10 Annoying Video Game Boss Fights Everyone Skips

10. Sephiroth - Kingdom Hearts

Square Enix took what should've been a thrilling blast of fan service and turned it into a nightmarish endurance trial with Kingdom Hearts' optional boss fight against Final Fantasy VII icon Sephiroth.

The Platinum Match at Olympus Coliseum sees Sora battle Sephiroth in a fight that truly separates the weekend warriors from the hardened veterans.

Sephiroth's attacks are powerful enough to take inattentive players out in record time, especially if you haven't got Second Chance equipped and can't negate his one-hit-kill attack Sin Harvest.

Defeat proved infinitely more irritating in the original PS2 version of the game where cutscenes couldn't be skipped, meaning you had to sit through the 45-second preamble cutscene every single time you wanted to try again.

There comes a tipping point where, after hammering at him for two or three hours, most players just give in and decide to sack Sephy off.

As neat as it was to see him in the game, the legend of his difficulty quickly became known enough that many players never even attempted it.