"I won't be doing that. No one can. I know I've just seen someone do it. It can't be done." Inspiring words.

I also never realized Muffet wasn't an actual boss. I loved her and Spider Dance so much I ended up doing a cosplay of her

Muffet's skip with the spider donut has always been a game saver. Not sure if i've ever legit been able to beat her

9:15 Muffet's a really fun, difficult challenge, but her theme's so darned catchy I never minded replaying her very well-crafted battle.

Luke I'd just like to say that it's not "Running away" in Sekiro. It's "Tactical Evasion."😉

“If you make the mistake of shooting that shield, he’ll summon a ghost dog to chew your face off.” *frantically scribbles magic item suggestion for next dnd session* EDIT: In a list containing a Bloodborne entry, I did not expect Undertale to be the thing that set my trypophobia off 😅

Bloodborne also has the Bloody Crow of Cainhurst, a rival hunter who has maxed stats, maxed equipment, infinite bullets and infinite use of the Old Hunter's Bone. He's also the only NPC hunter that scales to New Game+. In fact, some theorize that he is meant to represent a min-maxing powergamer.

The delivery was on point for this one. Ellen pretending, even for a second, that she eats spiders, and Luke calmly declaring Zelda KZfaq stunts to be literally impossible are the highlights for me.

That camera turn to reveal the horrifying thing hanging from the ceiling in the Bloodborne entry was the stuff of nightmares. Like, if I saw that, coupled with the singing or screaming, I would probably mosey my ass back up the ladder and save that part for later/last 😂

The bloody crow of Cainhurst

This applies to pretty much every miniboss in Persona 3. The main bosses (the "Full Moon" bosses) are deliberately made to be more forgiving so that you’re unlikely to softlock yourself into an unwinnable scenario by not levelling up by the time limit. The Tartarus bosses have no such limitations. They can and Will grind you into a pulp. Highlights include that one demon table with no weaknesses.

Ellen implying she maybe eats spiders gave me a good chuckle 😅

It may not count technically as a “boss”, but that water level in Ori and the Blind Forest was infinitely harder than the final boss!! I remember finishing the game and going “was that it?” because it didn’t destroy me mentally and emotionally like that god-forsaken water did

Any Crucible knights in Elden Ring. They wreaked me more then most bosses. Also, they typically are gazing in the horizon begging to be backstabbed, but they either turn around right before you get close or let you poke them and realize they weren't even open to critical in the first place.

I wanna call out the Shambler in Darkest Dungeon. I think the worst part is the way you can encounter it because it really leans into the "beat you when you're down" by showing up only when you have no torchlight making him so much stronger

I love that you included the lynel, because it can also be one-hit with an ancient arrow. just blipped outta existence

The rat from Hades isnt here? That thing is vicious and almost gave me a heart attack the first time it surprised me at the end of a run.

Anti Sora got super nerfed in the 1.5 remake. That upward slash combo used to be able to near one shot you in the original 😅

Watching Luke fight those bus sized, gargling, sea-horrors live was a highlight of my life. Schadenfreude

I was convinced that dark link was learning as we fought, so I always just used the giant hammer on him and it worked most of the time.

Dunno if they qualify as minibosses, but once you start encountering Draugr Deathlord archers in Skyrim’s ancient tombs, they can be downright nasty depending on your build. High damage from their bows, and their shouts are powerful enough to ragdoll your character (whereas weaker draugr tend to just inflict stagger when shouting). Meanwhile, dragon priests (which are frequently found at the end of those same dungeons) are pure spellcasters, and there are counters to magic. Granted, ward spells help in both cases.

Let's go old-school: WarMech in the original Final Fantasy 1, found in the orbiting Sky Castle. He has only two attacks: a standard physical attack which is likely to one-shot whichever party member it hits, and the Nuke spell which is likely to one-shot your entire party. He randomly pops up on the long bridge just before the boss of the Sky Castle.

The speed of the shark giants in Bloodborne always catches me off-guard each time I replay it, they're so much faster than you'd expect for something their size

Luke, the writing and your delivery on the BotW section was spectacular. The whole video is great, then twice in that section I was laughing so hard I had to rewind so I could catch what I just missed. Oxtra you still just keep getting better 💜

1. Get Ogre it Luke... 2. Sora to bother you... 3. Mar-oh-dear... 4. Muffin but trouble... 5. It should have been the Fin-al boss... 6. Metroid Rage... 7. Lynel Risky...

Video idea: 7 NPC’s who never rewarded you for all your hard work.

Wow...I never realized that the Marauder summons the dog when you hit his shield...having this enemy type thrown in with regular enemies later in the game was just cruel.

You forgot Byetta, a boss from Disgaea who, after his first defeat is renamed Mid-Boss. Every time he shows up afterwards it's in the middle of other missions and hes always incredibly tough.

How about a list the reverse of this, where bosses from one part of the game reappear later when you're more powerful as mini bosses?

It feels like a long time since we’ve had a truly “boooo!” worthy joke from Ellen.

Muffet being there is soo true. I had more trouble with her than Undyne, I think, when I first played Undertale.

Anti-Sora on my first Proud-mode KH1 playthrough was a NIGHTMARE. I honestly think it took me less tries to beat the hidden Xemnas fight.

19:07 Lukes attitude here is absolutely mine whenever I see the impossibly skilled nonsense some gamers are upto...I just don't have the time...I'm too old now.😪

Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind. In the last mission, you have to disable the defenses in Sotha Sil's Clockwork City before defeating the final boss. The defenses are cores that can self heal with its minions, it packs a massive punch, and if you don't have a ranged weapon, the minions move almost as fast as you and can therefore run away before you can kill them and prevent the core from healing. Absolute bastard of a mini boss fight - Barbas was a nice treat after that.

Can’t believe the Twin Dragons from Spyro 3 never made the list. Pretty sure I’m not the only one that’s suffered a migraine trying to defeat them.

The Revenant in Dragon Age Origins. An attack that pulls you and all allies to his location, stun locks you all for a second, and does damage is almost game breaking on higher difficulty.

i’d say the crucible knight fight from elden ring would fit this list. the fact that it’s in limgrave and that it’s harder than anything else there is a big kick in the behind

Sleeping Table in Persona 3. Also known as the horror roadblock at Floor 135 in Tartarus. If you've fought it blind, you know the trauma this can cause!

Sulyvahn's beasts from Dark Souls 3, those giant crocodile dog things. Trying to get to the Aldrich Faithful covenant was a nightmare.

To add to the Lynel misery, if you take too long battling one of these slepnir-sized rage kitties then it will just yeet out randomly to some other place via teleportation, denying you the haul of better weapons to replace all the ones you just broke over its territorial carcass.

"Cast-iron bastard" is my new favorite phrase.

Two words: frost troll.

The Giant Scout-bots of Team Fortress 2's Mann vs Machine gamemode are a massive pain to deal with. While boss-bots can be easily be dealt with by just a few people shooting at it, Giant Scout-bots often take half your team just to stop it from sprinting past you and making you instantly lose the game.

Had to think about the Shambler from Darkest Dungeon. While being fairly easy to avoid and not really mandatory, this nightmarish bunch of tentacles can easily rip even a well prepared adventuring party to shreds, if you get just a tad unlucky

Gargaros, Ogralus, and Orcanos from Yo-kai Watch are all extremely powerful, but they didn't have boss healthbars for the first two games, so they could be classified as minibosses (when they got healthbars they were significantly nerfed anyway...). Snartle from the same series is also a good example of a really hard miniboss, getting stronger as you go through the game. And while he never gets as strong as the minibosses I mentioned above (he does in the game where they became bosses and got nerfed, but that doesn't really count to me), he is still quite a force to be reckoned with.

The angel miniboss just before the final boss in the original Persona 5 gave me FAR MORE TROUBLE to beat than the final boss himself, which I beat on my first try, unlike the miniboss who was litterally 5 minutes before.

All of the minibosses in Spelunky are harder than the actual end of game bosses. A fast knight with an insta-kill shield? Check. A giant piranha you would need bombs to kill if they didn't have an army of piranhas standing in front of, behind, and all around acting as a fishy shield? Check. Two different aliens with a one hit psionic kill attack? Double check. I can do this all day.

You forgot the prison guard in Yakuza 4's prison break sequence - he bats you with little little baton over and over with barely any healing items available. Absolutely blood boiling

I saw Breath of the Wild scroll by and immediately knew it HAD TO be the lionels. They are brilliant and terrifying and I love them.

As you say Bloodborne could fill many of these lists, though I assumed you were going to go for the other hunters generally that are scattered throughout the game (for no obvious reason except screw you) using weapons/tools/tactics of the player, including but not limited to flamethrowers, magic that summons lasers or cuthulu tentacles, and a big f off cannon the size of your arm, all capped off with the ability to heal.

those damn well sharks in Bloodborne, man even just SEEING that well at the start of the segment had me tense up and think "I don't wanna do this again", let alone the actual sharks themselves

Looking into the hero's eyes as he climbed down the ladder only to "realise" that the shark giant was on the ceiling behind him was the high point of my day.

Ellen's rendition of the track from the Dark Souls bosses needs to be in the next From Software game.

Gattuso from Tales of Vesperia. Debatably the hardest battle in the game. This dog absolutely savages you, and if you actually survive, the game has the gall to unsarcastically state, "That was easy."

One thing I find interesting about the Muffet fight, is it really challenges the player on what they think a game will remember. It makes the player stop and think. And potentially encourages the player to reset the game, after a simple google search reveals how necessary the spider bake sales items are. And one of the most memorable moments I first had playing the game, is when I accidentally killed Torial and immediately reset. . . Only to find the game remembered my mistake. Chills. This is a game MADE to be replayed, and this fight is potentially a taste of that.

I did just find the shark giants for the first time last week, so thank you for validating my pain

Final Fantasy X didn't had one, but 2 at once, Yenke and Biran the tough bullies that steal's Kimari's lunch money there's a few boss fights in the game that scale up the bosses according your whole party average level except Yenke and Biran are mini bosses, so they scale up to Khimari specifically, while you have to fight alone as him!

Tuffet: a cushioned chair with no back (if I remember right) Curds and whey: cottage cheese

Ah yes. I remember Luke's fight with the man-sharks from Bloodborne. They definitely earned their place.

Early on in Dragon's Dogma, ogres were the bane of my life - they hit hard, they're pretty fast, and when you injure them enough they can become enraged and just be even faster, with spinning punches and flying kicks and possibly picking you (or one of your Pawns) up and running off to a corner to have a savagely-painful munch. They get much easier once you've levelled up a way and got some skills and stuff, but considering they can be found in places accessible pretty early on in the game (and one needs passing as part of an early part of the Main Quest), you can probably expect some pain, even more so in the one or two locations where there are two of them together. And then on Bitterblack Isle (the location for the Dark Arisen expansion) you get elder ogres, who are much higher level and subsequently much, much tougher. And yet you never HAVE to kill them. They're just kind of...there. You can run around/away from them and avoid them if you want, as you can with all the other miniboss creatures (chimerae, cyclopses, etc). The final boss of the main game is a total pushover by comparison, and the one you fight a bit before that isn't hugely tough either, not unless you try to fight him at too low a level or something.

"this pastry loving spider is infamous for being a miniboss so tough..." me, who ate a spider doughnut in front of her: *laughs*

I love y’all. Every video that’s uploaded to this channel have not failed to make me atleast chuckle and I just love it

If anything, I'd have to suggest Galzus from Fire Emblem Thracia 776. If the player lingers for too long in a certain map where they have to escape, he'll appear to chase them down, and hot _damn_ is he well-equipped to hunt you down; uniquely having a stupidly high chance to move twice, he'll basically fly across the map and hit you with his double-attacking Meisterschwert, basically one-rounding any of your units unfortunate enough to be within swingin' range.

I don't know if it's a mini boss or just a boss but the valkyries are definitely much more difficult than normal bosses.I'm too scared to even try to beat the queen

19:05 “Huh nice! I won’t be doing that, no one can. I know I’ve just seen someone do it, but it can’t be done.”

I remember some of Final fantasy 7 Crisis core's enemies hitting like a truck and instantly! Like Why are you stronger than Sephiroth !?

It was very reassuring to hear I wasn't the only one who struggled with Muffet... Somehow she is still one of my favorite bosses though?? I was so sad to learn she was in fact a mini boss/patreon reward and wouldn't appear in deltarune :')

Pacifist Muffet is unironically my favorite fight in the game

I feel like Asterius from Hades could be a solid addition. I struggled a good bit with him only to have to fight him AND Perseus as the boss was quite a shock to me

"Are you still there, viewer? All I see is a middle finger in my face." 🤣

The Pursuer is an fantastic idea for a miniboss. Which you would know if you did a Dark Souls 2 souls academy :)

I feel like a real gamer now, because I liked Lynels by the end. They made me learn how to parry and dodge properly.

I actually got a mini boss if there’s a commenter edition. I don’t know if it’s a mini boss but it feels like one. Monica the Xenomorph( Alien Fireteam Elite ) This “mini” boss is found in the second of the first three levels. It’s a giant warrior-like xenomorph that charges around the rooms, trying to make you lunch. It always sneaks into vents and you always dread it to pop out of them(please also put this in the 7 bosses you dread the most, at least as an honourable mention.). It takes a lot of bullets, but you eventually defeat Monica at the end of the level.

3:38 You freaking killed me. 🤣 Thanks a lot, I needed that.

Does she know you can move horizontally during the Muffet Fight? Also I'm pretty sure you can actually hit her??

5:34 Point of order, Disney is extremely fond of IP theft, but only when THEY are doing it (See Kimba the White Lion for an example case.)

Fun analysis video! Thanks for uploading!

Best part is that LYNELS ARENT EVEN CONSIDERED MINIBOSSES, They get one shot by ancient arrows and don’t have a boss bar

Ellen always gets the spider parts in these videos. Be honest with us, Ellen, deep inside, you love spiders. As for my recommendation, Ancient Kaa the Soulless from Diablo 2's Act 2. He's not even an act boss, just a unique sub-boss randomly thrown into one of the 7 Tombs in the desert. Hard as nails, high-damaging and fills the place with electric blasts each time you strike him. Woe unto you if you're going in for close-combat.

The god forsaken fiends in Miitopia, they only have one move which automatically deals 999 damage to the target killing them instantly.

The first lynel I encountered was that one at the end of the bridge (that I have forgotten the name of). I was there for the memory, having just seen Impa for the first time. The thing is, though, that compared to the other enemies in the game, the lynels take a really long time to register your presence (or at least this one did this time). So when the ? that is the first indication that an enemy is about to spot you did not show up, my thought process was as follows: Friend? New friend? … Not new friend. NOT NEW FRIEND!!!

Camille Flage in Have a Nice Death is absolutely brutal, and harder than every boss in the game except the secret one

The Zora NPCs explicitly told you to not engage the Lionel. I happily obliged. He spotted me once and fired arrows at me and I legged it. AND THEN his freaking aerial arrows killed me from above!

"I know I've just seen someone do it, but it can't be done."

I can definitely agree with the Lynel section of the video; during my first ever playthrough of BotW, I didn't fight a Lynel until after the final boss. I literally just ran and hid every time there was even a hint of a Lynel in a 10-mile radius. But after I beat Calamity Ganon, I decided it was high time to finally fight one of those monsters and then made my way up Shatterback Point. It wasn't too difficult at that point; it was the weakest kind of Lynel and I had numerous powerful weapons, so it wasn't as nightmarish as it would've been at the start of the game. BUT THEN I decided to fight some other Lynels on the map....and every single one of them was a Silver Lynel. I cried

You know what's even worse than those minibosses? Invincible enemies.

Hell, most of the random demon fights in Dragon Age Inquisition are harder to beat than Corypheus himself.

I was a game tester on Star Wars: The Force Unleashed - testing it 7 days a week for 34 days (one day short of 5 weeks) at one point - on a variety of platforms, so it tends to come to mind a lot. I'm thinking of the Titan Class of enemies - big guys who can stomp the ground to hurt you and have a mini-boss finishing QuickTime. Rancors (the big beast under Jabba in Return Of The Jedi) are among these. One candidate for this list would be in the level where you first meet a Rancor, soon after you get a LARGE arena-like space with FOUR of them. Another candidate is the Junk Titan, a giant made of random junk cobbled together with the Force. His made-of-the-force nature gives him more flexibility. First time you meet him is in an arena shaped like a bowl with one side missing, if you aren't careful you can step off the edge, and there are high paths on each side, one quietly goes past the edge and it's easy to drop down the Death Drop instead of dropping down to fight him. Worse is when you fight the real boss - the Jedi who force constructs these guys - sometimes he runs off and in the middle of this boss fight you get this mini-boss. Another contender is Darth Maul. Or rather Proxy, your training droid who can morph into Jedis for you to fight, his last form is Darth Maul. SUPER cool to get this super intense epic fight, but he's a MINI-BOSS! The real boss of the level is pulling down a Star Destroyer while dodging TIE Fighters, which is tough and difficult enough itself that it was a rite of passage for us testers to complete, so yeah, Proxy is just a mini-boss.

The minecart-riding Hinox Bros from Zelda: Tri Force Heroes are worth an honourable mention. Mainly because there's always that one player who keeps getting the whole team blown up.

You could do this list entirely from Sekiro. The drunkards. The ninjas. The seven Ashina spears! Headless were the worst, if you ask me

There are so many amazing jokes in this video, I think is your best one yet

15:45 I think Ellen’s “Ah, crap.” neatly captions Samus’s expression there.

What I love is the implication that, without the middle finger in his face, Luke can see the viewers...

Neera Li from "Freedom Planet" was a bit tricky to fight in the Pangu Lagoon stage, and it's actually kinda humiliating being able to lose to her if you don't memorize her attack pattern right away.

Was playing Sekiro when I started watching and was 100% sure you were gonna mention O'Rin!!! Although I completely understand your reticence

9:40 Tuffet: A small grassy mound or clump of grass. Curds & Whey: Another way of saying "Milk & Cheese."

Ellie: "Spiders, Croissants and Donuts, two of those make me hungry. I'll never tell." I wonder which one DOESN'T make the arachnophobe hungry.

The lynals were kind of easy for me, but that's because of my tactic of "can't hit what ain't there". I'd stand a safe distance away avoiding attacks until it decides to charge, bayonetta dodge then flurry rush. Parry if needed then back off. Incidentally this made the pole arm ones the hardest.

In my beginnings at StarFox 64, team StarWolf was a pain regularly, and when I got to Venom via the Area 6 they came back upgraded to the teeth and massacrated me. Their ships in their rematch have the barrier roll to take less damage, know how to use the sumersault and have a second barrier to cancel homing blasts and bombs so is the hard way or nothing. Things get worse if your team shield meter is low because if one of your teammates falls the member of StarWolf who doesn't have a target now will go after you making it a 2 vs 1 and so on until the whole team is at your tail. They leave Andross as a walk in the park.

Raise a glass for the Anti-Sora from KH 1. For NOT being the Anti-Sora WE can turn into in KH 2. Because if so, then that thing would combo us until the sun went down and came back up again the very next day. Then we'd NEVER be able to defeat him.