Penultimate Bosses that were harder than the actual final boss
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Nine Toes is leagues harder than the giant vagina thing from Borderlands. Yes, the first boss from Borderlands is harder than the last. Nine Toes actually killed me twice. The vagina thing didn't even touch me.
This sort of counts.
Demise(final boss of Skyward Sword)'s One Winged Angel form was a lot easier than his first form. All I did was flail the Wii-mote around for 30 seconds and did 2 or 3 jump attacks, and then he
Also related: The first boss took me 10 minutes (although when I fought him again, it took me considerably less time), and I didn't lose a single heart to the third boss (it was harder the second time though, for whatever reason)
Demise(final boss of Skyward Sword)'s One Winged Angel form was a lot easier than his first form. All I did was flail the Wii-mote around for 30 seconds and did 2 or 3 jump attacks, and then he
Also related: The first boss took me 10 minutes (although when I fought him again, it took me considerably less time), and I didn't lose a single heart to the third boss (it was harder the second time though, for whatever reason)
OH. MY. GOD. I FUCKING HATE Xaldin!!!!!!ForgottenPr0digy said:
Him, Demyx, Xigbar, and Saix were the hardest bosses I have ever had the dis-pleasure of fighting. Although Demyx was more annoying than hard, and if I didn't deflect or dodge fast enough for Xigbar, I would rage all over.
No, push was a kick in the balls. You know, when she pushed you over the rails and off the map so you had to reload your last save? THAT was absolute crap.Aerosteam 1908 said:
Honestly I found Super Saren harder than Saren for one reason: I talked Saren into suiciding. Epic Win for me, and then Super Saren was just a simple Lift, Assault Rifle Ability, Shoot like shit. Win.
Xenosaga 2. Decently challenging second-to-last boss followed by the easiest boss in RPG history (yes, easier than Final Fantasy 10). The penultimate boss is the leader of the space Eastern Orthodox Church and his hundred meter tall golden wizard robot. The last boss is a guy with enough psychic power to bend the fabric of reality, but he just sits in a chair and insults you. No, really, he has like thirty different voiced insults that he just cycles through. He also uses his first turn to cast a spell that resurrects you if you die, so you can't even lose by killing yourself.
Only ones that come to mind are Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Metal Gear Solid 3. (spoiler free!)
First Human Revolution, all the bosses were tough in their own really cheap bullshit way, but the last boss was extremely easy except that the first time I couldn't figure out that you were supposed to break the glass. Eventually I found a safe spot from the turrets (a weapons closet) and went to get the laundry or something and forgot to pause. Come to find out the glass breaks on its own if you just wait a while and you win. So anti-climatic.
MGS3 however, the End was clearly the much batter boss than the Boss at the end. When you fight the End (the sniper the End that you fight in the middle of the game) it's a hunting game against another hunter forcing you to stay hidden but you never know where he is either, so you have to try to find him, without giving yourself away. While the Boss (the one you fight at the end of the game) just runs up and punches you. IN CASE YOU DIDN'T NOTICE, I HAVE A MACHINE GUN.
Also I just realized that fighting the boss The End, at the middle of the game, then fighting The Boss at the end of the game, is probably the most confusing boss-sequence I have ever seen.
First Human Revolution, all the bosses were tough in their own really cheap bullshit way, but the last boss was extremely easy except that the first time I couldn't figure out that you were supposed to break the glass. Eventually I found a safe spot from the turrets (a weapons closet) and went to get the laundry or something and forgot to pause. Come to find out the glass breaks on its own if you just wait a while and you win. So anti-climatic.
MGS3 however, the End was clearly the much batter boss than the Boss at the end. When you fight the End (the sniper the End that you fight in the middle of the game) it's a hunting game against another hunter forcing you to stay hidden but you never know where he is either, so you have to try to find him, without giving yourself away. While the Boss (the one you fight at the end of the game) just runs up and punches you. IN CASE YOU DIDN'T NOTICE, I HAVE A MACHINE GUN.
Also I just realized that fighting the boss The End, at the middle of the game, then fighting The Boss at the end of the game, is probably the most confusing boss-sequence I have ever seen.
All the mini-bosses in the sand tower at the end of Eternal Sonata were painfully unforgiving in comparison to the "real" end boss. He was just a cakewalk.
Four kings I 100% agree with. I can't do it without some jolly co-operation.Nyaoku said:
But the rest weren't that bad... ceaseless discharge gives you a handy groan at the exact moment you need to start a roll, after i got eaten by my first mimic, I just whacked every chest, sif was easy enough, provided you have good equipment, but that can be said for almost anything.
Fighting.....crap, forgotten his name, the professional Middle Eastern mercenary dude in Deus Ex: Human Revolution, was a royal pain in the ass compared to the final boss, an unarmed Chinese woman.
Yunno, you could've just used a spoiler box. However, I do agree with this.Gorilla Gunk said:
Except that False King Allant can be the second archdemon that you kill. It might be just me, but he's hardly a final boss if I can kill him before I even get halfway into the game.Wolfram01 said:
Hell, all three tyrant bosses were tougher than the last one. Course, the third one I had that little... "problem" occuring, which actually was alot more interesting fight, but short still because of the laser rifle...krazykidd said:
Potema in Skyrim.
Pretty much all the bonus content in Disgaea.
Demogorgon hard for BG2/ToB, you know that's true.
Trias and Ravel in PS: T, considering you can talk TTO into submission if you made the right choices...but if not, he's still likely tougher than the two.
Ser Cautherin in DA:O of course, that one encounter you're supposed to lose but can still be won I mean.
Good luck winning your first encounter with Lavos in CT.
Bloody Mary in Terranigma.
Pretty sure there were plenty more, but I can't be bothered to think much more at this point.
Pretty much all the bonus content in Disgaea.
Demogorgon hard for BG2/ToB, you know that's true.
Trias and Ravel in PS: T, considering you can talk TTO into submission if you made the right choices...but if not, he's still likely tougher than the two.
Ser Cautherin in DA:O of course, that one encounter you're supposed to lose but can still be won I mean.
Good luck winning your first encounter with Lavos in CT.
Bloody Mary in Terranigma.
Pretty sure there were plenty more, but I can't be bothered to think much more at this point.
Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath, although that's mostly because the "penultimate boss" (there's two of them at the same time) is really cheap, basically if you get hit, the knock down animation is too long for you to get up again before the second one hits you back down, so if you get hit once you die, then the final boss involves hidding in cover and shooting generators.
The only example I could think of that hasn't been mentioned yet would be The Binding of Isaac.
<spoiler=Spoilers about what you encounter but Isaac doesn't really have all that much story>
Your first "complete" run ends when you beat the boss mom. Mom is pretty hard since you have to avoid her summoned creatures, her stomp move that comes from above and sometimes specific zones in the area become "dangerous" and you will get hit by an attack if you go into that zone.
When you do beat mom you start the game over and you can continue after beating mom again and later you end up fightning Mom's heart. You'd guess that the boss you have to unlock by beating the previous one would be harder, but Mom's heart is a pushover. It basically summons a few enemies and hides, you kill the summons and then you can damage the heart for a bit and then it repeats its summon/hide routine. It's so simple and boring right until the end of the fight where it stays to shoot at you while you dodge enemies but by then it's so easy just to kill it fast.
I have no comment on the boss of Sheoth, I haven't actually gotten far enough to fight him yet.
<spoiler=Spoilers about what you encounter but Isaac doesn't really have all that much story>
Your first "complete" run ends when you beat the boss mom. Mom is pretty hard since you have to avoid her summoned creatures, her stomp move that comes from above and sometimes specific zones in the area become "dangerous" and you will get hit by an attack if you go into that zone.
When you do beat mom you start the game over and you can continue after beating mom again and later you end up fightning Mom's heart. You'd guess that the boss you have to unlock by beating the previous one would be harder, but Mom's heart is a pushover. It basically summons a few enemies and hides, you kill the summons and then you can damage the heart for a bit and then it repeats its summon/hide routine. It's so simple and boring right until the end of the fight where it stays to shoot at you while you dodge enemies but by then it's so easy just to kill it fast.
I have no comment on the boss of Sheoth, I haven't actually gotten far enough to fight him yet.
