The Easiest Final Boss Ever

[tyckspoon]

I mean, it has been a while since I played- and the Dawn of Souls remake for GBA, that had both I and II in it, at that -but I remember using that "trick" to basically finish that fight on the first turn*.
Or at least close enough that I remember it as a pretty reliable strategy.

*Not because of some speed run nonsense, just because it was friggin hilarious to murder one of the Big Bad Fiends in one move.

Of course that didn't work nearly as well the second time around.
Or would that be first time? The whole time-loop thing is kinda confusing.

Dawn of Souls might make it easier - one of the bugs they did fix in it was that Intelligence now actually does things like scaling magic effects (original cart release it did.. nothing. Literally nothing) including making your status effects more likely to stick, so a Black Mage with good equipment casting the appropriate spell probably does have a pretty good chance of pulling it off.

[Blackhawk748]

It was done even sillier before

Spoiler: The ending of Lord of the Rings: The Third Age

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After following in the footsteps of the Fellowship and fighting very similar battles to the movies, you get through the battle of Minas Tirith, then suddenly, you're on top of Barad-dur, fighting Sauron in his Big Red Eye form. No explanation how you got there, no real justification for how you're managing to fight a giant flaming eye, you beat the game, and it ends. Roll credits.

Tremble at his illogical glory!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJpiw-PoO80

I completely agree. The Mouth of Sauron would have been a better final boss. Also, while its terribly Illogical and downright stupid, it's not actually all that easy as he hits like a truck.

[Floogal]

How about the final boss of Gradius for the NES? I recall it doesn't fight back, and just dies on its own if you don't do anything.

[Seerow]

I used to have fun in FFVII by beating Sephiroth by starting the fight, setting down the controller, and just watching. Don't think you get much easier than that.

[Traab]

I played this game, Lunar on my ds. Im not sure which version it was, but it was when you are followed around by the cat dragon fellow. Anyways, last boss, i got STOMPED, first time I had any real issues beating the bosses. I get wiped, then my cat dragon creature rezzes me, I attack once more, get killed, get rezzed again, rinse and repeat till the bad guy dies. It was like I literally couldnt lose the final battle, no matter what. I always got to attack before being killed again. EDIT Sephiroth was a weeny. If you have kotr use it, his first form dies, then use it twice, his second form dies. Without it, just take the standard steps of barrier, regen, then proceed to murder him. Its a pretty boring boss fight.

[Yora]

While there a plenty of games without a final boss and the last enemy being a regular one, the final enemy in Demon's Souls actually has a boss life bar. It's still not meant to threaten you in any way.

[LibraryOgre]

Jagar Tharn. Not only do you not need to fight him, but with Passwall, you don't even need the keys.

[Lord Raziere]

I'll be honest: Super Dimentio in Super Paper Mario.

Super Bowser I think was a bit a challenge or at least felt epic to get through when I was kid, and I did not beat Shadow queen until I was older because she was just that hard, but Super Dimentio was easy, due to how big of a target he was and how you can just....keep jumping on him so much. not the best final boss in comparison to first two, even if Super Paper Mario was a good game otherwise.

Champion Hau in Pokemon UltraMoon. Professor Kukui in normal Moon was a tough opponent that fought me down to the last 'mon, which I nearly lost because I took the risk move of using Flare Blitz with my starter.....Hau? I just used Brave Bird with my shiny Swanna I caught like, at the end of my journey? to sweep half the fight, then swept the other half with some other pokemon. like really? your pushing HAU as a real rival? get outta here. he's nothing. at least Diantha wasn't annoying!

[NeoVid]

Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor. For a game that is in general, a very nicely done Lord of the Rings game with an excellent "What If" storyline, this game literally managed to kill my desire to play any more of it, including any of its DLCs, simply by how it handled the last boss. Why?

I was about to come in to add the final boss "fight" of Shadow of Mordor to the list, but you've already said all that needs to be known about it. It's such a lame conclusion I warn new players about it ahead of time.

I will say that the Sauron boss battle in the Celebrimbor DLC was so good it nearly made up for the first version... but then why didn't they use the amazing, climactic fight for the main game?

[Grif]

I'm surprised Doom 3 isn't mentioned yet. De facto the easiest final boss because the only weapon that can hurt said boss is that powerful. All you need to do is to charge the soul cube twice, let it auto-aim the cyberdemon and you win. And you probably already had a charge going in.

[Aedilred]

I remember the Skull Kid from Majora's Mask being remarkably easy. Having reached the point where narratively I was allowed to fight him, I went in for a practice run to see how far off the mark I was in terms of hearts and optional equipment upgrades. I then beat him on the first try. It wasn't completely plain sailing, but based on previous Zelda bosses I had been expecting to get curbstomped.

I was so surprised that I went back and replayed the Ganondorf/Ganon boss fight from Ocarina of Time, which had kicked my arse so many times when I had played that. Maybe I had just got better at boss fights in the interim? But no, the OoT final boss fight was legitimately a lot harder, and my OoT character had the full equipment package and a lot more hearts than my MM one did.

[Dienekes]

I remember the Skull Kid from Majora's Mask being remarkably easy. Having reached the point where narratively I was allowed to fight him, I went in for a practice run to see how far off the mark I was in terms of hearts and optional equipment upgrades. I then beat him on the first try. It wasn't completely plain sailing, but based on previous Zelda bosses I had been expecting to get curbstomped.

I was so surprised that I went back and replayed the Ganondorf/Ganon boss fight from Ocarina of Time, which had kicked my arse so many times when I had played that. Maybe I had just got better at boss fights in the interim? But no, the OoT final boss fight was legitimately a lot harder, and my OoT character had the full equipment package and a lot more hearts than my MM one did.

Did you have the Fierce Deity Mask? It's been years since I've played Majora but I remember it being moderately difficult without and a joke with.

[Zevox]

Did you have the Fierce Deity Mask? It's been years since I've played Majora but I remember it being moderately difficult without and a joke with.

Same. My recollection is that while the Majora fight felt a little easier than Ocarina of Time's Ganondorf fight, it wasn't necessarily a pushover. The Fierce Deity Mask definitely trivialized it if you had and used that, however.

[Marillion]

I seem to remember having a little more trouble with Majora than with Ganondorf, the worst part of the Ganondorf fight being climbing back up to him if you got knocked off the platforms. The Fierce Deity mask though makes it so you have to almost try to lose against Majora, though it was such a hassle to get the mask that I intentionally drew out the fight so I could use it more/

[danzibr]

Speaking of Zelda, the final boss in BotW is a joke. Easy riding on your horse, fire a bow with unlimited ammo.

[Inarius]

I've noticed in general RPGs tend to have easy final boss fights. That's just simply because of how power accumulation for the players character/party tends to work in these games if you put some extra time grinding to get more xp and gear before trudging through the MSQ.

[Forum Explorer]

Speaking of Zelda, the final boss in BotW is a joke. Easy riding on your horse, fire a bow with unlimited ammo.

To be fair, that's the final form of the final boss. The other two forms are of normal difficulty. The last form is basically a cinematic that you play.

[danzibr]

To be fair, that's the final form of the final boss. The other two forms are of normal difficulty. The last form is basically a cinematic that you play.

On the one hand, yeah, true, the form before him is a pretty good fight (never did him fully powered).

On the other hand, they could've added a lot more challenge to the final final fight. It's been a while, but I seem to recall Ocarina of Time having a similar(ish?) battle involving Ganondorf and horses, and was not a pushover.

[Zevox]

On the one hand, yeah, true, the form before him is a pretty good fight (never did him fully powered).

On the other hand, they could've added a lot more challenge to the final final fight. It's been a while, but I seem to recall Ocarina of Time having a similar(ish?) battle involving Ganondorf and horses, and was not a pushover.

There is not a fight with Ganondorf in Ocarina of Time where you're on horseback. Unless you're thinking of Phantom Ganon from the Forest Temple, but in that one he's on a horse, and you're not.

Perhaps you're thinking of Twilight Princess? The final phase of that game's Ganondorf fight has you on horseback, shooting Light Arrows at him. I recall that being easy, but honestly my main criticism of Twilight Princess as a whole is that everything was too easy.

[Forum Explorer]

On the one hand, yeah, true, the form before him is a pretty good fight (never did him fully powered).

On the other hand, they could've added a lot more challenge to the final final fight. It's been a while, but I seem to recall Ocarina of Time having a similar(ish?) battle involving Ganondorf and horses, and was not a pushover.

I totally agree. It wouldn't have needed much, just a time limit. But adding in monsters dropping from Ganon and a time limit and it would've been an actual challenge.

You're thinking Twilight Princess. And while that part was easy (in my opinion the easiest stage of the fight) it at least wasn't a complete walk in the park.

[danzibr]

There is not a fight with Ganondorf in Ocarina of Time where you're on horseback. Unless you're thinking of Phantom Ganon from the Forest Temple, but in that one he's on a horse, and you're not.

Perhaps you're thinking of Twilight Princess? The final phase of that game's Ganondorf fight has you on horseback, shooting Light Arrows at him. I recall that being easy, but honestly my main criticism of Twilight Princess as a whole is that everything was too easy.

I totally agree. It wouldn't have needed much, just a time limit. But adding in monsters dropping from Ganon and a time limit and it would've been an actual challenge.

You're thinking Twilight Princess. And while that part was easy (in my opinion the easiest stage of the fight) it at least wasn't a complete walk in the park.

Ahh yup you guys called it.

[Callos_DeTerran]

I honestly wouldn't count Mass Effect 3 at all since it lacks an actual final boss encounter. It really has more of a final boss holding position from what I remember, where your squad is being over-whelmed by some Banshees and miscellaneous Reaper forces and you just need to hold out. Or is there another battle with a Reaper destroyer that I'm forgetting about?

Either way, the game just flat out doesn't have a final boss, jokes about 'Marauder Shields' aside.

[Forum Explorer]

Here's a new one. Not quite the easiest but pretty darn easy.

X-Com Chimera squad. In general it was a pretty easy game, but in true X-Com fashion you can get pretty powerful by the end game. And for the final boss, the 'boss' character didn't even get a chance to act before I blew him up.