Sans, after attacking: Huh, I always wondered why people never use their strongest attack first.

Crazy to watch one of these this early on and not 3 years later 😂

I remember the first time I came across Andros' true form in Star Fox 64. I had no idea what I was heading towards, it was a complete accident because I'd just decided to try and take a different path. Sure I knew I'd done something different when I had to fight Star Wolf and friends before Andros, but when that brain showed up I was so shocked I got destroyed in a second.

A LOT of Terraria bosses have a chance to appear without being summoned. There are also things you can do in the world that can unexpectedly and inadvertently summon them. It's usually a low chance, but man does it make you shit yourself when you aren't prepared and are in a particularly bad location for it.

Love that bloodbornes footage isn't even of the defiled dungeon. He has full health hahaha

regarding kirby: what did you expect? kirby is one of the most OP characters out there X_x

Chalice dungeons aren’t scaled in NG+ though...

Hollow Knight: Absolute Radiance boss fight. Requires you to fight through a boss rush of 45 hard mode boss fights just to reach it (which you can only do by completing other similar boss rushes). Failing at any point forces a restart of the entire thing. Absolute Radiance then turns this Metroidvania into a bullet hell, and is by far the hardest fight in the game. By this point you’ve also been fighting a very long time, and are probably running on adrenaline and the fear of failing, which doesn’t help. I found this very challenging, and think it deserves a place on this list!

Getting to pride and joy is harder than the boss itself, 100%

Where's hollow knights pantheon of hallownest

When you never played bloodborne but your job requires you to talk about it...

Watchdog of the Old Lords is still the hardest boss fight, I've ever endured. It took me three straight days of playing nonstop (besides break to sleep of course) to beat.

Not to mention that Sans has poison in his attack so you'll literally be on 1hp the entire boss fight after you're hit once

This is 100% what one wants from a gaming channel! Thank you so much❤️

To mention, regarding the bloodborne old dog, the chalice dungeons don't scale with ng cycles. Also, the defiled chalice where you have half hp isn't the wrost one. There is one I remember being a 75% hp reduction. And if you're feeling really courageous, there is the glitched chalice that is a 99% reduction. Have fun with anything in there.

I personally had more trouble out of the damn darkbeast in the defiled dungeon but the whole thing was rough. I also noticed in star fox they didn’t cheese the eyes by shooting a bomb at the right time and destroying both eyes as soon as they come out, makes the boss way easier

Pride and Joy was a cakewalk. Bahamut with Ifrit on Hard mode was the real challenge.

Great list! This makes me want to play some of these games. I love challenging games.

I wish they would've talked about a few of the secret boss in Kingdom Hearts, Like the Sephiroth in Kingdom Hearts, the Lingering Will in Kingdom Hearts, or the Mysterious Figure in Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep. Hell, Yozora in Kingdom Hearts 3 is a boss I still haven't beaten yet.

Pride and joy was joke after that damn dragon

What I learned from this video: Nintendo likes screwing us over

In the defiled chalice dungeons you actually get like 50% physical damage resistance. However that defense boost dosent extent to elemental and arcane damage, which is why those bosses are that much of a threat

"You know what else is locked in hard mode?" Things I tell to my gf

"All videogames have difficult bosses." Not so sure about that first line.

I would have picked Smash 4. The "final boss" differs depending on your difficulty. On low, he has some forms. On mid, he has all forms. On the highest, the forms aren't just tougher, but you need to beat a tricky platform sequence after defeating all his forms. All with 2 stocks and 1 heart.

Me before this video: better be Falcon narrating this 🤣 Dudes voice is iconic in the gaming world

wow! Contra!! floods of nostalgia hitting me har didn't know the bosses even had names lol

YEEAAAAHHHH! I came here to write Contra 3 Alien Wars and You had it! I was so happy to see that. I am shocked!!!

Ahh some daily dose of Falcon Gameranx videos...

I was creeped out by the true form of Andros in StarFox as a kid too

Smh I was expecting to see Amon from literally any of the Yakuza games

I bought my fiance the Octo expansion for Splatoon 2 and I'm always hearing her getting angry and swearing and idk what's she's getting so frustrated over but now I know lol I'm playing kingdom come so it's not that bad.

I've played Star Fox 64 more times than I can count. But I've never fought Andros' brain before. I've fought the robotic version (and frankly I still don't know how I got that one and not the normal one.) Now I need to go back and try to get the Brain fight.

Those chalice dungeons in bloodborne raised my blood pressure so much, but I love it so much haha! Beautiful game.

"suffiss to say"? *SUFFICE TO SAY!*

Still remember finally beating cursed amygdala after like 50 tries and a few days, because i could only suffer so long before i needed to either turn off the game or do something else in game

So glad that I got the platinum on FF7 Remake. One of the trophies requires that you complete it on hard mode, something i wouldn't have bothered with otherwise, & it's just SOOOOOO much better on hard mode. It's the way the game should be played. For me, it improved the game from 3rd in my list for game of the year last year to no.1. Makes all the difference, seriously it's like you haven't truly played the game until you complete it on hard mode. Do yourself a favour and go do it if you haven't. Most of my friends didn't do it again on hard mode & it's like they've missed out on everything that makes the game great.

The first time I got to the brain version of Andros, it scared me so much that I immediately turned off the console and ran outside. I was 8 and it was another 2 years before I built up the courage to fight him again

Oh those videos of people beating title defense mode and DK blindfolded are crazy impressive

“All video games have difficult bosses.” Except the ones that don’t have bosses.

Defiled Amygdala Is wayyy tougher than watchdog IMO. Great Video!

You missed SO MANY opportunities to say "at the same damn time" C'mon falcon

Do you guys remember the older Conan game.. the boss at the end that kept changing form/ attacks and took about 20 straight minutes to beat. If you were doing very well? Meaning I died many times. That was a rage quit game that I refused to lose!! I beat that friggin thing but that thing I STILL remember. Was at least a decade ago

“Especially on new game plus” Bloodborne chalice dungeons aren’t affected by NG cycle.

The hard and boss rush modes in return to dreamland make it my favorite Kirby game

@gameranx have you ever ranked the Assassin’s creed bosses? The Storm Fortress boss fight from AC Rogue is insanely difficult!

Never got far on the original contras, but Neo Contra. Man that was tough to get to the final boss. I don't even know if I actually beat the final level because not only do you have to play on hard, you have to hit s rank on each mission

The way Falcon says Midgar.... Priceless.😂

Inner Agent 8 can only be fought after beating Girl Power Station. I think it counts. Keep in mind that unlike most games, where the final/secret boss uses your music, this music isn't made by Pearl or Marina. The Calamari Inkantation, seeing as this fight is in the first game, is 3's music, not yours. Edit: yes 10:43

I'm Surprised you didn't mention Smash Bros for Wii U. After weakening both Hands on higher difficulties Crazy hand erupts into 4 more forms AND on levels 8-9 he transforms into "Master Fortress". And since every continue results in a forced lowering of difficulty, there is a good chance that you will only get one shot at the Fortress without having to restart classic mode all over again. The Fortress is a hazard filled maze that requires accurate platforming while fighting off shadowy enemies AND the clock as you search for 4 weak points. Damn.

Awesome and perfect😀.

Vermivorous The Invincible (Supreme Badass Varkid) in Borderlands 2. It can not spawn(or rather evolve) in Normal Mode. People would often get full party of 4(more players, more likely to evolve) for the sole purpose of getting it to evolve, sometimes even hours without success. And then one time, playing with just my brother, we got two at the same time and then spent the next 40 minutes chipping away health, dying, damage a bit, die, damage, die... Fun times.

I'm so glad to see Watchdog of the Old Lords mentioned. I ended up completely giving up on the defiled chalice dungeon after a week of trying to beat that thing.

As someone who has played Nintendo games, I can tell you that they make it seem like it's going to be easy but it progressively gets harder and harder as you go. Inner Agent 3 from Octo Expansion in Splatoon 2 makes Galacta Knight look like a pushover compared to them. It took me months just to beat them and I got the Golden Toothpick as a reward. Even Splatoon 3 has the hardest level in the game in which is ironically easier compared to Champion's Road in Super Mario 3D World because at least in that game you have checkpoints. So it doesn't surprise me that a couple games from Nintendo would be on here, if anything I thought there would be more but it's not like they have difficulty settings there with an actual "hard mode" but it does get harder and you'd have to be prepared for the inevitable.

I occasionally will rewatch FF7 remake reveal reaction videos. Still gives me chills.

Dude, while the game actually gets harder in Hardmode, Terrarias Hardmode is not a difficulty mode but a normal part of the game progression. The game has, however, also harder difficulty modes. What you probably could have mentioned here on the topic isn't Hardmode, but Terrarias Expert or Master Mode :)

What a surprise, but its satisfying when you beat them after a year or 3.

0:03 Glad to see Armstrong here

Sakurai plays Smash Bros. on the hardest difficulty casually

My first Bloodborne playthrough, it didn't take me more than 4 tries to defeat any boss. Most I got on the first try. Watchdog of the Old Lords in the Defiled Chalice took an entire day and 40+ tries. It requires a near perfect fight against a very big and aggressive boss. It's brutal.

As much as I enjoyed Starfox 64, I could never get to the true boss. It's not that it was difficult, even as an elementary school kid, but something about staring into an endless abyss of emptiness in space really gives me some sort of variation of vertigo. It makes me anxious and nauseous. Same reason why I can't play many space-flight games, or games like Subnautica. So I'd do all the difficult challenges to get to certain parts of the game, and then leave it on pause until my big brother feels like playing.

The chalice dungeon bosses in bloodborne don’t scale with new game plus. They stay at the same level no matter how many play throughs you do

Hades with most extreme measures was pretty tricky. Three full health bars, all new movesets, and multiple armored enemy spawns. Barely beat that goliath.

There is a secret boss in super smash bros 3ds that you fight in arcade, it appears at difficult 7 and his name is Core or something like that. If you go further in the difficult it have more forms, and before you fight him you have to defeat master hand and crazy hand

Y'all remember golden axe 3? There was a hidden boss which only unlocks if you finish the game at hardmode

Ninja Gaiden is also a good one. On mid & low difficulty, at a certain point, you refight one of the earlier bosses. On a high difficulty, that fight is changed to a new ridiculously difficult fight.

Let’s not forget the true boss of every metal gear solid game, Hideo Kohima

Omg lylat wars was amazing, that brain though... freaky as fook

Fun fact: most people on the comments now haven't even watched the whole video yet.. neither do I

Sae, the main boss in Fatal Frame 2, can only be fought in hard mode. And it’s a two for one boss too 😬

Terraria Fans: Huh?

There is speculation that Galacta Knight is actually what Kirby is destined to become once he grows up, much like how Meta Knight is in fact just an adult member of Kirby's species. When Meta Knight asks Nova to fight the strongest warrior in the galaxy in Superstar Ultra, Nova sends him to fight Galacta Knight instead of Kirby. Kirby is the strongest character in the Kirby universe, so the only reason this would be is if Galacta Knight is (or could be) what Kirby becomes.

Defiled Amygdala is the worst. It basically has it's entire moveset turned into one shots plus the Watchdog is at least really fun, Amygdala just sucks

I would have thought the smash bros rep would be master core/master fortress from Smash 4. This boss doesn't appear until around the same difficulty as crazy hand, then has 5 forms depending on how high the difficulty is beyond that.

Wild arms 3…when you start drilling down into the depths of the planet… damn

With Contra 3 I guess it depends what you class as the 'final boss'. The brain thing can be fought on easy, it just has less attack options. Only by playing on hard do you get chased exiting the tunnel and even then it's basically the same enemy.

You should make a video on the most brutal challenges in video games. e.g The pantheon of Halloween nest from hollow knight is insanely hard. Theres like 50+ bosses and you have to fight every single one of them and their powered up versions. You die you have to restart the challenge

Falcon is about my age :-) Haven't played Star Fox (which would be Lylat Wars here in the UK), but that boss would have given me the creeps!

Yup,I was one of the dudes who completed bloodborne and did all of the chalices and I can agree with the thing that the defiled chalice is the hardest one in the game but the hardest boss for me is the Amygdala of the cursed and defiled chalice

Pride and Joy Prototype was pretty damn easy. Bahamut + Ifrit was much more difficult, even if you knew what to do properly.

Hi. I have a request, could you get some information on Beyond Good and Evil 2. It's been so long since they gave us an update.

The comment about Galacta knight being a cute little pink guy...just shows the parallel between him/her/it and kirby at that point. Capable of beating 12 souped up bosses, you fight someone similar to you at that high skill level

when are we gonna acknowledge that falcon literally is illiterate

I would argue the amygdala fight in the cursed chalice dg is actually worse, since the dog is predictable, it is tedious and hard but you'll beat him. Amygdala however, is gonna jump at you and you even know it's gonna jump! but the fact that camera automatically looses focus on the jump + the range of its attack is gonna make your survival almost random xD

Watchdog of the Old Lords in Defiled Chalice literally made me quit Bloodborne for 5 years before coming back and beating the entire game again, including him, last month lol. Also funny how the footage is him fighting the easy version of the watchdog because that doesn't even come close to showing the utter destruction that damn dog can do in the Defiled Chalice.

Beating Pride and Joy was my best moment of 2020 lol

i love kirby return to dreamland it was so good

(Watches all the way up to #2) Man, these bosses I've never even heard of sound really intense. I wonder what could be tougher than all of them? (reaches #1) Oh...yeah, that makes sense.

Oh after you complete Star Fox 64 you get Star Fox with sunglasses and a bonus music menu and a few bonus multiplayer maps. To get this mode you have to play legitimately and you can't access it through the GameShark however the game shark does give you a lot but it's not really fun because considering at the end of the day you're just ruining the leaderboards for yourself.

It always amazes me when someone puts a beast as the hardest bloodborne boss. Beasts are way harder if you panic, and way, way easier if you are calm and collected and using beast hunting gear. They basically punish you for not being familiar enough with the games mechanics. Some bosses, like Amygdala in the same chalice dungeon, are hard as nails no matter how you approach them. They don't have a weakness, and no amount of focus will make the fight any shorter or less stressful. Where as you CAN cheese the Watchdog, even if he was hard for you.

Velo, from Crash Nitro Kart while playing as Tiny, or Crunch can be outright cruel at times as well. For an older and favourable game, I hated it playing through that race

In Gunstar Heroes for the Genesis/Megadrive you can only fight all forms of Seven Force on the Expert setting.

Terraria Tip: Play on Expert Sure it’s harder and new players with curse my name until their dying day, but those rewards are worth it. You’ll adjust to the gank... eventually.

A couple of my friends and I used to go to Blockbuster way back when the 64 was just getting released and beat Starfox 64 the secret way daily when we were 11 years old lol. Wish they'd make a new Starfox game that could compare to 64.

Its funny, the watchdog in bloodborne was 1 of 3 bosses i beat first try 🥲

I'm proud of my Bloodborne Platinum because I beat the Defiled Dungeon by myself. No one unless you pay them is willing to go through that hell of a dungeon help someone do that dungeon.

AHHHHHHH dude Terraria Hardmode, the bosses do randomly activate, you don't just have to summon them

Everyone always says the watchdog in Bloodborne is the worst, but the chalice dungeon giant with the chain hook drove me insane! Took me a month.

I miss Borderlands, can't even tell wich special Boss there are too many.

1 mistake: ng+ DON'T AFFECT the difficulty of the chalice dungeons