Taking both “Boss” and “purple” in multiple senses: The final mission of Saints Row 2. ***SPOILERS!***
The 3rd Street Saints, of course, wear purple. It’s their flag. In SR2, you play as “The Boss”, but the final, hidden missions of that game also have you sent to unwittingly meet with your *former* boss, Julius Little. You’ve both been set up for this interaction by another former gang member, who’s now sent as much of his company’s private military force after you as he can muster, making it one of the most difficult encounters in the game. Effectively, a boss fight, even if you’re not literally fighting a gang boss, like you are in other missions of the game.
I’ve seen threads here before about “games where you play as the villain”, but the final conversation of that game drives home that, in the end, *you’re* the bastard. Your old boss got a gang together with good intentions, and with a dream to liberate the city from gang violence by fighting fire with fire. But, when he realized he’d created a monster, the player character (or “The Playa” in Saints Row 1), he tried to clean up his mess. At the end of SR2, you catch up with him, and not only does your character prove that Julius failed, creating the worst gang the city’d seen yet, but had also pissed off the Playa enough to turn him into the vindictive, sociopathic, hyper-murderous Boss of Saints Row 2.
Like, it’s not the biggest “mask falls away” revelation in gaming, of course, but you spend most of SR2 on, basically, what feels like a comeback tour to reclaim everything you’d worked to create in the first game and lost by the second game’s beginning. It’s only in the final mission that it becomes 100% clear that, no, you should be dead. Not just because Julius blew you to hell and left you to drown in the river, but because you’re a more evil presence in the city than any of the other bastards you’d killed to get there.
And, with all of that in mind, it doesn’t get said enough that Saints Row 3 and 4, for all the fun you can have with them, are massive disappointments in that they didn’t follow up on that narrative.
Minos… That’s right let me parry the big man… I don’t care if I get sent to space in the process. The railcoin will only be all the sweeter once I land.
The final boss from Remnants 2. I love me some red on hostile enemies, and the “root” aesthetic together with the colour scheme just does it for me. It also blends really well into its second phase, despite being quite different visually, the colour scheme kinda ties it all together.
Nightmare King Grimm, fr feels like a demonic ritual
Ridley in Super Metroid
if we are talking about purple
Gore magala and Chameleos from Monster hunter, really good fights aswell with a awesome OST. Monster hunter has a incredible OST for his fights
then you have Magnamalo also from monster hunter that has purple fire
Edit: also i remembered you also have Yian garuga and Gypceros as Purple monsters
The Snatcher, Hat in Time
Was thinking about Umbra from Child of Light.
Besides that, I do enjoy the Raiden Shogun fight in Genshin Impact a lot.
Bonnie from FNAF.
(Honorable mention Astel Naturalborn of the Void)
Doel from legend of dragoon.
Dr. Nefarious- Ratchet and Clank
Darkeater Midir is still the best dragon boss fight Fromsoftware have pulled off, amazing soundtrack as well
Eater of worlds
Taking both “Boss” and “purple” in multiple senses: The final mission of Saints Row 2. ***SPOILERS!***
The 3rd Street Saints, of course, wear purple. It’s their flag. In SR2, you play as “The Boss”, but the final, hidden missions of that game also have you sent to unwittingly meet with your *former* boss, Julius Little. You’ve both been set up for this interaction by another former gang member, who’s now sent as much of his company’s private military force after you as he can muster, making it one of the most difficult encounters in the game. Effectively, a boss fight, even if you’re not literally fighting a gang boss, like you are in other missions of the game.
I’ve seen threads here before about “games where you play as the villain”, but the final conversation of that game drives home that, in the end, *you’re* the bastard. Your old boss got a gang together with good intentions, and with a dream to liberate the city from gang violence by fighting fire with fire. But, when he realized he’d created a monster, the player character (or “The Playa” in Saints Row 1), he tried to clean up his mess. At the end of SR2, you catch up with him, and not only does your character prove that Julius failed, creating the worst gang the city’d seen yet, but had also pissed off the Playa enough to turn him into the vindictive, sociopathic, hyper-murderous Boss of Saints Row 2.
Like, it’s not the biggest “mask falls away” revelation in gaming, of course, but you spend most of SR2 on, basically, what feels like a comeback tour to reclaim everything you’d worked to create in the first game and lost by the second game’s beginning. It’s only in the final mission that it becomes 100% clear that, no, you should be dead. Not just because Julius blew you to hell and left you to drown in the river, but because you’re a more evil presence in the city than any of the other bastards you’d killed to get there.
And, with all of that in mind, it doesn’t get said enough that Saints Row 3 and 4, for all the fun you can have with them, are massive disappointments in that they didn’t follow up on that narrative.
galactus from Lego marvel superheroes
The Ender Dragon
Minos… That’s right let me parry the big man… I don’t care if I get sent to space in the process. The railcoin will only be all the sweeter once I land.
I can hear Jack saying “Zarpadon is such a stupid name”
Magus in Chrono Trigger
Nice
Iirc the Ink Monster in FC3 was purple ish.
Dr. M from Sly 3.
Purple is like the color of 80% of endbosses.
I go with Ganondorf.
Kahran Ramsus
Ended dragon
Edit: Ender* or Eater of worlds
The final boss from Remnants 2. I love me some red on hostile enemies, and the “root” aesthetic together with the colour scheme just does it for me. It also blends really well into its second phase, despite being quite different visually, the colour scheme kinda ties it all together.
I wasn’t a big fan of the game but Tekken 6’s Azazel had a pretty slick color palette.
[SPOILERS] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHWvvnf3Dj0