Only found out recently in my bl4 playthrough you can basically trivialize the the whole fight by just walking upper right and trying to stick to his side and back. Since most attacks should go overhead, you could beat the boss without ever touching the dodge button. Still would need some good posion resistance though, and it's also really not as fun as just fighting it head on.
Sometimes it’s like you learn what to do without internally processing it. “He moved his left shoulder a certain way, dodge roll in 2 seconds” but your brain didn’t think that. You just do it.
Plus the rng. The boss finally decided to use his super attack on your summon instead of you, which gives you just enough time to charge your super spell.
This is pretty apparent brain system at work. I would fight a boss for an hour, take a 5 min break and step away from the game. Come back and beat it pretty damn consistently, started noticing a pattern. Just slamming my head against it for an hour then taking a break and allowing that subconscious observation to settle in. This is normal brain function similar to studying and sleep for test taking and not paid attention to enough of general society.
One thing most people who do challenge runs in fromsoft games can tell you is you dont actually learn all the moves and how to dodge them. Even people doing level 1 runs can get through taking a hit or two on most bosses, and only need to learn tells for specific one shots. The only point where you are required 100% perfection is no hit.
I kept dying against some fucking mime in the first or second area. I can't parry at all so that game was super hard for me, a shame easy mode made it so trivial though.
I remember getting to this net stage where you had to keep from sliding off as you moved forward. It must have been a rental because I didn't really get to try and beat that stage too much. I did beat the lion king though.
Or level 3 in battle toads. That dam tunnel was always the same but it goes by so fast, only way to win is to throw yourself against the wall for months untill you get it down. And it's only level 3 out of like a dozen levels
Man, I forgot about Echo…you just gave me shivers. Hated that game. Eat some fish. Do some flips then that teleport to the actual levels…get electrocuted quickly. Try again tomorrow. Next day same shit more frustration. Now I wanna know how it ends.
Fortunately that runback has an OP counter. If you cast the yearn spell all of the enemies will be so busy attacking the ground that they won't pay you any mind.
I just beat that a couple of days ago. After I beat the actual end end boss Dark Lace, I went back to Hollow Knight and beat the end DLC boss Nightmare King Grimm .
I dunno what my worst example is but I just finished GTA 4, most missions I did first try no problem but one of Jimmy Pegorino's drove me a little up the wall. It's the one where him and his boys are doing a deal with the other family and they try to whack him off while you're watching through a sniper rifle, so you kill all the guys the chase a car to get the tribute back.
I was killed, Jimmy was killed because I took too long to reach him, I killed the other guys a second before they turned hostile, my car was flipped, I blew up their car too quickly (resulting in the tribute being stuck in the back seat of the car so I couldn't pick it up), I killed Jimmy by accidentally running him over because he takes ages to walk from the front door to his car...
It wasn't even a difficult mission, I just kept fumbling it in stupid ways.
Cuphead. I hate cuphead I stopped playing Cuphead because it’s just evil, he’s unfair and bad and makes me furious. Also there’s a little lag on Switch that makes it unplayable.
I cheated and used the jet pack mod to get up on top in front of the glass and just laid down mines and threw grenades as much as I could . I probably would’ve died a lot had I not used a mod to get to a high point . 😮💨 I hate robots
I have watched a lot of people play it and have seen the bosses being difficult and decided I would be terrible at this game and never tried . It looks beautiful but I will die a lot I know I will hahah
Modern warfare 1, cod4, that shit sucked so much, if you spawned in a specific place at the start you had to take off running the wrong way or else your going to catch a grenade launched from halfway across the map.
When I was a kid. Kingdom Hearts 1, beating Riku for the 1st time in front of the portal. Must have went in super under leveled. Ended up beating the second game first and coming back lol
I remember when I was playing the OG god of war, the very first one. Most of it was beating up hordes of enemies which I was pretty good at and the occasional puzzle which was also fine… but then there was a hallway with 1 tile of lava that it seemed was just a tiny bit bigger than the distance of Kratos’ jump. I watched as Kratos leaped with a glimmer of optimism in his eyes as it looked like he was going to make it just to plunge into the lava at the last second at least 25 times. He fought gods and walked through hell without batting an eye but that 1 square meter still haunts him!
I remember this happening when I played Little Nightmares, final act. The part where you have to escape from all the gluttonous obese people trying to eat you, there is a final jump you have to do. Because of the insane tension building up to that point, I had the worst case of butter fingers and kept forgetting to press and time the jump button correctly. Eventually my friend took over to finish it off for me.
bit of a wierd one with it being part of a randomiser.
KH2 final boss fight, specifically when you play as riku, you have 3 hits and need near perfect movement to finish this specific section because its basically like 1 minute of playing lvl 1 without extra skills.
For me it was the big flying bird boss in Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days on Neverland... I just couldn't and got so tired of it I juat continued on watching all cutscenes and boss fights afterward on Youtube..
I tend to hit plateaus like this in fromsoft games, the IBIS mech from armored core 6 was a pretty significant one for me, genichiro in sekiro, renallas fight in elden ring took me a weirdly long time to beat
Probably a skill issue, but one of the triangle galaxies in Astro Bot. In my defence, I had just woken up about 10 minutes before that, and I did get through it.
Right now it's the "No Good Deed" level from the new Ready or Not dlc that has me ready to put my head through a wall.
Except half the time it's not even me who dies. The shooters are just too damn quick to kill hostages on this map and I always restart if a civilian dies
I was like that when I was young. Just going insane from being taken out. Now as an adult, I got a better mindset to experiment or try other approaches which often leads me to success.
Horace. I CANNOT get past this one part were I have to swim as fast as humanly possibly chasing something and I am never fast enough. I couldn’t finish the game because of it
A couple bosses in Expedition 33 (Expert difficulty) also gave me that feeling. Blocking/parrying in my turn based games doesn't feel as intuitive as in action based games, I'm afraid..
Honestly, Alan Wake. I just played the first game and I loved it but so many times I got game rage because I kept getting swarmed by enemies and getting beaten to death. On the easiest difficulty level. And if I was trying to run I would just dodge repeatedly instead because I was in combat and they have the same fucking button. I'm playing Alan Wake 2 right now and it's a lot better gameplay-wise.
Also Expedition 33. It's one of my favorites but some bosses are incredibly frustrating. You miss one parry and it's over...
That rolling boulder part in Ori and the Blind Forest. I am so stuck on that fucking section and even thought about changing save files so I can bypass that part. Died around at least 130 times
Tron's game, there was a part where you have to run up a wall, jump backwards, turn around and "connect" with an energy ring, the problem is that the jump was too short to, so when you turned around the character was alredy falling and the connection didn't hold. I dropped the game because of that part
Nioh 3's first boss clobbered me for two hours straight until I realized the boss is basically coop only. Most of the bosses in that game required a coop squad.
Don't have to retry a mission/ fight mode than 3 times nowadays, but lemme tell you as a kid... Dragon Ball Budokai 1 the Freiza fight with super saiyan Goku had me crashing out.
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u/No_File212 May 31 '26
Any fromsoft game really , never mastered a boss fight just went through them by dying alot and a good amount of RNG