What’s your most frustrating boss fight experience?

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jorgelroy
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What’s your most frustrating boss fight experience?

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Hello,
I wonder what was your most frustrating boss fight experience. For me, it’s Geo-Bite and Shadow Blinder from Strikers 1999, and here’s why:
  • Geo-Bite’s laser beam attack in its second form is fast, making it tough to dodge the incoming bullets.
  • Shadow Blinder’s spin attack is inconsistent and relies on RNG, so your chances of dodging depend on whether the game’s RNG decides to be uncooperative.
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Re: What’s your most frustrating boss fight experience?

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Your post belongs on the Shmups Chat forum, but if you want to share about your fights with your actual boss at work then we are all ears and there's no need to change the thread title.
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I got so buttmad at GOLDEN BABYLON from Holy Diver that I TOTALLY LOST MY SHIT :shock: I jumped up from my chair, dropped trou, and slammed my hog down on the TV like a truncheon, causing the TV to explode and shower my nutsack with sparks. Then I said NAWWW! FUUUUUUCK because that was a great television.

FML! :[ The moral is don't do permanent damage over temporary buttmad :o
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I would say Isshin, the Sword Saint, but once you get his pattern down he's pretty easy. Until then, it's a pad splitting nightmare. Also, I found the last boss in Nioh a mental health challenge too.
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Isshin the Sword Saint took me four fucking days to beat. Sekiro is by far the hardest of any of the souls games.

Malenia, I thought, was supposed to be the ultimate difficult boss in souls games and she only took me a couple hours. Pretty typical of the harder souls bosses.

But Isshin drove me insane.
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It's an excellent fight, though. Supremely satisfying to beat him, especially when he'd got me quite a few times on a 50/50.
I actually did have a spaz. The neighbours probably thought I was nuts.
If I recall, I think it was like a full time job for 2 days straight to beat him, but then I went back and got the Platinum Trophy once I'd rehearsed it for so long. The overhead clonk move, followed by a swift escape is the best course of action. You just have to stay alive for him to go through his routine and then make your move. Rinse and repeat. Patience required.
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Haha.

There are some developers that do my nut in. They design a boss fight around a round room that requires you to circulate the boss with aiming precision and camera control. That I don't mind, but after 10 minutes of watching a room spin round and round my head starts spinning round and round. So I do prefer boss rights that not in a round room or a boss room that the mechanic is to constantly circulate the boss whilst aiming.

One of the Ratchet and Clank games (Up your Arsenal?) had such a room right near the end which caused this problem for me. Which many might think "Its only a Ratchet and Clank game" but if you're like me you might find your weakness is dizzyness and that has a detrimental impact on if you can do it or not.
This industry has become 2 dimensional as it transcended into a 3D world.
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