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Boss Fight Storytime
Got bored, so decided to make this. Basically, chat about your boss fight experiences, weird or hard.

You know the Spyro reboot? I only finished the first and third games in the trilogy. The final boss of the third game was tough, but infinite lives so *shrug*

Anyway, his final form had an energy shield that could only be pierced by Fury attacks. I had armor to give me Fury Breath, but the game intended for me to use the weird combo fury thing.

Of course, having no idea how to do so, I broke the game instead.

After a few deaths, I realized that if I stood in a certain spot, the boss would do nothing. Absolutely nothing. For minutes on end. Thus, I just used mana bracers to charge my mana before using Fury Breath armor. Rinse and repeat until boss dies.

And that is how I beat Malefor in a really roundabout way.
OK. Talking about breath of the wild.
So I decided to face Waterblight Ganon first. I originally thought you had to parry his spear to attack him. I then found out you could hit him whenever. Do I spammed arrows and ABSOLUTLEY destroyed him.
Similar thing happened to the last one I fought, Fireblight Ganon. I just spammed Urbosa's Fury and attacks. That's it. He was destroyed as well.
Gin
Dance Water Dance. That is all.
This isn't really a story of a final boss, more like the final area to get to final boss. So in Final Fantasy 7 you are given a save crystal item which allows you to place a save point anywhere. Well I got to a part like halfway through the final area and put a save point there. It was all good for a while, but where I placed the save point there was a somewhat cutscene thing where you had to decide where characters not in your party would go, well I pressed triangle by accident and saved the game at that same time. Welp the cutscene dialogue stopped and all the characters stared and followed Clouds position turning to look at him. There was a rope thing as well that made you enter the area, but having the cutscene mess up I could not leave to go back if i wanted Items or to fight extra bosses. And no I was a young derp who never made multiple save files. I still have yet to beat FF7...
I beat Ho-oh down to the red zone, wasting many items along the way, just to throw a master ball at it because I thought the master ball was made for legendaries and you had to get them in the red zone first... I'm not that stupid anymore... I'm counting it as a boss battle due to how much I lost in it...
Well technically that counts. Technically ledgendaries are boss battles, much like gyms, rivals, and evil team people.
Good. Honestly, my time playing games is very strange. I broke a boss because I wasn't in there range, but they were in mine. To bad it was a scripted boss where I would lose, but it was fun just to try and kill it on my own.
Junko Enoshima in Dangnanronpa 2. My parents walked just in time to hear her say "If this was one of those fanservicey games there'd be a CGI closeup of my boobs" something along those lines. They never looked at me the same way again.
how about any touhou boss ? though dance water dance is a good one too.
Want touhou difficulty in a Zelda game? Thunderblight Ganon. Enough said.
I have a Touhou app on my tablet, and that final spell card from the final boss...I am afraid of trains!
Final Fantasy 10. The first Evrae fight whooped the young me's ass. I had no idea how to RPG when I was younger. And throwing hours at this wyrm to no avail was infuriating as all get out.

Roll around to when I grab the remastered version for my Vita.... Evrae never stood a chance.
rip Hibki

Also, DeSu bosses. Early game ones are tough but manageable. Except for Kudlak.

You see, you can't kill him. Mari has to deal the finishing blow. She does 20-30 damage at a time, though, and that's being generous. That's fine, you can weaken him. He also binds you and tries to run. Still fine, you can use Bind or form a human wall around him.

However, there is one major problem: Kaido.

He shows up after your first turn (I think this only happens if you're on the Save Keisuke and Mari plan, but idk). The demons nearby will flock to him, so you MUST send down at least two people with heals. He can hold his own for a bit, but will ho down if unattended. Oh, and him dying gets you a game over.

Something you should know: if he can, he will attack. Even if he will die. He'll try to punch a demon and die. He'll likely try to punch the boss and die. He'll never kill him (making him a bit helpful) but will certainly BE killed after being rushed by 4 demons.

Overall, a stupid boss in the early game due to Kaido.
Devil survivor bosses never gave me that much trouble. Although the extra boss in the Triangulum route the two Ticos gave me hell. Also for another embarrassing story. Kamoshida's boss fight. I just stole the treasure and my friend walked in the room. Now I was hyping Persona 5 to this friend. He saw the first bit of the boss fight, and quietly turned away and left. We laugh about it today but it was awkward.
I agree with Dance water dance, have nightmares of that,
also yeah FF 10s fight was annoying,
Desu wasn't that hard to me.

I also say Tales of Zesteria with, screw Heldalf, but I did it at least.

World of final fantasys end boss is just not fair,
because five fights and in the last he gets faster than you cast hast and also he uses Mega flare without a warning,
if he is damaged enough. Rip me.

Also if it counts, Sonic unleashed and Perfect Dark, gave me a more hard time.
In all fairness, Kudlak was easier due to new game plus, but it was still more annoying than difficult. Kinda like Belzaboul, who I managed to beat unprepared on my first try... after it killed everyone but me. Drain Phys plus resisting all elements is a pain, and then there's his really high health regen and those fly units... Amusingly, a Mitama of all things gained experience from the battle.
Figuring out how to avoid Pyro Pete the Invincible in Borderlands 2 so I could solo him as a siren took me a long time, but a lot of raid bosses there have a steep difficulty curve. Also there are no truer words than dance water dance
I still have PTSD from "Dance Water Dance" Data battle. In all seriousness though my hardest battle was probably seperoth from Kingdom Hearts. ( The first one) I have still yet to beat him.
To beat him in the first game spam strike raid and elixirs. At least that worked on hard mode, idk about a lv.1 playthrough
Time to grind elixirs.