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[harriet the spy]

Tougher question:

Name a final boss that IS actually the most difficult mandatory boss in the game.

FFIX
The Egg in saga frontier 2
Arguable but tough imo : xenogears last Boss
Not a rpg but frogging orphan of kos can go fuck himself

 

[Mozendo]

Pokemon Yellow

The only super-effective move you can get at this point is to catch a Nidoran♂ and grind it until it learns Double Kick. If you don't know this...prepare to suffer.

You can catch a Mankey on the way to Indigo Plateau.

 

[Kyuur]

Pokemon Yellow

The only super-effective move you can get at this point is to catch a Nidoran♂ and grind it until it learns Double Kick. If you don't know this...prepare to suffer.

I would always get a Butterfree. Confusion rocked him.

 

[Coulomb_Barrier]

DOOM 2016 the final boss I found easier than the

Spoiler

last Cyber Demon encounter

.

 

[semiconscious]

Demon's Souls.

yeah, as good an example of this as any, for sure ...

 

[BigBoss007]

Rats in The Witcher 3 are harder to beat than Eredin.

 

[Weebos]

Reading comprehension.

 

[Empyrean Heaven]

The bomb guardian in Metroid Prime 2.

You have to fight him in morph ball form, and he's fast as fuck. Also you're constantly losing health because you're in the dark world.

 

[eso76]

Alma in ninja gaiden. This difficuilty spike made no dang sense.

Yep, and final form of the final boss was easier than the ones before, I think. But it's been a while.

 

[TemplaerDude]

I recall the last boss of Grandia 2 being a complete cakewalk (at least for myself) compared to some of the previous boss fights.

Man, I really need to replay that game. Such good memories.

 

[AdamisFox]

Ganon in Breath of the wild.

 

[Curufinwe]

RE4.

Saddler is pretty simple.

 

[Blobbers]

every Souls game except 3

also FF X, Yunalesca can wreck your shit even if you've grinded

 

[Kinsei]

Most games do this. It feels like finales are meant to be a victory lap instead of a final challenge most fo the time.

Tougher question:

Name a final boss that IS actually the most difficult mandatory boss in the game.

Sigma from Mega Man X.

 

[nekkid]

Gears of War 2. Skorge was way tougher than that lambent brumack.

 

[Auctopus]

Most games do this. It feels like finales are meant to be a victory lap instead of a final challenge most fo the time..

I think this is to compliment the game's pacing. If you lead a climax up to a finale and then have the player repeat the finale and possibly becomes frustrated at it, it can sour the taste of the ending of the game. Or even create a nasty block between the climax and the conclusion of the story.

 

[Kinsei]

I think this is to compliment the game's pacing. If you lead a climax up to a finale and then have the player repeat the finale and possibly becomes frustrated at it, it can sour the taste of the ending of the game. Or even create a nasty block between the climax and the conclusion of the story.

But on the flip side it ends up making the ending anticlimactic if the final boss/segment of the game is too easy.

 

[War Raichu]

Saints Row 2's final boss by default is the easiest in the game because

Spoiler

it's a cowardly CEO shooting at you with a pistol while swat officers occasionally run in to provide a little more trouble

 

[BasilZero]

Final Fantasy Tactics, for sure. The final boss was nothing compared to Wiegraf.

For me it was that one guy that looked like sephiroth and with two succubi

Totally threw me off lol

 

[BoogieWoogie]

I'm sure someone has already mentioned Nioh, but hoo boy is it ever Nioh.

Second boss is the hardest to me.

 

[mrmickfran]

I would always get a Butterfree. Confusion rocked him.

Heh heh

 

[jonjonaug]

The two final bosses of Shin Megami Tensei IV are easier to kill than most other bosses in the game despite having two forms each.

Tougher question:

Name a final boss that IS actually the most difficult mandatory boss in the game.

The final boss of Shin Megami Tensei IV:Apocalypse is easily the hardest boss in the game, and this is a game with a lot of difficult bosses.

 

[Funyarinpa]

I remember both

Spoiler

Seymour's third form

and

Spoiler

Yunalesca

utterly destroying me over and over.

Yeah. I really enjoyed the tension it gave to those battles though.

Spoiler

I hate grinding and random encounters so I almost followed the story direction to a tee, which made me underleveled as FUCK. Tried the final boss many times too, couldn't do it until I grinded for Doublecast.

 

[TheGamingBox]

Pokemon Yellow

The only super-effective move you can get at this point is to catch a Nidoran♂ and grind it until it learns Double Kick. If you don't know this...prepare to suffer.

you can catch a mankey in yellow before brock too

 

[Frost Walrus]

Spoiler

Elpizo

in Mega Man Zero 2 is probably one of the easiest mandatory fights in that game. The boss rush is harder.

Then there's Breath of the Wild, where the final boss is basically a free space.

Tougher question:

Name a final boss that IS actually the most difficult mandatory boss in the game.

Mega Man 7's Wily Capsule is infamous for being so difficult it starts to stray into 'bullshit' territory. Thankfully it's not hard enough to be that bad but it's still a step up from the rest of the bosses in the game.

 

[TheGamingBox]

The bomb guardian in Metroid Prime 2.

You have to fight him in morph ball form, and he's fast as fuck. Also you're constantly losing health because you're in the dark world.

uhh, do you mean the power bomb guardian?

 

[Imp the Dimp]

Tougher question:

Name a final boss that IS actually the most difficult mandatory boss in the game.

Persona 3. Last boss is hype, comparatively hard and takes quite a while. A truly worthy last boss and a great ending. Amazing game.

 

[Linkark07]

Some bosses in Persona 3 and many in the Answer were quite a pain compared.

Persona 3. Last boss is hype, comparatively hard and takes quite a while. A truly worthy last boss and a great ending. Amazing game.

Last boss is amazing but I recall in Tartarus there were some bosses that were quite annoying. If memory serves me right, one of them was in that disco area section.

 

[Kyzon]

In breath of the wild, literally every enemy is more difficult than the final boss.

Only real disappointment from me for the game

 

[Theslammer]

I was going to say Darkbeast Paarl but i think he's optional? Anyway, MANY Bloodborne bosses were harder than Gerhman.

Yeah, Darkbeast is optional, and the exit to the area leads to another optional area.

Seymour Flux is much, much harder than Yu Yevon. Actually every other boss in the game is harder than Yu Yevon.

That isn't a final boss anymore than

Spoiler

Omnislashing Sephiroth is.

They're just ways to allow the player some control or else in FFX, you'd watch a long cutscene

Spoiler

of your party defeating all of your aeons and then Yu Yevon himself.

Allowing you to at least play all that makes it easier than watching a long cutscene.

I mean, it's obvious by the fact that you can't die. If it's impossible to lose, it's just not a boss because that defeats the purpose of a boss.

 

[natethegreat409]

I was going to say Darkbeast Paarl but i think he's optional? Anyway, MANY Bloodborne bosses were harder than Gerhman.

Gerhman destroyed me for 3 straight hours.... lol

 

[Deleted member 1235]

i feel like at least one of the mortal kombat games must qualify here especially some of the early 'fuck you' settings on the AI. my memory is hazy though i dont remember if goro was really harder than shang tsung or not.

 

[GunBR]

I was going to say Darkbeast Paarl but i think he's optional? Anyway, MANY Bloodborne bosses were harder than Gerhman.

To me Gehrman was the hardest boss of the game
But he isn't the true final boss

 

[ldar247]

I remember having a bit of trouble against one of the whites in SMT4, but I was able to breeze through the lucifer and merkabah battles.

 

[MrSaturn99]

There is no best example. There are tons of examples, this happens all the time. All the damn time.

I hate when people drop high and mighty "my opinion is fact" posts like this.

uh

what

 

[Ave Oscuro]

The Metroid Prime is too easy, the Omega Pirate and Meta Ridley are harder.

 

[Gila Moo]

All of the optional bosses that become available after the final story bosses from the Etrian Odyssey series. You can be level 99 and can they can still be near impossible to beat without a certain party setup and strategy.

 

[Funyarinpa]

Loving how people toss spoilers left and right in here.

 

[wrestleman]

Crash Bandicoot's final bosses tend to be ridiculously easy compared to the rest of the game.

Pathetically true of Crash 2. The only games in the series where this doesn't ring true in my opinion are N-Tranced, Titans, Mind over Mutant, and Nitro Kart. All the other ones are pretty anticlimactic. Would love Vicarious Visions to add some extra phases and difficulty to the original three's finales.

 

[Yoda]

From my WoW days.

Muru > Kil'jaedan

4 Horsemen > Kel'Thuzad (Vanilla)

Nefarian > Sinestra (pre-nerf, required massive cheesing to meet the dps req)



Dark Souls:

1: O&S, 4K > Gwyn



Ninja Gaiden:

Alma > I don't remember the bosses last name lol

 

[MrBadger]

oh yeah. absolutely. I had to sit through that fucking pre-fight cut scene 50 times.

I was so close to watching the ending on Youtube because of this...

Tougher question:

Name a final boss that IS actually the most difficult mandatory boss in the game.

Senator Armstrong in Metal Gear Rising, Cackletta in Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga.

The Metroid Prime is too easy, the Omega Pirate and Meta Ridley are harder.

Metroid Fusion's Omega Metroid is incredibly easy compared to SA-X, who in turn is incredibly easy compared to Nightmare

 

[Dynheart]

DO not know if this was mentioned or not, but Eternal Sonata. The boss before the last boss was a nightmare. The last boss was easy in comparison.

 

[Crayolan]

Pokemon Yellow

The only super-effective move you can get at this point is to catch a Nidoran♂ and grind it until it learns Double Kick. If you don't know this...prepare to suffer.

Charmander can win by just spamming ember and exploiting Geodude/Onix's low special since they have no rock moves.

With Pikachu it's tougher I guess but you can also get a Mankey in Yellow.

Misty is tougher, regardless of which starter you have. Her Starmie is so OP it 2 shots anything unless you spend a lot of time grinding Ivysaur, and tanks even super effective hits pretty well. At that point in the game you don't have many options to deal with something like that.

 

[Wanderer5]

I just finished Kingdom Hearts 1.5 and thought

Spoiler

Riku

was tougher than

Spoiler

ansem

.

Yeah this pop up for me. That fight actually even turned me off from the game for a couple months lol, but I came back and finally defeated him.

The final bosses aren't really as hard, just the whole thing being long.

Oh yeah and this also extended to Chain of Memories with the same freaking boss lol.

 

[Alter_Fridge]

Definitely not Metroid Prime

 

[dmcRedgrave]

Dark Souls 1 has an infamously pathetic final boss. In interviews with the director they admit that they dropped the ball on it. The idea was to make it a solid fight for any build but in the end they just ended up making it overall simple and not particularly challenging.

 

[TheGamingBox]

Charmander can win by just spamming ember and exploiting Geodude/Onix's low special since they have no rock moves.

With Pikachu it's tougher I guess but you can also get a Mankey in Yellow.

Misty is tougher, regardless of which starter you have. Her Starmie is so OP it 2 shots anything unless you spend a lot of time grinding Ivysaur, and tanks even super effective hits pretty well. At that point in the game you don't have many options to deal with something like that.

misty is easy, and you can wait until after st anne to beat her if your having issues

 

[LordKasual]

Omega Pirate, anyone?

Speaking of which

Mogenar was the hardest boss in Metroid Prime 3 by a longshot, and it's the first boss.

He tricked me actually. Every other boss felt like a cakewalk in comparison

 

[Narroo]

Tougher question:

Name a final boss that IS actually the most difficult mandatory boss in the game.

If we're not including 'event battles,' such as unlosable fights using the power of friendship, then here's a surprising one:

Final Fantasy X.

Also, on a similar note, the Final Boss from Persona 3 is an order of magnitude harder than the rest of the bosses Persona 3. Persona 3's mandatory bosses were all really easy, except this one guy.

 

[Tenshin]

Suikoden 2 Luca Blight.....