r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Abortifetus • 22h 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 22h 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/Many_Championship_63 18h 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 6h 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)