That One Boss...

[NeoCracker]

Sleeping Table from Persona 3...

Imagine this, its a game where exploiting elemental weaknesses grant you extra turns and thus strategy is a higher priority than brute force. The Sleeping Table has no elemental weakness, is immune to instant death and its three main offensive spells are Maragidyne (High Level Fire spell that targets all), Megidoloan (most powerful non-elemental all party hitting spell that cannot be reflected or defended), Mahamoan (High level, all hitting holy instand death spell with a great chance of actually landing), and then an evil combo where he inflicts a certain status spell that practically incapacitates your party and then the second spell will instant kill anyone inflicted with said status affliction. Did I forget to mention that if the main character gets killed its an automatic game over?

Throw in he has HP and the highest stats of any boss at this point in the game and you have pure frustration. Your only hope is to somehow land a critical hit with a physical hit just so you can have a round to heal. He was the most notorious boss in P3 and was so reviled by fans that Atlus decided to bring him back in P4 as the second to last boss of the game on the route for the True Ending...

You forgot that part that if you go in immune Fire, he does nothing but Spam Megidoloan....

[Jessweeee♪]

Sleeping Table from Persona 3...

Imagine this, its a game where exploiting elemental weaknesses grant you extra turns and thus strategy is a higher priority than brute force. The Sleeping Table has no elemental weakness, is immune to instant death and its three main offensive spells are Maragidyne (High Level Fire spell that targets all), Megidoloan (most powerful non-elemental all party hitting spell that cannot be reflected or defended), Mahamoan (High level, all hitting holy instand death spell with a great chance of actually landing), and then an evil combo where he inflicts a certain status spell that practically incapacitates your party and then the second spell will instant kill anyone inflicted with said status affliction. Did I forget to mention that if the main character gets killed its an automatic game over?

Throw in he has HP and the highest stats of any boss at this point in the game and you have pure frustration. Your only hope is to somehow land a critical hit with a physical hit just so you can have a round to heal. He was the most notorious boss in P3 and was so reviled by fans that Atlus decided to bring him back in P4 as the second to last boss of the game on the route for the True Ending...

OH GOD WHY DOES THIS THING EXIST

[qwertysaur]

Sleeping Table from Persona 3...

Imagine this, its a game where exploiting elemental weaknesses grant you extra turns and thus strategy is a higher priority than brute force. The Sleeping Table has no elemental weakness, is immune to instant death and its three main offensive spells are Maragidyne (High Level Fire spell that targets all), Megidoloan (most powerful non-elemental all party hitting spell that cannot be reflected or defended), Mahamoan (High level, all hitting holy instand death spell with a great chance of actually landing), and then an evil combo where he inflicts a certain status spell that practically incapacitates your party and then the second spell will instant kill anyone inflicted with said status affliction. Did I forget to mention that if the main character gets killed its an automatic game over?

Throw in he has HP and the highest stats of any boss at this point in the game and you have pure frustration. Your only hope is to somehow land a critical hit with a physical hit just so you can have a round to heal. He was the most notorious boss in P3 and was so reviled by fans that Atlus decided to bring him back in P4 as the second to last boss of the game on the route for the True Ending...

OH GOD WHY DOES THIS THING EXIST

To make us cry

[Wolf Kanno]

Yeah... that is bad but the post was getting too long as it were.

To give you guys an idea, this a video of someone fighting the boss...
YouTube - Persona 3 - Floor 135 ( "Boss - Sleeping Table" )

I would also like to give a shout out to most of the bosses in Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne, yes, almost every boss in that game is "That One Boss" starting with the Matador Fiend and all the way to the final boss, only Dante offers a bit of a breather as far as boss battles go.

I would also like to nominate:



Miang/Opiomorph

Xenogears has a few "That One Boss" but most of them can be avoided if you know what't coming and prepare properly for it. Not for this fight. Its a Gear battle, your Gears don't level, rather you buy armor and engines to raise their HP, Defense, and attack power. So leveling is not going to help you much. Gears also rely on Fuel to do all the attacks and special abilites but its limited and although your Gears can recharge their fuel, its a pathetic amount without the aid of an accessory slot and there are still far better accessories (like ones that heal you)

Basically this is the second half of a two part sequential fight, the guy before her is not terribly powerful but he does have an attack that reduces your HP to one. Course you can use HP Frames to restore your health back but they cost huge amounts of fuel.

So you basically go into the Miang fight with at best, 50% of your health. She uses a special attack that llows her to hit your whole party with the accumulated damage your party has done to her which means you could easily lose if you are not paying attention to the dialogue on the scree, so you start having one character attack and wait for her to use the special attack (cause it resets after she uses it) to minimize damage but once she's lost half her health, she can start using the attack and do high damage without taking damage from you, worse, it gets stronger every round she's left alive... Throw in the fact the plot elements that happen right after are just a serious kick in the balls and you've got one of the most painful moments in gaming...

[Vermachtnis]

I would also like to give a shout out to most of the bosses in Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne, yes, almost every boss in that game is "That One Boss" starting with the Matador Fiend and all the way to the final boss, only Dante offers a bit of a breather as far as boss battles go.

I didn't find Noah and Baal Avatar all that tough. Of course the Noah fight was just really, really, rehehehely long. And by the time I got to Baal Avatar my team was Demi-Fiend, Dante, Metatron, and Beelzebub Fly Mode and they were LV99+ and immune to everything. Suffice to say, they were even more broken

[P4ine]

Atomos from FFV was insanely tough in my opinion.



Then on the other hand Odolwa from Zelda: Majora's Mask was, but only because I wasn't able to hold the controller properly in my hands because I had been scared less. The same goes by the way for Bongo Bongo from Ocarina of Time. They could even scare me today.

[Zeldy]

Then on the other hand Odolwa from Zelda: Majora's Mask was, but only because I wasn't able to hold the controller properly in my hands because I had been scared less. The same goes by the way for Bongo Bongo from Ocarina of Time. They could even scare me today.

haha, what! They wern't that hard, I was going to say the water dungeon boss in Zelda OOT, but the temple was harder than the boss from what I remember.

[LunarWeaver]

There's some douchebag in Final Fantasy Tactics that gave me some grief. Lazy post.

[Tavrobel]

Half of the bosses in Xenosaga.

[Meat Puppet]

ocelot revolver

[XxSephirothxX]

Those mothersmurfers at the end of Star Ocean 2. Maybe that doesn't count since they're only one battle before the final boss, but goddamn, that battle. Goddamn.

[Snap Jumper]

The Grim Reaper in Castlevania. I have little trouble getting by Frankenstein, but this guy is near impossible. Then again, so is the Nintendo Hard corridor leading up to him.

[Yeargdribble]

Grim Reaper and Doppelganger in Castlevania III gave me so much grief as a kid.

[krissy]

i was having a lot of trouble with the boss of cosmo canyon in ff7 because i had no idea that leveling up made your party better so i just kept running from battles until that point

[NeoCracker]

Half of the bosses in Xenosaga.

Only bosses I remember having that much trouble with were Chimerea (I think thats what the guy turns into on Cathedral Ship) and that weird monster you fight on Kukai Foundation just before you to go The Song of Nephilim.