10 IMPOSSIBLE Video Game Boss Fights (You Can Totally Beat)

The ancient art of video game tomfoolery knows no bounds. Since the early days of the first arcade releases, developers have been coming up with ways to screw with their unsuspecting players.

Quite often, this comes in the form of an unbeatable boss fight - a totally hopeless situation, usually right at the start of the game, where the under-levelled and under-experienced player is faced with a fight they simply cannot (and should not) win.

But what if you could?

Managing to pull off the impossible and defeat an enemy that the whole world tells you is unbeatable is an incredible feat, and deserves to be celebrated.

Gone are the days of lamenting over the game’s setup, demanding you fail in order to proceed. Middle finger to you, invincible boss, this time we've come prepared with 30 hours of mind-numbingly tedious grinding, countless consumables and powerful weapons, and it’s time for payback.

Don’t give up on these impossible boss fights so soon, my friends, because even though something seems impossible, there’s nothing you can’t accomplish when you put your mind to it - provided it doesn’t break the game, of course.

It is entirely possible, during the first forced encounter with the evil Lavos in the classic RPG Chrono Trigger, to earn yourself an odd alternative ending by defeating this seemingly undefeatable boss.

Encountering Lavos in the Ocean Palace sees you fight him with three times as much HP and significantly higher strength and speed stats. Unless you are facing it in NG+ on a second playthrough though, you're likely to get defeated pretty quickly, as intended.

However, get grinding, gather hundreds of tonics and ethers, and get ready to smash your face against Lavos for a good hour or so, because it is defeatable.

If your stats are high enough to survive the boss’ attack spam, you can gradually chip away at its health and bring down the big bad nice and early, skipping most of the game.

Completing this nets you a place among the "Dream Team".

Featuring rooms full of eccentric Square employees each with their own strange quirks and humorous conversations for you to interact with, it’s a lovely, fourth-wall-breaking easter egg that not many can say they’ve seen on a first playthrough.