Demon's Crest - Real Final Boss & Ending

Demon's Crest is a great game. The music is Capcom goodness, and the visuals make for some of the best looking stages on the SNES. There are multiple endings depending on how much you collect before confronting the final boss.

If you collect every crest, bottle, and vellum, you will have to fight 3 phases of Phalanx. Once you do that, if you wait through the credits you get a password. This password enables the Ultimate Gargoyle, which has every ability of the other gargoyles. He is powerful, armored, can fly, swim, dash, and headbutt. With all of these abilities in mind, the game tests you with a true final boss: Dark Demon. This guy requires a lot of menu-mashing to swap talismans/heal to survive, and make sure he goes down.

However the Ultimate Gargoyle isn't always the best here. The Buster shot has a ridiculously large hitbox, meaning you can land shots on parts of Dark Demon's first form that would normally not take damage. This is why I am able to shoot the skulls on the sides of his first form, and make him blink. Before this strategy, I would only use Ultimate Gargoyle which typically required 5 full heals and some luck to win.