This isn’t necessarily referring to a storyline twin (though sometimes is).
Mega Man II- You have to fight 3 clones at once in Wily’s castle. But all they do is run back and forth and shoot (halfassed excuse for AI at the time. I was hoping they had all the weapons and stuff your Mega Man had. That would have been AWESOME)
Zelda II- You fight your shadow. It’s annoying as hell, most of the other bosses in the game don’t attack terribly fast so you can beat them with stick-and-move type tactics but you’re really on your toes against your shadow.
Zelda 4 swords- You fight four copies of yourself, and I think that they can do things like shot arrows and chuck bombs at you.
Marble Madness- The Black Ball: A psychotic marble bent on your annihilation. When he spots you, he will try to knock you off the playing field. My friend and I have several theories about why this marble went bad. I believe it is post-traumatic stress syndrome from the Great Marble Wars. My friend believes it is a product of the marble being sexually molested at a young age
Double Dragon- You fight your brother at the end, and he has all the moves you do. Only I think the bastard can take twice as much punishment (something about being ‘evil’ tends to make videogame characters have ludicrous amounts of stamina)
Prince of Persia- A magic mirror creates an evil double of your character. I dont think you fight him, but the son of a bitch gobbles up all the potions and makes your life a living hell by tripping up switches through the level.
Zelda 2: Actually, I recently beat this and learned that the shadow isn’t that smart. Apparently if you kneel in the corner and slash away he’ll walk into your blade, most of the time. You’ll still get hurt, but he’s beatable.
MM: No, it’s because the evil marble is from the evil parallel universe. That black thing covering is his goatee.
In the original tomb raider, you have a doppleganger at one point who blocks your path and performs every move that you do. You have to figure out how to kill her by luring her into a trap to proceed.
In Planescape: Torment, you meet two other versions of yourself at one point…and you have to defeat them to proceed. Interestingly enough, you can actually rip the arm off one and kill him with it, but that’s not the only way to defeat them.
Are you sure that was megaman II with the clones? I know I’ve played that situation before, but I could swear that wasn’t II.
And when I played Zelda II, I used the lower left corner strategy and I found that the shadow could still whup me pretty good. Perhaps I just suck. Anyway:
There’s Wario.
And was it Solidus or Liquid Snake from MGS2 I’m thinking of?
Does Big Boss count?
Cloud…
…was supposedly an attempt to clone Sephiroth, depending on your interpretation of FF7.
Actually, in Prince of Persia, the mirror image returns on a later level and
draws his sword, and you can’t get past him without a fight. However, the fight is impossible to win because he will mimick your moves exactly. The way to get past him is to put away your sword. The mirror image then puts his sword away as well, and you can walk into him and, presumably, be reunited with your evil side again.
Shadow Link in the Water Temple from Ocarina of Time. It took me ages to finally beat that sucker. I tried using Din’s fire, but I quickly ran out because I didn’t know how to get the double magic meter when I first played the game. I like Navi’s help text: “Link- conquer thyself!”
Dante and Neo Angelo from Devil May Cry. Probably the best damn sword fighting in an action game, ever. Though my favorite boss from it is the Phantom. I really wish someone would make a gif of that molten lava critter so I could have 'em as a buddy icon on aim.
Right now I’m playing Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, and I’m trying to defeat Shadow Mario. Who stole my identity, that jerk.
[hijack]Yumblie, is Metroid Prime 2 good? I’ve heard that it’s frustratingly hard, but not much else. I’m wondering 'cause I got it for Giftmas and haven’t gotten around to it yet.[/hijack]
If you’ve played the original, you know what to expect in terms of challenge. I don’t think I’m very far in it but so far the difficulty level seems about the same. The boss battles are pretty difficult, especially the one I’m on now, where it took me 3 tries just to figure out how to damage it.
I’ll go totally obscure and mention the addictive (for me, anyway) arcade game, Yie-Ar Kung Fu. The last opponent is “Blues,” who’s essentially your clone, and is a total pain-in-the-tuckus to beat.
You meet your ‘other self’, the bad part of your psyche (You have to play the first game to understand). She shows up on a dimly lit carousel with black hair (yours is blond) and dripping with blood. She comes at you with knife, gun and machine pistol. The music (very primal stuff) makes the battle.
Anyone here play the Quest For Glory series? It was an awesome game and underappreciated, in my opinion. In Quest For Glory III: The Wages of War, you have to fight a mirror image of yourself (except he looks all evil) at the very end of the game. He’s very hard and basically impossible to beat, but…
Another character ends up taking your place right as you’re about to die so you can go and stop the evil wizard from unleashing the Dark One!
