To any gamers out there - what's the hardest game you've played/beaten?

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!

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  • 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! 

  • The 3D Marios are always hard to 100% lol ESPECIALLY Sunshine!! (that leaf boat segment is the bane of my existence!)

  • The controls/camera combo on Sunshine made the whole game really hard, but I still loved the sunny up-beat feel.

    I really loved both Galaxy games. Getting all stars was hard, was really pleased when I got a particular one where the whole level was one-use blocks, and one red coin required jumping off the edge, getting the red coin spin jumping back up onto a ledge 90degress from the one you jumped off and keep running. That whole level was specific jumps and keeping moving, was beauty to get it right!

  • 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. 

  • Ah thank you for looking into that for me! Might treat myself after Christmas! Yeah I think they only had ttyd on gamecube. I think the first paper Mario was on 64 and the super paper Mario was for Wii. 

  • I remember seeing double dash go for ÂŁ37 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?

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  • 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! 

  • 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.