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14 Best (& Hardest) Boss Battles Of 2019

Jan 4, 2020 Kevin Thielenhaus

Get pumped. We couldn't contain our list of best bosses of 2019 to just 10. Here's the 14 most memorable bosses of the year!

The Matriarch (Gears 5)

Maybe this Gears 5 fight doesn’t belong anywhere near a ‘Best’ list, but the Matriarch battle is one of the most memorable of the year for me. As a challenge, it’s been lambasted and praised by the community — but it is a new twist on the old Berserker boss formula. The Matriach is a super-berserker, blind and insane, ready to kill the player in a single charge whenever it hears a sound.

To defeat it, you’ll have to lure the Matriarch onto thin ice, then shoot the ice drop the Matriarch into the freezing water below. While iced-up, you’ll be able to deal direct damage to the Matriarch — until the ice-effect wears off. Essentially, you have to play Marco Polo with a rage-beast, and trick it into tripping into a puddle of water. It’s also weirdly difficult — like, instadeath can happen at any minute. So it gets a call-out on my list.


The Impossible Lair (Yooka-Laylee and the Imposible Lair)

This one might be a cheat, but I couldn’t help it. Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair’s titular lair, the final level of the game, is suitably impossible. For a game made for children, this last level is a true platforming challenge. You’ll need all the extra lives provided by completing levels to reach the end — even with all of them, those extra lives are more useful as a training aid so you can slowly get further and further into the lair.

You’ll need 40+ lives just to make progress. Yes, this level can easily kill you over 40 times in a single run. And I’m not even talking about the multiple boss fights between each area — all of which have no checkpoints. For a casual player, this level might just be impossible.


Check out even more of the best boss battles on the next page.

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