Boss battles should be the ultimate test of all the skills you've been developing in the levels up until now. But once and awhile it comes time for a showdown and the boss ends up being lacklustre, a pushover or just plain boring. Whether it's over in a few seconds, or you beat them through a quicktime event button sequence, these boss fights were memorable for all the wrong reasons. SPOILERS AHEAD.

Final Fantasy VII 1997 exceeds 15.5 million units sold worldwide as of February 2026, reinforcing its legacy as the series best selling title.
Modern day publisher be like: "Failed to meet sales expectations. Pivoting to live service."
It's an absolute legend of a game. And I honestly really love how the remake trilogy is shaping up so far.

Final Fantasy 7 is one of the most iconic video games of all time, with it helping to changed the RPG landscape when it was released in 1997.
If you already own it... There, I saved you the click on a deliberately misleading article.
I bought the game yesterday on steam for $4 because Square Enix is trying to replace it with a version that has no mod support.
Prior to yesterday, I had no idea the game had so many great mods until people started making a fuss out of it.
u get the switch 1 version of the og ff7 for free if you own 7 remake for the switch 2.
lol.
But BG2 didn't emerge in a vacuum, and in a recent chat with Slandered Gaming it emerged that—while we can thank BG2 for a lot of our favourite RPGs since—we have a whole other game to thank for BG2. That'd be Final Fantasy 7, which lit a fire under BG2 director James Ohlen to go all out with the game's structure and companions, per Trent Oster—who worked on the original Baldur's Gate and has since become CEO of Beamdog, the studio behind the BG1 and BG2 Enhanced Editions.
Baldurs Gate 1&2 were my games back in the day on PC. Icewindale and Neverwinter Nights as well
You've clearly misunderstood the point of FF7 if you think the final battle is lackluster
It... Was... The... Entire... Point..
I don't really consider the one on one fight with Sephiroth to be a boss bottle, i really wonder if anyone does
The final boss of Demon's Souls comes to mind. Maybe the devs made it so as to apologize to the players for putting them through so much suffering to get to that point.
Fable 2. The last boss rants for a few minutes if you don't shoot him, Reaver does. One shot. Dead.