What are video games without bosses? Well it'd be a bit boring if you didn't get to defeat your arch enemy and save the princess as always, but sometimes that doesn't happen...instead game makers wanted to try something different...and sometimes it worked.......others....they were just out of their minds.

When I say bad video game bosses, I'm not saying that the bosses are hard or tricky, I'm talking about things that have no excuse for how they made them, for example a glitch, cheap shots, or not even fighting them.

I've broken this rant into categories, so let's take a look at the examples of bad game bosses

1. Not even fighting the boss

In Starfox Adventures (I know this is a glitch) but even without the glitch it's pretty obvious that your not suppose to fight Scales....but what's more absurd is the fact that Scales doesn't even try to hurt you if just stand there....

.........Am I missing something here?

What kind of boss doesn't even attack you?

When you pull out the wand a cutscene takes place, and Scales is knocked out without a fight...well that was easy.

I think this is absurd for a few reasons...for most the game you fight with your wand on the planet...but the final boss, Andross, you fight in your Arwing....And that's stupid, you're in the Arwing like 2% of the whole game!

Scales isn't the only one, what about the Dark Prince in Prince of Persia the Two Thrones?

Through out this game there's the evil dark side....and the only way to overcome the dark side is to conqure it right? Nope.

You don't fight the Dark prince because if you did....it would make the dark one even stronger....by violence, aggression and anger...and by not fighting him he runs away......yes he runs away...thanks.

This similar thing happens in the first Prince of Persia game, there's like a white version of yourself you'll encounter every now and then, and when you actually fight him, the only way to beat him is to put away your sword and walk into him..........um.......ok.

How about in Super Mario Sunshine?....what? never played that game?

The final boss in Super Mario Sunshine is Bowser and Bowser Jr. But you don't fight them like you did in Mario 64, instead they sit in a bathtub while you go and break 5 parts of the bath......yeah....Bowser will shoot fire to try and burn you, and the Jr. will fire bullets at you.....I mean come on Bowser! At least get out of the tub!

2. Unavoidable hits

Tabuu...Has to be mentioned here, Smash bros Brawl came out not long ago and I have yet to see any person alive beat him without losing a life.

at 0:48 Tabuu uses a shockwave three or four times and you can't block it, you have to dodge it...sadly...that's near impossible because even if you dodge it you still get killed.

Unavoidable hits are basically the game saying

"You can dodge everything else, but this one attack forces you to defeat me before I do my ultimate move 3 or 4 times."

3. Instant kills

Instant kills are stupid, and none more terrifying than Magus from .hack//Mutation

You see those leaves with the counters on them? If they hit 0.....instant death to everyone......what.......the.......crap?

Not only is this tedious...but it gets your adreline going because it takes nearly 2 hours just to GET to Magus...and dying because "oops I forgot to kill a leaf." That's a no-no. If you die you have to go through the.....what like 13 floor dungeon all over again?

So much is going on during Magus' fight that you can nearly see, it's easy to NOT see a leaf and and turn around and your heart will stop to see there's a leaf you missed with it down to 3.........2........1.........BOOM

Yeah......and........when can we actually attack the boss at this point? Your too worried about it's little death leaves to even fight HIM, you have to leave it to one of your A.I. friends to kill Magus.

4. Cheap shots

Cheap shots are apart of bad boss chemistry, here's one we've seen before:

Again...she's already dead, and yet before she gives her defeated speech she will get one more hit off the toad...Bullcrap