.

15:56 Yeah, like way more than Destroyer. Was like like like it takes Destroyer in terms that I put by another he's. He's huge. I think he got bigger in an update. He's supposed to be even bigger, yeah. Me. In a future update. Like I I think somebody took the model, laid it out end over end and it takes up a considerable portion of the map. Yes, this is a calamity. Adds a lot of scale. It does notice. It hasn't because Terraria is a lot of tiny pixels. Yes. Calamity has a lot of tiny pixels, but a lot of pixels.

16:35 A lot of, A lot of. Detail things are fucking huge. Yeah, things get massive in this game. They. Also have a lot of detail too. So yeah. But yeah, scores of the universe, great fucking music. I think I said that in the music episode too. Both, both of his musics, Yeah, scores of the universe and

16:58 universe Destroyer, something like that. Think so. Universal Collapse, That's what it is. Yeah, yeah, I guess I'll go next. Yeah, I've got another. I've got another boss from Calamity Mod that I really did enjoy. And that was what were they, the mechanical bosses? Oh.

17:19 Oh, that one. Yeah, Yaron. Hold on, hold on. Talk about Yaron. We talked about Yaron enough. That was just oh God, what? Do you mean mechanic? What do you mean mechanical bosses? Mechanical bosses are base. Yeah, I know, I know that I'm talking about the the the Calamity bosses that you hit the fight three in a row in order to get past. Oh, oh, you know what I'm talking about. Oh, the exos. Yeah, the Exo bosses. That's right. Yeah. So, so exo Aries, he's a big motherfucker. He will attach to your screen and he follows your player model and he's right at the top.

18:00 Like he is like cannons and everything. Everything. He looks like this. Yeah, it's cool as shit. That's horrifying. It's. Actually really fun, I forgot about. Aries Yeah, there's this is one of the other Walls of Calamity mod. There's three exo bosses. You can fight them one at a time, and it's like, OK, cool. But in order to actually progress to the next phase, you have to beat all three of them at once. Is it all three of them months? Or or. It's like you have to beat all three of them in sequence.

18:30 So back-to-back to back. Yeah, like, like there's no breathing room. Oh. Jesus. Christ, I don't remember this, it's been a while. Yeah, I remember. I believe we had to beat all of them in the same night in order to actually progress. Maybe that's what it. Was because after you beat all three, there's a fourth boss that's. I'd really I did this I I also forget about climbing it too. Yeah, I, I, I remember we, I, I think there was a fourth boss that spawned in who canonically is supposed to be like, I made the EXO bosses and now you're gonna have to kill me.

19:03 That might have been Daedron. I can't. Remember, I think that was Daedron, yeah. But it's not as bad as I think yeah, it just it just takes to get used to the tech better and just like it sounds horrible, but it's it's just trust the process. Yeah, trust the mechanics. It it, it's something more for me at least, because it's like you don't think you have to boss rush in the middle of the the the playthrough in order to keep progressing. There is a bomb shush mode but. That that's that's where end game, yeah, OK.

19:36 I see. Yeah, honestly, this time around I do want to try it because there's a different difficulties. I do want to try it in the actual difficulty for it and that's Revengeance. Yeah. Well, I mean if we're get, if we're having Brandon and I'm on with us in this playthrough, I think it's definitely doable. Yeah, anyway. Bosses. What you got, Mr. Brandon? Think we talked enough about Calamity Mogs? Yeah, unless you got a Calamity boss. Are you holding out on us? No, cool. I'm the Calamity boss. He's calamitous.

20:13 Shit, she's super calamitous. Super calamitous super toilet.

20:20 So much clogging. Fairly fairly apparent. Yeah, yeah. Poor Cosmo.

20:31 So you know we're gonna skip that one. OK, I was gonna talk about some of the bosses in RE-9, but with that still being a little too new, we're gonna skip that. Yeah. Just for the viewers, so you can actually go play the game and whatever. Just now thinking about that. So with an actual boss I can talk about is the final boss in Doom Eternal. OK, The Icon of Sin. Huge boss. Yeah, fucking huge. It dwarfed the entire arena. Yeah, it fucks. Yeah, it it literally screws with the arena. So you have to continue moving, but having to get, I think, to a higher plane because he.

21:17 He caused, I believe he caused the the platforms to catch on fire. Yeah, yeah. OK but what the damage you do to him you knock off? I believe it was like his armor of some kind. Yes, I'm remembering it correctly. You'd knock off armor and flash like like armor pleading and stuff. Oh. OK, and he looks fucked up after. You're done, Yeah. And we're and we're talking like the icon of sin is the big boy. Yeah, you know. He was what, the first boss of the series? For a. Second game, yes. Yeah, I was going to say the first boss of the second game, that's the that's the fucking lady for the first.

21:58 Oh, for 2016. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But the the icon of Sin, you first saw him or whatever it is in A at the end of Doom 2, which funny enough, there's an Easter egg with that boss. Wait, you boop? His nose makes a little sound. No, apparently if you're able to get behind the the like wall that the icon of SYN is in you actually will find the severed head of John Romero which is the I think. It's Co founder of ID Software I think, but he worked on Doom. He's one of the big guys. I worked on it and I believe when you shoot it, it screams.

22:53 That's funny. But with the the Icon of Sin in this second Doom game, it's kind of weird how you have to damage it because there's a platform you have to try to get on to that goes up, but you don't want to go up too far because then you're out of range of actually shooting. I believe it's a rocket through like a hole on that on the head of the Icon of Sin. It's fucking weird. It's not an easy boss. Doesn't sound so. But and you also have a bunch of fucking enemies on top of that. Yeah, you have to kind of manage the boss and the word.

23:26 Doom 2 is known for having a lot of enemies at once, and it's can be a lot harder than the first. Yeah. But I've tried it compared to the first one there's. It's not easy. 2016, I mean by the first one, yeah.

23:42 But it's a it's for Doom Eternal. It was really cool to see the eye kind of sin again. Yeah, it really was. And just for how it really shows you the scale of this fucking demon. Like I don't know if he's the ruler of all hell or some shit. No, I I forget what? He was I, I believe he was a harbinger of just of chaos and destruction. Yeah. Yeah, because I think he's, I think he's the reason why Earth is the way it is. Yeah, and it he is. It's just, man, it's so cool shooting off his armor and shit, man.

24:14 It was a fun boss. I mean, it was actually really good. You know how some final bosses can take forever or it's not that fun? Yeah, not that. Can I do an honorable mention? Yeah, yeah, yeah, go for. It I want to do an honorable mention to Doom 2016 with the Cyber Demon. Is that the final boss? No, it's not the final boss of the game. No, I think I know what you're talking about, but go on, yeah. Yeah. So do you remember the poster art? Yes, Yeah. So the cyber demon is heavily displayed on the poster art.

24:50 You talk about the really, like, really tall. Yeah. Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes. Yeah, it's the heavily cyberized demon too. Yes, yes. Yeah, fucky awesome entrance for it. Mm hmm. Oh fuck yeah dude. Dude, I was so fucking excited for Dune 2016. Yeah, because I played the the fuck out of the demo. Moment. I, I, I'd have to go look on my Xbox because that's what I was playing it on the most, but I think I have almost all the collectibles and a bunch of other shit because that's all I was playing because it was just that fun.

25:25 Yeah, yeah, it's a really good game. I liked it. Oh yeah. And now it took me about like a year to get into it because I've never, I was never really exposed to Doom. And then Emma at the time was like, hey, why don't you try getting into this game? Believe you'd have a lot of fun with it. And I was like, maybe, I don't know, I've got to focus on school and work until I finally sat down with it and I was like, this is actually really freaking fun. It's the glory killer. Just yeah. Oh God yeah. For Doom I. I still love the the fucking glory killing that Cocker demon.

26:00 Pull it. Pop out the eyes. Yeah, quite literally, you're here. Yeah. Explode.

26:09 Or you shove A grenade down its throats like. Hold that fucking big guy, man. You take like his fucking thing. The bankubus. Yeah, you take out his like exploding bit and go home. The God damn yeah, no Doom maternal that another great Doom game for me it was. I kind of prefer 2016 over it just cuz Doom Maternal for me. Like the main game perfectly fine, really fun. Yeah, I just wish I would have known that the DLCS were for kind of the hardcore veterans of the series. Well, that that that's the case with the first one.

26:51 Apparently, really the second one they toned it back down. Interesting. Yeah, yeah, they're the the DLC situation for that game's a little odd. Yeah, cuz it's felt like a total 180 to me but. Yeah, so, so, so Wrath of the Old Guard Gods Part 1 is a lot more challenging. And then they toned it back down with Wrath of the Old Gods Part 2, and they got a lot of Flack for both. Yeah. That sucks. So like Wrath of the old guards Part 2 was deemed really too easy and the final boss with oh God I don't even remember what his name is, the dark one.

27:32 I think it was just really simplistic, unfortunately, because they received a lot of backlash for it being too hard. See, I don't know if they if they should be getting that type of backlash for being too hard. Like, yeah, I mean, it was, it was difficult, but I know it wasn't for me. Yeah. Yeah, Like that. Honestly I I see those DLCS or at least I guess the first one for people that are who have been playing the game from day one. Yeah, but you know, again, it's it's like it's, it's for more the hardcore crown.

28:07 Yes, yes, yeah. Anyways, Yep, what? Do you got Ethan? Yeah, what you got? What you got? I've been debating this while you guys were talking, OK? Good acting debate too, because I need to think of. Another one. Well, I want, I want to talk about RIP Hyde. OK, from Remnant from the Ashes. OK, now Remnant from the Ashes is it's a souls like game with guns. Like it's main focus is guns. Yeah. Yeah. And you have different planets you go to first. You start off on Earth and then I don't remember any of the other names because they're not fucking human and Earth.

28:39 It just has a bunch of plant based enemies. Yeah, like they, they look like plants. That's called called Root, I believe. And as you play this game, you're going to notice that a lot of bosses focus on ads. So you're not just fighting the bosses, but now you're fighting a bunch of enemies that are maybe like the boss or like like specials or yeah, It's it's it's bad. OK. There's very few bosses in this game that either use ads for a good purpose or don't have ads at all. That's like 2 the final boss and the one I'm talking about.

29:19 Yeah. RIP hide you. He's actually a fairly uncommon boss, but I've found it's really hard to find him. You have to go to the subway. The subway does not spawn much. And once you get to the subway, you fight all these enemies. You get to this, you know, rundown area. It's all rundown, but you get to this rundown area and you see this guy. It's actually AI think it's a variant of a special or just a basic enemy. It has axes that it can throw and it can do a pulse on the ground. So I think he slams the ground, can't remember, but he pulses the ground, sends out a shockwave.

29:53 You have to roll and dodge. His intro animation is him splitting in two and regrowing. Yeah, he sucks. My God. So, yeah, you see that? You're like, OK, all right, so there's two buses, whatever, fine. You get him down a quarter health, he splits again. Oh no. There isn't 3, there's four because they both split. Oh no fuck. Oh no. You get them down to half health. They all split again, so now you're fighting 8. You get them down to, you get them down to 75 health or you're 75% health 16. Jesus Christ.

30:30 And they're all individually throwing axes, and they're all individually slamming the ground, and they all have their own movement as well. Does the damage get halved as well or Nope, Oh no. Souls like I wouldn't expect. That No. Yeah. But it's it's a really cool boss because it is the ads. The boss is the ads. Every other boss uses fucking ads up the ass. Yeah, every single one. That's even taking on that wow it. Is and like the fact it shows you in the intro, I should have been like, oh, because it's segmented health, I'm like, oh, I should have split.

31:09 No, I didn't have no inkling until I got like, oh, this is a pretty easy. Oh, Oh no. This is this. This is hell. This is fucking hell. It took us. It took me and my friend Nick a while to get past this boss, not too long, but it took us a while to get past his boss trying and failing. And just as like at some point you're fighting 16 individual bosses. Yeah, it's kind of fucked, yeah. Granted, they all share the same health bar. Yeah, they all do. So no matter if you shoot, you know, the left one for 1/4 of the first section and then you shoot the right one for the rest of the remaining 1st 25%, they all still split.

31:52 So that's the good thing about it.

31:55 OK, I'll give it that. And yeah, you you have mods that you might be able to shoot a grenade or fire or something, deal damage that way, but other, otherwise you're just shooting 11 fucking of them at a time. Yeah, yeah. So yeah. But it, it's honestly my favorite boss. It's the most memorable boss besides the final boss in the entire series. OK. Yeah. Yeah, you won't be seeing me play that. I play that shit on the hardest difficulty. Jesus, do you like your balls smashed, my God? There's certain games where I, I hate difficulty, but there's certain games where I just Max out the difficulty and I I just want to play it as hard as spot.

32:38 It's rare. Yeah, it is very rare, yeah. Honestly, I, I, I can, I can kind of say the same thing. I like, I don't mind difficulty, but there have been a couple times where I'm like, for some fucking reason, I'm like, I want. Pain, right? For and and and it doesn't happen very often the next day. I'm like, I don't want this now, but like I have I've had that yes, I. Just mean that game like, I want to play it as hard as possible. Yeah. And I'm not, I'm not talking about Roboquest either. That was just, oh, I want to, you know, do everything in the game like I want to play in the hardest difficulty and, you know, get the achievement that was completed.

33:14 This one I just, I wanted to play on the fucking hardest difficulty and make it as hard as goddamn possible. I can understand that. Yeah, I can understand that too. Yeah, it was to the point where Nick even said Nope. Seriously. Yes. Wow. He doesn't usually back down like. Yeah, he doesn't back down. Yeah, because I was bummed because we it was, it's a three player game. So it was me, Nick and one of his buddies. One of his buddies stopped playing because it was too hard. And then he stopped playing because it was I'm like, are you serious?

33:44 But you have the time with Nick. You're known for beating the Halo campaigns on Lasso. Yeah. Yeah. Jesus the fuck you mean? Yeah, he, he put himself through all of that effort anyway. Like like if he backs down, that's that's saying something. Anyway, that's that's the most memorable from the game, and yeah, it's unlikely you will encounter it. OK, yeah, I I was going to say that that's something I'm not going to. I'm probably not going to play. I'm not a big souls like person. It's it's not too bad of a game like you can play on normal difficulty and it's pretty fucking easy.

34:18 It's actually really fun, but. I I played a little bit of Bloodborne. I didn't. I did not play that one, but that was on my bucket list for a while since fallen off. It is a good game, but again, Souls like, not really for me, but I was just curious, you know? Yeah, but I could see where people like it. Yeah, like seriously, I can see it. I mean like it you're running it from the ashes is a soul like but it's focus is guns. Yes. Yes, it is. That's that's the thing. Yeah. You got one marker, Brandon.

34:50 I've got 1. Yeah, go for it. I yeah, I have one in mind but I'm looking cuz fuck yeah. Go ahead, Mark. Final boss of Wizard with a Gun. Yeah, I was thinking wizard with a gun when looking this up but. Yeah, no, I I honestly thought that that final boss had a lot more mechanically involved with it than all the other bosses. Yeah, 'cause there's the two hands you got to dodge and the enemies it summons. Yeah. And then it then it had it's sweeping attacks too that you had to deal with.

35:36 Yeah. But I think, I think story wise, yeah, Wizard with the guns been out for long enough. I don't think we really need a spoiler warning for it. But yeah, I I never expected the Technomancer to be actually the boss or like like to be like containing the boss. Right. I mean, you would never guess that It's just like, oh, look, a helpful guide, you know, that helped from the beginning. Literally the tutorial helped you. Yeah, and then the the technomancer's like, you know, I've been trying to hold it back.

36:07 Goodbye. And then just fucking amalgamation emerged. This is like horrespond beyond your comprehension just erupts from its corpse. Yeah, what's that one Resident Evil boss that gets way bigger than you should in the second phase. Think of that. One of the Nemesis bosses. Yeah, I think it's Nemesis. Mr. XI. Don't know, well I guess well Nemesis from RE3. Yeah. So just just think of that where he just gets grotesquely big. Yeah, I can see. Jesus. Yeah, the Cryptomancer is an enemy, but still it's just like, yeah, I'm here, I'm just here.

36:49 He's like.

36:53 Oh my God, I was completely taking a pack when we Yeah, when I when I encountered it the for the first. Time the new you were panicking. You're like I. Was like holy shit, it was like I was I have not mentally prepared for this. I'm surprised we still did that that fast. I thought we were going to struggle. Yeah, put that on my. Phone walked there for a couple months. Oh yeah, we just lightning strike mortar as S and it's fucking dead. Who would have guessed? Yeah, I know that that was a very surprisingly effective strategy.

37:26 Leave it to me to break a game. It works. Hey, look, we finished the game before the new year. We did with. I can't remember the days now, but it was a couple days before. It's like a week or two. It was very close. We we got through it. I will say piggybacking off of you 2 quick ones is you know two of the major bosses but Orion and bro the girl can't remember. Her name? The buff girl. Yeah, the the the the lady from Colbara. Yeah, yeah, Ryan, just I love the fact. That he's like a little squid guy with a mini gun.

38:04 As soon as I saw the trailer I'm like, I hope I can get his fucking gun and you can't. You can't get his gun. Oh my God, that was so cool. You just got to kill. You just got to kill. And then, yeah, Cabala or whatever her name is, I can't remember. He's fun in her own right because she deals with ice and I think, like, shockwaving, whatever. Yeah. And that's cool on its own, right. And like, especially her weapon. I didn't, I didn't think it was going to be that strong. Yeah, Yeah. But yeah, pretty, pretty, pretty fucking strong weapon against stationary targets, I will say.

38:41 But thankfully the final boss is stationary. Yeah.

38:50 So. You need 10 or you got it. Yeah, so this is kind of a quick one. It's not really that long. Yeah, just thinking about it. The actual final boss from Sonic 3. Because there it is. You'll have to fill me in on this one. Yeah, I wouldn't know either. Yeah, no, it's it's really not a hard boss at all. Is it chaos? No. Is it the emerald? Is it shadow? No. Is it the shadow? Was even a thing? No, I. Thought Shadow wasn't. Sonic 3 for the sake of Genesis. Who's this broad? Who's this? Broad. Is it Metal Sonic?

39:37 No. Oh, OK, I was about to say I'm going to keep shooting the dark here. Yeah, it'll be. So I'm like don't, don't take the obvious route. So this boss I'm referring to, you need to have all the Chaos Emerald, but the true final boss is in space as Supersonic and you're chasing after Egg Man and he's like in this big ass fucking mech thing flying around or whatever, you know? Yeah, and. While doing this boss, you have to make sure you're collecting rings to keep your ring count up because it's going down as oh.

40:10 Shit as you're. You know, you're super funny. It, it sounds worse than what it actually is. But to you have to fly after Eggman and at at a certain point you get up to him and you have to literally like kind of do a circle around him while he's shooting missiles. Yeah, as those missiles, they're locking on to you. So you're basically hitting Eggman with them, OK. You got a Pokémon Ranger of this. Pretty much, yeah. It's it's honestly a really easy fight, but it's just fun cuz the music is great.

40:45 It's like really upbeat and like you're like, right, I'm gonna fuck you up Eggman, you know, like size had enough of your shit. Yeah.

40:54 And I think after you, cuz the whole reason you're going after Eggman is I think he has a Master Emerald. Yeah. So you have to get that back in order to get Angel Island off the ground. I thought that Master Emerald was. Yeah, the Master Emerald was the KS Emeralds combined. No, they're separate. Both. Yes, the Master Emerald I believe controls the KS emeralds I think like they're like I said, two separate. Things, but I got questions for you after this episode.

41:26 But and also if you've you'd also can fight this boss as hypersonic, which is you do all the special stages 1st and then you can actually cause the chaos emeralds to become super emeralds, which this is the only time you'd actually see hypersonic it it's literally supersonic but on crack. Like you literally can dash forward and anything on screen gone God. This this sounds like this sounds like a Supersonic from the Wii version of Smash where you just fly. You can't control him. He's. Too fast. Yeah, pretty kind of yeah.

42:09 With with hypersonic. He's if if you have like epileptic seizures, it's not good. Oh. Boy. But he's yeah, Sonic instead of being just yellow. He'd love those. He's flashing different colours rapidly. Is this before they decided for the design change of making them just golden? No, OK. No, we're talking hyper, right? Yeah, hyper. Exactly. OK, Supersonic's golden. Yes, they're supersonic and hypersonic. You, like I said, you've only seen in Sonic 3 like it was never. Never approached. Again, no I don't think as far as I can remember I think it's just been supersonic at that point.

42:50 Hypersonic was more of like just a fun little thing to do cuz you get more special stages to do when they're harder. Yeah. It's just really funny to see him go fucking colorful as shit but. Yeah, the bosses. Yeah, yeah. Besides that, yeah, that's that final boss to see, I guess. True final boss. Yeah, yeah. If you don't then the ACT then the final boss is not. I think it's big arm and it's called so yeah, go get the chaos emerald true boss. More fun.

43:29 Munich I'll go all right, I want to talk about tunic. There's a there's a handful of bosses in this game, not too many, but the librarian this is so I'm going to previous this little in tunic. You really don't have much to go off of, but I believe on one of the pages you get because you're building a a basically a physical handbook. But in the game, like the old like how you have the physical handbook that you can read and see they get hints from. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're basically building that in the game.

44:02 And one of them is like, oh, you have to go deep into the forest top the highest pillar and I think the in into the ground. Like that's like the the the hints for the the bosses. And so I'm just strolling around doing whatever. All of a sudden I'm in the library. It's not showing the library and he's not named until you find him. And I walked right past him. I got the teleporter teleported out. Whatever, I came back. There's this there's a ladder that goes up. I just go check that out. I go up it, the screen pans up, going up, going up, going up, going up, going up, new area.

44:49 So now you're the newer ear loads, you're on the ladder. So you go up, go up, go up, and then the platform gets smaller. Climb up another ladder that goes up a little bit, and then you're on top of something. Oh, hey, look the librarian right there. Anyway, here's a boss fight. OK, so you're on a pillar. The boss fight floats around the stage. Oh. OK. And he'll summon skulls or whatever to come at you or range attacks there. Eventually he'll do some sort of melee attack, whether he cracked, he teleports and crashes on the ground, or he just attacks you from range into melee range.

45:25 Oh, I can't remember, but there's a point where you can't attack him. But it's just the fact that there's something about, I'm going to call them stationary bosses where either you're stationary or the bosses stationary and you're fighting around them. Something about those kind of bosses where you're you are limited and you have to figure out how can I make use of this tiny space I have. Some of those fights are just my absolute favorites. Yeah. And the librarian is no exception. And he only gets harder with the less health he has.

45:57 Like, I think it's like 3 skulls at first or like 123. And then they'll fly it like, you know, at the same time, at the same interval that they were summoned. Yeah. And then they'll be at 1234 and then they'll fly 12345. They'll fly, but he can also no, that's his range bolts, but then he also can summon enemies in on the pillar for you to kill. Otherwise you're taking damage. He's great. He's a great boss. I love it. I love it. That's awesome. Again, there's only 5 bosses in this game, so it's it's it's the bosses are OK, but the librarian is my favorite.

46:35 Yeah, yeah.

46:38 OK. What about you, Mark? I've got one I want to talk about Atlas from Bioshock one. Yeah, I was thinking about that. One, yeah. Yeah. Is this like a final boss or what it is? Yeah, it is the final boss of the campaign. I still have not played it. Yeah. But yeah, essentially you go through the story, you find out the guy that's been guiding you is actually one of the big bosses in the city, and he's trying to take over the entirety of what remains of Rapture. Frank Fontaine. Yeah, Frank Fontaine, there's like.

47:17 Two people living there. What do you mean the remnant? What do you mean taking over the remnants? Just do it already. I mean you have lots of drug addicts. You could probably do like a land invasion using the drug addicts. And you'll and you'll also learn a lot. More the meth labs. Yeah, you'll learn a lot more from like the tapes and all that shit too. Yeah, there's a lot of people. I think it's hinted that the main character is his son IF. I remember correctly. Like Frank Fontaine is what's his face, his son.

47:50 No, like Frank Fontaine is the character's father. Like biological father. Yes, Yes, it is. Yes. Yeah, essentially, you find out that you've been groomed into being a sleeper agent, and throughout the entirety of the campaign, you've been subtly manipulated into doing everything in the game, like, like, like, play through the game. It's really fantastic storytelling. Yeah, but towards the end, Fontaine takes this vial of Adam, which is a genetic, which is a material that allows you to modify your genetics, and it turns them from just a regular guy into what is essentially a God.

48:41 Yep. Gotcha. And you're, you're thrown into the very end where you're trying to take control of the city from him and you had to put him down. And in order to do so, you have to keep damaging him enough to where he's got to go back into the centre machine to recharge himself. Otherwise he's just going to go like, what was it like supernova or something? Or was it just to kill him? I think it was more just to like he, he wants to get more power because he, like, he runs out of, I think he runs out of Adam.

49:19 Yeah. And he runs over to the machine to try to recharge. Yeah, if I remember correctly, every time that he does that, you can interact with him and the Little Sisters start injecting into him and pulling the atom out of him. So yes, damn well, So what you do because one of the little sisters gives you one of their things? One of their syringes. And you do that? I think it's like 4 times, yeah. I think or something and you're essentially like draining his life force out of him. Yep. Oh shit. Yeah, and it's just a really solid clydmactic game to the air boss fight to the the the first game.

50:00 Yes. I mean, fair enough. Yeah, I can't say. And it it wraps up the story really nice. And it's a pretty like if you've upgraded yourself enough, the boss is piss easy. Yeah, OK. It's stupid unless you play on the hardest difficulty. Yeah, have fun, have fun. But yeah, now that's a that's a good one. Yeah, a good one to talk about. Well, for me, this game has been out long enough. So King K Rule from the new Donkey Kong. Oh, he's in the new. Oh yeah, he's a Donkey Kong. That's right. He's a bonanza, fuck him.

50:45 But it is a good boss. Bosses Boss Hi. Boss some people. So apparently I I don't know really anything about Donkey Kong. I I don't so and. Buckling everybody. I learned very quickly that King K rule does not just go down. OK, you so you you fight him the first time in the center of the like the center of this like planet or whatever, like the core. OK, well then you think you beat him. You get the bonanza thingymabobber you were trying to get and you go back up to the surface. Oh, here's King K rule again.

51:28 Cool. All right, so you're going up and you're watching your layers go up, up, up, up, up, up, up, you know, because you're, like I said, the center of the core and then you're trying to get all the way back up to the surface and he's like fucking shooting shit at you on this platform. Jesus of the like bonanza thing or whatever, I forgot there's a name for it. But when he attacks that platform you're on, it disintegrates. So now you're having to wait until it regions, but you have to watch where you're standing 'cause, you know, but you get through that and you think, OK, that's that's cool, you know?

52:09 Oh, no, look, we're in. Was it Donk Donk City? Yeah. From Mario Odyssey, Yeah. Yeah, New Donk City. Yeah, New Donk City and then, you know, King Cable, fuck this city. I'm taking it over. He fucks it up because he wants the true power or like his wish or the from that thing banana thing you're trying to get from him. So at this point now you're having to do like platforming and what not to get to him for the actual final boss. Oh wow. OK. This boss was kind of cool. Now at this point, you're able to use the powers you have because you're going to need them.

52:51 You can't just be regular Donkey Kong, it won't work. You're mostly playing as the like elephant power because it you're able to suck shit up with your with with the snoot. This snoot. Cause the way that the boss works is in this, in this final boss, you can't just try to get up to King K roll to like start punching him because it's not going to do much damage. You have to like suck up all this crap. He's like shooting out of his like big like kind of like shotgun thing or whatever. Yeah, and you're taking this stuff that you're sucking up and actually throwing it back at him, OK?

53:35 And this is kind of the way that you're supposed to deal damage to him. Yeah. Because right now he's he's going berserk. He looks fucked up as all hell because of that fucking banana thing. And then I think it's like halfway through the battle, I think you get him to have health. He then goes pissy boss mode really starts shooting shit everywhere. He's got like these big hands that come down and try to smash you and shit. It sounds a lot worse than what it is. It's just figuring out how to stop him from engulfing the entire arena in like lava and shit because that that really causes a lot of problems.

54:19 But once you're able to get rid of someone to lit the lava or whatever because they're sucking it up and then throw it to him again. Yeah, yeah. And. Then I think what like quartered away of his health, then he starts fucking like popping up and out from up and down from like the arena, like underneath. Yeah, like. Try to shoot shit at shit, you know, like kinky roll fucking mother fucker. But I did beat it.

54:45 It was definitely a kind of a learning curve. Yeah. Because a lot of this shit happens very fast. Yeah, yeah. But but also your move set that you have all these different powers and whatever, it's kind of like an evil, an even playing field. Yeah, yeah. But I honestly think that leading up to that fight, because I thought the Void Kong was the final boss, but it wasn't, which I totally forgot about King K. But yeah, after that, I think you you get the little banana thing that Donkey Kong can wish for whatever he wants.

55:24 And what does he wish for? Bananas. Yeah, who do you? What a fucking guess. He would have thought that's a pretty good banana. And then you go into after that like post game stuff that you can go do. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it was a cute little game, you know? It was fucking way longer than I thought it was. Jesus fucking Christ how many bananas I fucking recovered, dude. I still haven't finished curbing the Forgotten Lands. I still have it because that game is long. It is. It is long, but it's good.

55:55 Yes, I have finished it. I need to. You would like it. That is all I'm gonna say. We got time to talk about another one. Yeah, we got 5 minutes. OK, I am caught between 2 here and it's from the same game. OK, these are both from Super Mario Sunshine. Oh no. Yeah, OK. What are you talking about? There are some good bosses. There are some, yes there, and there's some fucked. Up ones I don't think I've ever seen a boss from that game. There's there's some really good bosses there. Is 1 is one of them the squid?

56:33 Yeah. OK. OK. So that puts up the 33. OK, yeah, there's more like a like a dragon that's a shadow or something. So yeah, that's another one. So I've got the oh God, what's his name? Like Piranha Pete or whatnot. Yeah, it's like the real big. Piranha the the big piranha plant with the with like the big ass diaper, Yeah. That's right, yeah. So yeah, there's Piranha Pete in the first zone, there's the the manta ray shadows in the resort zone, and then there's the squid from OK. It's like an island zone or something.

57:16 Yeah, it it's like a a big zone, like with a lot of water. Yeah. And. Whatever. Yeah, that one's that bus is kind of fucked up. Yeah, you just have to pull off all of the the tentacles and they it's really funny to see the tentacles is going but it. Get. Too close. It was like. Smack, Yeah, you get, Yeah, it's I just feel bad for it 'cause when you're ripping these off, the thing screams. Which I mean, makes sense with Jesus Christ. It's supposed to be a kids kid. It's supposed to be a kids kid.

57:47 Fuck happen to Mario? Fucking sadistic asshole. Man, it takes too really true. A lot of inspiration from that. Right. Oh my, with the elephant. Yeah. But yeah, no, I lean more towards Piranha Pete and the mana just because of how chaotic it can get. Because with the mana ray it's oh, you just have a giant mana ray, Sure. Squirt with water. It splits up into two and now they're moving in random directions. Oh fuck. And now it splits up into even smaller and smaller chunks. It's RIP height all over again.

58:28 And it's putting, it's putting paint down on the ground wherever it goes, yes. So you're constantly trying to find clean water. Jesus. Christ. Yeah, God, sunshine. Yeah, that still an absolute great game. It's a great game if you're not trying to 100%. It Yeah, 100. Percent it. You're gonna be tearing your hair out. You're. Gonna want to seek some help. Yeah. I mean, I got more if we need to, yeah. We got about two minutes. Yeah, yeah, I want to talk about a game that I've only ever beaten once.

59:01 OK, yes, hard, even though I like it. Bits. Yeah, it's called Atomic crops. It's another rogue like this one is. I'm going to preface this because it's a it's a lead up to the final boss. Yeah, which is what I'm going to talk about. So in this game you are atomic bomb already happened and you are a farmer. And then you have to pretty much grow crops for the village That's that's left. Yeah, Yeah. And you have three days for each season. OK, so you start off in, I believe, spring and you go all the way to winter.

59:32 And if you don't, I think if you don't get enough crops during the season, I I think it's just more so about surviving because there's enemies that come get your crops at the end of the day, and then you have to beat all of them. Then at the end of the season, there's a boss not caring about that. So, you know, you go through this game getting all these upgrades and whatnot and getting seeds and, you know, spending roses or what, whatever have you. And you you get different types of seeds that may need more water, maybe less, may take more time to grow, less time to whatever.

1:00:08 Yeah. And get to the final boss. You've been collecting all these seeds and collecting all these things for points and for upgrades. OK, so the final boss name is Corpuscopia. That's a mouthful, OK. Based off the cornucopia, what it got. Is it full of corpses? I mean, I can show you what it looks like, but so in order to deal damage to this boss, cuz you can use you have guns. Yep. And you can shoot enemies with these guns. Yeah, you can't do that. I don't know. You have to plant seeds, you have to grow the crops, and then once the crops are grown you can collect them and normally they go into your inventory when you collect them.

1:00:52 They fly at the boss, stealing damage. Wow. That's an interesting way to. So it turns the entire game on its head. Interesting yes, it's really fucking cool actually. And I I can't exactly tell you if different if different plant types or whatever deal more damage or less damage. Couldn't tell you, but yeah, you know, it's the only time that I saw and beat it. It was just cool as shit. Yeah, that's what it looks like, by the way. It has like fruits, fries and everything. Oh, Jesus. Oh, that's pretty neat, yeah.

1:01:29 This boss, this boss is pretty big too. It'll fly around the whole because Jesus Christ, because you have the center area and you can use as much space as you want for this. But then you have pretty much like the top area that's winter or the bottom area that's like spring, whatever, left, right, different, different seasons for different, you know, directions you go in for different seeds as well. But yeah, pretty much it's just the fact that it turns it on its head and you have to use the crops to kill the final boss.

1:01:56 You can't just shoot it. It's awesome. I love it. That's awesome. It's unlike any other boss in the game.

1:02:06 We got one more. Nope. OK, go for it. Yeah. So this isn't a boss in the traditional sense, but I consider it a boss because of the challenge it poses for the player and because it is the final sequence of a playthrough. This game. So believe it or not, survive. Huh? New objective survive. Essentially, yes. Oh God the game is Frostpunk. Oh, you've played Frostpunk? I have not. Oh, I've seen somebody play it. I don't wanna play it. But the ending of a playthrough always stood. It stood out to me because of how much it it, it's kind of like a boss mechanic.

1:02:49 So how do you do a boss in the resource management game, do you ask? Well, part of the part of the problem with Frost Punk is that you have to manage the temperature of the city to make sure it's a survivable temperature. Some people don't get sick and die. But if the core goes down, if it runs out of fuel, that's game over. Oh, the final sequence of the game is you find out there's a massive winter storm coming. OK. And it plummets the temperature like I'm not, I'm not kidding, like like it plummets.

1:03:34 You see, the temperature in the game I think drop to about -70°C. Jesus. Fuck. Yeah, to the point where even with your with your central furnace on full blast, you can no longer collect resources within the city. Oh my. Gosh, everybody has to shelter in place and this is it. You have to survive. I think it, I think it was like a week or two weeks in game time on just full brutal. To survive two weeks? Yeah, Real time. Oh God. Real time. Yeah, like, like, like the game lets you know this is the final sequence because leading up to it, you start seeing areas of the world map disappear as a giant storm approaches, Like, to the point where you have to recall your citizens back if you have them, like, honey out in the Wilds for food because it's too dangerous.

1:04:42 They have to come back to the city. Fuck. And you're just, you're you used to have a whole world map where you can be like, OK, I can send parties out to go get some supplies. No, that's completely gone. You are completely turtled with what you have left. And your objective is the city must survive. It doesn't matter how many civilians die, how much of your own rest of the city freezes. You keep the furnace going as long as possible. Because if the furnace goes, that's it. You can no longer get any more coal, you can't get any more wood, you can't get any more metal.

1:05:23 If you have the resources to produce food within the city, that's it. You can't go out and get any more food from outside. Price. Just an interesting way of considering a boss mechanic. I would have never thought for a resource management game you would have it have something like that. It's sort of like a final sequence to the playthrough, but just it's freaking awesome to think about. I feel like it doesn't get enough attention. I mean, I was going to bring one up, but I'm not topping that. Yeah, that that's kind of a Topper.

1:05:58 Yeah, just just just a masterpiece of man versus nature. Like you can't top that. That's something that you can't really do, especially in video games. I'm about to say, yeah, man versus nature, man. That's one little boss. Yeah. All right. Well, I'm assuming that is all then. Yeah. Well, all right. Thank you for tuning into this episode of Plugin for Player 4. We hope you have enjoyed. Let us know in the comments what your favorite bosses are, and you can find us on Blue Sky and Twitter if you wanna keep up to date with an episode.

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