Top 10 Video Games Where You FIGHT GOD

Who knew the power of divinity could fit into such a tiny cartridge? This Game Boy classic tasks you with reaching the top of a mysterious tower, which has four vastly different worlds connected to it. It’s said the tower leads to paradise, though no one actually knows because imposing fiends and hordes of monsters have poured into those worlds, which you must save. When you finally reach the top, you meet the aptly named Creator, who made the tower and monsters seemingly out of boredom. Although he offers your party whatever wish they desire, being some God’s playthings doesn’t sit well with them. Luckily, they then get to give their apathetic Creator a well-deserved beatdown.

The “Silent Hill” series is known for its twisted creatures, one of which is an actual God. In the third game, players must contend with a disturbing cult within the spooky town. The group strives to resurrect their deity, a plan that is eventually successful. Referred to only as God, this supreme being was actually born out of the prayers of humans long ago. Although she was brought into existence by her subjects, this God created time, as well as other divine beings. More importantly, she also created the Otherworld, the disturbing realm in which the majority of events in “Silent Hill” takes place. Once she’s reborn, you have to use whatever resources you’ve managed to hold onto to take her down.

Orsterra, the world of “Octopatch Traveler,” is all about big numbers. While you pick and choose between eight heroes to venture through it, the world was created by not one, not two, but thirteen deities. Naturally, one of them, Galdera, went bad and had to be sealed away by the others. Most of the game is spent tackling each party member’s own unique struggles. But by the end, all stories have converged in typical, over-the-top JRPG style. Galdera’s daughter, an immortal witch named Lyblac, resurrects her father and merges with him for a lengthy boss battle. Although you only fight one of Orsterra’s creators, Galdera is plenty challenging. He’s fought in two phases, both of which have their own annoying qualities.

The world of “Pokémon” is filled with godly legendaries, but it was Arceus who actually created it all. Classified as the Alpha Pokémon, Arceus was first introduced in “Diamond and Pearl,” where you could indeed fight and catch it. However, more emphasis was placed on its role as creator and its relationship with the player in this pseudo spin-off. The game opens with Arceus sending you on a mission to encounter all Pokémon in the region. And you don’t come into contact with it until the very end. Due to this game’s mechanics, you actually have to fight Arceus yourself for a while before you can send any Pokémon in. Only by proving yourself in battle does Arceus agree to travel with you.

Despite its mixed reception among players and critics, “Final Fantasy XIII” did well enough to earn two sequels. And during the trilogy’s finale, you get to fight the creator of its entire world. Set 500 years after the second game, it follows Lightning as she awakens thirteen days before the end of civilization. Bhunivelze, the creator, tasks her with aiding humanity’s sorrows so that they can leave this dying world and enter a new one it has created. Of course, what he doesn’t mention is that he’ll also destroy the souls of the dead, removing their memories from living loved ones. This would also make the living his puppets, which Lightning understandably objects to. Good thing you put an end to all that.

“Persona 5” begins with you righting personal wrongs within your friends’ lives, but ends with you taking on an all-powerful god named Yaldabaoth. Throughout the game, you visit the Metaverse, an alternate but parallel dimension representing the inner-most desires and sins of Tokyo’s citizens. Deep within this realm sits Yaldabaoth, who was born out of humanity’s wish to be controlled. The deity created the Metaverse as a way to impact events in the real world, pulling the strings of its various evil-doers. When the Phantom Thieves seem victorious, that’s when the Metaverse’s God rears it ugly head and tries to fuse the two worlds for control over all. Never has a shot to the head been more satisfying.

As we can see, the JRPG is the genre to go with if you want to fight God. Long before “Xenoblade Chronicles” takes place, a human scientist named Klaus successfully performed an experiment that created a new universe. He and his colleague were the only survivors of the experiment, and both became divine in this new world. Now known as Lord Zanza, he would go on to create an endless cycle of destruction and rebirth so that he himself could never die. Sounds pretty crummy, but you also learn Zanza killed several of Shulk’s allies before possessing him as a boy to bide his time. So, when you finally get to vanquish the evil-doer, it’s an immensely fulfilling victory.

There are plenty of deities, evil and good, that appear throughout the “Megami Tensei” series. However, YHVH represents a real-world deity, specifically the one seen in faiths like Christianity and Judaism. You are, quite literally, fighting God. While YHVH is mentioned in several games, you don’t get a chance to fight him in all of them. But each time you do, he’s naturally the final boss. Despite representing an actual God, he has a lot in common with many other final, godly bosses in JRPGs. The Almighty doesn’t much care for humanity and he doesn’t go down easily. Additionally, he’s only one part of The Great Will, an even more powerful deity that watches over the multiverse.

“Bayonetta” takes religious concepts we may all be familiar with and injects them with its unique style and flair. In the conflict between the Lumen Sages of Light and the Umbra Witches of Darkness, you’d be forgiven for assuming the light-wielders were in the right. The Sages actually want to revive their deity, Jubileus the Creator, in order to bring the game’s three separate universes together again. If successful, it would leave Paradiso, essentially this game’s Heaven, as the dominant realm over the other two. While Jubileus didn’t create the world, she played a part in its original split into three and she’s capable of putting it back together. Plus, she’s so powerful that her body and spirit have to be destroyed in different ways.

If your allies betrayed you, killed your wife, sent you to purgatory, and separated you from your daughter for 12,000 years, you’d want to unleash some wrath, too. Such a thing happens to Asura, whose other demi-god pals manipulate the prayers of their people to reach higher divinity by the time he returns. However, everyone’s strings are pulled by Chakravartin, creator of all things. He’s the one who unleashed the monstrous Gohma on your planet, kicking off the chain of events that would lead to much of Asura’s despair. He only did so to test if Asura could be a worthy ruler for the planet. The final fight is so impressively destructive, it rips apart time and space.