Mario & Luigi dream team bros.
Bowser, end of the game. He just fully. Healed randomly if I recall correctly. Online I did not find any help.
After a few tries I ragequit, it was infuriating.
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.
Final boss from final fantasy 4 on gameboy advance, I loved everything about the game, but the boss was too difficult for me at the time and I got bored of grinding. This was back in middle school era.
I should go back and replay the game now that I’m older and have more experience with rpgs.
More recent example would be final boss from tunic. I don’t think I got enough power ups when I got to the final boss and struggled hard against it.
The aircraft carrier landing in top gun
I still don’t think I’ve done that
Battletoads. I thought me and my brother were just retarded or something until.I grew up, got the internet, and learned that it was one of the most unforgivingly brutal games of our era.
I don’t play that many but I generally 100% games I play. So… a bit embarrassing, but Dicey Dungeons. The later chapters are genuinely difficult & are more puzzles than roguelikes… so I just gave up at one point
If specific endgame challenges count, I’ve never beaten Dead Cells BC4 boss rush, or the fabled Noita 34 orbs run (was very close though). Oh and every other rhythm game if you count skill analyzers/Dan courses, but most players don’t clear those
Metroid Prime on the game cube. I’ve played through that game multiple times over the decades and never could finish off the Metroid Prime boss at the end. I got so very close a handful of times, but could never finish her off.
Celeste
There’s one screen that’s just keeeeps going in the very last level, shit took me like 20-30 hours spread over two weeks
Mike Tyson
Metroid Dread was my first exposure to “tough but fair” bosses where every defeat felt earned. Every single boss took multiple tries, and every time I went through this cycle of trying a few times, walking away, debating whether I should quit altogether, only to come back a day or so later to repeat the process. I beat the entire game. Ravenbeak was of course the hardest, but man it felt good when I finally beat him.
I had a similar experience playing through various Soulslikes. The only other one I managed to beat was Tunic (I know I talk about that game a lot. It left quite the impression).
Lavos in Chrono Trigger. 😭
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.
Killed him once legit and then cheesed him off the cliff on every subsequent playthrough. Fuck that boss.
Gwyn in Dark Souls.
The problem was my biggest success. I managed to score a zweihander, pretty early on in the game. I upgraded the hell out of it and was able to clear most bosses with some grinding and a lot of determination. I did this with a failing PS3 controller that generated spurious inputs, resulting in randomly switching to my alt config (unarmed) if I squeezed the controller too hard. I even learned a new level of personal zen and patience after realizing that getting angry would make me perform worse. I got gud.
Then I arrive at the end boss and get absolutely wrecked.
Why? I never had to parry. Not. A. Single. Time. Strike, juke, medium-roll, retreat, strike again. Don’t be a target, and keep moving. Meanwhile, every guide to beat Gwyn says you have to parry his attacks. I basically had little choice but to retrain how to play my character modifying an entire game’s worth of muscle-memory in the process.
My save file has been in this condition for years at this point.
Don’t give up, skeleton!
Xenoblade Chronicles, Lorithia
I paid for my insolence over, and over, and over again
There’s like 10 years between starting Pokémon Red and beating the final four for me. I didn’t have the guide books but eventually it was easy to get help from the internet for a handful of hangups. I put it down for a long time somewhere after like 4 gyms, came back years later, and spent maybe 6 months playing on the commute
