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The most frustrating trial of David Bossa's YouTube career came earlier this year, as he was macheting his way through the lambent sprawl of Persona 5. That game's campaign is infamously long-winded, with heaps of incidental micro-episodes packed into Tokyo's sinuous alleyways. As the foremost archivist of video game boss fights, Bossa wasn't concerned by Haru's fractured familial relationships, or Ryuji's track meets, or Akechi's meddlesome inquiries. Instead, he was racing to document each of the game's 11 encounters on his YouTube channel for the day of its release, 4th April, 2017.That sounds harder than it looks. Persona 5's combat can be prickly, but it's not overly punishing. With a layman's grasp of its Pokemon-style network of weaknesses and resistances, most of the bosses will fall on the first or second attempt. Unfortunately for Bossa, there's also a secret encounter laying dormant towards the end of the New Game Plus module. His channel, Boss Fight Database, prides itself on being the definitive, no-shortcut source for all of a particular game's boss fights. And yes, that includes the fringe fan-service left in by Atlus to sate those crazy enough to play a 90-hour game twice.
"It's a mad dash to be the first guy to put the videos up. It's tough. I didn't see my friends for a week, all I was doing was playing that game. I beat it, and of course there's one secret boss, where you have to replay the game and make yourself strong enough to beat them," he laughs. "That was just soul-crushing."
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