I think Square's design philosophy with regards to nearly every single turned based FF is essentially; Acts 1 & 2: this is for everyone to jump into and enjoy at their own pace. Fairly light on challenge but not overly hand-holdy. Allows you to explore and expirement with combat if you're so inclined (beyond just attack attack attack) Act 3: we hope you have been paying close attention and taking notes.
Thats most games these days... they teach you mechanics with early easier fights or with puzzles prior to that, then theres a early boss that uses a version of something where that mechanic or skill is put to use, then later bosses mix and match multiple of those mechanics together. I mean even something as novel as "It Takes Two" does this same thing. The puzzles and platforming prior to a boss are teaching you the mechanics/skills to be put to use in the boss fight itself. So if you're actually playing/improving as you go through up to the bosses, its pretty easy to understand what to do FOR the boss. The problem then is in executing those skills/mechanics in either a tighter timing window, in quick succession, etc. I mean, take the rufus fight as an example, its a tough fight sure, but if you're using clouds dodge>attack to do ranged wind slashes with his blade you can pretty easily keep his ATB bar at at least 1 to be able to emergency heal if you mess up the counters enough (skills you should have developed over the course of playing), or use the plethora of materia combos in the game to be able to increase ATB fill rate or just give yourself ATB charges in a pinch (which you should have been doing with all that materia you were picking up and learning to use). I can see him being a cockblock on hardmode since you cant use items and have limited MP effectively... but thats what "hardmode" is about.
Talking about Gears bosses …. That Berserker boss fight in Gears 1 had me snap that Xbox disk and yell obscenities into my neighbourhood! 😡 🤬 … never went back to it! I was 12 or so at the time but failing that berserker fight a million times made me angry for at least a week 😅😅😅
Took me days to beat them, kept leaving and doing other stuff and coming back, sadly didn't find the sleep pot strat so it took sheer will to overcome lol
Omg that fight is too long and makes u restart the entire thing over again if u die, and in NG+ it's even longer, I'd sat up to 10 minutes +. This should be on this list!
Yea....it was frustrating. It was a war of attrition for me. I mostly whittled down the Lord's health little by little using minimumly powered arrows. I never managed to ensnare him with three fully powered arrows simultaneously. Grrrrr.
I swear Square Enix has a fetish for hard boss fights. I played Last Remnant and Bravely default and in some parts the bosses felt like I was a mortal man fighting superman with no kyptonite.
@@DaakkuuYRS BD2 sucks. It's the sequel trilogy of the Bravely series. Please play BD and BS if you get the chance. BD is my favorite JRPG of all time and my 2nd favorite game of all time. BD2 is mid everything with horrid writing, soulless characters, boring dungeons, and insulting combat.
@@PlazDreamweaver I don't have any available method of playing them. First, my 3DS is dead. If it wasn't dead the E-Shop is dead and it means getting the game on overpriced second hand market. Even emulation isn't possible as my laptop can barely run DS games.
They do, the Final Fantasy last bosses are reknown/infamous for being insane hard. Final Fantasy III last boss (Lilith I believe) is a 3 on one fight. One side is inmune to physical damage but weak agaisnt magick. The other side is vice versa and the main body you can hit it with whatever. What makes this fight hard is that each side has one turn and the main body has 2 turns, it can heal and has a few skills that can deal damage to all party members or land critical hits on a single target while also buffing itself or nerfing your team. The game uses the job system and, I couldn't beat the game with anything that wasn't the D&D team composition. Knight, Ninja, Magus, Sage.
Why is this boss so hated?, it's one of the ones complained about that I didn't find that bad and I'm not very good at souls games, still haven't fully beat elden ring... Maliketh and the draconic tree sentinel in the same area was way worse than them...
The Capra demon scared tf outta me when I first passed through the fog idk what they were expecting when they made such a small area for a boss who jumps like lebron with every attack, I finally beat him and threw my controller at the floor after still cause I was pissed they even included that boss in the game lol
Man I wish more people would talk about Bellower from The Banner Saga 1. That boss fight had such a weird, steep AF difficulty spike on literally every difficulty level. I think the devs eventually nerfed it a bit, but man did they take their sweet time doing so.
-Elizabeth from P3. No indication that if you reflect, drain or null an attack she instantly KO's you for it, on top of having to beat her in 50 turns. -Galdera from Octopath. Even with advanced classes, he still makes your characters look like babies. -Absolute Radiance in Hollow Knight, waiting for you after a 45 battle boss rush. I agree with the KH fight but I would put Malenia over Duo because I still have ptsd from waterfowl dance and that is after it was nerfed.
Great stuff like always, gang. I am actually awaiting a surgical consultation to determine whether or not they are going to amputate my finger and possibly my hand or even my arm, so the distraction of friendly familiar videos is helping me through one of the hardest times in my entire life. Thanks for all the great content.
Not to say it's not an annoying fight, it is. But you can pretty reliably dodge the spikes it throws. It's a timing thing and the timing is different for the 2 attacks it has. Dodge roll or hide behind the pillars. Just tried it myself to be sure, as all the RUclips videos about it were useless😅
@@en6173my man, I’m a Tekken veteran and Jinpachi is definitely the hardest final boss in the series. If you’re playing on easy you can cheese the dumb AI but anything above medium, you just need to get lucky that he doesn’t stun you.
Rufus was a pain but I got him on my second or third try (not bragging, he really was a pain in the ass). Have you beat Rebirth yet, because I had a WAY harder time with the finale. Some real BS in the last fight!
He's vulnerable to Triple Slash, it really messes him up especially when his dog is in the arena, also if you land one Braver while he's reloading it will stagger him in one shot, alternatively you can put him to sleep and land Braver for a free stagger. Its a gimmick fight, i'm not a fan either but this strategy make him easy even on Hard Mode, if you fight him again now you know.
@@holdupits420That is at least 2 ng+ worth of that games currency for an average player. In DS, if you die, you drop your currency and have to pick it back up. Add to the fact that Capra Demon is complete BS, let's just say whoever was playing the game in the footage was really tempting fate.
In my first play through of Elden ring I played as a caster I had no idea the Duo was hard I beat them so quickly. I am doing a rerun now in preparation for the expansion as melee and I am excited for them to be a challenge. I’ll likely regret saying that. It is such a great game!!
@@connor7296 I did not use summons nor did I know about the sleep potions. But I was a caster and alot of things felt trivial that likely shouldn’t have. I don’t usually like looking up strategies in my first play through of games just to keep it as spoiler free as possible. The only time I used a summon was Melenia. I could NOT beat her no matter what I tried and I tried her at least 40 times. My BF got her after about 20 tries and he was hardcore no summons he wanted to get it himself, we don’t judge anyone who does it was just how we wanted to do it. This time around I am using all the things. Elden ring is such a great game.
God of war Ragnarok at the end of the game on Muselheim. The queen of the valkyries boss battle was hard for me. It took me like 100 tries to beat her. But I was playing on Normal. But there are definitely some unfair bosses out there
Seriously dude. I gave up on the game for about 6 months then finally lowered the difficulty to easy just for that fight. Got tired of wasting my precious time haha
Hard bosses and unfair is completely different. All these bosses in the list were unfair by design and had bullshit mechanics that made the fight mostly RNG.
@@mitchellcarter2799 I would argue that boss is pretty unfair. The problem is just the way it's animated. Their attacks are intentionally unnatural. They're often super slow on the wind up, and then when the actual attack comes it's so fast you can't even see it. And the parry timing is very unforgiving.
I just finished Rebirth, and even though Rufus was hard, it’s the finale I found just flat out frustrating and unfair. No spoilers, but the ending is a gauntlet boss rush and has multiple unskippable cut scenes. If you die you start over and have to fight several multi-phase bosses again and again. Then the actual FINAL boss has a BS mode once you get them down to the last sliver of health, and just throws everything they have at you. I was pissed. I literally just beat it a few minutes ago, so it’s still a fresh wound.
Yeah, that whole thing just seemed to go on forever, and that last part? Please. I think I actually started to insult the developers' ancestors at that point. I can't wait to start my second playthrough.
the way I figured out back in the day against Jinpachi Mishima was remaping the R1 and R2 button to move in the Z plane, that was for me the only way to dodge those freaking lasers, I know you can move that direction softly taping the down or up arrow but as Jake said, the gap for dodging was to tight.
Thanks for the video. Good topic. If you cannot beat a boss after a certain number of tries, I think it's totally fair to "cheese" it if possible. Especially if you've left the game for a while, come back and are still unable to beat said boss. If the alternative is to get so frustrated that you stop playing the game, then why not?
I'm playing Sonic Frontiers, or at least I was until I got stuck on the second boss. The flying asshole that you have to parry to attack? Not sure if it's a glitch but he stopped even doing that attack so I run out of rings and then have to spend the next 10 minutes getting back to that point only for him to do the same thing. SUUUUUCKS
When thinking of "unfair", the Dahaka from Prince Of Persia comes to mind. His attacks can range from 5% to 90% of your health (depending on the difficulty), and he has a move where he shoots tentacles out of the ground, on completely random places. Dodging them feels more like luck than skill. Oh yeah, did I mention he regenerates 70% of his health twice during the battle? Dude is a monster. Literally. Only way I ever beat him was either: playing the games on easy mode, or lose 20 times until he's nerved to oblivion.
oh, you reminded me of Oblivion, the next-to-last boss in Turok 3! he has a strange trick where he's invincible except when attacking, (i think), AND he recovers 50% of his health once if you are playing on normal difficulty, and twice on Hard! one good point: occasionally he will become "stunned" or "out of breath", and sit in place panting though his weird mouth, and THEN you can de extra damage IF you shoot him IN that mouth. i have no idea what can trigger that...with one exception: IF you manage to find all 6 parts of the secret "black hole gun", (or whatever it was called) then you can stun him with THAT for sure!
Majima and Saijima in Yakuza Like A Dragon (Yakuza 7) i had to grind from Level 53 to 60 to beat them buggers (but hey at least Receive You The Hyperactive was a banger Game Over theme song :'D)
Yakuza 7 has really shitty difficulty spike indeed. The real issue is the final boss, which has OHKO move, and he does on a random character. If he chooses Ichiban you lose as Y7 has the stupid idea that if the MC lose, you lose the fight. So it is up to luck. I got lucky and he chose Saeko but it is just so unfair.
Ichiban has a skill that allows him to survive the attack; and for the others, I used an item or something I don’t remember the name. It’s been a while since I played the game, but you just need to cheese the boss’ cheese attack 😂
glad you included yunalesca. I replayed FFX recently and I forgot how frustrating that fight was. Zombie is so annoying to manage, especially when you need to keep it on certain characters!
For me, A good boss fight is one where you're not doing an iInterpretive dance number, and you're able to use different moves abilities and options. When you're stuck having to do the same two step strat on bosses. That's how the game becomes boring and unplayable. This is why I say Castlevania Lords of shadow is objectively worse than Dante's Inferno (2010). C:LoS constantly forced you to use less and less moves as the games went on with boss fights. So you could unlock all these badass combos just to have them be useless by the end of the game. Compare that to DI (2010) you got a combo it works for the ENTIRE game. You get a move, it works on EVERY boss. You got to play the game with whatever ability you liked, and whatever strat you wanted. Which is objectively fun.
They taught us how to fight Rufus in Remake - also a 1v1/1v2. I'm not sure why so many seemed to struggle with him this time around, in particular. It was the same gimmick.
Psycho Mantis in MGS1. No internet to tell you that you HAVE to unplug your controller and put it controller slot 2 to beat him. As a young kid that battle was so frustrating and when I finally learned the secret (GamePro magazine) I literally yelled “WHAT!?!” so loud that everyone in Walmart stopped and stared at me.
reminds me of a simple strategy i found for beating Shao Kahn in Mk3. just crouch and wait for him to do a upward slide. the tricky part is that you musn't BLOCK when he does that attack, you you will get knocked back! there's one interesting exception: Striker! he has a smaller hitbox when crouching than any other character!
The difficulty of the Godskin fights can vary a lot depending on your build, though that's true for several boss fights. I had a Dex/Arcane build during my first three play throughs so I was able to do significant damage to their health and I didn't need sleep items or summons, but the version of the Noble in the Spiritcaller Cave gave me a lot of trouble because he is immune to bleeds (being a spirit) and there are no pillars to block his fat rolling. I had to learn to dodge it which can be difficult since his hit boxes aren't the easiest to ascertain. What's really annoying is that you can stun him out of the fatroll but as soon as he recovers he jumps right back into it so you're not shortening its length or being given much opportunity to punish.
The twin crucible knight optional boss was way harder than the godskin duo in elden ring. I think a lot of people just skipped that dungeon but you had to master parrying to beat them.
Not really. That's one strategy but I beat those two without parrying even once. I'm not saying they're not hard or annoying by any means - I HATE those two and they come up at the end of an already hard dungeon so they suck even more. I also think godskins are heavily overrated for difficulty by a lot of people but even so, I can't bring myself to agree that the two crucible knights are objectively harder than them.
Same and I want to know because the newer ones look cool and I want to play them and get into it and I want to understand all the lore. So hopefully someone answers 😂
@@MrNeverDrownFinal fantasy remake and rebirth if you like 3D stuff like me if want 2D too then play all and then Final fantasy 15 it's very good too has one of the most huge side boss aka a mountain size turtle 🐢
Sonic06 actually had some decent bosses and Silver's not actually that hard once you figure out that he has no defense against you sliding into it, if you homing attack him all the time he'll grab you easily but if you slide into him that won't happen, it also helps to focus the camera on him at all times so you can tell when he's vulnerable after he just finishes throwing stuff at you.
Glad to see Rufus Shinra. I struggled so much with him until I tried using the special attack shortcuts (L1+??). That extra split second you save not using the atb menu makes all the difference.
The biggest problem with all dark souls games (and Elden Ring) is that any attack, no matter how insignificant, ruins your action, you can have on some insanely high poise armor, and still every single pebble thrown at you from literally anything in the room (looking at you, stupid imps) will stop attacks, heals, throws, special attacks, etc. while you can’t do the same to the boss you’re fighting. If they want to poise through they absolutely will
Abyss & Night Terror from Soulcalibur III should've made this list, they're far *quicker* than they should be, as in, a lot of their *slowest* can interrupt a lot of your *fastest* attacks, they've both got attacks that're as fast as their *normal* attacks & are *unblockable* , & if you thought input *reading* was bad, they both actually *transfer* your grab inputs to *them* so that instead of you grabbing & throwing them like *should* happen, *they* grab & throw *you* ! & Night Terror's even *worse* about being unfair than Abyss because at least Abyss largely sticks to the *ground* & it's actually *possible* to ring him out; but Night Terror, oh no; he has this *ridiculously* powerful laser shooting attack he flies into the *air* to perform, putting him outta the reach of *most* attacks (even Infernos *ridiculous* charging spin blade move doesn't do that), & if you manage to knock him outta the ring, he just flies right back up! Given all that, I'm surprised the two of them didn't even get a *mention* in this list!
I was gonna scream if you didnt include the hooded figure from birth by sleep, trying to fight him, on proud mode, especially in aquas story, it was absolute hell..
Honestly shocked that Annihilation from Remnant 2 didn't make this list. It's a fight that's so absurdly punishing and over-the-top that you need pure RNG to beat it. And don't even get me started with doing it on Apocalypse difficulty. Took me weeks.
I can never watch your list videos that involve bosses or plot out of fear for spoilers (which tends to happen exactly as I fear). Is it too much to ask for timestamps to include the name of the game you’ll be talking about, instead of just numbers 1-10? 😢
Maybe you could show some love for VR on this channel "Top 10 Underrated VR games" or "10 Vr games that could convert flat gamers to Vr, like Half Life Alyx, Red Matter 2, Lone Echo etc ". Would be great to see a big channel like this help to raise awareness for the platform.
I think tears of the kingdom ganondorf where he not only summons dupes of himself to keep your mages distracted he also breaks the health bar with it growing larger than any other boss that combined with the fact he can just take hearts away makes him the hardest Nintendo boss I’ve ever faced
The godskin duo wouldn't be a bad fight if it was just two, but it's three and a half. They feel like they were supposed to end with a duo fight, but by the time the player gets there, they are so overleveled they needed to up the difficulty with the three and a half gimmick.
1. Twin demon princes-Dark Souls 3 Ringed City DLC 2. Lubu- Dynasty Warriors 3 3. Nightmare- Devil May Cry 4. Keeper- Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 Der Eisendrache (current patch) 5. Sephiroth- Kingdom Hearts 2 6. Dragon God- Demon Souls 7. Nightmare King Grimm- Hollow Knight 8. Wrath(2nd encounter)- Darksiders 3 9. Gaul- The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night 10. General Leang- Command and Conquer: Generals: Zero Hour Honorable mention. The 2 white knights at the end of path of pain in hollow knight
Talking about Gears bosses …. That Berserker boss fight in Gears 1 had me snap that Xbox disk and yell obscenities into my neighbourhood! 😡 🤬 … never went back to it! I was 12 or so at the time but failing that berserker fight a million times made me angry for at least a week 😅😅😅
Lawrence the first vicar from bloodborne. This guy was extremely extremely tough for me. I usually don't have problem with bosses in bloodborne, but that guy, is something else. Even with the highest flame protection, this guy still hits like a truck. He was a pain in the ass for me
#9 reminds me of a lot of the Hunters in the Halo games...except that they always came in pairs. #6 i heard the the trick with Silver is to avoid him until he picks up a chair or table. BUT, i've also heard that it's possible for him to trap you in an endless loop, where he slams you into a wall, you pick up one ring, he slams you again, ENDLESSLY, until/unless you turn the game off!
Also if you know the game and play it by getting many of the early op weapons he’s a cake walk. But when new players who go through it without master key or collecting weapons in intended order he is an absolute hell hole.
When I was a kid, I played through Legend of Legia on the PS1 a few times. About a third of the way through the game, you fight a Minotaur boss (I think his name was Xan?). The fight was so hard and I lost so many times, I thought that it was scripted and I was missing something in the dungeon leading to him. Nope, he was just OP. Most bosses in that game ended up being like that though.
• Kaiser Knuckle’s hidden boss: General. Made to be unfair • Magical Drop III’s Black Pierrot secret stage. Instant tp to useful bubbles. • Art of Fighting 2’s Geese Howard
Would be cool if when you killed Godskins separately they didn't appear in Farum Azula but if you don't previously then you'd have to fight them in the end.wether its just one or both.
Myrkul the Lord of bones from Baldur's Gate 3, should definitely be on the list. He's basically a surprise encounter, does hella damage, has multiple henchman that can heal him, hitting him can be difficult and the list goes on
I've never understood the godskin duo uproar. I've died to them once in my 8+ playthroughs. Difficult for sure, but nowhere near as bad as other boss fights in the game. I also learned today they're vulnerable to sleep so easy cheese too 🤷♂
My worst Boss experience is Orphan of Cos new game plus 7 from Bloodborne. Tried about 200 or 300 times and gave up in the end sadly. What makes the boss fight so difficult is that the guy can do fly attack in his second form. You can't fly in the game so good luck with that xD
Yeah even though I managed to solo all the other Bloodborne fights and found them extremely hard, Orphan of Cos and Maria I had to get summon help for. Maria I think I could have learned if I'd had the patience, and her attacks are cool, but Cos is just really annoying.
Gna from God of War Ragnarok was brutal. I eventually beat her with rage build armor and amulet was about gaining rage quickly then go spartan on her until my R1 finger cramped. Runic was the ones with shortest animations because she could interrupt runic attacks during the attack animation even if she was taking damage.
Not a boss fight but the arena challenge in Horizon Forbidden west is unfairly hard. You have to pay for it using your ingame currency, you have to defeat the machines within the time limit. If you fail to do it, you get nothing and the challenge is not cleared. The arena is a small and cramped place and the machines are somehow more aggressive than they're in the wild. A lot of people suggested to lower the difficulty as there are some legendary equipments you can get from the medals.
For me, one of the worst bosses i fought was good 'ol U3. Add awkward controls to the fight and you got yourself a proper RE boss. Even in VR, I still struggled with this boss.
Capra Demon for sure. My personal pick for Unfair Boss is Megaman Bettle Network 5's final boss, Nebula Grey. The problem is that half the time, you can't hurt him because the health crystal is literally off-screen. The other problem is that his attacks are all randomized AoE attacks. Makes for a very frustrating boss in a game where the combat is so simple.
I still have painful memories of Goro (MK1) and Shao Kahn (UMK3 & MK Trilogy) kicking my ass over & over as a kid. Then when I got slightly older, Seth from Street Fighter IV did it all over again. That's probably why I don't play fighting games anymore 😅
I always dreaded two Ninja Gaiden bosses on Xbox: Alma and the 2 tanks fight. I remember they were so frustrating, and the Alma fight had another irritating cutscene. Now I kinda want to replay it lol
Honestly a boss I found unfair was the Shriek boss in Ori and The Will of The Wisps when it destroys the entire platform and your're forced to bounce off of the attacks it throws at you while also avoiding the hailstorm of the same attacks and if you fall you die, I found it especially hard when there were no hailstorm things close enough to bounce off of and you have no choice but to fall and redo that part again.
Fun fact the Godskins weren't supposed to be weak to the sleep pots. As soon as you put one to sleep the other is supposed to immediately wake him up but there's a glitch or bug that prevents it from happening. If you fight them in another area you'll see it happen
I think a lot of times it can come down to play styles, too. Personally, the Godskin Duo fight was quite easy for me, and I didn't even know about their vulnerability to sleep effects. On the flip side, Alecto killed me nearly as many times as Malenia.
I was enjoying Blasphemous 2 until I ran into Eviterno. I simply don't have the patience to go through that dull and long first phase every time to learn all the intricacies of the second phase and get killed a dozen time along the way. Straight up killed the game for me. And this is coming from someone who loves and beats this type of game regularly.
Would like to see a list of gimmicky boss fights that worked well and was genuinely fun and innovative
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Rykard has to be there
Psycho Mantis in the original MGS?
@@sottonkMiss that.
Super Shredder. TMNT circa 1989
I think Square's design philosophy with regards to nearly every single turned based FF is essentially;
Acts 1 & 2: this is for everyone to jump into and enjoy at their own pace. Fairly light on challenge but not overly hand-holdy. Allows you to explore and expirement with combat if you're so inclined (beyond just attack attack attack)
Act 3: we hope you have been paying close attention and taking notes.
Thats most games these days... they teach you mechanics with early easier fights or with puzzles prior to that, then theres a early boss that uses a version of something where that mechanic or skill is put to use, then later bosses mix and match multiple of those mechanics together.
I mean even something as novel as "It Takes Two" does this same thing. The puzzles and platforming prior to a boss are teaching you the mechanics/skills to be put to use in the boss fight itself. So if you're actually playing/improving as you go through up to the bosses, its pretty easy to understand what to do FOR the boss. The problem then is in executing those skills/mechanics in either a tighter timing window, in quick succession, etc.
I mean, take the rufus fight as an example, its a tough fight sure, but if you're using clouds dodge>attack to do ranged wind slashes with his blade you can pretty easily keep his ATB bar at at least 1 to be able to emergency heal if you mess up the counters enough (skills you should have developed over the course of playing), or use the plethora of materia combos in the game to be able to increase ATB fill rate or just give yourself ATB charges in a pinch (which you should have been doing with all that materia you were picking up and learning to use). I can see him being a cockblock on hardmode since you cant use items and have limited MP effectively... but thats what "hardmode" is about.
“Gameranx posted 3 new videos” you know youre in for a good day.
Same
That’s to make up for the short Friday news update
Did they?? I only see two
Plus Wrestlemania on today
Talking about Gears bosses …. That Berserker boss fight in Gears 1 had me snap that Xbox disk and yell obscenities into my neighbourhood! 😡 🤬 … never went back to it! I was 12 or so at the time but failing that berserker fight a million times made me angry for at least a week 😅😅😅
I was about to call it quits on the Godskins, until a kind soul told me about sleep pots.
a mimic level 8-10 also does the job.
You're lucky, I was complaining that they took me nearly 2 straight hrs to defeat and my friend said "Why didn't you just use sleep pots?"
I raged 😂
Was this kind soul perchance *dark* ?
Sword of St. Trina
Took me days to beat them, kept leaving and doing other stuff and coming back, sadly didn't find the sleep pot strat so it took sheer will to overcome lol
An honorable, or dishonorable mention would be the final boss in Clock Tower 3. I almost threw my PS2 in the trash over that one.
Omg that fight is too long and makes u restart the entire thing over again if u die, and in NG+ it's even longer, I'd sat up to 10 minutes +. This should be on this list!
unrelated but Jake sounds like he’s low on T 😂
Yea....it was frustrating. It was a war of attrition for me. I mostly whittled down the Lord's health little by little using minimumly powered arrows.
I never managed to ensnare him with three fully powered arrows simultaneously. Grrrrr.
I swear Square Enix has a fetish for hard boss fights. I played Last Remnant and Bravely default and in some parts the bosses felt like I was a mortal man fighting superman with no kyptonite.
Bravely Default 2 has the archtype of two bosses that heals each other on the freakinf first boss. While it wasn't hard, at the first boss? really?
@@DaakkuuYRS BD2 sucks. It's the sequel trilogy of the Bravely series. Please play BD and BS if you get the chance. BD is my favorite JRPG of all time and my 2nd favorite game of all time. BD2 is mid everything with horrid writing, soulless characters, boring dungeons, and insulting combat.
@@PlazDreamweaver I don't have any available method of playing them. First, my 3DS is dead. If it wasn't dead the E-Shop is dead and it means getting the game on overpriced second hand market. Even emulation isn't possible as my laptop can barely run DS games.
They do, the Final Fantasy last bosses are reknown/infamous for being insane hard.
Final Fantasy III last boss (Lilith I believe) is a 3 on one fight.
One side is inmune to physical damage but weak agaisnt magick.
The other side is vice versa and the main body you can hit it with whatever.
What makes this fight hard is that each side has one turn and the main body has 2 turns, it can heal and has a few skills that can deal damage to all party members or land critical hits on a single target while also buffing itself or nerfing your team.
The game uses the job system and, I couldn't beat the game with anything that wasn't the D&D team composition.
Knight, Ninja, Magus, Sage.
@@PlazDreamweaverno one's talking to you boykid
"Let Me Solo Her" remains the Robin Hood needed for Devs to be humbled.
it's just drivel mate! you're speaking yapense
So Godskin Duo is pretty much "What if we did Smough and Ornstein, but suck out all the fun."
I'unno, with my mimic it wasn't so hard.
git gud
Why is this boss so hated?, it's one of the ones complained about that I didn't find that bad and I'm not very good at souls games, still haven't fully beat elden ring... Maliketh and the draconic tree sentinel in the same area was way worse than them...
Double Gargoyles I found tougher
those guys are easy. Just use your katanas and not a slow clunky two handed weapon. also the gargoyles can kiss may ass. They SUCK!
The Capra demon scared tf outta me when I first passed through the fog idk what they were expecting when they made such a small area for a boss who jumps like lebron with every attack, I finally beat him and threw my controller at the floor after still cause I was pissed they even included that boss in the game lol
Man I wish more people would talk about Bellower from The Banner Saga 1. That boss fight had such a weird, steep AF difficulty spike on literally every difficulty level. I think the devs eventually nerfed it a bit, but man did they take their sweet time doing so.
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The first time i faced it, i started a new save to see if i missed something dueing the story cause i just kept losing against it
Yeah I remember just surviving that one … just … I think it was just one spear man left and I just went all in and poked him!
I thought you were supposed to lose as part of the story, it was so unexpectedly hard!
-Elizabeth from P3. No indication that if you reflect, drain or null an attack she instantly KO's you for it, on top of having to beat her in 50 turns.
-Galdera from Octopath. Even with advanced classes, he still makes your characters look like babies.
-Absolute Radiance in Hollow Knight, waiting for you after a 45 battle boss rush.
I agree with the KH fight but I would put Malenia over Duo because I still have ptsd from waterfowl dance and that is after it was nerfed.
malenia would be fine if it wasn't for that GOD AWFUL lifesteal. Everything else I can get behind but that lifesteal is THE worst.
Great stuff like always, gang. I am actually awaiting a surgical consultation to determine whether or not they are going to amputate my finger and possibly my hand or even my arm, so the distraction of friendly familiar videos is helping me through one of the hardest times in my entire life. Thanks for all the great content.
That matriarch boss, holy Christ, it’s such a long fight and the damn spikes she throws at you are heat seeking missiles that NEVER miss, it’s insane
@_Cinenerd_Clearly they are, or at least some of them, or you wouldn't be here, would you?
Not to say it's not an annoying fight, it is. But you can pretty reliably dodge the spikes it throws.
It's a timing thing and the timing is different for the 2 attacks it has. Dodge roll or hide behind the pillars.
Just tried it myself to be sure, as all the RUclips videos about it were useless😅
I didn't have that much trouble with her compared to the Berserker fight from the first game on 360.
Git gud
honestly it took me so damn long and i hated it so much, i bet many never completed Gears 5 because of it
i remember playing tekken 5 a lot when i was younger,was stuck on the jinpachi boss fight for a very long time,what a rush when i defeated him
That’s the only NA Release I did not play.
Jinpachi wasn’t that hard. If you don’t know how to play Tekken properly, then sure.
@@en6173 who’s your main(s)?
@@JayRacer I’m a Nina/Anna player.
@@en6173my man, I’m a Tekken veteran and Jinpachi is definitely the hardest final boss in the series. If you’re playing on easy you can cheese the dumb AI but anything above medium, you just need to get lucky that he doesn’t stun you.
I spent like two hours bashing my head against a wall in that Rufus battle. The only thing that kept me from giving up was sheer stubbornness.
Rufus was a pain but I got him on my second or third try (not bragging, he really was a pain in the ass). Have you beat Rebirth yet, because I had a WAY harder time with the finale. Some real BS in the last fight!
He's vulnerable to Triple Slash, it really messes him up especially when his dog is in the arena, also if you land one Braver while he's reloading it will stagger him in one shot, alternatively you can put him to sleep and land Braver for a free stagger.
Its a gimmick fight, i'm not a fan either but this strategy make him easy even on Hard Mode, if you fight him again now you know.
We will just not mention the fact that whoever was playing at 10:44 had 940 million runes😂
What does it mean
Dawg I saw that lmao homie was playing a dangerous game 😂
@@holdupits420That is at least 2 ng+ worth of that games currency for an average player. In DS, if you die, you drop your currency and have to pick it back up. Add to the fact that Capra Demon is complete BS, let's just say whoever was playing the game in the footage was really tempting fate.
In Dark Souls 1 its souls not runes 😅
its done with the cheat engine
In my first play through of Elden ring I played as a caster I had no idea the Duo was hard I beat them so quickly. I am doing a rerun now in preparation for the expansion as melee and I am excited for them to be a challenge. I’ll likely regret saying that. It is such a great game!!
They're only difficult if you don't summon. Even then they're also only difficult if you don't use sleep pots
@@connor7296 I did not use summons nor did I know about the sleep potions. But I was a caster and alot of things felt trivial that likely shouldn’t have. I don’t usually like looking up strategies in my first play through of games just to keep it as spoiler free as possible. The only time I used a summon was Melenia. I could NOT beat her no matter what I tried and I tried her at least 40 times. My BF got her after about 20 tries and he was hardcore no summons he wanted to get it himself, we don’t judge anyone who does it was just how we wanted to do it. This time around I am using all the things. Elden ring is such a great game.
God of war Ragnarok at the end of the game on Muselheim. The queen of the valkyries boss battle was hard for me. It took me like 100 tries to beat her. But I was playing on Normal. But there are definitely some unfair bosses out there
Seriously dude. I gave up on the game for about 6 months then finally lowered the difficulty to easy just for that fight. Got tired of wasting my precious time haha
Hard bosses and unfair is completely different. All these bosses in the list were unfair by design and had bullshit mechanics that made the fight mostly RNG.
@@mitchellcarter2799 I would argue that boss is pretty unfair. The problem is just the way it's animated. Their attacks are intentionally unnatural. They're often super slow on the wind up, and then when the actual attack comes it's so fast you can't even see it. And the parry timing is very unforgiving.
I max leveled and beat the berserker boss first so she wasn't dat hard tho I did Lower the difficulty for them lol
Bosses that have thugs doing the heavy work absolutely SUCK.
I just finished Rebirth, and even though Rufus was hard, it’s the finale I found just flat out frustrating and unfair. No spoilers, but the ending is a gauntlet boss rush and has multiple unskippable cut scenes. If you die you start over and have to fight several multi-phase bosses again and again. Then the actual FINAL boss has a BS mode once you get them down to the last sliver of health, and just throws everything they have at you. I was pissed. I literally just beat it a few minutes ago, so it’s still a fresh wound.
Yeah, that whole thing just seemed to go on forever, and that last part? Please. I think I actually started to insult the developers' ancestors at that point.
I can't wait to start my second playthrough.
Beat last month, can't remember 😂
The re4 double blind guys got me so bad in professional difficulty for hours 😭
@JG-MV yea after like two hours I got past it
Rest for the game was easy for me
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@@dansmith16 I was not spending 160 k on that
the way I figured out back in the day against Jinpachi Mishima was remaping the R1 and R2 button to move in the Z plane, that was for me the only way to dodge those freaking lasers, I know you can move that direction softly taping the down or up arrow but as Jake said, the gap for dodging was to tight.
You could also quickly double tap up or down for side steps.
Thanks for the video. Good topic. If you cannot beat a boss after a certain number of tries, I think it's totally fair to "cheese" it if possible. Especially if you've left the game for a while, come back and are still unable to beat said boss. If the alternative is to get so frustrated that you stop playing the game, then why not?
The alternative is get good
OMG I CANT BELIEVE YOU BROUGHT UP SILVER SONIC. I LITERALLY NEVER BEAT THAT GAME AS A KID BECAUSE OF THAT FIGHT
I'm playing Sonic Frontiers, or at least I was until I got stuck on the second boss. The flying asshole that you have to parry to attack? Not sure if it's a glitch but he stopped even doing that attack so I run out of rings and then have to spend the next 10 minutes getting back to that point only for him to do the same thing. SUUUUUCKS
Gameranx. My happy place.
@_Cinenerd_ & no one cares F off
@_Cinenerd_who asked?
@_Cinenerd_ Then, here's a thought, don't click on videos about video games. Simples.
When thinking of "unfair", the Dahaka from Prince Of Persia comes to mind. His attacks can range from 5% to 90% of your health (depending on the difficulty), and he has a move where he shoots tentacles out of the ground, on completely random places. Dodging them feels more like luck than skill. Oh yeah, did I mention he regenerates 70% of his health twice during the battle? Dude is a monster. Literally. Only way I ever beat him was either: playing the games on easy mode, or lose 20 times until he's nerved to oblivion.
oh, you reminded me of Oblivion, the next-to-last boss in Turok 3!
he has a strange trick where he's invincible except when attacking, (i think), AND he recovers 50% of his health once if you are playing on normal difficulty, and twice on Hard!
one good point: occasionally he will become "stunned" or "out of breath", and sit in place panting though his weird mouth, and THEN you can de extra damage IF you shoot him IN that mouth.
i have no idea what can trigger that...with one exception:
IF you manage to find all 6 parts of the secret "black hole gun", (or whatever it was called) then you can stun him with THAT for sure!
Starting the video with a cutscene of Melenia. Perfection!
Everyone knows that us gamers are chronic masochists.
Can we take a moment to appreciate how absolutely banger of a track the Sans fight is set to?! Gets me pumped every time I hear it.
"Can we take a moment to..."
There's like.. hours of videos on youtube appreciating exactly this. I think I'm good.
Majima and Saijima in Yakuza Like A Dragon (Yakuza 7) i had to grind from Level 53 to 60 to beat them buggers (but hey at least Receive You The Hyperactive was a banger Game Over theme song :'D)
Yakuza 7 has really shitty difficulty spike indeed. The real issue is the final boss, which has OHKO move, and he does on a random character. If he chooses Ichiban you lose as Y7 has the stupid idea that if the MC lose, you lose the fight. So it is up to luck. I got lucky and he chose Saeko but it is just so unfair.
Ichiban has a skill that allows him to survive the attack; and for the others, I used an item or something I don’t remember the name. It’s been a while since I played the game, but you just need to cheese the boss’ cheese attack 😂
Ah, the good on golden tower and it's cheapness, legendary difficulty just makes the pain even more 😢😢
glad you included yunalesca. I replayed FFX recently and I forgot how frustrating that fight was. Zombie is so annoying to manage, especially when you need to keep it on certain characters!
For me, A good boss fight is one where you're not doing an iInterpretive dance number, and you're able to use different moves abilities and options. When you're stuck having to do the same two step strat on bosses. That's how the game becomes boring and unplayable.
This is why I say Castlevania Lords of shadow is objectively worse than Dante's Inferno (2010). C:LoS constantly forced you to use less and less moves as the games went on with boss fights. So you could unlock all these badass combos just to have them be useless by the end of the game. Compare that to DI (2010) you got a combo it works for the ENTIRE game. You get a move, it works on EVERY boss. You got to play the game with whatever ability you liked, and whatever strat you wanted. Which is objectively fun.
They taught us how to fight Rufus in Remake - also a 1v1/1v2. I'm not sure why so many seemed to struggle with him this time around, in particular. It was the same gimmick.
I pretty much have the cutscenes before fighting Yunaleseca memorized as I had to sit through them so many times.
Psycho Mantis in MGS1. No internet to tell you that you HAVE to unplug your controller and put it controller slot 2 to beat him. As a young kid that battle was so frustrating and when I finally learned the secret (GamePro magazine) I literally yelled “WHAT!?!” so loud that everyone in Walmart stopped and stared at me.
Shoutout to that one Knight guarding Malekith in Elden Ring.
Yeah he's a jerk. Infinite fireballs unless you stand next to him.
Shao Khan in MK9 and before I knew how to beat The End in MGS3 Snake Eater
I still refuse to go back and replay MK9 because of how cheap Shao Khan is.
@@iamskyfall just jump back behind him when he attacks and hit him with upper cut. works like a charm.😁
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reminds me of a simple strategy i found for beating Shao Kahn in Mk3.
just crouch and wait for him to do a upward slide.
the tricky part is that you musn't BLOCK when he does that attack, you you will get knocked back!
there's one interesting exception: Striker! he has a smaller hitbox when crouching than any other character!
9:26 Huh, those are some old Soviet arcade machines.
"Lucky Shot", "Safari", "Overtake", "Sniper 2", "Torpedo Attack"
The difficulty of the Godskin fights can vary a lot depending on your build, though that's true for several boss fights. I had a Dex/Arcane build during my first three play throughs so I was able to do significant damage to their health and I didn't need sleep items or summons, but the version of the Noble in the Spiritcaller Cave gave me a lot of trouble because he is immune to bleeds (being a spirit) and there are no pillars to block his fat rolling. I had to learn to dodge it which can be difficult since his hit boxes aren't the easiest to ascertain. What's really annoying is that you can stun him out of the fatroll but as soon as he recovers he jumps right back into it so you're not shortening its length or being given much opportunity to punish.
The first penitant from blasphemous 2 is insanee
2 Gameranx videos in one day?
WE WINNING
Rufus fight was actually amazing. I loved how fast paced it was and how small the opportunity to attack was.
The twin crucible knight optional boss was way harder than the godskin duo in elden ring. I think a lot of people just skipped that dungeon but you had to master parrying to beat them.
Not really. That's one strategy but I beat those two without parrying even once.
I'm not saying they're not hard or annoying by any means - I HATE those two and they come up at the end of an already hard dungeon so they suck even more. I also think godskins are heavily overrated for difficulty by a lot of people but even so, I can't bring myself to agree that the two crucible knights are objectively harder than them.
The alpha hunter duo in halo infinite was infuriating
I don’t remember anything about that game being hard lbs
@@Easymoneysniper5 on legendary my ass raged more than once
I haven’t played any Final Fantasy games, what is the best one for beginners to play?
7 or 10 but you can emulate 1,2,3 and 4 with PSP emulation.
Same and I want to know because the newer ones look cool and I want to play them and get into it and I want to understand all the lore. So hopefully someone answers 😂
7, 8, 9, 10, 10x2 & 12
@@MrNeverDrownFinal fantasy remake and rebirth if you like 3D stuff like me if want 2D too then play all and then Final fantasy 15 it's very good too has one of the most huge side boss aka a mountain size turtle 🐢
@@jaydeebow6431Thanks, I have been hearing good things about Final Fantasy 7
Sonic06 actually had some decent bosses and Silver's not actually that hard once you figure out that he has no defense against you sliding into it, if you homing attack him all the time he'll grab you easily but if you slide into him that won't happen, it also helps to focus the camera on him at all times so you can tell when he's vulnerable after he just finishes throwing stuff at you.
Glad to see Rufus Shinra. I struggled so much with him until I tried using the special attack shortcuts (L1+??). That extra split second you save not using the atb menu makes all the difference.
I haven’t even watched the vid and I’m pretty sure the boss is from sekiro or a souls game
Glock saint ishhin
@_Cinenerd_I see your either a bot or trying to troll… if by 0.001% chance your real I’ll just ask why are you still on this vid then?
I don't feel like Sekiro has any unfair boss fights
@@REHEHEHEEH0it’s a bot 100% that’s the only thing it commented in its history
The doom DLC pissed me off the whole time and didn’t enjoy it at all 😂
Detlaff in Witcher 3 Blood and Wine.
The bats are really the only thing you need to worry about, other than that the fights pretty easy
Detlaff is easy
@@bernardoheusi6146 very
The biggest problem with all dark souls games (and Elden Ring) is that any attack, no matter how insignificant, ruins your action, you can have on some insanely high poise armor, and still every single pebble thrown at you from literally anything in the room (looking at you, stupid imps) will stop attacks, heals, throws, special attacks, etc. while you can’t do the same to the boss you’re fighting. If they want to poise through they absolutely will
I've never been lucky enough to face any of these bosses, but there have definitely been a few times I've raged on boss battles.
Yall fast lmao
@_Cinenerd_ Didn't Asked!!!
I didn’t even watch yet but I feel like the valkyrie queen will be included
Yeah Rufus can be tedious, but if you are patient, attack him in the reload phase, then he will be much easier
Love you guys!!! Hope all is going good for the team
Abyss & Night Terror from Soulcalibur III should've made this list, they're far *quicker* than they should be, as in, a lot of their *slowest* can interrupt a lot of your *fastest* attacks, they've both got attacks that're as fast as their *normal* attacks & are *unblockable* , & if you thought input *reading* was bad, they both actually *transfer* your grab inputs to *them* so that instead of you grabbing & throwing them like *should* happen, *they* grab & throw *you* ! & Night Terror's even *worse* about being unfair than Abyss because at least Abyss largely sticks to the *ground* & it's actually *possible* to ring him out; but Night Terror, oh no; he has this *ridiculously* powerful laser shooting attack he flies into the *air* to perform, putting him outta the reach of *most* attacks (even Infernos *ridiculous* charging spin blade move doesn't do that), & if you manage to knock him outta the ring, he just flies right back up! Given all that, I'm surprised the two of them didn't even get a *mention* in this list!
I was gonna scream if you didnt include the hooded figure from birth by sleep, trying to fight him, on proud mode, especially in aquas story, it was absolute hell..
You can bring an NPC to the fight by entering it from the other door. Split attention makes it a lot easier.
Honestly shocked that Annihilation from Remnant 2 didn't make this list. It's a fight that's so absurdly punishing and over-the-top that you need pure RNG to beat it. And don't even get me started with doing it on Apocalypse difficulty. Took me weeks.
Any post moon lord calamity infernum boss, some take 100 hours alone to beat
@_Cinenerd_ Then what are you doing here?
I can never watch your list videos that involve bosses or plot out of fear for spoilers (which tends to happen exactly as I fear). Is it too much to ask for timestamps to include the name of the game you’ll be talking about, instead of just numbers 1-10? 😢
Maybe you could show some love for VR on this channel "Top 10 Underrated VR games" or "10 Vr games that could convert flat gamers to Vr, like Half Life Alyx, Red Matter 2, Lone Echo etc ". Would be great to see a big channel like this help to raise awareness for the platform.
I think tears of the kingdom ganondorf where he not only summons dupes of himself to keep your mages distracted he also breaks the health bar with it growing larger than any other boss that combined with the fact he can just take hearts away makes him the hardest Nintendo boss I’ve ever faced
I’m currently playing the surge 2. Fantastically fun combat, the bosses in that game have come to make my question life itself
The godskin duo wouldn't be a bad fight if it was just two, but it's three and a half. They feel like they were supposed to end with a duo fight, but by the time the player gets there, they are so overleveled they needed to up the difficulty with the three and a half gimmick.
The Ancient Gods Pt. 1 was brutal. I finished it, but has to be one of the toughest DLC/ game I’ve ever played.
I was shocked at what difficulty level I had to drop to in order to complete it 🤣
i legit found it so brutal on console that when i beat it i didnt feel satisfaction but relief that it was finally over rip
1. Twin demon princes-Dark Souls 3 Ringed City DLC
2. Lubu- Dynasty Warriors 3
3. Nightmare- Devil May Cry
4. Keeper- Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 Der Eisendrache (current patch)
5. Sephiroth- Kingdom Hearts 2
6. Dragon God- Demon Souls
7. Nightmare King Grimm- Hollow Knight
8. Wrath(2nd encounter)- Darksiders 3
9. Gaul- The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night
10. General Leang- Command and Conquer: Generals: Zero Hour
Honorable mention. The 2 white knights at the end of path of pain in hollow knight
Talking about Gears bosses …. That Berserker boss fight in Gears 1 had me snap that Xbox disk and yell obscenities into my neighbourhood! 😡 🤬 … never went back to it! I was 12 or so at the time but failing that berserker fight a million times made me angry for at least a week 😅😅😅
Yeah the Matriarch was a cake walk next to that bastard, thankfully's he's a lot easier in the Definitive Edition on Xbox One.
From Castlevania dawn of sorrow skull mannequin that clone you over the coffins, second playthrough Is dramatic. It has got a large stamina too.
Unfair boss, Imo Jingu from Yakuza Kiwami totally count. It's like bring a knife to a gun fight except you don't even have a knife
Lawrence the first vicar from bloodborne. This guy was extremely extremely tough for me. I usually don't have problem with bosses in bloodborne, but that guy, is something else. Even with the highest flame protection, this guy still hits like a truck. He was a pain in the ass for me
Now I feel better knowing that I'm not the only one getting his ass kicked by Rufus, the guy had me on the ropes the entire fight
I also feel your pain.
The Biolizard in Sonic adventure 2, Volo in Pokemon legends Arceus, and The final boss in Prototype were hard boss fights
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#9 reminds me of a lot of the Hunters in the Halo games...except that they always came in pairs.
#6 i heard the the trick with Silver is to avoid him until he picks up a chair or table.
BUT, i've also heard that it's possible for him to trap you in an endless loop, where he slams you into a wall, you pick up one ring, he slams you again, ENDLESSLY, until/unless you turn the game off!
Gameranx going all out this month. Let's gooooooo
Thank you for not showcasing the stereotypical bosses (Melania). It made this video much more entertaining to watch.
The Capra Demon is ironically the easiest boss in souls by himself. If you fight him in a wide open space.
Also if you know the game and play it by getting many of the early op weapons he’s a cake walk. But when new players who go through it without master key or collecting weapons in intended order he is an absolute hell hole.
When I was a kid, I played through Legend of Legia on the PS1 a few times. About a third of the way through the game, you fight a Minotaur boss (I think his name was Xan?). The fight was so hard and I lost so many times, I thought that it was scripted and I was missing something in the dungeon leading to him. Nope, he was just OP. Most bosses in that game ended up being like that though.
• Kaiser Knuckle’s hidden boss: General. Made to be unfair
• Magical Drop III’s Black Pierrot secret stage. Instant tp to useful bubbles.
• Art of Fighting 2’s Geese Howard
Thanks Square- for endless hours of fun and frustration.
Would be cool if when you killed Godskins separately they didn't appear in Farum Azula but if you don't previously then you'd have to fight them in the end.wether its just one or both.
Bro jinpachi in tekken 5 was the bane of my childhood but with hours of practice I beat him with every character except kuma😢😂
Myrkul the Lord of bones from Baldur's Gate 3, should definitely be on the list. He's basically a surprise encounter, does hella damage, has multiple henchman that can heal him, hitting him can be difficult and the list goes on
I've never understood the godskin duo uproar. I've died to them once in my 8+ playthroughs. Difficult for sure, but nowhere near as bad as other boss fights in the game. I also learned today they're vulnerable to sleep so easy cheese too 🤷♂
Man, I’m so glad I managed to beat the doom dlc before it was patched, it was mind numbing in difficulty but it was SO satisfying to finally get it
My worst Boss experience is Orphan of Cos new game plus 7 from Bloodborne. Tried about 200 or 300 times and gave up in the end sadly. What makes the boss fight so difficult is that the guy can do fly attack in his second form. You can't fly in the game so good luck with that xD
Yeah even though I managed to solo all the other Bloodborne fights and found them extremely hard, Orphan of Cos and Maria I had to get summon help for. Maria I think I could have learned if I'd had the patience, and her attacks are cool, but Cos is just really annoying.
Gna from God of War Ragnarok was brutal. I eventually beat her with rage build armor and amulet was about gaining rage quickly then go spartan on her until my R1 finger cramped. Runic was the ones with shortest animations because she could interrupt runic attacks during the attack animation even if she was taking damage.
Not a boss fight but the arena challenge in Horizon Forbidden west is unfairly hard. You have to pay for it using your ingame currency, you have to defeat the machines within the time limit. If you fail to do it, you get nothing and the challenge is not cleared. The arena is a small and cramped place and the machines are somehow more aggressive than they're in the wild. A lot of people suggested to lower the difficulty as there are some legendary equipments you can get from the medals.
For me, one of the worst bosses i fought was good 'ol U3. Add awkward controls to the fight and you got yourself a proper RE boss. Even in VR, I still struggled with this boss.
Fighting Rufus in remake/rebirth is literally my favorite boss battle of the past decade and I know I'm the weird one for that
Capra Demon for sure.
My personal pick for Unfair Boss is Megaman Bettle Network 5's final boss, Nebula Grey. The problem is that half the time, you can't hurt him because the health crystal is literally off-screen. The other problem is that his attacks are all randomized AoE attacks. Makes for a very frustrating boss in a game where the combat is so simple.
I still have painful memories of Goro (MK1) and Shao Kahn (UMK3 & MK Trilogy) kicking my ass over & over as a kid.
Then when I got slightly older, Seth from Street Fighter IV did it all over again. That's probably why I don't play fighting games anymore 😅
I always dreaded two Ninja Gaiden bosses on Xbox: Alma and the 2 tanks fight. I remember they were so frustrating, and the Alma fight had another irritating cutscene.
Now I kinda want to replay it lol
I just replayed them and I say go for it if you want to raise your blood pressure
Going through the fiend underworld on master ninja was pure nightmare fuel
Alma from Ninja Gaiden 2004. The lack of a save point right before and her being a ROYAL pain to fight made me quit that game and NEVER go back.
Honestly a boss I found unfair was the Shriek boss in Ori and The Will of The Wisps when it destroys the entire platform and your're forced to bounce off of the attacks it throws at you while also avoiding the hailstorm of the same attacks and if you fall you die, I found it especially hard when there were no hailstorm things close enough to bounce off of and you have no choice but to fall and redo that part again.
I would add the Ginso Tree Escape level from Ori and the Blind Forest to this. Had me tearing my hair out.
That was pretty hard lol... I'm surprised I managed to beat that game...
I wouldn't really refer to him as unfair, but the mastermind in crysis really does make you suffer a little bit at post-human warrior difficulty!
Fun fact the Godskins weren't supposed to be weak to the sleep pots. As soon as you put one to sleep the other is supposed to immediately wake him up but there's a glitch or bug that prevents it from happening. If you fight them in another area you'll see it happen
I think a lot of times it can come down to play styles, too. Personally, the Godskin Duo fight was quite easy for me, and I didn't even know about their vulnerability to sleep effects. On the flip side, Alecto killed me nearly as many times as Malenia.
I was enjoying Blasphemous 2 until I ran into Eviterno. I simply don't have the patience to go through that dull and long first phase every time to learn all the intricacies of the second phase and get killed a dozen time along the way. Straight up killed the game for me. And this is coming from someone who loves and beats this type of game regularly.