[General Discussion] Overly Frustrating RPG Boss Battles - Sephiroth kicked my ass

Originally Posted by Dr. Uzuki

I also remember something about Breath of Fire 3's end boss taking a ridiculously long time to beat but not ultimately being that bad, just a grind.

Myria, huh? I agree it's more the fact that she had so much health that it took quite a while to kill her. I recall it being like 20 minutes or so. She's not insanely hard, but I wouldn't call her easy either, she did have some cheap abilities. The one I remember in particular is the AOE random status effect spell she casted every few rounds. In fact when I think about it, just about every spell she had was AOE. That's what made it take so long, 1 person is always stuck healing, halfway near the fight the other is always using a turn to use those mp restore items, so really you only have Ryu attacking.

Anyway, I always forget what bosses frustrated me. Lets see...

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Iseria Queen. I think everyone who went this far will know why. The game itself is really not all that hard, most bosses were hardly any challenge at all, but what made this fight so hard is because of the stupid battle system, where if Jack dies you go game over. This so pissed me off! I had 3 overpowered allies with me, one of which had a powerful ressurection spell, so why?! It really was a challenge to keep him alive in that fight, since he had nowhere near as much health as the others.

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Indalecio unlimited. This guy is just insane. Even with everyone at 255, best equipment available, all skills maxed, and whatever you might name, he's still insane. He'll move faster then your characters with bunny shoes, he casts nearly instantly, and some of his spells do 9999 damage no matter what your resistance is. Basically the only way you'll win, is to keep at least one person alive or it's game over, and I had that so many times, you had him at 10 or 20% and you screw up.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by ZiggyGo

Other notables include the one on one fights with the gang from Wild Arms Vth Vanguard. If you didn't spam those Sheriff Badges, some could kill you instantly (aka do more damage than you have). That was a pain in the ass too. God damn Fereydoon and your 5000 damage attack...

Well, It wasn't so much that they were hard, it's more the fact that in my game, I used Rebecca, Dean and Avril, so when I saw that I had to fight the one on ones with the character I never used I was surprised alright. The Kartikeya was pretty insane, I'll give you that. I really had to boost Greg for that one.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Summonmaster

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Iseria Queen was still largely luck, although partially controllable. Probably the first three or four times to you descend through all three or four large levels of the Seraphic Gate (when you haven't memorized the layout) are the hardest, as the damage output was lower due to levels and such. If your guts didn't kick in on at -least- one member out of four (and it does happen!), you die and have to trek all the way down to her again! As fun as Empress Massacre was, Cosmic Spear was really the dreaded attack every turn. Without Angel Curios for additional insurance, you'd really have to cross your fingers, come every cosmic spear.

That's the thing. The moment you see the enemy first using great magicks, that applies. I think even Barbarossa's Calamity Blast can one-shot you if you don't have guts. This trend remains throughout the entire game, which makes guts no longer optional. As for Iseria, because of guts, your basically good to go, the chance of guts failing on all 4 is pretty small. I've seen if a few times myself, but not often enough to resort to angel curios. Besides, as I recall she only used Cosmic Spear every 3 rounds or so, plus you can reduce its damage significantly by equiping -dark items. All her other attacks were single target.

If you want frustrating, talk about the 2 Dragon Tyrants that appear in SG. They still scare me, even today. They are basically 2 Bloodbanes, except 3 times stronger. Pretty much ALL their attacks hit the entire group. =/

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Originally Posted by Summonmaster

I just remembered a really frustrating example, and I hope it just wasn't me being slow or something. If anyone has played Illusion of Gaia, they should probably remember those DAMN vampires at Mu! You had:
1) The time limit of the bomb countdown going on throughout the fight.
2) Two enemies at once.
3) To disarm the bomb after you kill both vampires.
4) Poor, poor attack strength unless you made a long trek back to a warp door to change into Freedan instead of being Will.
5) The vampires doing massive damage to you with certain attacks.

That certainly was one of the most frustrating fights I remember with all those factors kicking in.

While I can honestly say that I can hardly remember anything from Illusion of Gaia, I mean it was a game I rented for a few days, about 10 years ago or so, I can absolutely back you up on that, buddy.

That fight truly was insane, there was so much stuff going on at once that you couldn't help but get overwhelmed. I sure as hell got my ass kicked. I never even made it past that fight. =/

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