15 Final Boss Battles That Almost Ruined Great Video Games
8. Shao Kahn - Mortal Kombat (2011)
One of the most infuriating bosses purposefully coded to annoy the living sh*t out of you, Shao Kahn's form in the 2011 soft reboot of Mortal Kombat needed to at least live up to his past incarnations when it came to pure cheap tactics.
Spamming moves over and over, locking you in animations so you'd only take damage, zipping across the battlefield and having every attack decimate your life bar, there's not a soul on earth who beat this guy first time. Not one.
The only way to win was figuring out which of your own moves could be repeatedly deployed in unison, thereby giving him a taste of his own medicine. Maybe there's a genius design decision in there somewhere, but until it's confirmed, I'm going with the notion that this was always meant to be annoying as hell.