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Sepheroth kingdom hearts 1 and 2 good memories!

Sir Alonne from Dark Soul 2.

Honourable mention to the leader of the trolls in Pathfinder: Kingmaker.

Darks Souls 2 DLC bosses - Fume Knight and Ivory King took quite a lot of attempts

Dark Souls 3 - I died an embarrassing amount of times to the Twin Princes. Even Slave Knight Gael didn't take as many attempts. I even killed Nameless King in two or three attempts.

Margit and godrick were my first two souls bosses. I was super under-leveled when I tried them. It took probably 30 tries for each? It was terrible.

Really though though the worst one was a boss from archvale. I played the game on "hard" without realizing that it was actually supposed to say "hardcore." I've never played a game that I couldn't beat "hard" in so I tried it. I couldn't understand why I couldn't beat the boss. I just fucking couldn't beat it. I got mad and slapped myself in the face. It gave me a concussion that has kept me out of work for 6 months now. I just tell everyone that I bumped my head on a cabinet. Turns out that hard mode is something that people with thousands of hours in bullet hell games struggle with. That was one of my first bullet hell games, I had like maybe 40 hours total in those kinds of games.

Anyway I don't self harm anymore because holy shit the consequences of my actions. Well I do very rarely but I hit my thigh instead which is a lot safer. lmao this happened like 2 months after breaking off the inside door handle of my car on accident. I was just trying to open it but it was locked. It just kinda came off. :(

Through the Fire and Flames in GH3. Took literally months of semi-consistent practice.

this guy from donkey kong 64

Wiegraf in Final Fantasy Tactics, favorite game of all time then it throws this wall at you mid game you're most likely not prepared or leveled for, solo.

Any that took me more than 5 hours to defeat

Bellower from Banner Saga. Couldn't do it.

Ruby Weapon from ff7

Also that first boss of the 2004 Ninja Gaiden that's supposed to be a tutorial boss lol. My god that was a game you die in A LOT. Souls before the souls games. It really forced you to learn the game properly, learn your moveset and to play properly.

Burt the Bashful from Yoshi's Island. Not because he was particularly difficult but because he is such a ridiculously silly boss in a game full of them and I still sometimes think about Burt and chuckle out loud in front of people.

Misago, the level 4 boss in ikaruga
god damn that thing ate so many attempts lmao

Calo Nord from kotor. I got the game after a friend showed it to me so I knew I could get his pistol somehow and spent hours trying to kill him in the cantina. The joys of video games before everything was on a wiki the day after release.

Tekken 5 Jinpachi. Game over to this broken grandpa more times than I could count

I didn't die like a thousand times to Margief or anything. nope, couldn't be me.

the water wraith (pikmin)

so many little dudes perished

Mithrix still frequently kicks my ass in RoR2 on Monsoon difficulty. There's just so many one shot mechanics flying around.

I don't know what the hell the deal is but Ceaseless Discharge from DS1 fucks with me endlessly. I can never get the kite strategy to work and end up just having to chug through the damage. I've played dark souls like a million times too and have no idea what the deal is. I love Bed of Chaos compared to Ceaseless.

Lately it's been lithophage corrupters from deep rock galactic. Their aoes are huge and you have to go inside their range to break the armor. I'd rather fight 2 dreadnoughts at once than a corrupter

This fucking stage from need for speed hot pursuit (2010)

It literally took me about a hundred tries to achieve the gold timing for this stage

project zomboid ui

fighting off a small horde with fireaxe, no biggie -> get em all lined up, start mowing em down -> wasd move a bit to cover a potential blindspot, forget to move mouse because hit indicator makes me think i have targets locked or something -> swing and miss because mouse is off by like 20 degrees, panic push and also miss -> ded

Level 6 of Contra Shattered Soldier is basically one long boss fight and it's pretty brutal, but the really killer thing is that every time you want to play it (before I could emulate a PS2 anyway) you have to play through the entire rest of the game and maintain an A rank (so you can't even just use the 30 lives cheat like in the video).

Fume Knight and Darkeater Midir, nothing comes close

Recent: The Labyrinth Sentry from Remnant 2, entire game is basically Dark Souls with guns, then you get a boss that's not really a puzzle and more like an exercise in getting OHKs until you get the pattern down rote

All time: Riven of a Thousand Voices, nobody does that fight legit, everyone does the cheese. No humans alive can coordinate that well to do it as intended

Radahn from Elden Ring somehow affected real world weather and made lightning strike my building and trip the breaker right as i was about to beat him

Sirus from Path of Exile. What an awfully designed boss, 90% of the time you can't see shit because of the fart clouds he spawns on the ground. I barely killed him this league after what, TWO YEARS of trying him on and off. Doubt I will even go for him in the next league or any other in the future.

Most recently? Theseus from Hades. He always manages to take away one death defiance, and is usually my first one each run.

Raven Beak, final boss of Metroid Dread. I absolutely binged Dread after a sleepless night or two from work deadlines and started that boss battle at 5 in the morning, exhausted and delirious and just could not.

John fucking Madden

Nightmare Reaper plasma robot guys and Kenshi's holy nation