Hardest Boss Battle(s)

[Xayphon]

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Freya from Star Ocean 3... especially when I was super cool and tried it without any stun items first

Also each and every boss in Bug Princess 1 and 2 on Ultimate Mode

[Hateandhatred]

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Uh probably some gay boss from some random mario hacks etc, I Wanna Be The Guy type of games.

Otherwise from legit games, maybe Fujiwara no Mokou from Touhou 8: Imperishable Night on Lunatic, fuck that.

Console gaming bosses aren't so bad imo, it's always a matter of practice and mastering their patterns. The ones I had most trouble with were the later Extreme challenges from the Trauma Center series.

I don't count RPGs and such since they're too dependant on how much you've whored the damn thing. Otherwise Penance from FFX, Kalphite King from Runescape, Culex from SMRPG and Ghost Ship (gamble boss herp) from FF7 are maybe around there.

EDIT: Does this include the plot bosses that are near impossible (or actually impossible unless use of Gameshark kind of stuff and emulator hacks) to beat? Like first encounter with Bowser in Paper Mario, the first encounter with Zeus on GOW II or the early Mother Brain from Super Metroid. If they do, they are technically the hardest ones lmfao.

[EzExZeRo7497]

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Aside from shmups, Seymour Natus from FFX or Sephiroth from KH1 lol. Haven't played games in a while though, I remember Freya from SO3 being pretty hard too.

[.Layne.]

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Uh probably some gay boss from some random mario hacks etc, I Wanna Be The Guy type of games.

Otherwise from legit games, maybe Fujiwara no Mokou from Touhou 8: Imperishable Night on Lunatic, fuck that.

Console gaming bosses aren't so bad imo, it's always a matter of practice and mastering their patterns. The ones I had most trouble with were the later Extreme challenges from the Trauma Center series.

I don't count RPGs and such since they're too dependant on how much you've whored the damn thing. Otherwise Penance from FFX, Kalphite King from Runescape, Culex from SMRPG and Ghost Ship (gamble boss herp) from FF7 are maybe around there.

EDIT: Does this include the plot bosses that are near impossible (or actually impossible unless use of Gameshark kind of stuff and emulator hacks) to beat? Like first encounter with Bowser in Paper Mario, the first encounter with Zeus on GOW II or the early Mother Brain from Super Metroid. If they do, they are technically the hardest ones lmfao.

wait.. what? mokou was the easiest extra boss next to suwako...

[Hateandhatred]

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wait.. what? mokou was the easiest extra boss next to suwako...

I haven't played many touhou games =P And this is the hardest I've encountered lmfao...

Also if it counts, I guess Houdini (chess engine) is the hardest "video game boss" ever, among legit ones.

[James May]

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Otherwise from legit games, maybe Fujiwara no Mokou from Touhou 8: Imperishable Night on Lunatic, fuck that.

lmfao. Mokou is easy, I remember beating her p easy on my first run. Then I tried it again and I died while getting up too close when she went to her final set. rip Sakuya

Aside from what I've played so far here goes:

-Mario Party: Yes, I concur that in this game everybody's the fucking boss. rip friendship

-Allul (Arc Rise Fantasia): Holy fuck I had a hard time with this battle. I had to grind like a motherfucker since I was too busy grinding WP and not get revives for it.

-Luze & Eesa (Arc Rise Fantasia): I placed both of them here not because of lolfinalbosstoohard kind of thing but I haven't gotten past them yet simply because I forgot crucial items and thus because of that I have to struggle more \o/. But even if your team is up to par or even slightly above, you're still going to have a hard time with them if you don't have the right stuff >_>

I'll edit this post with more hard bosses that I have played against being remembered.

[Reincarnate]

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I think an important distinction needs to be made, here. Sometimes a boss is only hard because you're going in blindly. For example, you'll see a lot of lists claiming that, say, Emerald Weapon from FF7 is insanely hard, when really he's only hard because people aren't using any real strategies. If you just walk in hammering KOTR repeatedly and hope not to get killed in the meantime, you're gonna have a bad time.

So two things need consideration:

1. How hard it is to determine the the best strategy (sometimes figuring out the optimal approach takes a lot of trial-and-error or a fair bit of pre-planning)

2. How hard it is to execute that strategy (even when you know the easiest way to beat a boss, it may still be hard as hell to pull off)

I think #1 has been effectively neutered by the Internet. It's not too hard now to just look up the best strategy once someone else has figured it out. So IMO better to focus on #2.

[Izzy]

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I remember the boss from Halo 2 on the third level on legendary being incredibly difficult when playing solo.

This is the only video I can find of this and it looks like the guy is playing on normal considering he can take a few sword swings and not die as opposed to getting one shot.

He even says the boss is a pushover and then fails consistently on normal. The problem with this boss is that he sends infinite waves of high elites at you and often with swords. This kind of falls under category 2 of what rubix was saying. It is very obvious what you are supposed to do. Just attack the boss and kill the guards, but its really difficult to do.

Maybe if I had a plasma pistol and a battle rifle at the time. -_-

[Riotpolice]

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I'd say that Halo Reach LASO is pretty insurmountably hard. An elite takes 4 sniper rounds to the head to kill it. With that being said, if you can beat Halo Reach LASO by yourself, I'll just take a moment to throw my Xbox out the window.

[Arntonach]

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Aster Protoflorian from Final Fantasy XIII. It's mainly an exam type boss, since you have to utilize all of the assets you have in order to take it down. But that's the problem, it's so tricky to pull off it's not even funny.

[V-Ormix]

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fuc this boss

[.Layne.]

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^^ what ... that boss was also ez too

[intensez]

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Most of the MMX bosses are really easy. The hardest boss from that series I'd say would have to be Sigma in his "wolverine" form in MMX3. Good luck dodging some of those abilities lol

[Pseudo Enigma]

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depends on how you go about the battle, too. eg. RPG Challenges, the amount of luck involved, etc.

Obviously Touhou games are going to be brought up, but those aren't (over 90% of the time) about luck. lol

old NES games seem to have the hardest imo

[Reincarnate]

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You guys are all picking extremely easy bosses, lol

The only tough Megaman battles you'll find are in Rockman and Forte (and even then they're still able to be learned)