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Any of the post-post game dlc bosses from Rabi Ribi.

Miru Syndrome
Irisu in Wonderland
Erina the Forgotten Maiden

If you could even beat one of these on BEX, my hat and everything else is off to you.

eggman

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Marauder Shields on Insanity. It actually feels kind of bad killing him since he was just trying to protect you from seeing a terrible ending.

Isshin the Sword Saint will ruin your entire life, and leave you destitute, and he is my favorite Fromsoft boss.

furb posted...

More obscure one I guess for me.

I found the final boss of Lunar 2 Eternal Blue really hard. It's a long fight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNQc19YhUCU

I actually just did this one the other day. I spammed the White Dragon Protect thing and beefed up the main characters attack and used his strongest move over and over

The final stretch from Hybrid Heaven.

It is a gauntlet of like six bosses back-to-back with no chance to heal in between the fights. The fourth and fifth fights are tough.

I'm surprised I not only forgot to mention Braska's Final Aeon, no one else has either.

Super_Slash posted...

If you mean the third phase, it's really not that bad. His "swipe" attack deals fixed damage, and with the right gear you can tank Grants, and it's surprisingly weak to begin with. Megid and his orb attack is pretty easily dodged too.

Imo it seems hard at first because grantz is a brick wall to anyone under a certain hp value

Final boss of Mad Rat Dead is an absolute pain in the ass

Super_Slash posted...

I'm surprised I not only forgot to mention Braska's Final Aeon, no one else has either.

Why? If you get the best weapons and have made good progress on the sphere grid he goes down in seconds. You have to handicap yourself to make it challenging.

absolutebuffoon posted...

Imo it seems hard at first because grantz is a brick wall to anyone under a certain hp value

The problem is most players will get to him long before they can actually survive any of his attacks. It's still possible to win but it requires luck and a fuck ton of scape dolls. But yeah, third form Falz' attacks all deal fixed damage aside from the orbs, so once you can survive those, he goes down pretty quick. His HP isn't that high on that form.

Not a final boss, but nobody mentioned KH2 Sephiroth on Critical

Super_Slash posted...

I'm surprised I not only forgot to mention Braska's Final Aeon, no one else has either.

Because that isn't the final boss. Square-Enix has a habit of putting ridiculously easy final bosses as the actual final boss, while the story final boss is the second to last boss. The final boss was Yu Yevon.

Binding of Isaac Repentance: Dogma and it doesn't help that you've to fight 5 other bosses after it. Good luck beating it as The Lost.

-Unowninator- posted...

Binding of Isaac Repentance: Dogma and it doesn't help that you've to fight 5 other bosses after it. Good luck beating it as The Lost.

Dogma is the only difficult fight of those 5. Every other boss is fairly easy. Now, if you want to talk difficult, I've recently started playing the Fiend Folio mod for it, and some of the bosses in that mod shit all over the final bosses of the original game. There's a fight you can encounter in the first 2 floors where you fight three ghosts, they are brutally difficult. They spin in a circle and move across the room eventually spinning around you all while shooting bullets at the same time. It's ridiculously difficult for a floor 2 fight.

The final boss of Blinx the Time Sweeper is really hard. It's an unnamed monster that controls time and space. Able to reverse time, freeze you, speed up time, etc. The battle itself is really intense, but that's not even the worst part of it.

Right before you fight the monster, it messes with time and sends you through a gauntlet of the hardest bosses in the game you've previously fought. After fighting these bosses one by one, only *then* you're sent to the final boss. If you die to the final boss, you have to do that fucking gauntlet all over again. The whole thing has to be done in one sitting and it's just ridiculous.

Crimsoness posted...

Sounds more like it's poorly designed

Crimsoness posted...

Sounds more like it's poorly designed

Nah nah

I remember when some dude on Next Gen Gaming was obsessed with Blinx before it came out. It was definitely a troll account but so weird the guy latched onto it. I haven't thought of that game in a looong time.

Wily Capsule 7
https://youtu.be/4hRaTSS23vE?si=nS0b1H1f0JSWA2zj

Mass effect 3: Star Kid. To avoid getting the bad ending you have to fight every inch of your body telling you to shoot the little shit. Post ending DLC of course.

Not a final boss, but the Ceiling Boss in the Mountain level of U.N. Squadron. It's only defense is flamethrowers on either end. What makes it hard is the weak point has shields on either side of it that block projectiles, as well as there's an unending wave of flamethrowers and missile launchers that come from either side on the floor.

Payzmaykr posted...

I actually just did this one the other day. I spammed the White Dragon Protect thing and beefed up the main characters attack and used his strongest move over and over

One thing I loved about the two Lunar games was that while the normal battles and bosses can be really easy (especially since you kinda have to grind to gear up with each new shop), but the final bosses are always really tough.

Especially Zophar. One of my favorite final bosses ever, and the battle theme I think is the best final boss theme: perfect doses of epicness and inspirational to drive it home that you're fighting to kill a death god.

Man, I really wish that there were more than two Lunar games made.

LeCh0nk posted...

Mass effect 3: Star Kid. To avoid getting the bad ending you have to fight every inch of your body telling you to shoot the little shit. Post ending DLC of course.

Are we gonna ignore the absolute chad you fight right before the final "battle" with Star Kid?

Xenogears15 posted...

Are we gonna ignore the absolute chad you fight right before the final "battle" with Star Kid?

Absolutely not. Salute to Marauder Shields, for trying to save us from ourselves.

Drakengard 3 with that horrific rhythm game style final boss. I synced up videos, read tips snd generally mashed my head into a wall for hours before I just gave up

Ive beaten FFIX a lot of times and no matter how strong I am I just barely beat Necron everytime

Dracula from Order of Ecclesia. In most games after his teleporting phase he turns into some monster. Not this time though. Instead of transforming he starts walking around and is much more of a challenge than most of his monster forms.

YellowSUV posted...

Dracula from Order of Ecclesia. In most games after his teleporting phase he turns into some monster. Not this time though. Instead of transforming he starts walking around and is much more of a challenge than most of his monster forms.

It's funny to think that Dracula in that fight is barely even taking you seriously despite still being tough as hell. He's just toying with you and doesn't even see you as a threat since you aren't a Belmont.

RyuForce posted...

It's a blur to me at this point but Arc the Lad 2's final boss was at least a massive slog. First form 4000 HP, second form 9999 HP in a game where I don't think any other boss hit pass 2000 nor did you usually hit for more then 150 hp maybe 200s. All while it's AOE attacks hit for more then half your party's heath a turn while your party. You needed a lot of mana restoring items and having your players position well to get their weapon hits in if you aren't relying on just spells. (It's a tactics lite game so whips, spears, and guns had more range and hit in weird angles.)

You just reminded me of this. There were 15 main characters in the game and I spent hours grinding to keep the characters as evenly leveled as possible so as not to get caught in a scenario that split up the groups (which the game frequently did) and get caught with under leveled characters. After hours of grinding all characters to level 120, I thought that would be good enough to complete the game.

The final boss took over 2 hours and I just barely survived because of the constant AOE attacks and needing to heal up my characters. I think I used up the last of my resources when I finally beat it.

Ivany2008 posted...

Because that isn't the final boss. Square-Enix has a habit of putting ridiculously easy final bosses as the actual final boss, while the story final boss is the second to last boss. The final boss was Yu Yevon.

That doesn't count any more than the FINAL final fight with Sephiroth does in FF7

bigtiggie23 posted...

Why? If you get the best weapons and have made good progress on the sphere grid he goes down in seconds. You have to handicap yourself to make it challenging.

The celestial weapons take a lot of going out of your way to really make them worth it. If you go in there without celestial gear, it's a lot more challenging. Getting them and unlocking their true power also takes several more hours of gameplay to do. During that time, you could just be getting Anima and/or the Magus Sisters; the latter takes about just as long, and they're an auto win button on any non-optional boss.

A lot of RPGs essentially have a gameplay final boss and a thematic final boss. I think its fair to count the game play final boss even if they technically aren't the final boss.

MasterEdge1 posted...

You just reminded me of this. There were 15 main characters in the game and I spent hours grinding to keep the characters as evenly leveled as possible so as not to get caught in a scenario that split up the groups (which the game frequently did) and get caught with under leveled characters. After hours of grinding all characters to level 120, I thought that would be good enough to complete the game.

The final boss took over 2 hours and I just barely survived because of the constant AOE attacks and needing to heal up my characters. I think I used up the last of my resources when I finally beat it.

I think my team was Choco, Arc, Elc, Lieza, and Tosh with me not sure on the last two. (Maybe Shantae over Lieza).I do know Lieza and Elc having ranged weapons helped and I probably could switched Tosh for Shu cause gun. I also think I had the romancing stone so one of them had infinite mana but even with that it was an endless slog that felt like it could gone wrong several times. But seriously the fact no other fight above lv 80 is a challenge and yet the boss really pushed you to have 100+ levels was insane.

ALIEN_WORK2HOP posted...

Phantasy Star Online Ep I Dark Falz Final Boss Fight

I don't remember having too much issue with that fight. Wasn't a push over but I don't recall ever losing it

Kaiser1one posted...

Justice from the first Guilty Gear. Match start to death in 3 seconds flat was constant

Haven't gotten to do that one. Stage 9 Nago in Strive is also insane

Lies of P, The Nameless Puppet.

I only beat it the first time by blatantly abusing a now-patched glitch to ensure perfect parries.

Raven Beak in Metroid Dread is the only standard final boss I can think of that I couldn't beat. I threw myself at him for several hours, became aware that I hadn't succeeded in getting past even the first phase of four, and completely gave up.

Not a final boss, and not actually hard, in a sense, but Baal in Disgaea D2 is worth mentioning.

Disgaea is a franchise in which stupid amounts of grinding is absolutely normal. Baal is the traditional super boss of the franchise.

What's special about Disgaea D2 is that the Baal fight in that game requires grinding and prep that is absolutely insane, even grading on a Disgaea curve.

RyuForce posted...

I think my team was Choco, Arc, Elc, Lieza, and Tosh with me not sure on the last two. (Maybe Shantae over Lieza).I do know Lieza and Elc having ranged weapons helped and I probably could switched Tosh for Shu cause gun. I also think I had the romancing stone so one of them had infinite mana but even with that it was an endless slog that felt like it could gone wrong several times. But seriously the fact no other fight above lv 80 is a challenge and yet the boss really pushed you to have 100+ levels was insane.

Its been so long I cant remember what my team was. Yeah at 120 I figured it would be plenty enough levels because enemies werent really a challenge anymore but that boss was a pain. I was disappointed that the ending was a downer too. I ended up playing the rest of the series and did not remember them being as much of a pain as that boss.

Ivany2008 posted...

Because that isn't the final boss. Square-Enix has a habit of putting ridiculously easy final bosses as the actual final boss, while the story final boss is the second to last boss. The final boss was Yu Yevon.

Nobody really counts him because he isn't meant to be lost to (since you have unlimited auto-revives at this point, the only way you can "lose" is by inflicting petrification on your own characters) or pose any real gameplay challenge whatsoever. His "fight" is basically a playable cinematic to wrap up the story.

BFA is clearly meant to serve the "final boss" role, the last potential challenge in the game that the player might reasonably lose to -- so even if he isn't technically the last fight, he's still going to be what's remembered.

But yeah, that is something Square Enix does a lot.

masterpug53 posted...

Raven Beak in Metroid Dread is the only standard final boss I can think of that I couldn't beat. I threw myself at him for several hours, became aware that I hadn't succeeded in getting past even the first phase of four, and completely gave up.

To be honest, the first phase I find to be the trickiest because you cannot progress the fight without melee countering, and because of his shielding it's not entirely clear to everyone on how to trigger it or when it even happens. So if it's any consolation, you were stuck on what I'd say is the hardest part of the fight.

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After he whooped on me a couple times, I went back through the map and got 100% item completion in the hope that it would help me power through. Didn't make a lick of difference, lol.

Philip027 posted...

To be honest, the first phase I find to be the trickiest because you cannot progress the fight without melee countering, and because of his shielding it's not entirely clear to everyone on how to trigger it or when it even happens. So if it's any consolation, you were stuck on what I'd say is the hardest part of the fight.

Yep, it all boils down to timed parries. Fuck timed parries, they are the bane of my gaming existence (same reason I gave up on trying to get past King Dice in Cuphead). The timed parry I'm supposed to execute with no obvious cue at the end of first phase was what did me in 95% of the time. I can put up with and eventually surmount all the pattern-recognition and bullet-hell these kinds of games throw at me, but timed parries can go eat shit.

I never made it past the first boss on Ninja Gaiden Black.

That's when I decided I didn't like games that are difficult just for the sake of being difficult.

Gruntilda in Banjo-Kazooie

Damn_Underscore posted...

Gruntilda in Banjo-Kazooie

Absolutely brutal with the controls.

Off the top of my head

God Rugal from Capcom vs SNK 2

Akuma from Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo

Solidus Snake on Extreme difficulty from MGS2

Isaac Frost from Fight Night Champion

MGS4

Asskicking is literally a mechanic in that part of the game, so

(Also possible to kick asses/have your ass kicked literally elsewhere?)