I see a lot of complaints for Mantis Lords. I find them incredibly easy. You just follow their rhythm.
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A notoriously difficult boss fight from a game that you didn't find all that difficult
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BSB was brutal for me for quite a while to the point I shelved the game for months. I eventually went back, and breezed past her just mashing light attack.
Count me in with not finding the Blood-Starved Beast in Bloodborne difficult. I think on my first playthrough, I died once when I got it down to the final phase but killed it on the next attempt. From what I've heard, a lot of people also consider Queen Yahrnam to be pretty difficult? Can't say I agree, I got her on the first attempt.
The Nameless King.
There are a CRAPTON of "easier" bosses in the series that kicked my ass a million times but this dude didn't give me much trouble.
There are a CRAPTON of "easier" bosses in the series that kicked my ass a million times but this dude didn't give me much trouble.
It's a cheesy saying, but Hollow Knight doesn't "begin" for me until that fight. It's a perfect tutorial for rhythm fighting.
Lol conversely I beat Demon of Hatred first try and struggled a lot with Sword Saint Isshin.
The only thing I knew about Ornstein and Smough in Dark Souls while going into it was that I would be fighting two guys, and that it was supposed to be really hard
I'm usually not even good at fighting multiple bosses, but O&S never gave me any trouble across multiple playthroughs
I'm usually not even good at fighting multiple bosses, but O&S never gave me any trouble across multiple playthroughs
Same here. Loads of people I know were walled by BSB whereas I took it down first-try and every single time since. Father Gascoigne was my Everest however. He walled me and ever since, never been walled by another boss until Kos. I believe it's because of how my mindset changed from dodging away from enemies to dodging INTO enemies and being more aggressive.
Darkeater Midir from the DS3 DLC. People constantly hype him up as one of, if not the most difficult boss in the series, but I got him on my second try. I found that it was very easy to bait him into doing a specific attack (his tail swipe move when you go behind him) over and over which made the fight relatively simple.
I had a terrible time with Blood Starved Beast as well as the 3 hooded snake guys you fight later on, in Bloodborne.
But I 1 shot Vicar and Gherman.
But I 1 shot Vicar and Gherman.
Last boss of Metroid Dread. Went into the fight blind, beat it on my third attempt. I honestly don't think it's that bad, and it's surprising how often I see people saying they straight up quit the game at this point.
Wow, almost exactly the same with me. I beat Act 2 fully on my 7th run, and I first-tried every boss I ran into. Honestly the hardest part for me was biome 5 which doesn't even have a boss.
Wow, almost exactly the same with me. I beat Act 2 fully on my 7th run, and I first-tried every boss I ran into. Honestly the hardest part for me was biome 5 which doesn't even have a boss.
the two fights later in Yakuza: Like a Dragon (no spoilers) absolutely wrecked me for like a week each
Probably most of them TBH. I don't know why but I never really feel the struggle.
In recent times, Father Owl and Demon of Hatred just didn't give me any trouble. Same with Nameless King, Midir, and Gael.
They're fun fights with decent challenge, but I was surprised that people found them terribly difficult.
His move-set is really small. Defense and damage are what makes him tough, so if you play smart, he really can't put up much of a fight.
I think a lot of it is psychological. He's so big and can do so much damage that people slip up while fighting him (especially since the fight is going to be a longer one because of his crazy health/defense).
In recent times, Father Owl and Demon of Hatred just didn't give me any trouble. Same with Nameless King, Midir, and Gael.
They're fun fights with decent challenge, but I was surprised that people found them terribly difficult.
Yeah, his difficulty was pure numbers.
His move-set is really small. Defense and damage are what makes him tough, so if you play smart, he really can't put up much of a fight.
I think a lot of it is psychological. He's so big and can do so much damage that people slip up while fighting him (especially since the fight is going to be a longer one because of his crazy health/defense).
This fight.... or honestly, several parts of The Alliance Allive.... Like goddamn this game hates you. Literally had one party member just 'Defending' most of the time (they were a sentinel class) and still party members would be eating dirt. (I know this topic specify's "otherwise easy" games, but I also just wanna brag about this game to people who like the tough ones).
The fight at the midpoint of this game absolutely broke me. No matter what I tried it seemed that I couldn't win and it has a weird thing to it where you have to play through a pretty lengthy set piece to even get to the fight, and couldn't bring myself to redo it. I really should give it another shot, as I loved basically everything else in the game. It felt like a ps1 era jrpg in terms of how many little extra systems and some optional characters there were tucked away. Surprisingly interesting world concept too.
I think I beat that one Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep secret boss on my like first or second try.
Was she supposed to be hard? I one shotted her, but Rom kicked my ass for days.
Same here. As a matter of fact, I think the only boss that took me more than one try was the very first one. The bosses were the easy part of Returnal. It was the regular rooms in the game that randomly, frustratingly killed me, again and again and again.
And as for From games...Ornstein and Smough never gave me much trouble. I think, outside of that, I've struggled "appropriately" with most of the bosses. Except, perhaps:
Quite the opposite, for me. Demon of Hatred was a relative pushover, for a From boss. I lost count of tries with Isshin, and when I finally won, I almost felt like it didn't count because there was a fair bit of luck involved.
The final boss/encounter of Quantum Break on hard. The whole game on hard is pretty easy, then it just feels like it ramps up in the final encounter for no reason.
The original Turok on N64 was a big deal at my school. While I'm not sure what the overall concensus is regarding the difficulty of the bosses - but at my school I was the only person who could beat the Mantis.
I had kids of all ages bring me their N64 memory cards and ask me to beat the Mantis and bring it back to them. I must have done at least 20 memory cards. Was pretty wild as a 13 year old.
Personally, I found the Humvees and the Longhunter to be so much harder.
I had kids of all ages bring me their N64 memory cards and ask me to beat the Mantis and bring it back to them. I must have done at least 20 memory cards. Was pretty wild as a 13 year old.
Personally, I found the Humvees and the Longhunter to be so much harder.
Two come to mind:
Metal Gear Revengeance: the final boss.
Really didn't have much trouble the whole rest of the game (might have even been playing on Easy) but the final boss I just couldn't beat no matter what I did. I think I fucked up by not buying health packs or new moves between levels (not something that felt necessary the rest of the game), but that last boss just sucked. Bosses that heal all their health back are the worst and shouldn't even be allowed, haha.
Mario + Luigi: Partners in Time: Final boss.
No issues the whole rest of the game, but like Revengeance, the final boss also could heal it's health back. I was fighting it for what felt like FOREVER, only for it to heal a ton of health back. It was so discouraging I just quit then and there. I'm sure there was some strategy, like killing his minions first, but I was too irritated to give it another try.
Metal Gear Revengeance: the final boss.
Really didn't have much trouble the whole rest of the game (might have even been playing on Easy) but the final boss I just couldn't beat no matter what I did. I think I fucked up by not buying health packs or new moves between levels (not something that felt necessary the rest of the game), but that last boss just sucked. Bosses that heal all their health back are the worst and shouldn't even be allowed, haha.
Mario + Luigi: Partners in Time: Final boss.
No issues the whole rest of the game, but like Revengeance, the final boss also could heal it's health back. I was fighting it for what felt like FOREVER, only for it to heal a ton of health back. It was so discouraging I just quit then and there. I'm sure there was some strategy, like killing his minions first, but I was too irritated to give it another try.
Radec in Killzone 2.
Beat the game on Elite. It and he was tough, but wasn't as bad as I thought most people made it out to be. I know at the time, many people hated the Radec fight. And on Elite, it was definitely pretty spicy lol but not too bad I felt.
EDIT: Agree with the Capra Demon and Blood-Starved Beast mentions too. Only played Dark Souls once, and had no problem in my time with the game all those years ago against that boss and I'd heard people saying it was annoying.
Did the same thing with BSB too and recently replayed Bloodborne and again it was no problem, though I breezed through most of the bosses this time tbh. All about just properly exploring, levelling, and patience really.
Beat the game on Elite. It and he was tough, but wasn't as bad as I thought most people made it out to be. I know at the time, many people hated the Radec fight. And on Elite, it was definitely pretty spicy lol but not too bad I felt.
EDIT: Agree with the Capra Demon and Blood-Starved Beast mentions too. Only played Dark Souls once, and had no problem in my time with the game all those years ago against that boss and I'd heard people saying it was annoying.
Did the same thing with BSB too and recently replayed Bloodborne and again it was no problem, though I breezed through most of the bosses this time tbh. All about just properly exploring, levelling, and patience really.
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The Final Boss in Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door was ridiculous and just out of nowhere hard
Control had a few bumps along the way but the game wasn't all that bad outside of
If you stopped playing there, I totally understand.
The Witcher 3 saw me battling the controls more than the game but
was tricky
I can't believe all the people in this thread who didn't find Sekiro hard though
Control had a few bumps along the way but the game wasn't all that bad outside of
Salvador
The Witcher 3 saw me battling the controls more than the game but
Imlarith
I can't believe all the people in this thread who didn't find Sekiro hard though
How about the lighting beast? I had allot of trouble with that one.
Dark Souls 3: Dancer of the Boreal Valley, Champion Gundyr, Darkeater Midir
Bloodborne: Cleric Beast, Blood-Starved Beast, Shadows of Yharnam, Rom, Martyr Logarius, Ludwig, Orphan of Kos
(before anyone thinks I'm bragging, I'm not -- I struggled against a lot of bosses, from Father Gascoigne to Nameless King, Father Owl, Sister Friede and many others)
Bloodborne: Cleric Beast, Blood-Starved Beast, Shadows of Yharnam, Rom, Martyr Logarius, Ludwig, Orphan of Kos
(before anyone thinks I'm bragging, I'm not -- I struggled against a lot of bosses, from Father Gascoigne to Nameless King, Father Owl, Sister Friede and many others)
Definitely Bed of Chaos in Dark Souls 1, beat that on my 2nd or 3rd try, never understood why people hate that one so much
Bospider from Mega Man X. Everyone hates fighting this thing, but it's my favorite boss in the whole game.
This is me. I fought the regular enemy versions of capra demon before I found the boss version so it was a pretty anticlimactic fight. The dogs gave me more trouble than the boss. I guess it depends on how early you reach it though.
I think it makes sense, keeping track of multiple targets moving individually can be difficult for some people. I thought they were one of the more difficult bosses bosses in the game outside of the round 2/dream bosses.
I didn't have much trouble, but I can get this one too. It's the first boss in the game which doesn't really give you any room to breathe, so if you haven't gotten used to the combat yet I can see how that'd be a difficulty spike for people. It's a pretty good fight for making sure people do get used to combat though so they're ready for when things really get hard.
I remember how everyone kept saying that the final Boss in Quantum Break is absolutely rage inducing, I beat it on my first try, to this day I have no clue what the actual issue is with that boss fight.
For me Vicar was much harder, took me lots of tries. Don't know why, i did it first try on my 2nd playthrough to get to the dlc lol. BSB took me like 2 tries.
Orphan of Kos from Bloodborne.
I had far more trouble with a bunch of other Souls bosses, and more if you include Sekiro. I understand completely why he's a wall for so many people, but for some reason he has never been much of an issue for me. It takes me a few deaths on each run, but that's no different than most other bosses.
He wasn't even the hardest boss for me in my first playthrough of Old Hunters (I found both Maria and Ludwig far harder).
Super Ornstein is another that I don't get. I choose him over Super Smough every single time. I also found Demon of Hatred in Sekiro about approximately, erm, 1 trillion times harder than the final boss. DoH fucking sucked.
I had far more trouble with a bunch of other Souls bosses, and more if you include Sekiro. I understand completely why he's a wall for so many people, but for some reason he has never been much of an issue for me. It takes me a few deaths on each run, but that's no different than most other bosses.
He wasn't even the hardest boss for me in my first playthrough of Old Hunters (I found both Maria and Ludwig far harder).
Super Ornstein is another that I don't get. I choose him over Super Smough every single time. I also found Demon of Hatred in Sekiro about approximately, erm, 1 trillion times harder than the final boss. DoH fucking sucked.
Even getting to the Capra Demon in the super standard expected order that most players experience, where they are like the third or fourth boss (Taurus>Gargoyles>Capra, sometimes moonlight butterfly before capra), he's a really damn easy enemy.
Whitney in Pokemon.
It's like these fools don't realize you can catch a Geodude literally right at the very beginning of the game and Geodude resists tf out of Rollout.
It's like these fools don't realize you can catch a Geodude literally right at the very beginning of the game and Geodude resists tf out of Rollout.
Tbh, most souls bosses aren't that hard. When I first encounter most of them, I'll just try to run circles around them trying to see what their attack patterns are. Once I get an idea of how they work, then I'll finally start to attack. It's usually the fast-paced aggressive fights that i get wrecked in, like orphan of Kos.
Keeping up with the Bloodborne love, for me, it was Rom. Both versions as well, in the story I would ignore the spiders underlings and do hit and run tactics. The chalice dungeon was the opposite I would kill the spiders and thirst him.
Definitely Yellow Devil from Mega Man 1. It is the same pattern over and over again. Can people not learn simple patterns?
Never had much trouble with Lady Maria or Orphan of Kos. Former I nearly beat first try, second only took a couple of tries. I wouldn't consider myself "good" at these games or anything either. Only Bloodborne bosses that ever really gave me much trouble (Chalice Dungeons excluded) were Laurence and Logarius. Beyond that I never found the bosses in the game to be particularly challenging.
- I heard the fight was hard.
- I over-levelled. For hours!
- Go do the whole event/scene (snow area was generally HARD).
- Get through standard fights on the way to the boss just fine.
- Take a loss, but come out OK after Boss 1.
- One character left alive with "one more hits-worth' of HP before dealing the finishing blow (from that the strong/animal-like fella).
While the snow area is the worst case of it, it wasn't even the only time I was left with one person left alive with barely any HP. š
