7 Weirdly Easy Boss Fights in Very Hard Games 

Humans do that sort of panicking when they are in bed 2am at night

Yeah it's a good thing we don't do that... right, friends? RIGHT?!

My favourite Dragon Prince quote is Rayla disguised as a human: "I walk around without a care in the world in spite of my sub-century lifespan!"

​@@kingsleycy3450yep, absolutely me. Although it's always about people I loves age. And it gets worse and worse the older you ( and they by definition) get.

@@nicklindberg90Living that long is what makes me panic. Dying young? Feh! I don’t have kids, bring it on!

Substances only remain mysterious until you lick them.

It’s like playing a life and death game of tag… is that chocolate/peanut butter? Or some other viscus brownish substance? You don’t wish to find out, especially when you only ever encounter this real life miniboss standing between you and the front door when you’re off to a job interview and wearing your best suit pants and freshly ironed shirt. Damn the fates.

Too... true...

@@DrZaius3141if you start tripping don’t lick again

​@@TherealZombiepromanor eat the whole amount

What about the No Mercy Sans fight in Undertale? No matter what route you take, none of the boss fights are very hard, except this one which breaks every rule in the book. It's also appropriate considering what happens if you complete a genocide run. Sans desperately wants to frustrate you enough to not complete that run.

@@andysee6996I think Undertale is pretty well exempt from any "unusual" or "weird" game mechanics list because the whole game is like that-if Final Fantasy VI or Red Dead Redemption 2 or The Witcher 3 is gaming's Citizen Kane, a masterpiece of interactive storytelling, Undertale is its Pulp Fiction, a masterclass in using the audience's expectations of the medium to subvert and play with the narrative in a way that only those familiar with how the medium works will be able to truly appreciate. That's why it's both utterly immune to these sorts of lists, and why so many deep-dive gaming discussions in general have a "what about Undertale" component to them.

I'd put Whitney and her Miltank from pokemon gold and silver on there. In a game where no gym leader gives you much trouble she's a complete nightmare on your first playthrough

@@madebychannel44 And to think, I still had a crush on Whitney as a child.

I'd say the final boss in Manual Samuel. For one, it's the only boss battle in a game that up until that moment featured no combat whatsoever. Two, it requires you to learn a new control scheme after hours of muscle memory. Three, it has multiple phases and if you die you need to do them all from the start. I hear it got patched recently, so I have no idea how it works now but back then it was absolutely ridiculous. You could easily spend more time in that fight than you would playing the rest of the game.

Sadly you have to kill him. Only a technician, but brave enough to charge at a Jedi in a bad mood.

Yeah, but his sacrifice will never be forgotten. Truly one of hte bravest warriors in the history of star wars.

that's more a joke fight

​@@imagoloop4029I have seen people trap him on the opposite side of a cavern, such that he is beaten but doesn't die.

Just don't take him to light in NG+++ If you can't kill his original fast enough, his clones get really annoying.

You can just drop down from the first bridge by stepping off to the right. You drop right before Pinwheel (skeleton wheels will chase you tho). I killed him to get the Rite of Kindling right away on my Soul level 1 playthrough.

or if he counts as a boss, Zote. he can't damage you with his attacks, and he dies in 1 hit.

@@jaspertyler4557 Does he really count though? That description alone is pathetic, but you can avoid fighting him in the trial of the warrior entirely by leaving him to die.

Yeah Gruz mother doesn’t deserve to be on this list. Shes one of 2 bosses that you can fight before the false knight. There are plenty after that are as easy or easier. (The MMC)

@@friedpinnapple Indeed there are more bosses in Hollow Knight that are easier than Gruz Mother. Vengefly King, No Eyes, Nosk to an extent, etc. I mean, Gruz Mother is just the easiest of the 2 other bosses you can fight before the False Knight.

Yeah, like others are saying, Gruz Mother can be the first boss a player encounters depending on how they explore, so it's understandable that an easy boss would be at the beginning of the game. Massive Moss Charger is later into the game and requires the Mantis Claws to reach if I'm remembering correctly (though, I think the stand and slash option only works with at least one nail extension charm), and you're not even trapped in the room with it. There's also Vengefly King, Uumuu (regular version) and Marmu.

Yep. Just want to say, though, you have to say the full name. Ebrietas: DAUGHTER OF THE COSMOS! ;)

Elden Ring: Watch this, I'm about to violate their entire worldview.

Sister Friede fake out.

Sekiro's guardian ape begs to differ

@@weebto As does Emma, the Gentle Blade.

Someone get a betting pool going on which comes first, Silksong or the completed Deltarune. The sophomore jinx is real (even more so if we add Haunted Chocolatier to the pool.)

Four and one half years since the teaser trailer. I will continue to wait, for that is all we can do.

In light of the Unity news, we might be waiting a while still

@@SimuLord Could be worse. Could be Yandere Simulator.

I actually winced at that.

Wasn't he only level 50? I didn't think he was that hard personally.

@@rohuffgamingakaLea1576 it’s level 60. Remembered another buff, Neuroforce, it’s Ability, give at 25% bonus to Super-Effective attacks. Add in its two STAB moves, Photon Geyser & Dragon pulse getting another 50% buff, along with Smart Strike & Power Gem giving solid type coverage, it could outspeed and potentially OHKO anything if it hit. There’s easy ways to take it down, but it’ll get you if you’re not prepared.

For real. The only way I beat it was to spam Sturdy/full restore until it struggled itself into submission

Absolutely enjoyed that fight since it was so hard compared to the other fights in the game

@@joshuahadams if prepared is the key phrase a truly difficult enemy can't be made all that easy through preparation. There's never been something truly difficult in a Pokemon game, since you could quite literally make it impossible for your opponent to win given enough time investment. Ultra Necrozma is only difficult by Pokemon standards, but we're not talking about Pokemon standards. We're talking about games overall. He's really not that hard a fight. Anybody that says otherwise must not have played on the DS or older, because the hardest fight still in the mainstream series to date is Red in HeartGold and SoulSilver. And even he isn't that difficult, once you have a full team of high level Pokemon (hell I think I had half a team actually, Lugia Mewtwo and my starter I think were my main 3 for his fight) and a decent amount of healing items you can fight him on even ground. I'm pretty sure I beat him before I had anything beyond level 75, if not definitely level 80. And because he has a full team, and you can't make use of newer shit like z-moves, it's literally no comparison on who's harder. Iirc you can fight the league in ultra sun and ultra moon before you get to Ultra Necrozma, too. Meaning you could repeatedly farm and level up with the fastest accessible method. I could be wrong it's been a while since I beat Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, but I believe he was located in one of the Wormholes. His ability doesn't change much, unless you're stupidly using things weak to Psychic type moves. And if you understand Pokemon types, actually you don't even have to know that since the game tells you weaknesses, you'd know dark types take no damage from psychic type moves, immediately negating it's 2 most powerful attacks, counting the Z-Move (iirc zmoves were not immune to type resistances). Dragon Pulse can be negated by fair types, rock doesn't have a negation that I recall and I don't remember the type for smart strike, psychic or metal maybe? Either way that's 2 of his moves gone already. And I do Believe there is a dark and fairy type Pokemon, I want to say hydreigon was but I don't remember for sure. But ignoring this back to his ability, increasing attack power by 50% makes no difference when you can literally nullify that increase with resistances. You don't even have to be a genius to figure this out. And I probably sound like an ass right now, but seriously unless you're just being an idiot, he's really not that hard to beat. You'd specifically have to use types he's strong against and a lower level to make the fight hard, because by far the best weapon in ultra necrozma's arsenal is the fact he has one of the highest base stat totals in Pokemon. But the problem is he's only level 60 and can't make full use of it. If he was level 100, this would be a different conversation, but he's not he's only level 60 and because of that, you could easily level to match his level and use weaknesses and resistances to beat him, which USUM make stupidly easy by telling you what it's weak and strong against. If he was truly a hard fight, you'd stand no chance with a full level 60 team that is actually decent in stats and factors his type and moves in mind. Losing a couple times doesn't make a fight hard, as you said he can be easily taken down with preparation, which is exactly my point. You don't even need a team above his level to win. If I'm being an asshole then fine call me one but there are way harder fights that would fit the criteria of difficult bosses in easy games much better, even in Pokemon as I pointed out. Also when I said you/you're, I didn't mean you specifically I was talking in general if that wasn't clear.

this was the first thing i thought of when I saw the title

Agreed!

Happy Birthday Rick! Because it’s his birthday tomorrow and he will lose if!

PREPARE TO DIE JEDI, AHHHHHH

but there are at 2 other bosses you can get to without the dash boots. but the fight is gonna be a Bitch.

Yeah, the other capsules can be missed if you don't know where to look.. Plus, once you have beaten him, Flame Mammoth's level is frozen, making it way easier to traverse.. Plus you now have the weapon to go down the chain of weaknesses to beat the rest of them with your fingers up your nose

Yeah play the game without the dash power up....I'm kidding, NEVER DO THIS!!! Watching the 0% speedrun is bad, awesome cause it's difficult, but so slow.

@@clarafedde8674 Is there even a way to skip the boots upgrade? since it's right in the middle of a corridor with no way to jump over it (from what I remember)

Aren't the Dash Boots part of X's standard equipment in later games, such that the boots upgrade does something else?

To be fair, everyone can die in a single blow in _Bushido Blade._ Mind, most characters aren't so passive about it...

There's different final matches in Bushido Blade? The only one I ever saw was the guy with the gun.

​@@gurvmlkyou have to keep to a code of honour to progress past the gunman. Eventually, you'll reach the final boss, Hanzaki, but dishonourable actions like swinging your weapon before they have announced they are ready to fight stops you from progressing. Particularly annoying when the gunman starts shooting the moment he announces his readiness to fight! You basically need to start running around so he can't hit you with his first shot, then you can close in and attack him.

@@sabershenanigans I never knew about any of that. I would just immediately rush in and attack the moment I could, because that seemed the most logical strategy. Especially against the gun guy, since giving him a chance to fight back could result in him shooting you dead before you can do much of anything.

@@gurvmlk yep, if you're able to try it out again there's a walkthrough online - you can even do a semi-pacifist run where you don't kill anyone before the gunman! I still think it's an amazing game.

so you thought FromSoft put in that screen spanning health bar with the bosses name right above it as a joke?

@@fmwyt95 lol. In all seriousness, I have adhd. My focus was on the blue guys constantly spawning. I didn't even notice the giant bar on the bottom of the screen.

It took me a while to understand what was going on. I killed some of the emissarys but no damage was done, so I ran around the arena thinking I must've missed something. Beat it in one try, but ashamedly, it took quite a while because I was running around trying to figure out a puzzle that was never there. All I needed to do was hit more of them till I find the right one...

I would argue massive moss charger would have been a better pick, since you fight that later and you can beat that boss while only pressing one button a few times. Gruz was my first boss as well so it makes since why it was easy

Wait wait why isn't anyone mentioning Flukemarm? It's been a few years since I played but I remember that one being a walk in the park. And weird.

@@Minilena Thats true, its a bit tricky if you don't have the nail upgrades that make the flukes one shot. But yeah, it is quite a bit easy.

​@@garretiswright8532You can also beat Flukemarm by using Shaman Stone and spamming Abyssal Shriek under her, which is the closest to an instakill you can get. While that does require you to go the Abyss, I feel its a fair assumption that the giant flukes can deter newer players for that long,

@fabians7751 When I fought it in the pantheons, I did use the Abyss Shriek strat. But for the base playthrough, It only deterred me enough to get the nail upgrade before I returned. Obviously everyone has different experiences with the game.

Sometimes the hitbox on that damned frog is so whack though. Frustrating despite it's ease

Semon of Dong

The run more then makes up for it though, if you die in there just once, panic.

I found a pattern of wait after it attacks then when he opens his face hit hit then back up, had to use a guide for shrine of amana and the iron keep cause frick those levels (although smelter demon is quite fun ngl)

Ironically upbeat album from a dark lyrical metal band, more like.

In my opinion, that sounds like a move from a fighting game. Probably from a wacky/joke character.

Sounds like Ellen's Stray playthrough

Sounds like both red dead redemption games in a nutshell

To be fair, the room layout in that area can easily lead to that order

I'm so glad someone else found Gulp difficult and I am not just an idiot baby player lol

Oh yeah I remember that one, and yup it's as easy as you make it seem.. And then you reach the underwater level and fuck that game I'm done

Which is then made infinitely more frustrating as it's revealed to be a "win so you lose" boss fight where it cutscenes to him ... wiping the floor with you and then escaping.

Wait… what? Seriously? I need to go fact check this with another playthrough.

Yeah, but the bosses aren't exactly huge challenges. Bob is just the game designers trolling you by having you endure one of the hardest areas in the game only to reach a boss that does nothing.

He is much more dangerous and handsome than Queen Slug-for-a-Butt!!!

That's the thing a lot of people forget/don't realize about Pinwheel. The area can be accessed as apon as you arrive in Lordran and he guards a reward which can be really helpful early in the game, so I think From expected people to go after him earlier than they usually do. He's actually scaled for being battled relatively early in the playthrough, not as late as when everyone does tackle him.

I always thought the first Mega Man X did a spectacular job of emphasising the importance of using the right boss weapon; Boomer Kuwanger and Storm Eagle can still be a bit gnarly, but most other bosses will at LEAST get stunlocked. You electrocute that poor li’l armadillo’s entire outside off! That’s some rough chuckles!

fighting boomer with just the dash boots is weirdly fun

@@cmdraftbrnThat’s terrifying, and I’m glad you’re on our side

Pretty much every mega man boss is like that

I ended up bouncing him between a wall and my nail until he died.

Well reaching the mist noble is really more of the level so mist noble themselves is probably the easiest boss relative to the difficulty of the game ever made, even true king allant from demons' souls is harder and demons' souls is a much easier game.

There's also Okami Leader Shizu, who's so easy that you can kill her in one hit BY ACCIDENT.

or better yet, a phoenix down one shots it.

​@supermagnum45 exactly. Why would you use a precious x-potion instead of a Phoenix down?

@@soulreapermagnum even better!

I mean, the boss after Jecht is also sadly easy, which is why I see Jecht as the final boss.

@@cathie6846 yeah the yu yevon fight is really more of an interactive story beat than a proper "boss fight"

Make a bad pun in her presence and attack while she's stunlocked by the Giggle Fit debuff.

I love him too but buddy he is NOT easy wdym- He's a pain in the neck without a full Nail upgrade, which lots of people won't have since Hollow Knight isn't linear.

on top of all the free items you get in chest. all the other bosses are fitting for the difficulty of the route, but not ???.

Makes sense though, keeping the hidden lore in mind. That blue baby is likely your own corpse. The real challenge is the emotional one, coming to terms with your death and allowing yourself to pass on

​@@chrismanuel9768nah they just made the heaven route too easy

Let's put it this way, there's a reason Hush exists, and it's to make up for how disappointingly easy ???/Blue Baby/Bygone is, so even the devs agreed with this viewpoint.

F every one of those games! Dear God! The one with the bombs underwater was the absolute worst!

It's an Oxventure: Deadlands T-shirt.

To be fair to the devs, I expect they quite reasonably didn't expect most players to make it that far.

Considering how in MM2, when you do the boss rush at the end of Wily's Castle, Metal Man goes down to ONE hit from his own Metal Blade weapon, you are very correct.

Toad Man earns the distinct honor of being the one and only boss in the entire series that's actually easier to take down _without_ his weakness. Just plug away with the Buster and you're set.

I played ds2 first and found his fight stupidly easy

I mean after all, he is the space faring cousin of the Soldier of Godrick in Elden Ring. Only a true master of the game could beat either of them.

againt may I add, Gargs, Rodeo Legends, Chickens, and Pianos

But you'd need to know that, which was much trickier back in a time where not literally everyone that had a console also had internet access. If you actually fight him he's brutal

I mean, getting rid of adds first is often a good strategy

Phalanx can actually do something to you, especially given you have to beat it to unlock the game properly. The very last boss fight of the game, however - THAT is a pushover to end all pushovers.

@@WorldsUnhealthiestFitPerson I've heard about that, I just spaced it is all. 🤦‍♀

They covered him in another video. Actually 2 or 3, I think.

@MarkDeSade100 yes i know. I debated if i should suggest him or not but considering how a push over he is i thought it couldn't hurt

Chill Penguin terrorized me as a kid. For some reason, shooting while wall hugging was basically calculus for my prepubescent brain

I've never played mega man x is chill penguin the intended first boss? The one with no particular weakness to other boss powers? If so, it might be intentional at he be easier.

@@sporf_sporf He has a weakness to the fire weapon, but he does still take substantial damage from the X buster. As far as first boos, it's a bit of a toss-up between him and Storm Eagle, whose worst trick is trying to push you into a pit with strong winds, which can be easily overcome with the dash upgrade from Chill Penguin's stage. Both take decent damage from the default weapon and have pretty simple routines. That said, I wouldn't call MMX a "hard" game. Several of the original Mega Man games, as well as later X games were much more challenging, and even they don't compare to some of the other games on this list.

Miyazaki loves his Berserk references

But which of the two are the emotional rollercoaster!?

@@kefkaZZZ ah indeed a good question

And as Megaman bosses in general go, fighting Metal Man the second time in 2 is a laugher-on Normal difficulty he can be one-shotted with his own weapon.