What was the hardest video game boss for you?

In FFX, you fight this flying thing on the top of your ship, and you don't have Yuna for the fight.

In replays, this wasn't so tough, bit the first time I played this game, me and my friends were stuck for weeks.

For me it was Psycho mantis from Metal Gear Solid. The reason being that I didn't understood English at the time, so it was literally an impossible boss. I got frustrated with it and abandoned the game, until I found a translated version of it and replayed it and he's actually very easy if you know what you need to do.

Probably Monster Hunter World's Fatalis. That's the only fight I've ever had to genuinely grind for multiple days to beat. It was 100% worth it though, the feeling of bringing him down for the first time was unmatched.

Probably Malenia, but she's beatable. Definitely had a tougher time learning her than Freide, Gael, Artorias, Manus, Fume Knight, or Ivory King etc.

Eggman on this sonic game I had on my Nintendo ds. Shit was fucked. I never won and am forever a loser because of it. One day imma emulate it and reclaim my honour.

God Of War 2 Theseus gave me way more trouble than Ares on Titan difficulty.

There might have been a mechanic I was missing but you had barely enough mana to cast all of the required spells to beat it, at least with the pickups I had found, like literally if I missed more than one lightning bolt I had to restart, and some of his spells would instantly kill you. I don't recall the specifics of why it was giving me trouble beyond that but I do remember bashing my head against that wall for hours.

Never really had aa much trouble as that fight. Not in Souls, Bloodbourne, that fucking Theseus and his jerk friend minotaurs.

As a kid I beat the vampires in Illusion of Gaia as Will. Didn't realize you could change.

Lies of P - nameless puppet. I choose the other ending on my first run, so my first time facing him was in ng+. Not sure if that made it harder, but yeah, that one was rough

In Chrono Cross, when entering Time Fortress Chronopolis, you immediately encounter the PolisPolice. This isn't framed by the game as a boss encounter, but it is.

There is a design problem with this boss that you probably wouldn't see in a more modern RPG. To survive its big attack, you need the White Plate to absorb white-based magic attacks. You get the White Plate by stealing it from the Sky Dragon. If you already fought the Sky Dragon and forgot to steal at the time, you are hosed. The game doesn't let you go back and redo that, and the PolisPolice encounter is about 2/3rds of the way through the game--very late to be starting over again.

I replayed that encounter 20 times before I finally lucked out on the attack cycle to keep the party alive. Then I encountered the actual hardest boss: a disc scratch that prevented the game from continuing towards the very end.

Vermivorous the Invincible in Borderlands 2. First of all getting it to spawn...

Great Wolf Sif because I can't bring myself to kill a loyal pupper who is trying to save me.

For me, it was in Last of Us, >!when you walk through the door and get caught in the rope trap, then have to shoot the zombies upside-down.!<

I had to go through that entire animation over and over and over. It made me hate the game. I played a little bit more after finally making it through, but my heart wasn't in it and I just stopped after a while.

Not the hardest over all, but the one that instilled the most fear:

The butcher

Okay, i'm gonna name one that might raise some eyebrow.

Halflight, Spear of the Church from Dark Souls 3 Ringed City. I know i know, but i can explain. I'm doing a knife only, no summon run, i mainly use Brigand Twindagger for everything, and occasionally Bandit's Knife for anything susceptible to bleed, and it's quite a good run, beating anything with varying difficulty, and even Demon Prince were defeated with a knife, then comes Halflight, Weeb of the Church. Technically it isn't a hard one because it's basically vs an npc invader, but the difficult came from the constantly spawning Guardian that's also do healing and also using a knife, and also the long reaching and parrying weeb sword of Halflight. I couldn't get past this one no matter how much i try, it's the most difficult "easy" fight i've ever did on this run, where the second most difficult one is...Deacon of the Deep.

Those lyonel from BOTW and TOTK are some real fuckers

Still haven't beaten Owl in Sekiro. Only Fromsoft game in the genre I haven't finished because I can't kill my fuckin' dad. 😭

Dunno if I ever beat Mike Tyson

Maleficent in Kingdom Hearts 1.

Oh my god. I tried everything. Every potion combo, every magic combo, every adjustment of Donald and Goofy to make them heal or damage. Never beat her. And never beat the game.

And before that is the fight against Riku with that hours long unstoppable cutscene. "You'll never take Kairi's heart!"

First time fighting Lothric/Lorian in Dark Souls 3. I was playing a mage which was not it for the fight. Also the runback was about a minute which really ramped up my hatred for the fight. On ng+ after a respec to greatsword wielder, that fight is painfully easy. Greatsword effortlessly hits Lothric's hitbox while he's on Lorian's back which trivializes it, but I didn't know that on first playthrough.

Moldorm - The Legend Of Zelda: A Link To The Past (https://www.zeldadungeon.net/wiki/Moldorm_(A_Link_to_the_Past) )

This f'ing guy was hours of work to beat. Still the most annoying game boss ive ever encountered!

Sword Saint Isshin is not the hardest fromsoft boss. IMO he's not even the hardest boss in Sekiro. But he might just be the boss design GOAT.

Artorias.. hardest one SO FAR

That fuckin guy on the church roof in dark souls dlc.

The snake boss in Nioh 2. My friend kept coming back that day to say, "You haven't killed it yet?!"

Saving the VIP on Veteran at the end of Modern Warfare. I spent 4 hours, 4 HOURS trying to save that guy. Not a traditional boss but a boss nontheless

Lavos. :(

The Lindwurm in Battle Brothers.

Growing up I struggled for so long on LittleBigPlanet’s Negativitron boss fight, most recently though I spent days struggling with Uncharted 4’s final boss fight (though somehow I had an easier time on Crushing difficulty on my second play through) and Halo 2’s Prophet Boss Fight.

Hmm. Not sure. Some bosses that immediately came to mind were O&S in Dark Souls 1 and Hume in Eternal Daughter though. I think I had more trouble with the latter, but it's been so long that I'm not sure.

Dry'l in Wonderlands. Not particularly hard but it just took forever.

If it counts as a video game, Lich King 25M, not even HC.
I was in a casual guild and not the best player either. Never downed him :(

Mushihimesama Futari's final boss. I felt so proud of myself when I beat it and this is the game that got me into playing Touhou on lunatic mode for fun

Second battle with Vergil in DMC 3, Agni & Rudra in DMC 3 and somehow not as hard to beat but incredibly hard to beat well is the Shadow, Griffon & Nightmare battle from DMC5. Beating it on the DMD difficulty gave me that game """PTSD""" where Stage 18 became "that level" to me haha.

The striders towards the end of Half Life 2 episode 2.

The spoiler boss in dead cells.

The boss is not particularly hard but you can only face him after a full run on the max difficulty where you will likely use most of your very limited resources before the bossfight, meaning you can only take a couple hits (at best) before dying.

Radagon and Elden Beast at rune level 1. The area of effect attacks and the tracking projectiles are brutal. I was able to get a strategy that clobbered Radagon in <1 minute without taking any hits but it required really intense concentration and timing. Not being able to practice just the Beast was the worst part, I hated having to slog through Radagon every single time to attempt it.

Also Sister Friede at level 1 is a strong contender. I don't remember which took me longer to complete.

For me it was Sword Saint Isshin from Sekiro. The ape already took me days to beat, but Isshin was weeks and hundreds of attempts. But it felt so fucking good - especially since it was easy to no-hit Genichiro by the end. God, he must have been pissed off.

MCP from the Intellevision version of Tron.

Fume Knight from Dark Souls 2

Well, I've never beat Sans from Undertale, but if we're only counting those we did beat... Maybe it's Undyne the Undying from the same game. I'm deducing that from the time it took me, but to be honest there's a boss from another game that came to my mind first. See, neither of these bosses feel "unfairly" hard because you have to go out of your way to pick the hardest route to face them. There was one boss whose hardness seems unfair and bad, that was the third boss from the first Spectrobe game. This was really out of nowhere. The first boss took me a few tries because I wasn't used to he game mecanics yet, the second was easy, but the third? I had to look up strategies online, make dozens of trips between my ship and the bosse's location, fighting every mob on the way each time to level my spectrobes up in addition to digging up minerocs to feed them; got them from adult to evolved and finally then I could beat it. After this fight, my spectrobes honestly felt overleveled and every enemy from then on felt super easy.

Worst part is, the plot didn't even justify this boss to be so hard. It didn't make it feel important. It wasn't directly threatening a populated planet, it wasn't anounced before it appeared, it was just there, in the middle of the jungle. And your mission was to find a diamond. Not an important and powerful item that's key to saving the galaxy mind you, a dumb simple diamond, of which the only purpose is to be expensive. So why would you, Rallen, of the Nanairo cosmic patrol; charged with protecting the whole solar system, go look for it? Because some rich bastard has crucial information about the krawls and you need this information to go on, but he won't tell you unless you give him this diamond. BITCH, if there was any logic to the plot, I'd be pointing my canon beam at his head and screaming at him to tell me all he knows or else! How dare a human withhold info necessary to save humanity?

Oh, and if this diamond has no particular power, why is a powerful krawl guarding it? It's not! It's just standing on top of it by shear luck, because fuck you.

The guy at the end of Hotline Miami was pretty tough.

Ornstein and Smough from Dark Souls. The series have plenty of difficult boss fights but this one is earlier than most and the biggest difficulty spike in the entire game IMHO.

Outside of the Souls games, there's Lil' Hunter from Nuclear Throne. I tried to beat this little trashcan SO many times and succeeded only once. It's insane.

Also shout-out to Hush from the Binding of Isaac for almost giving me a heart attack when I was fighting it as the tainted lost. Never again.

Gow Ragnarok. That last Valkyrie.

The shadow enemy in super smash bros brawl, cant beat that mf

That stupid course in Star Wars Racer where you have to stay on a very narrow ledge. When you fall off you're relegated to a super long detour and basically have to start over because you have no chance of winning if you fail even once.

Final boss of fury

This asshole made me scream in rage and frustration

Messmer the impaler from Elden Ring SOTE.

I love this boss, it's not bs, just pure skill... Shame I lack any of it. Still beat him eventually.

Inner Agent 3 from Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion

What an absolute nightmare. They play like an online cheater. It's just back to back sub and special weapons. There's almost no room for error. I gave up after like thirty tries because the reward just wasn't worth the stress and frustration.

So this is dumb but there is a Mummy game, as on the movie, I think on PS2. You could play through as either O'Connell (Brendan Fraser) or Imhotep (he was fun but pretty overpowered). I don't remember there being a difficulty setting but I could be wrong.

I beat it with Imhotep but never could beat it with O'Connell. I want to say the final boss was the Scorpion King. I tried so many times.

The only thing I can figure is I didn't load up on as much ammo, grenades, equipment, etc. as possible and never went back to try differently.

It's been a long time since I played so my memory may not be totally accurate, but the final boss in fatal frame 2. I rage quit it because it was a one hit kill, and before you get to them, you had to walk down a long hallway avoiding other enemies. It was like 5 minutes of work to get to the final boss only for him to hit you once and you have to start all over. So infuriating. The rest of the game was so much fun.