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Worst/Most Difficult boss you ever fought?
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All my examples are from older games.
Final Fantasy IV on SNES - the Demon Wall killed me so many times as a kid. Golbez in the Dwarf Fortress also sucked.
Secret of Mana - Never finished this game as my friend and I could never beat the final boss.
Final Fantasy XIII - Barthandelus. Seriously, fuck this boss. Took forever to beat it.
Final Fantasy IV on SNES - the Demon Wall killed me so many times as a kid. Golbez in the Dwarf Fortress also sucked.
Secret of Mana - Never finished this game as my friend and I could never beat the final boss.
Final Fantasy XIII - Barthandelus. Seriously, fuck this boss. Took forever to beat it.
InfiniteCombo
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Maybe it was my wrong impression, and I don't know much about JRPGs... But my understanding is that is you grind more to up your party's stats, battles are much easier?
Or are your examples the sort of, "Yeah, even with your whole party at a good level, you still get wrecked by these bosses" kind of thing?
For some of these probably.
The Demon Wall in FFIV was a timed boss where your party got insta killed if you didn't kill it fast enough. So grinding would have made that easier.
The Golbez fight was somewhat timed. You enter the fight with two party members and have to survive until a 3rd party member makes a triumphant return to save you. So you have to survive until then, and if memory serves me correct Golbez weakens you at the start of the battle. So levling doesn't help much in that situation.
Secret of Mana, you could probably grind levels, but it's been 25 years since I played that game. I can't recall if you reach a point where your level is so high it becomes nearly impossible to find enemies that give you enough XP to actually gain levels.
A huge part of FFXIII is on rails and I think you are limited in terms of how many encounters you have access too. If memory serves me correct the save point before the boss I reference locks you out of the ability to go back and grind.
I forgot to add Persona 3. I got to the last boss and died like 30 times and said fuck it. I didn't have the desire to grind more. Maybe one day I'll go back and fight that one again.
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Dr. Suchong
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I raged on this asshole.It has to be this
MadPanda
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Defiled Amigdala in Bloodborne chalice dungeon. It can one shot you as your hp is halved in chalice dungeons iirc and it jumps into the air and onto your head while being the size of a tennis court. I think I lost more than 10 hours trying to beat it until I discovered a strategy on YouTube where you use certain sword which slashes overhead and I finally beat that boss. Wouldn't repeat again that's for sure. It's not worth it.
Nocturno999
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Bloodborne's Ludwig was stupid.
DukeOfX
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It took me over 2 hours of very. Careful. Playing to beat this fucker. At that point I almost just let him kill me but I killed the bastard.
MasterDerico
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Chaos Legion last boss...
InfiniteCombo
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Off topic: love your avatar, Clark is one of my mains in the classic KoF games (everything through 2002).
Elder Legend
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Ninja Gaiden on original xbox the thread.
EverydayBeast
thinks Halo Infinite is a new graphical benchmark
Final Boss had a lot of depth, the one good thing is you can use the diety god mask.
Paltheos
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It's been a long time since I played, but any time I replayed that game I made a point to sequence break for early power bombs. Mostly because early power bombs are really fun but at least a little because they trivialize that fight - Spider Guardian has no PB protection at all and a well-placed bomb is a one-shot kill.
REDRZA MWS
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InfiniteCombo
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Jinzo Prime
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He only has, ahem, 50,112,254 HP, man. No big deal.
CitizenZ
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I know my time is over 2 hrs but I would revisit daily for a try over and over(on Elite) but could never get the W. GG Radec, GG. Only other fight worthy is Heart of The Reich. Beating either (I beat HoR) w/o guides is a very worthy accomplishment to all who put in the severe pain and anguish it requires. DS is like kids play compared to these two, but just MO.
dcx4610
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This one for me. I had no problems beating several of the other hard games listed here but Senator Armstrong almost broke me. I think it tried for 3-4 hours straight and then gave up. I thought I was just going to admit defeat and move on which I've never been one to do. I tried again the next night and another 2 hours later, I finally beat him.
It was just how you had to play every section perfectly and if you screwed up, congrats, you get to repeat a 20 minute section again. An infuriating fight. It wasn't fun or rewarding to beat him. You just wanted it over and that's never good game design.
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unclbenn
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i beat the psycho mantis in mgs without calling the colonel and switching my controller port. took me a couple days and countless tries but i did it. it was only days later when i was talking to my friend over the phone did he tell me how he beat that boss fight, i was dumbstruck and proud of myself at the same time.
InfiniteCombo
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Nah, he was easy. All you had to do was
Get 2 magic and a pow. Then cast the shield magic and kneel down and slash the hell out of him. When your shield wears off cast it again. Then slash until he dies.
Oh I got to post one. The real final boss in the SNES Demon Crest. Never could beat him. Did see a youtube video and I know one thing I wasn't doing.
I wasn't switching modes while fighting him. I think I always stayed in the armored mode but I should have switched into modes that did more damage. He can take a lot of hits.
InfiniteCombo
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Well to be fair I think it's one of the games on SNES channel on the Switch.
Rickyiez
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One of the most difficult boss , but it's also one of the best (not worst)
gow3isben
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So OP as a boss she twisted the Internet to simp for her rival just to mentally cope.
”Guys, Radahn is the best!”
“Why?”
”He arguably defeated a blind woman with cancer!”
”That doesn’t sound impressive especially if it’s up for debate.”
”But she cheated by using magic bullshit!”
”So he doesn’t use magic?”
”No, he does. But he does it honorably. Like a proper duelist.”
”When I fought him he immediately began sniping my ass from a mile away.”
”……yes, but with honor.”
”Okay, sweetie, whatever helps you sleep at night.”
(to be clear, I liked Radahn fine enough, but the dick sucking from the fandom was really obnoxious)
Radahn was wrecking her until she nuked the planet and knocked herself out in the process. Sure rot made him loony but she needed to be saved by her henchmen brah. It isn't cope he was mentioned several times to be the strongest one even if the fight itself was inconclusive. Miyazaki's favorite is also Radahn.
In lore it goes Godfrey > Radahn > Melania > the rest. Placidisux and Maliketh are up there too I bet.
Also, he gave me more trouble than her personally I was very disappointed that I was able to beat her in 90 minutes when I took way longer for Placidisux or Elden Beast or Radahn.
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supernova8
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my flatmate in university who was practically unbeatable at FIFA 10 and FIFA 11. I remember beating him for the first and last time (a measly 1-0, and it was a really sweaty goal) and then vowed never to play him ever again.
Played him the next day and he trashed me 5-1, as usual.
Played him the next day and he trashed me 5-1, as usual.
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chigstoke
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O&S in DS caused me tremendous grief, Gwyn was much, much easier by comparison for me.
For Bloodborne, I used to struggle a lot on Father Gascoigne, came back to the game last year on a fresh save and pissed Father Gascoigne first go.
Then Blood Starved Beast decided to be a pain in the arse.
Ultimately I'm going for O&S because I spent days on that pair of fuckers trying to beat them.
For Bloodborne, I used to struggle a lot on Father Gascoigne, came back to the game last year on a fresh save and pissed Father Gascoigne first go.
Then Blood Starved Beast decided to be a pain in the arse.
Ultimately I'm going for O&S because I spent days on that pair of fuckers trying to beat them.
FUBARx89
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AGREED. The toughest regular boss I've experienced in the Yakuza series, and honestly almost on par with Amon.
When you see the boss 's health bar and it's purple, gray, or white, you know you're in for a treat
I dunno. Kiwami 1 boss at end was fucking horrific and a certain boss about half way through 3 was awful aswell. Then again Y3 combat sucks monkey balls.
InfiniteCombo
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Good points. I still found the Yakuza 5 final boss to be more of a pain in the ass fight than the second to last boss in Kiwami 1.
But fully agree with you, Y3 combat sucks ass. I played the games in the in-universe chronological order, so going from Kiwami 2 to Y3 was... Painful
Gamer_By_Proxy
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Metroid 1 Mother Brain
InfiniteCombo
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The latter parts of Revelations were so unmemorable that I can't even remember who the final boss was.
In fact I only remember two bosses -- the one dude that keeps yelling out "mayday, mayday" towards the beginning of the game. And Rachel Ooze. Those are the only two, the rest I forgot.
Zatzuken
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It was the leader of the terrorist group turned himself into a tyrant that could disappear and reappear on top of you and also have ghost versions of himself at the same time
Doom85
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Like, bruh, why are you proving my point? I was just having fun and you went all “actually” on me.
But yes, congrats on the guy being possibly stronger than the blind lady with rot eating away at her body.
Also, I feel an individual who can “nuke the planet” (more like a country) is possessing more power than the one who can’t do that. Even the stars he held back ended up causing a smaller damage perimeter compared to the size of the country she hit (yes, that’s using the scale of the game’s environment which arguably isn’t meant to be the actual scale of the geography lore wise, but it’s all we have to go on).
Rayven_king
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gow3isben
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And you proved you ain’t above discussing such power levels either homeslice
Like, bruh, why are you proving my point? I was just having fun and you went all “actually” on me.
But yes, congrats on the guy being possibly stronger than the blind lady with rot eating away at her body.
Also, I feel an individual who can “nuke the planet” (more like a country) is possessing more power than the one who can’t do that. Even the stars he held back ended up causing a smaller damage perimeter compared to the size of the country she hit (yes, that’s using the scale of the game’s environment which arguably isn’t meant to be the actual scale of the geography lore wise, but it’s all we have to go on).
And Radahn was holding that stuff back for who knows how long
Doom85
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SublimeCorruptor
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Some of the bosses in Rayman were utterly op.
InfiniteCombo
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Which game?
My favorite 2D platformer of all time is surprisingly not a Mario game. It's Rayman Origins. And I found the bosses to be creative and well designed, but not overly difficult.
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