Games where you can use an instant-death move to cheese the final boss

there's gotta be more I don't know about. Not thinking about scripted events here, just hilarious and optional tactics.

Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest
Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest
You can Phoenix Down the final boss.
Final Fantasy V
Final Fantasy V
One segment of Neo Exdeath is vulnerable to death effects, another is vulnerable to specifically Magic Lamp Odin. All of them can be taken out at once with Level 5 Death and some setup
Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean
Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean
Malpercio can have its resistance to instadeath removed by the Tower arcana just like everyone else.
Ninja Gaiden
Ninja Gaiden
From Ratts:

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The spin slash powerup in the original Ninja Gaiden one shots each of the three phases of the final boss. But since you lose the powerup after each phase, to actually do it for all of them you have to die and go back through the hardest levels in the game to get the spin slash again."
Spelunky
Spelunky
Eggplant
The Final Fantasy Legend
The Final Fantasy Legend
Embarassed that I forgot this one in the initial list. God is famously vulnerable to being chainsaw'd in half

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1 year ago

The spin slash powerup in the original Ninja Gaiden one shots each of the three phases of the final boss. But since you lose the powerup after each phase, to actually do it for all of them you have to die and go back through the hardest levels in the game to get the spin slash again.

1 year ago

you can 1-shot almost every boss in Dark Souls, including the final boss
I'm torn on if doing a bunch of damage in Dark Souls should count, but Ninja Gaiden feels okay to me. I need to think about it.


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