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!
I ended up with whiplash playing Resident Evil 4 on the Wii - there should’ve been a warning on the Wii about doing warm up exercises before playing, especially when it’s games that make you tense. I had a stiff neck for weeks - that’s my memory of RE, that and being assaulted by an endless horde of weird people whilst being trapped in a house.
I’ve been looking at Reanimal (I think it’s out in February). It reminds me of Limbo (cool game) and is like Little Nightmares.
I haven’t played the Rugrats one but I know what you mean about some not-horror games being scary/creepy. I always think about the statues in the first Tomb Raider game that would come to life as you walked past. Bioshock isn’t survival horror but some of it makes me think of The Shining so I think it’s got that unnerving thing going on.
I’ve been meaning to play Omori.
Did you ever play Eternal Darkness? It messed with your head! I think I still have my copy buried somewhere. Buried. So nothing can escape!
I’ve been meaning to get hold of The Sinking City. It’s got a Lovecraft thing going on. It’s more detective game than horror but the visuals I’ve seen looked good.
But that cat’s head in Silent Hill 4. I still haven’t gotten over it! That meow was in my house! It was like Silent Hill was in my house! A bad time to have surround sound.
I really should try some more big horror games, honestly! I'll be playing FNAF: Security Breach soon, and I've been curious about the classic Resident Evil titles! I've also played through Omori and Doki-Doki Literature Club too. And Undertale genocide route, which I DEFINITELY think counts! It really lays on the guilt seeing the characters who were friendly to you or acting like you were harmless in other routes suddenly being terrified of you and begging for their lives.
I've also noticed there's a strange amount of games that aren't horror, but have weirdly creepy moments in them despite that! Ever played Rugrats: Search for Reptar? There's some genuinely scary sequences in that game, like when you're running around the house at night and there's a load of imaginary ghosts, or when you're lost in the toy store and a giant mechanical ape mascot is hunting you down! I think the thing that makes it so creepy is that you're playing as a baby and seeing things from the babies' point of view, sort of giving you a feeling of vulnerability. That and the PS1 graphics just make it uncanny to look at lol.
And don't get me started about the Tails Doll in Sonic R... I can't even process why that thing looks so unsettling to look at.
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!
Similar for me. I love survival horror so most of the Silent Hill games. I think SH2 was my favourite, but I do have a soft spot for SH4, partly because of an experience where there was a cats head in my fridge (in the game before anyone reports me to the RSPCA) and the meow sounds sounded like they were in my house and were freaking me & my brother out. I’ve played the Project Zero games (aka Fatal Frame) which are like playing an Asian horror film. And Dead Space, which took me ages because I jumped at everything.
Not a horror game: I played Fez which was tricky in the sense that you have a platform game but you sometimes have to think in 3D to work out how you move around. It’s a clever game.
I don’t like the mission where you have to follow and collect snakes 3 strikes, I always fail at the last strike because it lands in a stupid place and if you go past and reverse you lose snake and fail the mission. Same with the first mission of level five, the cola drinks get dropped in awkward places. And don’t get me started on the trash can one, that one’s worse because you don’t even have the green bar showing you how close or far you are.
I enjoy all the levels really. I do like Marge level though and Bart’s second level though but it’s hard to pick a favourite really. What about you? Which is your favourite if you have one?
Chief wiggum is so funny I wish he was in the game more often but oh well. I love his one liners when failing the mission though!
Oh, god, Zelda II. Wouldn't be so hard if levelling up wasn't such a chore and you actually kept the EXP points you earned before ending your session. Then there's enemies that TAKE AWAY EXP to make things worse! Literally the only Zelda game I own that I haven't beaten.
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!
Oh I know right!!! Not being able to skip those last few missions is such a pain – level 7 is the stuff of nightmares lmao. I love the storyline in Hit & Run though, it’s really good and is one of those games I always go back to. Some missions are hard though like the follow and collect ones, definitely my least favourites for sure! Do you have a favourite level or place?
LOL I love that. I’m just like omg shut up Chief Wiggum! XD It can be seriously frustrating at times but the whole game is amazing a complete masterpiece.
Not to mention that you can’t skip the last 3 missions on level 7 on hit and run! Grandpas jeep thing is terrible! I remember getting to the school playground and I’d either lose the toxic waste or I’d be timed out as the car goes up the tractor beam. I’m also very bad at the follow missions and of course follow and collect missions. I keep failing the one where Apu has to follow chief wiggum to the dmv a lot lately and then wiggum scoffs my failed attempts lol
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.
There's been a few games where I've found it hard to beat... Destroy All Humans Reprobed is up there, the boss levels are really hard and it took me a long time and many retries to beat the game.
I played Call of Duty World at Word on the hardest difficulty with my older brother once - NEVER again. I didn't beat it then and I wouldn't know. In highest difficulty it felt impossible to beat that game lol.
The Simpsons Hit & Run was extremely difficult like the last map where Springfield is overrun by zombies. The very last mission where you have to take radioactive barrels in Grampa's jeep was soo hard. When I finally beat it - after a lot of trying - I did this little victory dance lmao. I was about 9 at the time.
And Zelda II was insanely difficult as well.
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!
