Alright, I’ve stalled long enough. Favorite Final Bosses.
WARNING: TO ANY FANS OF KIRBY, I WILL BE SPOILING PLANET ROBOBOT, SO BE WARNED RIGHT NOW.
With that out of the way…
I love this game. Planet Robobot is an awesome entry into the Kirby Series, building upon what Return to Dreamland and Triple Deluxe did. This game feature is the Robobot Armor, which has the power to go into different “modes” a la Kirby’s copy ability, and is used to solve small little puzzles to gain collectibles like Rare Stickers or Code Cubes. As usual, the first letter of each world is used to spell out a word, in this case P-R-O-G-R-A-M.
So, Return to Dreamland had Another Dimension.
Triple Deluxe had Eternal Dreamland.
Planet Robobot is [spoiler]Mind in a Program
The final boss opens up against Mecha Knight+, a Cyborg Enhanced Meta Knight with his original battle theme as the BGM. Never mind the fact he gets a giant hand tail in the second half of the fight, we’re only getting started.
The second part of this slows the finale down a bit, as it’s against the “Big Bad” President Max Profit Haltman. Haltman himself in reall nothing special, it probably would have been better if the music so so GOD DAMN BORING.
So, you beat this guy and he get’s ready to activate the mother computer, Star Dream. Stuff happens, Haltman’s soul is absorbed by Star Dream, giving it sentience and now it’s going to eradicate all organic life.
Wait, what was that last part?
So yes, the final boss of this game is Star Dream, a super computer that has gained sentience and is now going to eradicate all life in the universe, as opposed to most every Kirby villain that tries to take over the universe. So now the question, how do you fight said boss?
Kirby Scans the Halberd is how.
Star Dream is easily one of the most visually appealing final bosses in Kirby, with an equally impressive boss theme that has you controlling the Halberd and fighting against Star Dream. The fight is quite challenging, but then again I like battles that change up the usual play style of a game, and Star Dream does that perfectly. BTW, making a slight amend to my favorite Final Boss music. Mind in a Program has managed to trump The Lost Emotion as my favorite final boss theme. I’ll probably go into more detail on this later.
Getting through the first phase nets Star Dream merging with…basically all of area 6, Access Ark (The A in PROGRAM). The boss is HUGE, probably the size of a planet, and as such, the fight does slow down a bit, with a much more menacing theme to go with it. Those who are savvy will notice similarities between the Area Six boss of Star Fox 64 and this boss. The fight is still awesome, and as you damage Star Dream, parts of the Access Ark being to break off, slowly revealing something underneath.
This part is such a spoiler, that there is going a be a spoiler within a spoiler.
[spoiler]So, what’s underneath the shell? How many of you have play Kirby Super Star and/or Super Star Ultra? Do you remember Milk Way Wishes, with Marx and the Galactic Nova?
As it turns out, the Access Ark is a GALACTIC NOVA. A CLOCKWORK STAR.
This is a truely impressive callback to a previous game. Much how Masked Dedede was a call back to Revenge of the King in the same game (Super Star Ultra). And I love it. The whole battle goes nuts, and hell, even the the theme is a callback to Heart of Nova! The whole battle is an amazing callback and is just so much fun.
And I can’t do the ending justice. Just know that yours is the drill that will pierce the heavens![/spoiler] [/spoiler]
rant over, passes out in bliss