Honestly, this is a tough one for me because there's so many ways a game can be hard. I think it's either both Devil May Cry or Devil May Cry 3 on Dante Must Die mode, or MegaMan X6 or any of the MegaMan Zero titles.
I think I should also mention Five Nights At Freddy's games, not because the actual difficulty is an obstacle, but rather they're just so scary that picking up and playing them is difficult lol!
Ahh I must admit I only really play the family friendly games. I will say that Simpsons hit and run was hard when I was little though, especially when going for 100%, had to retry those missions I had skipped and you can’t even skip the last 3 missions which were so stressful at the time. So it was an achievement just completing the game in general.
Again, going on a 100% basis, Mario odyssey was hard in that respect. I mean that jump rope challenge I have to use a glitch and cheat for that (highest count was like 70 though) and I also struggle with the sinking colossal ruins and Yoshi on the sinking island power moons but I manage to get them. The worst power moon for me was breakdown road final challenge. You have to hop from one block to another with perfect long jumps, if you miss the jump, you lose ten coins and retry. Took me over 30 attempts but when I went back on another play through it took me like five lol!
Hahah, only Masahiro Sakurai can make hyper violent games with bloodless carnage and cute puffballs slamming each other around with massive deadly explosions! Honestly, I love his games! Smash Bros, Kirby, Kid Icarus: Uprising! Sadly, Kirby Superstar on the SNES Classic is the only Kirby game I actually own (the others I've played were pirated on emulators and flash carts)
I think the game that's made me cry the most is probably Final Fantasy 10! I love the game, but the story gets super depressing with it's existential themes. I still bawl at the ending!
Thanks for the tips if I ever do play the Zelda games. Say I get upset when I play paper Mario tok or ttyd and they are meant to be light hearted! They are fantastic games in my opinion but omg I don’t half cry at some bits. I won’t say anything if you haven’t played but if you have played you might guess what I find sad.
My mum mentioned a game franchise that she thought looked good but I said I’m not interested because it was rated a 12. Saying that Kirby air riders is apparently a 12 in Germany and here I am playing my little round cuties lololo and lalala (I keep wanting to call them fololo and falala from the anime). As I said I only have it in for other franchises because I got bullied for playing smash so yeah, yet Simpsons hit and run has running over, explosions and everything!
That's interesting! I honestly wish I got my hands on more Gamecube titles while I had the chances! Mostly Smash Melee and Star Fox Assault, maybe Metroid Prime and Wind Waker too.
Pretty curious about Eternal Darkness as well. I've heard that game has some insane 4th wall breaking sequences including fake blue screens of death and save file erasures!
The 3D ones do have some tricky puzzles, but there's a trick that you can use that never fails; check you map and make sure you've basically ransacked any rooms you've come across for anything they have. If there's a key you need in order to do that and you don't have one on you, go to another room you haven't emptied and ransack that one for everything and if you come across a key there, go back to the other room to continue ransacking that one! Keep that in mind, and you'll never be stuck!
I can understand not wanting to play the 3D games though, since you don't like games with darker themes. You might enjoy Wind Waker, that's got a more family friendly cartoony cel shaded look to it while still having the gameplay of the other 3D titles.
Ahh ok, I think I know the cartoony ones, they do look very cute indeed. Yeah probably not sure about the 3d ones, they look quite hard for me and I might get bored of them more easily.
I remember seeing double dash go for £37 about eight years ago
Looking on eBay they seem to average about £20 for Mario Cart double dash or £40 for Paper Mario (I assume this is TTYD).
The games console with a power supply is typically about £40 upwards based on how many accessories / games come with it.
There are two veins of Zelda games now, the more simplified/cartoon style ones and the 3d ones. I think you might like the former, but I don't think you would like the latter so much?
I haven’t looked into the GameCube console itself so I might do that. But when I googled the games, I saw the original ttyd go for over £1000, no joke! I remember seeing double dash go for £37 about eight years ago but they seem to be in the hundred zones now. I guess my only hope is that they come to NSO. Though I can’t see ttyd coming to NSO if they have a remake haha! I’m coming up to the train level which is one of my favourites (possibly my favourite). But the remake defo has more emotion, especially with Tec!
I’ve never played Zelda games, not sure if they are for me, I have played link on 8 deluxe though and I enjoy his racetrack so who knows. Say I don’t play anything 12+ since my bullying. If I play smash I only use certain stages and unlock certain characters.
The Gamecube is a really nice machine! Much more compact than you'd expect it to be, honestly! Great controller, too! I mostly use it to play the Zelda Collector's Edition and the Sonic Adventure games!
You can pick them up really cheaply these days, too! I dunno if it's the same with the games, though... they've certainly been going up in value...
I dunno, I think Yoshis were once a species that were all over the Mario universe but some died out in places (I.E. the Mushroom Kingdom, Isle Delphino etc.) but some lived on in some places too (Yoshi's Island, Donut Planes etc.) much like irl creatures that may have lived a long time ago and went extinct in certain places. Never thought I'd be going deep into Mario lore here, haha!
Well That makes sense with the yoshis if they are paint. Surely the yoshis on Isle Delphino before the game had escaped maybe. I mean yoshis are still existing so I guess they probably went back and carried on with life on their island maybe. Who knows.
I’ve noticed on galaxy 2 if you fall out of bounds or touch lava or poison, Mario either dies or takes damage but Yoshi just teleports to one of the many nests in the game. But on odyssey he just has particular spots to spawn in and again gets teleported back there if Mario takes damage. Annoyingly though he won’t respawn on sinking island until you have taken too much damage thus drained your life bars or you managed to somehow get to the top of the island, either way the sinking island has to reset to its “unsunken” state in order to get yoshi again which is a pain for that area
Sorry only just saw this message. Ahh yeah the graphics look great on the switch! So much more clearer and sharper! The colours look much brighter too. I would like to own a GameCube one day so I could play these originals but I think the Wii I have could be compatible. I really want to play Mario kart double dash! Yoshi looks so cute in that and I love what I’ve seen of his Grand Prix winning animations and sounds! Also want to play original ttyd but I can imagine finding General White will be more of a pain without the pipes in Rogueport.
Oh, it looks extremely good on Switch, the graphics have aged really well! It looks practically modern!
Regarding Splatoon, before the game had started development, there was a prototype that featured the Mario cast instead of inklings, so you're probably not far from the truth with that theory.
Yeah, at some point Yoshi eggs start to appear and you have to bring them fruit to hatch them. Apparently the reason why he vanishes when he touches water is because they're not real Yoshis, but are actually made of paint and the real Yoshis on Isle Delphino died out before the events of the game
It relies so much of pure precision that one slip can end it all
Oh that could be what I'm remembering, it's been quite a long time since I played and I remember the frustration, isn't Mario especially slippy too? I did think FLUDD was great fun, I wonder if it partly inspired Splatoon?
I don't think I completed sunshine -I'd need to find my save file on my many memory cards for the cube -one thing that is far easier on a switch! I bet it looks nice on switch Elfilis
Wait? Yoshi is in the game? But he vanishes when he touches water? Come on Yoshi! Saying that when doing the sinking island room on odyssey, if yoshi touches the lava he disappears in a puff of smoke and Mario is left to bounce on the lava until his health bar reaches 0! This even happens in assist mode. I don’t think I’ve ever done the sinking island in one attempt lol!
I always thought Sunshine's controls and camera were perfect, but the platforming itself was what made it frustrating. It relies so much of pure precision that one slip can end it all. In fact, that's part of the reason why the FLUDD was introduced. It was a workaround to ease some of the frustration involved in the platforming. Btw, did you know the game actually has a reference to The Shining? The haunted hotel level (which I suppose could be a reference in itself) has that section where you have to spray a ghostly manta ray, which directly parallels a certain moment also involving a ghostly manta ray in The Shining!
The Galaxy games are a lot of fun, but I personally prefer Super Mario 64. It's just really memorable and nostalgic.
