Most Notoriously Difficult JRPG Bosses
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- Опубліковано 16 лип 2024
- These JRPG bosses will break your will with their giant health bars and overpowered insta-kills, but if you can claim victory over these divine bosses there is no greater feeling.
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"Two full playthroughs of Persona 3, that's one or two days of your time gone"
What?? How the hell do you manage to beat P3 in a DAY or two??? That game is like 70+ hours long
CrackedCode fucking RIP
I have no idea if he was hating on Persona or what. But that was terribly investigated. It tooked me at least 5 complete days to finish ONE play through. And I don't even want to talk about my second play through, nobody saw me for a month
Not a great list. Luca Blight is NOT the end game boss of Suikoden 2 either. He's about midway, and the sudden spike in difficulty is what makes him memorable. By all means he SHOULD have been the first form of a final boss, and most players first run through got ruined by him. Brutally.
It's weird, I also remember him as the last boss. Probably because he was an asshole, and everything after him was a cakewalk. I also remember something about that fight that had to do with 108 stars and getting Tir and Gremio.
70h divided by 24 = 2,92 days. So 3 days isnt that much off tbh.
I'm a simple man. I see the Demi-fiend, I like.
KAITO exactly why I'm here
I was about to type this.
I still need to play the game though....
demi-fiend is simultaneously my favorite and most hated protag in the franchise.
I like his design too cool and memorable.
i came here because of the demi-fiend. and when i read the titles i know demi-fiend in DDS will be here before i saw the thumbnail. lol
Theory about the Demi-fiend fight:
Those who are familiar with SMT: Nocturne, recognize the amala network. Now the theory states that somehow the two universes got mixed up in the network (which is also some kind of interdimensional riftway), and from the DDS standpoint it's the hardest boss fight ever, but from a Nocturne standpoint it is just a random battle while traversing from one end of the network to the other. Serph and the crew are literally ordinary mobs for the Demi-Fiend. How fucked up is that.
Just knowing the music is the normal battle theme of SMT nocturne is enough
OH SHIT
yeah, normal battle which can occasionally kill you. lol
jaime ruiz basically
Not the same series but both games are IP-s of Atlus so they were like why not
To think that to Demi Fiend, he sees you no more than just a normal encounter. That’s both badass yet scary to those facing him.
He's the player, you're just a random encounter.
Really, you can fill a ranking like this with just Atlus JRPG bosses. They go above and beyond the call of duty when it comes to unfair enemies.
They go above an beyond many gaming series JRPG and otherwise i terms of difficulty. Lets just be glad he never became a guest boss in any Dark Souls games lol
***** And this video illustrates my problem with the difficulty in Atlus RPGs; they turn what should be a strategy challenge or a puzzle into rote memorization. They're the JRPG boss battle equivalent of a IWBTG level.
I mean have you SEEN strange journey?
;-; it broke me
Reminds me, i still need to complete the Naoya route of Devil Survivor Overclocked... and find my 3ds XD
Atlus helped Publish Demon Souls :^)
2 playthroughs of persona 3 is wayyyyyyyy more than 48 hours rofl.
casshern173 one playthrough took me 70.
Over 100+ wtf
if you maxed all SL already etc. not really. You can basically skip the whole game
Only if you are maxing everything and don't know what enemies are weak to what. If you are already maxed from one playthrough or don't care much about certain aspects it is easy enough to beat in 16 hours as a maximum.
Yeah especially when I'm slow as fuck at everything in jrpgs, I have 50 hours in Fire Emblem Three Houses and my friends have less than me and they're all ahead of me. Lmao.
Go figure spots 1 and 2 are both ATLUS bosses. Set the page image for "That one boss" and "We get off on your tears"
I'm surprised Matador didn't make this list.
You won't believe how much I lucked out on Matador, when I reached second phase I buffed myself hoping to make him waste a turn removing the buff and this was after he used his signature move. Then he charged and I prayed and he buff wiped on his second press turn and I crit him and killed him. It was like, me and that black forneus wannabe left, he wiped my entire team beforehand
Firion316
matador is simply a boss that was designed to break you out of bad JRPG habits of using beatdown manuvers of attack and heal tank
Firion316 I'm suprise the eathirial queen from. star ocean 1 2 or 3 and radiata story's ain't on hear she got between 4 million to 10 mil hp. I know she has 10 and a half hp in radiata story since I remember fighting her for over 3 hours and run in through 99 revives and 99 high potions and the lesser potions to a point I fought her by myself for over 30 min lol
You got to look at the following factors:
-How difficult it is to "cheese the boss"
-Does it legitimately exploit gameplay mechanics
-Does it watch for any attempts to completely migitate a certain aspect of the boss and counter it painfully?
Demi Fiend and Elizabeth fits because while they are difficult they also punish players for trying to immunity cheese the game.
MrAsaqe I found Satan from Digital Devil Saga 2 and Lucifer from Devil Survivor harder than Elisabeth
Demi Fiend in DDS is definitely the hardest on this list LOL
With the Power of Love,Friendship, and Potato more bs than hard
I think Elizabeth is harder than him
@@shura7644 as long as you know her battle pattern it's not a big deal to beat her
@@shura7644 really? The hardest thing about Elizabeth is just the preparation while in the demi fiend even after you properly prepare. You need to pray to rngesus
@@shura7644 anyone who say elizabeth is harder than demifiend hasn't actually fight demifiend themselves. Even in the easiest setting, your party can die turn 1
Fun Fact about Demi-Fiend. He's the main character of Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne for those of you unfamiliar with the SMT franchise outside of Persona. His boss music is just the encounter battle music in his own game. Meaning, that your boss fight with him, while significant to you, is just another encounter to him.
Demifiend the is one hell of a battle, only way to win him is after maxed out everything, prepared everything, and pray to have godly luck in that battle.
"Speedruns" of Persona 3 and 4 take 15-18 hrs. How the heck are you gona tell me it takes people 1 or 2 days to beat a Persona game?
Good that you put in Demi-Fiend, now add Satan from DDS2 and Mem Aleph from Strange Journey and this'd be an accurate list.
of course Stephen shits on all of them
Satan it's just puzzle boss and you can spare some sacrifice items and do some side quests to have a good armor and accessories to fight Mem Aleph unlike Demi Fiend who actually need some luck do defeat.
JC Little I know I’m 9 months late but really?
Some luck to beat demi fiend. You gotta god pray for your luck he doesn’t put your ass in sleep and use Gaea rage and the way he manipulates you and you manipulate him back
Just beat lingering will on critical mode. Putting that on my resume.
Now do it at level 1 and wait for the phone calls.
All these bosses are hard, but I feel that Lingering Will is the only FUN one. Super enjoyable boss, also gratz!
Goodluck beating him on Lv1 Critical and No Equipment.
Gomer Kaine and i thought vanitas remnant was hard
vanitas remnant is WAY harder tf are you talkin about lol once you figure out what skills are needed you can cheese tf out of lingering will to the point of just using him for grinding synthesis materials lol
I've gone up against all of these bosses. The hardest of them to me would be Demi Fiend. Even with a solid game plan things can turn sideways if he gets lucky with status aliments
JAVELIN RAIN
The Fiend has returned and has become even harder to beat
shin megami tensei franchise king of jrpg
Mike Custer
It's certainly the hardest JRPG franchise, at least.
Mainly op persona. Yes
how is smt the hardest jrpg franchise? Are you dense? Any SaGa game has harder bosses.
Luca Blight is an example of how a Final Boss SHOULD be designed. Epic, takes time, feeling nearly indomitable, and ultimately rewarding when finally overcome them.
Tyrant Overlord Baal from Disgaea Dimension 2. Requires an absolute phenomenal amount of grinding and prep work ....... even by Disgaea standards (which is saying a heck of a lot). And a ridiculous and counter intuitive strategy to actually fight him (which mostly involves hitting your own allies for an eternity, to boost your combo damage so you can do more then scratch damage on the tyrant).
And that's just for the EASY version of him. On the max power version of him, you can basically double the grinding and prep work.
MrEvilbyte yes i was hoping someone would bring him up
MrEvilbyte Damn right. Didn't he have an even stonger prinny mode?
Actually any of the endgame bosses from any Disgaea is ridiculous. At 140 hours in I think I had Laharl at level 1200 or so. I can't even imagine how much time it would have taken to reach level cap and even THINK about trying to fight those bosses lol
disgaea games grinding in the post game is all finding out ways to break it. ive done D4 end game in like less then 80 hours for example with some half decently thought out planning. instead of focusing on just leveling up focus on thing like statisticians which multiple EXP gains level up OP items to level up even level 1 characters post reincarnations for example and suddenly your leveling up to 9999 in like a few fights lol.
I love how shin megami tensei (which includes persona), takes up a few entries on this list. Thanks Atlas.
The worst part about Yiazmat is if you don't prepare accordingly, you will full cure his _entire HP bar_ if brought down to less than a quarter. That alone is just sadistic. Personally, I never found Luca or Redrum too much of a challenge.
I saw Nocturne...I had to click.
Luca Blight fuck yes, one of the best villains ever, he is not the final boss but wolf rune aint got shit on him.
You gotta love JRPGs for their amazing Endgame content.
K Street it’s starting to mirrow the west in some jrpgs....
Was the Kingdom Hearts clip in 60fps? It looked way better than normal.
Probably from the PS3 HD remaster.
that boss only appears in that version right? played the game a lot with my old PS2 and never found him.
on ps2 that boss was only in final mix, which was then exclusive to japan.
Zelkiiro ps3 remasters still were locked at 30fps
fr tho
Back before Final Mix came out in America, the most horrifyingly hard Kingdom Hearts boss available to English speakers was Sephiroth in KH1.
When he appeared, I went "fuck, this is so awesome!"
Then I died less than a minute into the fight, and I went "fuck, this is so hard!".
Goddamn.
Looking back, Sephiroth is a total wuss compared to the bosses the games would later add. I got to the point where leveling was taking too long, so I'd go back to the colosseum & beat Sephiroth multiple times in one sitting to get XP. His Sin Harvest is easy to prevent with superglide & strike raid. You should only have Elixirs & or Ethers on you + you can guard his regular attacks if you time it just as he disappears. Unlike conventional enemies, my advice for anyone having trouble against Sephiroth in either KH, to simply unequip your combo pluses & go into the fight with at most, only a four hit combo. As I'm sure many are aware, all the damage is in your combo ender. Sure there are weapons & abilities that boost the finishing hit based on the number of hits...but Sephiroth escapes from lengthy combos via teleport. You wanna maximize your damage during the short time he lets you hit him.
As for game specifics, Meteor isn't too hard to deal with. Enough defense & awareness makes it the least of your worries. Just glide in circles at the peak of your jump height, possibly with Aeroga on for good measure. For KH2, it becomes sort of laughable when you apply Reflect magic. His dark orbs that appear around Sora? Reflect those when they close in. Time it right & he'll teleport into the reflected explosion, doing solid damage and allowing you to land more hits. Strike Raid should be your main attack ability in both games, for the easy ranged hits it gives. The invincibility it offers is awesome in KH1 when he uses flame pillars or later in the fight when his attacks become unpredictable.
In closing: Dodge Roll, Super Glide & Aerial Recovery are your friends. Trust them & it's a cakewalk. He is a lot of fun to fight though. Nobody else really has that atmosphere in their fights. (Seriously though, use Reflect)
And the fact that Luca Blight isn't even the final boss really. You go through this like half way into the game. I remember the first time being like 'well this ended rather abruptly' but nope, Luca not even end game.
Noobie2k7 Yup. You still got the Beast Rune and the final battle duel Jhowy. But Luca is a beast.
I wish it only took me 6 hours to beat Yiazmat! I was looking at 7+ hours for sure. Obviously some of that time was taking some breaks, but I did not envision the fight taking that long when I started it up!
Thankfully, you can go to the save crystal, save and then resume the fight from where you left it! :)
The even better thing about this is that both FFXI and FFXIV had similar HNM bosses of this caliber until a Linkshell had members get physically ill on a 24hr run at Pandemonium Warden. SE had to change stats and impose a two hour despawn timer on their MMO bosses because of the widespread news this generated.
Was 24 hours and still not completed over kill for 36 people? Sure. Is an enemy so hyped actually being *that* fierce a contender an awesome experience? You better believe it.
There is a catch though. You have to run back to it before it adds all its buffs else it heals over the break damage cap. I tend to try get it to start channel a move and run back to crystal and save between 2 files just in case I don't make it back.
you can beat him within 3 hrs though
I have beaten him twice, once on the IZJS version when the job system was japanese exclusive and once on the Zodiac age. It took me 1-2 hours both times. Have a ninja with yagyu darkblade+genji glove+berzerk+bravery and look at him do 10k+ 5 combo attacks constantly (also have a guy with decoy and reverse and take control of the healer to manually heal someone with curaga if needed because the reverse will make curajas kill the guy with the decoy).
I'm surprised you didn't mention any of the Fell Arms bosses from the Tales of series. I took on the one in Tales of Vesperia, and he was an insane, three-part challenge! His second phase has a Mystic Arte (basically his ultimate ability) that sets your entire party to 1hp, and his THIRD phase's Mystic Arte basically uses your entire party's Mystic Artes against you, killing all but your main character and setting HIM to 1hp (if I remember right).
Lingering Will is legit a joke compared to the "Mysterious Figure" in KH: Birth by Sleep, who one shots you with ANY of his moves even at max level, and clones himself into 5 copies who can also all 1 shot you. Not to mention you can stun lock cheese the LW fight.
Yo, got reason to believe you filched my Demi-Fiend footage without permission. Let's talk.
3:45 As soon as you did that last aerial recovery I turned my head and closed my eyes for another fallen player.
Heh, I remember meeting Demifiend in DDS! I thought "Hey, I'm level 70+ across the board, got all them grand skills you need to absolutely murdalize the final boss, I should be able to last a couple of rounds."
I was straight up pulverized in 10 seconds. Never went back. I'm good on the self-abuse now, thanks.
I don't know, but I've never found sho minamimoto, or even any of twewy very hard.
+Karsten Ngai-Natsuhara (Videogamer80) Phantera cantus way more difficult lol
+Karsten Ngai-Natsuhara (Videogamer80) Sho was a pain on normal and its entirely because I used shockwave type pins. I didn't know that 'physical' pins triggered his teleport. But other than that, yea he was mostly just an annoyance. However, Ultimate Mode was still a fair bit of fun in how challenging it could be. Kitaniji was especially annoying on Ultimate.
+Ervan Andreas Especially if you're playing it for the first time
Hanekoma wasn't actually a breeze.
Karsten Ngai-Natsuhara I didn't have much trouble with him even on ultimate but I actually had to look up a walkthrough for ironface. How in the hell was I supposed to know to lure specific enemies to a certain area without killing them, or to step on her shadow to damage her for one phase because she stole my attacks? and I was stuck with my least favorite partner to use. As someone who is bad at riddles and noobish at puzzles, it took more tries to kill her than the friggin super boss.
Luca Blight was not the final boss of Suikoden 2
Because he so thoroughly destroyed peace in the region that even his death couldn't restore it; thus he mocks you with his final breath at your notion that fighting him will end the war. That the war still rages on after him is a testament to the destruction he wrought.
+DarrylCross Correct, but again, he is not the final required boss of Suikoden II
You missed one real nasty sob, Lucifer from Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne
Satan from dds 2
Omg i loveeeeee you added Luca Blight. He was a BEAST!
No Ruby or Emerald Weapon, nothing from Vagrant Story, no Osma, and no Omega Weapon shoutout!?
Kent Brockman Ruby and Emeral weapon FfVII? they can easily defeated with lucky 7 strategy
Random Dude Very true, but without that stratagem they're very hard.
(Besides that's cheating, :). )
Kent Brockman hey as long as it works mate ;)
The End > Omega Weapon. Selphie > all.
Kent Brockman fights are not that difficult when prepared, other battles mentioned in video are legitimately controller breaking
someone remembered legend of legaia. but ill tell you that boss isnt the hardest. you should try the last boss. not even a fucking match if you didnt grind
I thought final Songi was harder, but the bonus boss was just evil. The final boss just had his massive HP pool. A half hour HP pool...that you had to beat multiple times to see all the endings.
Yeah. It's ridiculous. Im pretty sure my level is high enough to make the story last boss a breeze. But the real last boss can freaking 1 shot me. I remembered when i was 9, i saved inside the dungeon of the real final boss without other save points. I was stranded without a way to grind. I played it again 2 years ago on virtual console and finally managed to finish the game. The feeling is so great like a childhood fear finally being released from myself.
+Genrey Lino Gonzales if I remember correctly the hardest boss on that game is lapis
Wait, Legend of Legaia is on Virtual Console? that would explain why the game isn't on PSN like I've been hoping.
lapis is the hardest boss
The first time I beat Elizabeth was during vacation with no internet at my disposal. Just a pen, paper and a lot of frustration trying to figure out her rules so that she doesn't flip out and oneshot me. It felt really unfair.
Just attack him as fast as you can and wait to him to counter before hit 10k and armageddon bam easy
Great list... not only are those some of the hardest bosses in their respective games but all those games are some of the best JRPGs to every be made.
Demi-Fiend is supposed to be crazy strong.
Why isn't there any footage of their best attacks? Why do I want to watch a video about the toughest bosses, and watch attacks that do next to no damage?
+Lorenzo Innocente
I can vouch for the demi-fiend...you play as him in shin megami tensei nocturne. If he wanted he could make that fight harder too since he could summon 3 demons at once.
+sam fisher The best part about that boss fight was the theme that plays. To your party, he's the most brutal, relentless, and trying encounter in the game. To him? Your party is nothing but a standard enemy encounter, and the regular battle theme from Nocturne that plays is testament to that.
Heh and Like I said he was one of those players doing a challenge since he didn't summon 3 demons XD
Jerails Demi-Fiend was sandbagging real hard. If he really did care he would’ve brought his endgame demons like Metatron, Lilith, Raidou and his high level skills like Deadly Fury and of course, Freikugel.
hell, demi fiend's gaea rage does like over 10k damage... in a game where you max out at 999 health.
Duke from Tales of Vesperia is pretty tough, specifically if you've collected all of the Fell Arms while playing.
Especially when your party is level 50. Most epic boss fight I've ever played.
problem with that game is destruction field exists.
Pfft! Yeah right. Try Spiral Draco from the PS3 version. A nine headed monstrosity that revives each head as they are being killed. I have platinumed the game, but only by cheesing him on easy. It is my goal to beat him on normal some day.
What about Berseria on Chaos first play through? That shit is impossible!
Let's not forget the Cameo battles >.
The main reason the Lingering Will is so damn hard is because that dude's animations are 99% i-frames. He has only the briefest moments where he's vulnerable, and at any other time he is completely indestructible, resulting in your attacks phasing right through him like a ghost. Basically, if he's moving you can't hit him. And he almost never stops moving.
(Shudders) Sho, flashbacks to hearing "Too slow" and "Soo Zeta slow" over and over again, tbh I didn't know about the staying still trick to fighting him though
I always thought the hardest boss in Chrono Cross was Garai. It took me forever to get past him.
yazmath(?) isn't that hard, like, i just auto set my party to heal/revive/atk, and went out to play soccer, when i got home, it was done.
+Neo noah Without a guide? without the ultimate weapons? without a ridiculous grinding?
nope, the game literaly beated he for me. .-.
why do you lie? is anyone giving you some money for this? if so i'm interested.
dude for real, the only boss that was realy hard to kill was that robot on the fu* crystal.
I think they should have used Penance for that spot.
Yiazmat had one luxury to his fight you could leave and come back and the damage you done to him stays so you don't have to stay put for 6 hours fighting.
loving this list not only does it side note these deadly pains in the ass but it also points out the time it takes cheers
1. The international version of FF12 has no damage cap limit, so you can hit over 9999, making the yiazmat take way less time.
2. Omega weapon from FF8 was way harder
3. I'm sad you didn't give a mention to the Seraphic Queen, a staple secret optional boss in any Tri-Ace RPG
I'm surprised how Baal from the Disgaea series is not here. In order to defeat that boss requires massive amount of farming to maximize every weapon and armor to kill him.. What's worse is that in Disgaea 4, you'll have to face multiple of them after you beat him once.
That's not difficult just tedious
every time you spawn a damn character, it gets damaged too... so yeah... :/ need to grind some more.
+Warlord X I'm surprised too. The amount of prep work is ridiculous and it's still not even a guarantee that you'll win without coming up with a specific strategy in mind. Anyone who does this going blind is just asking to get their butt handed to them on a sardine platter
the thing with Luca Blight tho, IT WAS SATISFYING AS ALL HELL TO BEAT HIS ASS DOWN
I overcame The Lingering Will...and I demand a T-shirt with that quote
how is Limitless Indalecio from Star Ocean 2 PSX not on this list?!?! he will make a bloodbath of your team the likes of which you are not prepared for
AnImperfectSoul THIS. Saw many a failed attempt with a fully maxed party before catching a lucky win.
AnImperfectSoul yup, definitely the hardest here
All star ocean games have a few moments where you're best off breaking the cartridge/disc and going outside to forget about the damned series :(.
Limitless Indalecio surely hardest in PSX generation
No Freya from Star Ocean: Til the End of Time?
Luca Blight is my favorite Boss Fight ever thanks for including him
Has no one mention that the Demi-fiend boss fight theme is nocturnes normal battle theme
FF12 International version: The Judges....
Velius Final Fantasy Tactics
with yiazmat, forgot the part where if you're not fast enough at a certain part, it'll fully heal itself with a healing spell bounced off a reflect it casted on everyone while keeping its massive damage reduction
+ZoruaZorroark I never made it to the end game in FFXII. The hardest boss I beat was either Zodiark or Hellwyrm, but if that happened to me after getting Yiazmat down to 1 or 2 bars I would lose my shit.
Mem Aleph (SMT Strange Journey) is one of the most rage-inducing to beat. That one unblockable, nigh-unavoidable OHK would make you retry a lot of times before beating her. Luck is all you need on her fight. Plus, never forget the buffs.
1-2 hours? That's cute. I guess this guy never tried killing the online Ur-dragon in dragons dogma.
Christ! Can ya still even access the fight nowadays?
or the pre near wardden in FF online
Yes Ur is still accessible though they had reset him to initial values at some point.
Ozma is nowhere.
Oh god Elizabeth, don't even say her name your giving me flashbacks of preparing for that god damn fight
yiazmat is sick as fuck, the first time i see a boss fight that lets you save to return to continue fighting it again the next time
with elizabeth, it's more like she'll go berserk and dish out a 9999 megidolaon if
1. anyone accompanies the protagonist to the fight
2. you use Armageddon and it does not finish her off
3. you nullify/reflect/absorb any of her elemental/physical/light/dark attacks or nullify all status ailments, only exceptions being her megidolaon turn, that will kill you outright if infinity isn't cast or countering her physical attacks, meaning, the list of personas allowed in said fight are limited to ones that
a. are only resistant to her elemental/light/dark skills when said pattern comes (bring homonculus in large quantities, they'll prevent a 1 shot from her light/dark phase), forsaken will allows you to avoid all but poison, she won't go berserk over this.
b. do not nullify/reflect/absorb any physical damage (as she'll use these at random aside from her megidolaon turn)
c. the following personas are absolutely required to even have a chance in this fight - vishnu and ananta for the fusion skill infinity and helel and satan for Armageddon (can't finish her off w/o it)
It is highly recommended to have Orpheus Telos for this fight as he resists everything sans megidolaon, only way to obtain him however is to max all social links in the game in a single playthrough.
You can't one-shot her with Armaggeddon?
How's that possible?
@@hiddenkalpa Her HP is 20000, Armageddon only does 9999 damage. Go figure.
demi-fiend is a badass
All smt protagonists had stylish suits and cool gear while demi fiend is running around shirtless in basically hell.
@@uberlephrad8218
To be fair, he had to be shirtless. How else could he show off those badass markings?
Forgot to mention that when the number one boss on this list drops to a certain HP level it'll try and cast a to spell heal itself to full if you don't stop it
Thanks for that Sho 'So zetta slow' Minamimoto tip. I always use the slashing pins so no wonder Joshua was the one racking up the damage for me.
I think this guy is the main reason I hate math
I think he confused Sho and Hanekoma
Why people still think (both players and game designers) that long boss = hard?
+rapsody230 Because you will become exhausted from the amount of time it takes to beat said boss, meaning that you become more likely to make fatal mistakes the longer the fight goes on.
If you mean Yiazmat, it's not just long. It's a hard fight that is an endurance challenge on top of that.
though you could literally chip away at his hp, run to the save point, save, reset the game and his hp will be where you had him last the next time you play the game.
Unless you took too much time getting out of the arena, in which case he heals to full.
Bigge1724 I literally fight Yiazmat while watching a movie (I let the gambit system do the work) , I just check from time to time to see how things are going.
Three of the toughest bosses I've fought in a JRPG have all come from Kingdom Hearts games.
2 from KH 358/2 Days, and 1 from KH 3D.
The flying pirate skeleton boss from Neverland and the giant optional Wyvern boss creature in Twilight Town (I believe that's the name, I keep mixing it up with Traverse Town) in 358/2 Days, and Julius in KH 3D
Average Joe Person As someone who isn’t great at video games and is about to start this series, fuck.
The Lingering Will - boss that makes sephiroth's fight seem like a walk in the park
almost as hard as the Terra-Xehanort boss fight on proud mode from BBS
Kingdom hearts had a ton of difficult bosses
+MrDyl666 I remember when I first fight Sephiroth in KH 2, I just sat there in awe.
+MrDyl666 And I've managed to beat them all on Critical, my biggest achievement in gaming ^^......okay who am I kidding, biggest achievement in my whole life -.-
Took me about three hours to beat the lingering will... RIP
Honestly I am kind of proud that it toke me just 30 tries (and a long time of preparation) to beat Lingering will on critical.
yeah but lingering will takes the cake as the hardest boss in all the kh games because hes tough and has probably one of the best AI's when it comes to boss fights. hes incredibly fun to fight
Out of all the brutal Legaia bosses you pick Gaza...?
Forgot to mention that the number 1 boss has a spell near the end of it's life that'll restore it to full hp and undo all your progress if you don't stop it.
mad respect for including lingering will
luca blight is a midboss :( and he pwned me a lot of time before finally beating him with adequate strategy and grinding. when the cutscene after him fades and i didnt see ending, I was baffled.
I found him fairly easy.
I miss Legend of Legaia.....bring it on PSN Sony!!
Star Ocean: Till the end of time - Freya. That is one of the top hardest fights. Not only does it take FOREVER to get to her, but she can insta-wipe your entire team if you get caught in the blast.
Even the infamous Red Star cheese isn't immune to getting screwed over by Girimekhala, Cu Chulainn, or Arahabaki, or a failed Dormina from Pixie (unless you have Close Call set and Demi spends his second turn summoning Ara, in which case it MAY be possible to recover...)
i heard you mention yazimat's 50 billion HP, but i didn't hear you mention his numerous insta death attacks (basic attack included), or that his arena is filled with lethal AF traps.
Actually, it's 50 millions HP, each bar has 1 million hp, but the advantage is you can go out to save and its hp don't go back to normal.
than was actually just a misclick.on my part, i did mean to say 50 million, but the thing about being able to leave in the middle of the boss fight is that if you're gone to long he regenerate hp....Marilu Berto
It's 50,112,254 HP and funny fact he's at level 77
I don't mind the HP, but screw the instant death BS. I kept having really bad RNG when fighting him after his HP dropped around half way.
Not even a single Disgaea boss... What.
+Daeven Ville I know right I was waiting for The Tyrant Overlord Baal to hit this list, but I imagine if GamesRadar picked every JRPG superboss then this video would be a few hours if not days long.. Yiazmat though....(shudders)
I expected to see that too, it takes fuuuu king days for me to finally beat their stupid shiet.
+Daeven Ville Grind enough and every disgaea boss is a joke, unless you mean from number 5 as I don't own that yet but shouldn't change the formula.
+SoSo-Loco I'm kinda sad they picked FFXII International vs FFXII. International makes the fight easier.
Also i remeber fighting Yazmat and just going afk for like 2 hours fighting him. Came back and he was still at like a third of his health.
There were few really strong boss fights in the Last Remnant, which are worth mentioning =)
>Comment about a boss I didnt find hard
+U Wot M8 If it was drak souls that would be possible but not in these retarded games.
+U Wot M8 without leveling up on the first try
Aleth >On NG +99
Biplav Shrestha Lol exactly what I was trying to reference
Fou-lu from breath of fire 4 should have been on the list.
+sokumo tanaka For hell sure!
+sokumo tanaka A-tur was actually more difficult IMO.
+sokumo tanaka too bad that Rider isn't a boss fight..
Luca Blight will always be my most memorable JRPG villains. :) Actually thought he was the final boss when I was a little kid playing it for the first time because of how crazy he was but it was pretty early game.
there is actual a easy way to defeat lingering will, but you need a lot patient and luck for it to perform
+toongrowner1 Which gets even more intense when fighting him at Lv.1 and it basically means, you know how to trigger and exploit his patterns.
You made a mistake: Luca Blight is not the final boss in Suikoden II.
+Salem Al-Mansoori ya, he just midboss (but insanely though for a midboss)
All I remember is duel with Joey in final battle, I forget the giant boss before Joey though.
+Little Sunflower beast rune
Well, the video also said Yiazmat is from Final Fantasy XII International even though he's present in the original version of the game, so it could just be a mistake.
wait. you chose Gaza as the hard boss from legend of legaia? the hardest one was berserker for the first time going thru the game
+C.A “DamagdHart64” Noble if you block "ROT" status berserker is easy. i thought Sonji where he turns into a monster in the seru-kai was hardest myself
+mike hutchinson thanks for that. I forgot his name otherwise I'd say him. he was very tough
C.A Noble Stratch that Lapis is hardest:) The optional superboss that looks like a colorfull bird:) (as long as you don't use the glitch to insta-kill him)
+mike hutchinson Final Songi was very hard, especially the first phase. The trick there is wail on him early and his attack falls. Legaia was a pretty tough game though and a lot of bosses there were pretty difficult.
GreyWind1988 Pretty difficult the first time anyways, I replay it from time to time and only Lapis ever gives me trouble now. But yeah someone diffinatly needs to release an updated Legaia for this console generation. Id buy it in a heartbeat Playstation3 missed one for whatever reason I was sad
You forgot one tidbit about Yaizmat. You can exit the battle to restock and the come back without its health restoring. That gift from the developers was their way of laughing in your face as you spend the good end of the entire day trying to kill the overgrown damage sponge. Insult to injury when it hits low health as it drops a permanent damage reduction on itself. While I usually prefer to fight the battle to the end, I left it on and let my gambit setup to do the job after 4 hours into the fight. It wasn't until after I 100% the game that I found out that there might have been a crazy way to one-shot him using the spare change(?) skill by maxing out your gil count. Given that it takes less time to max out your gil than to kill Yaizmat, I actually considered restarting the game just to try it...
Took me 8 straight hours to kill yiazmat, didn't even know you could run away and save and continue the fight later
Five hours for one boss? I have no freaking time for that. That game is definitely only for people who have absolutely nothing to do the whole day long.
+AzzurrrroAqua Well, he is optional...
+AzzurrrroAqua You actually don´t have to sit through that,you can leave,go save,turn the ps2 off,and then just come back later to continue.You just shouldn´t take too much time going to the savepoint and coming back to him,because THEN he starts to regenerate his health.
That being said,ffxii can truly require some ungodly amount of grinding due to it´s difficulty spikes.
Zecendia My best friend spent a week hitting Yiazmat for a bit every day. As you said, you don't need to do it in one sitting.
+Zecendia you don't even have to do that, you just set up your gambits properly and you go watch a movie... or two. That game masturbates, all you do is walk in between fights.
ma3lstr0m5t0rm That would imply that I DO set up gambits.
Which I don´t.
Because I´m lazy. (I have yet to actually get around to fighting that HP nightmare,so the only 2 gambits i use atm are attacking and healing at a certain hp percentage)
Was kinda expecting to see the Matador from SMT3 on here, but otherwise... yeah
I think they just went for special end-game optional bosses.
Watch out for the red carpet.
causeofcurse
The fucking cape
Still having trouble getting past the assholes
And so...
I grind, therefore... I am
@Hope Bagel Like Mot
Of course. You can't have a difficult bosses list without ATLUS Games
Oh yes I knew it was Gaza from legend of legaia in the thumbnail. Oh these memories
to the people who are finding where are THEIR difficult bosses from their favorite games; I mean, c'mon guys!! that Demi-Fiend right there was #LEGIT compared to others xD
lol i'm stuck on him he literally won't let me have a turn.
Argonisgema Is that the same Demi Fiend from Nocturne?
Jake Theberge yep
@Jake Theberge yep
Ethereal Queen from Valkyrie Profile/Star Ocean/ Infinite Undiscovery.
+sora3823 ethereal queen is not hard in valkyrie profile
Funny enough you can cheese Yiazmat by popping your PS2 disk tray when he's charging his instant kill and he will be stuck in the cast time forever then you can just basic attack him to death and put the disk back in when he's about to die.
I think to give a mention to Tales of Zestria's Armatized Heldalf boss fight. A lot of people have struggled against this guy.
If you don't deal enough damage at certain stages he has the ability to wipe out your entire party and you are unable to block or avoid it.
he was pretty easy
Kurt man Maybe you were maxed out on skills and had the best items.
If you screwed up during his charge up phase that was it.