The hardest boss fights we have ever encountered

World of Warcraft, Mimiron – Tim

Mimiron was a boss in Ulduar, the second raid in Wrath of the Lich King. He’s a mad gnome driving a tank that drops bombs, fills a room with hearth, hearth lasers from his eyes and finally turns right into a Voltron fashion robotic walker factor. The trick is that each a part of his physique has to succeed in 1% well being on the identical time, and that’s fairly arduous to coordinate between a full 25-person raid.

And, oh yeah, because the raid enters his room, you’ll see an enormous crimson button with the label “DO NOT PRESS.” So, after all, you press it, and it will increase his well being by 30% and units an eight-minute timer on the struggle.

Killing him in arduous mode was one of many highlights of my raid profession. Watching movies of him being soloed by mediocrely-geared hunters some seven years later makes me weep with pity.

Metal Gear Solid, Liquid Snake – Jules

After carving your method by Shadow Moses, neutralising each member of FOXHOUND, and defeating the king of mecha – Metal Gear Rex – Hideo Kojima nonetheless isn’t achieved with you. In the burning wreck of Rex, you need to beat your brother Liquid Snake mindless in a boxing match.

I’ve performed Metal Gear Solid on PC, PlayStation, PlayStation three, and PlayStation Vita, and I’ve by no means managed to beat Liquid. Maybe it’s exhaustion after the work of defeating Rex however I discover his punches are too quick, too robust, and my fingers transfer too slowly. Keep your Dark Souls and your WoW raids, Kojima’s boss battles are what kill my completion charges.

Final Fantasy XII, Yiazmat – Rich

Yes, sure, I do know it’s not on PC. But Final Fantasy XII’s Zodiac Age remaster is out on PlayStation four this month, and I’ll eat my previous PS2 if it doesn’t come to our towers shortly thereafter, what with Square clearly attempting to deliver each Final Fantasy to Steam. And after they do, I do know what I received’t be doing.

As a plucky scholar who thought he liked dragons unconditionally, Yiazmat re-educated me. With a frankly pointless 50 million HP, I’ve by no means encountered such a marathon of a struggle, particularly since your personal injury is capped at 10ok (a cap which drops to 7k, simply because). Yiazmat has a number of choices for self-healing, too; the final straw for me got here when the fossil-looking git mirrored Renew off my celebration simply as I used to be digging into the final 10% of its well being. I didn’t beat it and I don’t wish to. I’m no Ahab; my white whale can bugger off.

Stop linking me to YouTube movies of individuals killing it in ten minutes, Ben.

Metal Gear Rising: Revengenace, Senator Armstrong – Matty

Beating the ultimate boss of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is a feat of persistence and endurance. He has three phases – each tougher than the final, all taking a substantial period of time. You’d be mistaken in pondering that Senator Armstrong can be at his strongest when inside his Metal Gear, however he isn’t your common war-mad republican, he’s a republican on Nanomachines. His cigar in hand, he rips off his swimsuit to disclose a muscular physique that will make Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson blush.

Then he proceeds to kick the ever dwelling crap out of you, countering your each transfer as you desperately attempt to chip away at his well being bar. The boss struggle itself can take as much as 40 minutes – and that’s if you happen to’re doing properly. Learning the timings of his assaults, the way to counter them, and the way to truly injury him required me to die many, many instances. Going by all this to lastly watch Raiden shank him along with his katana was one among my most satisfying gaming moments, and made the gruelling problem all price it.

Need for Speed Carbon, Darius – Rhys

Meet Darius. He’s the ultimate boss in Need for Speed Carbon, and in proud Need for Speed custom, he’s additionally an arse.

After tricking you into gaining territory for him and leaving you to be arrested, you lastly handle to take down his three underbosses and have a grudge match with the nefarious trickster. In holding along with his character, he makes snide remarks about your ex-girlfriend Nikki on the beginning line after which speeds off in an Audi Le Mans Quattro, leaving you in his mud.

I can’t depend what number of instances I attempted to beat Darius – actually, I’m fairly positive my unconscious has blocked the traumatic occasion out – however I do know that by the point I received I used to be drenched in sweat, wild-eyed, and yelling each conceivable expletive on the display screen. Not one I care to repeat any time quickly.

The Black Cerberus, The Surge – Jordan

By the time you arrive at The Surge’s hardest boss struggle, you’ve already crushed the next: a sword-wielding mech; a big, spidery, fire-spewing drone; and a sentient meeting line referred to as Big Sister. You really feel prepared for something, after which an armour-clad chap walks out to greet you within the enviornment – he’s the identical measurement as you, his weapon isn’t any greater than yours, and his armour isn’t any extra spectacular than yours.

The struggle begins. Black Cerberus’s motion and assault patterns appear manageable and shortly sufficient you fall into the identical observe of baiting heavy assaults and sneaking in fast slashes. Then he knocks you off your toes and runs right into a room, locking the door behind him. Out marches a clone of The Surge’s first boss so that you can kill whereas Cerberus takes 5 and heals. You’ll must beat 5 sword-wielding mechs over the course of the struggle, and in-between each, Cerberus picks up a brand new lethal assault.

I sat for six hours swearing and facepalming my method by mech after mech solely to find that there’s truly a method of stopping the mechs from spawning. Then I died and spent one other two hours attempting to copy that scenario. Then I gave up and carried on as earlier than for an additional hour earlier than lastly slaying Cerberus. On the plus aspect, I didn’t battle to beat the mech throughout my NG+ run of the sport.

Ori And The Blind Forest, Escape Kuro and Mount Horu – Jemima

Not a standard boss battle I suppose however nonetheless technically one? Which is sweet sufficient for me.

Once you’ve reached the summit of Mount Horu, Kuro – the large purple owl – tries to kill you one remaining time. You then must tear it again down the mountain avoiding lava, explosions, falling rocks, collapsing bushes, enemies assaults, and mentioned very indignant owl.

This sequence was so unforgiving and relentless, I feel I should have tried it no less than 50 instances earlier than I lastly memorised each bounce, sprint, and blob of magma. When I lastly managed that excellent run it was like a superbly choreographed sequence from an motion movie, however with woodland creatures as an alternative of Vin Diesel.

Shovel Knight, Battle Royale – Kelly

If Rich is allowed to incorporate a boss that isn’t even accessible to overcome on PC, then I’m undoubtedly allowed to incorporate a battle that’s technically eight fights in a single – I’m doing it!

Shovel Knight’s battle royale is a gala of all the recreation’s incredible bosses, all rolled right into a single tortuous duel, each fought again to again with little help from the sport.

While individually every boss isn’t probably the most troublesome problem to overcome, the glory of the Shovel Knight’s boss rush is that it totally places to the take a look at all of your information of the sport up to now, in addition to your endurance and skill to manage your personal perspiration. Half the battle is overcoming the creeping apprehension as you edge nearer to victory, and anybody who is aware of me will verify that I’m truly a big mass of nervousness in human type. Please don’t point out Propeller Knight to me once more…

Dark Souls, Painted World of Ariamis invasion – Ben M

Crossbreed Priscilla, this optionally available Dark Souls space’s boss, isn’t any headache to greatest – you possibly can, actually, elect to depart her be and simply wander on previous to the exit. The actual problem right here, nonetheless, is coping with the common and aggressive invasions.

One of my most memorable encounters occurred throughout an absent-minded farming run spent killing Phalanxes whereas cradling my snoozing, four-month-old son. All was going easily sufficient till the dreaded invasion message popped up on display screen. I dashed as much as the highest of the north-west tower, which kinds a part of the wall on the entrance of the fort, and dug in on the prime of the steps, ready. My pursuer finally discovered me after all, and after some emoting, we raised our shields and started to circle one another. The battle lasted what felt like an age as we progressively depleted one another’s Estus flask shares, all of the whereas attempting to remain nonetheless and quiet sufficient to not wake my son regardless of the stress.

Eventually, maybe inevitably, an act of hubris on my half gave my opponent the higher hand. I used to be on the backfoot, with no area to create any distance between us, and so it was that one remaining parry resulted in a sword being buried deep in my intestine. It felt actual. The sensation of heat and wetness unfold throughout my abdomen in the way in which I think about the profuse bleeding from a abdomen wound may. Clearly, I used to be /far/ too invested within the struggle and had begun hallucinating. Then I regarded down: my son was awake, and had simply completed throwing up throughout my denims and T-shirt. I used to be carried again to the final bonfire, the taunting dance of my invader solely including to my humiliation.

The Talos Principle, The Tower – Chris

After having your mind knotted by the 15-20 hours of complicated puzzles and existential philosophy The Talos Principle strains you thru, you’d hope for a break. But it doesn’t come.

At its finish, you end up climbing The Tower – an enormous megastructure segmented by but extra puzzle rooms, and that stretches past the clouds – whereas EL0-HIM, the sport’s boom-voiced God, continuously warns you towards the climb. As you step upwards you hear from above of your blasphemy, doubting whether or not it’s best to proceed upwards, fearing that you just may waste all that arduous work for a single however defiant act of revolt. You obeyed all the foundations till now, adhered to the various calls for of every puzzle, and now you’re risking all of it simply to see what God has in his attic.

Turns out that, yep, there are extra puzzles. Not the toughest within the recreation however powerful sufficient that you just’re completely exhausted by its finish. You launch cubes throughout the sky, command robotic clones of your self, direct beams of sunshine, jam electrical fields – pulling all of the methods you’ve discovered all through the sport to resolve this remaining mosaic of puzzle items. But that’s not the half that makes your mind collapse. It comes instantly after, when the sport reveals the reality of your scenario; what all that puzzle fixing was for.

Without spoiling it, it’s a recreation that leaves you reeling in your ideas, questioning your personal humanity, even perhaps fearing that actuality is faux, a simulation, a jest. Its most haunting query: how are you going to show that you’re human? Surely, having an existential breakdown is a telltale signal of one of many hardest remaining bosses on the market.

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