In No Straight Roads, while every boss in that game is a type of eccentric popstar, VS Sayu has you fighting a Mermaid Digital Idol in a, Cyberspace Ocean who turns into A Fish Monster. Weird enough for ya?
ngl. what was the point of adding in a spacetime theme into the remake if they were just gonna randomly bring back Zack, change the doggo’s design...and still kill Aerith.
The Giant Roomba fight from Yakuza 7 probably didn't make this list because, let's face it, fighting a Giant Roomba which sucks up people and sprays boiling hot coffee is pretty much par for the course in Yakuza 7.
A lot of the Splatoon bosses are pretty wild, such as when you fought a sentient shower head in the first game, and a crazy oven/toaster thing in the second.
That said, I wouldn't say it belongs on this list. Former is not the fridge, it's more like they are trying to take over the fridge, well that would be the power in the fridge and you are kicking them of. Except Former isn't in the fridge, you just go to the part of the Astral plane where Former resides via a connection attached to the fridge, because former is influencing it.
the arkham asylum for the criminally mundane has got to be one of the greatest jokes you guys have done in a while. and it was delivered so perfectly too.
I recently heard a podcaster calling their cohost "A human pun hive," and I greatly appreciate them for giving me the perfect phrase to describe Ellen when she's let off the leash.
I can’t believe they did this whole video and DIDN’T talk about the fact that you had to fight an outhouse called “The Toilet Of Doom” in A Hat In Time!
I’ve got one! Tantarian from Final Fantasy IX; it’s just a displaced book in Alexandria Castle’s library, but if you interact with it, it talks and reveals itself to be some blue demon blob that hides away in the book’s pages, and slapping the heroes around with its hand-shapes bookmark ribbon.
... I mean, your therapist'll have a field day with that kind of information, but sure, everyone fights a giant, sentient, singing poo at some point in their lives, right?
That's too easy. How about the monster made of hay, that's revealed to be a robot which starts making Terminator references? Or the boiler monster, fueled by fiery imps, with enormous testicles that you end up punching clean off it's body?
@@MrFutago87 never got into twitter, regardless my point still stands. They probably make a decent paycheque,I was sarcastically refering to the gap in wages compared to the over inflated housing prices many countries are seeing right now due to foreign property investors. I know exactly what she's going through, I'm her age, And while I'm not currently looking for a house I know how ridiculous the market is pretty much anywhere right now .
And in the sort-of Dynasty Warriors spinoff of Persona 5, known as Strikers, you fight a BDSM Bunny Furry, a dragon in boxer briefs, Elsa the Hutt, an edgy fanfic version of yourself, Iron Man and... a phone AI. A phone AI who becomes the Ark of the Covenant, and then a giant phone version of the villain from the previous game. No kidding; EMMA becomes Demiurge, which is another name of Yaldabaoth. Ever expect that an eldritch goddess would be voiced by Siri?
I always love seeing Devil May Cry on one of your lists! Always loved the chess fight hahaha! Ironically you have to fight a building in one of those games, too... _But we don't talk about DMC2..._
Ah, _Persona 5_ -- the only game where a group of high-schoolers (plus one junior-high genius and one cat) use the power of teamwork, positive thinking and the Seven Deadly Sins to defeat a control-obsessed god and save Christmas.
Saint's Row 4, where you battle a can of soda with arms and legs like the Kool-Aid Man. Also the mascot of the soda in question, you're forced to fly a helicopter away from him as he chases you, only to repeatedly fire back into his face.
The Toilet of Doom from A Hat in Time is hands-down the weirdest boss I've ever had the pleasure of fighting in a video game. It is literally a haunted outhouse that got possessed by your own character's soul. I'm surprised it didn't make the list...
You should have seen the Toolbox from "It Takes Two", your second boss fight is literally chasing after this angry toolbox where the players were armed with a hammer head and flying nails, and its the first boss fight where the two players had to _really_ work together with their own unique skills to survive the onslaught since it was skill-specific
Devil May Cry 2: A giant demonic skyscraper. And let's not forget Borderlands 3's Kreig DLC, where you literally shoot a giant flying imaginary train to death.
@@FluroF15h I understand 2 is the whole "we don't talk about that one" entry, but it's still a lot better than that crappy remake. I had the game growing up, and DMC 2 isn't that bad. It's not great, sure, but not terrible.
I swear the Hell House is emblematic of a lot of my problems with 7R. In the original, it was this mutated creature, a fusion of flesh and metal with a predatory instinct. Considering its found just outside the slum villages of burned out cars, a nice warm house would look very tempting to the desperate, which is how the creature within hunts. In 7R it's a robot made to look like a house for no discernable reason except that it was in the original.
As a Malkavian, I had a boss fight against a truck tyre after a brief argument with a Stop sign. It was weird. Fortunately, the TV told a few jokes to cheer me up again.
I don't know if I just missed something but I really struggled with that boss, chucking the nades back at the boss drained my energy so I only ever had just enough to dodge and I needed to fly as much as I could because otherwise I'd fall through the floor with the holes it punched through in third and second phase. It took me days to do that boss fight, whenever I heard "the fridge is doing something-" I'd copy him. Only other boss that came close was Salvador, because actually avoiding his attacks while attacking his friends was a nightmare. Tommasi mk 2 as well
Pretty sure most of the "boss" fights from control could be on this list (love that game!!!) Especially the side mission Jesse Faden Starring in “Swift Platform” from the Foundation DLC
In Job Island for the Wii, although technically there's no explicit "boss fight", you do work against a number of strange 'bosses', including a giant bowl of ramen with a thumb in it that is going to crash into the earth and make it impossible to buy ramen anywhere without somebody sticking their thumb in it.
I should clarify that house monster in FF7 made a return in ff9, specifically in The Forgotten Continent. It's called Armstrong in that game, but... it's actually pretty fierce to fight against, since it either counters you by reducing your hp by half, or using Matra Magic, will will reduce a single target's hp to 1 point.
FF9 - Tantarian. This big book of books can shred your party to pieces quicker than a thousand paper cuts and - oh wait, never mind. It can delvier those paper cuts as well as curse you with doom and poison and actually killing it needs you to deal damage countings bewteen 150 and 200. Otherwise you are doomed to fail beating it.
Splatoon 2 octo expansion: for the final boss you fight the literal Statue of Liberty thats been repurposed into a giant canon that’s being controlled by a sentient AI telephone
Ah Control the only game you can have a fight with a ship’s anchor that has a weird habit of belching clocks at you... and that’s one of the less weird things you end up doing
Origami King isn't the first Mario RPG to have you fight odd things as bosses; look at its great-granddad "SMRPG: Legend of the Seven Stars" and having to fight... a bundt cake.
That game was OK for the first hour of play, but I fell in love with it after my first fight with... a Runaway Stop Sign. Not a boss fight per se, but still hilarious.
What about the Phantom Train in Final Fantasy 6? Sabin makes it his personal mission to WRESTLE the train to death, including a suplex which was a beloved game glitch and hilarious to watch.
I’m honestly surprised you didn’t include a hat in time. In the darkest forest, there is a danger to the evil minions, it’s a toilet. Well technically the toilet of DOOM.
I half expected Ellen to say "unexpected item in the bossing area" in the introduction, and I'm not quite sure what to make of my brain because it thought of that
(Spoilers for Persona 5: Strikers) . . . . If you think fighting the Holy Grail was weird, you had to fight the Persona-equivalent of Siri in Strikers as the final boss, known as EMMA, AKA the Ark of the Covenant, AKA the Demiurge. An AI that has ascended into godhood after being taught how to manipulate human cognition on a near-global scale. I repeat: Siri has ascended into a literal god.
As weird as the holy grail in Persona 5 is, fighting Tokyo Skytree in Persona 4 Golden's optional extra dungeon was even stranger. Persona 3 also had the weird "wheel of fortune" boss. Could do a whole list on Persona actually"
"how do you beat a holy grail?!" 1: DO NOT LET IT MERGE WITH AN ANCIENT ZOROASTRIAN DEMON-GOD 2: DO NOT LET IT SET FIRE TO A CITY 3: DO NOT LET IT ABSORB THE VICTIMS' SOULS If all that fails, Loli in a magic dress
Well in Miitopia faces are ripped off and placed on anything to make it an enemy, picking one is kinda hard but the king tut mask that makes your allies think they're Pharos and smacks your Miis with his beard is definitely a top contender
Nahhhhhhh not the Pharaoh that cretin made my Pain run of the game soooo miserable. What was my pain run? Pretty much ban everything. Then try to play the game. And the whole team is one class. Four Scientists versus a boss where I’m not allowed to sprinkle nor safe zone? Pain.
In No Straight Roads, while every boss in that game is a type of eccentric popstar, VS Sayu has you fighting a Mermaid Digital Idol in a, Cyberspace Ocean during her concert and it ends with you fighting A Reverse Mermaid Monster. Weird enough for ya?
what's more, Sayu is merely the avatar for the REAL boss: four nerds who act as her voice, designer, effects artist and mocap performer. also: DK West, who you technically don't fight directly, instead fighting his shadow puppet. Also 1010, a mass produced robot boyband, not sure they count as weird enough though
@@sarafontanini7051 The hardest decision was pick just one NSR Boss. Sayu my 4th fav after 1010 and Neon J Jaam!, Yinu and her Mothers music, or the Illusion EDM Artist EVE. Sayu just seemed like the most popular.
If you thought the holy grail is wierd in persona 5, wait until you see tesso, the robotic rat, to fight against in the first persona game, where the majority of enemies are either Angels, demons, and abominations. Even your party laughs at it until it opens fire.
Your forgetting about the weirdest and deadliest boss of them all! THE GAME PACKAGING!!! Getting at the corner with the fold of plastic wrapping takes all your dexterity and strength.
How about the Octo Oven from Splatoon 2? In a series where most of the boss fights are pretty weird, none of them can match a tower of bread ovens that shoot out living loafs of bread with Octarian faces on them as platforms to reach its weak point.
You fight a massive robot hiding under a legendary chair in Nuclear Throne. It’s the main game’s final boss. Once you beat it, though, if you met some other conditions before the fight, it explodes, you go through a massive portal, and you fight it AGAIN while inside the game’s character select screen, while inter-dimensional police department tries to kill you. Nuclear Throne is quite a game.
So wait: the house from FF7 Remake makes the list, but the train from FF6 doesn't? I mean that wasn't even a straight fight: the "heroes" literally ran in front of said train, never bothering to - say - jump off the tracks... and you could actually supplex the infernal, traveling machine. There's like a dozen jokes there from the getgo :D Also hands from Super Smash Bros feels like a large omission.
Can we get you something from the fridge? A drink? A snack? A nightmare boss fight with a paranormal entity...?
Why not the big lady from dead rising 3 who literally wants to kill you because you called her fat
I just want my jelly worm dragoon from the cookie run kingdom bag
Half of pokémon tbf
In No Straight Roads, while every boss in that game is a type of eccentric popstar, VS Sayu has you fighting a Mermaid Digital Idol in a, Cyberspace Ocean who turns into A Fish Monster. Weird enough for ya?
7 videogame bosses that help you beat other bosses
“The Criminally Mundane” is such a good band name.
Mike for the win. AGAIN!
Wait...isn't that just the name for a Fine Young Cannibals tribute band I saw recently?
That would be a nice title for an anomalous band in the SCP Foundation as well.
DIBS! If I ever get to make a band.
DIBS!
"Two youngsters with their whole life ahead of them" ... Thanks Ellen, in fact, I DID want to cry my eyes out today.
She might not die this time around.
"He strives to turn cuphead in a saucer" was an exceptionally nice one that deserves praise
What about “rectum?”
"RIP you a new one" was exceptional even for Mike
Call me weird but I liked the one in the intro about weird bosses like e.g. a fridge - "Maybe they're trying to keep it fresh"
@@achtsekundenfurz7876 *An equally **_CHILLING_** performance*
6:10 "Weeelll, maybe not Aerith"
*Holds an Aerith plushie whilst crying*
ngl. what was the point of adding in a spacetime theme into the remake if they were just gonna randomly bring back Zack, change the doggo’s design...and still kill Aerith.
Don't worry, Frodo. Aerith still has all her life ahead of her... it's just that there's not very much of it.
TOO SOON
Don't squeeze it too hard or - oh, oh no
The Giant Roomba fight from Yakuza 7 probably didn't make this list because, let's face it, fighting a Giant Roomba which sucks up people and sprays boiling hot coffee is pretty much par for the course in Yakuza 7.
This is the same game (I’m pretty sure) where you can summon a rain of crawfish to attack your enemies
It's par for the course for ANY Yakuza game. Hell, Yakuza 5 has you fight a fucking bear at one point.
@@Gamer88334 hey, that's different, fighting bears is practically Japanese tradition, just ask Takamura Mamoru or Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin. :P
What about the excavator controlled by a chimpanzee?
Roomba
SPILLS BOILING HOT COFFEE
WTF
A lot of the Splatoon bosses are pretty wild, such as when you fought a sentient shower head in the first game, and a crazy oven/toaster thing in the second.
Shower was in 2
and a phone that wents to blend you
"Find a way to subdue the Refrigerator" is my favorite objective title in any game ever.
Is your refrigerator running? You’d better catch it.
Seriously, it’s gotten loose, you should do something about that.
That said, I wouldn't say it belongs on this list. Former is not the fridge, it's more like they are trying to take over the fridge, well that would be the power in the fridge and you are kicking them of. Except Former isn't in the fridge, you just go to the part of the Astral plane where Former resides via a connection attached to the fridge, because former is influencing it.
Can someone else keep a eye on it? My shift replacement never arrived
Sounds like an SCP to me
@@Kumquat_Lord ...
“Residential Evil” “The Criminally Mundane” “Rektum” ”A ROOKie mistake” they’re killing it with the puns today
"It sends the wrong message to two youngsters that have their whole lives ahead of them...... well maybe not Aerith" ELLEN YOU DID NOT!!! LOL
Ironically this version of Aerith likely has a linger life... at least until they finish the other chapters of the remake.
And for sure not Jessie
@@akmal94ibrahim Actually, the remake hints at Jesse maybe surviving this time.
okay but what was the point of the Changing Fate/literal holes in spacetime if Aerith was just gonna die again, anyway
@@anonymousfellow8879 The idea was apparently that she would not, I guess...
the arkham asylum for the criminally mundane has got to be one of the greatest jokes you guys have done in a while. and it was delivered so perfectly too.
I recently heard a podcaster calling their cohost "A human pun hive," and I greatly appreciate them for giving me the perfect phrase to describe Ellen when she's let off the leash.
the "residential evil" line was pretty good as far as those puns go
"Collect your keys, find your desk, throw your desk at a monster". Oh man, reminds me of my first day!
I can’t believe they did this whole video and DIDN’T talk about the fact that you had to fight an outhouse called “The Toilet Of Doom” in A Hat In Time!
Yes! I pulled up the comment section just so I could mention that!
Knew this would be down here somewhere. Nice one!
I completely forgot about that one!
Plus the subtex for that mission is that Hat Kids Stolen Soul escaped and Possessed the outhouse.
They chose cuphead first boss, because it's important for TV youtube to maintain a solid gamer cred
Cheeeeeess ? Duuhhhhhhhhhhr
Oh my God you don’t know how nice it was to see Sunset Overdrive get some VERY WELL DESERVED appreciation
FFVI: A train that you can suplex.
Pretty sure you could do that in FF VII, too.
@@MartynWilkinson45 there are no trains in ff vii, though. Tifa CAN suplex a giant robot while underwater, though.
Emerald Weapon isn't a robot. (*misses the point completly*)
Wish we could reenact that in FFXIV
@@granmastersword YES. I was so disappointed we weren't allowed to suplex the Doom Train in XIV!
I’ve got one! Tantarian from Final Fantasy IX; it’s just a displaced book in Alexandria Castle’s library, but if you interact with it, it talks and reveals itself to be some blue demon blob that hides away in the book’s pages, and slapping the heroes around with its hand-shapes bookmark ribbon.
So The Great Mighty Poo was not a weird thing to fight, got it.
... I mean, your therapist'll have a field day with that kind of information, but sure, everyone fights a giant, sentient, singing poo at some point in their lives, right?
That's too easy. How about the monster made of hay, that's revealed to be a robot which starts making Terminator references? Or the boiler monster, fueled by fiery imps, with enormous testicles that you end up punching clean off it's body?
It's a shitty boss that's why
It definitely belongs in the number two spot
Anyone whos eaten at taco bell has dealt with a giant annoying poo
Mike's puns with Paper Mario are marvelous. :D
Came for the weird bosses, stayed for the killer wordplay
Edit: The wrecked 'em rectum joke is one for the ages
I was scrolling to find a comment about this
It is one for the ages. It is a very, very old play on words which it is always a joy to see a new generation discover. :-)
I just heard that a second ago and came looking for a comment like this.
Why am I so addicted to this channel? It's so addicting. I've must have been watching like at least 15 episodes already today!
I think the FF7R part was just Ellen venting her frustration in trying to buy a house.
i think you overestimate their salary.
@@Tannerj50 She actually did vent about her trouble in finding a house on twitter, dude.
@@MrFutago87 never got into twitter, regardless my point still stands.
They probably make a decent paycheque,I was sarcastically refering to the gap in wages compared to the over inflated housing prices many countries are seeing right now due to foreign property investors. I know exactly what she's going through, I'm her age, And while I'm not currently looking for a house I know how ridiculous the market is pretty much anywhere right now .
And in the sort-of Dynasty Warriors spinoff of Persona 5, known as Strikers, you fight a BDSM Bunny Furry, a dragon in boxer briefs, Elsa the Hutt, an edgy fanfic version of yourself, Iron Man and... a phone AI. A phone AI who becomes the Ark of the Covenant, and then a giant phone version of the villain from the previous game. No kidding; EMMA becomes Demiurge, which is another name of Yaldabaoth. Ever expect that an eldritch goddess would be voiced by Siri?
I always love seeing Devil May Cry on one of your lists! Always loved the chess fight hahaha! Ironically you have to fight a building in one of those games, too... _But we don't talk about DMC2..._
Remedy love weird boss fights, Alan Wake fights possessed bulldozers, flocks of birds, a tornado, even a bunch of floating words
Come on, in Hat in Time you literally fight a self aware ghost toilet.
Mad respect for the "beware spoilers" joke with Origami King. Mad respect. :p
Ah, _Persona 5_ -- the only game where a group of high-schoolers (plus one junior-high genius and one cat) use the power of teamwork, positive thinking and the Seven Deadly Sins to defeat a control-obsessed god and save Christmas.
Saint's Row 4, where you battle a can of soda with arms and legs like the Kool-Aid Man. Also the mascot of the soda in question, you're forced to fly a helicopter away from him as he chases you, only to repeatedly fire back into his face.
I had almost forgot about Paul
Can't forget Professor Genki either
The Toilet of Doom from A Hat in Time is hands-down the weirdest boss I've ever had the pleasure of fighting in a video game. It is literally a haunted outhouse that got possessed by your own character's soul. I'm surprised it didn't make the list...
The true nightmare is all of the horrible horrible things we did along the way just to see a set of credits roll.
“Rectum? Damn near killed him!”
Ellen: "while be it going through a goth phase"
me: "IT'S NOT JUST A PHASE, MOM!"
As a 23 year old goth, I assure you, it's only a phase if you let it be.
@@deadersurvival4716 as a 35 year old goth, i also assure you about some stuff ^^
@@ichsehnursoaus Ah, well met, friend! _distant "One of us" chanting_
@@deadersurvival4716 gooble gobble, one of us! i salute you :D
No. It's phase 1 of the boss fight!
You should have seen the Toolbox from "It Takes Two", your second boss fight is literally chasing after this angry toolbox where the players were armed with a hammer head and flying nails, and its the first boss fight where the two players had to _really_ work together with their own unique skills to survive the onslaught since it was skill-specific
Devil May Cry 2: A giant demonic skyscraper.
And let's not forget Borderlands 3's Kreig DLC, where you literally shoot a giant flying imaginary train to death.
Never heard of Devil May Cry 2 there is only Devil May Cry 1,3,4 and 5.
@@FluroF15h what about dmc?
@@FluroF15h I understand 2 is the whole "we don't talk about that one" entry, but it's still a lot better than that crappy remake. I had the game growing up, and DMC 2 isn't that bad. It's not great, sure, but not terrible.
@@DelinquentChibi I know I was just making a dumb. joke sorry if got offended
@@FluroF15h I wasn't offended, but I did misconstrue your comment. I tend to assume people are serious on the internet, sorry about that.
I swear the Hell House is emblematic of a lot of my problems with 7R. In the original, it was this mutated creature, a fusion of flesh and metal with a predatory instinct. Considering its found just outside the slum villages of burned out cars, a nice warm house would look very tempting to the desperate, which is how the creature within hunts.
In 7R it's a robot made to look like a house for no discernable reason except that it was in the original.
Add Philip to the long list of souls lost because of a door preventing the hero from hero-ing
Fighting a Holy Grail?! Who ever heard of that?
Fate/Stay Night cast: **clears throat**
And that had all the world's evil too
The good thing about Luke's parenting leave is that we get to make up for the lost time with Mike after his parenting leave!
As a Malkavian, I had a boss fight against a truck tyre after a brief argument with a Stop sign. It was weird. Fortunately, the TV told a few jokes to cheer me up again.
Ah the malks, the only people in world of darkness that love to fight all manner of objects and ítems like a can or a piece o paper
That fridge battle is horrifying. Truly sends a chill down your spine.
Your jokes could be crisper.
Really? I thought it was cool.
I don't know if I just missed something but I really struggled with that boss, chucking the nades back at the boss drained my energy so I only ever had just enough to dodge and I needed to fly as much as I could because otherwise I'd fall through the floor with the holes it punched through in third and second phase. It took me days to do that boss fight, whenever I heard "the fridge is doing something-" I'd copy him. Only other boss that came close was Salvador, because actually avoiding his attacks while attacking his friends was a nightmare. Tommasi mk 2 as well
@@positivitybot03 Took me several tries to beat "the former". Fell through the floor so many times..
Yakuza: Like a Dragon...you can fight a giant, sentient vacuum cleaner....
That's just on par for that game though, the entire thing is just completely bonkers
Japanese "styled" games are all a bit bonkers.. JRPG in particular.. They usually make absolutely no sense. 🤣
You also fight one in 'It Takes Two'...
Liked specifically for "Residential Evil."
By far the best line of the video
So glad it wasn't just me.
Pretty sure most of the "boss" fights from control could be on this list (love that game!!!) Especially the side mission Jesse Faden Starring in “Swift Platform” from the Foundation DLC
This video has some of the strongest pun work I can remember in Oxboxtra history. Good work!
In Job Island for the Wii, although technically there's no explicit "boss fight", you do work against a number of strange 'bosses', including a giant bowl of ramen with a thumb in it that is going to crash into the earth and make it impossible to buy ramen anywhere without somebody sticking their thumb in it.
Good news: Your house is literally magic!
Bad news: It's also evil!
i'm ok with that.
So, Hooty?
thanks, thats gonna drop the value at least 3%
Goddammit.
And is more of a shell for a killer robot, pretty much unlivable and also it's just a play house sized thing.
The Computer Virus from Kirby Super Star: it's an RPG within a platformer!
I should clarify that house monster in FF7 made a return in ff9, specifically in The Forgotten Continent. It's called Armstrong in that game, but... it's actually pretty fierce to fight against, since it either counters you by reducing your hp by half, or using Matra Magic, will will reduce a single target's hp to 1 point.
Yeah, it became a recurring enemy in the series (e.g. appears in in _Crystal Chronicles_ as a stage boss).
FF9 - Tantarian.
This big book of books can shred your party to pieces quicker than a thousand paper cuts and - oh wait, never mind. It can delvier those paper cuts as well as curse you with doom and poison and actually killing it needs you to deal damage countings bewteen 150 and 200. Otherwise you are doomed to fail beating it.
Exceptional writing this time. Laughs from beginning to end.
15:08 Jesus had a particularly large, curly straw
Now I'll have to join the SCP foundation, these things are getting out of control.
I see what you did there!
Splatoon 2 octo expansion: for the final boss you fight the literal Statue of Liberty thats been repurposed into a giant canon that’s being controlled by a sentient AI telephone
Ah Control the only game you can have a fight with a ship’s anchor that has a weird habit of belching clocks at you... and that’s one of the less weird things you end up doing
Out of all the optional super-bosses, the anchor was one of my favourites while also being possibly the toughest.
Though definitely high on the list.
Well have you seen some of the stuff from the inspiration the SCP foundation
"Rekt 'em" Haha, can't believe you went there. I literally laughed out loud.
LOVED Mikes input in this video. Not sure who wrote all the jokes, but they were on point! Well done guys 👌
Origami King isn't the first Mario RPG to have you fight odd things as bosses; look at its great-granddad "SMRPG: Legend of the Seven Stars" and having to fight... a bundt cake.
The Earthbound/Mother series has a menagerie of weird bosses, but the boogie tent came to mind for me
That game was OK for the first hour of play, but I fell in love with it after my first fight with... a Runaway Stop Sign. Not a boss fight per se, but still hilarious.
@@mitchellbonds766 and then we have mother 3 where you fight a robo maid.
What about the Phantom Train in Final Fantasy 6? Sabin makes it his personal mission to WRESTLE the train to death, including a suplex which was a beloved game glitch and hilarious to watch.
Legend of Grimrock: The final boss is an intelligent yet murderous techno-magical cube that tried to take over the world once.
"This is the first time you've fought a massive building*
Nobody in the office remembers Rampage, World Tour? :(
"Maybe developers wanted to keep it fresh"...looks at the Fridge Boss
1:53 yeah Control could pretty much make up this whole list. It's also part of the reason I absolutely love the game.
Considering it is basically the closest we can get to a AAA SCP game yeah makes sence
Rise of the Tomb Raider: Baba Yaga expansion: When was the last time you fought a house on chicken legs?
It would be strange ... if it wasn't actual folklore....
The hellhouse.
@@Stratelier If anything it just says allot about that people.
I’m honestly surprised you didn’t include a hat in time. In the darkest forest, there is a danger to the evil minions, it’s a toilet.
Well technically the toilet of DOOM.
I half expected Ellen to say "unexpected item in the bossing area" in the introduction, and I'm not quite sure what to make of my brain because it thought of that
That is absolutely bloody brillant
I'm afraid Ellen hasn't been to a physical shop in over a year. With or without self service.
12:07 Best. Callback. Ever. 🤣
And you even brought it back in reference to another Mario game! Hat’s off to you, OXtra!
"I am the Great Mighty Poo
and I'm going to throw my sh*t at you."
They’ve already talked about the Great Mighty Poo so much, he’s pretty much the channel’s unofficial mascot.
I think people with IBS battle the great mighty poo on a regular basis.. 🤣
I LOVE how the OXtra and OXbox teams keep getting better, even if they can't be in the studio regularly. The writing is SO GOOD in this one.
Yall forgot the Toilet Of Doom from A Hat In Time
The phrase "toilet of doom" just reminds me of SuperToilet from that episode of Fairly Odd Parents. So. Much. Clogging...
Watched this video after finishing Eurogamer's Resident Evil Village stream. In the end I literally heard Ellen say: "Lycan subscribe" 😀
In A Hat In Time, you fight an outhouse possessed by your soul. Yup.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who was thinking about that!
I’m surprised that “The Great Mighty Poo” from Conker’s bad fur day didn’t make it onto the list.
(Spoilers for Persona 5: Strikers)
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If you think fighting the Holy Grail was weird, you had to fight the Persona-equivalent of Siri in Strikers as the final boss, known as EMMA, AKA the Ark of the Covenant, AKA the Demiurge. An AI that has ascended into godhood after being taught how to manipulate human cognition on a near-global scale. I repeat: Siri has ascended into a literal god.
classic JRPG.
step 1: save cat from tree
step 2: be friends with class president
step 20: defeat God
Hmm I always knew that Siri would get promoted
Well, as a binding of isaac fan, i can confirm that fighting a ball that is a corpse filled with flies is totally normal.
I fight the fridge every time im bored and not completely full.
The Toilet Of Doom from a Hat In Time
You literally fight an outhouse that fights with explosive fruit and cages on chains
You guys went the extra mile with this one! Loved it. I especially enjoyed the "Paper Mario: Origami King" intro gag.
Poképark 2: wonders beyond’s chandelure boss fight has you defeat many stage props and then of course chandelure who is a chandelier
In Splatoon 1, the second boss was this weird faucet with tiny legs that shot ink snot at you.
(I really don't know how else to describe it)
A Hat in Time. An outhouse that's been possessed by your own soul. Bonus points for taking the joke further by adding literal cherry bombs.
As weird as the holy grail in Persona 5 is, fighting Tokyo Skytree in Persona 4 Golden's optional extra dungeon was even stranger. Persona 3 also had the weird "wheel of fortune" boss. Could do a whole list on Persona actually"
Mara, need I say more?
The Persona series has a lot of weird bosses, the Sleeping Table takes the cake for me
@@tiin111 Ah god yeah, forgot he's technically a boss in Mementos! Totally whole other planet of weird, NSFW too!
@@Turbofrog22 taking the cake because it is way tougher than you'd think too (or my FES playthrough was crap, the audience can decide on that one lol)
"how do you beat a holy grail?!"
1: DO NOT LET IT MERGE WITH AN ANCIENT ZOROASTRIAN DEMON-GOD
2: DO NOT LET IT SET FIRE TO A CITY
3: DO NOT LET IT ABSORB THE VICTIMS' SOULS
If all that fails, Loli in a magic dress
i'm used to you great pun-game, but you were on fire with this one, Oxtra
Oh, and let's not forget the classic... Great Mighty Poo.
Love these channels outside Xbox and xtra are amazing.
Well in Miitopia faces are ripped off and placed on anything to make it an enemy, picking one is kinda hard but the king tut mask that makes your allies think they're Pharos and smacks your Miis with his beard is definitely a top contender
Nahhhhhhh not the Pharaoh that cretin made my Pain run of the game soooo miserable.
What was my pain run? Pretty much ban everything. Then try to play the game. And the whole team is one class. Four Scientists versus a boss where I’m not allowed to sprinkle nor safe zone? Pain.
In No Straight Roads, while every boss in that game is a type of eccentric popstar, VS Sayu has you fighting a Mermaid Digital Idol in a, Cyberspace Ocean during her concert and it ends with you fighting A Reverse Mermaid Monster. Weird enough for ya?
Oh yeah 🎶🧜♀️ Love Love Sayu Pyu
You can't fight the currents of love.
what's more, Sayu is merely the avatar for the REAL boss: four nerds who act as her voice, designer, effects artist and mocap performer.
also: DK West, who you technically don't fight directly, instead fighting his shadow puppet.
Also 1010, a mass produced robot boyband, not sure they count as weird enough though
@@sarafontanini7051 The hardest decision was pick just one NSR Boss. Sayu my 4th fav after 1010 and Neon J Jaam!, Yinu and her Mothers music, or the Illusion EDM Artist EVE.
Sayu just seemed like the most popular.
@@WannabeWryter ironically other than tatiana Yinu and Her mother are probably the most normal of the bosses
Have you never played the NES game Stinger? Bosses included a killer watermelon, saxophone, and more!
If you thought the holy grail is wierd in persona 5, wait until you see tesso, the robotic rat, to fight against in the first persona game, where the majority of enemies are either Angels, demons, and abominations. Even your party laughs at it until it opens fire.
12:05
That "wrecked 'em" pun was really clever lol
Your forgetting about the weirdest and deadliest boss of them all!
THE GAME PACKAGING!!!
Getting at the corner with the fold of plastic wrapping takes all your dexterity and strength.
How about the Octo Oven from Splatoon 2? In a series where most of the boss fights are pretty weird, none of them can match a tower of bread ovens that shoot out living loafs of bread with Octarian faces on them as platforms to reach its weak point.
8:35 Damnit, who gave Merilwen a plasma rifle?
It's probably a gift from the other Oxventurers as an apology for losing her would-be new bow.
You fight a massive robot hiding under a legendary chair in Nuclear Throne. It’s the main game’s final boss. Once you beat it, though, if you met some other conditions before the fight, it explodes, you go through a massive portal, and you fight it AGAIN while inside the game’s character select screen, while inter-dimensional police department tries to kill you. Nuclear Throne is quite a game.
I learned one thing here. Control = SCP but it is only everyday objects with weird abilities
Yeah, the FBC in Control is very obviously inspired by the SCP Foundation.
Theres also that one boss in _A Hat In Time_
If no one knows what I mean, you get to fight a possessed outhouse as a bossfight in that game
Really you could probably make an entire list off of games from the shin megami tensei franchise
Except Mara. Let’s not put Mara on the list.
@@mattd3224 - put Mara on the list you coward
tru.
@@lazyperfectionist3978 We would, but the censors won't allow it.
Let’s just say he’s too much...
So wait: the house from FF7 Remake makes the list, but the train from FF6 doesn't? I mean that wasn't even a straight fight: the "heroes" literally ran in front of said train, never bothering to - say - jump off the tracks... and you could actually supplex the infernal, traveling machine. There's like a dozen jokes there from the getgo :D
Also hands from Super Smash Bros feels like a large omission.