The 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:PlayStation 2 has thousands upon thousands of games. Myriad titles within myriad sub-genres. An all-around stone-cold classic of a video games home console🅘. That's why we've been ranking so many darn things about the PS2, and hopefully, y'all have been reading 'em.

In the realm of boss fights, Sony's second-gen titan is among the best. Not that I have ever jotted down every console's relative rank☂ing in my personal view of relative overall boss fight strength. But I could totally see myself having done 🎐so. These are my picks for the best of the best, the bosses who have stuck with me from the PS2's heyday up until today.

8 🥃 Van G♐rants

Tales Of The Abyss

Luke fon Fobre tends to leave a bad first impression. The protagonist of Tales of the Abyss starts off whiny, entitled, spoiled, and generally uninterested in being a helpful, kind, a🔜nd least of all heroic, kind of fellow.

Tales of t💞he Abyss, though, is all about character growth. Luke's the centerpiece of it, and by the end of the story, he's transformed into one of the most dashing and selfless figures in the series.

What does anജy of this have to do with the game's final boss, Van Grants? Van was Luke's mentor, his sword instructor, his all-around unofficial caretaker. But he's a bad seed. He's the main antagonist, and he's got some wild schemes up his sleeve. As much as he skillfully disguises it, he's not, in fact, a good influence on Luke.

The showdown between Luke and Van is something players will be waiting much of the game to behold, and the exe꧑cution of it doesn't miss the mark. Bringing down Van is a thrilling feeling. It's the completion of Luke's incredible arc.

7 Yiazmat

Final Fantasy 12

Yiazma♔t is Final Fantasy 12's optional superboss. Or rather, the strongest of several. FF12 is bursting at the seams with optional battles. Truth be told, it wouldn't have hurt to have sacrificed a few of them in service to enhancing the back half of the story. But I digress. And in any case, I love all these hard-as-nails side quest battles, so I should stop complaining.

None hit so hard, and none have so much HP, as Yiazmat. Named in honour of Yasumi Matsuno, FF12's original director and the creator of its mul🔯ti-game setting of Ivalice, Yiazmat holds nothing back and will take several hours to defeat. Time was, it took ev💯en longer, but with The Zodiac Age, you can fast-forward once you get into the perfect rhythm with Gambits. Whew.

Triumphing ov🌊er a fight so brutally long feels amazin🐻g. It's surely a memorable feat.

6 The End

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

The first three Metal Gear Solid games have an ex🐬traordinary collection of boss fights. MGS4's doesn't quite match, and MGS5's is nowher♓e near them, but they still have their moments. Liquid Ocelot? Fantastic finale, that.

None of the original MGS titles have quite so strong a suite as Metal Gear Solid 3, and The End is one of the two biggest reasons as to why. The fight against this centenarian sniper is intentionally slow-paced. It enᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚcourages a methodical approach, provides a large jungle environment to sneak across, and offers several golden ways to win. One of which is so funny that there's no way in heck I'm spoiling it here.

The tension in this boss fight is off the charts. Whether it takes you mere minutes to down The End, or o🐠ver an hour, you'll feel the achievement as much as Naked Snake does.

5 Hades

God Of War 3

God of War 3 has several top-tier boss fights, but my favourite has got tꦰo be Hades. It's fierce, it's visceral, and it's arguably the most complex of the lot. The Lord of𝕴 the Underworld brooks no quarter - heck, the conflict begins with his claws tearing into Kratos' flesh.

The multipart epic encounter culminates with a mission to press the advantage by sending Hades hurling into the River Styx. It's heart-pumping stuff with a photo finish. Zeus is nearly as good a boss fight, and rightly so given he's the grand finale, but Hades is that mu💜ch better to bludgeon.

4 Nyx

Persona 3

's plot is a slow burn. For much of the game, its focus is chiefly on the development of its cast. The mysterie𒉰s pile on, and the answers are only half-measures.

It's all quite intentional, though. In the final act, when the story spins into overdrive and the end of th🌱e world is nigh, it's all those bonds which the protagonist has forged that make the grand battle against Nyx so worthwhile. The stakes are tremendous. Not just because the planet is at stake, but the hero may be forced to make a heck of a sacrifice.

Persona 3 Reload is a worthy remake, by th⭕e by, although if you have dreams of choosing 🅷a female protagonist, you're going to be stuck with Persona 3 Portable. Just so ya know.

3 Vergil

Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening

Dante's clash with his brother Vergil in Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening is flashier than anything else in a technical action game that's got flash in spades. Devil May Cry has always laid it thick with the flair; scoring the best kills you can must🃏er earns you an 'S' for 'Stylish', after all.

Vergil is just as flashy as his bro (and all the more sassy, to boot). And heck, you fight him thrice. Which round am I even talking about here? Presumably the third, given its role as DMC3's climax. With the powᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚer of Force Edge at his beck and call, Vergil's strength is significant. On higher difficulty settings, this fight is tough as nails.

2 Malus

Shadow Of The Colossus

In Shadow of the Colossus, every fight is a boss fight. This concept has put off many would-be players, and tha🃏t's aဣ shame, because the atmosphere in SOTC is simply sublime from start to finish. Every battle against one of the colossi is good enough to leave a permanent impression in my mind. One is even downright tragic to the point that I feel my eyes getting all misty-like just typing this sentence.

The sixteenth and final colossus, Malus, is gargantuan. I'm not comfortable proclaiming Malus the single biggest boss in the gaming medium, but it would not shock me in the slightest if it's the truth. Shadow of the Colossus is about scale; it's about the hero's journey to fell these mighty titans. Malus isn't just a final boss fight, he's a revelation of size and substance. It feels so good to bring him down.

1 The Boss

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

I told myself when I start🍰ed typing up this article that I wouldn't include the same game twice. Metal Gear Solid 3's boss fights are just that good. And what better way to lock in first place than to cite a boss fight against a character called The Boss? It's like poetry, it rhymes, yadda-yadda.

The story of The Boss is heart-achingly beautiful. Naked Snake's mission to put her down leads to such conflicted feelings in them both. Her defeat prompts one of the most poignantly melancholy and pitch-perfect endings in gaming. And their battle takes pla♐ce amid a field of flowers, steeped in raw hand-to-hand combat.

The way the music cuts in a couple of minutes into the countdown timer, soaring ever louder as the fight goes on, is peak Hideo Kojima from an era when he seldom missed a chance to cement a memory in me. If thi꧋s ain't the best PS2 boss fight of 'em all, it's surely darned close.