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!
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.
Hmm maybe so, saying that you do see yoshis in the mushroom kingdom. Mario odyssey has Yoshi on the castles roof, similar to n64 but who knows, they could be traveller yoshis hehe! Or a spirit of yoshis lol
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 £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!
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.
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
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!
