10 Hardest First Bosses In Video Games

The Witcher 2's first boss is The Kayran, a gigantic, water-dwelling tentacled creature, which for a first boss poses quite the indecent, even irritating challenge.

For starters, its tentacles are capable of killing you with just a few hits, especially on higher difficulties and also if you haven't chugged the Mongoose potion which will protect you from the Kayran's venomous mucous.

Even though the game makes it clear that you need to destroy four of the creature's six tentacles, it's easier said than done given the speed with which it can hit you or throw rocks at you.

The key to victory involves trapping the four rear tentacles with the magic sign Yrden and then hacking away at them, but the sheer chaos of it all makes it decidedly trickier than it looks.

Given that some players may have stumbled into the fight under-leveled and without any clue of what they were doing, it's little surprise that many were left stumped on it for a good while.