Quote Originally Posted by SaberMaxwell View Post
Yes I did prefer e4s and e8s. They were feature complete fights where it felt like one whole boss instead of two half hearted ones. The other problem is, both parts of 8s are so long that combined they're coming close to just shy of an Ultimate fight. 8s part 1 is 7:50 enrage, 8s part 2 is 8:28 enrage; taken together thats a 16 minute fight whereas when designed like Titan and Shiva its closer to 12 minutes.

I stand corrected though; Faust, Hummelfaust, and Faust Z were good doorbosses as well. Short, to the point, mechanically simple and primed you for the real fight ahead. So five, five good doorbosses and if they adopted that formula going forward I'd have no issue.
Fun fact Faust where your in game "parsers". The had a very high damage requirement, sometimes higher than the fight, and little to no mechs. Thee whole point was to prevent your party wasting time on a prog they couldn't clear. I miss the faust