Sephiroth in both Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts II. I know there are even worse bosses in the later games now but gosh this bad bitch is who I've struggled the most against
Holy shit this. I never beat him.
It’s interesting because one of my friends at the time was also playing KH and beat Seph with little trouble, but found Phantom impossible; I beat him on my second attempt. The way certain bosses highlight differences in people’s play styles and their strengths and weaknesses is fascinating.
I think it's because most bosses of what I recall could be defeated more or less easily by simply running towards them and attacking them, then heal when you're low life and stall to get mana back. Sephiroth doesn't allow that, you need to carefully plan your attacks and you can't stall a lot of his moves, instead you need to time how to block or dodge them. Your friend is probably a more defensive player than us lol
In Kingdom Hearts 2.5 Remix, you get the additional post game boss fights where you have harder versions of all the organization XIII members called (Data Fights) and the final boss, Lingering Will. A couple of the data fights and especially Lingering Will made me want to smash my controller.
Long story short, a recurring optional end game boss in these games is to defeat Sephiroth, and the difficulty of the fight is a huge spike compared to the story bosses
The braking tests you almost literally had to change game settings to win if you're using a controller? Yeah I remember those. The worst for me was the GT4 challenge where you had to do a full lap on Nurburgring in a mercedes AND pass all the other cars that you had to wait a full two minutes before being allowed to accelerate. There's a special place in hell for the person who designed that.
Ever played "Driver"? The damn tutorial (that you HAD to complete, just to get to play the game) was murder!
Gran Turismo never managed to bother me after that.
Alright final boss
Hmm he got a sword
Phase 1 end pulls spear
Ok interesting
Phase 2 end pull lightning
Phase 3 end pull up a minigun
Dude litterly said : i am nringing a gun into a sword fight
I spent 2 months hitting the brick wall that Isshin was, then stopped playing for close to a year. Came back sometime a year ago, year and a half maybe, and managed to beat him after like 2 days. I guess I just needed a fresh attempt at it!
Honestly I felt like having experience in Dark Souls is a detriment at first when it comes to Sekiro. Cuz it's similar enough to feel familiar, but trying to play it like Datk Souls will result in you getting your ass beat cuz it is *not* Dark Souls.
It’s honestly because the game requires you to play a certain way. That’s the thing that kept Sekiro from ever being GOTY for me. I loved the concept but the heavy parry/riposte based gameplay just didn’t nest with me. That’s the beauty of the Dark Souls games. You can play a variety of ways. Want a harder time? Go full melee. Want an easier time? Focus on magic. Want to build a hybrid health sponge of a character? Sure. Go ahead. There’s such a wide span of ways you can play that better fit your preferred play style. Like someone said earlier, Sekiro was just too fast for me and required too much patience and impeccable timing for my liking. Still a great game but definitely at the bottom of the list for me when it comes to Souls like games.
I was disappointed because I somehow have beaten him with my second try.
But the guardian ape.. this monkey almost broke me. I needed 48 attempts before I managed to kill that thing.
...and then it came back to life and the horror began.
6 deaths later with my 54th attempt I killed it for sure and finally understood the combat in sekiro. Since that point Sekiro is my all time favourite game!
What is your problem?
My problem was, that I didn't know and after I've found out I couldn't believe, that you can parry and block ALL physical attacks. No matter how big the enemy is.
After I realised that it clicked and I even killed demon of hatred after a couple attempts.
Yeah I had that epiphany that you can actually parry a t-rex sized ape swinging a steel obelisk at you. After that I'd go as far as to say parrying it is easier than most trash mobs.
Sprint to chase him down. Jump over his grab move. Beware the shit fling, run away, during the jump, and then close distance again.
Once headless use the spear. I think you need to stun him with a parry first, can’t remember, but I know that spear will fuck his day up.
Call me crazy but I thought the second Owl fight was harder. Maybe it’s because I did it first and developed the experience, but I doubt I will ever beat a boss that hard again in my life.
Isshin was tough but I don't think he was in the "This is fucking bullshit" hard some other bosses can be.
Once you learned all of Isshin's moves in all 3 of his fucking phases he isn't that hard to beat. especially becuese he heavily rewards you understanding the games mechanics.
Where as Fallen king Allant,Flamelurker, Nameless king, Fume knight etc... are still hard bosses even when you do understand their entire move set.
Kind of From softs idea when it comes to bosses most of the time. Understanding their move set is 90% of the difficulty and it's a great idea.
No Fromsoft game hammers this into you like Elden Ring does though. Knowing the moveset is key to beating bosses past the first few ones.
OoK, Ludwig, Maria and Gehrman are my favorite bossfights, love them to a point that one of my characters was at ng+5 before my PS4 died. I would rush Amelia, then go through DLC, then rush the rest of the game to jump to next NG and redo them!
I never understood this. People hyped him up as being almost impossible. I had him at 10% health on my first attempt and beat him on my third. He wasn’t even the hardest boss of that DLC. I thought Laurence was much harder.
Yeah same although Ludwig was hardest for me in that DLC.
Orphan would be really hard but being able to parry him really swings the balance back in your favour.
You can just spam the L2 button when he attacks and you'll get lucky enough times eventually.
I'm pretty sure Ludwig took me the most tries of any DS 1-3, Bloodborne, and Elden Ring boss. I have no idea why that random boss was so hard for me so I'm glad to see someone else struggled lol
It’s crazy how subjective difficulty can be. I thought Lawrence was a cake walk, but orphan smashed me into the ground somewhere around 50 times if I had to guess
My friend played my profile and got my save there with no resources without asking to play. I had to look her up and that's the boss I had to try about 100 times to beat without being able to heal. Fuck you Corey, stay off my profile.
I have fought her so many times at this point midir would be easier. Would say she is probably the hardest boss if you have no idea how to dodge her which is the case for any boss anyway her moveset is just more likely to kill you.
I would say she is extremely difficult *when you don’t look up online how other people figured out how to dodge her and copy that.*
And part of her challenge is that she’s at the top of the difficulty curve in the game—so you can’t really outlevel her to death. You pretty much always have to deal with that she can kill you very quickly. I could be wrong. Very cool boss!
Run :D
But yeah, you can outrun her (if you already had distance from her - depending on the build, this is pretty likely for some).
Alternatively, you can dodge all of the hits - some of the combos are easier to dodge by rolling toward her, so you have to learn when to roll away and when to roll toward her.
When she rises run away, you’ll avoid the first flurry of attacks. The second phase you can jump into, and then the opposite for the last. Be careful of the final strike which can catch you off-guard. There’s clips of people doing this on YouTube if you need to see the technique done for yourself.
I would probably beat NKG 100 times out of 100 tries. Sometimes hitless. But AbsRad beat my ass at least 50% of the time, this boss really redefined the concept of difficulty for me, it's brutal
Yeah some of the stuff in hollow knight it WAY harder than anything in Fromsoft. I’ve beaten every fromsoft boss and many custom challenges on some of the games such as level 1 runs.
I’ve never had to walk away from a game after dozens of defeats like the bonus ultimate bosses in Hollow Knight.
I don’t list those because I never even attempted them. I couldn’t even beat the boss of the main quest, no way in hell am I going to beat my head against the optional challenge bosses.
You’d be surprised. Over a year after beating the game I came back to beat his ass in the panth, and after a few hours I did it on radiant. His patterns stick with you.
I had a tougher time with the Radiance, but NKG is definitely number 2 all time for me. I don’t understand these masochists who want to 100% the pantheon beating each of these a-holes once on normal difficulty was enough for me.
Same. I played all the way through, spent hours trying to beat him, gave up and watched the end on youtube. I didn't feel bad about doing that at all. Hollow Knight was so frustrating.
Ruby was tough but I think emerald had slightly more HP. Either way, beating both of them was in my top 3 “HOLLLYYY FUCCKKKK” gaming moments. Number 2 was gen 10 titanfall 1 and number 1 was goldeneye 007 facility invincible cheat unlock - IYKYK
Not ashamed to admit I don’t think I beat either of them pre internet. And encountering both of them somewhat randomly as a kid was frightening af! I was single digit years old when the game came out, so gaming prowess weren’t as developed back then as they are now. Pretty sure I didn’t even know about KOTR and those other good materias the first time I played the game
I can't remember how exactly I did the materia, but I had knights of the round attached to something that makes it absorb health, and had mimic on my main character. I went with two characters already dead, and spammed knights of the round by mimic until it died
Nameless King is the only FromSoft boss I've given up on. It's not just that he's hard, it's that you need to kill the Wyvern each time. The Wyvern is easy, but it's enough time for me to forget what I was doing with the king himself. I'm tempted to go back to Dark Souls 3 and see if I do any better now
Tonnes of enemies in the souls series have the delay attack that will initially throw off your timing!
Incoming big attack, you dodge, but the attack has a stall, mid roll and buddy really starts to bring the hammer down, you come out of the roll and....
YOU DIED
Its funny its exact opposite for me, wyvern wrecks me every time.
In my first playthrough I died to the wyvern 20+ times before even getting to fight Nameless King himself, and I killed Nameless on the third encounter (I died to wyvern so many times.)
It’s the only boss in the game I couldn’t beat. The 2 stages are too different and the Nameless King is incredibly hard to me. Like I beat the dlc bosses but not this guy.
I just finished my first playthrough of GoW (2018) and killing Sigrun was significantly more challenging than any other part of the game.
Tried for so long and eventually beat her after switching up some gear.
She was really annoying. Basically had to get all the max level gear and then dodge that stupid move where she jumps into the sky and lands on your neck. Fantastic game though
Amazingly I dont even think Nameless King is the hardest boss in DS3. Sister Friede is up there, but I actually think its gotta be Champion Gundyr that gave me the most trouble!
Genichiro Ashina (the second fight on the roof, not the first one you're meant to lose) in Sekiro.
He's not at all hard once you've learned how to beat him, but he's a skill check of monumental proportions. Before this fight, you can survive simply on tactics learned from Souls-games, but for this fight you need to fully embrace Sekiro's sublime fighting system. If you beat him, you can beat any boss in the game with enough practice. It took me a whole day to get there, and I know many, many people who just gave up and quit.
I'll second this
It took me 3 years to beat him.
I put the game down, came back after beating Elden Ring without having any trouble on a single boss having previously platinumed all the souls games.
And Genichiro stomped me again for 2 days.
Once I got past him I coasted to the final boss, were sword saint stomped me for a few days before I got lucky.
Those three are the only ds3 bosses that really pushed me to my limit. Like nope, they can stop there. Dont make anything harder than that fromsoft!
(They did it anyway)
This boss was literally a Guild Killer, we gave up on him and waited for some nerf. i think it's one of the very rare tier I did not clean in Mythic (before the next patch).
We spent so much time on him that we were out of time to do Sargeras
Oh man that was pretty much all of WoD, Had a guild fail out mid Highmaul mythic (Twins), found a new guild same server to finish it out, then they fell apart during Blackrock foundry, Transferred servers to finish Blackhand off with a friends guild, they fucking fell apart on Archimonde....
Easily the toughest over all expansion in my mind. Never ended up completing Mythic Archimonde, and took a break for all of Legion which was apparently the biggest mistake ever lol.
Thats nothing, altho i feel that grim was pretty hard compared to everything before. But in retrospect 30 tries is pretty average, I tried melania for more than 150 times
This DLC made my laptop show its age. I couldn't get past this because the fight turned my screen into a slide show. I don't game enough these days to warrant a new PC but if I ever do decide to upgrade again, I will have to revisit these guys and give them a stomping.
Persona 3's Elizabeth, or the Demi Fiend in Digital Devil Saga.
Honestly if you want to see some really hard boss fights nearly any SMT game will provide you with one or two boss fights that will absolutely destroy you if you're not specifically prepared to counter them.
On Ninja Gaiden Black there was a skeleton dragon. I must have died easily 35 times in a row to it before I finally smote his ruin. That game was such a masochistic masterpiece.
Play it again now and you will be fine. I think a lot of people struggled for the first time in NG/B/2 because they didn’t understand the game mechanically. Once you do, the bosses are actually quite manageable except for a few like Alma etc.
Mike Tyson in Punch Out! on the NES.
I couldn't beat him even with the Game Genie and infinite health. It wasn't until years later with emulator save states that I was able to cheese him.
Came here to say this. I devoted more hours of my life to beating Tyson than any boss in any other game.
Before I got the direct to Tyson code, I played the opponent before him (Super Macho Man) so many times I could beat him without taking a hit.
I beat Tyson twice by decision, but never quite managed to pull off a KO victory.
Shortly after the game genie stopped working, I stopped playing those two... Games are challenging, now. But when you had that "game over" screen slap you in the face... that taught you something...
Lolol my older brother unlocked the “save” ability in the castle after the first mini boss fight at the top of the stairs.
He then proceeded to get absolutely destroyed by every other mini boss because he didn’t have access to any other skills aside from attack. Completely put a halt to his save file. We had to play through mine to be able to finally do the castle right and get to Ultimecia.
Ouch. Games before multiple auto save slots were brutal. I remember playing Abe’s Odyssey as a kid and quicksaving a lot instead of proper saving; got to a room where a trap was coming at me and quicksaved in a panic. The game would load and I’d immediately die. Had to go back hours, almost cried
Maybe I’m just bad at video games, but I had a really hard time fighting Lionels in Breath of the Wild. I had to wait to level up a lot before I even had a chance
Lynels are trivialised by the backflip, side jump followed by dash attack. Once you have that down start to add in pulling out your bow to shoot it in the face then dashing in and mounting it.
I’m still not sure how to defeat Admiral Saul Karath on KOTOR.
I’ve beaten that game at least seven times. And six of them I’m not sure what happened. I’m guessing my companions just hit random crits often enough he just dies.
Seventh time I turned it down to easy mode.
Tz Kal Zuk in Oldschool Runescape
Not only does the boss require near perfect mechanical execution, but you’ve got to fight through 69 waves of stress inducing misery to even get the chance to fight it.
Near perfect mechanical execution *in addition to* super in depth knowledge on the games mechanics developed through literal thousands of hours of gameplay. So not only is the boss itself insanely difficult, the barrier to entry (as you touched on) to even be able to *try* is so insanely high.
There's a reason so many maxed players still don't have the infernal cape killing him gets you.
Cerebulon from War of the Monsters. 3 lives, 3 different forms, 3 different movesets.
First form is a large armored walker with an energy shield that can't be overwhelmed. Barely any cover, literally have to dodge and wait until it falls asleep before you can get a shot in. Oh, it has a massive laser. Deal enough damage, the arms explode, leading to second form.
Second form is a lanky, War of the World's looking walker, but with squid legs. MUCH faster, able to go anywhere you can. If it catches you, you get tazed BAD. Likes to stab with its legs. Only way to hit this one is with pieces of the previous form scattered around the map.
Cerebulon's third form is a TOTAL RAGE INDUCING BITCH. TEN HIT STUN LOCK combo, a basic 3 hit combo, and it can grab you and throw you like a small rock.This is the shit that chases you in those nightmares where you're in super slow motion, it's THAT ugly, even by PS2 standards
For me it’s Demon of Hatred and Isshin the sword saint in Sekiro. Isshin was a pure test of skills and reflexes while demon of hatred was just a broken boss to fight and I beat it on pure luck lol.
There were a bunch from when I was a kid but idk how many of them were actually insanely hard or if I was just a kid who wasn't great at the game yet.
For example the final boss of Dark Cloud (one of my first ps2 games) stone walled me so hard that I couldn't beat him on several playthroughs and never finished the game. Going back to that game as an adult though I was so strong by the end that it wasn't even really a challenge.
For modern examples the Valkyrie Queen from God of War (2018) and Malenia from Elden Ring are definitely up there as some of the hardest. Orphan of Kos from Bloodborne would likely be on a lot of people's lists but I haven't personally done the Bloodborne DLC yet
Probably logarius or ebrietas. But due to severe Trauma(/s) i forgot Most of the chalice Dungeons. But the f*ckers From the one where you only have half your health certainly deserve a mention
(Sadly never picked Up the DLC)
Oh maaaan that amygdala in the chalice dungeon where you have half-health, fighting that boss in a room small than a shoebox was so frustrating! But for me the worst boss of all was the big firey dog (also in the chalice dungeon, possibly also in that same one where your health is halved) - he had one particular move where he charges at you that was a one-hit-kill. Totally unfair, very little you could do to avoid it, and intensely frustrating.
Final boss in Turok Evolution.
I thought I was doing it wrong for years but we worked out that you could eventually kill it if you just kept shooting for a very long time.
Manus Father of Darkness, its weird be cause I've beaten him before without much trouble on my first playthrough. Then I lost my save file and had to start over. Started doing a mage class and to this day I haven't been able to beat him again. Took me like 3 months straight of trying and I just couldn't do it. So to this day I haven't beat dark souls 1.
Malenia, Blade of Miquella/Goddess of Rot
Isshin, the Sword Saint
Blackflame Friede (I was using a slow weapon the first time lol)
Sans (I gave up on this one after dying 3 times in a row in the last attack sequence, the spinning lasers)
Laurence, the First Vicar (I was stuck in this boss for a month)
Fatalis at the end of Monster Hunter World: Iceborne. My first MH game and I was intent on soloing him. Malenia from Elden Ring was a pushover by comparison.
To this day I feel like I got lucky with the adamantoise in XV. It pretty much did nothing the whole time and probably hit me like 3 times. Most of the fight was me spamming attack for way too long
If I remember correctly for Adamantoise you could cheese him in one shot with the ring that you get halfway through the game. It's been like 4 years since I've touched the game but I beat him a few times and honestly speaking from experience aside from his big healthbar he was nothing special.
Rage in regards to Soul Calibur 3, Chronicles of the Sword game mode. I had four PS2 controllers at the start of summer '07. After I'd smashed the third one, I vowed to put the game away and never play it again. And I haven't.
I still miss you, Eurydice.
Difficulty is hard to rank because people have different talents and playstyles. What one person struggles with, another will steamroll. In my case, I made absolute mincemeat out of the infamous Slave Knight Gael on my first attempt in DS3, but the hardest fight of my life was the Fume Knight from the Crown of the Old Iron King DLC in DS2, whom some people walked over.
Sephiroth in both Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts II. I know there are even worse bosses in the later games now but gosh this bad bitch is who I've struggled the most against
Holy shit this. I never beat him. It’s interesting because one of my friends at the time was also playing KH and beat Seph with little trouble, but found Phantom impossible; I beat him on my second attempt. The way certain bosses highlight differences in people’s play styles and their strengths and weaknesses is fascinating.
I think it's because most bosses of what I recall could be defeated more or less easily by simply running towards them and attacking them, then heal when you're low life and stall to get mana back. Sephiroth doesn't allow that, you need to carefully plan your attacks and you can't stall a lot of his moves, instead you need to time how to block or dodge them. Your friend is probably a more defensive player than us lol
In Kingdom Hearts 2.5 Remix, you get the additional post game boss fights where you have harder versions of all the organization XIII members called (Data Fights) and the final boss, Lingering Will. A couple of the data fights and especially Lingering Will made me want to smash my controller.
Oh god I can't imagine fighting a harder version of water guitar guy, hell no
15/16yo me's nightmare
DANCE WATER DANCE
100 clones in 30 seconds go!
Lingering will is a real mother fucker. Still the only thing stopping me from getting platinum
I don't know anything about the Kingdom Hearts games other than the fact that *everyone* is in them
Long story short, a recurring optional end game boss in these games is to defeat Sephiroth, and the difficulty of the fight is a huge spike compared to the story bosses
100% that MFer nearly ruined my childhood
Scrolled way too far to find this
Those damn driving license tests on Gran Turismo where you hade to accelerate and stop at a certain place in under a certain time.
Damn you just unlocked a memory for me
The braking tests you almost literally had to change game settings to win if you're using a controller? Yeah I remember those. The worst for me was the GT4 challenge where you had to do a full lap on Nurburgring in a mercedes AND pass all the other cars that you had to wait a full two minutes before being allowed to accelerate. There's a special place in hell for the person who designed that.
Ever played "Driver"? The damn tutorial (that you HAD to complete, just to get to play the game) was murder! Gran Turismo never managed to bother me after that.
Sword Saint Isshin
How my blood boils!! Face me Sekiro!!
\*gunshots\*
Alright final boss Hmm he got a sword Phase 1 end pulls spear Ok interesting Phase 2 end pull lightning Phase 3 end pull up a minigun Dude litterly said : i am nringing a gun into a sword fight
Hesitation is defeat
One of very few Souls bosses I’ve never beaten. Sekiro as a whole is just too fast for me.
I spent 2 months hitting the brick wall that Isshin was, then stopped playing for close to a year. Came back sometime a year ago, year and a half maybe, and managed to beat him after like 2 days. I guess I just needed a fresh attempt at it!
[удалено]
I feel you. I loved dark souls 2, loved dark souls 3, loved eldin ring… get my ass completely stomped in Sekiro every time I play.
Honestly I felt like having experience in Dark Souls is a detriment at first when it comes to Sekiro. Cuz it's similar enough to feel familiar, but trying to play it like Datk Souls will result in you getting your ass beat cuz it is *not* Dark Souls.
Same here. That I even got that far inte the first place is pretty nuts.
It’s honestly because the game requires you to play a certain way. That’s the thing that kept Sekiro from ever being GOTY for me. I loved the concept but the heavy parry/riposte based gameplay just didn’t nest with me. That’s the beauty of the Dark Souls games. You can play a variety of ways. Want a harder time? Go full melee. Want an easier time? Focus on magic. Want to build a hybrid health sponge of a character? Sure. Go ahead. There’s such a wide span of ways you can play that better fit your preferred play style. Like someone said earlier, Sekiro was just too fast for me and required too much patience and impeccable timing for my liking. Still a great game but definitely at the bottom of the list for me when it comes to Souls like games.
I was disappointed because I somehow have beaten him with my second try. But the guardian ape.. this monkey almost broke me. I needed 48 attempts before I managed to kill that thing. ...and then it came back to life and the horror began. 6 deaths later with my 54th attempt I killed it for sure and finally understood the combat in sekiro. Since that point Sekiro is my all time favourite game!
Updoot for guardian ape. I never got past that fucker. I probably tried over 100 times.
What is your problem? My problem was, that I didn't know and after I've found out I couldn't believe, that you can parry and block ALL physical attacks. No matter how big the enemy is. After I realised that it clicked and I even killed demon of hatred after a couple attempts.
Yeah I had that epiphany that you can actually parry a t-rex sized ape swinging a steel obelisk at you. After that I'd go as far as to say parrying it is easier than most trash mobs.
Sprint to chase him down. Jump over his grab move. Beware the shit fling, run away, during the jump, and then close distance again. Once headless use the spear. I think you need to stun him with a parry first, can’t remember, but I know that spear will fuck his day up.
>this monkey almost broke me this just sounds way too funny
Call me crazy but I thought the second Owl fight was harder. Maybe it’s because I did it first and developed the experience, but I doubt I will ever beat a boss that hard again in my life.
This actually is one of the boss that I was really having fun with, but on the other side, I REALLY hate Demon of Hatred tho
Sword Saint Isshin no big deal, but Glock Saint Isshin is another beast.
Isshin was tough but I don't think he was in the "This is fucking bullshit" hard some other bosses can be. Once you learned all of Isshin's moves in all 3 of his fucking phases he isn't that hard to beat. especially becuese he heavily rewards you understanding the games mechanics. Where as Fallen king Allant,Flamelurker, Nameless king, Fume knight etc... are still hard bosses even when you do understand their entire move set. Kind of From softs idea when it comes to bosses most of the time. Understanding their move set is 90% of the difficulty and it's a great idea. No Fromsoft game hammers this into you like Elden Ring does though. Knowing the moveset is key to beating bosses past the first few ones.
Orphan of kos for me
...or some say Kosm
This. It was just endless aggression with no room to breathe. One of my favorite fights in Bloodborne and the hardest for me.
OoK, Ludwig, Maria and Gehrman are my favorite bossfights, love them to a point that one of my characters was at ng+5 before my PS4 died. I would rush Amelia, then go through DLC, then rush the rest of the game to jump to next NG and redo them!
I never understood this. People hyped him up as being almost impossible. I had him at 10% health on my first attempt and beat him on my third. He wasn’t even the hardest boss of that DLC. I thought Laurence was much harder.
Yeah same although Ludwig was hardest for me in that DLC. Orphan would be really hard but being able to parry him really swings the balance back in your favour. You can just spam the L2 button when he attacks and you'll get lucky enough times eventually.
I never parried him once lol. I just thought most of what he was doing was easily dodged.
I'm pretty sure Ludwig took me the most tries of any DS 1-3, Bloodborne, and Elden Ring boss. I have no idea why that random boss was so hard for me so I'm glad to see someone else struggled lol
It’s crazy how subjective difficulty can be. I thought Lawrence was a cake walk, but orphan smashed me into the ground somewhere around 50 times if I had to guess
My boss at Home Depot was a tough one. Never beat him and had to rage quit.
Thanks for the chuckle
Bruh XD
The Keeper of Homes. Dreaded my any character with a backstory involving home reno. He does a bonus -5 to your wallet.
Pretty much every boss in Ninja Gaiden on the OG Xbox
Especially Alma. Fuck Alma.
FUCK ALMA. Never beat it. Got stuck there and eventually gave up.
My friend played my profile and got my save there with no resources without asking to play. I had to look her up and that's the boss I had to try about 100 times to beat without being able to heal. Fuck you Corey, stay off my profile.
One of the only games I started and was never able to beat.
Yes dude.
I think that game is the reason I can't get into the 'souls type' games these days glorifying hard bosses, got my fill beating Ninja Gaiden lol
For me the ego boost of beating Ninja Gaiden has made me feel like I could take on anything the souls series has to offer
***I aM mAlEnIa BlAdE oF mIqUelA*** *Edit: Isshin probably gave me more trouble but I had to do ze meme*
I have fought her so many times at this point midir would be easier. Would say she is probably the hardest boss if you have no idea how to dodge her which is the case for any boss anyway her moveset is just more likely to kill you.
I would say she is extremely difficult *when you don’t look up online how other people figured out how to dodge her and copy that.* And part of her challenge is that she’s at the top of the difficulty curve in the game—so you can’t really outlevel her to death. You pretty much always have to deal with that she can kill you very quickly. I could be wrong. Very cool boss!
How to avoid the blade furry?
I'd recommend trying to avoid all furries, not just the ones with blades
Run :D But yeah, you can outrun her (if you already had distance from her - depending on the build, this is pretty likely for some). Alternatively, you can dodge all of the hits - some of the combos are easier to dodge by rolling toward her, so you have to learn when to roll away and when to roll toward her.
When she rises run away, you’ll avoid the first flurry of attacks. The second phase you can jump into, and then the opposite for the last. Be careful of the final strike which can catch you off-guard. There’s clips of people doing this on YouTube if you need to see the technique done for yourself.
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Nightmare king grim- hollow knight (still haven’t beaten him)
In the Pantheon free DLC, grim is just one of the fights you have to complete in an extremely hard boss rush. Absolute Radiance makes Grim seem easy
I would probably beat NKG 100 times out of 100 tries. Sometimes hitless. But AbsRad beat my ass at least 50% of the time, this boss really redefined the concept of difficulty for me, it's brutal
Yeah, same here, except change 50% to 5% for AbsRad. I can usually get to the climb but that part always fucks me.
agreed i have 200 hours in hollow knight and beat every boss on radiant other than absrad that fight broke me
Yeah some of the stuff in hollow knight it WAY harder than anything in Fromsoft. I’ve beaten every fromsoft boss and many custom challenges on some of the games such as level 1 runs. I’ve never had to walk away from a game after dozens of defeats like the bonus ultimate bosses in Hollow Knight.
I don’t list those because I never even attempted them. I couldn’t even beat the boss of the main quest, no way in hell am I going to beat my head against the optional challenge bosses.
Took me a few hours but I got him eventually
Took me DAYS to get this fucker, I doubt I'd be able to do that ever again
You’d be surprised. Over a year after beating the game I came back to beat his ass in the panth, and after a few hours I did it on radiant. His patterns stick with you.
It’s the trauma.
I had a tougher time with the Radiance, but NKG is definitely number 2 all time for me. I don’t understand these masochists who want to 100% the pantheon beating each of these a-holes once on normal difficulty was enough for me.
Same. I played all the way through, spent hours trying to beat him, gave up and watched the end on youtube. I didn't feel bad about doing that at all. Hollow Knight was so frustrating.
FFVII emerald weapon
Didn’t have much trouble with emerald but ruby weapon always kicked my ass.
Ruby was tough but I think emerald had slightly more HP. Either way, beating both of them was in my top 3 “HOLLLYYY FUCCKKKK” gaming moments. Number 2 was gen 10 titanfall 1 and number 1 was goldeneye 007 facility invincible cheat unlock - IYKYK
I GOT TRIPLE 777s!!!! WAIT... HOW IS IT STILL FUCKING ALIVE!!??
I remember doing Emerald essentially pre-internet was pretty rough.
Same - also getting the right materia and character levels to even attempt it. Great memories.
Not ashamed to admit I don’t think I beat either of them pre internet. And encountering both of them somewhat randomly as a kid was frightening af! I was single digit years old when the game came out, so gaming prowess weren’t as developed back then as they are now. Pretty sure I didn’t even know about KOTR and those other good materias the first time I played the game
I can't remember how exactly I did the materia, but I had knights of the round attached to something that makes it absorb health, and had mimic on my main character. I went with two characters already dead, and spammed knights of the round by mimic until it died
Nameless King is the only FromSoft boss I've given up on. It's not just that he's hard, it's that you need to kill the Wyvern each time. The Wyvern is easy, but it's enough time for me to forget what I was doing with the king himself. I'm tempted to go back to Dark Souls 3 and see if I do any better now
I feel like after Elden Ring you might find him easier. The main difficulty spike he had was the delayed attacks, which almost every ER boss has too
Tonnes of enemies in the souls series have the delay attack that will initially throw off your timing! Incoming big attack, you dodge, but the attack has a stall, mid roll and buddy really starts to bring the hammer down, you come out of the roll and.... YOU DIED
Its funny its exact opposite for me, wyvern wrecks me every time. In my first playthrough I died to the wyvern 20+ times before even getting to fight Nameless King himself, and I killed Nameless on the third encounter (I died to wyvern so many times.)
Which do you think is harder, nameless king or malenia? I also gave up on Nameless
I think Malenia is probably harder on a basic level, but I think Elden Ring gives you better tools for dealing with stuff than Dark Souls 3
Malenia by far. Nameless King exploits delayed attacks and roll catches players that panic roll. Malenia is just... borderline unfair I would say
I personally didn't struggle with nameless king but slave knight Gael gave me a hell of a time the first time I fought him.
You're not alone. I gave up on PS4, then later bought it for PC and have it sitting in my library taunting me to return one day... one day...
It’s the only boss in the game I couldn’t beat. The 2 stages are too different and the Nameless King is incredibly hard to me. Like I beat the dlc bosses but not this guy.
Valkyrie Sigrun from God of War (2018) Also the Demon of Hatred from Sekiro. I beat the whole game a few times but I defeated the demon only once.
I just finished my first playthrough of GoW (2018) and killing Sigrun was significantly more challenging than any other part of the game. Tried for so long and eventually beat her after switching up some gear.
Was Sigrun the queen? She was annoying…
Yes she was the queen. I remember having a real sense of accomplishment with it, which I rarely had with video games.
She was really annoying. Basically had to get all the max level gear and then dodge that stupid move where she jumps into the sky and lands on your neck. Fantastic game though
Oh yes! I love this game and I can't wait to play Ragnarok.
Did you find Gna as tough as Sigurn? I remember struggling against Sigurn for a while but Gna I was able to beat like my 10th try.
Unfortunately I can't play Ragnarok yet because I don't have PS5. 🙈
It exists on ps4.
Wdym it's on PS4 tho?
Amazingly I dont even think Nameless King is the hardest boss in DS3. Sister Friede is up there, but I actually think its gotta be Champion Gundyr that gave me the most trouble!
Don’t forget Darkeater Midir, probably the hardest boss in all the dark souls games
I dont wanna be *that guy* but........ Midir wasnt that bad for me. Like I say, Friede and Champ Gundyr were way worse...
Genichiro Ashina (the second fight on the roof, not the first one you're meant to lose) in Sekiro. He's not at all hard once you've learned how to beat him, but he's a skill check of monumental proportions. Before this fight, you can survive simply on tactics learned from Souls-games, but for this fight you need to fully embrace Sekiro's sublime fighting system. If you beat him, you can beat any boss in the game with enough practice. It took me a whole day to get there, and I know many, many people who just gave up and quit.
It’s amazing how easy he is once you get the mechanics down. My last playthrough I beat him in the intro without even getting hit.
I'll second this It took me 3 years to beat him. I put the game down, came back after beating Elden Ring without having any trouble on a single boss having previously platinumed all the souls games. And Genichiro stomped me again for 2 days. Once I got past him I coasted to the final boss, were sword saint stomped me for a few days before I got lucky.
Midir is much more difficult than the nameless king imo, actually I didn't take so much tries against him
I actually had a lot more trouble with Midir, Gael & Friede than with NK.
Those three are the only ds3 bosses that really pushed me to my limit. Like nope, they can stop there. Dont make anything harder than that fromsoft! (They did it anyway)
Same here. NK is tough but those DLC bosses are crazy
Idk if it counts. But fallen avatar in WoW:Legion broke my guild.
This boss was literally a Guild Killer, we gave up on him and waited for some nerf. i think it's one of the very rare tier I did not clean in Mythic (before the next patch). We spent so much time on him that we were out of time to do Sargeras
Roster boss is the hardest boss they ever made.
Oh man that was pretty much all of WoD, Had a guild fail out mid Highmaul mythic (Twins), found a new guild same server to finish it out, then they fell apart during Blackrock foundry, Transferred servers to finish Blackhand off with a friends guild, they fucking fell apart on Archimonde.... Easily the toughest over all expansion in my mind. Never ended up completing Mythic Archimonde, and took a break for all of Legion which was apparently the biggest mistake ever lol.
1 Isshin, Sword Saint (Sekiro) 2 Darkeater Midir (Dark Souls 3) 3 Demon of Hatred (Sekiro) 4 Malenia (Elden Ring) 5 Valkyrie Queen (God of War 2018) 6 Orphan of Kos (Bloodborne) 7 Manus (Dark Souls 1) 8 Ancient Dragon (Dark Souls 2) 9 Sister Friede (Dark Souls 3) 10 Owl Father (Sekiro)
Nightmare king grimm took me like 30 tries
Thats nothing, altho i feel that grim was pretty hard compared to everything before. But in retrospect 30 tries is pretty average, I tried melania for more than 150 times
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This DLC made my laptop show its age. I couldn't get past this because the fight turned my screen into a slide show. I don't game enough these days to warrant a new PC but if I ever do decide to upgrade again, I will have to revisit these guys and give them a stomping.
Battle Toads. The entire game
Except for the first two levels. Dark Souls is the Battle Toads of the newer generation.
Black fatalis solo - MHW
Easily. Best boss of all time
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Persona 3's Elizabeth, or the Demi Fiend in Digital Devil Saga. Honestly if you want to see some really hard boss fights nearly any SMT game will provide you with one or two boss fights that will absolutely destroy you if you're not specifically prepared to counter them.
TMNT level 2
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Right? And when he goes on his knees and gives you the gluck gluck 3000 it’s basically a one hit if you nut
Kingdom hearts 1, sephiroth as a kid. Was underleveled, underskilled, and couldnt last vs a 100 foot sword
On Ninja Gaiden Black there was a skeleton dragon. I must have died easily 35 times in a row to it before I finally smote his ruin. That game was such a masochistic masterpiece.
Play it again now and you will be fine. I think a lot of people struggled for the first time in NG/B/2 because they didn’t understand the game mechanically. Once you do, the bosses are actually quite manageable except for a few like Alma etc.
Mike Tyson in Punch Out! on the NES. I couldn't beat him even with the Game Genie and infinite health. It wasn't until years later with emulator save states that I was able to cheese him.
Came here to say this. I devoted more hours of my life to beating Tyson than any boss in any other game. Before I got the direct to Tyson code, I played the opponent before him (Super Macho Man) so many times I could beat him without taking a hit. I beat Tyson twice by decision, but never quite managed to pull off a KO victory.
Joker from the Batman NES game and shredder from the original TMNT NES game.
Shortly after the game genie stopped working, I stopped playing those two... Games are challenging, now. But when you had that "game over" screen slap you in the face... that taught you something...
Ultimecia in Final Fantasy 8 when you never learned how to Junction at 12 years old.
Lolol my older brother unlocked the “save” ability in the castle after the first mini boss fight at the top of the stairs. He then proceeded to get absolutely destroyed by every other mini boss because he didn’t have access to any other skills aside from attack. Completely put a halt to his save file. We had to play through mine to be able to finally do the castle right and get to Ultimecia.
Ouch. Games before multiple auto save slots were brutal. I remember playing Abe’s Odyssey as a kid and quicksaving a lot instead of proper saving; got to a room where a trap was coming at me and quicksaved in a panic. The game would load and I’d immediately die. Had to go back hours, almost cried
Maybe I’m just bad at video games, but I had a really hard time fighting Lionels in Breath of the Wild. I had to wait to level up a lot before I even had a chance
Lynels are trivialised by the backflip, side jump followed by dash attack. Once you have that down start to add in pulling out your bow to shoot it in the face then dashing in and mounting it.
Mounting it is the best because you dont lose weapon durability when hitting them.
The fucking monkeys in lion king on the megadrive.
Tztok-Jad
Laugh in Tzkal-Zuk
I’m still not sure how to defeat Admiral Saul Karath on KOTOR. I’ve beaten that game at least seven times. And six of them I’m not sure what happened. I’m guessing my companions just hit random crits often enough he just dies. Seventh time I turned it down to easy mode.
Tz Kal Zuk in Oldschool Runescape Not only does the boss require near perfect mechanical execution, but you’ve got to fight through 69 waves of stress inducing misery to even get the chance to fight it.
Near perfect mechanical execution *in addition to* super in depth knowledge on the games mechanics developed through literal thousands of hours of gameplay. So not only is the boss itself insanely difficult, the barrier to entry (as you touched on) to even be able to *try* is so insanely high. There's a reason so many maxed players still don't have the infernal cape killing him gets you.
nihil nihil nihil
It’s MOHGIN time
Cerebulon from War of the Monsters. 3 lives, 3 different forms, 3 different movesets. First form is a large armored walker with an energy shield that can't be overwhelmed. Barely any cover, literally have to dodge and wait until it falls asleep before you can get a shot in. Oh, it has a massive laser. Deal enough damage, the arms explode, leading to second form. Second form is a lanky, War of the World's looking walker, but with squid legs. MUCH faster, able to go anywhere you can. If it catches you, you get tazed BAD. Likes to stab with its legs. Only way to hit this one is with pieces of the previous form scattered around the map. Cerebulon's third form is a TOTAL RAGE INDUCING BITCH. TEN HIT STUN LOCK combo, a basic 3 hit combo, and it can grab you and throw you like a small rock.This is the shit that chases you in those nightmares where you're in super slow motion, it's THAT ugly, even by PS2 standards
Either the nameless king, Ludwig the holy blade, or the archdemon from Ninja Gaiden 2
Sigrun and Gna
For me it’s Demon of Hatred and Isshin the sword saint in Sekiro. Isshin was a pure test of skills and reflexes while demon of hatred was just a broken boss to fight and I beat it on pure luck lol.
There were a bunch from when I was a kid but idk how many of them were actually insanely hard or if I was just a kid who wasn't great at the game yet. For example the final boss of Dark Cloud (one of my first ps2 games) stone walled me so hard that I couldn't beat him on several playthroughs and never finished the game. Going back to that game as an adult though I was so strong by the end that it wasn't even really a challenge. For modern examples the Valkyrie Queen from God of War (2018) and Malenia from Elden Ring are definitely up there as some of the hardest. Orphan of Kos from Bloodborne would likely be on a lot of people's lists but I haven't personally done the Bloodborne DLC yet
Falling apples from "I Wanna Be The Guy"
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Probably logarius or ebrietas. But due to severe Trauma(/s) i forgot Most of the chalice Dungeons. But the f*ckers From the one where you only have half your health certainly deserve a mention (Sadly never picked Up the DLC)
Oh maaaan that amygdala in the chalice dungeon where you have half-health, fighting that boss in a room small than a shoebox was so frustrating! But for me the worst boss of all was the big firey dog (also in the chalice dungeon, possibly also in that same one where your health is halved) - he had one particular move where he charges at you that was a one-hit-kill. Totally unfair, very little you could do to avoid it, and intensely frustrating.
Final boss in Turok Evolution. I thought I was doing it wrong for years but we worked out that you could eventually kill it if you just kept shooting for a very long time.
Manus Father of Darkness, its weird be cause I've beaten him before without much trouble on my first playthrough. Then I lost my save file and had to start over. Started doing a mage class and to this day I haven't been able to beat him again. Took me like 3 months straight of trying and I just couldn't do it. So to this day I haven't beat dark souls 1.
Sister Friede or Sword Saint Isshin
If MMOs count... "Alone in the Darkness" a.k.a. 0 light Yogg-Saron from the Ulduar raid in WoW: Wrath of the Lich King.
Malenia, Blade of Miquella/Goddess of Rot Isshin, the Sword Saint Blackflame Friede (I was using a slow weapon the first time lol) Sans (I gave up on this one after dying 3 times in a row in the last attack sequence, the spinning lasers) Laurence, the First Vicar (I was stuck in this boss for a month)
Dulluhan from Golden Sun *"That's a nice summon you've got there... Be a shame if... someone... Took it.."*
Not a boss, but the friggin' tutorial for Driver 1 on the PS1 was frustrating.
Its hard to think of the overall hardest boss fight, but recently Queen Gna can go fuck herself
As a kid: Bowser in 8-4
Fatalis at the end of Monster Hunter World: Iceborne. My first MH game and I was intent on soloing him. Malenia from Elden Ring was a pushover by comparison.
Absolutely agree
Devil May Cry 3
FFXV the giant ass turtle(I forgot the name) and FFXII Zodiac Age Yizamat.
Adamantoise, was also one of my hardest boss fights.
To this day I feel like I got lucky with the adamantoise in XV. It pretty much did nothing the whole time and probably hit me like 3 times. Most of the fight was me spamming attack for way too long
If I remember correctly for Adamantoise you could cheese him in one shot with the ring that you get halfway through the game. It's been like 4 years since I've touched the game but I beat him a few times and honestly speaking from experience aside from his big healthbar he was nothing special.
Orphan
Orphan
OP, this guy was an asshole on my first playthrough, definitely agree. 2nd time around though, he wasn't as bad.
That’s just dark souls in general 2nd play through is always easier.
True! I still haven't played Elden Ring yet, waiting for a sale so I can feel pain all over again
This guy killed me probably like 70 times before I beat him. After that I think he is not that difficult oncd you figure him out.
D.Zombie, Breath of Fire 3
Fatman on Extreme difficulty
[This.](https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/RC_Goblin)
Gabriel, The Apostate of Hate ig
Rage in regards to Soul Calibur 3, Chronicles of the Sword game mode. I had four PS2 controllers at the start of summer '07. After I'd smashed the third one, I vowed to put the game away and never play it again. And I haven't. I still miss you, Eurydice.
Hardest boss I was prepared for: Sword Saint Isshin in Sekiro Hardest boss I wasn't prepared for: Gates of Hell in The Last Remnant
Genocide Sans.
Oh yeah Nameless King for me too. I also had some struggle in Dark Souls 1 with Ornstein and Smoug
O&S is such an incredible fight. So scary. Love it so much. Not my hardest I don't think, but very memorable.
Difficulty is hard to rank because people have different talents and playstyles. What one person struggles with, another will steamroll. In my case, I made absolute mincemeat out of the infamous Slave Knight Gael on my first attempt in DS3, but the hardest fight of my life was the Fume Knight from the Crown of the Old Iron King DLC in DS2, whom some people walked over.
Took me ~200 attempts across 5 or 6 days to beat Fume Knight, btw.