10 Infuriating Video Game Bosses That Made You Lower The Difficulty

9. Heavenly Sword: King Bohan

Ninja Theory's PlayStation 3 poster-child Heavenly Sword is absolutely caked in doom. Protagonist Nariko consigns herself to an early demise by using the titular and quite thoroughly cursed Heavenly Sword to fight for her dying clan, and the kingdom in which her remarkably well written conflict plays out is well into its death throes.

Fitting, then, that the game's final boss dooms the player to round after round of "pin the button-mashing on the Bohan." Heavenly Sword is at no shortage of questionable design decisions, but things are never more grating than in the game's finale. Your duel against King Bohan cobbles together the slow dodge function, shoddy camera and slipshod blocking into a veritable frustration buffet.

This becomes glaringly obvious on the highest difficulty setting€”for some reason not titled Just Shoot Your Own Foot€”and makes for the rare situation where lowering the difficulty can be done without an ounce of shame.

 
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A freelance games writer, you say? Typically battling his current RPG addiction and ceaseless perfectionism? A fan of horror but too big a sissy to play for more than a couple of hours? Spends far too much time on JRPGs and gets way too angry with card games? Well that doesn't sound anything like me.