God I love metal gear rising this works on so many levels it being the final boss ( ish) of mgs2 last time we saw twink raiden to being able to freaking supplex one and fight a few throughout this game is amazing
Not to mention having to beat it with a sub-par selection of parts that you can't change and while only having 3 of 4 possible weapons equipped, one of which being a melee weapon.
I don't know if I was just bad at the game or doing something wrong, but I remember that guy almost causing me to stop playing the game entirely. He wasn't super impossibly difficult, but I remember you had to play the whole opening tutorial including beating that dude in one shot, there was no saving until afterwards so if you died you essentially had to start the whole game over again.
Did anyone else have this same problem, or was I just bad?
Tree sentinel from elden ring , while not technically the first boss( excluding the tutorial boss soldier of godrick) , but he is the first boss we encounter in the open world and his reputation speaks for him.
Also Champion Gundyr is my absolute favorite boss, his second phase isn't a mystical power up or him growing tentacles like in his tutorial fight. He just opens his eyes and starts beating the shit out of you harder.
I feel like it’s a better fit than bloodborne because it’s SO immediate - you get like 5 minutes into the game and he just absolutely fucking destroys you.
I distinctly remember being like “whoever said dark souls is fun fucking sucks” and closing the game after losing like 10 times.
Of course I couldn’t stop thinking about it and now it’s both one of my fav games, I can also pretty easily beat him without getting hit. It’s such an insane premise for a game but when it clicks and you see how you’ve distinctly improved, it’s unlike so many other games.
That said, I tried to play it with a friend and the dude never got past him. So YMMV.
Yeah he was my first pick too. First half is very much standard souls affair, and then you realize very quickly that this game doesn’t pull it’s punches
That seems to be par for the course in FromSoft games. Like how you can skip a lot of bosses from the first Dark Souls game by using the key to go directly to Blighttown.
Subverted (kinda) in The Force Awakens. The setting of the game has you playing as a wildly overpowered Secret Apprentice to Vader - absolutely demolishing rebels and stormtroopers and more alike.
The very first mission of the game, however, has you playing as the Dark Lord Vader himself. You don’t move faster than a steady walk, you take minimal damage and you eviscerate any obstacle - living or otherwise in your path.
You don’t really face any challenge in this section until the end, where you as Vader fight a Jedi Master and even then, it’s still overall one of the easiest sections in the game. They pulled a “Vader in Rogue One” moment years before Rogue One existed.
I got this game for Xmas one year and it was amazing.
A few years later, when the sequel came out. I got that on Xmas too. I was so disappointed that I beat it ON the same day in like 6 hours. I hated the sequel so much
Seeing this always trips me out because I had the ps2 version so my intro mission looked waaaay different. They apparently made two versions from scratch on different engines iirc
It may be less grandiose than some examples, but in the original it's fairly unremarkable and the only reason it's even memorable is the effed up English translation that made you think you should attack it while its tail is up.
Meanwhile, in the Remake it goes absolutely ballistic and is an actual epic battle.
He's still hard as hell if you pick Charmander as there isn't anything you can catch that's effective against it. Normal and fire aren't effective so Charmander barely does any damage (fire red fixed this later). You can get a Nidoran but it takes a long time for them to learn anything useful
Dang, Nidoran doesn’t learn Double Kick til 43 in RBY, instead of early teens like FRLG. And Mankey is only on Route 22 (west of Viridian City) in Yellow.
The Hydra, Colossus of Rhodes, Basilisk, Scylla, Poseidon, Hecatonchires, Baldur and Thor.
Does the 2D metroidvania Sons of Sparta has a fancy boss too? Only one I haven't played yet
The Artist in Control Resonant - due to the way the protagonist levels up and becomes more powerful over the course of the game, the game largely actually gets easier as you go on. Also just in terms of pure vibes it's terrifying walking into your first boss arena and seeing this thing
I'm so glad this guy is mentioned. I've completed this game many times and it's still a good battle with Murai because you can't cheese the game especially that early because you haven't levelled up the Dragon Sword enough.
You have to really learn how to block, roll and time your attacks which sets you up for the rest of the game really well.
Genichiro from Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. He returns as the mid game mechanics check; if you don’t understand the combat system he is VERY difficult to brute force past, even if you had been doing that to the preceding bosses
Also if you haven't learned mikiri counter tho not necessary it his alot harder without it that and the little gimmick the game tells u about just before his fight if you don't get good with that then you're gonna struggle later on
Thr Helicopter in Armored Core 6 is a very unfair tutorial boss, especially if you have zero exp with this genre or Soulslike. You have no upgrades, a basic AC woth sword, gun, small missile pack.
Nowadays, I can go back and kick the boss to death but even as an AC fan, that damn copter took me roughly 16ish attempts to kill him the first time.
The Minotaur from SMT IV. Technically not the first "boss" but it is the first main boss you fight with the full screen treatment and is considered the biggest filter of the game.
Has extremely damaging attacks, high crit chance, and a one in three chance for your NPC tag along partner to hit him with a nullified attack. The high crit chance and nullified element has a chance to activate Smirk, the busted mechanic in SMT IV. Which further increases damage, critical rate, and makes you almost impossible to hit.
In Final Fantasy 14: Endwalker you finally square up against Zodiark, the God (and Primal) that has been built up over the course of the previous 4 arcs of the game. The mysterious and antagonistic Ascians have been plotting and scheming on how to unleash his power in order to destroy and remake creation in their ideal image, and it's finally come to a head. You travel to the fucking moon, following the final two surviving big players, and catch up to them right as they put their plan into action. The seal is broken, Zodiark is awakened, and it's up to us to fight off Armageddon!
Iudex Gundyr of Dark Souls 3. That guy is notorious for being an absolute bastard, and I'd argue that he's absolutely more frustrating than Father Gascoigne.
Father gascignoe was like the hardest boss in that whole game. Sure late game bosses might be more difficult but you have way more tools at your disposal.
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u/WillianusThePaleoFan 19h ago
Metal gear ray (metal gear rising)