/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.1756348]

What's the hardest boss you ever fought?

[Anonymous No.1756364]

>>1756348

The Popful Mail final boss in the PC-98 version is just fucking ridiculous.

[Anonymous No.1756373]

The fuckin space ship in bucky o' hare. The ship, the ground and the spikes all kill you in a hit if you touch them. Theres also a shit load of stuff shooting at you.

[Anonymous No.1756583]

>>1756348
i'm still convinced he's impossible

[Anonymous No.1756598]

This fat goddamn fuck from the sega CD version of Lunar Eternal Blue.

[Anonymous No.1756602]

>>1756348
The last boss in magic sword. Came so close to 1cc-ing it.. then that fucker

[Anonymous No.1756604]

seriously goddamn

[Anonymous No.1756624]

>>1756598
>>1756604
Oh come on, he wasn't that hard. I might have white dragon shielded that attack, though.

[Anonymous No.1756626]

Counting only successful victories. Big step up in difficulty from the rest of the game.

[Anonymous No.1756631]

>>1756604
Lunn was also a fucking bastard if you didn't know that Doppel Dance would counter Chameleon, and Zophar was just straight-up hard to kill with tons of damage and 10k HP in both forms.

Still one of the best boss themes ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7mdhKSEER0

[Anonymous No.1756640]

>>1756624

he is when he pulls the attack almost every other turn and he has his stupid orbs taking pot shots at you

[Anonymous No.1756647]

>>1756631
>, and Zophar was just straight-up hard to kill with tons of damage and 10k HP in both forms.

what's amusing is that while the PSX version is generally much easier they actually made Zophar Harder in the PSX version by given him a bunch of extra arms. He had something like 10 targets in the PSX version

[Anonymous No.1756648]

Jailmaster Dumas is one of the longest and hardest battles in the game, and the last fight with Kane is just a massive Fuck You.

How much of a fuck you? His favorite spell has an AOE of ∞ and he uses it every fucking turn with impunity.

[Anonymous No.1756652]

>>1756604
>>1756631
Borgan's harder than Zophar. Ruby even says so after beating Zophar. She says something like
'That's it? Borgan was tougher than that!'
I don't recall if she says it after the first form or after beating him altogether, but she def says it and I def agree.

[Anonymous No.1756656]

>>1756648
Forgot pic. Vandal Hearts 1's bosses are bastard hard in general.

[Anonymous No.1756659]

you know the real funny part about Borgan

he still lives to bang the shit out of Lemia's mom

[Anonymous No.1756664]

This motherfucker right here, the 3rd boss in Battle Kid. I was actually just gonna make a thread to ask how the hell to beat this bitch.

[Anonymous No.1756673]

>>1756648
Ah, only after a certain line is crossed in the map does he use that. As long as you know where it is, you can use your Hawk Knights to bum rush him and commit him to using single target attacks....I think.

>>1756656
One of the best missions in that game is the one where you're supposedly screwed. All 4 generals invade the town you're kipping at to make love to you.
With tactical use of the environment, obstacles and a pinch of luck, you can tongue-punch their shitbox's instead :)

[Anonymous No.1756674]

>>1756659
>posting a screencap of the pigdisgusting PSX version
You swine.

[Anonymous No.1756695]

>>1756674
>posting nothing
step it up

[Anonymous No.1756798]

>>1756348
Final boss of StarOcean 2. Still never managed to beat that asshole, even at level 120. Yeah yeah limiter whatever, I don't think I ever did that, at least not on purpose. But he'd still take out my entire team in one hit doing that flood move that does 9999.

[Anonymous No.1756804]

>>1756348
For some strange reason, I've been able to be the final boss of every other game I've played easily, except this guy. I don't understand...

[Anonymous No.1756805]

Try it without auto potion. It's not impossible, just improbable.

[Anonymous No.1756806]

>>1756798
Algol shield instakills anything. Bloody Armor gives 100% invulnerably. Stock enough healing to counter the Bloody Armor HP drain and you can beat anything.

[Anonymous No.1756814]

>>1756805
Theres about 1000 different ways to beat the shit out of Wiegraf, its just about preparation and knowing what to do.

Your first time? Yeah good luck. I've had Ramza get crush punched into Insta-kill back when I first played.

Theres a few fights in FFT you can lose before getting a turn which is kinda shitty if you're trying to do a speedrun or whatever. Off the top of my head:

>Yardow Fort City, Rafa can die before you get a turn if Ninjas get a crit or your too slow
>Elmdor on the roof top, Rafa can die to a huge number of things, namely Stop Bracelet, or Muramasa from Elmdor

What do these battles have in common? Rafa is in them. Otherwise FFT is pretty easy.

[Anonymous No.1756823]

>>1756814
I remember after finally passing Wiegraf I thought to myself "finally now I can continue with this game"
then Rafa continued to die at the start of the battle

[Anonymous No.1756845]

>>1756804
Try this guy with Knuckles, like pulling teeth when i tried it the first time.

[Anonymous No.1756854]

>>1756805
>>1756814
>>1756823
>Be me
>17 years old and only have one memory card with one slot available to save game.
>Get to sheep man
>group looks strong, many knights and thief's
>Ramza keeps dieing.
>Always dies to sheep mode
>change Ramza from knight to wizard with all my points in flare.
>????
>success!!

[Anonymous No.1756857]

>>1756814

Agree-- should have given some context was stuck with one save spot on memory card and had no notice of the pain train that was that fight. Unless I wanted to start over the entire game, I had to figure out how to win, it took young me a week of experimentation to get there. Ended up using a weird combo of jump and Demi to beat both forms.

[Anonymous No.1756875]

>>1756798
>Final boss of StarOcean 2. Still never managed to beat that asshole
>I instantly killed him

did you just ignore item creation?

[Anonymous No.1756880]

>>1756348
The final boss of Ironsword:Wizards and Warriors 2.
Its not the boss that is hard, its the fact that by the endgame you have no lives left due to all monsters repeatably taking pot shots at you or other insane one hit deaths in the earlier levels.

[Anonymous No.1756881]

>>1756814
>>1756823
>>1756854

The first time I played FFT I had no problem with Wiegraf, but that's just because my Ramza was a Pieces.

[Anonymous No.1756882]

[Anonymous No.1756886]

Truxton,man.

[Anonymous No.1756889]

>>1756882
>thinking you can identify someone solely on a first name

[Anonymous No.1756894]

>>1756875
This.

I stunlocked the last bosses, and took no damages. Which was kind of a let-down (party: Claude, Rena, Cecil (? if I recall correctly, the sorceress), and Ashton).

[Anonymous No.1756898]

>>1756664
Fun game. I can't even make it to the first boss though. :(

[Anonymous No.1756935]

Tough question, but maybe this guy. Without bombing or getting hit, either.

[Anonymous No.1756942]

>>1756598
I don't know about the Saturn version but I usually fought 2-3 mobs in dungeons and the only boss that was real hard was Ghaleon in the whole series. The rest was hard but just about using buffs, defense, sacrifices etc.

[Anonymous No.1756953]

>>1756604
Is that his toughest attack ?

Come on now in Lunar on PS1 every single boss I fought either killed me in one shot or two, that's nothing unusual.

[Anonymous No.1756962]

>>1756935
Nah, I take that back. It's definitely a shoot 'em up boss but it's hard to decide on which one. I still haven't beaten Dimahoo but I'm getting pretty close.

[Anonymous No.1756992]

>>1756953
>Is that his toughest attack ?

It's a combination of more than just that attack.

to start with you can't actually hurt him till you take down his barrier.

He can drain your MP and you can only hold so many MP restoring items to start with and barrier spells are expensive

he's fast as hell and he will use gravity bomb back to back and often ON TOP of his orbs taking shots on you

[Anonymous No.1756995]

dracula in castlevania 3. could never get past his third form

[Anonymous No.1757009]

>>1756898
Yeah, when everyone is saying how hard this game or that game is, I'm always thinking STFU and play Battle Kid, it's like a better, way way way way more challenging Mega Man.

[Anonymous No.1757034]

>>1756962
>Google image search
>Visually similar images

[Anonymous No.1757050]

The final boss in Jackal is tough as balls

[Anonymous No.1757052]

>>1756992
>to start with you can't actually hurt him till you take down his barrier.
That's Ghaleon alright, his special attack is killing one party member ( as in no amount of HP or defense will make you survive it ), followed by casting this barrier that last for three to four turns

>He can drain your MP and you can only hold so many MP restoring items to start with and barrier spells are expensive

I think the PS1 version had that too, I ended up killing him with nothing but physical attacks. But anyway Ghaleon has enough HP so that you'll use every single MP healing item you had till now, he also by taking HP away from your party members, which means beating him with regular attacks is nearly impossible, also just before there was another boss that's not hard but still can't be beaten just with full MP.


>he's fast as hell
That's every boss ever in Lunar, anyway in the PS1 version you could combine the Goddess Crest and the Shiro Crest to make sure one character always was the first to perform an action.
>and he will use gravity bomb back to back and often ON TOP of his orbs taking shots on you
Ghaleon attacks twice with two attacks of opposite elemental affinities, you have four items in the game that give you elemental strength and I think only Mia can resist well to all of those, so yeah that's nothing new.

When I fought Borgan on the PS1 it seemed like a bit harder than your average boss and that's it. I'll probably try the Saturn version just to see how hard he truly is.

[Anonymous No.1757074]

>>1756875
Probably. Every time I tried to craft something it failed. Repeat x100 and I said to hell with this horrible system. I still don't know how that game works, but I don't really care anymore since I sold it.

[Anonymous No.1757102]

>>1756889
>Thinking you'll have trouble identifying someone called Giovanni in a small post apocalyptic region of Japan

[Anonymous No.1757107]

>>1756992
Not him but that's your fault for not setting up a proper formation.

If you spread out your characters this won't happen.

[Anonymous No.1757119]

>>1756348
This shit right here... Jesus Christ

[Anonymous No.1757143]

>>1757107

that's actually not my screen shot grabbed it off a LP in the archive

and just FYI unless you want to waste all your MP on white dragon protect it's better to use Lemia's shield spell which requires a tighter formation

B rarely uses that attack unless he's out of MP anyways

[Anonymous No.1757148]

>>1757050
I'm pretty sure there's a (semi) safe spot at the edges. I don't even really this boss too well, but I think I just darted out from safety once in a while to land a hit then retreated.

>>1756598
>>1756604
>>1756992
I don't remember this guy at all. Was he a bonus boss?

[Anonymous No.1757173]

>>1757148
>I don't remember this guy at all. Was he a bonus boss?

no he was a major antagonist and rival to one of the main heroes.

All the heroes had rivals. Mauri was a QT4.13

[Anonymous No.1757530]

Bump

[Anonymous No.1757539]

>>1757119
Oh my god yes

[Legion of Anon No.1757669]

>>1757052

No one seemed to notice this, so I'll point it out to you:

They're talking about the Sega CD version of Borgan, so stop your talk about how easy the PSX version is.

Borgan was flat out pussified in the PSX version, so your claims of "I had no trouble with him" is like announcing you took your first steps today.

We look forward to your tears when Borgan sits his fat ass on your corpse.

[Anonymous No.1758210]

>>1756373
The feels are real

[Anonymous No.1758260]

>>1757119
My first encounter with trial and error.

[Anonymous No.1758960]

[Anonymous No.1758979]

>>1757119
this is bait, right?

[Anonymous No.1759000]

>First time playing FFV
>This faggot

I know, FF bosses are laughable, but goddamn this took me forever to formulate a strategy of some sort.

[Anonymous No.1759031]

>>1759000
>FF bosses are laughable
There's Ozma.

[Anonymous No.1759061]

>>1759031
>Ozma
>Hard in any sense or manner

[cAb No.1759084]

The last boss in Atomic Robo Kid for sega was nuts. Dude gave you just enough room to circle him. Also special shout outs to the boxer in Streets of Rage 2 (not spamming Axel dash) and the last boss in Revenge of Shinobi. Also special recognition to Shadow of the Beast for still being an unbeatable game.

[Anonymous No.1759123]

>>1756664

Why does this game look like a fucking smudgy mess?

[Anonymous No.1759126]

>>1757119

That's not hard, just pure bullshit. And I think if I remember right if you fuck up even once you may as well just reset.

[Anonymous No.1759134]

I still haven't beaten this motherfucker with the Goddess's Bracelet. It traumatized me.

[Anonymous No.1759149]

>>1759126
IIRC, the walls don't respawn once destroyed. You should be able to do it in two passes if you screw it up.

[Anonymous No.1759152]

I'll just say Little Samson, Fester's Quest, and Batman for the NES.

You can pick any damn boss available.

[Anonymous No.1759159]

>>1759123
Filters.

[Anonymous No.1759172]

>>1756348
I would have to say that very boss you posted.
Seriously, you could be a damn pro, and there'd still be a chance that you'll die several times.

[Anonymous No.1759173]

>>1759134
it took me 15 years on and off to beat this game anon. I'd play for a few hours before getting frustrated as fuck with it and rage quitting and not touching it for a day, week, month, then years later. Hang in there

[Anonymous No.1759201]

>>1759152
Dude, there's one hard boss in Little Samson and its that pricky fuckin' blue knight. >>1759159

[Anonymous No.1759208]

>>1759084
Oh fuck this game. The only thing I really hate about it is how most of the boss difficulty comes from sheer size. They intentionally don't give you much size.

[Anonymous No.1759210]

>>1759208
*much screen real-estate

[Anonymous No.1759214]

>>1759201

Dude, looks like you have a differing opinion.

[Anonymous No.1759470]

>>1759000
depending on your party, multiple bosses in that game are incredibly difficult/easy

[Anonymous No.1759580]

Am I just really shitty at vidya or did nobody else play through Actraiser and take on the final boss?

Sure, ramping your protagonist will get you through the 6 boss replay and the first form, but then the fucker rapes you.

[Anonymous No.1759656]

>>1759149
Even though the walls don't respawn if you loose a life, your Crash Bomber doesn't refill energy, so you're fucked anyway.

[Anonymous No.1759668]

>>1756805
Oh shit anon, i remember i got stucked on a gameplay in this stage and had to re-start full gameplay. Fucking piece of shit man, no matter how i got raped by those demons.

In the new game i leveled so much that i passed it almost walking.

[Anonymous No.1759725]

>>1758979
Why would you say that? It's not hard as in he kills you fast, but it is pretty hard your first time through when you don't know how to budget your bombs. If you place them wrong you have to keep killing yourself to get a continue since the weapon bar doesn't refill. And it could take a few tries to get the order right. I remember having trouble with it too. As far as puzzle bosses go he's pretty frustrating.

[Anonymous No.1759748]

>>1759000
FFV has probably the most creative and potentially difficult bosses in JRPGs. I mean yeah, once you know all the strong skills and exploits and weaknesses it's going to be a walk in the park, but that applies to any game with a formulable strategy. FFV bosses can be brutal especially for a first time player. Neo Exdeath is probably by far the most difficult RPG boss and one of the hardest bosses I've ever faced. Sure I can solo him with a Bard now, but I've spent literally dozens of attempts trying to beat him on my first playthrough. "Just Gil Toss or dualcast Bahamut on him until he dies", strangely, didn't work as well once it left the realm of uninformed posts by tough /vr/ kids.

[Anonymous No.1759836]

>>1759656
Can't you refill it within that level? It's been a while. I forget.

[Anonymous No.1759849]

>>1759836
Absolutely you can.

[Anonymous No.1759952]

>>1759000
>>1759031
>>1759061
Zodiark from ff12 gave me the shits. Thank god for scathe motes though.

[Anonymous No.1760071]

>>1757119
Not hard, just cheap.

[Anonymous No.1760093]

>>1759836
You have to backtrack a lot, and it's kinda hard to get to the boss with full health in the first place, which you're gonna probably need. It's just all around a pain in the ass.

[Anonymous No.1760130]

>>1756935
I found Storm Causer far more difficult.

[Anonymous No.1760307]

>>1756348
illidian prenerf

[Anonymous No.1760375]

This guy. Took me 10 years to beat him.

[Anonymous No.1760402]

>>1760375
That game was Decent.

[Anonymous No.1760451]

>>1760402
Yeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaahhhhhhh

[Anonymous No.1761106]

>>1759580
He has a pattern that never varies, most of his attacks can be avoided by standing in the right position, and you get a sword projectile that completely negates any need to get close to him.

If you're playing one of the versions that has a difficulty select (I think it's the Euro version) he can actually be a bit nasty on Hard, but on Normal, or in the US version, dude is a piece of cake.