Which is the hardest boss in Cave Story?

the terrain makes it so that you can sometimes block its shots if you're in the right position. It is one of the easier bosses honestly, especially since at that point you most likely have killer weapons.

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fireball is a really good option against the red deamon because the fireball doesn't get blocked bu rugged terrain, and the fire ball does ok damage at level 1

 

Even better option than the Fireball: the Snake. It doesn't get blocked by /any/ terrain, and is even more powerful at Level 1.

 

Even better option than the Fireball: the Snake. It doesn't get blocked by /any/ terrain, and is even more powerful at Level 1.

Even though the Snake is a powerful weapon, and overall the better choice for the battle, it has a pathetic range at Level 1. At least with the Fireball you can hit the Red Demon much easier at Level 1 even though it goes slow.

 

Just Spur him and he is dead. You can go kamikaze and annihilate him with missiles, too. Unless you get pretty damaged before the boss...

 

Don't worry, once you've battled the Red Demon a few times you'll understand how truly easy it is. Its pattern is extremely simple, and the terrain makes it so that you can sometimes block its shots if you're in the right position. It is one of the easier bosses honestly, especially since at that point you most likely have killer weapons.

What should I use? Nemesis, Machine Gun, Super Missile Launcher, Bubbler, or Fireball? I do not have the spur, as I didn't know you could get it when I traded for the Machine Gun.

 

What should I use? Nemesis, Machine Gun, Super Missile Launcher, Bubbler, or Fireball? I do not have the spur, as I didn't know you could get it when I traded for the Machine Gun.

If you're using the strategy that uses the terrain to block its shots, use the Fireball. If you're just trying to get it over with as soon as possible, I'd say both the Nemesis and Super Missile Launcher are good enough to take it down fast.

 

monster X was by far the most difficult in hard mode on the wiiware version ._. (never doing that again!) Then I went and did it taking no damage in normal mode -_- Although, I guess it's kinda easy in the original. What makes Ballos difficult is the fact that I'm usually really low health by the time I've started it curly was annoying on hard mode too, mostly because my weapons were never leveled up enough to do lots of damage...

 

Sometimes I try to imagine what Ironhead would be like if you had normal movement.

 

Such dodging
Much trouble

 

Definitely the core, but only if you don't have the spur.

 

I'm not sure why you felt the need to add that, seeing as it isn't possible through normal gameplay to fight the core with the Spur

 

He might mean undead core

 

Undead Core is practically a pushover with machine gun and King's blade if you use them right (though it's been since my first playthrough of the game that I've ever done that).

 

Definitely the core, but only if you don't have the spur.

you're talking about the undead one right?

 

I'd say that during my first playthrough of Cave Story the hardest boss to me was probably the undead core. Not because the fight against it was very difficult (actually quite easy, what with misery providing you with rockets and health galore) but everytime i came there since i wasn't good enough to fight the preceding 3 bosses without losing to much health i was always 2-3 hits away from death and sue almost always got me, plus i was using the machine gun, which isn't nearly as potent against the core/doctor/misery as the Spur (Im currently in the midst of trying to get through the sanctuary, so i haven't gotten past ballos' first form yet :/).

Edit- Granted, now that I can get past the misery and doctors first form battles taking relatively little damage its quite the pushover, kind of a tough one on what my hardest would be now, although the first form of ballos kicked my butt in the first 15 seconds of the fight, yknow what, scratch that, that robot you fight (forgot what its called) right before the ballos fight is the hardest >.<

 

monster x was the hardest boss I faced when first played the game he was the first one that drove me insane plus I didn't have any trouble when I faced core even without the booster 0.8 plus I got the best ending by mistake on my first time playing

 

Best ending by mistake? So you didn't really want to save the island, did you.

 

The Core is harder then Ballos.
Unless you got the Booster v0.8 or the Machine Gun, but I hate the Machine Gun and I think it's a terrible weapon.

 

The Machine Gun is a great weapon! How can you say it's terrible?

 

The Machine Gun isn't terrible for everyone; the experience is just different for each user, as with all other weapons. It's actually a lot easier battling bosses with the Machine Gun than the Snake, in my opinion. If I get the Booster v.8 I'd go for the Machine Gun too because that one isn't very good at precise navigation the way 2.0 is.