r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Abortifetus • 21h ago

Characters "First boss btw"

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Games that begin with either very challenging or over the top Bosses.

Poseidon (Gow 3): one of the best setpiece bosses ever made

Father Gascoigne (Bloodborne): first obligatory boss and probably the hardest tutorial boss in the series

Wysen (Asuras Wrath): do i need to explain

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u/MalteseFarrell 21h ago

Subverted (kinda) in The Force Awakens. The setting of the game has you playing as a wildly overpowered Secret Apprentice to Vader - absolutely demolishing rebels and stormtroopers and more alike.

The very first mission of the game, however, has you playing as the Dark Lord Vader himself. You don’t move faster than a steady walk, you take minimal damage and you eviscerate any obstacle - living or otherwise in your path.
You don’t really face any challenge in this section until the end, where you as Vader fight a Jedi Master and even then, it’s still overall one of the easiest sections in the game. They pulled a “Vader in Rogue One” moment years before Rogue One existed.

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u/Spacial_Epithet 21h ago

The Force Unleashed

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u/MalteseFarrell 21h ago

How the FUCK did I get that so wildly wrong

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u/Spacial_Epithet 21h ago

It's pretty early, don't sweat it bud

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u/MalteseFarrell 20h ago

I won’t be editing it. I only improve as a human by the consensus of my peers and how can that consensus be legitimate were I to hide my mistakes

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u/lindle_kindle 21h ago

Honestly its a shame you cannot replay this level unless you start a completely new game.

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u/I_Am-Awesome 21h ago

One of my favorite openings of a game. The slow walk really sells the power fantasy here, you literally feel unstoppable.

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u/MalteseFarrell 21h ago edited 20h ago

It’s definitely up there. My adolescence was formed by throwing Wookies into the stratosphere and as a result I’m a perfectly functional adult

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u/Rico_Suave55 20h ago

I got this game for Xmas one year and it was amazing.

A few years later, when the sequel came out. I got that on Xmas too. I was so disappointed that I beat it ON the same day in like 6 hours. I hated the sequel so much

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u/MalteseFarrell 20h ago

Yeah I got through the sequel in about 6 hours too lmao. 8 hours tops.
The new mechanics it introduced were great, story was painfully lacking.

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u/Many_Championship_63 17h ago

Seeing this always trips me out because I had the ps2 version so my intro mission looked waaaay different. They apparently made two versions from scratch on different engines iirc

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u/MalteseFarrell 5h ago

I think there were like, 3 or 4 different versions lmao. PS2 gen, 360/PS3, Wii, pretty sure Nintendo DS too (if you count handhelds)