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Zergrush80 posted...

Galamoth from Castlevania SOTN. Dude rekt me for hours before I finally beat him. That was before I heard of that accessory that lets you cheese him which to this day I still dont know how to get.

I just go in now with the crissagrim and just dice him now..

It's called the beryl circlet. I don't know the exact location but it's in a breakable wall (I'm sure you can look up where).

For me the Ando Londo archers were the real boss. I struggled so hard to get pass them that I kept restarting my runs. By the time I finally got pass them my character was stupid tanky witj 20 flasks that made mebeat them on my first try.

Jupiter posted...

Lady Butterfly even though she's more of a beginning boss. But she's optional. Therefore, she can be fought midgame.

I made the fatal mistake of making her the first boss I beat. The actual firsy boss felt like such a joke. LoL

I remember one boss in Tales of Arise being a huge pain in the ass (I think it was Lord Ganabelt, the 2nd Lord?)

Living Ice from Lost Odyssey. You only have Jansen, Ming, Cooke, and Mack. First time I did it I was under leveled and ill prepared.

I thought the mod bosses in the Zelda Oracle games were difficult

jimmyjones69 posted...

KH2 Xaldin. That's when the game gets real.

Good pick. Also l, perhaps more early-mid but Stealth Sneak in 1 was a B.

Letsago posted...

I was thinking of him and Demyx

I love how his gimmick is being a wimp, and even the journal entry for the guy is like "he's not a great fighter, lol" but he will absolutely DEMOLISH you, on top of having that dumb gimmick where you only have like ten seconds or whatever to kill all the water clones or you just for no reason die.

And then even afterward, like, he doesn't even appear in the following cutscenes at all. Not even an "auuuugh you beat me." He just straight up vanished into a puff of darkness in-gameplay and Sora's like not even winded.

It's like early in the script he was supposed to be a joke boss but they changed their mind after they'd already recorded dialog and stuff.

RyuForce posted...

I made the fatal mistake of making her the first boss I beat. The actual firsy boss felt like such a joke. LoL

Exact same lol. To this day, I don't think I've ever lost so many times to a boss as much as I did to her. I feel like my death count to her was in the 40s. But definitely made the rest of the bosses easier. I even beat that boss on the horse on the first try, and apparently a lot of people struggled with that one. I wanna say I even beat him without even getting touched.

Smiffwilm posted...

I remember one boss in Tales of Arise being a huge pain in the ass (I think it was Lord Ganabelt, the 2nd Lord?)

That dude sucked, basically had to buy 4 lighting resist accessories or he stomps you

superben posted...

Amateurs

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This

Or genichiro

Letsago posted...

I also thought about Riku-Ansem, but that's pretty late in the game.

Yeah thats why I was hesitant to name him. Still, fuck that boss

PowerMan5000000 posted...

I thought the mod bosses in the Zelda Oracle games were difficult

The midboss of Sword and Shield Maze is so much more difficult than the actual boss it's hilarious

Also a better fit for the dungeon's theme

RetuenOfDevsman posted...

I love how his gimmick is being a wimp, and even the journal entry for the guy is like "he's not a great fighter, lol" but he will absolutely DEMOLISH you, on top of having that dumb gimmick where you only have like ten seconds or whatever to kill all the water clones or you just for no reason die.

And then even afterward, like, he doesn't even appear in the following cutscenes at all. Not even an "auuuugh you beat me." He just straight up vanished into a puff of darkness in-gameplay and Sora's like not even winded.

It's like early in the script he was supposed to be a joke boss but they changed their mind after they'd already recorded dialog and stuff.

I will say I never got demolished by him but its the stupid gimmick of having to get rid of his water clones in a set amount of time that gave me so much trouble as a kid

Verminator from Secret of Evermore

Golbez and D.Dragon in FFIV

Ratchetrockon posted...

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Jad from oldschool rs will definitely kick my butt.
i never got far in the fight caves anyway. I'm too lazy to look up the correct way to do it

He is still late/endgame game considering he can kill you in one unprotected hit unless you have 98+ HP. 75 Ranged + Blowpipe to efficiently do the caves alone makes it late game at least. The harder stuff (raiding) feels almost post-game to me.

FL81 posted...

he's still endgame in my heart

Agreed

Gyorg in Majora's Mask

Whitney's Miltank

Would Warmech from the original Final Fantasy count?

Marla in Bravely Default 2 is absolutely brutalising me at the moment.

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The Holoholo bird at the start of disc 2 of Baten Kaitos Origins. If you're underleveled and have no backup saves, you have to start the whole game over.

Crimsoness posted...

Since we've done first and final bosses already

Tentacles in FFVI

Winterking posted...

Tentacles in FFVI

Even as a kid I never really considered FFVI to be all that tough, but damned if these bastards didn't come very close to wiping me out when I recently played the Pixel Remaster. Definitely the closest I came to a game over on that playthrough.

Charged151 posted...

He is still late/endgame game considering he can kill you in one unprotected hit unless you have 98+ HP. 75 Ranged + Blowpipe to efficiently do the caves alone makes it late game at least. The harder stuff (raiding) feels almost post-game to me.

Ok you're right. I often forget that the main contents of the game dont require near maxed stats

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So jad is endgame technically

VI has got a handful of surprisingly tricky bosses. I waffled between this one and Atma Weapon, but when I think back on both my initial and subsequent play through, Tentacles stands out as the one you really have to pay attention to, while Atma Weapon is really more of a slog.

Jupiter posted...

Exact same lol. To this day, I don't think I've ever lost so many times to a boss as much as I did to her. I feel like my death count to her was in the 40s. But definitely made the rest of the bosses easier. I even beat that boss on the horse on the first try, and apparently a lot of people struggled with that one. I wanna say I even beat him without even getting touched.

Yeah the horse guy was the boss, don't think I no hit him though. Crazy part? I beat Butterfly's second form first try with low health. No idea how, just started dodging out of sheer desire not to fight her again. Never did anything else as cool again. LoL

MLBloomy posted...

Gyorg in Majora's Mask

The 3DS version made all the bosses a lot harder, Gyorg and Twinmold especially

Lavos

Shut up it counts

YoungMutual posted...

I don't think they're that hard nowadays, but Ornstein and Smough back in the day

No...they are still hard. This is the correct answer IMO.

Miquella posted...

Do NOT pursue Lu Bu.

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Smiffwilm posted...

I remember one boss in Tales of Arise being a huge pain in the ass (I think it was Lord Ganabelt, the 2nd Lord?)

Ah yeah, I completely forgot about this one lol.

Since I had the collector edition that came with all that pay to win DLC stuff, I figure I'll start the game on hard. That fucker ganabelt was like, the 2nd hardest fight in the game despite being the 2nd major boss (only behind the water lord dude whats his name. I didn't even have no real problem's with the game's superboss/cameo fights compared to these 2 dudes). I wiped when I first fought him, and in the second I went to prepare by making like 3 of the light reduction damage accessories (it threw me off that lightning attacks which is traditionally counted as....well lightning in the tales of series were light based attacks in this game, lol) and still only won with the dude law being the last man standing and completely wiped of my recovery items.

Pretty much any of the apprentice battles in The 7th Saga

misterbum posted...

Pretty much any of the apprentice battles in The 7th Saga

Pretty much everything in 7th Saga kicks your ass

Zhou Yu in Destiny of an Emperor - he has instant death attacks and can hit the entire party for huge damage. He's super hard to prepare for

The plus side is that you can recruit him afterwards

Winterking posted...

VI has got a handful of surprisingly tricky bosses. I waffled between this one and Atma Weapon, but when I think back on both my initial and subsequent play through, Tentacles stands out as the one you really have to pay attention to, while Atma Weapon is really more of a slog.

Yeah I just fought the tentacles a couple of days ago, they're pretty tricky.

guardian ape in sekiro

88 posts and not one of you mentioned Miguel in Chrono Cross

Hippogriff in Etrian Odyssey V.

And of course the fucking boost guardian.

TMOG posted...

88 posts and not one of you mentioned Miguel in Chrono Cross

I didn't forget, I simply chose to repress that memory...

Smiffwilm posted...

I didn't forget, I simply chose to repress that memory...

Makes sense -- that's a tough boss that uses moves that target an elemental weakness of the MC (forced party member).

Sabrina from Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow

Would Whitney and her Miltank count as a mid boss?

A number of bosses from Nioh

pretty sure that game wanted me to feed it quarters

evilpresident posted...

Would Whitney and her Miltank count as a mid boss?

No. She's like the third gym leader. Morty/Chuck/Jasmine is midgame to me.

It's not a specific boss, and I know most of you will scoff at the notion of Skyrim being challenging, but the midgame will kick your ass if you aren't prepared. Levels 25-30 are when some of the game's toughest enemy classes start appearing (particularly bandits and draugr), and plenty of new players get to that point very quickly and without having put a lot of thought into their leveling, resulting in their skills being spread too thin and not up to the task of going toe-to-toe with the beefy new enemy classes. This tends to mellow out by the time you get into higher levels and start maxing skills, thus making Skyrim's middle the most challenging.

Idk if its a boss or not, but that damn sand bird in Super Mario Sunshine that constantly shifts positions.

thronedfire2 posted...

Seymour Flux

At Kimari's place? Absolutely

Winterking posted...

VI has got a handful of surprisingly tricky bosses. I waffled between this one and Atma Weapon, but when I think back on both my initial and subsequent play through, Tentacles stands out as the one you really have to pay attention to, while Atma Weapon is really more of a slog.

If you know Tentacles is coming, you can easily cheese it. Put Running Shoes/Hermes Sandals on Celes and Sabin. Then you can't be slowed and therefore can't be grabbed. But going in blind that can go downhill fast.

In recent memory I'd say Ibis in Armored Core 6. Had to bash my head into it for a while since I went in the game blind and wasn't using or didn't know about any meta builds. I found out when I had more credits to throw around later that I was using some of the game's worst weapons in my main build.