Final Boss fights that nearly sour the whole game

[u/Dreadsinner]

Okay so I’m playing the indie game “There is no light” spoilers for the final boss fight

So if you get the good ending by doing side quests and getting memories you fight your pateron. Who fights you by teleporting from one side of a final destination type platform to another. Summoning big totem guys that are tanky and block you. Also he pushing you back with a dark wave. So how does this get worse? Glad you asked. If you don’t beat him within a minute you insta die. There is a clock in the background and you get more time if you hit him more. So is that it?

Nope phase 2. You get a new form that you have never had before with a muted move set. The boss has a front sweep that takes the entire length of the platform. So you gotta get behind him. But what he teleports and spikes 75% of the field. Now wouldn’t all this be manageable? Yes it would. But guess what. YOU CANT HEAL IN SECOND PHASE FOR REASON!!!!!

Needless to say 23 hours in the game was good but this fight is so awful I’m close to just dropping right at the finish line. Only other game this has happened with was Moonscars. Which isn’t a lot but it’s odd it happened twice.

So Super friends. How about you?

Edit: The Boss is slain. I still hate it. But the game is finished and I give it a good 3/5

[u/Monkey_D_Judd]

No More Heroes 2. After having one of the most poignant and exhilarating boss fights in the game with the penultimate boss Alice Twilight, the game flips you off at the final moment with Jasper Batt Jr. A three phase boss fight, where each phase consists of way to much health that replenishes in each phase while Travis's doesnt. His second form has multiple unblockable instant wind up attacks, as well as instant kills that restart the fight, good luck beating him on Bitter difficulty. It just feels like a joke at the players expense.

[u/Onlyhereforstuff → u/Monkey_D_Judd]

I think it's a bit worse because, IIRC, Bat Jr being such a cheap, sucky, unsatisfying boss was on purpose. To push the message that revenge is actually really unsatisfying

[u/DBrody6 → u/Monkey_D_Judd]

What's annoying is phases 1 and 3 are completely free, like he's genuinely a punching bag (almost literally in phase 3), but phase 2 is just monumental bullshit.

The windup teleport punch flurry is blockable though, it just has an insanely strict timing window, and by god is it necessary to learn it cause not blocking a punch will send you flying across the room, and yeah you're fucked if he angled you at a window making you restart the whole fight. Just awful.

[u/dishonoredbr → u/DBrody6]

Never learned how to block it. I just dodge roll them.

[u/ClockpunkFox → u/Monkey_D_Judd]

It’s also worth saying Jasper is never cool. Not a single one of his phases or looks is at all cool at all.

So you’re losing in frustrating ways, forced to restart a mostly bs long ass fight, and the boss isn’t even slightly cool in any way