HP: ???

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>enemy hits you
>screen blacks out and cutscene appears

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>Enemy can hear a tiny drop of blood hitting a hardwood floor but is incapable of hearing a fully grown adult male climbing from the roof out onto the balcony directly behind him.

>boss removes your levels

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>get hit by en enemy
>STR drops by 1 permanently

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>boss hits you
>bluescreen
>machine shuts down
>you can't feel your legs
>blackout
You Died.

>Enemy's attack causes stun/flinch
>They have initiative

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>low hp
>your power goes up the lower your hp.

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>Items that make you stronger the more money you have combined with items that increase how much money you can hold
>At max currency

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>enemy is at 1HP
>recovers to full HP and even more powerful because of a small mistake
How can the meatball be stopped bros?

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>endgame random encounters become so much more difficult and time consuming than actual bosses that you start running away from them

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>boss current hp number is higher than his max hp number

>boss gets stronger everytime you die/save/use a shortcut
>even if you don't do this he is still hard but fair

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>bosses become impossible because you're running away from all encounters

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>damage cap is 9999
>hp cap is not 9999

>Boss is too strong so you have to pre-buff
>Boss casts a spell to remove every buff on all party members

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>boss' hp is a complex number
>all your gear only deals real damage

>buffs make regular encounters 100% trivial
>nearly every boss past a certain point will just blanket dispel buffs
So why even fucking put them in?

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>HP: 51/100
>picks up health kit
>HP: 101/100

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>damage is tied to the weight of the item

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>boss starts using mechanics that you thought were exclusive to the player
youtube.com/watch?v=l1RM8ECQe5g

>Have an item that increases strength the more damaged you are
>Boss defeats you
>You get right back up
>1 HP

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>enemy boss has special effect
poison

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1v5

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>Save items for later (harder) fights
>Later bosses are immune to all status effects

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>there's no item that dispels poison
>you have to wait it out

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>you learn various debuff
>they never work on bosses and they are not worth on random encouters
fuck you ff

>your RPG party is based

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I made my wine aunt play Bayonetta and she fucking screamed when an enemy dodged out of a combo

>Defeat "I'm unstoppable boss" in 1st encounter
>0 EXP 0 Money
>cutscene shows you died

Its pretty fucking sad my RPG Maker game has more indepth mechanics than AAA shit, even when its just a you just beaten me this time message least I can award the player with a lot of EXP

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It looks like the character is merely narrating them in that picture. Try this
youtu.be/zK5JZP3zeLQ?t=412

>Can see all regular enemy HP.
>Every single boss has HP: ????
What's the point of bosses even having an HP bar at that point?

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>Boss can completely remove your equipment.

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great greed?

>ywn play bayonettta with your drunken aunt

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>boss has access to game mechanics that aren't even in the game

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>Boss can randomly curse you for the rest of the game
Fuck you Writhing Mass!

>1HP
>you deal damage
>HP bar disappears, revealing another one with much higher number

Where is that pic from?

SHIT TIER
>defeat unstoppable boss in 1st encounter
>get nothing for it and cutscene shows you lose

OK TIER
>defeat unstoppable boss in 1st encounter
>get special dialogue and a lot of EXP/GOLD

GOOD TIER
>defeat unstoppable boss in 1st encounter
>get his weapon/armor that doesn't unbalance the game but allows for new game play options

GOD TIER
>defeat unstoppable boss in 1st encounter
>open up a second story path that completely changes the way the story unfolds

>boss uses his sword for special attacks that heal him while damaging you every turn
>if you break his sword he defaults to stealing all your shit

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fuck, scripted losses are literally the worst

>HP bar mocks you

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>defeat unstoppable boss in 1st encounter
>game ends

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In my favorite series it was because the hp bar was limited to 5 digits so the bosses with more hp had ????? Until you knocked it below that threshold. Now they just do it out of tradition in newer titles.

>Use a turn to scan the enemy HP
>"Couldn't detect"

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>attack enemy
>no damage numbers get shown

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>face final boss early, he's just sitting on his chair
>he doesn't give a fuck about you and sends his bodyguard
>have to beat his bodyguard just to have the privilege of hurting the final.boss
>after finally beating his bodyguard, you start attacking the final boss and it barely does anything, he still treats you like a fly buzzing around his face
>finally get his attention that im somewhat of a threat
>he stands up from his chair and kicks my ass unconscious.

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savescummer's btfo

Bio is nice.

>plot gives you more than enough information to know what the next step of the villain's master plan is hours beforehand
>entire party still acts SHOCKED when it happens

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Holy shit what game?
That's fucking intense.

>Secret boss attacks inflicts most negative statuses
>Secret boss attack can oneshot party members ignoring defenses
>Secret boss requires months of party training and still takes forever to go down

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>Fight n' Rage
>Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia
What game are you talking about though

Is that anima, like Seymour's mom? Man, haven't seen this for more than a decade

Yes, specifically her dark version overdrive.

>HP: 17
>deal 52 damage
>HP: 4294967260

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That would be a neat mechanic, would counter save-scumming and mke you think about when you really need to save.

What game?

>HP: 30
>deals 8 damage
>Heals massive amounts of hp and gains massive amounts of attack for turn

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>the arcana is the means by which all is revealed

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FUCK NYX

FF4?

>boss is so badass he allows you to attack him first on purpose (not because he is sleeping or some shit)

TSUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

>Attack boss
>HP bar doesn't go down
>mfw thought the boss was that invincible, but it turns out his HP far exceeded the visual HP cap

KH1 Sephiroth battle was pretty kino

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>Defeat "I'm unstoppable boss" in 1st encounter
>get special bad ending for doing so

>try to jump onto railing/ledge
>character vaults over it into abyss again and again
>reload tens of times

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>final boss battle
>remix of the main theme playing
>boss crits for 9999 damage
>somehow survive with 1 hp

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>need to take real component to the negative then cast square root

Is there anything worse?

I know one mob from DS3 that did it I cant remember now

anime fucking sucks

Gave me a cool idea for a final boss
>normal enemy in the first act
>deplete HP, he dies
>comes back in the second act as an undead version of himself
>HP is negative and must be restored to defeat him
>final boss of the game
>now freely crosses the line between life and death, and the only way to defeat him is to return his HP to exactly 0, reducing him to nothing at all

>Boss doesn't move and waits for you to attack
>Sudden cut in line of dialogue
>Boss can move now

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Black Deaths in Diablo 1

the jailers in irithyll prison slowly drains your max hp if they look at you, but only momentarily

this would actually be the perfect casual filter

>deal massive damage to boss
>gets angrier and gains a stat boost

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>Boss is objectively stronger than your whole team combined but through strategy, teamwork and dirty tactics you win by a landslide

The best part of Original Sin 2

>boss almost wipes the entire party in one turn
>every turn
>stuck in a cycle of reviving party members, reapplying buffs, drinking mana potions and dealing 1/100 of his max hp damage
>boss can heal

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>Turn-based game
>Boss is way stronger than you
>You're not expected to beat it at your level, just take away a part of its HP and he'll fuck off
>Nothing in the game tells you this so you quit the fight in the first few turns and go grind for hours

I dropped the first game because the combat was too fucking slow. Is 2 like that too or is there an option to make the animations faster?

I don't know, the length of the animations never crossed my mind.

Oh christ

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>super secret boss drops weapons/items much worse than the equipment you need to beat him
>dlc, which is meant to be played after main game, has weapons/items that are strictly worse than the stuff you'd get midway through the main game
>really powerful set of weapons don't have the class of weapon you use

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ravioli

TSUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

It's one of the abnormalities from Lobotomy Corporation.

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>barely beat boss
>second one shows up

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>dual boss
>have to kill them simultaneously or one will fully revive the other

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Make them waste a turn dispelling buffs. Unless the dispel is automatic, in which case thats bullshit.

>boss HP: @4%8Q

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The only close thing that comes to mind is Planescape Torment with how many times you died.

>boss has AOE move with high chance of instant death
>game over when your character dies

FFXIII-2 can cause this during battles but after it's restored.

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>dual boss
>getting either one of them to low health gives that one a massive buff and grants them a party-wiping kamikaze attack
>killing one buffs the other regardless of their remaining HP

>boss drops below half HP
>attacks you for 9999 unblockable damage
>your max health is 999

and that's why morgana is a shit in persona 5,

paper mario and the thousand year door final fight was hard. I had to grind so that I got a level up and the free full health that comes with it after defeating the first boss

>item charges up special faster, but also drains it faster
>other item stops draining altogether

it would've been impactful if most attacks in DS weren't percentage based

>salud
Todo el mundo dice vida, mi negro.

>get hit by an attack
>level goes down

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>dual boss
>BIG NIG and manlet
>attacking/killing the manlet with no HP first makes the BIG NIG go berserk and do extra damage in big AOE attacks

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>deal massive damage to boss
>the amount dealt caused a buffer overflow
>boss can't die anymore
>I can't die anymore

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I'd Kevin his bacon.

Pretty much every Crpg.

>enemy can be hit by instant death effects
>resurrects with full HP if killed by one

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Unironically a good feature hope someone has the balls to implement it

In what century are you playing games?

>party members decides- to leave you if you suck too much

literally these two nig nogs

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Seriously, what game? Dragon quest raises the price each time you pay to revive a party member, but punishing the player for saving seems bizarre. The only close thing I can think of is BoF5 and its save token system, but it's built to be replayed without losing leveling progress.

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Dofus

>gameplay is based around inflicting combos to the ennemies
>bosses aren't affected by hitsun and can't be combo'd

Ehrgeiz had another game inside, a sort of quest mode, and in that one you could save at any time but you had to pay gold to do it and the amount scaled with your level. That's the closest thing I can think of when I think "punishing the player for saving".

Ronaldo is such a CHAD.

>it's fucking worthless

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So, your boss is the classic guy that you encounter multiple times, each time his HP bar has a different color and you have to use different spells/skills/abilities to deal damage to him... how original and cool...

>Being rich makes the blast incredibly strong
heh

Jinpachi Mishima stomp thing he did

Seiken Densetsu 3, God-Beast Dolan cuts your max HP by 50% I believe.

>

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YOU'RE IN, GOBBY!
IN-SANE!

>God-Beast Dolan

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Magatsu kyuubi from God Eater 2 Rage Burst does it in a big AoE attack

>The boss attack can delete your save game

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>boss has attack that corrupts other games save data

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>AI commits suicide

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>Boss survives after you finish the game and starts stalking you on Yea Forums, calling you a faggot every time you make a post

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SAuce?

Lucario in Smash

faggot

any wizardry game

>party member sacrifices themselves to save you

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STOP IT

>Boss reaches a damage threshold
>Calls in minions to help
>They get to attack the same turn they appear
>You have no chance to prepare, and die as a result

Fuck those guys.

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Destroy All Humans 2 had a boss that had more lives the number of times you died but i've never seen one about saving.

I always just google it. If I went through the trouble of learning scan or read HP in an rpg they can fuck themselves for pulling that. I'm googling it.

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Even worse. The scan ability takes up an ability slot which are limited in what you can bring into battle ontop of taking a turn.

>Game rewards you for using status effects on your enemies and yourself
>Bosses are immune to all ailments and always neutralize your buffs

>scan boss
>immune to status ailments
RPGs barely have gameplay or tactics and then this

BEST FINAL BOSS!

>Boss claims that he will delete your save data when you lose
>Go all out and defeat the boss on your first try
>Later find out that your save file would never get deleted anyway
>Get disappointed and even angry the game is being such a pussy
Come on, do it. Pull the trigger! it's not like it will take that long to get to that point again.

>Beat boss in two seconds in starting the fight
>Crashes the game and have to restart your run

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>It's a boss that summons normal enemies alongside the main boss battle

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>hurt the bosses friend
>boss goes full ape shit

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What game?

Zenith 'Los can inflict a burn that does this
Epic Battle Fantasy 4/5 has enemies that can attack you can inflict a hp debuff

Fallout 4 but only if you give the cure to the kid

I want this in a Serious Sam game, the more you save the longer the waves will get.

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TSUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

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I thought Dragon Quest revival was just tied to the characters' levels or HP

>boss has massive amount of hp, and will obliterate your team if not dealt with quickly
>if you dont oneshot with a buffstacked attack, he regens 30% of his hp every turn
>>not only the buffs are short, they also have a chance of not activating at all

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>do so little damage to boss you figure it's a scripted loss
>finally just let yourself die after 10 minutes of fighting
>it wasn't a scripted death and the boss becomes much weaker right after you killed yourself

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>Boss takes away the ability to pause the game

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>boss has a grab attack you can't block
>the grab animation is almost identical to the regular attack animation

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>final boss can randomly one-hit your entire team

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>final boss
>get hp down to about half
>Boss: "Ok... Warm-up's over."
>fully restores hp and attacks do more damage

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>Get an item to show boss HP bars
>HP bar only begins depleting when they're low on health
>Before then, the bar just changes colors

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FTL sector 8

>Every single boss in the game shows you how much HP they have
>Except for the final boss.

>Boss is your friend
>Difficulty escalates depending of how good you've treated him

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>do something once flawlessly
>have to try 10+ times to ever get through it at all again

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>Boss can be challenged at any time
>but 1 shots you till you progres the story
fuck soul sacrifice

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>game makes all bosses immune to status effects

fucking WHY? It just doesn’t make any sense, from a logic or balance perspective

you think my assassin’s dagger with a 2% chance to inflict poison via normal attack is really going to fuck up a Doom Dragon

Just have the boss recover quicker or make them immune to some not all god damn

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>Almost beat boss in one go
>From then on do worse
>Spend hours not getting close
>Rage for the night
>Come back in the morning
>Beat it flawlessly

>boss can mikiri counter you

I feel like every SMT game does this.

>boss becomes harder if you 100% the game before attempting it
Breath of Fire

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>Boss taunts you on the continue screen

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>undead enemy can be killed with healing items
>no healing items in bag or mp left because you're a scrub and then you have to go turn the game off because your parents wont stop arguing and you have to hold your little sisters hand to stop her crying and tell her it will be ok
fuck final fantasy

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>last three bosses are a very large difficulty spike
>they can heal all of their health at a whim and randomly take out half or more of your party
>only way to deal with it is to use one of the interchangeable abilities you can only equip at certain areas in a previous world
>the ability itself is never really elaborated on in the menus and is even obtuse to use in battles
>also add more buttons to the screen to micromanage like an autist
>basically tailored to seem worse than other options when it is pretty much required to beat the game
>the only other option is to grind in a minigame for hours for health bonuses that look substantial but are still ultimately useless against boss health regen

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grunty deletes your save file if you cheat too much in Banjo Kazooie

i didn't need to read this shit rn

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>Boss taunts you mid fight

unironically best post currently on vee

Dude

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>Boss special attack turns you gay
>you are now gay

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>Miniboss rush against shadows of your friends
>If you maxed out your friendship with them, they won't attack you at all
>Maxing out the friendship with one of them in particular has them show up to help you in the normally 1v1 final boss fight

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>dual boss
>killing the wrong boss gives the other the power to summon oneshot metors
>killing the right one gives the other an easy to avoid laser

>boss is your boss
>you work for him

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>Boss is a human enemy like you
>He's strong as fuck
>As many tries you beat him, and he drops his weapon and armour
>It's the worst in the game, the boss was actually pulling through using his own strength and skill

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final family

I remember this in BoI (can't remember if it was Rebirth or Antibirth). Is there anything else that does it?

>boss revives after dying once
>boss can bullshit a power buff + heavy attack OHKO

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>Boss's name starts out scrambled, but slowly deciphers as you deal damage to them.
>During the boss's last phase, the sky slowly becomes covered by two curtains coming together, and the boss dies the instant they completely block out the sky.

Put a middle tier for
>defeat unstoppable boss in 1st encounter
>they enter a new form and beat you but you get exp anyways

I think there's a shard in Bloodstained that boosts your stats with your money, but no money cap increase AFAIK.
Also Money=Power was in the original flash version of BoI I'm fairly certain.

Sounds like an in-cohesive piece of garbage.

>Boss has an attack that

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>beat boss
>another one shows up
>ANOTHER one shows up

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I haven't gotten to bloodstained yet but that's good to know.

Also, I wasn't sure about money=power. I played Flash for such a short time it all gets scrambled in my head.

A-user? user?

fucking watcher knights

>The boss can stun you
>stuns the healer twice by pure chance

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>it's a boss where the rest show up on a timer so the difficulty is directly tied to a DPS check

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>boss is intentionally unbeatable and you're supposed to lose

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Not exactly the same but in FFV one of the Samurai job skills is literally throwing Gil at your enemies
It does a crapton of damage at higher job levels and by the time you even get it you should already be swimming on Gil

This happened to me in P5 since I forgot to fuse something with instadeath resist.

Sekiro is just a weird game in general when it comes to balance.

I'm trying to think of a single JRPG that didn't end with me panicking and alternating between revives. I don't want to play whatever game you're talking about.

BOF4?

>Enemies cannot be hit until they hit you
>Enemies don't drop EXP when defeated
>Final boss is inmune to status
>Enemies can stack debuffs

>Enemy pulls the final form cliche out of their ass, and announces it

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It's perfectly coherent.

youtube.com/watch?v=DIJZ1SJFjfI

>the game's superbosses are random encounters

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>Game has hit points
>Enemy has no life bar or even something to see their health aside from when they're near death
These numbers mean nothing to me, Monster Hunter.

>final boss is your dad