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Gow Ragnarok. That last Valkyrie.

If it counts as a video game, Lich King 25M, not even HC.
I was in a casual guild and not the best player either. Never downed him :(

That stupid course in Star Wars Racer where you have to stay on a very narrow ledge. When you fall off you're relegated to a super long detour and basically have to start over because you have no chance of winning if you fail even once.

The spoiler boss in dead cells.

The boss is not particularly hard but you can only face him after a full run on the max difficulty where you will likely use most of your very limited resources before the bossfight, meaning you can only take a couple hits (at best) before dying.

Not the hardest over all, but the one that instilled the most fear:

The butcher

Those lyonel from BOTW and TOTK are some real fuckers

Well, I've never beat Sans from Undertale, but if we're only counting those we did beat... Maybe it's Undyne the Undying from the same game. I'm deducing that from the time it took me, but to be honest there's a boss from another game that came to my mind first. See, neither of these bosses feel "unfairly" hard because you have to go out of your way to pick the hardest route to face them. There was one boss whose hardness seems unfair and bad, that was the third boss from the first Spectrobe game. This was really out of nowhere. The first boss took me a few tries because I wasn't used to he game mecanics yet, the second was easy, but the third? I had to look up strategies online, make dozens of trips between my ship and the bosse's location, fighting every mob on the way each time to level my spectrobes up in addition to digging up minerocs to feed them; got them from adult to evolved and finally then I could beat it. After this fight, my spectrobes honestly felt overleveled and every enemy from then on felt super easy.

Worst part is, the plot didn't even justify this boss to be so hard. It didn't make it feel important. It wasn't directly threatening a populated planet, it wasn't anounced before it appeared, it was just there, in the middle of the jungle. And your mission was to find a diamond. Not an important and powerful item that's key to saving the galaxy mind you, a dumb simple diamond, of which the only purpose is to be expensive. So why would you, Rallen, of the Nanairo cosmic patrol; charged with protecting the whole solar system, go look for it? Because some rich bastard has crucial information about the krawls and you need this information to go on, but he won't tell you unless you give him this diamond. BITCH, if there was any logic to the plot, I'd be pointing my canon beam at his head and screaming at him to tell me all he knows or else! How dare a human withhold info necessary to save humanity?

Oh, and if this diamond has no particular power, why is a powerful krawl guarding it? It's not! It's just standing on top of it by shear luck, because fuck you.

Second battle with Vergil in DMC 3, Agni & Rudra in DMC 3 and somehow not as hard to beat but incredibly hard to beat well is the Shadow, Griffon & Nightmare battle from DMC5. Beating it on the DMD difficulty gave me that game """PTSD""" where Stage 18 became "that level" to me haha.

That fuckin guy on the church roof in dark souls dlc.

Hmm. Not sure. Some bosses that immediately came to mind were O&S in Dark Souls 1 and Hume in Eternal Daughter though. I think I had more trouble with the latter, but it's been so long that I'm not sure.

Still haven't beaten Owl in Sekiro. Only Fromsoft game in the genre I haven't finished because I can't kill my fuckin' dad. 😭

Dry'l in Wonderlands. Not particularly hard but it just took forever.

Growing up I struggled for so long on LittleBigPlanet’s Negativitron boss fight, most recently though I spent days struggling with Uncharted 4’s final boss fight (though somehow I had an easier time on Crushing difficulty on my second play through) and Halo 2’s Prophet Boss Fight.

First time fighting Lothric/Lorian in Dark Souls 3. I was playing a mage which was not it for the fight. Also the runback was about a minute which really ramped up my hatred for the fight. On ng+ after a respec to greatsword wielder, that fight is painfully easy. Greatsword effortlessly hits Lothric's hitbox while he's on Lorian's back which trivializes it, but I didn't know that on first playthrough.

The Lindwurm in Battle Brothers.

The snake boss in Nioh 2. My friend kept coming back that day to say, "You haven't killed it yet?!"

As a kid I beat the vampires in Illusion of Gaia as Will. Didn't realize you could change.

Lies of P - nameless puppet. I choose the other ending on my first run, so my first time facing him was in ng+. Not sure if that made it harder, but yeah, that one was rough