10 Bosses That RUINED The Game For Us
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- čas přidán 18. 05. 2024
- Some bosses battles really just bring the whole mood down.
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0:00 Intro
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2:33 Number 9
5:11 Number 8
6:42 Number 7
8:41 Number 6
11:17 Number 5
13:14 Number 4
15:31 Number 3
17:25 Number 2
19:20 Number 1
20:53 Bonus - Hry
The struggle of running back to the Bed of Chaos fog gates after each attempt is a special kind of torture.
3 tries. Maybe I’m just a lil cheese boy (I am completely a lil cheese boy)
That shit sucked fr 😂 If it didn’t save progress I would’ve used the firebomb cheese fs 😂
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shut up crypto bot you have no right to talk
Fighting it regularly is just miserable but since starting doing SL1 runs I simply use the bow & firebomb method which completely trivializes the fight basically to the point where it’s free.
Pretty consistent and easy to pull off strat. Bed of Chaos really shouldn’t hold anyone off from (re)playing and enjoying DS1.
Seeing the Deathstroke boss fight in Arkham Knight be a Batmobile fight, was one of my most disappointing game moments.
Yeah. I was hoping to mash his face in after the tank fight
Truer words were never spoken. They even made a buildup which just culminated in another Arkham Knight
Especially after how AWESOME the Deathstroke fight in Arkham origins was
That was my number 1 disappointed moment for a while until this year with the stupid "are you done with your bad standup routine?" And Batman getting killed while putting up no fight whatsoever
@@andresfajardo6838 he didn't put up a fight because he was already beaten 💀
In Uncharted 2s final boss, the boss says “stand your ground” ironically if you listen to him and stand your ground next to one of those exploding resin things and just let him grab you and hit you and repeat until the resin regrows you’ll beat him no problem. I did it on crushing my 2nd attempt. It’s more of a bug than a feature tho.
Yeah that’s a bug. I think it only exists on the remastered version. But I could be wrong
To be Frank the final boss in 4 is a bitch too.
Tip with Uncharted 2 is to just hit L when he is near the blue blob near the tree bridge … get him to follow you anti-clockwise in the area and run to the end of the tree bridge turn around and wait for him to run towards you …it’s the only area you can guarantee to hit him as it forces him into a bottleneck … there is a chasm below the tree where if he throws grenades while you are lining up the shot most of them will fall below. It’s the only way I got to beat him! What’s annoying is you have to do this 2-3 times! 😢
I like how when he says "Video games are not meant to be a walk in the park", it cuts to Heavy Rain's scene where you walk in a park
The Mist Noble from Sekiro was definitely the straw that broke the camel’s back for a majority of players. Hardest Fromsoft boss ever made.
It took me 3 full days to beat him. I almost quit the game after that
are u guys trolling? i hope so
That boss actualy changed my life. I tried for hours to beat him (her?) then I was like "what the hell Im doing with my life" and deleted the game. Now Ima businessman
@@raniasaad8772don't worry,fellow human.They are,in fact,trolling.It's the same with soldier of godrick in elden ring.
I had my friend stream his play through for me and I convinced him that mist noble was gonna destroy him so he left the area to rest first lol
My roommate and I have a deal going. He lets me live in his house rent free, but every time he plays Batman Arkham Knight, when he gets to the excavator fight he hands me the controller, and I have to get him through it. No joke.
Geez he’s raking you over the coals with that deal.
How often does he replay the game then 😂
The things we do for rent.
You sound like a freeloader lol
It's not even a hard fight lol. How often does he die in just regular classic combat?
Always loved how even the intro to Borderlands 2 pokes fun at the final boss of the first game.
The bad guy from Fable 2. You go through the entire game gearing up for this epic boss battle and you don't even get it. If you don't shoot him during his monolog someone else will and the fight is over. There is a boss but no fight
At least the Crawler is a proper boss in Fable III.
In Elden Ring, I knew I had signed up for a challenge but Margit didn't even buy me some wine before destroying me.
He’s really not hard once you learn his pattern
Margit killed me way more than old dragon hands did.
I never beat the bitch at the Erd tree. I tried every hack I saw online. Just gave up on the game after that.
Find a good summon or learn the attack patterns
*laughs in malenia*
He said the Destroyer from Borderlands 2, instead 1
Yeah I put the vid back to make sure I heard it right, good to know I’m not the only one lol.
I did the exact same thing😂
Yea i was confused when it came in 2
I rewound the video just to make sure I heard BL2 for the Destroyer. Makes me wonder how much accuracy there is for the other games I don’t have countless hours in.
I did that too 🤣
Loved Lazarvich, and that boss fight was amazing 🤣
ARE YOU MAD?! ITS A PAIN IN THE ASS!
Lazarvich: I am surrounded by traitors and fools! 😡
Me: You talking about yourself Lazar-bi..h? 😏
Honestly he’s was an awesome villain, the moments/cut scenes that you spoke with him genuinely made me scared for Nate and everyone else. 😂
Agreed! Idk how he say the entire game was good EXCEPT for the final boss, when the Train Captain was at least hundred times more annoying!
The redeeming quality for Destroyer is how cool fighting Eridians on the way to the vault was. Like sure, the boss itself was very underwhelming, but the path to it really delivered imo
That area was cool and actually took effort as well. I just did it again recently and it felt like a difficulty spike getting there. Not necessarily in a bad way, but you had to be careful or the flying dudes would chew through your health.
DDDDRAKE!!! drove me crazy trying to get through it on hard level
lol yes I actually quit the game and watched the ending on CZcams. Wtf was that?
Godskin Duo was a disaster too. Glad they were named in the video!
Tip with Uncharted 2 is to just hit L when he is near the blue blob near the tree bridge … get him to follow you anti-clockwise in the area and run to the end of the tree bridge turn around and wait for him to run towards you …it’s the only area you can guarantee to hit him as it forces him into a bottleneck … there is a chasm below the tree where if he throws grenades while you are lining up the shot most of them will fall below. It’s the only way I got to beat him! What’s annoying is you have to do this 2-3 times! 😢
10 points for Falcons Russian voice.
Plot twist: that's his real voice
10 points for Jake’s pure existence
Falcon is the goat! ❤
Funny how everyone calls him that, however his real name was so easy to find.
@@AndrewAung1992 we know Grogu is his real name but some people still call him Baby Yoda…same applies.
I would love for you to do a series where you point out boss fights which are initially very easy and then they suddenly become amazing and highly memorable
Quake 1. Easiest boss ever, you do not have to fire single shot. But I still remembet the joy when it finally exploded after beating the game on Nightmare difficulty.
divine dragon in sekiro!
Isaac frost in EA Fight Night still raises my blood pressure to this day
Yes this is true. Such a good game to end so bad. All I wanted to do was smash Isaac and EA wouldn’t let me. Such a let down.
I actually thought the final fight in Uncharted 4 was a really fun way to end the game. While also not being infuriating!
Which fight is that exactly
@@kevin_hunter4822it’s a sword duel inside a burning pirate ship
Bro you thought that was hard, try going for the trophy. No Damage and perfect parrying are required.
I really like the last fight before the time skip in TLOU2. It's more like a stealth fight with a lot more variables than in the stealth boss in the first game. On Grounded it's really scary haha
I played Uncharted 4 on the hardest difficulty, mostly rolled through the game, then was treated to a fucking QTE boss fight. Fun times. I didn't even bother to beat the game. That was like a year ago whenever it became available on PS+. I might revisit it at some point, but it honestly ruined the game for me.
That Batman escavator fight literally broke my controller. I get ptsd just thinking about it
Terranigma, the last game i played on the SNES and such a surprisingly heart-wrenching experience.
I waltzed through most of it's bosses though, that village with the zombies everywhere was a great spot to level up.
Mortal Kombat 9 Shao Khan final boss fight. Took me two weeks to finally beat him. They make his damage insane and literally he spams moves over and over until he kills you. His xray attack basicaly deals some crazy damage and yeah it just isn't fun.
Fighting game final bosses by tradition are hard as hell tho.
The godskin duo the worst boss they ever did ? Idk about that one boss.
Yeah, the Godskin Duo was annoying but not that bad. I had more trouble with Ornstein and Smough back when I originally played DS1. With Godskin Duo, you've got summons, you can put them to sleep, you can use bleed to take big chunks of their health off, and more, but you had none of that in DS1.
The problem of the Godskin duo is that many people i've see tend to belittle dps damage as poison or bleed, they go raw power and when they face 2 boss, they got destroyed, complaining the boss, then search online solutions
godskin duo was nerfed. during launch, the boss was apparently pretty hard, shitty, and annoying (i wouldn't know, i played and finished the game months after launch). so it's likely that falcon was talking about pre-nerfed godskin duo
the nerfed godskin duo i fought was pretty easy imo
@@willmael7914 Yeah pre nerf duo was worse than malenia ever was
@data3419 the damage falcon is doing to the godskin duo in the vid is pretty miserable too. like if you're chipping away at a boss's health, ofc it's gonna be a pain in the ass
wait there was a strong bad reference??? wow we are old Falcon lol
I kinda want to hear Falcon sing Trogdor though!
Yeah that was a slap in the face
My god, hearing Falcon say the line “so anyway I started blasting” in Lezarevic’s voice was something I didn’t know I needed to hear until now 😂
Godskin Duo is definitely rough the first time if you don't know the gimmick. But Once you have sleep crafting, you can take one out while concentrating on the other. I wouldn't say it's cheesing, since it is the intended use of the mechanic.
If anything, I would say the bigger issue is that sleep only gets a chance to shine like this a few times in the whole game.
Well, he did mention you can cheese them, but, like a lot of stuff in Elden Ring, or generally any Souls title, is that it's not really ever explained and put away in some corner that you can easily miss up to that point.
Hopefuly dlc more sleepytime junction stuff
if you have a maxed out mimic tear it's not that hard to get past them. I killed them in my second try and I was expecting much worse after reading about them online.
Godskin duo doesn't even need sleep pots. It's so easy to just beat them.
Am I the only masochist who loved the Godskin Duo battle? It was so challenging, but so much fun. Beating that boss battle felt like a huge accomplishment. Maybe not Ornstein and Smough, but still very good.
i really feel like the BorderLands 1 end boss was meant to be that bad. as a joke, its right within that games humor.
Going for the whole "That's it?! THAT is the big threat you talked up?!" kind of reaction.
Godskin Duo: the first encounter with the snail was probably the most rage inducing with having to run back to the boss from far away. This second encounter, I somehow 1st tried it. The secret was being over-leveled...
At least for the spider guardian, you have a massive amount of energy tanks, unlike the miserable hell that is the boost guardian, especially on hard
You missed the i think second encounter with the eyeball monster in RE2r. You have to get him knocked off of a platform twice but unless you have 2 flash bangs to stun him, he will grab you and pull you off with him.
Terrarnigma's honorable mention reminds me that that's just something that team does cause Illusion of Gaia, their previous game, also has a random dramatic difficulty spike boss against vampires.
Eh, Jack and Silvana weren't that bad at all- sure, they were probably the hardest boss in the game (which, to be honest, is a cardinal sin because NO game should ever have a non-bonus boss that's harder than the end boss), but IoG's bosses were mostly pretty easy anyway (the worst ones were just tedious, like the Mummy Queen and the Sand Fanger) and the Vampire Couple were merely challenging. Bloody Mary, on the other hand, was just overtuned. Honestly, you can deal with her pretty reasonably just by grinding up maybe 1-2 extra levels (because stats mean a LOT in Terranigma, to the point that a single level can be the difference between killing easily and dying miserably) and ideally going back and equipping a Light-element weapon, which even if it's weaker will exploit her elemental weakness. But she can still be frustrating and her attack pattern is genuinely hard to deal with.
I kid you not, I beat the godskin duo on my first try. Yep.
I think I managed because I had to repeat the the thin godskin (Apostle) solo boss fight (I think it was inside a tall tower) dozens of times, so I ended up mastering it and learning its patterns. The fat godskin (Noble) in my opinion wasn't that bad.
If it makes you feel better, I was at the end of my rope when the fight was over, with no flasks left and at less than half health
The noble is typically really annoying in other encounters because of its unavoidable rolly polly move, but that arena gives you a bunch of giant pillars that let you just wait it out from safety.
I did as well, but I did a replay of DS1 before Elden Ring, so once I got used to Morgott things were pretty simple.
If you've killed Ornstein and Smaugh, the Godskin Duo are a piece of cake. The room is smaller, but you still have pillars for LOS dodge and your character is so much faster and maneuverable in Elden Ring compared to DS1. It's just divide and conquer.
The Slug Boss from Evil West.
Not only do you have to worry about it Spraying you, but then comes the rockfall and the exploding minions from the cacoons if you don't shoot them in time.
OMG when Falcon does an accent, it always cracks me up!😂😂😂
when I first found this channel I thought it was called Gamer-anx but now that I know the correct way it makes a lot more sense.
Gamer Anxiety?
@@Amins88game ranx
@@Amins88 Honestly I have no idea what I was thinking.
The home star runner reference just made my day ❤😂
I was excited when the Batmobile was destroyed in Arkham Knight, followed by almost crushing disappointment when Lucious immediately gives you another one.
nice. i have never seen terranigma on any list ever. that is one of the coolest snes games ever made.
I’d have to say Raam from gears of war 1 lol
Diciple Zr'ell from Baldur's gate 3. This Boss fight is really annoying. All Z'rell does for the entire fight is Spam her Black Hole which slows down your party and prevents them from using bonus actions. Follow that up with the fact that she's got a bunch of Cultist backup that constantly Buff eachother and hit really hard and you are in for a Rough time. But luckily if you know how you can skip this fight entirely.
You need to get through the staircase as fast as possible too or they’ll block it off with hunger of hadar. That in combination with the black hole makes it so you can take like a step and a half lmao. I found a good trick was to just use ice storm on them before getting close enough to initiate the conversation. It will start combat but everyone in the middle will take a ton of damage and possibly get knocked down, and all the weak guys next to them will die. Also helpful if you have the Harpers recruited because they will take guys out with their bows and absorb some damage for you.
The Hellhouse in FF7REMAKE and Hade's heart in Kid Icarus Uprising also Jingu in Yakuza Kiwami
I don't get how people can complain Elden Ring has too many reused bosses with a straight face. Has nobody played God of War (2018)? Where the first boss is also the last boss, then there are 10 trolls, 6 ancients and 7 valkyries, with mostly minor variations between them.
God of war is based off of tales of awfully scary beings why complain about them
The only boss that ruined my day, is the boss at work.
i just love when falcon makes those "old man screams at cloud" videos, hear him letting out all his frustration it's so entertaining
I still listen to and have Gone Guru by Lifeseeker on CZcams music. Man what a moment and time in life! The 360 release days!
I will contend that Elden Ring has some of the worst bosses in all of From's catalogue. Not all the bosses are poorly designed, overpowered, imbalanced. But my God, a fair amount of them feel pretty poorly designed, overpowered, and imbalanced.
it seems like the SONY bosses are the bosses ruining gaming at the moment
A few more mentions:
1. The final boss in Sonic 2, mainly because NO RINGS!
2. The corrupted rot god in Kena Bridge of Spirits. 5 stages, 2 of which drag on way too long, and no checkpoint.
3. Doctor Cortex in Crash Bandicoot 2 Cortex Strikes Back. One of the most pathetic final bosses I’ve ever faced. The only final boss I beat in less than 10 seconds.
4. Gnasty Gnorc in Spyro the Dragon. Built up through the whole game, and when you finally face him, he runs away like a coward, and only takes 2 hits.
5. Atoq Navarro in Uncharted Drake’s Fortune. Going through his men is quite challenging, but when it’s down to just him, it’s nothing more than a small set of QTEs that you can make easy work of after just a bit of studying.
Side note, a boss doesn’t need to be the bs kind of hard to stain the game. The same kind of impact can be felt if the final boss is too pathetically easy.
Falcon seems like a cool bird to get a beer with
It wasn't the duo that stopped me in that area. It was the tree sentinel after them 😂😂😂
The worst part about The Imprisoned is that they brought it back for the first Hyrule Warriors game, where it functions the same way, but now it's in a game that's all about rapidly dispatching hordes of enemies like an unstoppable force if nature.
Can you still use the exploit from skyward sword where you can jump down on it & attack the spike on its head?
@@Aloyus_Knight There's no jumping in Hyrule Warriors, so my money's on no.
Tip with Uncharted 2 is to just hit L when he is near the blue blob near the tree bridge … get him to follow you anti-clockwise in the area and run to the end of the tree bridge turn around and wait for him to run towards you …it’s the only area you can guarantee to hit him as it forces him into a bottleneck … there is a chasm below the tree where if he throws grenades while you are lining up the shot most of them will fall below. It’s the only way I got to beat him! What’s annoying is you have to do this 2-3 times! 😢
Sleep pots make the godskin duo trivial
Yeah, I have no idea why everyone complains about Godskin Duo. Sleep makes them a joke, but even when I tried a run without it, they barely try to team up on you. You can easily keep distance with one in that giant arena while you get a few hits on the other. Freaking Dual Pumpkin Heads were worse than them!
Agree with all that. And who was playing the game in the footage?! They had like 30 vigor and 60 endurance!!! At that point you can easily have 50 vigor and those attacks don't matter so much.
Except you can miss those and go into the fight without
@@ericlamb4501 then go back and get them
That excavator in Batman AK is really easy to just avoid until you're ready. I just avoided the guy and learned the next chase tunnel until I got it down, rinse and repeat
The whole idea that a game needs a "boss fight" is an outdated concept and needs to end.
*The Destroyer from Borderlands 1 (Borderlands 2 was 'The Warrior')
"Seriously, they sound nothing alike." - P. Tannis.
The only saving grace for the god skin duo fight is getting to hear that amazing boss music again
I found the Boost Guardian in the Gamecube version of Metroid Prime 2: Echoes was pretty grim. Constantly losing health due to the poisonous air and the enemy constantly ricocheting everywhere with no where to hide from it? Not fun
I absolutely destroyed The Destroyer in Borderlands 2. Gaige max anarchy and 1 clip of the SMG I had back then. Melted his ass
The House from ff7 wrecked me for so long I had to lower difficulty to easy after a couple weeks
Wow, i haven't heard Terranigma mentioned in a long time. Do they ever mention Soul Blazer or Illusion of Gaia?
First time i played that Terranigma boss, i was on an emulator, and Save states got me through it.
Hearing falcon spit the opening to gone guru made my day lol 🤌
The God skin duo is not nearly as bad as you're saying
The final boss from Dark Cloud. I spent the entire game focusing on only using the main character, a sword user. At the end of the game, the second phase of the final boss can only be damaged by ranged attacks, requiring you to switch to a ranged character (the only time the game does this in a fight). This wouldn't be so bad if the boss didn't also regularly use an arena wide unavoidable attack. This left me having to enter the fight with an inventory dedicated to healing, and hoping I could cherry tap the boss with the bad ranged character before I ran out of items.
Love the always sunny reference
Dude thank you so much for that terranigma mention 😭♥️♥️ that was my favorite games growing up, my uncle gave me an SNES emulator and I went and beat that game and E.V.O the search for gia both of which I think are underated classics ♥️ the ending of terranigma and realization of the main characters true reason for existing still holds a heart breaking spot in my core.
For me, it's the penultimate stage of the Dark Gaia boss fight from Sonic Unleashed.
Trying to dodge and jump over obstacles on such a strict time limit was what made the game practically damn-near impossible to finish and I haven't touched it for over a year now.
The final boss fight from WH Space Marine. All these badass guns, chainsaw sword, and the final fight is a QTE. Something that wasn't included anywhere else in the game
I remember playing dead rising when it came out and those damn convicts definitely made me rage quit.
"So long, Dark Knight" lives in my head rent free
If I remember correctly I figured out a cheese strat myself to beat Barrett as I had a stealth build. It took forever to get to that point and was VERY frustrating.
Im so glad you mentioned arkhem knight in this list cause i always thought I'm just that bad at this game with that stupid tunnel chase sequence😭
Honestly the first thing that came to mind was the Cyber Ninja Grey Fox in MGS. As an adult I can usually figure out a boss, or just put the game down and come back to it when I am getting mad. But MGS came out at a time when whatever game was in my console stayed there until I beat it, or got so mad I put it away and never got back to it till emulators and save states years later. ( Looking right at you Double Dragon 3 for NES ) . But that damn Cyber Ninja fight was at least a couple days of my life, after school till bed, a little before the bus, and all weekend till it was done. The rest of the game was seriously easy compared to that.
When I was getting the platinum trophy for uncharted 2 on the ps3, after 2 hours of trying to beat the final boss I just quit at around 5am. One month later just came back to the game and beat him on the first try of the day 😅.
"Pumpin' metal guru in the Subaru" Dead Rising still haunts me to this day.
The final "boss" to get the final ending in Drakengard 3. It's an action game with some dragon flying sections, but for the last boss it turns into a rhythm game where you have to start over if you mess up once. It's a long song too (beautiful, the ost was amazing) but it's so evil that you have to press some buttons with no prompts after the screen goes black and characters start talking. WTF. Loved the game so much that I got through it eventually with a timing guide, but damn.
Batman Arkham knight was such an amazing game, that the bat mobile fights weren’t even enough to bother me lol
So glad someone finally mentioned Lazaravic from Uncharted 2! The worst part is that it doesn't even tell u to shoot the blue rocks - I had to look it up after dying 5+ times
They're actually globs of tree sap. (Yeah I know, I'm being "THAT guy" but still)
@P2J6O8 tbh I was pretty sure they weren't rocks, but I didn't know what else to call them 😅
They did have you shooting the sap to get through the level leading up to the boss fight, but even with that hint, it took me accidentally shooting one with him beside it (panic aiming lol) to figure it out
The first time I faced the Godskin duo I used the mimic tear - the only time I've ever used assistance of any form in a Fromsoft game.
I then decided no, that wasn't good enough, so I started a new playthrough from scratch, levelled up better throughout the game and upon reaching the Duo I killed them 2nd attempt.
No sleep, no assistance, no spells. Pure melee.
It was pretty easy. As soon as one goes down you have time to take the other down. Rinse and repeat.
Neither of them had a chance to go to their phase 2.
about Terranigma. the manuel/guide for the pal version that comes with the game is very detailed..and for that boss in particular it recomends atleast to be level 23. otherwise you can barely make a dent.. i used to alway grind in the underworld till im lv25 so by THAT time im already between 30 and 40
When you come across an annoying boss in a game that you like to replay, check how speedrunners deal with it.
The boss fights in the Kotor games. You can quite easily make it to the end fight no matter how bad your build is, but if you didn't do your build correctly, the final fights are impossible. And also, you rely on your companions for the entirety of the game and then they're removed. Leaving your only option really being just running around, spamming mines, or having to load a save from an hour+ ago.
before even watching, annihilation from remnant 2 better be on this list 😆
Dead Rising needs to come back
Ahh I remember the borderlands boss... for some reason I ran up to the left side of him and accidentally slipped into a spot where you can freely shoot him and receive almost no damage. It wad extremely disappointing but it did tell me that most bosses in the game have a sweet spot or somewhere you can stand to easily wipe them out
I think it’s Sauron from shadow of Mordor. All that build up and scheming just to have it end in a qte
I recently got the Arkham Trilogy Remaster on Switch. It's jarring how much A.K. *_forces_* you to use the Batmobile. Not that it's there if you want - you progress a certain way in a mission and Batman says "Oop - better get the Batmobile for this!" Coming off a two-game stretch where pretty much the only vehicle you ride is the Tiger helicopters when you're trying to scan them, this is egregious as the forced 'boat stealth' mission in Assassin's Creed 4 - except it's across a whole game.
Did not expect a homestar runner reference. Now I'm gonna watch some strong bad emails
I don't know if it's because I was younger or if it was genuinely difficult, but Cackletta's Soul from Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga was definitely one of these types for me
Didn't have a problem with godskin duo, fire giant really pissed me off tho lol
Yeah I’ve not had issues with them even though was dreading first time I fought them.
Found the final bosses way more annoying.
So one thing about the godskin duo: there’s an extra summon if you enter through the other door. With your ashes, you’re now 3 against 2, and it’s actually quite easy without any cheesing.
For me, it had to be CEL 240 in armored core 6. That boss had me stop playing altogether and sell that frustrating game
Barrett from Deus Ex:Human Revolution, was a complete pushover. All you have to do is get into air vent on the right side of the room, and follow it to where you are above him. He can't hit you, but you can wipe him out in no time.
FromSoftware even apologized for the whole Izalith / Bed of Chaos area. They simply ran out of time and FromSoftware deadlines were very tight back in 2011. They also didn't want to delay the game further so Miyazaki did what he could and you can see the end result. That's also why you never see the Witch of Izalith except in the intro cutscene, it simply couldn't be done in time. The same with the 6th archstone in Demon's Souls. The area DOES exist, but in a pre alpha stage with some enemies and a boss in the files that can be restored. I think it was Lance MacDonald who restored the whole level until it was "playable".
Since Miyazaki is President of FromSoftware now, they have more crative freedom. Elden Ring got even delayed due to the pandemic, which was unthinkable back in 2009 / 2011.
And yes, I also find no excuse for the Godskin duo except that this boss is extremely annoying. I never made it alone.
I think the fact that they brought back Deathstroke in Dark Knight and made it a tank fight was a big slap in the face. Cuz the Deathstroke fight in Origins was probably the best boss fight in the series, and it wasn’t even Rocksteady. Maybe that was a preview of Rocksteadys future tone deafness.
Ok, so I gasped a little at the bonus entry. Terranigma still sits high on my list of my favourite JRPGs of all time. It's an almost yearly replay for me but you never really see it mentioned, like, anywhere.
The problem with Bloody Mary, is she requires grind if you want to do any substantial damage to her, at least physically, where as all the bosses leading up to her were pretty well scaled to how you progressed naturally. It's like the Majima/Saejima fight from Like a Dragon. The funny thing is, the moment you hit a certain level (Can't remember the level, but it's around 24), there's a massive difference in your physical damage output, going from between doing 2-3 points of damage to her, to 30-35 points of damage.
Definitely a must play for any JRPG fan though.
Gnasty Gnorc in Spyro The Dragon. That game is so chilled and fun but I could never beat the final boss which was not fun at all!
They nailed it with Ripto’s Rage though. What a masterpiece that was
Can't recall really struggling on Godskin Duo and I went in blind. One of the easiest godskins in the game, because I tended to fight the optional ones way underdeveloped for their areas out of spite.
The old school bonus game reminded me of Sheep, Dog & Wolf on the PS1. This otherwise entertaining game had a frustrating boss fight, the big red hairy guy you had to make dizzy and then blind with insane 'finger flexing'.
So many of these... Off hand I can think of Haru's dad in Persona 5 and one of the fights from Bioshock Infinite (the twins?). Both of those fights require a specific type of ability going into the fight and if you don't have that, you lose. You can backtrack and change things up, but you lose several hours of progress.
Bro, Lazarvich was cool, with just the right amount of challenge. The Train Captain from earlier in the game, however, was overly difficult and not only was he NOT fun to fight, but he wasn’t even a fun character, because he wasn’t even a character! He was just some dude on a train with a gun and some grenades 😡