Final Fantasy: 15 Most Brutal Boss Battles

15. Demon's Gate (FFVII)

The Temple of the Ancients' bouncer is by no means the hardest boss in the whole of Final Fantasy VII, but it's one that caught many a complacent Strifer totally off-guard.

After a dungeon that was as much a pain in the arse as a stiff wooden chair is to a haemmorhoids sufferer, being floored by a, well, wall, was utterly infuriating. Not to mention embarrassing. Who gets killed by a wall, really?

Pretty much everybody, it turns out, as countless FFVII first-timers fell at this suddenly much higher hurdle (or gate, if you will). Following a fairly straightforward run through the game's opening disc, Demon's Gate is a firm boot up the backside for any under-levelled party coasting along, asking them to throw all balls to the devilish wall lest it crush them - quite literally.

Final Fantasy players with a longer memory rightly lamented - the Demon Wall had previously appeared in Final Fantasy IV, and was just as annoying.

Cactaur Needles O' Pain: 10