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[EhoaVash]

Has there been a game you've played where the first boss in the game was the hardest son of a bitch you faced throughout the entire game?
For me it was Fire Man in

I bought this game with my gamecube and I was kinda excited to play it. But every time I would play the game, the game's first boss would always kill me right off the bat. Whats more frustrating is that if you lose to the first boss, all you saved data gets deleted and you have to repeat the same level over and over again from the start/ can't skip any dialog, cut scenes etc

The boss fight looks simple enough but, it's very cheap.
The game makes it super hard to dodge any of his moves without getting hit by his fire, the slide doesn't work well btw.
The first boss was so hard that it took me 4 years before I finally beat the fucker

Fuck you asshole

Then after 4 years, I randomly played the game and beat the fucker, and I finally made progress in the game. For a long period of time, I regretted the purchase of the game so many times because of the first boss, but after I beat fire man, the whole game was a breeze and very fun, I beat the game in like 2 weeks after I beat Fire Man

 

[Byronic Hero]

Lost Odyssey's first Dragon fight was the earliest difficulty spike I'd ever seen. I honestly thought I was supposed to lose that encounter.

 

[kai3345]

While not the first boss, Gattuso from Tales of Vesperia was stupidly hard for how early in the game you fight him. It's even worse because in the game's demo he was a total pushover.

 

[Zuly]

Resonance of Fate because it isn't until after the first boss that you get a handle of the combat system. After you level up and get used to the combat system, the game becomes easy.

 

[Thatoneguy64]

Demon's Souls

Spoiler

You're "supposed" to die, but a good enough player can actually kill the tutorial boss.

 

[Seda]

Lost Odyssey's first boss, Grilgan, is a bit of a crapshoot depending on what attacks he decides to use. Even if you level up to the area's max level, he can wipe the party fairly easily if he does 'Down Burst' repeatedly.

 

[wamberz1]

OP brings back painful memories. I'd have to say that's my choice.

 

[Hanningfield]

This boss on the Game Gear? Just ridiculous.

 

[rtcn63]

Illbleed? Haven't played it, watched GI's Super Replay.

 

[w00zey]

Dues ex:hr.

 

[infiniteheteroskdasticity]

Castlevania Lords Of Shadow

The werewolf boss was incredibly hard with the lack of abilities your character had at that point in the game.

 

[Afrocious]

The first boss of Ninja Gaiden on the Xbox. At least tied with the first Alma fight.

 

[drproton]

Not quite first, but the Contrarian King in Persona 4 is pretty much bullshit without grinding.

 

[Sylver]

Phantom in Devil May Cry normal or hard.

 

[Melchettsmoustache]

Hogger! A lvl 11 mob running about the lvl 6 or 7 area. I'd just started playing wow and didn't have friends to help smoke the bristly bugger!

 

[Haeralis The BRave]

 

[Savitar]

I even killed that demon woman in one go, but that asshole...........

 

[Afrocious]

I even killed that demon woman in one go, but that asshole...........

Here's the motherfucker.

 

[Green Mamba]

This boss on the Game Gear? Just ridiculous.

Fuck this thing, roadblocked me from pretty much the entire game when I was a kid.

 

[Parablank]

maybe I'm just bad at JRPGs but it took me like 3 hours of grinding just to beat him

Spoiler

even with bufu, his weakness

 

[nStruct]

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Blade Wolf almost caused me to stop playing the game, but he's only difficult because the game does a poor job at explaining its combat system. After actually learning the parry system he's relatively easy.

 

[themagicalkitsune]

Paper Mario...doesn't count. Right?

 

[Ostinatto]

Persona 4 Golden?

Spoiler

dat shadowYukiko

 

[Valkerionseven]

I must be amazing because I thought that was the easiest in the game but I keep seeing people post that its a hard fight.

I'd say Ninja Gaiden's first boss Mukai. Really hard fight especially since they do not give you all the basic mechanics til the second stage like counters and what not.

 

[djplaeskool]

I even killed that demon woman in one go, but that asshole...........

Oh man.
This motherfucker right here...

 

[ComputerMKII]

Final Fantasy IX

 

[BrokenEchelon]

I even killed that demon woman in one go, but that asshole...........

If it wasn't for Alma, I'd go with this.

 

[MetroidPrimeRib]

Phantom in Devil May Cry normal or hard.

This is the best damn example.
Back then it took me like 20 tries to beat him, picked up HD collection, still took me like 10 tries.

 

[Spieler Eins]

Luigis Mansion 2. The others are hardly boss fights to begin with.

 

[Ferr986]

This boss on the Game Gear? Just ridiculous.

was going to post this. Thanks god the Master System version wasnt that harsh

 

[Sakura]

SMTIV? And also although not the first boss, the early bosses in Dark Souls gave me the most trouble.

 

[EightBitNate]

I wanna say Crash Bandicoot? I dunno, maybe it was just because it was such a long time ago and I didn't know how to play.

Also, the first fight against Raditz was pretty hard in Dragon Ball Z Sagas

 

[Astrogavol]

Spoiler

it's not the boss ...

officialy.

 

[Recall]

Vanquish.

All the bosses are super straight forward except the first, always takes me forever to clear.

 

[emb]

This boss on the Game Gear? Just ridiculous.

Read my mind. I can't say it was the hardest for sure though... I never made it to the third boss or the ones after.

 

[Anteater]

God hand, every other boss fight in the game were usually single outside of great sensei, not to mention gold and silver were the only boss that requires you to fight a wave of enemies before getting to them (second elvis fight does too but it was easy).

 

[enoki]

maybe I'm just bad at JRPGs but it took me like 3 hours of grinding just to beat him

Spoiler

even with bufu, his weakness

I'd hate to see how you handled Medusa.

 

[liquidtmd]

Probably just me, but on Hard Mode if you chose the Minecart level first then Seven Force was an absolute beast on Gunstar Heroes as a starter

 

[KDR_11k]

Mega Man: The Thread. The first boss (excluding any intro levels that later games add) is always the hardest because you need to use your blaster, after that it's much easier because you can follow the chain of weaknesses.

 

[Dahbomb]

Not even close. Hardest boss in MGR is the final boss by a mile. First boss in MGR isn't even that hard.

 

[DukeBobby]

It's technically the second boss, but I agree with this. Blade Wolf kicked my ass many times during my first playthrough. Him and Monsoon were the only two boss fights I had trouble with.

 

[Foffy]

Lost Odyssey's first boss, Grilgan, is a bit of a crapshoot depending on what attacks he decides to use. Even if you level up to the area's max level, he can wipe the party fairly easily if he does 'Down Burst' repeatedly.

Weren't the best strategies for the first two bosses were to gain resistance abilities to their attacks? I only grinded to do that literally for the first two fights.

 

[HardRojo]

It's still considered a battle right?

 

[Big McLargehuge]

maybe I'm just bad at JRPGs but it took me like 3 hours of grinding just to beat him

Spoiler

even with bufu, his weakness

Definitely this guy on my first run of SMTIV. Even the final boss was a breeze compared to him.

 

[elhav]

Yes, but the difficuly comes from having to learn the parry system properly. Otherwise he is a pretty easy boss

 

[CoffeeExpress]

Not the first boss, but those twins fire and water bosses from DMC3 were stupid hard. Worst thing was when you died, you had to replay the entire stage... which wasn't terribly easy to be in full health by the end of it..

 

[ChitoCrisis]

maybe I'm just bad at JRPGs but it took me like 3 hours of grinding just to beat him

Spoiler

even with bufu, his weakness

Lol it took me a long time too. Now I'm stuck fighting Medusa.

 

[brinstar]

maybe I'm just bad at JRPGs but it took me like 3 hours of grinding just to beat him

Spoiler

even with bufu, his weakness

Came to post this. Him and Medusa are like the only bosses in the game that killed me.

 

[Easy_D]

It's still considered a battle right?

Technically, just that losing and winning has the same outcome. If your health drops too much, he flees. If you damage him enough, he flees.

 

[Mentok]

I remember thinking that the Poseidon/Leviathan boss battle in GoW3 was the most hardest (and epic) in the game. Every other boss was kind of a let-down compared to that one.