Hey what's up everyone? I've been REALLY bad about keeping up with blogs lately. Not just mine, but commenting on other people's as well. I apologize for that in advance and I'll try to get to them as diligently as I can.

Anyway, on topic. My favorite boss fights. If you have ever been (un)fortunate enough to play a game with me, you'll know that I get really mad at games. Although I get mad, over my 15 years of gaming, there have been some boss fights that I had really enjoyed. Some made me angry, while others were just plain fun. I'll be doing a series of blogs that will name some of my favorites.

They will be in no order whatsoever. As I reminisce of them, I'll be adding them to my blogs. I'll be doing 2 or 3 per blog. I'll be starting with the fight that made me decide to do this whole thing.

Any of you that were lucky enough to own an N64 as a kid, I really hope you didn't miss out on The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. This may be one of the greatest masterpieces to ever have been created. I could probably write an entire blog on how great that game was, but I won't because I'm lazy. Nearly every boss on that game was great. One of them really stood out from the others those, and that was the final fight against Ganondorf. Right after you think you've beat him, you get this

This scared the 9-year-old crap out of me. I remember playing this with my older brother and specifically him yelling OHH MYYYY GODDDD!!!! He died shortly after. We spent probably 3 hours straight trying to kill Ganon, before we figured out you have to slash his tail. (Note: We SUCKED at video games). I guess it was also the last time we played games together too. After Zelda he started only playing Football and Baseball games.

The whole atmosphere of the fight though was great though. Dark skies, debris or a destroyed castle, and a wall of fire surrounding the arena. The whole mystery surrounding Ganon also made the fight unique. You see Ganondorf several times throughout the games, but there was no reference that he was some gigantic behemoth with 2 swords that were each bigger than Link.

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Another boss fight that I loved was from Final Fantasy X. Again, if you never played this game I suggest you complete it sometime before you die. I put around 300 hours into this game. It was only my 2nd RPG ever (The Legend of Dragoon being my first). This game also falls into my Top 10 Games of all time. I'll try to make this so that it doesn't contain spoilers or give away the story of the game, in case some of you play this at some point. My favorite boss fight from this game was Sin. Sin is basically a monstrosity that torments the land of Spira for their "Sins".

Here's a shot of the big guy himself:

As big as he is, of course he can still die by swords and magic, which is good because if they went for realism, I don't think anything could destroy him. I really liked this fight thought just because of how huge Sin actually is. It's not just a standard face off, but rather a series of battles you must endure in order to destroy him. It a very lengthy boss fight, but I thought it was the perfect way to end such an amazing game.

Well, that does it for this blog. I'll have some more of my favorite boss fights up in a few days probably. Hopefully you all enjoyed this. I'll be getting into more current generation games at some point. Leave some comments below and let me know what you al thought.

-BPoole