10 Frustrating Video Game Boss Battles You Forgot You Hated

5. Bongo Bongo - Ocarina Of Time

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Oh, if only the remastered version of Ocarina was the version thousands grew up with, you'd be able to hold it aloft as one of the Greatest Games of All Time without resorting to "..ah, but that Water Temple though..."

Well, alongside this regularly-hated lowpoint is the Shadow Temple boss Bongo Bongo, a very strange-looking creature you fight atop a drumskin, with him being comprised of a withering torso, a giant Resident Evil-style eye and a couple of hands that liberally thwack you off at a moment's notice... every 10 seconds.

The trick to beating him was realising you needed to employ a combo of the Hover Boots and your bow n' arrow, the latter requiring some very specific timing to counter his attacks before they got too close. Everyone complains about Ocarina's Water Temple, but it's Bongo Bongo's oversized hulking mess of cheap-shots and annoying camera-manipulation that's just as bad.

 
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