[used:)]

Aye, BG&E was rather vexing for me, but still fun, if that even makes sense. I thought that boss was pretty cool how it relied on that giant anthropic "tool" to do all of its crazy magic stuff. I also really liked how Jade used the same tool to free all of the people trapped in the sarcophagi.

I still haven't been able to beat the final boss/level in Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles. First, you have to hack your way through this long-ass level full of dangerous traps and monsters (consistent with all boss levels). Then, you come to the giant, miasma-spewing parasite. After you defeat his three stages, a demon transports you to another dimension just before you land the finishing blow. Next, you have a trivia session with a goddess and every time you answer incorrectly, a fucking difficult monster called a Minion appears and attacks you. If you survive, she takes you to the lair of the demon who brought you there who is particulary hard to beat if you're playing in single-player mode. He obviously uses devestating attacks and has a huge lifespan, but he attacks with the same monions as before, and they respawn instantly. But the icing on the cake is that when you finally beat him, he fuses with the goddess and becomes a super-huge badass mother fucker who takes out nearly all of your life with one hit of his attacks. You also have to pick up these magicites which are the transmutations of your memories that the monster sucks out of you with its tail (you collect them with every event you see throughout the game). To transmute them, you have to use Cure on them and you heal the monster if you accidentally hit him with it. They're also really hard to hit since the camera angle is really bad. If you run out of them, you lose and start over from the beginning of the game. Good news is that they each contain the highest forms of magic. So, you have some pretty kickass ammo.

I'm not a big subscriber to the FF series. So, forgive me if I'm not really pointing out anything special, but I generally enjoyed the bosses in that game. I thought they all had interesting designs and each one required a unique strategy to beat it ranging from button smashing to carefully thought out procedures.

And Pikmin, of course!