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I don't know if I can come up with 10, but here's the ones I liked best:

- DJ Octavio (Splatoon)

- Garm (Hellblade)

- Valravn (Hellblade)



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Off the top of my head.

True final boss - Kirby Star Allies - If not the best, damn near close to being the best fight of my life, an spectacle, a challenge and a culmination of over 20 years of the deepest lore.

Bowser final fight - Super Mario 3D World

Tiki Totem - The Messenger

Zu Pharg - Xenoblade Chronicles X

Bashmaster the Unbreakable - Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze

Final boss - Fire Emblem Fates Conquest - I hate that boy, but god damn he gave me one of the best fights in Fire Emblem, an archer of all things.

Final boss - Pikmin 3

Urizen 3 - Devil May Cry 5 - Game should have ended here.

Dragorren - Little Town Hero

Pacifist ending fight - Undertale

Feel bad leaving out a lot of other awesome fights, but this will do.



I'll have to think about this one but they'll probably be a lot of Hollow Knight.



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Not counting any monster from MHW as "boss fights", since I could easily fill this list with those fights

10.- Bloodless - Bloodstained
9.- Sword Saint Ishin Ashina - Sekiro
8.- Sigrun - God of War 
7.- Mantis Lords - Hollow Knight 
6.- The Nameless King - Dark Souls 3
5.- Gehrman the First Hunter - Bloodborne
4.- Grun - Nier: Automata
3.- The Hollow Knight/Pure Vessel - Hollow Knight
2.- Beauvoir - Nier: Automata 
1.- Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower - Bloodborne

Honorary Mentions
Dark Beast Ganon - Breath of the Wild
Ludwig - Bloodborne
Slave Knight Gael - Dark Souls 3
Urizen - Devil May Cry 5
Alraune - Bayonetta 2
Cornell - Lords of Shadows
A bunch of others, they keep coming... 

Honestly, I think I could also make this list about Bloodborne alone, those are some of the boss fights I've enjoyed the most this last decade. Most of them are very memorable. 
Ill maybe edit later if I remember any other worth to make the list, this were the ones that came to mind. Theres many.



mZuzek said:
Jpcc86 said:

Honorary Mentions
Dark Beast Ganon - Breath of the Wild

yikes

Well, I did enjoy it quite a bit, I felt it had one of the more epic atmospheres of any Zelda game boss fight, even if the fight itself was a bit easier than I had expected. I probably should clarify I mean the full fight with Ganon, not just the final phase as the Dark Beast tho. 



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Not even sure if I can name 10 but -

Nightmare King Grimm - Hollow Knight
Sans - Undertale
Tartar - Splatoon 2 Octo Expansion



In no particular Order

DJ Octavio (Splatoon)

Phantom (Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle)

Bowser (Super Mario Odyssey)

Miowzer (Super Mario 3D World)

Diggernaut (Metroid: Samus Returns)

The Steak (Paper Mario: Color Splash)

Prince Vorkken, third encounter (The Wonderful 101)

Final Boss (Daemon X Machina)

Final Boss (Fire Emblem Fates: Conquest)

Homonculus Beta (Astral Chain)

DJ Phantasmagloria (Luigi's Mansion 3)

This is actually harder than I thought. Other games like Bravely Default, Astral Chain, Octopath Traveler, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3, Fire Emblem Echoes, Pikmin 3, The Messenger, Hollow Knight, Axiom Verge, Yoshis's Woolly World and Yoshi's Crafted World, among many others, also have great boss battles and I couldn't even mention those.



Maybe I'm just not playing the right games but I genuinely don't think I could name ten memorable bosses of the last decade, it seems to have become almost a lost art. I could name so many from the 2000s or the 1990s.



mZuzek said:
curl-6 said:

Maybe I'm just not playing the right games

Well I mean, if you haven't played Hollow Knight, then clearly this is a true statement.

I'm generally not into indie games. I prefer games to live up the the production values of the system I'm buying them for, and I typically don't like hand-drawn art styles.



mZuzek said:
Jpcc86 said:

Honorary Mentions
Dark Beast Ganon - Breath of the Wild

yikes

I will post my list in a bit, but I just came here to say Dark Beast Ganon as a joke...

I had the same reaction you did lol.



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