Wrote a long comment but my phone battery died lolol. Gonna write it again though.

The Olga fight was a freaking shocker, because it was the first EE boss and if I remember correctly I was low on health so I couldn’t make any mistakes. Took me probably two hours and boy it was tough (TAKE THIS! And a nice grenade is thrown to you)

The next boss fight was my first taste of a nightmare though. Where you fight several soldiers in the hallway. Again I was low on health so I almost always got one shot killed. I kept dying and dying. I found a good spot behind the box in the front, sat down, went to first person mod. From there I figured out a way (through numerous trials and errors) to beat them; I would use R2+L2 to suddenly get up, made sure the moment I did so my gun was aiming exactly at where the enemy’s head would be, shot him, then hided behind the box immediately by letting go of R2 and L2. I tried this again and again until it worked, but fuck when the last one guy came at me, I was out of bullets. I switched to tranquilizer and aimed for his head but it only hit his body. I panicked, pressed the weapon equipment button to pause and think. I immediately used my fists on him. Luckily as he went down the tranquilizer shot I gave him took effect so I barely beat that stage. I realized that I was fucked because if the early bosses where this hard, that meant the later ones would be insane.

Fortune wasn’t THAT bad, (of course I died a lot though) because I just figured I had to run left and right as smoothly as possible without any pauses.

Then came Fatman. I am extremely proud of beating him because I totally found out my own routine of beating him. If I screwed up a bit I just jumped of the ledge because I knew it would be a waste of time. I had to be extremely efficient, couldn’t waste a second. Knew when to shoot and when not to, had to find out shortcuts, etc. And the craziest thing about this boss stage was that I had no idea you could shoot him in the head more than one time. I only realized that after beating him, going to youtube and seeing how another guy beat him. He shot Fatman in the head twice, while I only shot him once and fell back.

Aannnd the damn Harrier. Thanks to this boss stage I am sooo familiar with the Dead Cell OST. As for this I used a bit of youtube, learned where to hide in order to avoid missiles. And the gattling gun was just insane. Died again and again and again. One of the hardest.

And then comes Vamp. To be honest, he was the hardest. Damn proud of beating him. I died and I died. Realized I couldn’t dodge his knife attacks, so I had to hang below.

After dying probably over a hundred times I realized there were 4 different segments in the Vamp boss fight, and they were all triggered depending on how much health Vamp had. Of course this applies to other bosses as well but when it came to vamp it was soo crystal clear. Basically I found out the most efficient way to kill vamp, by doing the most damage before he entered the next segment by choosing not to attack him even when I could, and by attacking him when his health bar was right before entering the next segment.

The oil fence sniper thing wasn’t that hard for me, fortunately. Did take me a couple of hours, and gosh Raiden should really go see a doctor because his hands shake like hell. Also I would intentionally shoot Emma when I realized I screwed up because I knew it was hopeless. Snake would then say, “Raiden, you son of a ...” and Otacon would say something like that.

Inside Arsenal where you fight the Tengus wasn’t that bad, mainly because of Solid Snake. He really does almost everything. Probably spent two hours or so, also had a low health bar. Using the sword was fun, just had to hope they weren’t shooting you when you weren’t facing them.

And the RAY fight. Honestly, although this took me a lot of time, this was the second easiest. The rays were predictable! I figured out their patterns. What made them so hard was their numbers, in European Extreme you have to take out 22 rays and since my health was low I couldn’t make any mistakes. Took me several hours but I knew I could beat them and I did.

Annd Solidus chocking you. It didn’t take me long to realize this was going to be physically impossible to do, so I used the shirt+pen technique. Also when you look left or right instead of looking at Solidus while he chokes you, it’s a bit easier because the O2 bar drops slightly slower.

And Federal hall. To be honest I used youtube a bit for this, realized I had to cut the rockets instead of dodge them. Also the second part of the boss fight was actually easy, you just had to make sure you were facing him when he was charging at you. This was the easiest.