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For me it will be the fire/electric worms, Spirit Doku, Vigoor Emperor first form, Military Base and the Zarkhan moat stage.

Fire/electric worms for sure.

Black counts?

Yes, though I have not tried out Black myself.

TANKS AND HELICOPTERS!

as for stages, the ghost fish labyrinth is pretty annoying

@Camel with 2 thumbs Yeah the tanks and helicopters too, but that was the result of being forced to use the bow as the only weapon against them, which is what the military base stage suffers from (Frequent usage of the bow). In addition, I hate the entire warehouse sequence.

Vigoor Emperor 1st form & 2nd form, Fiendish Awakening, Moat of Zarkhan and Vengeful Spirit.

Honourable mentions: Fossilized Dinosaur, the large worms, anything that required a bow & arrow to destroy it, and The Core are all pretty unfun or annoying. Fuck the ghost fish.

Tanks, Helicopter and Ghost Doku.

Ok... As far as i'm aware, boss having minions to support them is a black thing, and with that in mind, and since my MN playthrough of NGB is still fresh, is time to rant!

Bosses that i think don't work well.
- Fatty from Chapter 3, having soldiers shooting you in this fight makes a fight that is otherwise a joke, something completely unfun, since you basically have no safe way to deal with the soldiers, and ignoring them is also problematic.

-Alma 1 sucks because of the camera in the fight, otherwise, the boss works really well even with enemies on screen. Awakened Alma while solves the camera problems mostly, gets her own sets of new problems, stunning her is even less consistent, or getting damage.

Holy Vigoor Emperor both forms suck, the first one because of the weird controls, and form 2 because you basically dump all your ammunition into the boss. I don't enjoy Fiend Murai either, but is more personal, i don't see a real problem with him

Tank boss and Helicopter boss are annoying, but in the end i don't hate them as much. As for stages in general, i hate chapter 12 and 13, the lava puzzles are not fun. And while i LOVE nicchae, ishtaros and Marbus as individual boss fights, having to fight them in a single gauntlet is something i don't enjoy.

Berserkers are not fun enemies to fight against, neither are the dinosaurs that much, Chapter 7 puts you in long sections before saving, more than any chapter in the game, i don't like that either, but besides that, i don't have more grudges.

Ghost fish are just a weird way to gather resources, Both doku fights are pretty straight foward, Murai 1 is awesome, the skeleton boss dinosaurs are meh, so is smaugan, and the minibosses are ok.

Yo, fuck the ghost fish. They ruined my dragon sword-only run for NGB l0l

NG Sigma, NG2 and NG Sigma 2 all have minions during boss fights on all difficulties aside from the default, so I wouldn't say it's "a black thing."

@Project Bokuho yeah I remember that part being a pain during my ds only run, at that point you just pray you can get enough ninpo to make it through that level.

If u REALLY want a challenge though, u do wooden sword only run. I tried it and gave up by chapter 4

I mean, is a black thing compared to vanilla only.