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Matador from Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne (aka Lucifer's Call)

Part 8/12 of my SMT tribute project.

Boss time again. And this guys is one friggin' interesting boss. For one, he is one of the "Death Fiends" in SMT III, each of them symbolising death in some way, and while using a bullfighter as symbol of death is pretty fitting, you have to agree, it hasn't been done too many times in video games (if ever). But that's just the beauty of the SMT series, they're pretty damn original even when making a symbol this obvious, but then again, when some of the other Death Fiends are the Four Horsemen of Apocalypse or Mother Harlot, even the Matador comes of as an original symbol

Of course, the design and symbolism aren't all that's interesting about this boss >3
The SMT series are pretty infamous for having a difficulty level quite far higher than most RPGs, not impossible by any means (and nothing close to the likes of Demon/Dark Souls) but they're still pretty tough. For one, every single thing in this game costs you something, even standard healing doesn't come cheap (more so since the price rises based on how strong you are), not to mention getting new items and equipment or more importantly, gaining demon allies. But back to the boss, imagine going through the beginning of the game, smacking some random demons, smacking some bosses... and suddenly you get smacked even faster by this one guy... about the 3-4 boss of the game... and I am NOT kidding, you'll find yourself preparing specifically for this fight like you'd normally would for some high level optional secret boss at the end of the game... except this is 3-4 one, when you can't really get any good EXP or demon allies, you really find yourself doing your best to come up with SOME kind of strategy with such limited resources.
Though what makes him especially strong is his mobility, he'll start using Speed buffs on himself and Speed debuffs on your party like crazy, so you should focus primarily on that... taht, and getting any strong attack/spell to actually beat this guy...

Hehe, but don't take my word for it, feel free to try it yourselves >D

Other parts of the project - Persona 1 , Persona 3 , Digital Devil Saga , Devil Survivor , Devil Children , Persona 4 , Maken X
Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne , Devil Summoner , Catherine , Shin Megami Tensei , Persona 2

Matador (c) Atlus

Description
Matador from Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne (aka Lucifer's Call)

Part 8/12 of my SMT tribute project.

Boss time again. And this guys is one friggin' interesting boss. For one, he is one of the "Death Fiends" in SMT III, each of them symbolising death in some way, and while using a bullfighter as symbol of death is pretty fitting, you have to agree, it hasn't been done too many times in video games (if ever). But that's just the beauty of the SMT series, they're pretty damn original even when making a symbol this obvious, but then again, when some of the other Death Fiends are the Four Horsemen of Apocalypse or Mother Harlot, even the Matador comes of as an original symbol

Of course, the design and symbolism aren't all that's interesting about this boss >3
The SMT series are pretty infamous for having a difficulty level quite far higher than most RPGs, not impossible by any means (and nothing close to the likes of Demon/Dark Souls) but they're still pretty tough. For one, every single thing in this game costs you something, even standard healing doesn't come cheap (more so since the price rises based on how strong you are), not to mention getting new items and equipment or more importantly, gaining demon allies. But back to the boss, imagine going through the beginning of the game, smacking some random demons, smacking some bosses... and suddenly you get smacked even faster by this one guy... about the 3-4 boss of the game... and I am NOT kidding, you'll find yourself preparing specifically for this fight like you'd normally would for some high level optional secret boss at the end of the game... except this is 3-4 one, when you can't really get any good EXP or demon allies, you really find yourself doing your best to come up with SOME kind of strategy with such limited resources.
Though what makes him especially strong is his mobility, he'll start using Speed buffs on himself and Speed debuffs on your party like crazy, so you should focus primarily on that... taht, and getting any strong attack/spell to actually beat this guy...

Hehe, but don't take my word for it, feel free to try it yourselves >D

Other parts of the project - Persona 1 , Persona 3 , Digital Devil Saga , Devil Survivor , Devil Children , Persona 4 , Maken X
Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne , Devil Summoner , Catherine , Shin Megami Tensei , Persona 2

Matador (c) Atlus