The Top 10 WORST Boss Battles | The Completionist

[@ThatOneVideoGamer]

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[@404Errored]

Lol no.

[@Cliffordlonghead]

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[@jadedheartsz]

Eh Silver was pretty easy for me and didn't feel broken at all, I thought Kamsky from Cold Fear was WAY worse, it has just about everything you could possibly get wrong with a boss fight-stupid escort mission, multiple phases with no checkpoints, completely new mechanics that you've never learned before, hard to dodge attacks with oversized hitboxes, no health powerups during the fight and an overly cryptic method to defeat him that you'd never guess on your own.

[@bls8959]

Why should anybody support you after watching you offend your entire fan base

[@cheaddos]

Shao Kahn's AI can't deal with jump attack spam and uppercuts.

[@Benton188]

We recently played Sonic The Hedgehog, and we got to the infamous Silver fight. We of course got the whole 1 ring stun lock, but something amazing happened. During his endless throwing of us against a wall, he was inadvertently grabbing boxes and hurling them at himself at the same time. 5 box throws later and he had defeated himself while we were being pinned to the wall. It was the most satisfying hollowed victory we have ever felt.

[@Acejak1234]

thats insane, for me i just understood how he can just grab you so i stayed away til i had my chance, he may be infamous but hes also a really easy boss, but not as easy as egg dealer from shadow the hedgehog

[@joshuaweston6531]

You are lucky! Most of us just got to experience death while hearing "It's no use!" Ad nauseam!

[@chowsu944]

Why are you talking as if you were multiple people?

[@somejerk5662]

That's the glorious thing about Sonic 2006... over a decade since it was unleashed on the world, and it *still* finds novel ways to be broken.

[@joshuaweston6531]

@@somejerk5662 Yeah, Sonic 06' was good...and I don't mean that ironically...

[@docvince1491]

Remember, the Bed Of Chaos was so bad the developers apologized for it.

[@armtehcannon4813]

It wasn’t even a boss, it was a platformer in a game that wasn’t supposed to be a platformer. Add in a horrible camera with flying tentacles that push you off stage and you’re in for a bad time. Only saving grace is the boss itself has checkpoints within the boss fight.

[@pln9fos]

Not to mention that it's still one of the few bosses -- if not the only one -- wherein any weak points that you destroy remain that way even if you die afterwards.

[@richardsavings6690]

And they did nothing to fix it in the remaster. Where was THAT apology?

[@MaximusPrimusKay]

This abomination... It's the last 'fuck you' to the player after the disappointment that was Lost Izalith.

[@AnakinTheWeird]

And Silver is so bad that it's used in game dev classes to show how NOT to make a boss.

[@MrMcJazzhands]

Ah, the Bed of Chaos. I remember my exact words during my first run of the game being "this is stupid" after being knocked into a pit for the umpteenth time. Really, the way speedrunners lob firebombs onto the side roots from the center of the arena makes the most sense.

[@splattygaming1615]

I honestly loved the Scarecrow encounters. On my first playthrough of Arkham Asylum, they genuinley surprised and scared me, and they just added a lot of fun for me in Arkham Asylum.

[@hunterfogleman7443]

Yeah, it broke up the gameplay and I found it to be a nice change of pace.

[@splattygaming1615]

Same!

[@Mitharan23]

But to his point, they weren't really a boss fight. I loved the first one because you didn't see it coming. By the third... "oh yeah he coughed, fear gas".

[@splashor6361]

I think they're way too easy though.

[@deatho0ne587]

It was way better than the boring Poison Ivy fight. Which was just dodge, dodge, baterang, dodge, gel explosion, repeat 2 times. To be honest though I can agree with most of them though.

[@faceurhell]

I always thought the worst bosses in video games were marketers and executives.

[@Craxin01]

Todd Howard.

[@circeciernova1712]

@@Craxin01 Todd Coward! Todd Coward! Todd Coward!

[@Craxin01]

@@circeciernova1712 LOL! Nice!

[@browncoatkevin]

The ones demanding more skimpy outfits on girls, "make them cuter", etc.

[@MforMovesets]

I thought it was self proclaimed "gamers", especially Twitch ones, who have enough followers to make their terrible feedback matter, so they negatively influence a game. For example by demanding a Premium Pass instead of Lootboxes that forces you to pay monthly instead of whenever you feel like it.

[@JustCommonPlain]

Oh I thought you was talking about jobs, but this is cool too.

[@raidengoodman8754]

Jeff Bezos takes the cake

[@MommaDusk]

Tom Nook would be on the list

[@Azrael-vz7fg]

Ayo wut the fak?

[@skydiamsteam6005]

How often do you fight your boss?

[@vibes1680]

Bruh

[@Bornheck]

One tip for Silver: Don't bother Homing Attacking him. Homing Attacks make you bounce up with very little momentum or speed, putting you at risk of getting grabbed before you can get away. If you try to Air Dash away, you risk the game thinking you're wanting to do a second Homing Attack on Silver, which won't damage him, and will let him grab you. So you're better off not using Homing Attacks. Use either the Slide, or the Spin Kick. You'll keep any momentum and speed you had, which will let you easily get away before Silver gets up, and it does the same amount of damage.

[@artoriasoftheabyss1575]

dont worry nobody is playing that terrible game

[@ArcaneAzmadi]

I have a better tip: don't play Sonic the Hedgehog (2006).

[@leahbeth8335]

Let's be honest: we all knew immediately who was coming when he started talking Souls games.

[@superbeardbros]

Those sure are some big bad bosses!

[@ThatOneVideoGamer]

Get out.

[@Paraguai123]

@@ThatOneVideoGamer that's a great movie.

[@trueblade444]

They are kinda legendary in the most destructive way

[@DeadlockDrago]

They were not kind.

[@analoren4745]

man, it'd be great if these Big Bad Bosses got together to create something cool and fun!

[@BainesMkII]

When my friend and I defeated The Destroyer, we were still wondering when the real fight would start. It was such an out of left field let down that we expected something else to show up.

[@VorpalBender]

The 1 on 1 fight between Deego and Gale in Rogue Galaxy will forever haunt me.

[@kaimcdragonfist4803]

Seriously! I never could beat that as a kid and so I never got to see the rest of the game

[@wdcain1]

The cutscenes of Gale wiping out the mob boss before getting knife by his kid is the most Cowboy Bebop thing I've ever seen in a video game.

[@serPomiz]

the idea ia lovelly, but up to that point the parry has been absolutelly incosinstent, you're given infinite ammo, some cover overwhelmingly far away from the boss, and are left with absolutelly no idea. on top of that, gale has a boss-appropriate lifebar so you have to go trought multiple cycles the only 'saving grace' is how absolutelly schematic is the fight. gale loops, and loops, and loops... but worse for me is the following battle against the clone. you have to reduce his life, THEN stay in one specific spot of the arena for a few seconds without getting attacked. it's baffling

[@fathergetdown]

That fight sucks, the game is awesome though.

[@karmicrespite5737]

For a brief moment I had trouble trying to look through my game library, with games I played so long ago that I didn't remember anything bad or "yea that boss kinda sucked, but not WORST boss level"... and then I saw this and it all came flooding back to me. Eff that duel.

[@brandogents6624]

I really liked the scarecrow boss fights. Especially the last one where you fight all the skeletons. They were more unique than the titan enhanced goons imo. I was happy they brought vision fights back in Knight

[@Craxin01]

Were they really boss fights though? They were more like specialized levels than actual boss fights, IMO.

[@bes03c]

I liked the boss battles in Arkam. They were repetitive, but their visual spectacles made them worthwhile the Scarecrow battles were so imaginative, even if mechanically simple.

[@Craxin01]

They were okay. Then again, the game wasn't really about boss fights but about the atmosphere and giving players the feeling of being The Batman, and in that, they succeeded. The boss fights in the rest of the series were much better. Nice little cherries in the Batman sundae.

[@thedankgnasty1890]

@@Craxin01 the latter two may have been okay, but the first Scarecrow boss fight was amazing, even if it wasn't truly a boss fight. The entire encounter and everything around you slowly morphing into a nightmare realm was fantastic.

[@Craxin01]

@@thedankgnasty1890 It was quite well done.

[@Forbiddensirenz]

Lmao. Shao Khan being the first person mentioned absolutely gave me ptsd flashbacks. I’m a chill person and have never thrown a controller… But Shao Khan almost broke me lmao

[@aidanredding8058]

I've never played Sonic 06, but my worst boss in a Sonic game is the final boss from Sonic and the Secret Rings. Not only is the fight itself really annoying since his attacks can come out of nowhere, but you have to shake the Wii remote as fast as possible for MOST OF THE FIGHT. My arms were legitimately sore by the time I finally beat it.

[@russpluss9569]

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[@eoghanfeighery7383]

For me, Jinpachi Mishima from Tekken 5 is OP AF. Let's see: Unblockable hold that stuns you for a few seconds and heals him a little? Check. A move that works when your character is on the ground and leaves you vulnerable for more combo antics? Check. Teleportation? Check. A fire ball that can take off half your health bar and has a small chance of launching two at once? Check and mate.

[@serPomiz]

yeah, jimpacy is bull, but the worst part is that he still has full mobility; unlike every other XLbosses which take their swet times moving around, jimpachi can just run at you an hit you with no bullshit, which is the most unexpected thing for such a bull-heavy boss!

[@vDeadbolt]

Honestly, Jinpachi is easy if you know what you are doing. If we are talking about Hard Tekken Bosses, Tekken 7's Kazuya and Akuma. These guys are filled to the brim with shenanigans, and with the fight with Kaz, your HP is extremely low while Kazuya always has rage.

[@saedt]

Absolutely!! That guy was so damn annoying!

[@mr.awesome6011]

Here's a tip: Sidestep

[@zaneheaston8254]

Wait until you fight Azazael in Tekken 6

[@Supercatandrewman]

First couple seconds of the video showing Asura’s Wrath as an example of a good boss battle?… Already I love this video!

[@wariodude128]

At least the boss fights in Asylum make a fair amount of sense. Most of them in Knight are just you in your bat-tank taking on unmanned tank drones; how fun.

[@KamenWeaver]

I will NEVER forget getting thrown literally into outer space by Silver. I tried to come back down to earth, but it was no use...

[@Linkhaxor]

if I had to pick a dishonorable mention, I would give one to Jasper Batt Jr from No More Heroes 2. 1st phase; No Sweat. 3rd phase; Seems hard at first until you realize you can stand right below him to dodge most of his attacks. It's that 2nd phase that will make you want to chuck your controller into the garbage, especially on the game's hard mode where you can't pick up a health pizza during boss fights. His teleporting stunlock punch that you'll NEVER see coming, which you straight up CAN'T dodge BTW (as far as I know), multiple Hurricane Punches that can hit you clear across the room which are ALSO hard to dodge, plus the ability to literally insta-kill you out the window makes it the only dark spot in an otherwise fun, wild ride of a game.

[@mrbones2872]

I love the psychos in dead rising. I think they were heavily improved on in the sequels but i always look forward to them

[@ZakTheFallen]

They were very bullshit in the original though. How about we face one guy with a camera, versus a pair of snipers who can headshot him from long range? Yeah, that's a fair fight... I dreaded most of the psycho fights, there was no fun to be had with them. Just rush through and hope they die first. I played the Wii version, and quickly realized it was by far the worst version, especially in the boss fights.

[@MrKolo213]

When you started talking about the Arkham Series, I really thought it was gonna be the Deathstroke fight from Arkham Knight, requiring you to destroy all of the mercenary camps to unlock, hours worth of work just for a reskinned version of the tank fight from the main story

[@thehangedman1393]

A lot of these were on screwattack's old top ten list. I remember their number one was Jasper Batt Jr. from no more heroes 2

[@seanmcloughlin5983]

Man I miss Screwattack. I know Deathbattles still a thing but the variety was nice.

[@Anijah2001]

@@seanmcloughlin5983 Same I miss their old top 10 lists

[@serPomiz]

it's half of a good thing, less ball brakignly bad bosses around in games!

[@yamigekusu]

The first phase against Jasper is easy. Then the rest of the phases kick your ass into next millenium. I've played through NMH2 on every difficulty level, and Jasper still kicked my ass badly throughout them

[@kaparaomer7751]

This boss first phase was easy...then the rest happened. It really seems like Jasper is a fan of Apple because he always throw me of Windows!!!

[@zaneheaston8254]

I find it funny that you found the final boss of Catherine was so bad, because I saw it on a list of the BEST gaming bosses

[@MSofDM]

I like the way you incorporate the context of what it’s like to play the actual game up to the boss fight. It helps put into perspective why an otherwise bad boss would feel even worse

[@UnionSinger2005]

I liked hearing Chopin’s “Revolution” Etude during the Catherine Full Body entry (#4); it really set the mood for me.

[@lemmingrad]

It was probably why I actually liked that boss fight. Was too vibing on techno Chopin to be angry at the boss.

[@The_Warden]

Sonic '06... Ahh the Game Grumps golden days.

[@gwimbly8683]

Kinda fitting that Sliver Is #1 and Is gonna appear In Death battle, so you'll might get that "Death" Wish!

[@shadowleon659]

Sonic 06 was a rushed disaster and it's Sega's fault. The PS3 and Xbox 360 versions can burn in a furnace.

[@mangodango1733]

The bed of chaos is like that one thing at your job that makes you debate on quitting every time you do it

[@foxskirata]

The last boss fight that really made me angry was the final boss in Uncharted 4. After that entire game full of polished, practiced mechanics that were smooth and fun to use, the game suddenly throws all-new sword fighting mechanics at you with NO opportunity to practice them or really get a hang of them before the boss is suddenly cutting you to ribbons. If there had been ANY other times during the preceding 95% of the game that had used those mechanics and had given the player a chance to get used to them, I feel like it wouldn't have been as aggravating. But there weren't, and it was so jarring and infuriating from both a gameplay and design perspective that it almost ruined the ending of an otherwise very enjoyable game to me.

[@Kastyan3]

I was trying to think of the worst boss battle I’ve had and after seeing 1 I instantly remembered all the trauma I had and absolutely agree😅

[@NomDatBass]

Bed of Chaos immediately came to mind for this list, but when I saw it at #2 I gave the Completionist the benefit of the doubt that he had something worthy above BoC and was not disappointed. Silver really is that damn aweful.

[@thedankgnasty1890]

I gotta say, Scarecrow's and Killer Croc's boss battles really were damn good, imo (at least Scarecrow's first boss battle). Scarecrow's first battle was thematically fantastic, the whole setup getting to the actual boss fight was amazing, with the hallucinations and the changing scenery. If they had kept one of the Scarecrow levels, it could have been the best in the game. Killer Croc's boss fight was also awesome, it was the only time plating the game where I was legitimately scared, seeing as how you literally couldn't beat him conventionally. Bane, Poison Ivy, Scarecrow, and Killer Croc: all of their bossfights emphasize a different facet of Batman's skills/fighting style, as well as how diverse his rogues gallery is and how adaptive he has to be to take them all out in a single night.

[@nicosimioni7363]

Nothing is worse than the tanks in AK, that's for sure.

[@lukegto]

anything narrated with your mine from furi makes the subject so much better. carpenter brut is life

[@RPsj]

The final song for drakengard 3's ending D. Anyone that played it knows the true pain

[@vDeadbolt]

Especially the last note that the devs snuck in at the end just to mess with you.

[@RPsj]

@@vDeadbolt the worst part is that I did not even got close to the end 😆

[@KevinKolpack]

For me, one of the worst boss battles is the Thief-Taker General from the Thief reboot, for several reasons. * His fire arrows. Periodically, he shoots several of these in a row to try and flush you out of hiding, or he'll shoot straight at you if he spots you. A direct hit is an instant kill, but even if he misses, you can still be damaged by the burst of flames if you're not far away enough from where the fire arrow impacts. If you have the "take no damage" difficulty modifier active (as I did), you cannot afford ANY mistakes. * To escape through the barred door, you need to turn two separate crank wheels to remove the bars, then pick a long lock on the door itself. The game lets you do this without having to actually fight the boss, but the game's infamous "mini-cutscenes" during interactions like these lock you in place and force you to take your eyes off him for a good while, meaning he could easily get a lucky kill because you never saw it coming or couldn't cancel the interaction fast enough. * You've spent the whole game sneaking up behind guards to pickpocket their purses, yet the Thief-Taker General somehow sees you if you try the same on him, no matter what. Also, he can survive plenty of fire and blast arrows to the face before collapsing, while any other human would die after one or two hits. No explanation is given as to why he gets to break the game's established rules like this; he just does because it's a boss battle. * There's a short "walking-sim" segment directly beforehand; during both this segment and the boss itself, quicksaving is disabled, and the only checkpoint is an autosave at the start of the fight. Unfortunately, loading a quicksave also overwrites the autosave, so if you ever hit the quickload button (it's generally faster than waiting for the Game Over screen, after all), that short segment becomes no better than an unskippable cutscene before you can get back to the fight. * And if you thought you could quickload on purpose to go back for more supplies...you can't. The game's story missions are broken up by unnecessary (and often unexpected) points-of-no-return, and one such point-of-no-return comes shortly before the boss battle and the segment preceding it. Plus, the fact that the level has a boss at all is a surprise, so if you try to fight him and realize you're underequipped for it, tough luck. You either deal with it or you replay the whole entire level. TL;DR: I get so fed up trying to deal with this boss that I just pelt him with arrows and pray that he keels over first, at which point I can finally nab his loot and open the exit door in peace.

[@jonusaguilar8156]

Yeah that fight was a pain. I ended up using blast arrows and focus to beat him, although that did lock me out of a ghost run of the mission.

[@jonusaguilar8156]

I did see someone use flash bangs in order to pickpocket the Thief Taker General, though you had to have enough to be able to use them after picking each pocket.

[@KevinKolpack]

@@jonusaguilar8156 Makes sense, now that you mention it. I rarely ever use flash bombs in the Thief games, so I guess it never crossed my mind to try them here.

[@jonusaguilar8156]

@@KevinKolpack that’s pretty understandable, considering they’re very expensive.

[@seanchan4478]

I beat kahn by teleporting like a mother. Drove me near insane, but I have mained raiden ever since

[@Austin-gj7zj]

I beat him with Noob Saibot cheese, and it's the only time I've ever felt content winning that way.

[@insertedgynamehere___969]

Yeah, I did the same thing during the MK9 campaign. Bait, teleport, punish, repeat.

[@TheDeadQuacker]

I opened this video with one thing in mind Shao Kahn. I think the thing that makes it even worse, is that you don't have to cheese only the last fight, but the one before it too! With Liu Kang x Kahn you have to be just as cheesy to have a chance and win the fight, and then you are congratulated with... ANOTHER FIGHT VS KAHN (Even Harder now). And yeah, after becoming a Graduate in how to beat Shao Kahn with the Raiden perfectly timed Teleport I beat him and swore to never touch MK9 again.

[@kole2984]

For the campaign of MK9, I remember just staying far away as Raiden and lightning balling him. As Lu Kang (or anyone else in any other mode he showed up in), wait till he taunts then go uppercut or a quick combo.

[@idcwhatuthink4985]

I'm just now starting this so this is before I watch it but if Shao Kahn is not on this list I will be shocked💀

[@idcwhatuthink4985]

Sure enough soon as I start the video he's number 10 LMAO

[@mxwoods3]

He's literally the thumbnail

[@idcwhatuthink4985]

@@mxwoods3 it's all cartoony and I didn't even realize it until you just said it wow it's been a long day

[@CeHee123]

Jasper Batt Jr from No More Heroes 2 will always be my least favourite action game boss. The fact it was immediately after one of my favourite bosses ever just rubbed salt in the wound. And before anyone gives the "it was bad on purpose" line 1: I don't believe that for a second 2: Bad design is still bad, even if intentional 3: If it was on purpose, that would just make me angrier, because it means Suda knew it was shit and kept it in anyway. Doc Robot: Mega Man 3 Phantasm: Xenoblade 2 Aldritch: Dark Souls 3 Basically any older fighting game boss.

[@theLikou1]

I died several times until I discovered that I could use the bigger sword and he would fall for it everytime. It is slower but he have a hard time against it for some reason.

[@uberculex]

I'm so glad you brought that one up, half of the attacks being unblockable, a chance for an instant kill if he hits you out the window, only two or 3 safe hits before he ends your combo. It was a nightmare on the hard difficulty.

[@Keshin4539]

Top Spin: Maybe blows away the fire cuz it spins so fast and then strikes, so advantage? Shadow Blade: You can't burn the Shadows? I don't have a good idea for this one lol Great vid and fun stuff!

[@TheTweedler]

Nice list! My #1 would be the final boss in Sly Cooper 4. In a series with unique and fun boss fights, ending thier reboot on a copy-paste quick-time event boss was a major disappointment.

[@RezeedTheDataspirit]

You asked, and you shall receive. Learning from experience, the doc robots have 2 weaknesses and there is some rhyme and reason to them. All the weaknesses either make a reference to the original weakness in the form of animations or color pallette.(At least that's what I got from personal obversations) For example, the top spin acts as a stand-in for the air shooter, but it can also technically be seen as the bubble lead stand-in due to color pallet due to grey color. (If I remember correctly, been a while since I played 3, but that's how I remember doc robot weaknesses. Try color pallet parallels or weapons that have common ground to the MM2 weapons.)

[@JavaSchoolBlues]

Bruh. I love the DR Psycho bosses. When I was 9 I learned the best ways to beat them, and I've loved them ever since!

[@serPomiz]

all of the psycho in the serie are hit or miss, either in design or mechanics. the good one are real good. the bad one are just no.

[@tywonellington]

Scarecrow in Arkham asylum is one of my favorite game experiences ever, whether or not it’s a true boss fight.

[@Lukethefox]

I remember being excited when they brought him back in Arkham Knight as I thought they would bring back the Scarecrow stealth section or the Eternal Darkness style nightmare sections where you think your game’s broken. Turns out you don’t ever get to fight him.

[@Craxin01]

@@Lukethefox There were the nighmare driving levels.

[@Lukethefox]

@@Craxin01 Oh yeah those but I only played the Steam version and they were exclusive to the PS4

[@Craxin01]

@@Lukethefox Ah, bummer.

[@PunkDisciple23]

For MK9 Shao Kahn I eventually figured out you could loop him by jumping over his head and uppercutting. Not the most engaging way to fight a boss but I don't think Shao Kahn was concerned with that in the first place

[@PigMan161]

Sly Cooper: Thieves in time. The final boss fight with Le Paradox is a fucking quick time event

[@smashboybrawl]

The Forgotten One in Castlevania Lords of Shadow DLC Resurrection was a pain in the ass, you fight him two times, the first fight isn't that bad but it's the second fight that really made me crazy, it started with basically "Simon says" meets Dark Souls and you have to avoid him or else you died instantly but his moves are fast and sometimes unpredictable so is hard, then you fight 4 minions that aren't a push over, then the real final battle start and OMG it's unfair, the boss is so freaking fast and powerful and every time you took out one his body's parts he'll become even more angrier and faster, at one point you need to throw a pillar to stop him and mind you, this throwing part is a new mechanic that was never used before in the game so you'll probably failed the first time because it's all new territory, thank the lord there are checkpoints at every phases, otherwise this boss would been fucking impossible to beat.

[@TigerNightmare]

The most unfair and broken bosses I can think of are the second phase of No More Heroes 2's final boss, and that crystal thingy protected by really difficult enemies that infinitely respawn from System Shock 2.

[@palazzo1113]

My man starting off with You're Mine from Furi!

[@Cazra-VaporwaveWitch]

I know why top spin is Heat Man's weakness: stop, drop, and roll!

[@Klelslol]

Wort boss battle I ever played was the Demi-Fiend at the end of a new game plus play-through of Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga. HOLY CRAP. Easily the hardest RPG boss ever made. You can prepare perfectly, have perfect stats and everything and still get the crap kicked out of you because you got unlucky. Still have nightmares about that boss to this day.

[@jaredmartin7040]

Hardest boss ever

[@matttipton6009]

I managed it after reading a weird luck-based method involving hoping someone gets hit with Sleep status. It was absolutely insane!!!

[@oswinner9265]

No way! I loved the Impossible Lair! Maybe because I got the game way after it came out. One of my faves. And I still remember that Conker fight 20 years later. Truly memorable. Disagree with you Jirad. Great video as always though.

[@jameslawrenson1208]

The impossible lair felt impossible to complete normally! I can't imagine doing it right from the start.

[@sinteleon]

It's called the impossible lair for a reason. :P

[@PuppetMasterIX]

On the topic of the Arkham series, the Excavator Drill in Arkham Knight is especially awful. It's unique in that it's a Batmobile boss fight where you aren't spending all your time in tank mode, BUT the Drill instantly kills you through any sort of contact and and the confusing level geometry makes navigation a frustrating chore. Easily the lowlight of the game for me.

[@loganw3629]

What's crazy about this list, is that there are 50 other boss fights you can put in here, and the list still be a valid list.

[@CorynSilver]

The actual go-to strat for Silver is to do the running kick, rather than homing attack. It gets you away from him faster

[@RealOriginalJ]

“IT’S NO USE!” - Silver the Hedgehog 2006

[@ConnorTheUndying]

I may not like Silver, but by and large the worst boss battle in 06 is the Iblis Worm. Having to wait so long for every single hit makes it infinitely worse than Silver, because it too has the same problem; sometimes Iblis decides you lose. And the best part? Just like with Silver, you have to fight it in both Sonic AND Shadow's campaign. And don't you assume the second time is any better.

[@dominik94rausch]

I remember the destroyer. I was Brock or how that guy was called and just did my ultimate attack and straight up fisted the tentacle monster to death. Underwhelming bossfight, overwhelming laughter on my end.

[@Craxin01]

I legit watched someone punch and break the screen of a Mortal Kombat II arcade machine after spending $5 trying to beat Shao Khan at fifty cents a pop. He ran before he got caught and forced to pay for the damage, and I didn't actually know the guy so I couldn't turn him in. They did have it repaired within 2 weeks, thankfully.

[@EvilApple567]

I don't really know why (been about 7 years), but I found the final boss of Sonic's campaign (Egg Wyvern) incredibly frustrating. I either kept leaping to my death trying to homing attack the horn or falling off the horn trying to steer it into the rubble to inflict damage. The thing about the rival fights (Silver, Shadow, Sonic) is they're all pretty short, so even the most frustrating of them can be taken down in a minute if you execute well or just get lucky, but that Wyvern fight goes on for like 5 minutes with constant time sink attack cycles and dialogue.

[@serPomiz]

the vivern has an ungodly amount of timesink. all other bosses in the serie doesn't really talk, and when they do it's during the fight there's a reason for that!

[@jadedheartsz]

I thought it was pretty fun as it was reminiscent of Egg Viper, for me the Time Eater from Generations was a lot worse.

[@trevortobias4827]

He didn’t even mention the stupidest part about the Destroyer in Borderlands. If you have a mirv grenade and throw it into the bosses mouth, you could kill it in like 3 grenades. A disappointing boss is either a bullet sponge or killed with two grenades

[@mylesedgington4229]

Probably one of my least favorite boss fights ever has to be the Octo Siren in Shantae. Isn’t even that hard but having to report the same annoying puzzle ten times to finally defeat it was just really irritating

[@GpgRocker]

"Rocksteady learned from this" yeah up until Arkham Knight when they then made the _only_ Deathstroke battle a *FUCKING TANK BATTLE*

[@ariwl1]

My honorable mention would likely go to The Imprisoned from Zelda: Skyward Sword. Based on Jirard's descriptions it's not as bad as anything on this list, but it feels like it's up there. It's a pretty straight forward boss that can be quite agravating at first, but once you learn its tricks mostly it just becomes annoying. And you have to fight the thing three different times. Each fight adds a new element, but it still feels like doing the same thing over and over again. Also there's the motion control factor. I was a bit of a Skyward Sword motion control apologist back in the day, but it's fair to ask if they made any aspect of the game better or worse. For this fight I doubt they made it better for any player, it almost certainly made it worse, and while I haven't tried the rerelease with regular controls I doubt they made the fight any more fun.

[@perfessorclown5543]

Lol, I was thinking about the Giant Avocado while watching this.

[@ariwl1]

@@perfessorclown5543 Without question the best thing to come out of that fight were the avocado memes…And also Groose but that’s it. 😂

[@BainesMkII]

The Imprisoned is pretty awful in Hyrule Warriors as well, at least in the non-Deluxe original Wii U version. It was a mix of annoying and just boring. And its design is just disappointing, like fighting a budget-store sock puppet.

[@ariwl1]

@@BainesMkII I’m sure the Wii’s limitations influenced the direction the design took, but that’s always the case and they still often come with great bosses. So how they ended up with “Spiky Egg” is a mystery to me.

[@kirkcavenaugh758]

I quit the game at the third encounter.

[@MaximusPrimusKay]

Silver must be a digital hate crime if the effin Bed of Chaos was number 2.

[@HowlingGale]

I gotta say, my worst boss experience might be M. Bison from Street Fighter Alpha 3. He randomly spams a nearly screen covering super that drains almost all your health on block and I at least couldn't figure out how to dodge it (was like 8 back then). Ducking and jumping never worked. All you could do was just perfect combo Bison or get extremely lucky that he didn't PsYcHo KuRuSha more than once. Twice in a row because fighting games lol. Good memories, though. That game gave me Charlie as a main...and then ripped him away from me haha

[@tenkenroo]

Ya he was tough. Figuring off the super jump is hard

[@HowlingGale]

@@tenkenroo Dang, is that what it was? No wonder I had so much trouble, didn't even realize you could do that. Might have to revisit some old bugaboos and put the screws to em. Thanks very much!

[@goldenflame4884]

First thing you hear when starting the video is “you’re mine” and I love the furi music from an INCREDIBLE boss fight right off the back

[@TheSubZero187]

Is it me or does Jirard not sound as chipper as he usually is. If you’re reading this I hope you’re doing well mentally and keep up the great work Jirard. Remember to take care yourself.

[@212mochaman]

Makes sense. Hard/impossible to be happy when taking about the worst video games have to offer

[@ZakTheFallen]

Why WOULD he be happy when talking about the most frustrating and unfair boss fights in video game history?

[@LashknifeTalon]

The Bed of Chaos actually made me stop and learn a speedrun strategy (the firebomb toss strategy) specifically so I could feel like I had some control over what was happening. I actually recommend anyone fighting the Bed of Chaos learn to do this; it's kinda silly but it'll give you some feeling of actually learning and improving when you get more accurate with the throws and it takes a BIT of the edge off.

[@thevoid3010]

At first I was really confused about the Catherine boss, I didn’t have a bad time with it. Until it was revealed it’s different in Full Body

[@brookhoney9629]

I remember it being hard on the original but nowhere near as hard as he’s claiming

[@AwaknedZero]

The furi music in the intro 👌😩

[@iateitguy903]

It's not what I'd call the *worst* exactly, but in Fire Emblem Fates the final boss in Birthright got one shot by my lord... twice. They balanced other parts of that path around the idea that you might be a higher level (specifically the invasions and paralogues in particular) but never really did it for the final boss, so calling it a cakewalk is almost an insult to cakewalks. But I guess that's part of the reason Conquest was the more popular one.

[@TheSaigoon]

"It's no use!" - Silver the Hedgehog, Sonic 2006

[@Tristan-sr1ek]

Yooka Laylee and the Impossible Layer's final level is still extremely hard to beat, I can't do it.

[@decayedwolf1997]

Dark Beast Ganon. Maybe not the worst bossfight, but easily the most disappointing. This is Ganon’s last-ditch effort to destroy Hyrule, he’s given up on reincarnation and assumed his most powerful form… and the fight is literally just target practice. There are so many missed opportunities here: piloting the Divine Beasts, climbing up his back and plunging the Master Sword into his eye, but NO. Nintendo decided we should have Link’s Crossbow Training as a final boss.

[@AzureCale]

I'm hoping for a top 10 best boss fights now!

[@actionboy3221]

Dude the intro to this video totally Freaked me Out. I made a playlist of Completionist videos to fall asleep to. And then Jirard starts talking about how important sleep is 😮

[@aZombieDictator]

Any boss fight that's a QTE immediately just ruins the game. (Sly cooper and dying light are prime examples) Honing your abilities, doing everything to make yourself powerful, to end in a fight where you use NONE OF THAT, is the absolute worst.

[@AtlasBlizzard]

The Doc Robot section in Mega Man 3 features different versions of those four levels, not the same ones, with totally different challenges (such as the big Rush Jet segment in Needle Man's level). Doc Robot is a frustrating boss but I find this part of the game very challenging in a satisfying way.

[@chesspunk489]

I thought Shao Kahn from Shaolin Monks was awful because you had to beat 2 bosses before him and then face him with just 1 life bar just to beat the game. The game is easy before that point.

[@mackderpants]

@15:17 calling out Death Bed was super slick and esoteric. I hate that movie so much , and I love that you mentioned it.

[@mrthefreemanmd]

one of mine has to be nemesis from re3 remake, more because in the first game he was used so well and showed up at just the right times to make it feel tense and like he was always just around the corner. in remake it felt poorly paced out, yeah hes always around the corner because theres nothing to explore and then he just vanishes, he wast a pursuing threat just an annoyance.

[@jadedheartsz]

that's how I felt about the Alien in Alien Isolation, soon the suspense wore off and it just became a pain in the ass to deal with.

[@Nintendopowerdude]

I honestly feel bad for the RE3R team because the RE2R team stole their game's main concept with Mr. X. After how well that was executed, it's incredibly difficult to follow

[@TheWcasey]

Sonic 06 gives me ptsd. If was one of my first sonic games as a kid and I kept bashing my head against this wall thinking that I just can't get past this level because of skill. So it kinda bitter sweet knowing all these years later how unfinished that game is.

[@gameman250]

My pick for one of the worst boss fights might have to go to Okumura from Persona 5. He just spams robots for you to fight, getting progressively stronger as you knock them out, and you aren't allowed to use All-Out Attacks in this fight which would really have helped. If you haven't been fusing Personas to get access to powerful elemental skills and whatnot, this is the point where you're gonna have to do so to stand a chance. And then Royal makes things even worse by requiring you sweep the entire line of robots before you're even allowed to progress! Again, you need powerful multi-targeting elemental attacks to get by. And FUCK, do these guys hurt.

[@kartikayysola]

Take your team out to darts before taking on Okumura and make psycho bombs in your room. That made the fight a million times easier for me.

[@heardofrvb]

At least the Silver fight became laughably easy once you play as Shadow.

[@crimsonchin4889]

Me and my friends would take turns just to see who can beat shao khan the fastest. Good times.

[@viliamsneakman1508]

Nothing is worse than Nightmare Mother from Mega Man X6.

[@chesspunk489]

The final boss from megaman 7 was far worse.

[@viliamsneakman1508]

@@chesspunk489 I can at least beat Wily with the buster but Nightmare Mother is completely impossible.

[@simonashtear2739]

That final boss from Borderlands looks incredibly familiar. Borderlands came out in 2009, from Gearbox. Gearbox put the finishing touches on Duke Nukem Forever in 2011 and had a similar final boss and arena. In DNF, you had to launch a moon buggy off of a ramp and into an alien queen's [redacted], and use high explosives inside her [redacted] until you were ejected, and do that a few times. It was gross, but memorable. It looks like Gearbox learned a thing or two from this Borderlands boss fight and just amped it up for Duke.

[@RedSpade37]

Your description is perfect, honestly.

[@solidskullz5736]

One of my least favorite boss fights is jinxed jade and booga in dragon quest 11. Shits too hard and expectations are ridiculous. It makes you fight two bosses back to back with no recovery and both bosses spam status moves. A lot of the bosses in DQ11 are pretty cheap now that I think about it

[@DeadEye364]

Just finished watching number 2 and Im wondering what No1 is....then it hit me, ITS NO USE!

[@mxwoods3]

Really surprised I didnt see Cortex from Crash bandicoot 2 on this list. The jet pack controls are bad and chasing Cortex through a asteroid field to spin him 3 times before he gets to his space station was a huge let down especially when you have N Gin, easily the best boss in the game right before it.

[@conorneligan7694]

It sucks but maybe it makes sense too because beating him gets you the bad ending. Honestly I might've put N Gin on this list. I thought he was way too hard and janky iirc.

[@supaskiltz9877]

Crash bandicoot 2 is one of my favourite video games of all time but man I think the only good boss fight is Ripper Roo, every other fight is either too easy, controls bad or both. Cortex sucks, N.Gin sucks, the lizard dudes suck and Tiny Tiger sucks, Ripper Roo is also easy but is also the first boss fight in the game so he has a slight excuse compared to the rest.

[@randomperson5579]

The first boss that comes to mind for me is the vault boss from borderlands pre sequel, If you're Wilhelm it's such an easy boss, you can pretty much just tank everything even if you're severely under-leveled it'll take over an hour but it's really easy. my other 2 would be Lost Odyssey's Blue Dragon (the snowfield section is just the worst section in the game) (at least i think it's that one) where you're stuck with the 2 kid characters, (Cooke and Mack iirc) if you were stupid and forgot to grind earlier in the game, these 2 are gonna be severely underleveled, and you end up having to go back to an earlier save, grind for like 24 hours before the boss or if you just used 1 save you have to restart the game, the boss also has a ridiculous amount of hp and has instant ko moves Frost McBadguy from Fantasy Online (dead mmo), if you're kiting it's a nightmare, i remember doing this boss with 2 other people i accidentally kited out of range then just gave up, you're area to kite is fairly small, basically instant ko if you're not like 20 levels above him with good armor, and he takes so long to beat, my party were all about 5 levels higher than the boss, we got about 2 hours in, i accidentally kited just out of range as he had about 10% health left then i cried.

[@dimpledwonder7461]

The Half Life boss absolutely should be in here

[@yummybubbles194]

controversial opinion: I always liked the bed of chaos. Can't put a finger on why, but something about it always felt super cool to me

[@archersterling6726]

I fought Shao Kahn so many times that it actually became easy for me

[@TheJadeFist]

The real problem with the Doc Robots in MM3 is the fact that they just Donkey Kong on your face, and have a giant hurt box around them that makes some of them a bit frustrating to avoid damage.

[@markxv2267]

I like how at the end of the video he admits he used a clickbait title

[@destoroyahofhope4005]

This is the first time I've ever heard someone didn't like the Scarecrow sequences. They are really imaginative, cool and unique. I felt Rocksteady completely missed the opportunity to bring them back in Arkham Knight. I do not understand why someone wouldn't like it. Same with Killer Croc. Ivy was cool too. Agreed with everything else though. Especially Bane and Joker.