• pishadoot@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    1 hour ago

    This is a really weird one I’m sure, but Ursula from Kingdom Hearts… 1? Can’t remember which.

    I built my character for magic first, then attack, defense last.

    It’s not a hard boss fight but I wasn’t scaling well in the game and hadn’t gotten to where magic damage was supposedly OP so I hit a wall.

    Never got past it. Can’t go back and replay because honestly there’s a lot about that game that hasn’t aged well.

    I’m not normally such a noob, this boss is my forever shame.

  • Bubs@lemmy.zip
    2·
    3 hours ago

    I’ve never technically beaten the final Bowser boss in Super Mario 64. Me and my siblings grew up with the game as kids. I remember us having 114 out of 120 stars. We were trying really hard to 100% the game, then I think it was our nephews who ended up deleting our save. That was a sad day.

    We never did find the second secret slide. I only found where it was once my best friend showed me the location as adults.

  • MufinMcFlufin@lemmy.world
    2·
    4 hours ago

    In terms of total time since I first played the game to finally beating it, probably Cave Story’s Ballos fight for me. I had a fan made port of the game for the PSP back in '06 ish, struggled a lot to get the regular ending, found out about the true ending, and couldn’t ever beat the Last Cave (Hidden), much less gauntlet of challenges beyond it. I think at the most I had seen that there was a secret area beyond the “final boss” for the true ending and the fan name for it, but never been. I might have once gotten to it but I know for certain I never ever beat it or the true final boss.

    At some point around about 2018 ish I think I saw that they had a rerelease for the game on the Switch titled Cave Story+, where I fell in love with the game all over again and finally played it to its true completion. I still have all of the screenshots and videos I took during my first completion of that boss fight. I think since then I have beaten it on Hard Mode, but only ever on the Switch version with Co-op mode which allows you to double your damage output being that you have 2 players, so it’ll be interesting trying to go back and complete it again soon without almost any Health pickups at all.

  • glimse@lemmy.world
    3·
    4 hours ago

    I was a couple of attempts short of calling it quits on Simon in Clair Obscur. I don’t like QTEs and the whole fight is “parry or die”

    And yes I know now that I could have done the cheese strat of megabuffing Maille for a one shot but I think reading strategy guides for single player games is a major dork move

    Afterward, I wasn’t excited or proud. I was just relieved to not think about it anymore

    • f3nyx@lemmy.ml
      2·
      4 hours ago

      my friends don’t get that. its an extra credit boss in a single player game, why would I spoil that for myself with a guide someone else made?

      i haven’t beaten him yet, I give it a few tries every month or so. my way of prolonging the beauty of the game I guess lol

      • glimse@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 hours ago

        Yeah…I can’t imagine being proud of the accomplishment if you’re just following a step-by-step guide.

        Like “Please recognize my artistic achievement” and it’s this

  • farmgineer@nord.pubEnglish
    5·
    6 hours ago

    Don’t know if it counts but stupid meat circus climb in psychonauts. Never finished that thing.

  • LemmyThinkAboutIt@lemmy.zip
    5·
    7 hours ago

    I still haven’t finished Breath of the Wild. I think I pretty much did everything else in the game that by the time I should have gotten to the final boss but by that time I felt I had gotten enough out of the game and if it was going to just be the same kind of battle as the other two boss battles I wasn’t interested. I really enjoyed the game, just didn’t care to finish it 😅

    • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      4 hours ago

      Holy crap, you just triggered traumatic memories I’d been successfully repressing for generations! That game. That whole fucking game, but especially the ending.

      I remember using the ability to smack Roger Rabbit around to take out so many frustrations. That was a good feature.