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00:00So I think it's fair to say that if you're into the medium of video games, then you, my friend,
00:04love a good boss battle, something that pushes you to your limits and sometimes a little bit
00:09beyond there, and offers up refreshing and new experiences as a little bit of a break
00:13from the regular gameplay. But equally, as much as we can love them, we can sometimes
00:18absolutely hate bosses that are utterly cheap, unfair, and played downright dirty.
00:23Well, you know what? We're going to flip the tables on them today. As I'm Jules,
00:26this is WhatCulture.com, and these are 10 Video Game Bosses That Made You Cheat to Win.
00:3210. The Computer Controlled Players – Mario Party 1
00:36Now, in theory, the CPU players in a game of Mario Party should operate as totally individual
00:41figures. They're intended to emulate human players, after all. So you'd obviously expect
00:45them to mostly just look out for themselves, like a competitive game would entail. Only,
00:49if you play this game for long enough, you start to see that things are a little bit more suspicious.
00:54The AI players always seem to… win certain mini-games. But maybe that's just my paranoia,
00:59right? I mean, they clearly wouldn't make the AI unbeatable at mini-games when they're 90%
01:04of the game, right? Wrong, my friend, because these robots are made to be better than you.
01:10And yes, it's okay to be mad at that fact. In the first game especially, the AI is literally
01:15capable of pushing buttons faster than your controller can physically register them.
01:19This is especially true for the godawful mini-games that require you to rotate the
01:23joystick with your palm, since you could literally tear the skin off your hand
01:26if you did it too fast. Whereas the computer, well, it's got no hands, and thus no issues.
01:32As such, nobody can blame you for almost definitely forming a sketchy and also sort
01:36of unfair alliance with other human players against the robotic threat.
01:40Sacrifices have to be made, after all.
01:429. Every Opponent
01:45Godzilla, destroy all monsters melee
01:48When the AI does things that qualify as cheating, it's not exactly immoral to
01:52exploit this to your own benefit, right? Even if it does only create an unfair playing field
01:57that is instead in your favour. And this is exactly the case for a game known as Godzilla,
02:02Destroy All Monsters Melee. In it, the AI suffers from a rather bad case of omnipotence,
02:08as it's able to know where items are without being within viewing range of them,
02:12and automatically runs to collect them. While this is absolutely bogus,
02:16it is easy to use against it. By running in the opposite direction to your foe,
02:20you can get it stuck on the edge of the screen, and thus it's unable to get the precious item.
02:25And since it keeps running to pick up said item, you can use this time to just wail on it,
02:30throwing whatever it is nearby to mess up its day. Throwing a building at a stuck opponent
02:34isn't exactly an incredibly moral fighting tactic, but you know what,
02:38the AI started this war of cheating, you're just ending it.
02:418. Cheating the Cheater
02:44Digimon Digital Card Battle
02:46Digimon Digital Card Battle actually introduces a cheating AI by having your arch enemy literally
02:52hack the game in order to get some OP cards every time. However, hilariously,
02:56you can actually play this in your favour. Analog Man can cheat by hacking to get specific cards,
03:02but you can also cheat by using the hacking card to swap his buff Digimon's health with that of
03:07your own monsters, so long as they're a lower level. This isn't exactly a trouble either,
03:12as his monsters are usually so powerful that you likely won't ever have to worry about yours being
03:16of a higher level. Admittedly, this isn't exactly the same type of cheating as you'll find in other
03:20games on this list, as the hacking card is totally legitimate and not obtained by skullduggery,
03:25and Analog Man's whole shtick is that he's hacked his way in to fight you in the first place,
03:30but it is fun to see that cheating against an also cheating CPU boss is such a well-established
03:35trope that games like this almost parody it in a strange, meta sort of way.
03:40Were this game to have the same kind of rep that the Pokemon card game did,
03:44this battle would likely be infamous. As it is, it's still entertaining to feel like you're
03:48caught in something of a hacking battle against a really dangerous rogue.
03:527. MK Walkers Mortal Kombat 3
03:56It goes without saying that the highest difficulty level in a fighting game is pretty much always
04:00going to be the most devilishly tricky one. This is especially true for the Mortal Kombat series,
04:05which coined the term MK Walkers to describe the crazy challenging top difficulty the series'
04:10CPU possessed. In order to make battles more troublesome, the AI's reaction time is simply
04:15improved by incredible amounts, meaning that they can do basically perfect blocks and attacks all
04:20the time, since the speed that they can realise what to do is almost infinitely faster than you
04:25are. So, how did players combat the cruelty of combat? Well, in most games you'd need to learn
04:31to outsmart and outmanoeuvre your enemy, except for Mortal Kombat 3. In the third instalment,
04:36your enemy had an indecipherable weakness, uppercuts. Thus, you can either painstakingly
04:41develop tactics by being brutalised by various robots, or instead just uppercut them into
04:46oblivion. Now, it's a tactic that would be slated if you used it against a human player,
04:50but it feels a little bit less cruel to use against a ruthless robo-opponent.
04:546. Car Troubles Simpsons Hit and Run
04:58Since a whole lot of people played Simpsons Hit and Run when they were young or otherwise
05:02getting into games, it might seem like this was where the difficulty of the game arose.
05:06As anyone who's recently played it again can tell you, this is not the case. There are just
05:10certain portions of this game that are really, really hard. This is doubly true for the races
05:15that you can do in each and every level to get yourself a new car. These are basically designed
05:19to be a huge trouble for you to beat as you race against the car that you would unlock in the next
05:23level, which is often infinitely superior to the one you currently have. Now, it's at this point
05:27where many guides would recommend that you wait until you're a level or two past this mission
05:31before you actually play it, otherwise it can often be a lesson in humility. But we're not
05:36ones to wait around, so of course some tactics that weren't exactly kosher in any other driving
05:40game suddenly became almost a necessary evil if you wanted to beat these races when you first
05:45got to them. Getting other cars stuck on environments, taking shortcuts that weren't
05:49actually meant to be shortcuts, anything is game when you've been demolished in a race against
05:53Marge Simpson for the umpteenth time. Eggs for Bart, indeed.
05:575. Dante – Devil May Cry 4
06:00Now, many games have uber-hard, extra-difficult modes that brave players will battle their way
06:05through, and Devil May Cry 4 has perhaps one of the hardest of these outside games that actively
06:10market themselves on being difficult, that is. And there's a reason that their most difficult mode is
06:15called Dante Must Die, and that's because Dante will provide you one of your most challenging
06:19fights. And that's because regular attacks just don't seem to ever get through to this guy. You
06:23can deflect, dodge, and parry, but being able to actually hit him without being blocked is
06:27seemingly impossible. And while players have beat Dante on this difficulty without using more
06:32sketchy methods, there is a popular way to cheese this boss. Should you grow tired of suffering,
06:38you can merely just parkour your way onto the altar in this room. Dante, in all of his infinite
06:42wisdom, will attempt to jump up, only for you to get an opening attack to him, swatting him
06:47back down. Then just rinse and repeat this until his untimely demise, leaving you either relieved
06:51to finally get through this fight, or a little ashamed of how you did it.
06:554. The Rhinoc Race – Spyro, Year of the Dragon
06:59Now, the race for the dragon egg in Spyro, Year of the Dragon isn't impossible by a long shot.
07:04However, it can be really dang annoying, as your enemies are able to use their speed boosts
07:08whenever they want, and automatically know their way around the course, whereas you have to build
07:13up your boost via tricks. And since this isn't the most integral part of the game, it's pretty
07:17reasonable to just want to get past it as quick as possible, and to get back to the fun levels
07:21and boss fights. So, instead of repeating the race after you lose it, you can take a slightly
07:26different tactic. If you instead walk to one of the boost panels and just stand on it for a couple
07:31of minutes, you can stack up the boosts that you'd otherwise have to work to get. As such,
07:35you can literally then go into the race and just constantly boost your way around the entire thing,
07:40making it so that your enemies have zero chance of ever catching up with you, let alone passing
07:45you. 3. Most Late Game Opponents – Yu-Gi-Oh!
07:48Rechef of Destruction In Yu-Gi-Oh! Rechef of Destruction,
07:52you face dragons, demons, and ancient Egyptian deities. You also face some downright cheating
07:58bastards, because nothing apparently is ever easy, and some people care a little bit too much
08:02about a card game. I say this as I look over at my Magic the Gathering collection right now.
08:06However, presumably you also care about winning your card games, because when you realise that
08:10the later enemies you face will know what card you've put down even when they're face down,
08:15you're likely going to be a bit more than peeved. But you can game the system, by just creating a
08:20deck custom built to sabotage the fact that the enemy can see the stars and stats of your monsters.
08:25By using cards that appear weak, but have abilities that automatically kill whatever
08:30enemy attacks it, you can strategically take out your enemy's side of the board,
08:33since they aren't able to read abilities quite the same as they are stars and stats. Again,
08:38it's not entirely immoral, as the minute you realise that your enemy can basically read your
08:42cards, it's a natural reaction. But it does change the dynamic of these fights from desperately
08:47holding your own against powerful enemies, to, well, just gaming the system.
08:512. Level 9 CPU – Super Smash Bros Melee
08:55Showing someone a high-level CPU playing Super Smash Bros is basically a simple way of showing
09:00how easy it would be for them to eventually take over the world. Trying to duke it out with the AI
09:05is an experiment in suffering. It can dodge all of your attacks perfectly, counter attack you
09:09ruthlessly, and just generally use the perfect reaction to whatever you try to throw at it,
09:13quicker than the blink of an eye. Basically, they're frustrating enough to combat that
09:17many players choose to take them down via less legitimate means. Which isn't actually difficult
09:23to do, because these opponents are pretty easy to mess with once you have an idea of how they work.
09:28Almost every character in Melee has an underhanded way that you can deal with them,
09:32not even counting the regular sketchy methods like flying under the level until characters
09:36jump to their deaths trying to catch you. Though learning all of these mechanics almost
09:40legitimises using them, you're still learning how to cheat instead of learning how to fight.
09:44But there's only so many times that you can be curb stomped by Donkey Kong before you need to do
09:48whatever you can to win. 1. Dark Link – Zelda II
09:53The Adventure of Link. The early Legend of Zelda games are a great ancestor of most of the difficult
09:58games we have to this day. This is exemplified in Dark Link, one of the most genuinely challenging
10:04boss fights in the franchise's history. He automatically attacks whatever you aren't
10:08guarding against, perfectly counters all of your attacks, and generally makes your life hell in
10:12that special way that only flawless AI reactions can. However, like most hard-as-nail bosses,
10:17players found a way to make this fight easy as hell with a cheesy exploit. As it turns out,
10:22if you go to the far left and duck, your evil doppelganger will just walk over to you without
10:26guarding, meaning that you can just hack away at his shins without ever having to worry about him
10:30blocking or launching a counterattack. Curling up in a ball and jabbing somebody doesn't exactly
10:35make for the most epic of battles, but your dignity has likely already taken a lot of
10:39hits by this point in the game. So you know what, we're gonna give this one a pass.
10:42And there we go my friends, those were 10 Video Game Bosses That Made You Cheat To Win. I hope
10:47that you enjoyed that, and please let me know what you thought about it down in the comments
10:50section below. As always I've been Jules, you can go follow me over on Twitter at RetroJ with a zero,
10:54or you can swing by Liv and Let's Dice where I do all of my streaming outside of work,
10:58and it'd be great to see you over there my friends. But before I go, I just wanna say one thing,
11:02I hope you're treating yourself well with love and respect, not trying to cheat yourself out
11:06of that bit of self-care, because it's very important to do that in our day to day. Just
11:10taking some time out and realising that we are a massive ledge and we deserve the best things in
11:14life alright? And trust me, you do. Now go out there and absolutely smash it today my friend,
11:20I believe in ya. As always I've been Jules, you have been awesome,
11:23never forget that, and I'll speak to you soon. Bye.