I have to say that I have taken absolutely zero satisfaction from the Jaguar Javier fight. I get that it's old school difficult, but goddamn it's not even a little bit fun to me. I beat it, but I don't feel accomplished - I'm just annoyed and feel like it was a huge let down for an other wise solid, albeit flawed, game.

I agree, that fight was really annoying, especially on hard. I got to a point where I could get him down to 10% health pretty reliably, but then he gets his white shield, and it becomes unreasonably difficult. His attacks are so fast, and some are unblockable, so you have to play somewhat conservatively because each of his attacks take like 20% of your health, but that is not an option once you have to hit him in quick succession to get his white shield down.

Motherfucker ruined my platinum, which, considering the final boss is piss easy, was really infuriating.