5 Hardest Optional Gaming Bosses That Are NOT Worth The Trouble
You'll definitely have a bad time with these bosses, and you won't even get anything out of it.
An optional boss is a boss fight where you don't really need to encounter it - and in some cases may never encounter it if you don't know it's there - in order to beat the game. You can get from start to finish, see the true ending of the game, without ever needing to fight these bosses.
And sometimes that's for the best.
While most optional bosses will give you lots of goodies, whether they be experience points or equipment, some don't feel the need to give you either. Or if they do, what they give you is insufficient compared to the hoops you had to jump through in order to get to this point.
Optional bosses can be lots of fun and great challenges for the player. But these are not those cases. These are the super hard optional challenges that either aren't worth the preparation needed to get there, or have some kind of stipulation holding them back from actually being worth it.
Everyone loves a good challenge, but only so long as they get something out of the bargain. These bosses don't give you that.
5. Red (Pokemon Gold And Silver)
When Pokemon's second game, Gold And Silver, first hit the scene, pretty much no one was expecting to find the entire region from the first game hidden inside the game's code, which you could explore from top to bottom once you completed the main story. And as if that weren't enough, once you got yourself strong enough, climbing up some mountains brought you face to face with the one, the only, YOU. Or at least, the you from the previous game.
Yes, Trainer Red seemingly has nothing better to do than to sit at the top of mountains waiting for challengers, so he doesn't even say a word to you before pulling out his max level Pokemon to square up.
The fight is hard, even by Pokemon standards. Again, you are fighting the hardest enemy in the game, with the best team in the game besides yours (if you want to have any hope of winning). The only problem is that it is the quintessential bragging rights boss fight. It being the literal final challenge before you basically have nothing left to do in this game, it doesn't even give you anything.
Red doesn't even say anything after you beat him. Just three little dots, presumably accompanied by him tapping his foot waiting for you to get off his mountain. Man has a pizza on the way and he is NOT sharing.