HARDEST BOSS BATTLES!!!

this just popped out of my head this morning... I've been playing ff12 for 3 times now, and this idea just came to me...

there are games where there are optional boss battles you encounter to gain something special in the game... of course it's not always easy... game developers make them fukken hard to make your victory almost impossible. you tried all the tactics you can think of and still you failed... and miraculously you finally defeated the bastard - then you show a sign of satisfaction and you blurted, GOD! THAT WAS FUKKEN HARD!

here's the catch: what was the hardest boss battle(optional or required) you have ever fought in a game...? (rpg, tactical rpg, fps, top down shooter, etc...)

I don't play many video games, but I do remember trying to shoot a fucking VTOL jet in CounterStrike Condition Zero. The first I tried at that mission, I died like 15 times before my friend took over.

Now I ownz.

Sure, when you include the guy you posted, hard to find something harder. He's what, the one with the highest hp of all the ff created? I heard some took 4 hours on that fight.

I remember dying a whole lot trying to beat HotD 2 (Dreamcast) + 3 (Xbox). The Magician and that other guy were not fun...this was years ago, gimme a break. :P

The final boss of Persona 3: The Journey. I wasn't able to kill the Reaper, so I needed to fight the boss with normal levels and Personae. It took nearly three hours for me to beat it.

Also, getting the Bad End in Ar Tonelico 1 as soon as you can. Without overpowered equipment, I just barely managed to beat the three (or was it four?) consecutive boss battles. The last one nearly took out my party at full health in one hit. When a boss launches an unblockable attack that takes out your Reyvateil as well as hitting the rest of your party, you know just how fucked you are.

there's a bad ending in Ar tonelico? lol wow

Boost Guardian in Metroid Prime 2. That boss was fucking hard. Deals enormous damage on his liquid form and he's invincible when he's using his boost attack. It also doesn't help that you have other creatures kicking the crap out of you. Oh yeah, did I mention that you're constantly losing health when fighting this boss?

A complete pain in the ass. I was stuck on that thing for a few days on hard mode.



Ugh.

iselia queen and indelacio limiter off in star ocean 2. those bosses really can annoy the hell outta you...

What??? didn`t know that.... though I thought Ar tonelico is one of the easiest game that I have played.....
I think the hardest boss is Emerald weapon without using a submarine materia (sorry If I am mistaken...)
Or Sephiroth in KH 1.... ok, KH2 is hard too but It is more difficult to fight him in KH 1....

Dead Rising first play through of it. Almost every single thing pissed me right the fuck off in that game and made me almost go crazy.

Elizabeth in Persona 3, it's just ridiculous.

Sephiroth in KH1 is hell. I'll give you that.
but IMO KH2 is very easy.
It's only challenging when you play the Final Mix version Critical mode and fight the Enigmatic Soldier.
KH2 Sephiroth is piece of cake.

I knew you'd mention Yiazmat. "Hard" in this case could be more accurately described with "random". Yiazmat took me about fourty minutes, whom most of he simply wasted due to me running for my live and resurrecting more than anything else, to kill on my first attempt, and he only troubled me in his final phase because he'd randomly proc a killing hit from time to time and he'd run up to me and 1-shot two characters in a row. Luck based? Yeah. Difficult? No. The only difficulty was to quickly enough switch out characters before he'd have a proc on the last one standing.

The king of annoyance is still Ozma from FF9, though. So many people I've heard going "Omg omg he's so hard." and I'd always just wondered what's so hard about being completely wiped out because he'd randomly put up a maximum damage meteor on his very first move while not touching this spell at all on another try, or barely doing any damage with it due to the randomized formula.

Enough ranting for now - the first, and possibly hardest I've ever encountered, bossfight which comes to my mind would be Sakuya Izayoi, fifth stage's boss of Touhou 06: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, on Lunatic mode.

I usually can memorize bullet patterns as much as to beat, after a while, a stage / boss without much trouble, no matter how insane it may be, but Sakuya... she is unique, my special girl. She still whoops my ass on a daily basis, and is of all the danmaku games I've played until now the boss whom I have the most respect (Fear.) of. I just can't grasp her... this incredible amount of SUCK she throws at you, stunning you while you're head-on with a few hundred knives... I hate her hate her hate her hate her. No, I love her. Her, and her theme. A lot.

Freya (Star Ocean Till the End of Time 3)



You want a fight here's one hell of a boss fight it took me on my first time around 16 minutes to kill Freya, but that was because I had stun bombs and my party maxed out.This fight is definitely in my top 5 boss challenges.

yeah i remember that fight -.-
took me longer since my party wasn't that good >_<

Persona 3 fes

It's not too bad with Defense Fayt in Galaxy and Defense Fayt + Protect in Universe. It's 4D Freya that you really need to watch out for.

The optional P3:FES boss reminded me of this optional Digital Devil Saga boss:

75%, generous percent number, of the bosses in Ninja Gaiden II were hell.