KàIRóS
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I'll start with one that I think many will agree with: The End from Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater, if someone forgets why Hideo Kojima is considered a gaming genius you need to remind them of this guy.
The brilliance of this boss relies on the many ways the player has to defeat this old man, from straight up dueling him in a Sniper vs Sniper fight to tracking him down with items like the Thermal Goggles which reveal his footsteps and then killing him stealthly or capturing his parrot and letting the parrot go so you can see where he's located or doing the most creative way a game has ever let a player defeat a boss by literally not playing the game for a week and when you boot up the game again The End will be dead due to old age.
You can even fail the battle and The End will take Snake to prison, he uses tranquilizer darts so Snake never dies and thus a game over against him is practically impossible it is also possible to avoid the battle entirely by simply killing him way before the boss fight by sniping him after a cutscene, it's a memorable boss no matter how you decide to beat him.
The brilliance of this boss relies on the many ways the player has to defeat this old man, from straight up dueling him in a Sniper vs Sniper fight to tracking him down with items like the Thermal Goggles which reveal his footsteps and then killing him stealthly or capturing his parrot and letting the parrot go so you can see where he's located or doing the most creative way a game has ever let a player defeat a boss by literally not playing the game for a week and when you boot up the game again The End will be dead due to old age.
You can even fail the battle and The End will take Snake to prison, he uses tranquilizer darts so Snake never dies and thus a game over against him is practically impossible it is also possible to avoid the battle entirely by simply killing him way before the boss fight by sniping him after a cutscene, it's a memorable boss no matter how you decide to beat him.