Quote Originally Posted by gumas View Post
i think it just JRPG tradition thingy at this point, though i can see its going to be weird (and probably comedic) if you have like random dude in knight armor with normal sword and shield (no glow no effect nothing whatsoever) as final boss.
Humorously, one of my favorite bosses in any game defies this trope pretty hard: Vergil from Devil May Cry 3. Its also humorous because it spits on the trope by having the immediate preceding boss be a literal giant blob, and then the final boss is you going toe to toe with your literal twin.

Admittedly though, a duel like that only really worked because it was 1v1, and as a former / alt melee main myself, I find myself hating tinier enemies because they're hard to see through spell effects, and their target rings are frustratingly small.