Masahiro Sakurai's Bizarre Approach to Final Bosses

The Comeback of the Pokemon Elite Four! The Elite Four League in Pokémon have seen better and worse days - until Generation VII brought new life to the Pokemon League. With the new features of the Elite Four and Champions of Pokemon Sun and Moon & Pokemon Let’s Go Pikachu and Eevee, the franchise is finally making a return to its original charm. So today, let’s tackle the Generation 7 approach to the Elite Four - in this episode of Skip the Tutorial’s Boss Battle Breakdown! 

Smash Ultimate Makes Bowser a Better Boss! When Super Smash Bros. adapted Bowser for a boss fight, it had to keep his famous battle progression from the Super Mario series while also changing the format from a platformer to a fighting game. To do this, Smash added in Giga Bowser, a more powerful boss version that plays like a more traditional and better boss fight. So today, let's see how Smash Ultimate's version of Giga Bowser makes the iconic boss even greater - on this episode of Boss Battle Breakdown!

Smash Ultimate Makes Kirby’s Marx Even Better! Marx is one of Kirby’s most famous bosses, so when HAL Laboratory adapted him as a boss in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, they had big shoes to fill. Luckily, this Smash boss fight in the World of Light and Spirits modes is very faithful to the original fight from Kirby Super Star, and it might even be a better boss battle due to the changes Sakurai’s team added. Let’s discuss that, on this episode of Boss Battle Breakdown!

Kirby Star Allies Saved Meta Knight! Meta Knight was always the antihero of the Kirby series - but in recent games, HAL Laboratory drifted away from using him in that way. That was until the 2018 release of Kirby Star Allies on the Nintendo Switch - which made him a familiar boss and rival for Kirby again. So today, let’s dive into how the Kirby franchise brought Meta Knight back to his pattern from Kirby’s Adventure - in this episode of Boss Battle Breakdown!

King Dedede Keeps Getting Better! King Dedede has been a staple boss in Kirby ever since appearing as the final boss in Dreamland - but how does HAL Laboratory keep him so interesting and memorable? Let’s look at how his story inclusions across the franchise make him such a great character right up to Star Allies, even if his moveset stays the same. Here’s why King Dedede is so great - on this episode of Boss Battle Breakdown!

Bosses that keep you coming back post-game! Designing a post-game is tough to do for an RPG - so here are three different approaches to making great bosses after the story mode. Grinding gets boring, so here are bosses to fill your time after the credits roll - so let's discover the tactics of these bonus bosses - on this episode of Boss Battle Breakdown!

Masahiro Sakurai's Bizarre Approach to Final Bosses in World of Light! Ever since Super Smash Bros Brawl's Subspace Emissary, these adventure mode final bosses have been a great part of the SSB series. Now, in World of Light mode, the new final boss battles are given a design overhaul to be wonderfully weird. So today - let's tackle Tabuu and Smash Bros. Ultimate's Galeem and Dharkon true ending fight - on this episode of Boss Battle Breakdown!

What Makes a Good Super Smash Bros Boss? There've been plenty of Smash Bros bosses over its history, but what makes one of these boss fights great? To answer this, let's looks at the evolution of Super Smash Bros bosses and see what worked, and what didn't, for the SSB series. Let's design a great Smash Bros boss - on this episode of Boss Battle Breakdown!

The bosses in Paper Mario Color Splash are a problem, but how could we fix it? It’s easy to talk about why boss battles with the Koopalings here are bad, but let’s also see where these fights could have been better within the story and gameplay. So today, let’s set the card battle system aside, forget the Sticker Star 2 comparisons, and just see how this aspect of the controversial title can be improved - on this episode of Boss Battle Breakdown!

Toby Fox has made fantastic final boss fights in Undertale and Deltarune [or Undertale 2]. How does he design a final boss battle? By concluding themes, the Chaos King and Sans fights become the best battles in both games and serve as perfect cohesion to the games’ concepts. Here’s how his approach is so genius to boss battle design in this episode of Boss Battle Breakdown!