that fight was 10 minutes long and I was getting increasingly close to death every shot, even though I was dodging most hits, not because of the actual damage but because of the undodgeable max health zapping beam that got rid of 75% of my max health over those 10 minutes

and so what I felt at the end wasn't excitement, wasn't joy, it was... surprise, because the mechanics of that fight made it really hard to win even with a build that (by the end) felt like it should. the fight was way too long, and the overall feeling I got throughout was demotivation, because...

that beam zapping your max health you can't do anything about makes it feel like you need a very specific type of scaling and fuck you if you weren't lucky enough to get that in your build

the intangiball making it so that even when you have scaling, fuck you, you didn't hit enough purples in the first phase and you couldn't get the orb to clear that one big peg, you're limited

the pits of fire that also kill your max health unless you can get rid of their big peg (and, with the gift that keeps on giving, good luck doing that without getting rid of the black hole big peg first)

the darcness you apply sloughing off every turn, the big pegs coming back after a few turns...

I enjoy difficulty in my games sometimes, but it needs to balance between frustration and fun, and... this boss just tips the scales way too hard to the frustration side :c