Originally posted by Tama YoshiI will plainly disagree with both.
Metroid prime 3's final boss is hard as hell (unless you're not on hyper mode, which is obviously the difficulty on which you should fight it). I never found 3 consecutive boss fights to be easy, especially on hyper mode. THAT was good difficulty.
Also, saying that Bowser's final boss theme in super mario 64 is not epic and saying galaxy's music is epic is kind of strange. Seriously, both are good. And they're probably damn close together if you consider the time at which they were created, same for the bosses. I believe that Bowser from 64 was much harder than Bowser from SMG (because it is older and because SMG is just too easy). Now, I can't say I LIKE either, but SM 64 is at least a good moment to fight the final boss, while SMG isn't, to me.
I do not believe you're disagreeing with anything I said here (except possibly the quality of SM64/SMG's final boss themes).
Super Mario 64's final boss is definitely more difficult than Super Mario Galaxy's. But taking an earlier battle (that was already somewhat luck-reliant) and making it a lot longer? That's just annoying.
As for Galaxy Bowser's music, I was referring to the normal Bowser battle theme as epic, not the final phase music (which I agree is similar to SM64's final boss music, except faster and with a different melody).
As for Metroid Prime 3...
Hypermode is clearly not the obvious difficulty to play the game on in your first playthrough-- in fact, it's impossible unless you're cheating or using someone else's save data.
Therefore, my first impression of the final battle was that it is easy, just like the whole game was. (By the way, they really should have called the "Normal" setting "Easy". Even Veteran was pretty easy.)
And my other points still stand, anyway.
Now, I'm not trying to create an argument (as arguments are almost always pointless). I'm trying to show that there's no conflict of facts here, just misinterpretation and differing playstyles.
If you believe that a good final boss is one that's extremely difficult and a bad final boss is one that's not extremely difficult, and that games should always be played on the hardest difficulty, I'm fine with that. Just make sure to recognize that others have different beliefs.
(Why did I post in a topic of opinions anyway? They almost always lead to people pointlessly trying to force their opinions on others, often without even realizing that others do not have those opinions...)
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