Is Malenia the hardest boss in video game history?
Elden Ring is filled with some of the toughest bosses you will ever have the misfortune of facing in any video game. However, it appears to have been firmly decided upon at this point that Malenia is the toughest of them all, ranking her right up there with the hardest boss fights in gaming history.
The list is unsurprisingly topped by the infamously difficult Elden Ring boss Malenia, whose encounter was attempted some 329 million times, thus accounting for 5.5% of all in-game boss fights the players initiated to date.
Short answer: Sekiro, which may prove to be one of the most challenging games ever made. Don't just take our word for it—Forbes, Digital Spy, Gamespot and a bevy of other publications agree: Sekiro is harder than any of the Dark Souls games and Bloodborne .
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The Bloodhound's Step Ash of War is ridiculously good against Malenia as it lets players phase through her rapid moveset with ease, including the dreaded Waterfowl Dance. It's well worth respeccing to use this Ash of War when having a lot of trouble against this boss.
Yet another Elden Ring player has claimed victory against Malenia, this time only being at Level 1 and finishing her off with an Ash of War. An Elden Ring player managed to defeat the infamous Malenia, Blade of Miquella at a mere Level 1 thanks to the Lion's Claw Ash of War attack.
As GamesRadar+ reports, one player has now put everyone else to shame by beating Malenia in NG+7 (which makes her way stronger than usual) in a world-record breaking 15.7 seconds.
According to HLTB, the crown for longest overall video game belongs to Melvor Idle, a Runescape-inspired idle/incremental game with an estimated playtime of 3,126 hours. On the other end of the spectrum lies Trivia Vault: Super Heroes Trivia with an estimated playtime of 1 minute and 12 seconds.
“We never aimed to make it super hard,” Moldenhauer told Variety in a recent interview. “It was just that we kind of wanted to keep the action intense and that was sort of the way that it came out.” Moldenhauer sees the perceived difficulty of being more a byproduct of player habits.
Sekiro is harder than Cuphead! How is it possible everybody on this discussion group has beaten this game? This game is harder than Cuphead and everyone cried how hard that game was! At least 75% of people can't beat Sekiro!
The game becomes a lot easier for the player if they make good use of Spirits, but that doesn't quite drop it beneath DS2's difficulty. Dark Souls 2's overall difficulty is still lower than Elden Ring's thanks to its simple, slow enemies, and Elden Ring's toughest fights take cues from the Fume Knight.
God of War Ragnarök is a long and challenging game, no matter what difficulty option you choose. There are a wide variety of different challenges to complete, optional side-missions and goodies to collect.
