I would have figured the Spawn of Ogdoo for Jedi Survivor, but that Vader fight was so damn good

Remnant 2’s Annihilation was one of few bosses that learning the audio cues is what saved me. The fight is such a mess visually that I learned the dodge timing after his sword swipe sound. Felt good to finally beat him though!

It took my buddies and I about 15 tries for the final boss in Remnant 2 on nightmare mode. Every single time we all died. On the final try, we were each so focused and dialed in and everybody survived. I remember literally jumping out of my chair and screaming at the top of my lungs 😅

I am glad Lu Bu's reputation as being notoriously fearful and powerful is still around haha

Pre-patch Annihilation in Remnant 2 took me days to finish. It was even worse in multiplayer. The speed of the phase changes combined with how hard he hit was pretty insane.

Last boss in Remnant 2 took me with my friends few days to beat. On last try I spent like 10min fighting him alone on highest difficulty because my friends died. It was my first "Main character" moment.

Lu Bu was crazy. Team Ninja made sure to live upto his name. Loved that fight.

I found Armored core to be absolutely amazing. And I'm not talking about the kick ass fast paced action or a somewhat good narrative or even the amazing boss fights. What I found to be absolutely impeccable is how you could change your equipment based on what it is you wish to fight. Encounters could easily go from unbeatable to downright child's play when you equip yourself with the right weapons and configuration.

So happy to hear that Lies of P bosses were actually tough for regular Soulsborne players. That was basically my 1st one completed after starting and stopping Bloodborne after a few hours. Looking forward to going back and playing the other games. I didn't fight Nameless Puppet until my 2nd and 3rd playthroughs. Not sure if that makes him easier or not, but his 1st phase is fairly harmless after a while. 2nd phase though is bonkers. You can dodge the dash most of the time, but then those red blade spear attacks almost always connected, and the multi-hit strings you just had to try to parry at least half of them to survive and get a heal off. Even using Puppet String to get in close and up and above him for decent hit usually didn't work because of how fast he's moving and attacking.

Raphael's Final Act is probably my favorite boss of all times. The build up with Raphael since the beggining of the game, leading to us getting into his house, then we are surprised with the fight against him. Then boom out of no where he starts singing his own boss music. Completely epic.

After beating Vader I cracked open a beer, drank it, and then took a nap.

A soulslike has finally clicked for me in Lies of P and i love it, it actually makes me want to go back and try Bloodborne again

I love that annihilation was on this list. As someone who beat him on apocalypse before that difficulty got nerfed, he was brutal. And the fact that remnant very boldly telegraphs attacks before the enemies make them makes the fight possible not easy lol. 😂

Annihilation is one of the best boss battles ever in the past 10 years. The way the boss attacks phase in and out between both the phases and you travel between 2 different locations at the same time is amazing.

Man 2023 was whopper of gameranx videos what a year🔥

Tyrs final fight in god of war Valhalla was a notable challenge at the least

I will say, that final boss fight of remnant 2 was very memorable. It felt amazing when i took him down. Great and creative fight that was very refreshing.

I thought Laxasia was tougher than Nameless Puppet. In either case though, perfection grindstone works like a charm.

Metroid Dread final boss is wild, takes some pattern learning

I’m so glad someone finally talked about Spider-Man 2 bosses! Recently finished playing it, and can say without a doubt they were MASSIVELY improved upon when compared to the ones in the previous games

Yo Spiderman 2 bosses legimately surprised me especially Scream. I was so done by the fifth health bar 😂

The first time fighting Balteus in Armored Core 6 was a damn doozy. If I recall correctly they had to nerf him eventually, so I will always cling on to my claim to fame on beating him pre-nerf lol. I was shocked to see what a pushover he was on NG+ though

“Makr them suffer” lol

Ibis Cel 240 was so annoying for the build I was using, then I copied a build I saw in a video with 2 songbirds and two miniguns and it was embarrassingly easy. The boss also reminds me of Maliketh from Elden Ring because of how much it moves around and because of the red slashes it throws out. Armored core depends so much on the build you’re using.

Kraven’s boss fight was orchestrated so well, with the different types of combat and ranges he uses to attack you, along with how tough he was up close. It’s my fav boss battle in the entire game. Horizon forbidden west’s boss fights were so hard for me, especially the last one. But the first game’s final boss fight was 10x harder.

I have complained in the past about the lack of spoiler warnings, so thank you for finally doing those at the beginning. Really appreciate it.

I honestly never died to kraven. Doc croc on the other hand. Sheesh! And anihilation in remnant 2 shifting between realities in phase 2 mid attack swings is absolutely brutal.

Thanks for the list up front. Actually kept me around.

The final boss of Remnant 2 was a major pain for me cos my first playthrough was on a lower end gaming laptop so every time he'd swap realms my game would stutter just enough to throw off my timing

look at all these elite gamers in youtube comments that didn’t have a problem any bosses ever in any game

Superb list! I love seeing Wo Long : Fallen Dynasty, Remnant 2, Lies of P and Lords of the Fallen getting a shoutout. I loved all those games, especially Wo Long! I think Jedi Survivor had tougher bosses than Darth Vader, but Vader was a pretty awesome encounter regardless. I also felt like Lasanxia was tougher than the Nameless Puppet.

Thanks Gameranx!

Love to see Annihilation here, it has become one of my favourite bosses of all time :) While I love the fight with Elianne, I felt so bad for hurting Pieta lol :(

Gná and Berserkr King on hardest difficulty in GoW Ragnarok are absolut pain. They should be on the list imo.

Annihilation was that hard in *survivor* difficulty ? Damn. Didn't realize that. I mean, I started on veteran and had a rather tough time, then later took him down in apocalypse difficulty, but by that point I had an OP build that could deal thousands of overcharge damage every few seconds, letting me just dodge for most of the fight. Great vid, as always.

Bless you for making time to play and post all of these games

Vader was really annoying in how his fights were phased and reaching the end point of one phase could negate the damage you were doing because of the cutscene to transition, which also removed your lock on with him. Also having went to blaster stance as Cal by that point, having standard stance as Cere was a disorienting changeup.

video idea: top 10 updates/patches of 2023. would love to see your list on what games got the best updates/patches. like for me, Dying Light 2 got a really good patch this year to make the nighttime a lot more intense and similar to DL1’s nighttime environment

I had to plan accordingly just to beat Culex's 3D form in Super Mario RPG. I was so happy that I took a screenshot of proof that I did it. I also know that any mistake on my part will have everyone get killed, so it never hurts to overprepare when it comes to these things.

Green Monster in the Swamp gave me more trouble than Nameless Puppet 😭😭

I found Laxasia way more difficult in Lies of P was stuck on her for ages. The nameless puppet i found dissapointly easy and did it extremely quickly. I guess it depends on your build

The Insomniac Spider-man games are only tough on Ultimate difficulty

I love how in Remnant 2 a shooter souls-like style game in the hardest boss suddenly becomes a beat bullet hell madness is so good!!!

IB-01: CEL 240 reminds me of AMX-004 Qubeley from Gundam ZZ and honestly, i was having so much fun thinking about all the Gundam scenes avoiding Fin Funnel and working on the opposing mobile suit.

Nameless puppet kicked my ass so damn much till I finally broke and said "F*** it, I'm LITTERALLY gonna throw everything and the kitchen sink at it" I knew throwables were busted in the game so I didnt want to abuse them to much but god damn I needed to for this fight

I just got through Immortals of Aveum None of the bosses gave me too much problem. But then I fought the optional super final boss. I could barely take a third of the health down with a standard gameplan. I had to start treating it like an average FromSoftware game perfect blocking, percise dodges, and utilizing my whole kit.

Gameranx starting the year off with BANGERS

Man yeah the nameless puppet was tough. But I fought him on my second play through and took me about 4 tries at level 207. But lies of P was my first souls like experience and I’m freaking obsessed. I want to play them all now

The IBIS fight made me feel like I had been just getting lucky the entire game. I could not fathom at how ineffective I was against it. When I beat it, it had like 1 percent HP left and needed one more hit of anything and I had like 80 percent and one heal left. Despite this, I used up my heal, survived with 10 percent and barely beat it. Easily hardest boss of the year for me.

Galdera is hard af in both games. Truly final and secret boss tier. Also, Daughter of the Dark God v1 and Vide the Wicked are absolutely stellar pieces.

Annihilation in Remnant 2 was tough! It took me forever just to get through round 1, then when I breathed a sigh of relief, I learned there was a round 2!

LU BU Took years off my life.😢

The Final boss of Ghost Runner 2, Mitra. Until you learn his pattern, it's just a friggin' bullet hell + platforming

Spawn of Ogodo in Jedi Survivor was way harder. Sure, it took me like 20+ tries to beat Vader (and my game crashed before I could save so I had to beat him again), but I have done just as many attempts at the Spawn of Ogodo and never killed it.

Only reason Kraven would be hard is because you cranked the Spider-Man game to the hardest difficulty.

Raphael is an absolute badass, when he starts singing his own boss theme... yeah that was awesome

Vader fight was cool af but the HARDEST fight in that game is the Spawn of Oggdo Bogdo or once you best him the game then throws both og Oggdo and his son at you in the same fight

Not technically a boss fight but more of a level, but in BG3 the Iron Throne sequence was super super hard. As someone who is entirely new to turn-based combat, even on the easiest difficulty (which gives your more turns to get everything done) it's still quite difficult. Takes a lot of practice runs and planning. And I was simply NOT going to settle for anything less than saving ALL the Gondians, saving Omeluum, saving the Duke (of course) and getting the vault key. I didn't get the tadpole but even without getting the tadpole just doing all the things I mentioned it took me many many hours of practice runs and planning.

The Raphael fight was extremely hard. It was incredibly hard to queue up actions instead of listening to the awesome background track.

To be fair, I remember Kraven being an absolute menace in the OG Spider-Man games also.

I ended up with the moon bow on my first playthrough of remnant 2 and annihilation ended up being really easy think he only took me 5 or 6 trys.

Remnant 2 boss: hardest in my life. The #1 unique problem it presents: there's nothing else in the game remotely like it. So you're ill prepared. He's not just a MEGA version of what you fought before. Add friends? He's harder!

I could play the Raphael fight again and again! The music is SOOOOO good!

The thing I love about BG3 is there can be tough boss battles but if you think them through and strategize you can completly make them easy. Raphael was easy for me because I had gale use hold monster and then my tac and karlach went to town on him and killer him in like 3 hits.

i was shocked when i beat sigrun only on my 4th try on no mercy i expected her to be way harder since she's always top 3 hardest bosses in lists

Nameless Puppet on NG+3 is hitting me hard.

I honestly thought that Kraven boss fight was tough too!!! Glad to see I’m not the only one… considering I thought the bosses were pretty easy in the first game 😅

Loved when Raphael started singing. Totally unexpected and entertaining.

Just a friendly suggestion, might be better to only list the games that are on the list in the spoiler warning scrolls. Great vid as always!

Spider-Man 2 bosses were incredibly easy with how much damage you do on the standard difficulty, had to change it so bosses had more HP than on default for them to feel satisfying since they were dying in like 30 seconds

Great video, oh and you really sound like Joshua Tomar lmao

So happy to see my most hated/loves bosses make the top 1 and 2 spot. Both of them broke me but when I beat them I felt so accomplished

Spiderman 2 was not hard....lmfao

Happy new year Man.😁👍.

Armored Core 6 is like a modern Zone of the Enders and I love that

Omg the music playing during the Raphael fight is 12/10 - some of the best music I've ever heard in a game

"Darth vader snores" That subtitle had me dying

"Oh no! It's Lu Bu!" 😂This is a great list. I love that the Nameless Puppet got some love. The third time through that game he's a ridiculous fight XD.

Agree about this Vader fight. It was giving me flashbacks to Elden Ring. It was only missing the “You Died” after the 10x he killed me

“Nothing comes close to the darth Vader fight in this game” Ogdo Bogdo: “Am I a joke to you?”

Just played the Kraven boss fight last night. I have been noticing an increase in difficulty in Spiderman 2 compared to Spiderman 1. Just got the game recently.

I think it took me 3 hours of dying over and over again before I finally beat Darth Vader. He was definitely the hardest boss of 2023 that I played.

I forgot that these are bosses from 2023 and almost had a stroke when Malenia wasn’t on the list

That Armored Core boss looks like a skinny Qubeley MK-II even has similar attack styles and seems to use funnels

Great list, however I had more trouble with king of puppets than nameless puppet

Wo Long DLC 2 and 3 final bosses make Lu Bu seem like a child next to them, definately would place them on the list.

The MaxTec fight in Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty on Very Hard would one shot me almost as soon as the fight started when I first ran through it. I had to drop it down to Hard after 50+ attempts to make it past 15 seconds in

Raphael Battle Music is so good! lol

I actually arrived late to a meeting at work 'cause I was finally having THAT run facing the Nameless Puppet. Finally memorizing the attack patterns and mastering parries. Extremely satisfying final blow

Ill never forget my 1st encounter with Lu Bu. On Dynasty Warriors 4. "Lu bu has come to destroy is!" With that epic spear slap. Then getting killed in about 3 hits in the duel 😂

The parking garage monster in Evil Withen broke me. Put it down for about a year. Came back and still hated it.

The best part of the Raphael fight is that you get to listen to that banger of a song every time you die and restart the fight.

Ibis Cel 240 from AC6 was *THAT* boss for me. Ran a lightweight energy build and had a breeze until I hit that roadblock. 30+ attempts later and once I got all its moves down, I got it and it was amazing. Now I can beat that boss with ease.

That Darth Vador fight seemed to be pretty challenging ! Surprised you didn't mention "Saito Toshimitsu" from Nioh 2 (same studio as Wu Long, but better game), which is one of the toughest Boss I've ever fought in any game... I was sweating blood. Those who played Nioh 2 can relate I'm sure

So I haven't played Baldur's Gate 3 yet....does the soundtrack occasionally break out into musical theatre type stuff? Because that sounds amazing.

Beating CEL 240 was the best gaming feeling of 2023

The 60 eyes fragmented one boss from warframe.

Sha'Hala on apocalyse is harder than Annhilation.

Bahamut or Ultima Bosses from FFXVI should be on this list...

I remember re-trying Annihilation over and over, and I failed each and every time. So I deleted my character. I was playing solo. Then I realized I started the game on medium (2) difficulty (like any other game) instead of normal (1). By the the time I got to him on normal (1) difficulty, he was way less resistant and I managed to beat him in like 10~12 tries. He has sound queues and visual warnings of his attacks (that now don't do as much damage; and you also do more), so he is very much beatable. Apparently, this game was meant to be start at lvl1, and then lvl2 and so on, in order for you to properly build up gear up and acquire certain amount of stats, so that the game can be playable. As for difficulties (3) and (4), goes, aside the stats and upgraded weapons and gear, you'll also have to have a proper build.