The one that comes to mind for me is Sigrun from God of War 2018. So close so many times, probably 80-100 deaths. Even on lower difficulties she’s a lm absolute beast.
I beat sigrun on the hardest difficulty and it still didn’t take me as long as some of the bosses in sekiro lol.
First playthrough Armored core 6, Balteus. The difficulty jump just catches you completely off guard, the other times you gave him after in 2nd and 3rd playthroughs he becomes a breeze.
Sepheroth FF7
Probably on of Ganons little things inside all the divine beasts in botw but the electric one was weirdly hard and on top of that I rage quit the divine beast itself multiple times
Morgana in Mageseeker. I died SO MANY TIMES that I lost track. I got so fed up that I decided to turn enemy damage down just to give myself more margin for error.
Malenia, Blade of Miquella.
Jad from runescape, i mean i died on waves as well but, god going through like 100 waves and one miss-click and its all over.
Sword Saint Isshin. 1 week fighting him on and off
Ninja gaiden(2004), Alma. She kicked my ass at first. I left and played other games. 3yrs later, i came back and was able to beat her
Great Grey Wolf Sif in Dark Souls 1.
I didn’t know he wasn’t meant to be beaten at the start of the game, so I basically tried to kill him at level 15-20 I think.
Took me forever. Let’s just say I felt dumb when waaaay later down the line the game tells me “go kill Sif now”. But the benefit of all this is that I practiacally first tried everything afterwards. I was a BEAST !!
Bruh the entire Yoshi island on ds… that’s quite difficult even for me rn… now as a kid i somehow beat it once and yet i somehow got it reset on the last level and continued playing thinking that the game continued. but kami / helicopter level *idk what lvl it is* it takes forever and is extremely difficult. as a kid and i forget how it played only that i kept dying
I think the first time fighting Ornstein and Smough was awful! Manus a close second!
O&S took me a solid 2 weeks to beat, but it was the greatest high I felt in any video game ever. Nothing came close to that feeling til this day.
Rainbow Moon:
Nefarious I had to physically go to GameStop and buy inventory slots to kick this ass!
To this day I am still yet to get through the monster hunter character creation. That boss is just too strong.
Yea Sigmund was a pain. Over 1000 runs on her I only beat her cause of an exploit (I died when she was one hit but my revive stone aoe killed her so not even a legit kill if you ask me)