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

I'm really not a gamer. Occasionally I get sucked into a game though. Nothing hardcore though, usually something like mario kart or Pokémon. But in my teen years it did become my life's mission to complete Theme Hospital. I do not exaggerate when I say it took me many years but I got there eventually. 

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

Shin Megami Tensei V is probably the hardest game I’ve ever beaten. It was also even harder because I kept a lot of weaker demons on my team like Fenrir and Quetzalcoatl all the way to the end game just cause I like them.

Jamesmac said:

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.

Oh, yeah, Shadow Mario. He can be tricky.

I managed to get all the Shine Sprites, but it wasn't easy! Would've been a lot easier if Yoshi didn't dissolve every time he hits water!

I just looked that up and sounds really intriguing! 

Aww that’s understandable about Mario odyssey! You must have been super busy at the time! I love flying around in Galaxy as well! I actually really enjoy flying around the observatory after running into one of those red stars! I’m yet to 100% both galaxy’s because omg those prankster comets! I don’t know which ones are worse, the daredevil boss fights with only one wedge of life or the lava spire daredevil run where you have to complete the sinking lava spire level without damage! I remember getting to the top of the spire and a fireball hits me and I had to do the whole level again as there are no check points. Good thing is when I completed I got so many star bits as I always pressed the try again option until I finally got it

They are some of my favourite games, they just felt so joyous to play and fly around. I actually didn't really play Odyssey as I felt too grounded after that. ( Actually I don't think that was the reason, my daughter was born on release day so I was a bit preoccupied )

Both Mario galaxy are amazing! I never get the ending of the first one though if I’m honest. But the music in both the games are amazing! I really enjoy doing Buoy Base Galaxy and Melty Molten Galaxy from the first game! I haven’t completed the second one yet but loved Yoshi Star Galaxy and the one with the Buoy Base Galaxy music in the background where you have to press buttons to slow everything down. Also love playing Yoshi in the second one and I am a sucker for those lumas too. 

I have Mario sunshine for the switch! It is very fun but omg all I see are the words TOO BAD every so often  I haven’t even done that many bosses. The last one I remember was a giant piranha plant covered in paint. I also remember having to chase a silver like Mario with a giant paint brush. Been a while since I played.

I think that Destroy All Humans was the hardest I've played, gave up after a short time.

There were some boss fights in others that were really hard - the snake in Assassins Creed Origins and Medusa in Assassins Creed Odyssey both come to mind.

I tend to say I’ve been blue shelled lol! Or red shelled if it’s a red one! 

I was recounting at the last company I worked at, in the 90's there was the programme GamesMaster, and if you taped the end on VHS, you could then frame by frame through it to get cheats etc. That or there might be a Teletext page.

I found silent hill the original from the 2000s extremely difficult 

I'm going back 30 odd years with my contribution so probably beyond most of your experience.

I was a fan of FPS games like Doom, Duke Nukem, Quake etc and there was one in this genre called Blood ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_(video_game) ) which I found incredibly hard to master in spite of being quite proficient in others of the genre.

It just seemed too easy for the character to die that I rarely made it more than 10 minutes into the game in spite of many attempts.

Of course back then there was no internet to look up tips on gameplay or cheats, maps etc so I just never got any further.