Relive hours of misery with this list of the 100 hardest video game bosses
Boss battles are often the most memorable part of a video game. That’s usually because, when they’re good, they’re a sudden break from repetitive action, a huge change in pace that nonetheless puts all the skills you’ve been honing to the test. But sometimes they’re memorable because that test seems borderline impossible and all the time spent throwing yourself at it again and again and again is the digital equivalent of bashing your head against a rock. The fine folks at Vulture recently published a mammoth ranking of 100 boss battles that land on the latter side of that dichotomy, because sometimes you just want to think about these assholes and shake your fist in rage without actually throwing yourself into the emotional meat-grinder that is their actual boss fights.