What vidya difficulty spike haunted your childhood
This fight is really not that hard and I'm not actually convinced you can lose unless you're retarded.
dragon is harder
I thought Dragon Maleficent was the newb filter
>>744700637There was this boss fight in an Action Man game with some big mutant plant that was so much harder than the rest of the game it almost made me quit forever.
>>744700637If you chose the shield, you will have Second Chance by this point no doubt.Even if you don't have Guard, Riku 2 has a strange loop that is perfectly synced to the first parryAfter the parry, you can attack again, and then next attack he does will almost always be the start of his regular combo, which will be parried by your next hit.Unlike Riku 1, Combo Plus does work here! Go to the corner of the computer when he does Dark rushAlso obviously have as much dark resistance as possible, not that it's really necessary because even in lv1 crit he cannot deal enough damage in one hit to kill you. So yeah, this fight is a lot easier than you may remember. Maleficent 2 is honestly a much harder fight. And the fight before Final Rest (Linked Worlds) is sooo much worse.
>>744701402lv1 proud* keep forgetting
Unironically BoatSem because I was a skillful retard that never grinded so I didn't have the stats to tank him, and would just replay KH instead of grinding Hades cup. I also didn't knew Aero actually halved damage until I saw my neighbor beat the game years later.
>>744700637I'll be honest, Dragon Maleficent was worse for me. Then years later, I learned you spam gravity and stop to cheese her.
>>744701156>>744701203>>744701632i beat dragon on my first try as a 6 year old. The problem with the riku-ansem boss fight as we all know is the unskippable 2 and a half minute cut scene that plays before the fight.
>>744700637It took me until the 360 re-release of Sonic Adventure in my teenage years to finally clear sonic adventure because of Big the Fucking cat. Kid me couldn't figure out the fishing controls.
>>744701697my first playthrough was on proud
>>744700637Bitch if you used the olympia like a dumbass, you deserved it.
NES Ninja Gaiden final boss. The joy of getting a new game was never the same afterwards. W-what it's fucken bullshit at the end like Ninja Gaiden.
>>744700637This entire fucking game
*blocks your path*
>>744700637I remember dying a lot to demon riku, I think I was underleveled though, coming back after 20 years I beat him easily on my first try.
>>744700637i literally could not time the rocket as a kid and always noclipped into him
>>744701402You needed counterattack equipped along with a keyblade with at least SOME reach to it, but yes. Both Riku fights are an instant win if you just mindlessly swing at him.
>>744700637to be honest, I don't think it was that difficult, I think the problem was watching that unskippable cutscene every damn time. Like a mix between frustration with waiting, and losing that warm up, that's what did it.
>>744700637Honestly I think the worst part about this boss is - not the boss itself but what happens after defeating the boss, because many enemies in previous worlds become stronger and in olympus arena fights... even what is supposed to be the easier fights and also the timed fights.
>>744701402>If you chose the shield, you will have Second Chance by this point no doubt.I was in my low 30s when I was at the end of Hollow Bastion, because I chose slow early leveling.
>>744701156>>744701203weird, I found the dragon fight super easy
This haunted my childhood, it's the most terrifying thing Nintendo ever put in a kid's game
>>744702053Seriously, the difficulty spike was insane, even on normal mode back in the day.
>>744700637Spam arc raid
>>744702239>Spongebob and Patrick going down a kiddy rollercoaster and screaming.png
>>744700637I swear I remember not beating this fight until sometime after I got KH2, but I was also a weird kid who would grind in Traverse Town despite the exp being shit by that point.
honestly the boss made me get good at video games
>>744702129Every time I've I've played this on original ps2 I always chose dawn and shield in my testing for low level runs. And I reach Dark Riku 2 by Level 39 (I've tried to go lower but without exp zero I don't see much better than maybe 38), which means I already have Leaf Veil, second Chance and Sliding Dash.Leafveil and Second chance basically makes you immortal and it will be incredibly hard for enemies to actually kill you at this point as long as you do not flub menu inputs when selecting Ethers. But now I'm curious how low it would actually be if you chose like disk or midday. I feel like it would only be the difference of maybe 34-36 but it is a good question I need to test.
>>744700637I couldn't beat this fight cause my game kept crashing cause my disk had a lot of scratches.
>>744702507ps2 final fix*
>>744702501I don't think final bosses can really count as difficulty spikes
>>744702608but the difficulty did spike so there we go
I was so bad at WC3 that the March of the Scourge and Culling of Stratholme campaigns convinced me that I needed to use cheat codes for the rest of the missions, especially invincibility. Took me a long time before I ran the campaign on Normal and later for Hard.
>>744701697Lead me into everlasting DARKNESS!
>>744700637Every new The Lion King level.
>>744700637>haunted by a video gameYou people make me irrationally angry.
>Paper Mario 64>beginning of chapter 3 where you have to get to Bow's mansion>one part of forest has you go towards a dead end and one takes you to the actual objective>for some reason as a kid I hard wired the dead end route into my head and couldn't figure out where to go for the life of me>literally stuck like this for a year so I'd just replay the beginning parts>one day just randomly go a different way>it fucking worksWorst part is I later got a strategy guide that guides you towards the dead end route. I thought something was wrong with my game and read ahead and spoiled the game for myself.
>>744702954>this game changed me>this game RAPED me
