These perilous Nintendo 64 boss bouts surely created a great deal of difficulty for players.
When it comes to high-pressure adrenaline-fueled action in gaming, nothing beats a meaningful boss fight. When you come face to face with the big monster lurking at the end of the level, you may experience sweaty palms, clumsy fingers, and disordered thinking. And when that boss is unusually tough to bring down, it can lead to considerable frustration.
There are numerous memorable boss battles in the Nintendo 64 canon, and the toughest of the tough rate among the most agonizing of all time. Back in the day, these bosses were enough to make a player give up hope, take the cartridge out with the system turned on, and potentially even return it to the Toys R Us from which it came.
Wizpig – Diddy Kong Racing
Diddy Kong Racing’s big evil, Wizpig, is perhaps the most notoriously painful Nintendo 64 boss fight of all time. The first race against him is in a kart, with trees falling all over the place and the shady pig magician even cheating for a head start. The second race is in the difficult-to-control plane, and it is more difficult in every manner.
Without knowing that they can release the A button when hitting a boost pad to obtain an extra burst of speed, players may not be able to defeat this boss. Even knowing this small secret is only enough to bring him down if they execute a nearly flawless run. This game is slowly becoming a forgotten gem, but anyone who played it long enough to reach this nightmare hasn’t forgotten.
Boba Fett – Star Wars: Shadows Of The Empire
Shadows of the Empire is a notoriously challenging game, which has been a source of criticism for an otherwise well-received Star Wars title. The complexity may appeal to some, but even the most masochistic fan must concede that the Boba Fett combat is simply unfair.
Learning how to find the bounty hunter and escape his attacks while landing some on him is extremely difficult, but even after killing him, he pulls one of the dirtiest tricks in the boss battle playbook and summons Slave 1 for another round of agonizing combat.
Ganon – The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time
It’s critical for every fantastic and tough game to avoid leaving gamers with a sense of anticlimax with their last boss battle. Given that Ocarina of Time is a legendary amazing and tough game, it goes without saying that its final boss is far from underwhelming.
Ganon is usually an amazing antagonist, and in this case, he’s also an annoyance. His first form isn’t particularly frightening, but when the Master Sword is knocked away and the Demon King approaches, things might turn hazardous.
Hard Mode Andross – Star Fox 64
While the route to a boss fight should generally not be regarded a component of the fight itself in most cases, Star Fox 64 is an exception where that is simply the irrefutable truth. Players in this game must complete certain goals to control their trajectory over the game map in order to experience its harshest difficulty, rather than switching between difficulty settings to reach a bigger challenge. One incorrect move and the course is altered, resulting in no Hard Mode Andross.
Aside from the long path, Andross himself is extremely difficult to vanquish once he’s arrived. The conflict begins on a perilous path through a temple that has the potential to steal the player’s valuable upgrades in the blink of an eye. Then, once you’ve reached the giant-faced creep, things don’t get much easier. Coming out on top in this one is almost as satisfying as it is exciting.
The Beastector – Mischief Makers
Mischief Makers is a game that is both underappreciated and extremely difficult. There are multiple bosses in this game that can drive a player insane, but the final battle involves almost all of them, thus it’s safe to say it’s the most difficult.
The Beastector is a Megazord-style robot that does not fight evil, but rather is evil. Avoiding injury may seem difficult at first, and it almost is, but with enough determination, gamers will eventually find themselves gripping his foot and shaking him into oblivion.
King Krusha K. Rool – Donkey Kong 64
Some bosses present a challenge by launching an absurd number of strikes at the player, while others make finding out how to hit them an incomprehensible conundrum, and yet others, like King Krusha K. Rool of Donkey Kong 64, provide a challenge by taking an eternity to defeat and being timed.
This is an extremely long boss encounter, and to add to the frustration, if the player loses at all, they must restart from the beginning. This vexing flaw is fitting, because despite the fact that this Expansion Pak-packed title is beloved among Nintendo 64 players. It’s also known for its excruciating amount of backtracking.
Bowser – Super Mario 64
Exceptional hand-eye coordination may help any player in a variety of circumstances, but it’s never more vital than in Super Mario 64’s final showdown with Bowser. The fight is fairly simple, as it is almost identical to the other times players must battle him throughout Eggy Car, but things become far more difficult when the stage breaks down into the shape of a Power Star, making tossing King Koopa into the conveniently placed spiky mines something of a nightmare.
Those with amazing aim and an exceptional knowledge of the strange camera angles provided by this game may find this combat rather simple, but it can be perilous for everyone else. It’s one of the most iconic Mario battles ever.
Mizar – Jet Force Gemini
This boss battle might have been a recreation of Bowser in Super Mario Bros. for the NES, and Jet Force Gemini would still be considered one of the most difficult Nintendo 64 games ever developed. That is not the case, though, because it is quite difficult.
Mizar adopts the typical boss approach of unleashing a seemingly inevitable onslaught of assaults that drain an insane amount of damage with a single hit, and adds the nightmare of not allowing players to collect extra health or ammo. Any player who defeats this demon deserves a collectible Nintendo ribbon.