14 Saddest Boss Fights You Really Didn’t Want To Fight

Beating Emil – Nier Automata

A key figure from the first game, the nihilistic tone of Nier Automata sees this young child having lived thousands of years into the future in a fairly battered, mechanical form. He takes the player on because they took something from his room, but upon being beaten, Emil breaks down into tears, crushed by the realization that compassion is meaningless, and only power matters.