Boss Analysis # 68
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- čas přidán 7. 12. 2023
- The sixty-eighth episode of Boss Analysis is yet another video about boss short-cuts.
Boss Short-cuts are what I called any special strategies that can instantly or almost-instantly kill a boss, or any strategies that make the boss incredibly easy. Some are intentional, some aren't, but in any case, they're always amazing to discover.
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: 0:23
Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker: 3:06
Super Mario RPG: 4:35
Decap Attack: 4:59
Pokemon Stadium: 5:58
Pokemon X/Y: 7:17
Metroid Dread: 12:10
Castlevania: Circle of the Moon: 15:34
Boss Analysis playlist: • Boss Analysis - Hry
The skeleton from Circle of the Moon is the funniest thing ever.
BIG BONE
12:16 I can't get tired of how COOL Samus of Metroid Dread is in most cutscenes!
I love how she relaxes her stance when she sees it's Kraid. Samus has been doing this for so long that a 30 foot tall lizard monster doesn't even faze her anymore.
The Skeleton transformation used to be the preferred boss speedrun strat for Circle of the Moon as Big Bones have a 1/8 chance of being thrown, but it was recently obsoleted by a glitch that transforms Nathan into an omnipresent screen-wide NUKE
Wow, that interaction with the Ice Arrows and Bongo Bongo is really cool. I never knew the Ice Arrows could actually do anything useful
'Very cool'
-ZFG probably
You can still kind of use a short-cut for round 2 Mewtwo. You start off with Electrode or Abra to paralyze him and fill up the rest of your team with rental Pokemon that have OHKO attacks like diglett and ponita. Due to the paralysis, they will be able to outspeed Mewtwo so their OHKOs actually have a chance to connect and in my experience at least one of them will. To me thats the most consistent (dare I say only) way to beat him using nothing but rentals
If I recall correctly, the risky route for Mewtwo 2 uses Para + OHKO, and the safer but slower route uses Para + boom stack, in the speedrun
Edit: added that it's for the speedrun
Nah just use ultra necrozma
@alexandremontesinos7876 yes. Use Ultra Necrozma in a Gen 1 format. Ignoring the fact that Mega Y can probably kill with Ice Beam, Gen 1 doesn't have Necrozma, Lunala or Solgaleo, the required Z-Crystal, Photon Geyser, or the held Item slot
@@furiouscorgi6614 naaaaah just use ultra necrozma trust me
A minute and a half in and I am floored by the fact that not only are ice arrows usable in the Bongo-Bongo fight, but he will actually try to break the frozen hand free. I had no idea that their was a different layer to that fight!
While there's no vigoroth in gen 2, it's actually possible to beat morty easily if you have a raticate and poison him before the fight. That way he also becomes immune to hypnosis, also making gengar 's dream eater useless
Good thinking. I forgot you don't have to go into PvE fights such as gyms at full power.
20:56 Banana peels should be more common items in games besides Mario Kart. Making npc's and enemies slip on banana peels is just too funny.
For my own example, Ceaseless Discharge from Dark souls 1 has an intended quick kill strat. If you aggro him by taking the black robes, then run to the fog gate you entered from, he will jump at you and slam his fist.... thing on the arena. If you hit him 6 times with anything, he falls off and dies instantly. I usually do this because the boss kinda sucks to fight legitimately and it's a good way to get some early souls.
The Bongo Bongo one I may have to try. And the CotM one is really cool; never knew about such a glitch.
3:58
Since you cut away before Link gets ejected, this must look rather terrifying to anyone who hasn't played the game. Imagine if this were an instant Game Over...
I recall CIrcle of the Moon being VERY cruel with its "Save Point to Boss Room distance", so I certainly wouldn't risk the skeleton form x)
lisa the painful type beat
@@SurmenianSoldier emphasis on the painful
In Dragon Quest 9, one of the bosses that gave me the most trouble on the main campaign was Hootingham-Gore. He's the resident spellcaster in the Triumvirate and he knows it: he brought a pair of Bad Karmours to soak up attacks and dish out physical damage. This also means the shortcut I use on the more powerful Fowleye doesn't work. Luckily, there's still some tricks you can pull off.
There's a strategy I discovered after it got turned into a meme: using Double-Edged Sword in a state of Super-High Tension can one-shot the main boss (and also the gladiator using the move, but that can be fixed by Zing and Yggdrasil leaves)
The Bad Karmours can also be pretty tough on account of being a higher enemy tier than the ones you're expected to fight at this point. This is also their weakness: because they're still classified as regular enemies, they are not immune to Whack. Hootingham-Gore may be wise enough to bring his own tanks but he doesn't have the ability to call reinforcements. This means you can now use the first strat without relying on Bad Karmour behaviour if you don't care about the gladiator missing out on leveling up.
The Mewtwo fight in Pokemon HeartGold/SoulSilver only has Psycho Cut as its attacking move. This makes MEWTWO, of all things, the easiest legendary to catch in the game if you use any Dark-type Pokemon.
Oh, and its other three moves are Amnesia, Power Swap, and Guard Swap. It's as if somebody tried to sabotage the poor thing on purpose.
A similar thing _might_ have happened in FR/LG. I don't remember what Mewtwo gets there, but if it's only damage was Normal and Psychic, you could do Sevii Island stuff to bring over a Sableye from RSE.
It's technically a wild mon, so it only has the learnset and the 4 most recent moves. Battles against 'Intelligent' (read: the ones with good AI, also known as exactly the final mon of main Scarlet and Violet, maybe the Necrozma fusion, and Ultra Necrozma) mons have good movepools.
@@RaceBanditpretty sure it's swift and psychic
@@furiouscorgi6614 The 7-star raid mons also tend to have good AI. It's not perfect, they'll sometimes slip with a move that doesn't work, but they heavily favor spamming the most effective move for the opponent.
The 5/6-star raids are usually pretty good, but the ones that prioritize laying status tend to be exploitable if you bring one with an ability or item that prevents their status move from working. They'll attack much less and use their status move even when it doesn't work.
@@DoctorNovakaine yeah, it slipped my mind mostly since it's post-game where you'd normally have trainers like the E4 rematches, so good AI is the expectation
I always knew X/Y were the easiest Pokemon games ever, but the fact that Korrina can be easily soloed with a Honedge is just crazy to me
Speaking of easy Fighting type gym leaders, an honorable mention should go to Brawly in Emerald; the only damaging moves his mons have are Fighting type, meaning his fight becomes a joke if you get lucky and find a Sableye in the nearby Granite Cave
This also means that if you kept a Beautifly or Dustox up to this point, you have a Pokemon that can freely wall the Fighting moves since both of their typings have a 4x resistance to Fighting
I still remember catching Sableye specifically to beat Brawly when I was little. Lucky for him that Knock Off got buffed in the remakes
While he's not a Fighting trainer, Wattson is a complete joke if you picked Mudkip.
For Exor the 9999 Geno Whirl STILL works on it on the Switch remake and DO use it.
Played Ocarina since it came out, getting the version with the original Fire Temple choir and still never knew you could do that with Ice Arrows. Probably because getting them for that fight requires not just a sequence break but beating the Gerudo Training Grounds, a far greater challenge than Bongo Bongo.
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One boss skip I laughed at was Buzzar the Buzzard in Chapter 2 of Paper Mario. Bowser has sent him out to dispose of Mario, but Buzzar forgot to ask what 'Mario' looks like. So if you identify yourself as Luigi when asked, instead of fighting you Buzzar just flies off searching for Mario, never again to be seen for the rest of the game. Heroic. Now I'm picturing him tracking down Luigi and ruining his day.
I was shocked they kept the 9999 weakness on Exor in the Remake!
Presumably, the glitch was just too iconic, well-known, and not too gamebreaking, that the developers felt it should be left in, especially since it only affects Exor.
I like how the mere act of pouring Spring Water on Kalle Demos causes his head to go flying off.
It's funny to me that X/Y's Gym Leaders start off covering their weaknesses fairly well, and then Korrina comes along and says "what's a Ghost type"? Even most of her rematch teams still get walled by the Honedge line
As far as a game built around sequence breaking goes, Rabi-Ribi has a ton of different achievements and tricks that heavily encourage it (and it's a metroidvania). There's one achievement that requires you to do a 0% run for example, or others that need you to get to a part of the game that you aren't supposed to go yet, or defeat a boss without having an item that was intended for it.
It's so nice to see some of my favorite series in the list also I never knew Karina's Pokemon only had three moves. That's a little sad.
I'll keep that beating bosses by finding shortcuts idea in the back of my mind, if some of us ever decide to make a game based on that concept.
Neat to see Circle of the Moon here! Honestly I never messed with skeleton much, so it was pretty cool to see you dodging and moving to actually get use out of it. Makes me wonder if someone could beat the game with only the skeleton, but the final boss... yeah, there's just no way.
Here are some Boss Shortcuts from SMTIV and IV Apocalypse:
In IV the Boss Asmodeus is the only Boss that resists Light instant of being immune to it. This means there is a chance to instakill him with a lucky Lightspell and make him a complete joke.
The Shortcut in IV Apocalypse only exists in unpatched versions of the game, due to it´s nature as as glitch. In IVA Light and Dark Spells can now deal damage and have a chance to instakill while Smirking. Bosses are also programmed to be immune to being instakilled, even if they aren´t immune to light and dark spells. There was however a glitch that broke the game in two. The Demon White Rider has an unique Skill called Gods Bow, which instakills anything not immune to light even without Smirking. Normally this doesen´t work on Bosses, but if you gave him Light Pierce, which normally only ignores regular Elemental Resistances/Immunities, let´s him ignore the Bosses Instakill Immunity. This was quickly fixed for good reason.
In Castlevania: Circle of the Moon, I think INT works differently. Usually it does boost subweapons, spells, familiar damage, etc. In CotM however, it just affects Nathan's MP regeneration rate. I wanna say all subweapons' damage is based on your ATK, usually a fraction of it, and that DSS card combos can increase or decrease ATK based on the combo. To say nothing of elemental weaknesses and resists.
That said? As someone who unironically loves the throwing knives in Castlevania? Knife-spamming to beat Adrammalech is really freakin' cool. I may have to try that if he really irks me, next time I get to him.
Idea: bosses who's designs are used as a basic enemy later in the game or in a sequel
Like the Taurus Demon, Bell Gargoyles, Capra Demon, Moonlit Butterfly, Pinwheel, and Sanctuary Guardian from Dark Souls?
i dont play dark souls but sure. I was thinking of examples like that one Secret boss in Dragon Quest(forgot number) that if you defeat within 20 turns, he helps you kill the actual final boss. His design is used for a couple of enemies and an easy boss in the latest dragon quest game.@@ShadowWolfTJC
A shame my suggestion wasn't chosen, but this is still a solid video regardless. Good job!
Now to be fair, Korrina is pretty cute.
A tad disappointed that only one of Dread's two boss shortcuts were here, but oh well, I still always love your content
Maybe the other one will be used in the eventual 7th boss shortcuts boss analysis?
Baldur's Gate 3 has one universal shortcut for most bosses: Gravity. So many bosses can be cheesed by shoving them into pits.
Funny that you mention wanting to design a boss on top of a building that could be killed by slipping off of a banana peel, and falling off of the building as a result. Hearing that brought back memories of how, in Dark Souls, I could instantly kill off the Iron Golem at Sen's Fortress by making it fall down while its back was right next to the abyss below, which could be done easily by luring it to the narrow bridge located behind it when you enter the boss arena.
I've never actually used that particular glitch in Circle of the Moon. Sure, it's easy to pull off, but it seems cheap. This player would rather work for his DDS cards
yeah, better use magician mode if you rather avoid the grind
My #1 favorite is a boss shortcut! (Man, I hope Golurk gets Headlong Rush in Indigo Disk. (EDIT: Shoot, it didn't even get Rock Polish back!))
Also, FRIGGIN' URSHIFU. The idea is fine, and even Wicked Blow/Surging Strikes I'd be OK with, but Unseen Fist... Why is it in the game AND on a friggin' Legendary? And one that's PAYWALLED. This is some FEH level bullshit.
If you want to see how a non-broken Urshifu might look, Unbound gives Pangoro Wicked Blow, which combines pretty good with Iron Fist. Oh, and Drapion gets it too- which combos really great with Sniper, but still at least doesn't ignore Protect.
Why do korrina's mons only have 3 moves is my question
It's not that weird, look at 3rd gen gyms and you'll find emerald added moves or buffed levels
15:00 git, if you like randomizers then i recommend Bloodstained:Ritual of the Night. Its a great castlevania like game and has one of if not the best randomizers ive ever seen. Even the base game alone, highly recommend
21:01 Actually, there could be an explanation for the carrot: the boss could be allergic to it.
At least you can equip multiple arrow types at once in Majora's Mask 3D.
Context on the Stephenson 2-18 comment, that sum-bitch is a red hypergiant star, with a radius of 1,497,131,000 km or 4,911,847,112,861 feet. Yep.
I never knew about the ice arrow trick either. Is it that much faster? I usually defeat Bongo Bongo pretty quickly as is.
Also, we’re almost at Boss Analysis 69. Does that mean lewd bosses are the subject of the next video?
While I don’t feel like something special would be done for that number, if something were to be done, maybe a sequel to “bosses I love”, all about bosses centric on charming your character(s)
I actually really hate 69 jokes and I'm considering skipping straight to 70, because I'm not exactly excited about the prospect of the video receiving constant "Nice" comments, as what happened with the Creepy Bad Endings episode of the same number.
Understandable, the “joke” isn’t even funny
@@whoisthisgit I see. That’s okay.
@@whoisthisgit70 ends up absorbing all the stuff that was meant to be in 69?
I don't remember if I actually used Honedge against Keemstar or if that was a job for my Braixen _(That same Delphox is on my Violet save now)_ and Slowpoke. All I remember is that she is the worst character in the series because she forces you to give a Lucario cancer.
I get that Lucario is forgettable, but that's not an excuse to make the player do something so abominable, especially since later generations would introduce Melmetal, the Hatenna line, and Clodsire as what would be more acceptable targets if Kalosian morals were ever acceptable in the first place.
For Kraid, you should have included how getting the Flash Shift early on gives you another boss shortcut.
When you're holding onto the magnetic rail, you can Flash Shift to him for an instant attack animation or such.
Finally, somebody talks about how dumb the Gym Leaders are in XY. Why do they only have 3 moves half the time, and barely have any coverage moves?
Does the decap attack one work with the japenese version who's completely differents?
Not bad, for a bag of bones XD
Worth the trip if I get a free instant kill on a boss fight lmao
I miss this level of polish as a rule
I... Don't understand the hate there towards Urshifu but still great video lol
@@charziz6693 Considering he's a Doubles player (from previous videos of his I've seen), would make sense.
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@@furiouscorgi6614*Tera Water Choice Band Surging Strikes in Rain
If you're looking for a game that endorses sequence breaking and even has a built in randomizer(iirc)... well, if you can stomach some questionable character designs and moeblobs, Rabi Ribi has all of that.
Saying that, still would suggest the spiritual successor, TEVI, over it, which needs be beaten once to unlock a free exploration mode.
Quick 'n' easy.