Ask Lemmy

You underestimate my willingness to lower the difficulty if I'm stuck

Pure Vessel in Hollow Knight. I have a file that's at like 111% and I just need to beat the final pantheon but I've never managed it. I don't even know how bad Absolute Radiance is, I've never made it that far.

I'm pathologically stubborn and will stick with just about any game until I beat it, but Isshin the Sword Saint (Sekiro) took me a long time.

Stay Puft...screw this pixel perfect dancing marshmallow lol so frustrating

Pivot tables.

Excel is one of my favourite games, but I've never been able to completely grok those things.

They seem like a waste of time when it's much easier to use formulas to construct indirect ranges and work on those.

My mom. When she says, "Turn that off and get your homework done," I always cave.

I've never seen what's beyond the fourth level of Battletoads for Gameboy. That fucking labyrinth.

About 100 hours on the final boss of FF8 because I fucked up and saved right before the fight with basically nothing in my inventory. I repeated the fight for literal weeks, trying different strategies and item use patterns and stuff.

It was very rewarding to complete, but I’ll never play that game again.

I was never able to beat the final boss in Alpha Protocol because it would just CTD upon starting the fight.

I was actually never able to beat the nilianth in the final level of Half Life. I think I tried 2 or 3 times, it was extremely annoying getting sent to the parkour room constantly and I haven't been back to try it again in a decade.

Sekero is just about my favorite game. I've completed it at least 20 times and will do so again.

I've beaten the Demon of Hatred 2 times and I never want to play that motherfucker ever again.

Ruby Weapon in the Final Fantasy VII PS1 game.

I even followed the guide, so I just couldn't figure it out.

I've been stuck deep in Bomberman '93 for about 15 years. It's the boss level that starts with the multiple enemies on motorcycles and then progresses to a single boss who flies around the perimeter of the level and shoots fire. Every few years I'll load up my save and spend an hour or two re-learning the fire guy's patterns and making attempts, but never quite well enough.

I've heard Bomberman '94 is really cool, but I'm not allowing myself until I finish this one!

Haven't beat the dual boss at the end of Elden ring, or the final DLC boss.

Think i've done most the rest of Soulsborn bosses.

In terms of time, some Demons souls boss I got stuck on, put the game aside for years, then went back to.

In terms of number of tries, I think O&S in Dark Souls one still holds the title. I ran into that brick wall for a long time before getting good.

Can't think of any game series I had as much difficulty in and didn't just give up, unless you count the Mun in Kerbal Space Program as a boss, cause that took a long time.

i gave up on consort Radahn. but i guess they made it easier later with a patch? never went back to try again after trying to beat him for a week.

Hogger

... fucking Hogger, man

I still haven't finished Breath of the Wild. I think I pretty much did everything else in the game that by the time I should have gotten to the final boss but by that time I felt I had gotten enough out of the game and if it was going to just be the same kind of battle as the other two boss battles I wasn't interested. I really enjoyed the game, just didn't care to finish it 😅

Undine the Undying.

I barely remember it, but I remember that the hardest mode of Shinobi was ridiculous. Basically just had to memorize and execute a perfect movement / attack pattern.

And if memory serves, it was like 2 levels before the final one that was actually the hardest on the hardest difficulty? Getting flooded with some kind of tricky enemy while way in the air?

But then you unlocked God mode and got to just slaughter everything with your OP abilities and sword... actually I think there were at least two levels of those upgrades. One had a life draining effect and the next was just absurd

Oh yeah! And some of the songs on Amplitude

Mike Tyson/Mr. Dream in Punch-Out!! (I did beat them with Game Genie though).

The first bosses of Cuphead 😭

In Hollow Knight, the Grimm fight. I spent hours learning the patterns. I’m pretty sure that’s what created the drift on my joycons during that time.

I don't think I've ever beaten Doom 2 without cheats or mouselook. I just can't time those rockets correctly.

Beat Emerald without much of a fuss.

Best Ruby after many many tries. X-Summon and KotR with only Cloud alive is the way to go.

Never beat Omega in VIII. Tried many times.

DS3's Pontif Sulyvahn! GRR! I'll get you next playthrough! Just you wait!

Rodney, the Wizard of Yendor

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The last boss in Tears of the Kingdom comes to mind. Too damn hard for me, and my motivation to try over and over was low since I knew it was the end of the game. That's happened with a lot of final bosses for me. "I could spend a lot of time beating it, by why? The game is basically over."

The final battle in Star Trek 25th Anniversary (before it was patched). It's just not possible to win this!

Currently for me it's the Silksong Choral Chambers gauntlet. It's been about 5 months. I can get to the last two Sentinals, only as of last night, but fail. It's taken that long as I give up, don't play for a week, then go off exploring other areas.

Man if I ever had to fight Groal the Great again...

I have this really old save file on Mario & Luigi Partners in Time where I basically tried to skip combat as much as possible, and it took me like 5 years to reach the final boss (compared to like two weeks on the other save).

Its been stuck there on the Shroob finale because it legitimately takes you like 40 minutes to clear the first princess and you have basically no one-ups or a useful amount of bros items, so you have to make every hit and dodge count.

I've seen several good speed runs of the game so it's definitely doable, but it requires about 2 hours of perfect inputs, so I probably won't be finishing it soon lol.

That bird in Karatka. I'm told it isn't hard but I could never get the timing right.

Don't know if it counts but stupid meat circus climb in psychonauts. Never finished that thing.

Riku in the first Kingdom Hearts took me so so long. Halfway because of that fucking unskippable cutscene.

Similarly, I was never able to defeat Maleficent, so I never beat the first game at all.

Also, Lion King for the SNES. Technically it wasn't a boss that I couldn't beat, but the goddamn lava level. I had that game my entire childhood and was never able to beat it. When I was 22, I had a bunch of 12 hour overnight shifts with a work buddy who said he could beat it. So we passed it back and forth. It took us a few days and probably a hundred lives. But finally. Finalllllly, we did it.

Lavos in Chrono Trigger. 😭

Level 7-4 (the maze level in Super Mario Bros).

Not a boss, but the only way to beat the level is to take the correct path. If you get it wrong you get sent back to the start.