Nintendo Okie

I had a problem on the last boss fight of No More Heroes 2. Even though I had no problems beating every other boss in the game, I had to fight the final boss 33 times before I beat him. Y’all, that ain’t right. At the time of this writing, I am having a similar problem with the final boss of Persona 3; tune into the next podcast for that epic story. I have heard people raise this question over the last few months and I scoffed at it before, but now I realize I need to look at things a little closer. Should games still have boss fights?

Why do we have boss fights in the first place? Like many other aspects of video games, they are a leftover from the arcade days. Brawler games like X-Men and TMNT had boss fights at the end of each level to keep us pumping in quarters. By design these enemies could kill you in one hit, had shields to protect them among other aspects to make them super cheap. Developers pushed Read more…