Vanquish, Challenge Mode, Challenge 6.
Each Challenge comes in five waves.
Wave 1: About a dozen mooks and a melee boss. Not so bad if you don't freak out at fighting the CRYSTAL VIPER.
Wave 2: Dozen mooks, dozen helibots (thehse bastards are murder unless you kill them in the air), and an early game boss. Uh, shit. This particular boss is hard. Oh well! Not too insane, really.
Wave 3: Half dozen mooks, two drill giants, one flamethrower giant, one standard giant, and one missile giant. Shit! If you don't know what you're doing, this fight will annihilate you. Luckily you have the blade shooter right near your spawn point, and careful grenade timing gets rid of the mooks right off the bat...
Wave 4: Eight or ten gliding blue mooks with shotguns (shit) and two flying gatling platforms (SHIT). Oh, wait, that's not all, you also have to fight two of the boss-fight level cat transformer robots who have as much health as any boss. SHIIIIIIIIIIIIT! Ironically this is one of the easier waves if you know how to dashh-cancel, but the sheer fear factor of this fight can't be underestimated, and if you don't kill those gatling platforms then you are going to die horribly.
Wave 5: One dozen rolly robots.
Wait, what!?
They never make you fight more than three of these things in the campaign! They're extremely durable when moving, murderously powerful when standing still, and can move around in ways that no other enemy in the game can! Who's diea of a joke was this?
Oh right, and you also fight THE FINAL BOSS FIGHT, against two bosses, only they're faster, use their attacks more often, do more damage, and hate you more. When you kill one of them, the other goes absolutely bugshit, speed being cranked up to an extreme so high that the only way to hit them without AR mode is the lock-on laser. In the campaign you're given a boost to match, but in this fight? You're on your own, bitch.
All five waves must be completed in succession. No checkpoints. You die, you start over from the beginning.
THe final wave alone is a fifteen-minute gauntlet of dodging and shooting and fleeing and screaming.
Beating it was the most satisfying thing I've ever done in a game.
Deaths: about 35
Wins: 1
