Discussion Main / Superboss

Seriously, we need better criteria for these, especially for games which are baseline difficult. The Souls Borne series in particular has tons of examples getting listed, most of which no reasonable series fan would call one. Being optional is just part of it, but the spirit of the trope is to focus on bosses whose main 'purpose' (and yes, here's where we enter "read the developer's mind" territory) is to be challenge rather than just, say, guarding some extra equipment.

Would it be alright if I create a subpage for Dark Souls. That way there will be another page to discuss the difficulty of the optional bosses like Nameless King and Fume Knight. As opposed to That One Boss which only does the mandatory bosses

Optional Boss vs Superboss:

The article makes no distinction between boss fights that are simply optional and not part of the main story, and those legendary monsters that put even the regular Final Boss to shame. Even so, many gamers including myself consider those to be two distinct concepts. Should something be done about that?

"But they are much weaker than the SNES originals" Removed this remark regarding the Final Fantasy V superbosses. The battle scripts and raw stats were copied over and left untouched, so they're the same.