All Time Hardest Boss

[Doulifée]

Bah, hardest Lavos fight is starting a fresh game then warping straight to him from millenial fair. :lol:

You can't.


Unless you create a new game, use new game plus and use that save as the original save.
Maybe that's what I ended up doing. Been so long I can't remember. All I know is I saw a little shiny thing on the ground, walked over to it, and next thing I know I'm fighting Lavos with no gear and my lvl below double digits.
wuss. zeality would have one.

I coulda took him

Zeality has never finish Chrono trigger BTW. :roll:

[Dhsu]

I just friggin' beat the Savato archetype in Trauma Center. Not the hardest boss ever, but definitely one of the most frustrating. It's a 10-minute operation, and if you mess up at the very end, you have to do the WHOLE FRIGGIN' THING all over again. Gahhhhhhh....

[iskyoork]

I'm still holding it was the Shadow Link for the end of Adventures of Link.
Shadow Link in Ocariana of Time is a pain in the ass too.

Only if your not using the hammer.

[PassivePretentiousness]

Bah, hardest Lavos fight is starting a fresh game then warping straight to him from millenial fair. :lol:

You can't.


Unless you create a new game, use new game plus and use that save as the original save.
Maybe that's what I ended up doing. Been so long I can't remember. All I know is I saw a little shiny thing on the ground, walked over to it, and next thing I know I'm fighting Lavos with no gear and my lvl below double digits.
wuss. zeality would have one.

I coulda took him

Zeality has never finish Chrono trigger BTW. :roll:
no u

[Doulifée]

I'm still holding it was the Shadow Link for the end of Adventures of Link.
Shadow Link in Ocariana of Time is a pain in the ass too.

Only if your not using the hammer.

or the bigorron sword.

[The Author]

I'm still holding it was the Shadow Link for the end of Adventures of Link.
Shadow Link in Ocariana of Time is a pain in the ass too.

Only if your not using the hammer.

or the bigorron sword.

Or the fishing stick...

<_<

>_>

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>_>

[Yellow 13]

I had a problem with Inhert from Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner. The thing would 0 Shift out of the way before I could land a hit, and after I did enough damage to it, the second half of the fight where you fight him in the dark had to be the most frustrating part of the whole game. I can't tell you how long it took me to beat the thing after having to continue so many times.

[Bummerdude]

Zeality has never finish Chrono trigger BTW. :roll:
Is that the reason he goes crazy and shouts
WHO MENTIONED CHRONO TRIGGER
when it comes into discussion?

[Brycepops]

Bah, hardest Lavos fight is starting a fresh game then warping straight to him from millenial fair. :lol:

You can't.
In New Game+, you can touch a shining sparkle in one of Luca´s telepods, and you will then stand in front of Lavos, alone or with the girl depending if you walk in there before or after the girl has been teleported to the past.

New Game + is not a fresh game.

Even so, if you beat it at a low level and THEN try to kill lavos with 1 or 2 people...holy cow.

[Stealthshark]

Bah, hardest Lavos fight is starting a fresh game then warping straight to him from millenial fair. :lol:

You can't.
In New Game+, you can touch a shining sparkle in one of Luca´s telepods, and you will then stand in front of Lavos, alone or with the girl depending if you walk in there before or after the girl has been teleported to the past.

New Game + is not a fresh game.
I am aware of this. I have used the new game + to continue with old gear, lvl, etc. before. The encounter I described was not done on a new game+ file.

[Stealthshark]

Bah, hardest Lavos fight is starting a fresh game then warping straight to him from millenial fair. :lol:

You can't.
In New Game+, you can touch a shining sparkle in one of Luca´s telepods, and you will then stand in front of Lavos, alone or with the girl depending if you walk in there before or after the girl has been teleported to the past.

New Game + is not a fresh game.
I am aware of this. I have used the new game + to continue with old gear, lvl, etc. before. The encounter I described was not done on a new game+ file.

The warp to Lavos from the Millenial Fair does not exist in a normal new game.
This is entirely possible since it's been ages since I played, though i could have sworn I did it w/o newgame+ :? . I'll have to track down a ROM and doublecheck. If my memory is indeed playing tricks on me, then thanks for the correction.

[MC Axel]

IM stil trying to beat the pain in the ass that's Ozma in Final fantasy IX. I just seems no matter what I do he beats me right when I get him to less than a fourth of it's health.

[Bummerdude]

IM stil trying to beat the pain in the ass that's Ozma in Final fantasy IX. I just seems no matter what I do he beats me right when I get him to less than a fourth of it's health.
Yeah, I been there bro. Have some Egoist armlets to shield off his Doomsday, and make sure to have so many characters that can strike it with 9999 damage. And one person to cure.

Annoying as >cencur<. But I got it before Terra.

[MC Axel]

IM stil trying to beat the pain in the ass that's Ozma in Final fantasy IX. I just seems no matter what I do he beats me right when I get him to less than a fourth of it's health.
Yeah, I been there bro. Have some Egoist armlets to shield off his Doomsday, and make sure to have so many characters that can strike it with 9999 damage. And one person to cure.

Annoying as >cencur<. But I got it before Terra.


Thanks for the tips.

[Antipode]

Not the "hardest of all time", maybe, but in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door the Pit of 100 Trials is hard by itself - and THEN you have to fight that massive dragon at the bottom. Takes about two and a half hours to get there, only to be killed in the first turn by that damn thing.

(For me, anyway.)

Tips from anyone who has beaten it on what I should do? Any badges that might help?

[The Coop]

Taking a break from my finals work, I was sitting down and playing some shmups (they're good for quick game playing sessions while you wait for something to render). I popped in a game called Wings of Wor. It's a rather odd shmup, in that most of the bosses are large, ugly, and at times a bit disgusting looking bio-masses with heads. Some are tough, some are pretty easy. But there are two in this game that are quite nasty... and not because they look like mounds of guts. For now though, I'll focus on the boss for Stage 4.

I don't know this thing's name. In truth, I'm not sure it was given one... even in the instructions manual. What I do know is that it's ugly, and it has a series of rather mean spirited attacks. The first one is that it attacks you with what look like red blood cells. They drift pretty slowly, with some coming up from the bottom, and some coming down from above. They're indestructible, and they become more numerous as you damage this thing. But as these things drift about, it unleashes what's both an attack, and the only time you can hurt him.

This mass of corpse-like flesh, hurls it's heart around the screen. That heart is the only spot to hit him that'll do any degree of damage. It circles around the screen at a good clip, making it a hazard before it goes back behind the "body" so you can't hit it any more. It'll swing around in a steady pattern, but the problem comes from those damned red blood cells that have no real pattern. They come out steadily, and often you find yourself too busy dodging them to try and focus on hurting the heart.

All of this makes for a boss that can take forever to kill. And if you run out of guys, you have to try and beat him with considerably less power as, if I recall correctly, you get sent back to the beginning of the level (resulting in considerably less power the next time you get to the boss). It's just two attacks, but they add up to one big pain in the ass.

[Gollgagh]

Haha, you posted the 2300th post in your own thread, Coop.

But anyway, I'm sure how you wanted this, but I always have trouble with Wily when I first played the MegaMan games. I'd do just fine on any of the regular levels and go through them in a day or two, then I get to Wily and *BOOM* I'm stuck on him for a week or so.

e:typos

[mikekz]

Damn, any Colossi but the first two on Shadow of the Colossus.

[Bummerdude]

My older brothers has managed to kick Omega W eapon in FFVIII, that's sweet. It's one of the most wrecked, annoying and powerful bosses in all the games I've played. I just don't know why I haven´t mentioned it. Meh, someone already has I guess.

[Triad Orion]

Bah, hardest Lavos fight is starting a fresh game then warping straight to him from millenial fair. :lol:

You can't.
In New Game+, you can touch a shining sparkle in one of Luca´s telepods, and you will then stand in front of Lavos, alone or with the girl depending if you walk in there before or after the girl has been teleported to the past.

New Game + is not a fresh game.
I am aware of this. I have used the new game + to continue with old gear, lvl, etc. before. The encounter I described was not done on a new game+ file.

The warp to Lavos from the Millenial Fair does not exist in a normal new game.
This is entirely possible since it's been ages since I played, though i could have sworn I did it w/o newgame+ :? . I'll have to track down a ROM and doublecheck. If my memory is indeed playing tricks on me, then thanks for the correction.

He's right. Lavos can only be fought this way in New Game + mode. HOWEVER, you can create a "Fresh" file, save that to an empty slot as soon as you leave Crono's house, and then reset the game, and select New Game + on THAT data, giving you access to Lavos as base Crono.

[speculative]

The boss from the NES game "Conquest of the Crystal Palace."

Man, I tried playing that game again years later, and I couldn't even get past the second level... 8O

[Darkmetamorphasis]

Way off RPG's but for me the hardest bosses were:

Gill-Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike
Man this guy wouldnt let down! I mean I knew that Capcom made his AI so he can counter all attacks of a certain character, but thats not what made it difficult. It was his Resurrection and Seraphic Wing Super Arts that upset me...
Death-Castlevania
No real explaination, just plain difficult.

[Scufo]

My older brothers has managed to kick Omega W eapon in FFVIII, that's sweet. It's one of the most wrecked, annoying and powerful bosses in all the games I've played. I just don't know why I haven´t mentioned it. Meh, someone already has I guess.
I donno. I actually found Ultima Weapon to be harder. Then again, they're both pretty easy if you have plenty of Holy Wars.

[ZeroBass.Exe]

My older brothers has managed to kick Omega W eapon in FFVIII, that's sweet. It's one of the most wrecked, annoying and powerful bosses in all the games I've played. I just don't know why I haven´t mentioned it. Meh, someone already has I guess.

Convert your Laguna Card into 10 Holy Wars, invincibility for abour 3-5 rounds apiece, then just unleash your limit breaks on him! Easy Peasey!!!!

[Maxx]

Hey, Coop, I posted on this thing, like last year sometime... I put in a couple I think...

If we go by number of times mentioned... can we declare a winner yet...?

I mean, which boss, out of all these mentioned here has been mentioned the most?!?!!? I think by this time we can count votes, can't we?!!? Which of you has the total lack of anything resembling life that you can read thru this really fuckin long thread and start making hash marks? Do I hear a volunteer..? :D

[The Coop]

To continue my tale from earlier, Wings of Wor has a second boss in it that's a real pain in the ass. It's the end boss which, like so many of the game's other bosses, is a mass of flesh that's less than pleasant looking.

Its attack is very straight forward. It sits there, and ejects over two dozen of these little egg-like orbs that slowly drift towards you. As they move, they gain a bit of speed. If you dodge it, the thing comes back around and tries to hit you again. If you blow one up (which takes quite a few shots), it's instantly replaced. How's that for service?

To hurt this thing, you have to hit an eye that's in the center of an opening. The opening is narrow, which makes hitting it a pain already. But, with all the eggs floating around blocking shots, and the fact that the eye only opens for about two seconds before it closes again, this makes for a frustrating battle. There will be times where you don't hit the damn thing for a good minute or so, and even then it's just one or two hits. It's a not a battle so much as it is a dodging exercise. It also takes a decent number of hits before it dies, so you better sit down and get comfy, because this battle won't end quickly.

One of the few shmups that has bosses in it that just drive me up a wall.

Edit: Fixed typos.

[Hadriel]

My older brothers has managed to kick Omega W eapon in FFVIII, that's sweet. It's one of the most wrecked, annoying and powerful bosses in all the games I've played. I just don't know why I haven´t mentioned it. Meh, someone already has I guess.

Convert your Laguna Card into 10 Holy Wars, invincibility for abour 3-5 rounds apiece, then just unleash your limit breaks on him! Easy Peasey!!!!

Cheap. I beat both Weapons without Holy Wars or Hero Drinks. Hell, I missed almost every card, so I didn't have a choice; I never bother with the card games. Ultima Weapon isn't much harder than he was in VII. I recommend Squall, Zell, and Irvine for dealing with the Weapons.

What you need is the following:

The best weapons for every character
9999 HP on everyone
255 STR on Squall, 200+ for everyone else
100 Quick Ammo for Irvine
Megalixirs and Mega Phoenixes
A fuckton of Triple magic junctioned to everyone's Speed stat
At least one character possessing 900+ compatibility with Doomtrain
A different character possessing 900+ compatibility with Cerberus
Recover on as many characters as possible
Revive on someone other than your designated healer
100 Ultima junctioned to Elem-Def on as many characters as possible; you won't be casting it
Someone should have the Item command

Optional: Auto-Protect, Auto-Haste, Initiative, and similar abilities. It's also unlikely that you'll be able to get your characters to full HP and strength without equipping GF-based STR Plus and HP Plus abilities, so you'll probably end up equipping at least one auto-ability anyway.

Designate one guy as your medic; I used Zell. He should have Aura, Haste, Curaga, and Full-Life (and optionally, Protect) and should always be at full health to revive everyone else in the event that they're knocked out, except if he's knocked out by Light Pillar; the Revive ability can fix him up then.

Since your Speed stat will be obscenely high from junctioning Triple magic, turn the battle speed down to the slowest setting; your ATB meter will refill at a normal speed, while the Weapons will be rendered ponderously slow. This will allow you to quickly summon Doomtrain and Cerberus in rapid succession; you should do this in both fights. Doomtrain will always inflict the Vit 0 status effect, and Cerberus will give everyone Triple, but that only matters for your spellcaster, who IMMEDIATELY after Triple takes effect should cast Aura on everyone, and Haste on their next turn. This will allow you to plug away with several limit breaks before the Weapons get a chance to do anything. If you're lucky, Squall will get Lionheart; a couple of rounds of that and one or two of Irvine's should fell Ultima. At full strength, Irvine's Quick Shot is actually a lot more damaging than Hyper Shot; the individual shots do less damage, but since it fires hella fast, the damage ends up being a lot greater. You can easily do 4000 damage per hit for 30 hits, which hits for 120,000; Hyper Shot will only let you get off 6 or 7 shots for 10,000 each. Other than Light Pillar, the only attack Ultima has that can do any serious damage is his physical strike, which Recover can easily fix, since all his other magic either doesn't do that much damage or is elemental and will thus be nullified by your junctioned Ultimas.

Omega's a lot tougher, having an HP figure on par with Ruby and Emerald from VII, but the strategy remains basically the same. The only difference is that Omega casts L5 Death at the start of the fight. Also, you're far more likely to need your caster's Full-Life because of Terra Break and Megiddo Flame. Those attacks are why you've got Megalixirs and Mega Phoenixes on hand. There is a definite attack pattern to Omega's moves; he waits until the third move to use Megiddo Flame, and won't use Terra Break until about the seventh move. In between those, he occasionally uses Light Pillar, but mostly he just throws Meteors at you. Triplecasting Aura and pounding away with your limit breaks is still the way to go; you can draw shit-tons of those from the Islands Closest to Heaven and Hell, and also get a lot of experience. The Weapons are always going to be exceptionally powerful, so you'd do just as well to level up as far as you can. If you decide to make them all level 100, junction 100 Death spells to everyone's ST-Def to avoid dying.

Of course, the most disturbing thing about the Weapon fights is that I remembered all that fucking bullshit without having to look at gamefags.

[Horseboy]

Hey, Coop, I posted on this thing, like last year sometime... I put in a couple I think...

If we go by number of times mentioned... can we declare a winner yet...?

I mean, which boss, out of all these mentioned here has been mentioned the most?!?!!? I think by this time we can count votes, can't we?!!? Which of you has the total lack of anything resembling life that you can read thru this really fuckin long thread and start making hash marks? Do I hear a volunteer..? :D
I'm bored, i'd do it :P
But only if it's necessary, because 150+ pages are still 150+ pages o.O;

[Bahamut]

Why not use Aura & Rinoa for Omega Weapon? Rinoa has a limit break that makes everyone invincible.

[Jiveman]

Sigma from MegaManX3 was friggin' impossible. On that sidescrolling masterpiece on SNES timing was everything. If you didn't have the perfect rhythym and timing your a$$ is grass (not the good kind of grass either!). In fact I've built up some rage just talking about it, I'm gunna go kick his a$$ right now!!!

[Nip]

Why not use Aura & Rinoa for Omega Weapon? Rinoa has a limit break that makes everyone invincible.

I used her and it made the battle easier.

[Hadriel]

Why not use Aura & Rinoa for Omega Weapon? Rinoa has a limit break that makes everyone invincible.

You could do that if you want, but the strategy I outlined was how to beat them without invincibility.

[Crazyonr1]

Don't think I've posted anything in here yet, and I'm too lazy to look, but the first 3 minibosses in Viewteful Joe on mode, weren't hard, it was just annoying because I had to restart like twice, meaning going through that non-skippable story, at least that gave me good incentive to play better, muhahahaha

I know I suck, but whatever

[Horseboy]

I cast my vote for Shredder at the end of TMNT3: Radical Rescue. I never got past him :(

[Shadowe]

Has ikaruga been mentioned yet? Anything from level 3 onwards.

[NarutoZer]

How about Penance from FFX? Is he in here yet?

[Scufo]

Who? I don't recall any boss named Penance in FFX...unless you're talking about a game other than Final Fantasy X.

[SamuraiFoochs #Reload]

Who? I don't recall any boss named Penance in FFX...unless you're talking about a game other than Final Fantasy X.

Yeah, I don't either.

[WesPip]

Who? I don't recall any boss named Penance in FFX...unless you're talking about a game other than Final Fantasy X.

Yeah, I don't either.
It was only in the international version.
Apparently, there are also dark aeons you have to kill to get to him.

[The Tiger]

Who? I don't recall any boss named Penance in FFX...unless you're talking about a game other than Final Fantasy X.

Pennance is found in the international version.

Has anyone here played Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga? I heard Hitoshira is one tough cookie...one of the hardest bosses in any RPG.

[Zeklan]

The final gold Sol in GGX2 #Reload's survival mode...
just... damn...

[red120]

nothing really comes to mind~.. since just played through chrono trigger again recently, i guess would be golem twins.. which was a bit hard.. n then the lavos form where you meant to lose..

[The Author]

Yeah, but fights you are supposed to lose should not qualify as hardest...

Kinda like the first Bahamut fight in FF3j.

[hansikursch]

The second form of Ares in God of War is super difficult in he God difficulty. I never beat it...

[Bahamut]

You'd think that every possible hard boss has been listed in this thread already.

[Bladewind]

You'd think that every possible hard boss has been listed in this thread already.

I doubt it.

[Jabberbox]

culex fro Super Mario RPG
well, when (s)he is mad at you... it'll blast you with its crstals, than metero storm, than sandstorm, than static-e than fire wall and al that crap

[Dew]

This thread is nothing but the same bosses being listed and re-listed hundreds of times over.

Also, I reiterate that it is apparent that 95% of the people that post in this thread massively suck at video games.

[Jeriguno]

Mr. X on Streets of Rage was a horible.
Since I was a young man was dificult to defeat that bastard.

[The Author]

You'd think that every possible hard boss has been listed in this thread already.

I refuse to see this thread die. It is the oldest on OCR.

[The Author]

You'd think that every possible hard boss has been listed in this thread already.

I refuse to see this thread die. It is the oldest on OCR.

But it's over 100 pages...

So what?

It also has sentimental value. My first post ever on OCR wasin this thread, complaining about Culex.

[mecca]

Onyxia.

Seriously..I know people have done this a thousand times, but this is the only actual time where it's completely true..wait for it...


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[The Coop]

I've mentioned a few bosses from the Serious Sam series of games, but I have a new one that I think deserves mentioning.

At the end of Serious Sam 2, you go through the usual deal... namely, massive numbers of enemies that just keep coming in never ending, mind numbingly numerous waves. If you get through all that, you fight the final boss. Basically, it's a really big pyramid called the Mental institution building. There's one weak spot, and it slowly rolls forward. Yes, it can crush you, and yes the weak spot comes and goes. So what does this final boss do?

Well, it's protected by various suicide planes, fighter planes and bombers that drop bombs (duh). These all come out in good sized squadrons that will keep you blasting away in hopes of keeping them from turning you into a bloody stain on the grass. But, the building also attacks, with nifty little cannon balls, fireballs and such. What attacks you, depends on how much health the building has left, and it does get harder as you go along.

It's beatable, but it took quite a few tries before a found a "safe spot" that enabled me to get through the beginning parts without too much damage. Granted, I think that safe spot is a glitch and not an intentional place to hide, but it works.

Definitely a tough boss.

Edit: Caught a few typos.

[JohnderriLLL]

i dont know if any one put this one but in southpark for N64 the last guy was perty hard for me.

[The Author]

Onyxia.


Level 60 Shaman + Level 60 Warrior defending the Gold Mine Flag.

[Halberdier]

i dont know if any one put this one but in southpark for N64 the last guy was perty hard for me.

I had that about a week then got rid of it. What a pile of pooh that game was. And yes, that boss was hard. In fact, I don't think I ever beet him without using the all weapons/infinite ammo cheat. Just couldn't work out how to beat him.

[Eternal Testament]

My most hard fought, irritating, joypad breaking, thumb blistering and bloody right humiliating boss battle was with Akuma in SSF2Turbo. Not only did I have to fight my way through the game on level 8 difficulty without losing a round, I mean that's hard enough, I then have to suffer the indignity of having my ass handed to me for 4 and half hours at the hands of that topknotted nutjob.

[Zipp]

Hardest fight of all time? It's gotta be one of those early NES bosses. Some of the ones from Guardian Legend I still can't beat without Game Genie. Also, that goddamn train boss in Spy Hunter 2.

[anne amère]

Holy shit, this thread is old.

I still need to defeat Quadraxis in Metroid Prime 2 and finally finish the boring game.

[genghisdani]

Holy shit, this thread is old.

I still need to defeat Quadraxis in Metroid Prime 2 and finally finish the boring game.
Same here...

I'm having trouble finishing Advance Wars: Dual Strike though. I'm on the level with a satellite that shoots beams. I wouldn't call it a boss, but it's definitely a hard level.

[about:blank]

Culex

[Battousai]

The last boss in NARC is, I believe, invincible (at least for the arcade? I think it was) to show that the war against drugs is NEVER OVER.

Or something like that.

Right now the hardest boss for me is the Yokozuna in We (Heart) Katamari.

[razor's edge]

Not the all-time hardest but...

The first time I fought the second level's boss in Gradius V. After a long level, and a barrage of power-ups, ya get to the boss. So I fight him, and I win, and I think, well that wasn't so tough. But wait. He has a second form. Oh. Well, after that one, which gets a little crazy at times, I pull through. Ok then, pretty chall-wha? A third form. This one I recognize from Gradius III. So I fight it, end up losing my options and what not, but barely win on my last life, but finally, I've triumph-...DAMMIT! A fourth form?!? The hell? And then I get destroyed, in a big big way. Oy.

It's one crazy fight.

[genghisdani]

Not the all-time hardest but...

The first time I fought the second level's boss in Gradius V. After a long level, and a barrage of power-ups, ya get to the boss. So I fight him, and I win, and I think, well that wasn't so tough. But wait. He has a second form. Oh. Well, after that one, which gets a little crazy at times, I pull through. Ok then, pretty chall-wha? A third form. This one I recognize from Gradius III. So I fight it, end up losing my options and what not, but barely win on my last life, but finally, I've triumph-...DAMMIT! A fourth form?!? The hell? And then I get destroyed, in a big big way. Oy.

It's one crazy fight.
Reminds me of KoL: "Now I shall reveal my TRUE true form!"

[anne amère]

Holy shit, this thread is old.

I still need to defeat Quadraxis in Metroid Prime 2 and finally finish the boring game.
Same here...

I'm having trouble finishing Advance Wars: Dual Strike though. I'm on the level with a satellite that shoots beams. I wouldn't call it a boss, but it's definitely a hard level.
It's rather sad because I can reach his final form with full health, and yet I can NEVER LAND ON HIS FUCKING HEAD.

[Zipp]

Culex

What, from Mario RPG? You just need to level a bunch. Then he's easy.

As for the Metroid Prime 2 boss... yeah, that thing was difficult. I put the game down for a couple months before coming back, I was frustrated. I was glad in the end, though. The bosses which kick our asses are always the most gratifying to beat.

[Brycepops]

The last boss in NARC is, I believe, invincible (at least for the arcade? I think it was) to show that the war against drugs is NEVER OVER.

Or something like that.

Right now the hardest boss for me is the Yokozuna in We (Heart) Katamari.

He's not invincible, you just have to aim at a certain spot on him, which pisses me off greatly :x

[Neonlare]

Not the hardest boss in history but,

Malpercio from Baiten Kaitos, his final form, was the hardest boss (statisticly) in the game, making him the best formula for the Main bad guy.

And Damn, he handed back my spleen after 5 attempts at him, I finally defeated him, he changes his element and does hidiously high damage with his special.

But no, he weren't the hardest, not by a long shot.

Giacamo and his cronies, on the Battle Ship, without a healing spot, but a save station, when your half hp and under leveled.

After 10 attempts (no sh*t) I was tempted to sell the game, but it was only because of Giacamo's voice acting (along with Mizuti and, sometimes Gibari) I would never of had the option of it on.

[Halberdier]

Not the hardest boss in history but,

Malpercio from Baiten Kaitos, his final form, was the hardest boss (statisticly) in the game, making him the best formula for the Main bad guy.

And Damn, he handed back my spleen after 5 attempts at him, I finally defeated him, he changes his element and does hidiously high damage with his special.

But no, he weren't the hardest, not by a long shot.

Giacamo and his cronies, on the Battle Ship, without a healing spot, but a save station, when your half hp and under leveled.

After 10 attempts (no sh*t) I was tempted to sell the game, but it was only because of Giacamo's voice acting (along with Mizuti and, sometimes Gibari) I would never of had the option of it on.

I never heard Giacamo's voice acting. It infuriated me by the time I got to Gibari. So I turned it off.

[Psychonaut]

Onyxia.

... has been 10-manned. A far cry from "hardest boss ever".

My roommate still hasn't beat the optional last boss in Valkyrie Profile. I've never played the game so I don't fully understand anything, I just know that a single attack after she goes into "super bitch mode" obliterates his party like 7 times over. I have no idea how you'd beat a boss that does several times your max HP in damage to the entire party in a single attack.

[Ferret]

Onyxia.

... has been 10-manned. A far cry from "hardest boss ever".

My roommate still hasn't beat the optional last boss in Valkyrie Profile. I've never played the game so I don't fully understand anything, I just know that a single attack after she goes into "super bitch mode" obliterates his party like 7 times over. I have no idea how you'd beat a boss that does several times your max HP in damage to the entire party in a single attack.

Level up more.

Also, I recently reached the final boss in Terranigma. His second phase rendered me incapable of doing more than 3 damage per hit. Maybe I need to level up more.

._.;;;

[Neonlare]

Not the hardest boss in history but,

Malpercio from Baiten Kaitos, his final form, was the hardest boss (statisticly) in the game, making him the best formula for the Main bad guy.

And Damn, he handed back my spleen after 5 attempts at him, I finally defeated him, he changes his element and does hidiously high damage with his special.

But no, he weren't the hardest, not by a long shot.

Giacamo and his cronies, on the Battle Ship, without a healing spot, but a save station, when your half hp and under leveled.

After 10 attempts (no sh*t) I was tempted to sell the game, but it was only because of Giacamo's voice acting (along with Mizuti and, sometimes Gibari) I would never of had the option of it on.

I never heard Giacamo's voice acting. It infuriated me by the time I got to Gibari. So I turned it off.

Giacamo has a very bad-ass english accent, Gibari's ok some times, but Mizuti I like most. It has the best voice in the game, with a strange echo to it that was done on purpose.

Still, Giacamo was awesome, only thing that dragged him down for me was the funky outfit he wore...

[Psychonaut]

Level up more.

There's no trick to it? It's really just "level up until you have the insane amount of HP to beat this retardedly hard boss?"

Weak.

[Xeero]

Sigma from MegaManX3 was friggin' impossible. On that sidescrolling masterpiece on SNES timing was everything. If you didn't have the perfect rhythym and timing your a$$ is grass (not the good kind of grass either!). In fact I've built up some rage just talking about it, I'm gunna go kick his a$$ right now!!!

I used to think that Sigma was hard. I've beat MMX3 about 500 times now and I can almost take him down with a completely unpowered-up Mega Man. That is, no powerups at all.

I usually die on his second form when he's around 50% HP.

Now, that is fucking hard. MMX3 with no powerups. Sigma is a tank.

[Broken]

Pretty much take your pick from any Ninja Gaiden Boss (especially on the higher difficulties).
But to be more specific, the first Doku in mission mode.

[Ferret]

Level up more.

There's no trick to it? It's really just "level up until you have the insane amount of HP to beat this retardedly hard boss?"

Weak.

I had more in mind that it would (hopefully) give you the stats and spells needed to not get your ass raped.

You know, like having almost 200 defense and 340 offense...or something like that.



That or there's something you need to do first that will make the boss weaker and let you kill it with relative ease.

Edit: I hate Sigma.

[Darkmetamorphasis]

We all hate sigma... I had a harder time trying to get out of there during his "I'm gonna turn into an annoying wireframe grinning face while lava flows up" phase during X3. His forms before though, were a joke compared when I had the Z-saber.

[MisterBiggler]

Sigma from MegaManX3 was friggin' impossible. On that sidescrolling masterpiece on SNES timing was everything. If you didn't have the perfect rhythym and timing your a$$ is grass (not the good kind of grass either!). In fact I've built up some rage just talking about it, I'm gunna go kick his a$$ right now!!!

I used to think that Sigma was hard. I've beat MMX3 about 500 times now and I can almost take him down with a completely unpowered-up Mega Man. That is, no powerups at all.

I usually die on his second form when he's around 50% HP.

Now, that is fucking hard. MMX3 with no powerups. Sigma is a tank.

Yeah, fuck Sigma. I can take him out now, but he was the source of much VG frustration as a child. I think he's p. challenging in X4, probably more so than in X3. In X2 and X, he's not that bad.

[Raven Leader X]

It's late, I've had about 2 hours of sleep and have been hit upside the damn head too much, so here's my two cents...

1) Manfred Von Karma during both of the Edgeworth Trials (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney...let's just say that dirty rat bastard objects you on everything.)

2) Jet Stingray (fighting as Zero, MMX4) because the damn game doesn't let you hit the ice attack at a high enough distance, and so you end up getting nailed.

3) The Forgotten One (Castlevania: Lament of Innocence for PS2)

4) The First Boss from Ninja Gaiden Black for XBox. That bastard kicked my ass, every time. Still does. I can block about 2 attacks, he looks like he's going to chain the attacks, and then...I get thrown halfway across Wabashaw.

5) Cerberus from Devil May Cry 3. Anyone say bad dog? (Especially hard w/o use of the Devil Trigger.)

6) The Weapons from FF7. It's a royal pain in the ass to prepare to fight them, and what's worse is that when you get there, they slap you around something fierce.

7) Crow from Def Jam: Fight For NY. The guy was a grappling bastard, I'll give him that.

8) Dauragon C. Mikado (3rd Form) from the Bouncer. By this point, you've got no health, no defense, and your fingers are aching like a madman.

9) Sphinx (Rygar: Legendary Adventure) because of those damn homing fireballs.

10) Magus from Chrono Trigger. Sassarassafrassin barriers...grr...guy had me deadlocked in a battle for 2 straight hours.

[JohnderriLLL]

i got a good one i think. the last guy in keith courage in alpha zones. i have never beaten that guy. splatter house bosses were hard too.

[JoeFu]

It's late, I've had about 2 hours of sleep and have been hit upside the damn head too much, so here's my two cents...

5) Cerberus from Devil May Cry 3. Anyone say bad dog? (Especially hard w/o use of the Devil Trigger.)


I thought he was easy. All I did was shoot him with Ebony and Ivory until he was almost dead. Granted it took forever, but once you have his weekness he dies in less than a minute.

[ReMiX]

It's late, I've had about 2 hours of sleep and have been hit upside the damn head too much, so here's my two cents...

2) Jet Stingray (fighting as Zero, MMX4) because the damn game doesn't let you hit the ice attack at a high enough distance, and so you end up getting nailed.



What are you talking about? He's easy with Zero. Simply stand behind him (same side as him and in the corner) and do the jumping turning slash over and over, when he dives down you should be safe. You can use the Ice Sword once he is in the water, but other than that stay in the corner he is in and destroy the little stingray things if needed. With X on the other hand, :lol:

[linkspast]

wow 158 pages.

[Ferret]

10) Magus from Chrono Trigger. Sassarassafrassin barriers...grr...guy had me deadlocked in a battle for 2 straight hours.


What are you talking about?! Magus was a frigging pansy! I had more trouble on that giant skeleton zombie than I ever did on Magus!

(Mainly because whatever barrier he changes to has a weakness, that and you could always just hit him with the Masamune to make him cry like a bitch.)

[ZeroBass.Exe]

Sigma in X6 is a joke, straight up! Poor bastard can barely even move, the Anchor weapon makes him drop and cry like a bitch, and his second form is raped with two special attacks from the Shadow armor! X3, however, pissed me off to no end until I found the safe spots. In his first form, just dash jump to whatever wall he's against and hug it, his shots can't touch you, when he's ready to jump, fire Crush Crawfish's weapon, he'll leap right into it! The secon form is pretty easy if you remember one rule...don't stop moving!

[The Author]

Sigma, X4.

I'm actually looking for a cheat for that bastard, because form 3 kills me.

[ZeroBass.Exe]

X or Zero?

As X, use Rising flame during the first form just as Sigma appears, if timed right he will not get an attack off, do this two times, when he disappears, hightail it to the main top of whichever wall is closer, and stay there until he follows through with his screen slash, repeat until form two. In this form, Sigma throws his scythe in a half circle of whichever direction he's facing, run behind him and blast him, then jump on the wall for the next attack, he will throw his scythe whever you are, which is a bad thing if you're on the floor, as the attack is near impossible to dodge. If it sticks in the wall, however, you can shoot him while dashing to the wall behind where he jumps and fires those dual lasers from his eyes, blast him after the laser stops and prepare to repeat the process, once you learn the patterns and timing, you should take no damage for the first two rounds, therefore saving your energy tanks. Form three has five attack styles actually. If attacked by the red head, he homes his shots at your position when he fired, so stay put for the first two against the wall where the Blue and Yellow heads are, after two shots, scramble to the top for the next two, then drop down before they hit. The blue head is easily dodged, just jump on top of it or jump to the top of the far wall. The yellow head is the only one that should have a chance to hit you, Rising Flame it as soon as it appears to minimize attack. The Sigma head on the floor will either try to suck you in or blow you into a spike wall. Dash in opposite direction until wind stops, then hit it with Ground Hunter, it will fade after a few hits then one of the heads will attack...dodge accordingly. Laser Gun Sigma is vulnerable in the face. If he is just shooting random shots then dodge them before the spread out and try to land a few shots on him. If he says "The End" then scramble to the top of the Heads Wall to the left quickly, else you will feel pain...lots of it. Either way when this form fades you will be attacked by another one of the heads again. Repeat until finished. Both heads need to be destroyed before victory.


Zero has an easier time with this. Sigma's first form is still weak to Flaming Uppercut (Forgot the name of the attack), and same attack pattern still applies, hit him twice then climb a wall until his screen sweep is done, repeat. Form two...same. Form three, Flaming Uppercut the Laser Gun Sigma head when opportunity arises, mostly in his Non-The End attack pattern, and use Zero's Ice Attack on the Ground BOund head. Also, the Flaming Uppercut is useful on the Yellow head when it attacks! Hope this helps you!

[The Coop]

Last weekend, I got in the mood the play through Clive Barker's Undying again. It'd been a while, so I figured what the hell. I played through and made good progress, making it to the final boss of the game without any real trouble from the other bosses. And that's when I was reminded of what a pain in the ass the game's final boss was.

I won't say it's name, as that would wreck some of the surprise. However, it's big, it's worm-like, and it has a weak point that I still don't know exactly where it is. Besides having very large tentacles in the water that can swat you dead in two hits, you have to blow off a few things from it's body. This part's very easy, as it only takes a few blasts of dynamite. However, what follows is both simple, and seemingly impossible.

Now it's gut opens up and tries to suck you in. A quick shot from the gun and that's done. Then it leans down, and... something opens on it's head. Here's the hard part. You're supposed to hit it somewhere, but I've never figured out where though. So while you're trying to hit that mysterious weak point, you've still got tentacles trying to swat you, and the gut that tries to suck you in if you don't hit the weak point after a certain amount of time.

Now, I've beaten the boss, and I've seen the ending. But, I still have no clue where it's weak point is. As such, it turns into an endurance test to see how long you can go before you either win, or run out of health and healing items. So much of it's easy, but it's that last bit of info that winds up making it tough.

Something tells me though, if I ever do learn where that spot is, it'll be like the final boss in [i}Quake[/i] where it becomes so easy to win, it's sad :lol:

[Glenn565]

Last weekend, I got in the mood the play through Clive Barker's Undying again. It'd been a while, so I figured what the hell. I played through and made good progress, making it to the final boss of the game without any real trouble from the other bosses. And that's when I was reminded of what a pain in the ass the game's final boss was.

I won't say it's name, as that would wreck some of the surprise. However, it's big, it's worm-like, and it has a weak point that I still don't know exactly where it is. Besides having very large tentacles in the water that can swat you dead in two hits, you have to blow off a few things from it's body. This part's very easy, as it only takes a few blasts of dynamite. However, what follows is both simple, and seemingly impossible.

Now it's gut opens up and tries to suck you in. A quick shot from the gun and that's done. Then it leans down, and... something opens on it's head. Here's the hard part. You're supposed to hit it somewhere, but I've never figured out where though. So while you're trying to hit that mysterious weak point, you've still got tentacles trying to swat you, and the gut that tries to suck you in if you don't hit the weak point after a certain amount of time.

Now, I've beaten the boss, and I've seen the ending. But, I still have no clue where it's weak point is. As such, it turns into an endurance test to see how long you can go before you either win, or run out of health and healing items. So much of it's easy, but it's that last bit of info that winds up making it tough.

Something tells me though, if I ever do learn where that spot is, it'll be like the final boss in [i}Quake[/i] where it becomes so easy to win, it's sad :lol:
A quick seach on GameFAQs revealed That you're supposed to shoot a charged Skull Storm into the opening in it's head, then he opens his lower body again and the pattern repeats itself.

[DarkPoinko]

I'd have to add in a character that I doubt has been put on this list, which is a shame, 'cos he's a real beast, too.

The level 200 Zenothlee at the end of Grandia Xtreme. First of all, a pain in the ass because he's level 200. But he's also at the bottom of a 100-floor dungeon. Plus, he's resistant to quite a bit of magic, and has insane defense and HP. Not to mention the backup of four different floating crystals(think Culex, but meaner), and the crystal regenerate after you defeat them.

The battle itself will take forever, especially if you factor in the time it takes to get to the bottom of the dungeon and the time it takes to level up enough to not get killed in the first five minutes, and to track down enough equipment to survive and do damage to him.

Stupid Zenothlee.

[The Coop]

I'm currently stuck in Burnout 3: Take Down. Now while it's true that there are no "bosses" persé, there is a final race... or at least, a second to final race.

I have everything done but two events in the USA section. I've unlocked most of the cars, earned all the money-based ones from the crash events, and overall, I've done well in the game. But this final part is just... almost cheating. The second to last event is Grand Prix race of four tracks in a row, and holy hell is it hard. You're stuck with the Formula 1 car, which is quite fast. Sadly, it's also extremely squirrelly in the rear, and it steers like a brick once you get going. It's so light, that as you gain speed, you're almost floating just off the ground, making maneuvering a real pain. No only that, but the course is littered with traffic (moreso than usual), and the other cars seem to have this uncanny ability to stick to the road like they have super glue on their tires... despite having the same type of car you do.

It's the type of thing that makes racing games feel cheap, and it's a shame this game resorts to this kind of bullshittery right at the end of an otherwise great and very fun game. I've been trying to beat this damned race for a week now, and the best I've done is fourth place over all. I'm almost scared to see what the final event will be, if this is what they're throwing at me right before it.

[Darth Lime]

With all the posts abot FF7 and how to beat some of the bosses, I just might get this game. Combine my little knowledge on RPGs with your guys' superior smartness, I'll pwn that game in no time. But provided that it's a Final Fantasy game, I'll except long hours and minimal sleep. :?

I didn't read all 160+ pages but I saw lots of FF games. Did anyone post about FFX? The fight against that one tank thing on the ice lake and the fight with that one dude with blue hair and a girly voice. He was a bitch. I tried leveling up so much but he whooped me big time. I'm might get FFX again just to beat him. Any ideas?

[HamsterCorp]

I didn't read all 160+ pages but I saw lots of FF games. Did anyone post about FFX? The fight against that one tank thing on the ice lake and the fight with that one dude with blue hair and a girly voice. He was a bitch. I tried leveling up so much but he whooped me big time. I'm might get FFX again just to beat him. Any ideas?
Seymour? Which version of him?

And it sounds like you didn't even see any of the extra bosses in the Arena, and Nemesis.

[HamsterCorp]

Yeah, those dual-chainsaw guys are just insane.

[Darth Lime]

I didn't read all 160+ pages but I saw lots of FF games. Did anyone post about FFX? The fight against that one tank thing on the ice lake and the fight with that one dude with blue hair and a girly voice. He was a bitch. I tried leveling up so much but he whooped me big time. I'm might get FFX again just to beat him. Any ideas?
Seymour? Which version of him?

And it sounds like you didn't even see any of the extra bosses in the Arena, and Nemesis. Yeah Seymour. The form with the strong summon. The undead dude that shoots crap out of his eye. I can get to the summon but then 2 two hits and I'm down for the count.

[CE]

Sigma, X4.

I'm actually looking for a cheat for that bastard, because form 3 kills me.

I remember that... Are you talking about defeating him with Megaman or Zero? I haven't played X4 in a long time, but I recall Zero's final battle to be tougher, with the whole limited range thing...

Also, Colonel seemed very tough with Zero at the time...

[Thalzon]

I didn't read all 160+ pages but I saw lots of FF games. Did anyone post about FFX? The fight against that one tank thing on the ice lake and the fight with that one dude with blue hair and a girly voice. He was a bitch. I tried leveling up so much but he whooped me big time. I'm might get FFX again just to beat him. Any ideas?
Seymour? Which version of him?

And it sounds like you didn't even see any of the extra bosses in the Arena, and Nemesis. Yeah Seymour. The form with the strong summon. The undead dude that shoots crap out of his eye. I can get to the summon but then 2 two hits and I'm down for the count.

Summoning Shiva (???? in Yuna's summon menu) should be enough to vanquish Seymour's summon. If not, summon another aeon.

[Darth Lime]

I tried summoning but they died. Damn you Seymour!

[Thalzon]

You must be seriously under-levelled then, or your strategy isn't working. Shiva should be enough to at least take Anima down to near-death.

K, if you want a REALLY hard RPG boss, Yaksa Meganada from Digital Devil Saga 2 has had me levelling up and learning skills for the past 4 hours of gameplay, and I still can't beat him.

He starts by being immune to physical attacks and using nothing but physical attacks. Then, after he's been dealt about 2000 damage, he's begin using a powerful, multi-hit move that can kill your entire party and is unblockable. At about 3000 or so, he'll change to his magic form, and get at least 4 turns every round. If he exploits a weakness, he'll get more. Oh, and he's now immune to all magic save electricity, which he absorbs.

At about 4000 damage he'll use a lightning move that WILL kill the entire party unless blocked. He'll also use status magic, meaning if a certain character is in your party you're gonna get raped.

By the way, he's got 9000 hit points. I basically need to find and learn Debilitate on the skill grid if I want to avoid getting slaughtered every time.

[strokethebigtree]

Yaksa Meganada wasn't that bad. Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne's Tyrant Mot gets my vote. potentially unlimited attack turns + spell boosters + unblockable spells :(

[The Coop]

Wow. This game's final bosses are a pain.

I've been playing Shining the Holy Ark again for a while now, and I finally reached the end. It's been a few years since I last played and won, and I'd forgotten how this final section is a bitch. It's one of those endings were you don't fight a boss, but rather two bosses... one of whom has helpers.

First, you fight Rilix who summons a pair of very large armored Evil Vampires to her side. Besides her pounding on you with top level Freeze spells and various attacks like Poison Claw and such, you also have to contend with her large helpers... who have all sorts of attacks and magic of their own. Once (if?) you manage to make it through all this, you win right? Wrong.

I won't say who or what is the final boss (I won't ruin the fun), or even what you have to beat on the thing. But know that it's big, powerful, and not only does it do plenty of damage with it's attacks, it has one spell that can bring the game to a fast end... Soul Steal. If it hits, that character dies right on the spot. So you go from being pummeled by three different powerful monsters, to being killed instantly by one. Granted, there are spells and such that can bring characters back to life, but magic points run out, and so do items.

Having tried several times to win, I think I'll be doing some leveling up before I try again.

Edit: Damned spelling again...

[magemaster]

the hardesgt boss was the first boss in Legend of Zelda:ovarina of time...... the place is so dark and i can not find the boss in the first place to kill him.

[linkspast]

sephroth..... from KINGDOM HEARTS ><

[Catlein]

This has probably been mentioned, but the pumped-up version of Indalecio from Star Ocean 2 is bloody impossible. D:

[King Dedede]

the hardesgt boss was the first boss in Legend of Zelda:ovarina of time...... the place is so dark and i can not find the boss in the first place to kill him.
Someone's biological clock is ticking, no?

[Cooltad***]

i would say the atma weapon from FF3. or maybe masa&mune from chrono trigger.

i've always thought fighting bowser the third time in mario 64 was rather tough, but i've also met people who think i'm either stupid or just a pansy for thinking that.

wtf is wrong with you? That boss Atma was an easy win. That is if your level 40....

[Cooltad***]

One of the hardest bosses I've ever fought was Galda from Dragon Spirit: The new Legend when you are in Blue Dragon mode and have1/3 health and No powers. Takes me like 4 hours

[nomindo]

i would say the atma weapon from FF3. or maybe masa&mune from chrono trigger.

i've always thought fighting bowser the third time in mario 64 was rather tough, but i've also met people who think i'm either stupid or just a pansy for thinking that.

wtf is wrong with you? That boss Atma was an easy win. That is if your level 40....

There was also the Vanish/Doom trick that worked on almost every boss.

[Laughy]

http://www.laughy.net/sonic1boss1.jpg

[Mae]

8O This thread is still around?


Okay, any Dragon Quest VIII players out there?

What are your thoughts on the bonus dungeon bosses? GOSH DANG THOSE GUYS ARE TOUGH!

[DanTheClam]

the pumped-up version of Indalecio from Star Ocean 2 is bloody impossible.

I'll second that. I went through the entire extra dungeon, got all its absurd items, decimated the boss, beat the extra boss in the trumpet, and assumed Indalecio++ would be easy. He destroyed me.

[Dexie]

Once you get Bahamut and the ability to make Trio of 9999, FFX's normal bosses are way too easy.

Grand Summon Bahamut, Mega Flare, Mega Flare, dismiss, Trio of 9999, Blitz Ace/Whatever Tidus's second move is called. Bring in Auron and Wakka to clean up.



I've still never managed to beat Ballos in Cave Story, namely because I can't make it through Hell.

[Pallad]

8O This thread is still around?


Okay, any Dragon Quest VIII players out there?

What are your thoughts on the bonus dungeon bosses? GOSH DANG THOSE GUYS ARE TOUGH!

Hahaha, I think I quit on the SPOILERS

Dragovian Trials after the...I think it was the third version he went to decided to just kill a couple of party members in one turn. END SPOILERS

With the game having been so easy up to that point, I just decided it wasn't worth screwing around with.

[chthonic]

posting in a HUEG thread

I'd have to say those twin mantises from jet force gemini

[Chizniz]

posting in a HUEG thread

I'd have to say those twin mantises from jet force gemini

I'd have to agree, you hardly have time to shoot at them because 95% of your efforts must go toward evading claws and laser wrath from the left and right. Bitches.

[Bummerdude]

Sephiroth in KH is a pain.

[Tricklozen]

8O This thread is still around?
It is indeed the hardest boss. Its incredibly powerful attack, "Rollback", throws the entire forumverse back in time! I could never find that post again. Lost. Forever.

[Sag Ee Mana]

The hardest boss for everyone is inside us...
That's our ego.

What ? Offtopic ? Wrong thread ? xD :P

[Bummerdude]

8O This thread is still around?
It is indeed the hardest boss. Its incredibly powerful attack, "Rollback", throws the entire forumverse back in time! I could never find that post again. Lost. Forever.
And bumps only makes it stronger. Just thought you should know.

[The Author]

It is rumored that when this thread will die, OCR will never be the same again.

[Aki Kitsune]

This has probably been mentioned, but the pumped-up version of Indalecio from Star Ocean 2 is bloody impossible. D:

I was going to say this but I recently beat him by giving in and doing the bloody armor method. It was still a pain though. I'm going to go with Freya in Star Ocean: Till the End of Time now. Can't wait for THAT on 4D mode. Wooo a boss with 60,000,000 HP. If I can do at least 1,000,000 HP of damage each minute the fight won't be longer then an hour!

[Doulifée]

It is rumored that when this thread will die, OCR will never be the same again.

the "All time hardest boss..." thread is the OCR equivalent of Ruby weapon from FF7 :lol:

[speculative]

For me, it's the boss in Conquest of the Crystal Palace for NES. I played that game against last year, and couldn't even get past the 2nd level. This is one of those old action/platformer old-school games that had no save system, and no password system. You had a few lives, and a few continues, and that was it. You could get a few extra lives in various levels as well. So basically, the entire game was the boss because you had to beat all the levels just to reach the boss. I played it for 20+ hours straight, got to the boss, died 3 times, and returned it to the rental place. Insanely tough. 8O

[ekm]

8O This thread is still around?
It is indeed the hardest boss. Its incredibly powerful attack, "Rollback", throws the entire forumverse back in time! I could never find that post again. Lost. Forever.
And bumps only makes it stronger. Just thought you should know.

What if everyone stops posting and just casts "Delete Post" every turn? I'm thinking Earthbound here...

[Doulifée]

8O This thread is still around?
It is indeed the hardest boss. Its incredibly powerful attack, "Rollback", throws the entire forumverse back in time! I could never find that post again. Lost. Forever.
And bumps only makes it stronger. Just thought you should know.

What if everyone stops posting and just casts "Delete Post" every turn? I'm thinking Earthbound here...

or cast a lock if your main character job is "Moderator"

[ZeroBass.Exe]

here's one for you, final boss in Batman: Return of the Joker for NES...you have 80000 hit points, which sounds like a lot, till you realize that each attack takes off about 4-5 hundred a piece, joker has 250000 and virtually no safe spots, and each of your attacks do, well, considerably less!

[Back_Lit]

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars - Jinx

While Jinx is actually not all THAT tough at your higher levels I am trying to beat the game below level 20, which is the only challenging way to play the game, and I can't beat him at lvl 13 =/ damn

[Mae]

8O This thread is still around?


Okay, any Dragon Quest VIII players out there?

What are your thoughts on the bonus dungeon bosses? GOSH DANG THOSE GUYS ARE TOUGH!

Hahaha, I think I quit on the SPOILERS

Dragovian Trials after the...I think it was the third version he went to decided to just kill a couple of party members in one turn. END SPOILERS

With the game having been so easy up to that point, I just decided it wasn't worth screwing around with.
I'm only at the second dragon, and I've managed to live long enough to see that he's got over 6225HP. So, I'm running around the Heavenly Dais trying to level up...but, eh, it's probably not helping too much when I'm already level 48. Levelling up takes forever now.

[Zoola]

8O This thread is still around?
It is indeed the hardest boss. Its incredibly powerful attack, "Rollback", throws the entire forumverse back in time! I could never find that post again. Lost. Forever.
And bumps only makes it stronger. Just thought you should know.

What if everyone stops posting and just casts "Delete Post" every turn? I'm thinking Earthbound here...

or cast a lock if your main character job is "Moderator"
Pray. Thats how you win.
Or be like conker and crash the server.

[tyler_lucero]

And it sounds like you didn't even see any of the extra bosses in the Arena, and Nemesis.
How do you take down EarthEater?

[Bummerdude]

And it sounds like you didn't even see any of the extra bosses in the Arena, and Nemesis.
How do you take down EarthEater?
Beat him up, soon he will fall backwards and there's your chance to do some serious damage. I don't remember how to avoid Megaton punch though.

[Zipp]

You know, I don't think there's any boss in any game past the NES that's defeated me forever. I mean, there's those ridiculous special bosses in FFX, but I don't really think they count. Generally, if I don't beat a boss, it doesn't mean it's too hard for me to beat it, it means I'm too bored of the game to try. In games with levels, you can always level more, rendering bosses stupid easy. In games without levels, it's generally bad controls that make a boss hard, like that stupid star in Mario Party 3.

The final boss in Max Payne 2 really bugged me though.

[Bummerdude]

You know, I don't think there's any boss in any game past the NES that's defeated me forever. I mean, there's those ridiculous special bosses in FFX, but I don't really think they count. Generally, if I don't beat a boss, it doesn't mean it's too hard for me to beat it, it means I'm too bored of the game to try. In games with levels, you can always level more, rendering bosses stupid easy. In games without levels, it's generally bad controls that make a boss hard, like that stupid star in Mario Party 3.
Well, try to get you Sphere grid completely equipped. Then you can start removing the weak speheres (like Strength+1) and replace it with a better sphere ( Strength+4), but since that includes SOOOOOOO much work with all the leveling up and stuff like that, I'll rather pass and leave it to the game nerds.

[Zipp]

You know, I don't think there's any boss in any game past the NES that's defeated me forever. I mean, there's those ridiculous special bosses in FFX, but I don't really think they count. Generally, if I don't beat a boss, it doesn't mean it's too hard for me to beat it, it means I'm too bored of the game to try. In games with levels, you can always level more, rendering bosses stupid easy. In games without levels, it's generally bad controls that make a boss hard, like that stupid star in Mario Party 3.
Well, try to get you Sphere grid completely equipped. Then you can start removing the weak speheres (like Strength+1) and replace it with a better sphere ( Strength+4), but since that includes SOOOOOOO much work with all the leveling up and stuff like that, I'll rather pass and leave it to the game nerds.

Yeah, i wasn't really interested in beating them. That's why i don't think they count. They are not required to beat the game, so one solution is just to not fight them.

I think the guy on the first page hit it pretty good. That boss in time lords is ridiculous hard. But then again, that's an NES game. Those were almost all of them ridiculous hard.

So, basically, I think older systems and RPGs are out, unless leveling can't help you in the RPG. Like for instance, there's this one mission in Tactics where you have to beat the level in like the second turn or else the NPC you're trying to protect gets annihilated. You all know what I'm talking about? I beat it, of course (using ninja shoes), but I thought that was pretty stupid hard. I was very leveled by that point, but since the NPC's don't level with you, it didn't matter.

[mastergohan]

I always thought sephiroth in kh was a pain in the ass...but now he's cake.

[rabix]

Toughest boss I'm ever going to know comes from Romancing SaGa 2 for the SNES. I dare any of you to beat this boss legitly, that is, without using the most powerful water spell that cancel's the enemies attack that round. Heres a little bit about how the boss works:

"This is a multi-stage battle. Every 6000 HP in damage that you deal to the
boss, the body of another Hero sprouts out of it. It starts with Rocbouquet
at the beginning of battle, then Subier (blue guy with single horn in forehead),
then Noel, and then randomly with the other four Heroes. Now, this is very
important: the final boss has available every technique, spell, and signature
move belonging to those Heroes currently visible. So, at the beginning with
Rocbouquet, the final boss can use Temptation, an electrical attack, Siphon,
and weak epee attacks. As soon as Subier pops out, however, the final boss
ALSO has Maelstrom, water spells, and spear attacks. For every Hero visible,
that's one attack the final boss has, every turn, choosing from any attacks
belonging to those Heroes. So by the end of this, the final boss will be
throwing seven attacks at you EVERY ROUND, with everything ranging from weak
stabbing attacks to Maelstrom and Psycho Bind. Scared yet?

As I mentioned, each "stage" of this battle has 6,000 HP before the next form
will open up. Any damage done over that 6,000 is wasted, because the HP resets
upon form change (so if you hit the boss with a 7000 damage technique, that's
1000 damage wasted). After all seven Heroes become available, the HP resets to
over 65,000. So, in total, the final boss has around 100,000 HP."

So, I guess you can be considered an RPG god if you beat this game the "legit" way. I however, pussied out and went with the spell Quicktime, so I didn't have to endure THAT many attacks.

[Zipp]

That's terrifying. Good thing I never cared to go back and play the SaGa series after the PS1 games were so awful.

[linkspast]

I'll rather pass and leave it to the game nerds.

you are a game nerd, you are posting on OCR...

[Metsuo]

I'll rather pass and leave it to the game nerds.

you are a game nerd, you are posting on OCR...

He didn't spend 300 hours leveling up to beat a bunch of palette swaps, though.

[Bummerdude]

I always thought sephiroth in kh was a pain in the ass...but now he's cake.
Remove all your accessories and only use Kingdom Key, then we'll see how good you are. I managed to do it at level 76, but MAN, was he tough.

I'll rather pass and leave it to the game nerds.
you are a game nerd, you are posting on OCR...
Oh yeah? Well.....



*looks at previous post*



...no comments.

[WesPip]

Maybe I just suck, but I find Ares in God of War [particularly on God mode] rediculously difficult.
Yeah.

[Zipp]

Maybe I just suck, but I find Ares in God of War [particularly on God mode] rediculously difficult.
Yeah.

No, you don't suck. He was fairly tough. That's just a matter of doing it enough so you learn his patterns and can tell what move he's gonna pull out next. Like most of the DMC fights.

[The Coop]

OH! Ooooohhhhh... this is bad.

Okay. So while I was at a local flea, I decided to pick up a copy of the original Darkstalkers game for the PS1. I'd heard various things about it, ranging from it being programmed by Psygnosis (published by Capcom), to it's being a better port of Darkstalkers than the Saturn version of Nightwarriors was of that arcade game. So, since it was damn near in mint condition, I figured what the hell and grabbed it for a whopping $7.

Ho-ly shit. This game, is hard. I don't mean "you just have yet to learn the moves"-hard, I mean "GAH! MAKE IT STOP!"-hard. On one star, this game will kick your ass. On eight stars? Just give it up. The difficulty level of this game is ramped way up compared to Nightwarriors and Vampire Savior (Darkstlkers 3 for PS1 folk). I tried the game on four stars. After three hours, I got to Pyron, the final boss. I couldn't beat him. I honestly couldn't beat him.

I'm rather good with Jon Talbain and Morrigan. I can beat both Saturn games quite handsomely on four stars of difficulty. But the PS1 Darkstalkers is just insane. Pyron moves so quickly from one attack to another, I was starting to think he was stopping one attack before it was actually over so he could do the next one. Jump in the air? Get knocked down. Stay on the ground? Get pummeled. It was a no-win situation.

I don't know if the rumors regarding Psygnosis' programming the game are true, but whether they're responsible or not, the PS1 Darkstalkers game is a test of will and endurance... topped by an ego crippling encounter with the final boss.

I think I'll go play Vampire savior on my Saturn on eight stars of difficulty. It's easier :lol:

[Bummerdude]

The bosses in Zelda wind waker has so far been quite easy, but it was the first one I had the most problem with. I couldn't hurt him, I couldn't pierce it, I couldn't in no way make it weaker, but on the third try, that's when i got him.

I won't spoil it, but take the item you got in the dungeon and try to use it somewhere in the room. Maybe one of the most basic rules perhaps, but still.

[fel!x]

Grandia II Semispoiler, not worth masking...





Melfice. Demon Horde Slash. -_-
Wailing Soul is NOT his ultimate attack...

[Drack]

The bosses in Zelda wind waker has so far been quite easy, but it was the first one I had the most problem with. I couldn't hurt him, I couldn't pierce it, I couldn't in no way make it weaker, but on the third try, that's when i got him.

I won't spoil it, but take the item you got in the dungeon and try to use it somewhere in the room. Maybe one of the most basic rules perhaps, but still.
There really aren't any difficult bosses in that game.




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I wouldnt classify any of the ww bosses as remotely close to "hardest all-time boss" but the final Gannondorf had such a weird way to deliver the final blow it took me a while to figure out how to finish him after I kept stunning then hitting him over and over and he just wouldn't die.

(end not really a spoiler but kinda)

[Hector]

How about Axe and Blade from Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones? It took forever to figure out how to even hurt them, the method to hurt them made you vulnerable for an extended period and they dealt a ridiculous level of damage.

[Zefrieg]

Demogorgon from Nethack

Balrog from Angband.

There aren't many people who have beat them, because you get no retries in those games.

[JohnderriLLL]

wasent there a boss in ever quest that was unbeatable?

[PinkPikachu]

I read the first post, and as for the most insideous villian, I would say Ruber from Suikoden from II. As for hard boss battles, the only game I had problem beating a boss was the Omega Weapon in Final Fantasy V and the one in Final Fantasy VIII.

[Bummerdude]

I read the first post, and as for the most insideous villian, I would say Ruber from Suikoden from II. As for hard boss battles, the only game I had problem beating a boss was the Omega Weapon in Final Fantasy V and the one in Final Fantasy VIII.
I tried Gogo a several times, but it was when he got serious that I didn't bother to defeat him. For the record: Meteor hurts, alot.

[Yellow 13]

I read the first post, and as for the most insideous villian, I would say Ruber from Suikoden from II. As for hard boss battles, the only game I had problem beating a boss was the Omega Weapon in Final Fantasy V and the one in Final Fantasy VIII.
I tried Gogo a several times, but it was when he got serious that I didn't bother to defeat him. For the record: Meteor hurts, alot.

I still have not been able to beat Emerald and Ruby Weapon from FFVII. And I have yet to beat Sephiroth in Kingdom Hearts.

[Cerrax]

Ganon in Zelda: A Link to the Past. When he starts snuffing out the torches and making pieces of the floor fall away, it gets really crazy. Between lighting the damn torches, trying not to fall down the holes in the floor, avoiding Ganon's whirling tridant while trying to shoot him with a silver arrown and then slash him is absolutely nuts. I don't know how I ever beat that damn game.

[nomindo]

I had a harder time beating Phantom Ganon in OoT. The first part wasn't too hard, but whacking his magic back at him was a bitch, especially when he hit it back to me 5 times in a row.

[Bummerdude]

I had a harder time beating Phantom Ganon in OoT. The first part wasn't too hard, but whacking his magic back at him was a bitch, especially when he hit it back to me 5 times in a row.
Reminds me the first time we played it, we thought we had to strike it back by spin-swing, but you can just hit it normally. Shadow Link however is the hardest boss in the game, depending if you use Master Sword against him or not.

[The Coop]

How many remember the cartoon "Gargoyles"? How many know that it spawned a video game on the Genesis? Well it did, and there's a final boss in it that's a pain.

In the final level, you come up against Demona. However, this isn't a normal Demona... it's a super powered version thanks to the Eye of Odin. She really doesn't have that many attacks, but she's a hard little wench to hit. She's darting all around the screen in seemingly random paths, and while she's doing this, there are fire rocks hitting the platform that you need to stand on to hit her. This fire covers much of the platform when the rocks hit, and you have to dodge it. As you dodge it, Demona seems to have a nasty habit of streaking by and hitting you at that exact moment.

The fun part of this, is that there are areas where, if you fall into them, you're dead right there. So besides Demona zipping around slashing at you, and fire rocks covering the one platform you can stand on, you have instant death waiting for you on both sides of that platform besides.

This part wouldn't be that hard if it weren't for the fact that Demona's movements are damn fast. Your chances to hit her are limited thanks to her speed, and this makes all the swipings, fire and such result in a long, sometimes tedious, and frustrating battle.

[Antipode]

The Chykka fight in Metroid Prime 2 on Hard mode was long, draining, and difficult, I thought. I remember that being a huge pain.

Coop: I remember the cartoon, but never heard of the game.

[Bummerdude]

In the final level, you come up against Demona.
I'm sorry, but I just lol'd when I saw that boss name.

[Global-Trance]

Freya from Star Ocean 3.

20,000,000 HP and an instant kill move that covers about 80% of the battlefield that she spams with immense prejudice. Most of the bosses I'm seeing here in this thread are chump-change compared to Freya.

[Kiva]

In metroid prime1
The Omega pirate in hard mode

I never beat it....

[Dark_T_Zeratul]

I read the first post, and as for the most insideous villian, I would say Ruber from Suikoden from II. As for hard boss battles, the only game I had problem beating a boss was the Omega Weapon in Final Fantasy V and the one in Final Fantasy VIII.
I tried Gogo a several times, but it was when he got serious that I didn't bother to defeat him. For the record: Meteor hurts, alot.Gogo's easy. He's a mime, so if you stand still and do absolutely nothing you'll win.

[parasoul]

In metroid prime1
The Omega pirate in hard mode

I never beat it....

My friend tried him in hard mode like 20 times. It was hilarious watching him consistently fail. He almost had him once but missed an easy shot and got killed by the normal pirates before he could get another shot off.

[Mairuzu]

Not really the hardest of bosses, but if anyone has played Gun? the game is really easy, then the last boss is well hard!! I've tried at least 30 times now! You have to throw dynamite on these geyser things in the ground to hurt him. Of all the guns you have (Pistols, rifle, shotgun..etc.) The only one that hurts him is dynamite, and only if hes standing above a geyser.
Come on who is that hard?
Anyone played Gun and found him hard? Or defeated him?

[Kenobio]

This has probably been been mentioned (or not), but Indalecio (the final boss in Star Ocean 2) was freaking hard after his limiter had been turned off.

Easily the toughest boss I have ever fought against in a videogame.

[BornoftheShadows]

I guess they are not technically bosses, but Vize, Anita, and Faina from Skies of Arcadia Legends.

[Samus_is_my_hero]

I’ll admit he can be a pain in the ass on hard mode, but if you have around 200 missiles and at least 13 energy tanks he’s not that bad.

[Samus_is_my_hero]

I’ve got a boss, the original Metroid for the NES! That game is a bitchin boss altogether.

[Kiva]

In Metroid 1 in Nes, I never met only one boss, I dies before.
That game is too difficult for me

I finish Metroid zero in easy and medium
in hard, I come until the Metroid's room in tourian.

[Zoola]

I’ve got a boss, the original Metroid for the NES! That game is a bitchin boss altogether.
The boss is "mother brain".
Metroids are the little dudes flying around in the last area, you defeat them by freezing it then firing missiles.

[watkinzez]

I guess they are not technically bosses, but Vize, Anita, and Faina from Skies of Arcadia Legends.

Only if you try to beat them straight away. This rule applies to all the bounty bosses in Skies, though still after beating the game that bounty guy in the ice area was still frigging hard.

[Flare4War]

Never did figure out how to win the last boss in Silver on the PC, I imagine it was something ridiculously simple.

[CheezSamich4Hire]

Hell Cloud from Dragon Warrior 7.

That bitch was hard.

[xinster]

golden axe 1

[Wafflecake]

This has probably been been mentioned (or not), but Indalecio (the final boss in Star Ocean 2) was freaking hard after his limiter had been turned off.

Easily the toughest boss I have ever fought against in a videogame.I always thought he was easy, but then again, I spent mondo time leveling up since I liked the combat system.

Still my fave RPG after all these years.

[Back_Lit]

The flying dragon thing from Soul Blazer.

[Kiva]

the final boss on actraiser1 is difficult too
We must defeat all last boss and after the final boss....

[Ray Falling]

Well, from all the games I have, there are 2 or 3 games I never finished because I couldnt beat the final boss.

So my vote goes to that witch from Banjo Kazooie.

The first part is okay, then you have to evade her fireballs, within a split second, you must jump up the wall thingy, and press two buttons to shoot eggs at her 0_0, and hope that you're not late before she shoots you once and you fall, thats right, forward off the wall having to start all over.

I once got to the flying part, exidentily hit Z and stomped myself to death ;_;

So close.

[watkinzez]

The first part is okay, then you have to evade her fireballs, within a split second, you must jump up the wall thingy, and press two buttons to shoot eggs at her 0_0, and hope that you're not late before she shoots you once and you fall, thats right, forward off the wall having to start all over.

But Gruntilda's magic attacks always hit you back onto the roof of her lair.. :?

[Ray Falling]

The first part is okay, then you have to evade her fireballs, within a split second, you must jump up the wall thingy, and press two buttons to shoot eggs at her 0_0, and hope that you're not late before she shoots you once and you fall, thats right, forward off the wall having to start all over.

But Gruntilda's magic attacks always hit you back onto the roof of her lair.. :?

0_0 I guess my game is a miss-print then (ehehe insider joke, my games always have something thats not normal)

They seriously always tossed my right over the edge. It didnt make sense to me either.

Must be one of those things >_>

[Bummerdude]

I read the first post, and as for the most insideous villian, I would say Ruber from Suikoden from II. As for hard boss battles, the only game I had problem beating a boss was the Omega Weapon in Final Fantasy V and the one in Final Fantasy VIII.
I tried Gogo a several times, but it was when he got serious that I didn't bother to defeat him. For the record: Meteor hurts, alot.Gogo's easy. He's a mime, so if you stand still and do absolutely nothing you'll win.
WHAT?!! :x

[Ray Falling]

I read the first post, and as for the most insideous villian, I would say Ruber from Suikoden from II. As for hard boss battles, the only game I had problem beating a boss was the Omega Weapon in Final Fantasy V and the one in Final Fantasy VIII.
I tried Gogo a several times, but it was when he got serious that I didn't bother to defeat him. For the record: Meteor hurts, alot.Gogo's easy. He's a mime, so if you stand still and do absolutely nothing you'll win.
WHAT?!! :x

Oh yeah I remember that, n_n he bombs you big time if you fight. He will let you win if you stand still around one minute left, make sure you warp outta there in time.

Btw, someone mentioned the Omega Pirate on Metroid Prime 1

I just beat it again, I found out the Power Bomb instantly takes out all his body parts. You can defeat him in 2 or 3 turns if yer lucky.

Just super missile it when it goes invisible.
Hes actually pne of the easiest bosses ever in my opinion n_n.

[ZeroBass.Exe]

I manged to do it in one turn with Super missiles, but I'm pretty sure that was luck. I haven't done it since.

[Ray Falling]

I manged to do it in one turn with Super missiles, but I'm pretty sure that was luck. I haven't done it since.

Thats possible yes, if he keeps going back to regenerate. I dont know what its based on, but sometimes he just stays long enough for you to hit it mucho times.

I never bother to take out the small pirates. He does n_n

[Zipp]

How many remember the cartoon "Gargoyles"? How many know that it spawned a video game on the Genesis? Well it did, and there's a final boss in it that's a pain.

In the final level, you come up against Demona. However, this isn't a normal Demona... it's a super powered version thanks to the Eye of Odin. She really doesn't have that many attacks, but she's a hard little wench to hit. She's darting all around the screen in seemingly random paths, and while she's doing this, there are fire rocks hitting the platform that you need to stand on to hit her. This fire covers much of the platform when the rocks hit, and you have to dodge it. As you dodge it, Demona seems to have a nasty habit of streaking by and hitting you at that exact moment.

The fun part of this, is that there are areas where, if you fall into them, you're dead right there. So besides Demona zipping around slashing at you, and fire rocks covering the one platform you can stand on, you have instant death waiting for you on both sides of that platform besides.

This part wouldn't be that hard if it weren't for the fact that Demona's movements are damn fast. Your chances to hit her are limited thanks to her speed, and this makes all the swipings, fire and such result in a long, sometimes tedious, and frustrating battle.

I totally remember that fight, Coop. Did you ever beat her? I didn't, but then it wasn't my game, so I had limited time to try it out.

[Lotd2242]

Sorry...just couldn't bear to read all 164 of those pages, so I may or may not be doubling up.

I'm going to go with Judge Doom from Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Even cheating I never beat him. Using all the weapons you could take like half of his life away and then you have to beat him to death with that lameass punch thing.

[AzureZeal]

Not technically a boss, but Eagle in the first Advance Wars on the last Hard Campaign level. Took me over 15 tries to finally beat it, even with the cheat guide.

[nephi]

geez, is this thread still here? or is this a new one? the hardest bosses to beat are in all those games i dont own. yet.

[Dark_T_Zeratul]

Dr. Wily in Megaman 7. His first form isn't that hard, but his second is an absolute pain in the ass.

[Bummerdude]

Dr. Wily in Megaman 7. His first form isn't that hard, but his second is an absolute pain in the ass.
His second final form in MM5 was pretty tough too, it was so hard trying to get a nice shot at the top of his robot.

[Metalingus]

Pretty much any Lunar:SSSC boss is impossible if you don't have the right level.

One inparticular... *SPOILERS AHOY!*

After Ghaleon does his thang and the floating city gets attacked, that shellfish thing totally raped me every single time. :/ And I saved beyond the point of return, so that file was pretty much fucked.

[Ickarous]

Legend of Zelda: Adventures of Link...Aside from that game just being flippin' hard, i get to Dark Link and i was like "Screw this, i quit." He is like a go'dang flea..He just keeps jumping and poking and jumping and poking! He won't stay the heck still! Perhaps i should revisit him.

I will never know how that game ends.. *sigh* I don't know anyone that has beaten him..(but then i only have 3 friends and only 1 of them has played it).

[TaVeRnErO_RuDd]

aww cmon ye wimps! someone said DARK LINK WAS HARD (from oot)but damn! i didn't lose a single heart against him...poke him with the sword until he tries to poke back...he'll let his guard dopwn and you'll score a hot....it's simple button mashong

now magus was hard...lavos was hard...friggin RPG bosses are hard...single player bosses arew just annoying

[Geoffrey Taucer]

Magus was a breeze.

As was Lavos, if you actually bothered to complete all the side quests.

Queen Zeal at the end of the black omen, though, she was fucking hard.

Dark Link in OOT was just fun. In fact, I wish that game had a 2-player battle mode (preferably one which doesn't allow the use of shields) so you could have battles like that whenever.

The Axem rangers in SMRPG owned my ass the first 20348752093578 times I fought them.

[Drack]

aww cmon ye wimps! someone said DARK LINK WAS HARD (from oot)but damn! i didn't lose a single heart against him...poke him with the sword until he tries to poke back...he'll let his guard dopwn and you'll score a hot....it's simple button mashong

now magus was hard...lavos was hard...friggin RPG bosses are hard...single player bosses arew just annoyingHe was talking about ZELDA 2. MUCH harder than oot.

And I've played smrpg 3 times. Every time I beat axem rangers on my first attempt.

[nomindo]

Magus was a breeze.

As was Lavos, if you actually bothered to complete all the side quests.

Queen Zeal at the end of the black omen, though, she was fucking hard.

Dark Link in OOT was just fun. In fact, I wish that game had a 2-player battle mode (preferably one which doesn't allow the use of shields) so you could have battles like that whenever.

The Axem rangers in SMRPG owned my ass the first 20348752093578 times I fought them.

Agreed, except the Axem Rangers. I had to work for it, but I beat them the first time.

[Kriko]

The Boss in Dragons Lair. (If you ever make it there :P )

[Bummerdude]

The Boss in Dragons Lair. (If you ever make it there :P )
In what game or what boss? Is Dragon Lair a game or a place? I'm so confused. :(


Edit: Kul att se andra svenskar häromkring.

[Kriko]

Hehe, Dragon's Lair is a game for Nintendo 8 bit. Possibly one of the hardest and frustrating games avialable for Nes... :) I've beaten the last boss (getting there took a while yeah :oops: even with walkthroung and save/load using emulator)
Iv'e actually submitted a Remix on the main theme recently.. don't think it will make on the site tho.. ;)

Tja! ja det var trevligt med en till svensk :D

[elman]

Assuming you weren't a total douche and didn't have the Karasawa, FINGER, or the energy sniper rifle equipped and you weren't using PLUS abilities, Ultimate Nineball in Armored Core: Master of Arena is just ridiculous.

If you fail to move within the first two seconds of the battle, you will die. Then you have to deal with a constant barrage of homing missles, machine guns, and rapid-fire plasma blasts. Get too close and he'll use his dual-blades that shave off 2000 AP with each hit.

Lightweights with just a machine gun and missles could probably take him out easily, but I fail to see how any heavyweight could last for more than 20 seconds.

[SonicDragon]

The horror that is the Egg (Last Boss) from SaGa Frontier 2. I remember saving in the last dungeon. I got my ass kicked and tried to leave only to find out I couldn't I had to level up for TWO WEEKS and played for hours at a time. Even then it was a matter of luck. He had a move than could petrify your whole party and I never did find a way to be immune to it. Hardest RPG Boss ever. It was the only time I ever considered giving up and starting a game over

[Zombie]

I thought Metroid Prime from Metroid Prime was kinda hard... but not super hard, just fun hard.

[gigawing2]

Blaster Master bosses 5, 6, and 8 (final) always gave me trouble. I'm not sure I ever beat #6 legitimately. The bosses were very quick on their feet and even if you learned the "pattern" the speed was just hard to keep up with.

Oh yeah and the grenade you had to use was an extremely short-range weapon with almost no blast radius. Boss 6 you basically had to climb inside his mouth while he's shooting homing rockets and waving arms around the size of the screen. Boss 5 you had to climb inside his mouth while he's spewing clouds of bubbles. It bordered on not cool.

[Geoffrey Taucer]

I just had my butt anded to me on a platter by Miguel (Chrono Cross) about seven times.
Man, I'd forgotten about him. But yeah, he was hella hard.

[ocremixfan]

Miguel from Chrono Cross... if it was that hard I'd remember... but anyway:

Omega Weapon from Final Fantasy VIII - DAMN! what a pain! his attack sequel is pretty much the same always repeating, but is fuckin hard to avoid getting killed by that damn meteor spell! for me, only only Invincible Moon from Rinoa and Lion Heart from Squall can take this guy down! and for what? pretty much nothing!

Ozma from Final Fantasy IX - this one I still haven't beat up! he spank me up in no time! I've done everything I could to get this battle easier, except catching frogs... and I'm not in the mood to do that for some days until Frog Drop does some serious damage!

[linkspast]

Dark Link was simple, Just aquire Dins Fire. And a ton of MP. its that simple. he gets close you cast Dins Fire.

[SonicDragon]

I don't know how many people remember the original Starfox, but the Supreme Commander on planet Venom for the hard mode path,(Right before you fight Andross) was pretty freaking hard. I'd say to the extent that he was actually harder than Andross himself.

[The Coop]

How many remember the cartoon "Gargoyles"? How many know that it spawned a video game on the Genesis? Well it did, and there's a final boss in it that's a pain.

In the final level, you come up against Demona. However, this isn't a normal Demona... it's a super powered version thanks to the Eye of Odin. She really doesn't have that many attacks, but she's a hard little wench to hit. She's darting all around the screen in seemingly random paths, and while she's doing this, there are fire rocks hitting the platform that you need to stand on to hit her. This fire covers much of the platform when the rocks hit, and you have to dodge it. As you dodge it, Demona seems to have a nasty habit of streaking by and hitting you at that exact moment.

The fun part of this, is that there are areas where, if you fall into them, you're dead right there. So besides Demona zipping around slashing at you, and fire rocks covering the one platform you can stand on, you have instant death waiting for you on both sides of that platform besides.

This part wouldn't be that hard if it weren't for the fact that Demona's movements are damn fast. Your chances to hit her are limited thanks to her speed, and this makes all the swipings, fire and such result in a long, sometimes tedious, and frustrating battle.

I totally remember that fight, Coop. Did you ever beat her? I didn't, but then it wasn't my game, so I had limited time to try it out.

I did, but it's the type of battle that luck needs to be on your side. Demona doesn't seem to have a pattern that I could make out as far as where she appears as she darts around, so I think you need a little good fortune to comer out on top. Granted, it'd been a while since I played, so I'm likely a bit rusty at this game, but I don't recall ever having an easy battle against her.

[Terraem]

Never did figure out how to win the last boss in Silver on the PC, I imagine it was something ridiculously simple.

Run around in patterns, use Falcon a lot, block back his fireballs, run away when he uses special moves. It's a bitch but it's possible. I hate the fact that I can't play this game in Windows XP.

[Gadiandi]

The most difficult Boss for me was...Culex from Super Mario RPG!!!! I think the last time I played it I just used cheats to beat him. Ok, I'm a lazy punk.

[The Coop]

Konami's evil. It was said a number of times in the past within the hallowed walls of this thread, but I'm being reminded of it again. Why? Because the final (?) form of Dracula in Castlevania: Curse of Darkness is just not fair.

I've gotten to the point of actually taking no damage from his first form. I've had to replay this battle so many times, that it's gotten to that level. But as soon as I get warped away into the void and Dracula takes on that monstrous form, I just can't beat him. Long range attacks, up close and personal attacks... it'll like all the blocking that I learned how to do just became useless.

Thanks to some of the battles that led up to this point (especially against a certain Belmont and Saint Germain), I had gotten pretty good at getting the perfect block so they get knocked back a bit (opening them up for a hammering). But this block seems like it does nothing to stop Dracula from pummeling you when he's up close. While I've gotten a bit better at dodging the long range beam and fireball shots, I'm just getting my ass kicked once he zooms in and starts swinging and leaving behind those damned blood trails.

There's got to be something I'm missing. Most final forms have a pattern or set up that allows you to get in there and hit him repeatedly with at least some regularity, while also giving you the chance to get away afterwards. But in this game, I just can't seem find it.

[Screaming Cucumber]

In all of the 165 pages this thread so far accounts for, I haven't seen the boss I found hardest mentioned as much as a single time, whilst several bosses I can't find any great challenge in have had their names nervously, possibly even wrathfully chanted.

Gruntilda, from Banjo-Kazooie. Hands. Freaking. Down.

It takes a very, very long time, because you can't just attack the damn witch whenever you please; you have to wait until she stops, until statues appear, until...etc. And when those windows of opportunity are open, you'd better not fail to use them or you'll be sorry for yet another two solid minutes of dodging. Describing the battle would be a lengthy essay, almost rivaling the duration of the battle itself. Suffice it to say that I've never before or since had such a challenge beating the final boss of a game.

A pity you had to complete the entire game all over again if you wanted to play against her one more time. D:

[the3halos]

i naver have too much of a problem with bosses but 2 come to mind of being difficult

the bosses of double dragon 3
remember in this game u dont get lives u just get alies and i think i remember 4 chooseable chars later in the game and when that char died it was dead and each char had its own ablity


remember the last level with the bottomless pits u had to dash over? i considered them to be a boss in them self because ur movement had to be 100% flawless. you never had to jump in the game untill the last level. (nice time to pratice)

if any of ur chars were dead at this point u lose because u cant win against the boss with only one charr. best thing to do was just turn off the system toss it back on the shelf and start playin mario bros before u hurt urself or take it out on the dog

and if u managed to make it across the gaps (which were in the beginning of the stage) u had to complete the stage and kill this crazy kickboxing mummified ninja badass from the darkside that had like 99999999+ hp

he would begin pounding on you to the point that u couldent get up to defend urself. i couldent even cheat to beat this dude because hp dosent matter if hes got u in a corner beating the hell out of you and u cant move.


i did beat him one time in a 2 player game, but i think in 2 players there are 2 mummys not just one (to make it even) and u just had to tag team

[The Coop]

In a game that's supposedly the Dreamcast's last hurrah in Japan, there's a boss that's a real fight.

In Under Defeat, you fly a rather powerful helicopter against waves of enemies. Now, some enemies are a pain, others are easily blown to hell in half a second. The bosses, in the first four stages can be challenging at times, but it's the final boss (fittingly) that's a real beast to fight.

It's a big, BIG tank-like tower of guns. Besides having to destroy a serious amount of firepower on the front side on this thing, there's the main tower itself. On one side of it, you have twin miniguns, twin cannons, and a searchlight that, if you get caught in it, will turn the whole screen white and blind you. The miniguns are self explanatory. The cannons fire exploding shots that send bullets in all directions. And of course, there's a central gun in the middle of all this, that fires it's own special brand of bullets... the kind that spreads out as it travels by firing to either side of it. Should you get past all of this, then the tower rotates, and brings forth the BIG gun.

This gun, is a monster. It fires a single massive shell that detonates off screen. The shock wave from this shell slams your helicopter forward into anything in front of you, kicking up a huge dust cloud as it does so. When the shock wave ends, bullets come streaming in from the direction of the detonation, covering much of the screen. The tank has a single weak point, and it's placed in a somewhat cruel area. I won't say where, as I don't want to spoil the battle for anyone interested in playing it, but you'll understand what I mean when you fight this thing.

It's a very cool and graphically impressive game, and it's a great way for the ol' DC to go out. But the final boss is a real challenge.

[Tyles]

Vergil from Devil May Cry 3 (on Dante Must Die! mode) took me to school. Nothing's more tougher than a difficult computer opponent with similar moves from your character.

Emperor Ing and Dark Samus from Metroid Prime 2: Echoes really stood out for me. I forget how many forms Emperor Ing turns into, but it was too much.

[Rainman DX]

Okay, who remembers the boss from Mega Man 2's fourth Wily Castle stage? That sucker was nigh impossible! The only was it was possible to defeat was if you had a full magazine of Crash Bombs and plenty of Form. 1 lifts. The only way you could kill a turret was by hitting it with a Crash Bomb, but there were also little walls that needed to be broken, again with nothing but a Crash Bomb. The annoying part was, there were more walls+turrets than you had Bombs, thus you could only blast walls where absolutely necessary. And you had to plan your route while the little turrets were firing at you.

I beat it, like, twice ever.

[mastergohan]

Sephiroth right now in KH2 is givin me problems...damn that heartless angel!!!

uhhh....Ruby and Emerald weapon in ff7, never beat em..

I forgot the name of the boss, but it was in mmx6, this big pink box thing that would just slide across the room...always killed me in 3 seconds, never could beat it.

uhhhh...who else.....I know there were plenty of bosses in kh2 that took me at least 10 tries or so to beat..namley the guy with the guitar the second time around.

[xinster]

Okay, who remembers the boss from Mega Man 2's fourth Wily Castle stage? That sucker was nigh impossible! The only was it was possible to defeat was if you had a full magazine of Crash Bombs and plenty of Form. 1 lifts. The only way you could kill a turret was by hitting it with a Crash Bomb, but there were also little walls that needed to be broken, again with nothing but a Crash Bomb. The annoying part was, there were more walls+turrets than you had Bombs, thus you could only blast walls where absolutely necessary. And you had to plan your route while the little turrets were firing at you.

I beat it, like, twice ever.

what the hell are you talking about?? that never happened in mm2, i know cause i beat that game like 80 times.

[Warmech]

Okay, who remembers the boss from Mega Man 2's fourth Wily Castle stage? That sucker was nigh impossible! The only was it was possible to defeat was if you had a full magazine of Crash Bombs and plenty of Form. 1 lifts. The only way you could kill a turret was by hitting it with a Crash Bomb, but there were also little walls that needed to be broken, again with nothing but a Crash Bomb. The annoying part was, there were more walls+turrets than you had Bombs, thus you could only blast walls where absolutely necessary. And you had to plan your route while the little turrets were firing at you.

I beat it, like, twice ever.

what the hell are you talking about?? that never happened in mm2, i know cause i beat that game like 80 times.

Yes it does. It's the level right after you fight the GutsDozer.

[Karmageddon]

megaman 7: wiley, last form.

sol badguy, mission mode #50, guilty gear X2.

Last boss from PS2 version of shinobi.
Budda-like boss from PS2 version of shinobi.


Anything from ninja gaiden.

Anything from super ghouls N ghosts.

The sun-whatever boss from Megaman5 for gameboy.


...lechuk from the secret of monkey island (actually, he's easy if you know what your doing, but to understand whats going on...that makes the fight ((and game)) so....crazy fun.)

[Warmech]

Last boss from PS2 version of shinobi.
Budda-like boss from PS2 version of shinobi.

Don't forget the Blind Swordsman. That guy gave me a helluva hard time.

[xinster]

Okay, who remembers the boss from Mega Man 2's fourth Wily Castle stage? That sucker was nigh impossible! The only was it was possible to defeat was if you had a full magazine of Crash Bombs and plenty of Form. 1 lifts. The only way you could kill a turret was by hitting it with a Crash Bomb, but there were also little walls that needed to be broken, again with nothing but a Crash Bomb. The annoying part was, there were more walls+turrets than you had Bombs, thus you could only blast walls where absolutely necessary. And you had to plan your route while the little turrets were firing at you.

I beat it, like, twice ever.

what the hell are you talking about?? that never happened in mm2, i know cause i beat that game like 80 times.

Yes it does. It's the level right after you fight the GutsDozer.

MM2 is that the one with hardman, topman, woodman?

[Brycepops]

Okay, who remembers the boss from Mega Man 2's fourth Wily Castle stage? That sucker was nigh impossible! The only was it was possible to defeat was if you had a full magazine of Crash Bombs and plenty of Form. 1 lifts. The only way you could kill a turret was by hitting it with a Crash Bomb, but there were also little walls that needed to be broken, again with nothing but a Crash Bomb. The annoying part was, there were more walls+turrets than you had Bombs, thus you could only blast walls where absolutely necessary. And you had to plan your route while the little turrets were firing at you.

I beat it, like, twice ever.

what the hell are you talking about?? that never happened in mm2, i know cause i beat that game like 80 times.

Yes it does. It's the level right after you fight the GutsDozer.

MM2 is that the one with hardman, topman, woodman?

Top Man and Hard Man are from MM3. Wood Man is from MM2.

[Antipode]

Oh, here's one.

You guys are probably gonna laugh, but:
The Metroid Prime fight from Metroid Prime Pinball.
Oh my god, you have no idea how ridiculously hard that fight is.

First you have to aim just right and shoot into one of his arms. Then you have to shoot up this corridor and "energize" your pinball. Then you shoot back up where his arm was, and since you lowered it, it's open, and you hit his face. The ball de-energizes and you start over. Do it ten times. Sounds easy, right? Well there are three problems - first, the corridor is really small and hard to aim at - second, you have a short time while his arm is stunned before he brings it back up and blocks again - and third, probably the worst part about the fight, is that every so often he fires an energy ring which quickly expands over the entire table. If it touches you you get badly damaged, and you can't dodge it unless you're already inside of that corridor I mentioned.

To really explain just how hard this is, I only managed to hit him with the energized ball ONCE before I lost all of my lives. I assume it's ten times, because of how little his life bar went down.

[AzureZeal]

Anybody still remembers Guilty from Quest64. Took me and my friend over thirty tries to bring him down.

[Argorak]

Try the last boss of Ikaruga, a GC space-shooter.

Here's a brief description. The thing lays down a moving grid of bullets while blasting away at you. And all the while, you can't fire a single shot back...

[Kal aMari]

Are you talking about the Crystal fight, or the one versus the giant head? Cause the former's not that hard, and the latter's easier than the entirety of Level 4.

EDIT: Speaking of which, the Satellite Core from Level 4 is the hardest boss in the game. Basically, alternating streams of black and white lasers are rotating around a central core, which is also revolving around a point. You have extremely limited movement, and your goal is to shoot three targets deep within the revolving core until said target goes away, and then you can start damaging the core, but only through the narrow tunnels you shot the targets out of. All the while, the lasers are accelerating, and to top it of, the core starts shooting MORE lasers on top of the ones you're already dodging. I have yet to beat it with credit, more than can be said for the Crystal boss.

[imp]

The most difficult Boss for me was...Culex from Super Mario RPG!!!! I think the last time I played it I just used cheats to beat him. Ok, I'm a lazy punk.

It is completely possible to beat him with Mario at level 13, no cheats, no emulators, just whole lots of power gaming. It may be possible to do it with Mario at an even lower level, but I have yet to get there at a lower level than 13. Actually, I may have gotten there at level 12, but I can't remember right now. To do it you just have peach with the lazy shell and the magic scarf, let mario and <person> die whenever, and just heal up peach till culex runs out of FP. You have to have lots of FP recovery stuff, though, as he still one-hits everyone but peach with his regular attack.

Anyways, for hard bosses, anyone who said any boss from an RPG loses.

Any SNK boss gets my vote. The freaking term for hard bosses is that they have SNK syndrome, after all.

[Mini Mog]

Indalecio from Star Ocean: The Second Story was the worst for me. I never beat him and I must have tried hundreds of times. :x

[linkspast]

Last boss in FFX......... LOL yeha right i belive you cant lose.

[razor's edge]

Indalecio from Star Ocean: The Second Story was the worst for me. I never beat him and I must have tried hundreds of times. :x

He was pretty tough, but I'm just gonna go ahead and say it-- Unlimited Indalecio. He makes all other bosses look like a cake-walk.

I remember that MM2 crash bomb-turret boss. That was my introduction to the world of crazy-difficult bosses. I love that battle though, problem solving and ammo management while dodging? Pure gold. The giant dragon chase/fight was great as well, though it wasn't nearly as tough. My friends and I played Megaman games with the lights off, because when bosses exploded it would light up the entire room.

[Dahlia]

Indalecio from Star Ocean: The Second Story was the worst for me. I never beat him and I must have tried hundreds of times. :x

Definitely. I had all the characters at max level with all the best equipment and still couldn't beat him. I've yet to try it with Rena as the main character, though. So I didn't have Dias. Next time I'm gonna go Claude, Ashton, Dias, Rena.

[Doulifée]

Indalecio from Star Ocean: The Second Story was the worst for me. I never beat him and I must have tried hundreds of times. :x

Definitely. I had all the characters at max level with all the best equipment and still couldn't beat him. I've yet to try it with Rena as the main character, though. So I didn't have Dias. Next time I'm gonna go Claude, Ashton, Dias, Rena.

-_- Indaleccio ...

[Mini Mog]

Definitely. I had all the characters at max level with all the best equipment and still couldn't beat him. I've yet to try it with Rena as the main character, though. So I didn't have Dias. Next time I'm gonna go Claude, Ashton, Dias, Rena.

I'm glad I'm not the only one here who had trouble with this jerk. :) I never got Ashton the first time around, though. My party had Rena, Dias, Claude and Celine if I remember correctly. I think someone mentioned that having Opera in your party was a big plus for that battle, but I never got her either. :oops:

-_- Indaleccio...

Sorry for the misspelling. I haven't played the game in about...five years? I had a feeling I was off a bit.

[Doulifée]

-_- Indaleccio...

Sorry for the misspelling. I haven't played the game in about...five years? I had a feeling I was off a bit.

No, no i said that because i don't like him either. :D

[Mini Mog]

Oh! Ha, so did you ever beat him? I've tried so many different tactics but he wipes my party out everytime. :x

[Doulifée]

same. my last try froze the game -_- to much spell at the same time.

[Mini Mog]

You actually froze the system? 8O Damn. Were you playing the PlayStation version or the older one?

[Doulifée]

psx game

[xinster]

Okay, who remembers the boss from Mega Man 2's fourth Wily Castle stage? That sucker was nigh impossible! The only was it was possible to defeat was if you had a full magazine of Crash Bombs and plenty of Form. 1 lifts. The only way you could kill a turret was by hitting it with a Crash Bomb, but there were also little walls that needed to be broken, again with nothing but a Crash Bomb. The annoying part was, there were more walls+turrets than you had Bombs, thus you could only blast walls where absolutely necessary. And you had to plan your route while the little turrets were firing at you.

I beat it, like, twice ever.

what the hell are you talking about?? that never happened in mm2, i know cause i beat that game like 80 times.

Yes it does. It's the level right after you fight the GutsDozer.

MM2 is that the one with hardman, topman, woodman?

Top Man and Hard Man are from MM3. Wood Man is from MM2.

negative. On the gameboy version of mm2 i got
wood clash air metal hard top and 2 others. ;possibly freeze man.

then you fight that bitch with the pogo stick. quint maybe? then wily.

[Kal aMari]

Okay, who remembers the boss from Mega Man 2's fourth Wily Castle stage? That sucker was nigh impossible! The only was it was possible to defeat was if you had a full magazine of Crash Bombs and plenty of Form. 1 lifts. The only way you could kill a turret was by hitting it with a Crash Bomb, but there were also little walls that needed to be broken, again with nothing but a Crash Bomb. The annoying part was, there were more walls+turrets than you had Bombs, thus you could only blast walls where absolutely necessary. And you had to plan your route while the little turrets were firing at you.

I beat it, like, twice ever.

what the hell are you talking about?? that never happened in mm2, i know cause i beat that game like 80 times.

Yes it does. It's the level right after you fight the GutsDozer.

MM2 is that the one with hardman, topman, woodman?

Top Man and Hard Man are from MM3. Wood Man is from MM2.

negative. On the gameboy version of mm2 i got
wood clash air metal hard top and 2 others. ;possibly freeze man.

then you fight that bitch with the pogo stick. quint maybe? then wily.

And in the original MM2, it's Metal, Flash, Quick, Bubble, Heat, Air, Crash, and Wood, followed by the Dragon, the Wall Robots, and the mentioned Sentry Room.

[Cecilff2]

Eric Chahi, from Out of this World(Ok so he's actually the guy who made it, but the game is HARD). Just try to outwit him in that game. Don't use strategy guides you cheaters.

[Gamelore]

Lady Vox in Everquest around August 1999. Before planar gear. Hardest boss ever.

Trakanon in EQ around July 2000 was a huge bitch too. I want to say Cazic Thule around Jan 2001 was one of the hardest bosses I've ever beaten. They re-tuned him 2-3 times in a matter of weeks there, but one variation of him required cooperation between the two top guilds on the server (around 75 people) trying about 10-15 times to defeat.

Extremely tough. Dain Frostreaver, Zlandicar, and Derakor the Vindicator/Statue of Rallos Zek were huge pains in the ass too. Beat them shortly before I quit. :)

The 4-5 boss(es)-in-a-row level of Viewtiful Joe on Adult mode was also damn hard.

I don't know about anyone else, but it took me around 45 continues to beat that one level. That fire boss was pretty tough too, but not as bad as all the first bosses in a row.

[Warmech]

Anybody still remembers Guilty from Quest64. Took me and my friend over thirty tries to bring him down.

I remember almost ALL the bosses in that game being hard. You know, fuck the haters, I kinda enjoyed that game.

[Funky Munky]

Sephiroth: Kingdom Hearts I and II. Hard as fucking hell.

[The Coop]

With the newfound joy of import Playstation games (thanks to PS X-Change), I have discovered a boss that currently is starting to piss me off.

In Gradius Gaiden, on stage 4 if I recall, you come to boss that should seem a bit familiar to those who are fans of the series. Two huge Easter Island heads come in on the left and right side of the screen. Not a good start, right? It gets better. These two heads begin to rotate around the entire screen. As they do, each fires a very big ring laser (much like the smaller ones do). These are shootable, but they're also multi-phased. Shoot the big one, it breaks into four medium ones. Shoot a medium one, and it breaks up into three small ones. If you shoot it, it breaks. If you let it reach the edge of the play area, it breaks. So basically, at any one time, you'll either two huge shots, 24 smaller ones going around, or some odd mix of huge, medium and small.

After doing this type of attack 3-4 times, these heads give a new attack... a string of different colored rings. Medium sized, these follow you, and each of the two heads fires one. Keep in mind, that as all this is going on, the two huge Easter Island heads are rotating around the screen, pausing to fire the chaser ring shot, and them rotating in the opposite direction. And since you can only fire forward, you have to wait until one of them is at roughly a 45 degree angle to you so you can hit them in the mouth... but only when their mouths are open.

"FUN" you say. Surely it would be, if I could get by the damned things without loosing my weaponry every single time. I have yet to beat this boss without dying. Sure, I've gotten past it, but only because the game makes boss fights a touch easier if you die during one. I must be missing something, seeing as the three boss before it, and the two after it, are pretty easy.

[herograw]

Super Herograw, hands down.

[The Coop]

Wow.

Here we are, exactly four years later. For the anniversary of this thread, I feel the need to mention a boss that I've literally tried to bring up here nearly a dozen times. The only problem is, every time I thought of it, I forgot about it the next day. But not this time...

Long ago, I mentioned the level five boss of Raiden Trad, the Genesis port of the classic vertical shmup Raiden. In this port of the game, there's a special "bonus" waiting for you when you beat the game. There's no criteria that has to be met, you just simply have to win. However, I'm not sure it's really meant as a reward for your victory.

See, this special ninth stage is an absolute slaughter house... and you're the pig. Here, you'll be facing enemies from various stages, and all of them take about three times as many hits to kill as they normally do. Their bullets travel at fast speeds, and because of this, they get to fire more of them. You also get some new enemies to compliment the old ones, and even a special appearance by the Stage 1 boss (also pumped up in difficulty). But that's not all.

This stage gives you a sub-boss. At one point, a crystal in the background comes forward and begins drifting back and forth, firing medium length streams of fast moving bullets at you. That's the only attack it has, but since it takes one hell of a beating to kill, this is enough. Survive this, and you get to the stage's boss.

It takes up most of the screen in width, and about a third of the screen in height. It drops masses of broken metal at you (with each taking a good amount of shots to destroy) that vary in quantity, and it's got four retractable guns that each fire larger, very fast bullets in several directions at once. This thing can take a beating. I saw this because I managed to stay alive for five minutes shooting it and dodging before I was taken out by a chunk of metal.

Sadly, if you die on this stage, you've got no hope in hell of winning it when you re-spawn with nothing but the most basic weaponry. Also, if you get there with anything less than fully powered guns and missiles, you're dead as well. It's a damn hard stage, followed by a damn tough boss that'll take many, many shots before you have any hope of it going down.

[MajLink]

Sephiroth: Kingdom Hearts I and II. Hard as fucking hell.

I agree with KH1, but sephiroth in the 2nd was a pieace of cake.
Also one of the hardest bosses of all time would have to be Hoy Korlo from Super Punch Out. He wasnt a boss, but that asshole got to use a freaking cane against you, He was like 80 years old, and he was the fastest guy in the game. How does that work?

[linkspast]

ME

[Ferret]

Shooter bosses are wimps...

So for all-time hardest boss? Hard to say. But let's go oldschool.

Koopa, world 8-4. Fireballs and hammers flowing forth like a river of death, the key on the other side glowing tauntingly, and you know that by that point you've lost your fireflower and can't zap him from a distance.