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What's the hardest Boss fight you've beaten
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Been playing videogames for 30 years and it's easily
Sword Saint Isshin from Sekiro. For reference I've handily beaten all Souls games without issue.
Sword Saint Isshin from Sekiro. For reference I've handily beaten all Souls games without issue.
Telethia the Endbringer in Xenoblade X. I think I was fighting it for 30 to 40 minutes. Of course, if you take the time to grind the best gear and use the most meta stuff in the game you can make short work of it but I did it with a party member (instead of the avatar which is much stronger than any of the party members) and on foot (so outside the giant mech you get).
All the examples I can think of are from this gen, we've been spoiled for boss fights.
Yozora from Kingdom Hearts 3 Remind.
Nameless King from Dark Souls 3.
A whole bunch from Sekiro.
Nightmare King Grimm from Hollow Knight.
Yozora from Kingdom Hearts 3 Remind.
Nameless King from Dark Souls 3.
A whole bunch from Sekiro.
Nightmare King Grimm from Hollow Knight.
The Valkyrie Queen in GoW 2018, in Give Me God of War difficulty. It took me well over 200 tries.
I fought this boss literally until dawn to get the S rank on Super difficulty...
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This just made me remember the Sephiroth fight from Kingdom Hearts 1. Till this day I've only been able to bet him by using a gameshark.
From Sekiro, Demon of Hatred took me a long time and as far as I know is the boss I've struggled with the most in my life.
The Valkyrie Queen in God of War also took some time.
No bosses come close to those, besides the final boss of Sekiro. But the two from Sekiro had me re-evaluate myself lol cause I hadn't really struggled with the game and the FromSoft games I'd played up to that point (Bloodborne and Dark Souls III) beating many of the bosses on my first try. Felt like the game saying "Nah man, you ain't shit".
The Valkyrie Queen in God of War also took some time.
No bosses come close to those, besides the final boss of Sekiro. But the two from Sekiro had me re-evaluate myself lol cause I hadn't really struggled with the game and the FromSoft games I'd played up to that point (Bloodborne and Dark Souls III) beating many of the bosses on my first try. Felt like the game saying "Nah man, you ain't shit".
Pterodractyl is a hell of a thing, having to use those moving platforms to get up to Drac's weak point while ensuring you don't get hit or fall down the pit is a learning process exasperated by having to keep replaying that dang last stage every time you game over.
Fortunately if you play the japanese version of Vania 3 on the collection it gives you a continue point at the staircase to Dracula.
I'm not sure there's a tougher Castlevania boss off the top of my head, some might cite Dracula X's pit filled Dracula fight but you can safely avoid most attacks with one safe spot (though I'm sure some would say you can bring Sypha with the electric magic to Dracula phase 3 in CV3 and cheese him that way)
I feel like it's pretty hard not to immediately think of one of From Software's uber bosses, having fought them all except Darklurker and whatever lied at the end of reindeer hell in DS2 it's probably a combo of
- Lawrence in Bloodborne
- Sister Friede in DS3
- Father Owl in Sekiro
These ones were my main beefs of the From collection with an HM to orphan of Kos
Nightmare King Grimm from Hollow Knight is a good shout as well, I'm still not sure how I pulled that one off, I just slipped into the zone and somehow managed to weave through Grimm's fast paced attacks and projectile hellscape. To think there's all those super amped up bosses in that final DLC including even more greasy Grimm, no thank you!
I'd like to add something unique that hasn't been said already but it's pretty hard between the modern Masocore games (thanks Nioh devs) and NES hard titles
Actually I just remembered a Dracula arguably tougher than CV3, that git from Circle of the Moon, what a difficulty spike and a real middle finger to my lack of good card drops.
Fortunately if you play the japanese version of Vania 3 on the collection it gives you a continue point at the staircase to Dracula.
I'm not sure there's a tougher Castlevania boss off the top of my head, some might cite Dracula X's pit filled Dracula fight but you can safely avoid most attacks with one safe spot (though I'm sure some would say you can bring Sypha with the electric magic to Dracula phase 3 in CV3 and cheese him that way)
I feel like it's pretty hard not to immediately think of one of From Software's uber bosses, having fought them all except Darklurker and whatever lied at the end of reindeer hell in DS2 it's probably a combo of
- Lawrence in Bloodborne
- Sister Friede in DS3
- Father Owl in Sekiro
These ones were my main beefs of the From collection with an HM to orphan of Kos
Nightmare King Grimm from Hollow Knight is a good shout as well, I'm still not sure how I pulled that one off, I just slipped into the zone and somehow managed to weave through Grimm's fast paced attacks and projectile hellscape. To think there's all those super amped up bosses in that final DLC including even more greasy Grimm, no thank you!
I'd like to add something unique that hasn't been said already but it's pretty hard between the modern Masocore games (thanks Nioh devs) and NES hard titles
Actually I just remembered a Dracula arguably tougher than CV3, that git from Circle of the Moon, what a difficulty spike and a real middle finger to my lack of good card drops.
Does this part from Drakegard 3 count? It was easily the most grueling boss from any game I've ever played, I'm convinced it was designed to be as bad as it is on purpose.
For the uninitiated, it's a rhythm game style boss fight that's 7 minutes long in a non-rhythm game with no obvious timing indicators and very narrow timing windows that you can only miss a couple notes on to fail and redo the whole thing, and the kicker is they throw invisible notes at you at the end when the screen goes black and you think you've won.
For the uninitiated, it's a rhythm game style boss fight that's 7 minutes long in a non-rhythm game with no obvious timing indicators and very narrow timing windows that you can only miss a couple notes on to fail and redo the whole thing, and the kicker is they throw invisible notes at you at the end when the screen goes black and you think you've won.
Laurence, the first Vicar for me.
The only souls boss where I really started to feel a sense of despair, like I really just couldn't do it.
The only souls boss where I really started to feel a sense of despair, like I really just couldn't do it.
Hollow Knight's Nightmare King Grimm
I admitted defeat with some of the stuff they added with Godmaster though.
I've also beat Midir and Nameless King but for some reason I don't remember those being quite as white-knuckle.
I admitted defeat with some of the stuff they added with Godmaster though.
I've also beat Midir and Nameless King but for some reason I don't remember those being quite as white-knuckle.
Ikaruga's final boss probably, although via credit feeding.
Not including credit feeding, maybe senator Armstrong on whatever the second highest difficulty was.
Not including credit feeding, maybe senator Armstrong on whatever the second highest difficulty was.
Yozora on critical Kingdom Hearts 3 would probably easily take it for me. Easily shits on any other boss I can think of difficulty wise including the past KH super bosses.
Probably the clearest example of me going from "I legimately don't think this fight is beatable" to "I think I can do this".
Such a good feeling when I got him.
Probably the clearest example of me going from "I legimately don't think this fight is beatable" to "I think I can do this".
Such a good feeling when I got him.
First one that came to mind was the headless bloodletting beast from the Bloodborne defiled chalice dungeon. Reading various threads about this boss makes it sound easy, but this was my first Souls game, I didn't understand yet how to hold the controller effectively w/o lock-on, and having to deal w/ half health made this a huge, huge pain.
Last boss in Xenoblade Chronicles also nearly made me snap my 3DS cartridge in half, but I took a breather, leveled up a bit, and learned how to play Melia effectively. Then it became much easier. But before that... dang. This was also my first time playing a game like this where you kinda had that DPS/tank/support thing going, and I probably rushed too much through the game's latter half. Not having played any MMOs, etc. made concepts like this really foreign!
Last boss in Xenoblade Chronicles also nearly made me snap my 3DS cartridge in half, but I took a breather, leveled up a bit, and learned how to play Melia effectively. Then it became much easier. But before that... dang. This was also my first time playing a game like this where you kinda had that DPS/tank/support thing going, and I probably rushed too much through the game's latter half. Not having played any MMOs, etc. made concepts like this really foreign!
Nightmare King Grimm in Hollow Knight comes to mind. Beating him made me feel really proud of myself. He's just an unpredictable monster and with every single hit doing two points of damage, every hit is like a huge blow against your progress.
Honorable mentions:
Darkeater Midir (DS3)
Sister Friede (DS3)
Fume Knight (DS2)
Sir Alonne (DS2)
Demon of Hatred (Sekiro)
Father Owl (Sekiro)
Orphan of Kos (Bloodborne)
Weirdly enough, I had no issues beating Sword Saint Isshin on any of my playthroughs. I think that by that time I had such a grasp on the gameplay, that I kinda just instinctively knew what to do.
Honorable mentions:
Darkeater Midir (DS3)
Sister Friede (DS3)
Fume Knight (DS2)
Sir Alonne (DS2)
Demon of Hatred (Sekiro)
Father Owl (Sekiro)
Orphan of Kos (Bloodborne)
Weirdly enough, I had no issues beating Sword Saint Isshin on any of my playthroughs. I think that by that time I had such a grasp on the gameplay, that I kinda just instinctively knew what to do.
Wait, I just remembered a real piece of shit
Sure it looks just like any other Wily Capsule, but the MM7 Wily Capsule is one big joke at the player's expense that I swear is built around the idea of chugging E Tanks as homing elemental attacks hound your very existence , not at all satisfying to beat this one as a result, it's like fighting cheese with cheese.
But in any case Mega Man 7 can go do one, no wonder Mega Man was ready to actually blow Wily's head off this time
Sure it looks just like any other Wily Capsule, but the MM7 Wily Capsule is one big joke at the player's expense that I swear is built around the idea of chugging E Tanks as homing elemental attacks hound your very existence , not at all satisfying to beat this one as a result, it's like fighting cheese with cheese.
But in any case Mega Man 7 can go do one, no wonder Mega Man was ready to actually blow Wily's head off this time
Yep. Beaten everyone else in the From games but Ishina gave me the hardest time.
Hard to say as most difficult bosses in gaming seem to have this sweet spot where I always beat them between 3-4 hours. I can count probably a dozen bosses that took about that long and almost none that took longer. I'd completely forgotten about it, but someone posted Vanquish Challenge 6 above with the Red and Blue fight. I remember that taking me about 4 days of solid attempts so it was probably closer to double the 3-4 hour mark. Might have to go with that.
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I really like MM& but this fight is one of the reasons I don't play it more often. Dodging his attacks is such a pain.Wait, I just remembered a real piece of shit
Sure it looks just like any other Wily Capsule, but the MM7 Wily Capsule is one big joke at the player's expense that I swear is built around the idea of chugging E Tanks as homing elemental attacks hound your very existence , not at all satisfying to beat this one as a result, it's like fighting cheese with cheese.
But in any case Mega Man 7 can go do one, no wonder Mega Man was ready to actually blow Wily's head off this time
It was a tie between him and that bullshit huge dragon of DS2 actually, but one is cheap as fuck and the other is the best boss fight of the series.
For me it's definitely Orphan of Kos from Bloodborne. I just have such a tough time with his aggression in phase 2. First time beating him took me two full days. Watchdog from the chalice dungeons was also pretty tough, but I think that's mostly due to the fact that the dungeon you fight it in halves your health. If that didn't happen, I doubt it would have been so difficult.
Yeah, I don't really count that one as he is really simple and boring if you can bait him in a loop where you attack one of his toes, run back, evade his long range attack and repeat and impossible if you fight him otherwise as he will always oneshot you. Fuck the Ancient Dragon. Luckily they gave us an amazing dragon fight with Sinh.
Actually, now I think about it it's the same with DS1 and 3. DS1 has the Hellkite which is a bullshit that can oneshot you with 99 vitality and Seath which is a boring fight that's only hard if the curse procs and again oneshots you and then delivered an amazing dragon boss fight in the DLC and then DS3 has the wyvern fight which is also extremely underwhelming but then in the DLC gave us the best dragon boss in the series with Midir.
It's funny reading entries and thinking "huh, beat that one in one try/easily" because you know there's someone thinking the same about the boss that almost made you give up on gaming.
This is my pick as well. Straight up the hardest Souls boss. It took me a couple of days of trying on and off. He's cheap as fuck honestly. Possibly my least favorite fight.
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I legitimately don't get how people can 1CC bullet hell games. There's so much going on on those games I always get hit by a random shot.
Basically all FROM Soft's games are like that haha. When I finally played Bloodborne earlier this year I was pretty much breezing through the game until I hit Ebrietas and in the DLC Kos & Laurence (by the way, fuck Laurence, what a stupid final phase). Yet a friend of mine had serious issues with a lot of bosses I just beat in one or two tries, but easily beat Ebrietas and was way faster with Orphan of Kos than I was.
Not a boss but i've survived Solidus Snake E-Extreme choke hold.
Kojima went too hardcore with the Substance edition tbh.
Not me obviously but doing that shit for more than 1 min destroys your arm, it's better than going to the gym.
https://youtu.be/HDvWQfr6jzU
Kojima went too hardcore with the Substance edition tbh.
Not me obviously but doing that shit for more than 1 min destroys your arm, it's better than going to the gym.
https://youtu.be/HDvWQfr6jzU
Pattern recognition since things always happen pretty much the same way.
God Rugal from Capcom vs SNK 2. We know fighting game bosses are cheap but this one takes the cake.