The reason a lot of the retro Disney games were so brutal was because Disney was fighting against the rental market dominated by Blockbuster and Hollywood Videos at the time - they didn’t want kids to rent their games then return them after they were done, so they mandated games have spiked difficulty in the hopes kids would just outright buy copies of it in frustration
Disney was smart for making games brutal at the time. Games lacked storage to be 100+ hours long at the time, so the best way for games to get bought, not just rented was to make games brutally difficult till kids would spend hundreds of hours worth of trial and error until they finally do it. It was what made Castlevania, Mega Man, Ninja Gaiden, ect so popular.
@MrAjking808 That how it was back then. The North American versions of games were always harder than the Japanese versions because Japan made renting software illegal so publishers didn't need to worry about kids beating it over a weekend and returning it.
Havent remotely watched the vid yet, but Im so glad I came across this channel. Getting massive ranking lists from someone who actually played these games honestly is refreshing and Ive been binging on these lists. More people need to know about this channel. Keep up the awesome work!
Dude, Last of Us Part 2 on Grounded is easier than Jak 2 on standard difficulty. Jak 2 is absolutely ridiculous. Ninja Gaiden Black, and 2 are easier than Jak 2 for goodness sake. Great channel man.
I finished Jak 2 for the first time recently. If I'm not mistaken, you are talking about the dock mission where you have to escape from the guards. All I did was get on the floating board and move around them to escape. It took me a few tries but it's doable. As a kid I never finished Jak 2 because it seemed really hard to me. After finishing it recently, I realized some missions are harder than some, but they are doable. Now that I am older, playing it again and completing it this time is probably because it seems like the older you get, the easier you pick up on how to beat games.
One of the most surprisingly difficult games for me was Conker’s Bad Fur Day. Certain sections like the War chapter with the Tediz and the lava boarding section took me ages to beat my first time playing. It sometimes felt like you could start it on New Year’s Day and not beat it until Christmas.
Dead Rising is a rogue-lite. It's normal not to be able to finish the scenario in one attempt. The story is re-told at a more advanced level. But above all, with a deeper understanding of travel times, weapon locations and specific uses in a given situation. In Dark Souls, the difficulty comes mainly from the need to learn how to dance with bosses and plan your build. This requires hands-on learning and an interest in lore (and a bit of community sharing). Dead Rising is quite similar: at the start, you're oblivious to the ubiquitous aids and shortcuts, you rush headlong, you arrive late, NPCs die and take their rewards with them, and you get beaten up by bosses. But through exploration, learning and optimization, we free up time and adapt our equipment. The game remains unforgiving, but it's much easier to navigate, so you can have fun or prepare yourself. It's a sandbox game, with hundreds of interactions and ways to achieve your goals. There are many ways to regulate difficulty or abuse the game. It all depends on your ingenuity. Look at the dinginess of BOTW players with a physics engine.
Mariokart Wii on 150cc. There was severe banding and the rng of the items was insane. You could run perfect and a blue shell bad timing and you go from 1st to 6th in the last 10 seconds.
You're totally right about NFS Underground. I loved those games, but I tried replaying as an adult, and it was very frustrating lol. The rubber-banding is so much worse than I remembered.
No offence but coming from someone who’s beaten all but one of fromsofts souls games, they’re actually really accessible, like for example dark souls can be some of the easiest games as long as you don’t try to make it hard, the difficulty is highly overrated
When it comes to Jak 2, the second Baron Praxis fight and that sewer mission with the three guys is brutal. I don't find most of Mario Sunshine too difficult but definitely agree some of the Sprites are unforgiving. FLUDD-less levels can be excruciating due to how wonky the physics are, the volcano level has no room for error, and the pachinko game is downright broken. As for Kingdom Hearts, the amount of times I had to watch that cutscene before the second Riku fight...
Don’t get me started, without cheesing it’s nearly impossible to beat sephiroth on proud because the game itself doesn’t allow u to, like sephiroth is moving like a Dmc boss but your moving like a Skyrim character 😂😂
I got need for speed underground on Christmas of 03!! And it’s crazy cause I started it last week on the steam deck. I’m happy to see someone recently uploaded a video mentioning it.
Man, I have played all the Motorstorm games and have only completed Apocalypse. The AI is brutal. If you will master your skills to the best, then also it’s not enough. Luck won’t even favour you.
@@lucasblekeberg6648 Personally, all of them are fun. I prefer Apocalypse because it has the spectacle. Arctic Edge is a close second. And Pacific Rift will the third.
I love jak and daxter 2 for its difficulty. Its the only 3d platformer that has such a good moveset that can give me a challange and also has a good ass story. I broke my first controller because of this game but hell was i proud when i finished it in my 24 hour playtime.(little tipp. There is a button combination debug mode wich allows infinite health or to skip missions on all platforms)
Other very challenging racing games I played were Midnight Club 3 and its sequel Los Angeles. Their maps have way too much traffic all the time, and it's also very easy to miss a checkpoint during a race in high speed, and it doesn't have rewind.
Dead Rising was a pain, it was truly hard at the point i start over like 3 times because i was underleveled, At least you can carry your level to the next new game. I 'm still have my 360 copy somewhere
Ahhh another quality TH-cam channel found and subbed to. Love seeing these channels with not a lot of subscribers making actual quality content before the money drops and then they always become the exact same as everybody else lmfaoo
I never beat Super-Mario Sunshine as a kid. I decided to pick it up again now that I’m 26. I just beat it a few days ago. 😀 I managed to do it in like 12-18ish hours. it was a lot easier than I remember it being. I guess it’s just age. I always thought I hated difficult games, but I’m getting pretty close to beating Celeste too.
Gradius for the NES is one of the hardest games ever made. I went on a quest to 100% every NES game and this one stopped my run. I was beating sports games on the hardest difficulties, platformers, etc…but Gradius was impossible. Put well over 100 hours in to it (a game that takes 30 minutes to beat) and I couldn’t do it. I always died and lost my power ups on stage 5, and that far in the game once you die once is basically over because you lose all your power ups. I only made it to stage 6 with all my powerups once, but I died before I beat the stage. I still had stage 7, which I never did get to see. There’s almost no information on the internet with how difficult this game is. That just goes to show that few people have actually tried to beat it. The hardest part is that the more you upgrade your ship, the more aggressive and difficult the enemies get (and the more health they have), so it’s about finding the balance of only having a few upgrades so you don’t beef up the enemies too much. But I was never able to beat it. Stage 5 was too tough. And that’s if you can get past the insanely hard stage 3, which is like a 30% chance, even with tons of training.
Yeah I am currently playing Returnal and it's tough ! To be honest I noticed that roguelike/lite games are always harder than expected and I say that in a good way, it is a different approach on video game difficulty that really works greatly in my opinion. Not all games should be like that of course, but it's good we are getting more of them!
You’re absolutely right about Jak 2. It’s ridiculously hard at times (and I’ve beaten Sekiro 5 times). It was hard as a kid and when I replayed it as an adult and beat it, I told myself “I’m never putting myself through that again” same with Crash 1, that game is nuts how difficult it can get.
Christmas baby! Rayman is hella hard. I remember Bugs Bunny Lost in Time being brick hard too. As for rubber banding, Split/Second's is ridiculous. The last couple of races are near impossible to win.
Not started this video yet, but as soon as I saw the topic, three games came to mind for their brutal difficulty, despite looking tame on the surface: Crash Bandicoot 1, Rayman 1 and Jak 2. Oh, and as a kid, Mickey Mania and Aladdin (both for the Sega Megadrive) gave me a hard time.
Strongly recommend Rayman Redemption if you want to play a more playable version of Rayman 1 It’s a fan remake that aims to improve upon the original game and it does so very well in a lot of ways
i remember lick mickeys christmas thyme or something i forget, but i was stuck on that for ages and finally beat it yesterday in thyme for christopherrobinsonmas
Am new to the channel and have seen a lot of your videos already. Even went back and watched the one when you quit Wendys. 😂 Keep up the great work! Christmas!!
I remember playing Rayman for the first time ever and being flabbergasted at how brutally difficult the game gets once you make it to Band Land Game goes from being somewhat challenging to flat-out impossible once you've gotten to that point and used up all your continues >_
The fact that he didnt even mention the master levels in monkey ball shows that its truly that hard which tbh most people never reach them. You have to beat expert mode without dying to unlock them and theyre even more rediculous than expert levels, damn near impossible. At the end of the day its one of those games that you really need to practice over and over to get good at and patience is key.
The only game I didn't expect to be difficult but was really difficult, it was so difficult that made me stop dead in my track was the longest journey, looking for a jacket, that had the same colour as the background, it was a pixel hunt to find that keycard.
I knew Monkey Ball would be on here. Funny thing about the Dead Rising convicts, I used to hate having to go outside when I played it as a kid in 2007 because I thought they were so hard. Replaying it now though, they're rarely a threat. The terrible survivor AI seems to apply to them because almost every time they'll be parked somewhere and won't even move or try to attack unless I approach them, and even then they usually stay still. Very weird.
NFS Underground rubber-band is brutal. Also another factor to such a difficulty is just how lightweight cars are, one mistake and you done. Underground 2 is more managable as car crashes aren't as damaging. Except URL races, they can be as brutal as first game. Also Hot Pursuit 2 PS2 version is even more exhausting as it has the same AI that if more than 3 secs gap you can restart the whole race and these races usually lasts more than 10 minutes and some of them can be almost half an hour.
YES!! DIDDY kong racing REALLY made me want to cry 😂 i mean damn... WhizPig, i played that race at least more than 30 times trying to beat him and some of the other bosses. I'm also glad you include Star Wars: Fallen Order, i thought i was just a terrible gamer because i ALSO had a hard time with it, especially Boss Magnius or whatever at the witch coven location. I had to take a break after FINALLY beating him as it was so difficult. I'm surprised no one talks about how difficult that game is. 😅😅
Jak 2 was very hard on my first playthrough, but upon a second playthrough it is more fair. A lot of people are reliant on the Blaster and just jump in the air and shoot the gun, but if you use more of Jak's moveset the game is fairer. The checkpoints can be unfair, though.
Speaking of surprisingly hard Disney games, I’ve been replaying Cars: Mater National on Xbox on Champion difficulty, and that is genuinely one of the hardest racing games I’ve ever played Most races aren’t that bad but there are some massive difficulty spikes, specifically whenever Snot Rod shows up
I've never had any problems beating any need for speed game I blasted through the first underground so fast I barely remember it and the second one I took my time on but never had any issues with either one being too hard
It IS nearly Christmas! I've been watching your videos for ages. You make really great content. I love that you include a lot of older games in your lists, as that's where my heart lies. I thought your #1 pick was a joke, until I looked it up! Even it's Wikipedia article says "In 2012 and 2013, the game became a viral phenomenon hit because of its extreme difficulty, especially considering its target audience of young children." I love it when shit like this happens! Wtf where the developers thinking?! 🤣
I can confirm that kingdom hearts is quite difficult. Ice played it the first time on ps5 this year and ive got stuck so many times because i didnt knew where to go and had to grind a lot because the bosses were tough as nails. Ive played kh2 on easy then and it was pure joy until i came to the end roxxas fight. I didnt want to grind so i dropped it and watched the rest on youtube. PLAY KINGDOM HEARTS ON EASY. Oh and even though kh has german voice acting just on ps2. Believe me ypu dont want to play it on there. The camera moves with l2 r2
Midnight club is extremely difficult but it's my favorite racing series, and I love the customization along with the street racing. I really love difficult games. If you want something hard try Breakdown on og Xbox on expert difficulty. I'm currently playing through and it's brutal. So are some of survival horror games like resident evil 2- 3 PS1, silent hill, and there's eternal darkness. Just to name a few
Sunshine’s difficulty caught me off guard when I first played it. Today I can 100% the game with relative ease (and a guide for blue coins) but that first playthrough…yikes.
japanese ninja gaiden released where your normal difficulty was actually hard, i heard that shit was tough, its a tough game to begin with anyway. midnight club 2 is a great controller crushing experience
Lol man I busted my ass off to complete returnal. I was so hopeless after a point I was only playing coop with random people. At 47 hours I played with 20-30 different people and holy crap the things that I experience in that game. For crying out loud I was with a 96 level scout and just before we were about to finish the game he logged out of the game because I totally by mistake took an item that he wanted. Great game !
No hard Star Wars games? - Super Star Wars - Fallen Order and Jedi Survivor - Star Wars X-Wing Alliance - Star Wars X- Wing vs Tie Fighter - Rebel Aussault 1-3 - Shadows - Rogue series (Squadron especially) - Star Wars Episode 1 Battle for Naboo - Star Wars Episode 1 Racer - Dark Forces - Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 - Jedi Knight 2 - Star Wars Episode 1 Jedi Power Battles - Star Wars Empire at war - And arguably Force Unleashed 1 and KOTOR are at least not easy Actually Star Wars games mostly have a tradition to be pretty hard. There are definitely more decently hard or even brutal Star Wars games I can think of than easy ones.
Happy Christmas bud, I saw the twilight game on Wii info. But also I had to like, super agree on pretty much the entire list little bro, especially the bit on Bayonetta and Jedi F.O. currently as I'm doing a run on both of these games and like yourself, I hate Giant Mutant Frogs, yuck. ☮️
Minecraft Dungeons is a game I thought would be a shut your brain off kill everything on screen situation, just because it presents itself as a very basic kid friendly colourful ARPG. I was so wrong though, some of those bosses (even on default difficulty) will game over you quickly. Once you get to Apocalypse Difficulty (around 9+), you better be running top tier Unique Gilded in every slot with damage reduction & numerous BIS Artefacts equipped as well as swap between on the fly, or you're getting crushed within seconds (or even 1 shot). You have to be running the most OP/efficient/optimal enchants on all your armour/weaponry too if you're planning on surviving Apocalypse difficulty (E.G. Radiance is a MUST on every melee weapon for me). I thought it would be a cake walk after playing ARPG's like PoE, it's definitely not a cake walk. The tutorial & first few levels lower your guard for what's to come.
Imagine getting some of these for Christmas. I still can't beat Diddy Kong Racing as an adult. I beat NFS Underground 1 & 2 but they were on easy mode, even then the first one was frustrating as heck. Btw, people weren't lying about Lion King. I had the Mega Drive version and it takes a bit of effort to say the least. Edit: If I had to add my own to the list of surprisingly difficult games it would be Ecco the Dolphin and the first Earthworm Jim.
Kingdom Hearts was hard af. I remember being stuck on that second Riku fight for days. Once I got passed that I soared through the game. Other than fighting Sephiroth. Screw him in KH1. I had a guide, only reason I knew where to go but if I didn't have a guide, yeah; I'd of been lost.
The Lion King game isn't difficult on easy and you see the whole game. Its actually a pretty great game, beat it on easy many many times as a kid and you don't miss out on anything.
Jak 2 isnt just the hardest game in the series, its the game that feels the most...alive? It feels like a lived in world. I loved Jak and Daxter and Jak 3, but Jak 2 is still my favorite game. Even over Super Mario World. Even over Dark Souls. Even over any Zelda you could name(personally id say A Link to the Past but ya know, Ocarina and Breath). Its just an amazing game that i have never "grown" out of, and i dont feel the same about J&D and Jak 3.
Great list Sharkman! Your “Um actually” made me laugh really loud! I’ve met people in person that are like that 😂😂 “Um actually I invented sign twirling so I know what I’m taking about.” Also what was the music in the background when you were talking about Returnal??! It sounded SUPER familiar???? 🤔🤔🤔 Christmas 🎄
Jedi Fallen Order was harder because, despite releasing what like 5 years after Dark Souls 3, DS3 was a more polished and fluid game. Sekiro was a great difficult game. Jedi fallen order was an okay game, but the difficulty wasn't deliberate
When I was younger I never played the original Dead Rising, I only played 2 when it came out and as a side note, I think 2 is the best one (haven’t played 4 yet though from what I hear I’m not missing much). 2 is just so nostalgic for me and it is a somewhat challenging game at times but it’s also very fun and totally doable without ripping your hair out. But last year I went back and played the original Dead Rising and yeah, I feel the same way. Sure for the time it’s game mechanics were pretty normal, but going back to play it for the first time now is absolutely brutal. Hour after hour I kept wanting to rip my hair out from the difficulty. I actually made it past those stupid guys in the truck, I beat the sniper boss and grocery store. But when I got to the bitch on the bike I was on that shit for HOURS and I just gave up. I was just saying to myself I’d rather be playing 2 right now! And that’s exactly what I did! Swap to 2 because 1 while it is a fun game to explore and see how the franchise started, it’s a brutal game. Maybe I suck too but yeah, I agree. Here’s a title I played recently that I’ll mention here. Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime. It was a 360 arcade only game in the like of Deadops arcade from BO1, except it was in the realm of Ghostbusters. Granted, the game is meant to be played co-op with 3 other live humans but I have to play with the NPCs because the game doesn’t go online anymore. In general I think this game sucks and the entire time I played it I was thinking I’d rather pop in BO1 and play Deadops because Sanctum really is the inferior version of that. There are only 12 levels, and when the game starts off it’s pretty chill and fun I might add. By stage 6 or 7 that’s when the difficulty starts to ramp up and the NPCs can no longer keep up. By stage 10 the game just became so brutally difficult that I spent hours on that 1 stage before giving up. I’m a huge ghostbusters fan, but this easily was the worst one I’ve ever played. I’m sure if I was able to have real teammates I could beat the game but as it stands playing it in 2024 yeah the game is just brutal by the last 2 stages. MERRY CHRISTMAS
Some of the Mario Sunshine Fludd-less levels were way too hard, but for me the Red Coin lily pad ride was the worst...I think it's the only level I never completed. One game that was ostensibly for kids but wayyy to difficult was Batman & Robin on Sega Genesis...I've seen "hardest game" lists that put it below Contra Hard Corps, and I find it hard to believe. With a little practice I was able to beat Hard Corps without much issue, but I've never made it past the 2nd level of Batman & Robin.
I picked up Jedi Fallen Order thinking it would be an entertaining Star Wars game and it damn near made me hate the entire franchise. I think I only got about 3 hours into it before quitting for my mental well being. Struggling so badly at that game solidified that I will never even attempt a Souls game
Christmas… When talking about how Kingdom Hearts has aged. You should do like a Top 10 games that have aged like wine or like milk lists. That would be fun.
I dont think the world is ready for my take on games that have aged poorly lol. I looked at every Rareware N64 game and said Goldeneye hasnt aged well and talk about a flaming
@@TotallyTubularJonathan that’s 100% true tho. Try to make someone who loved Goldeneye as a kid but hadn’t touched the game since their childhood, I guarantee they would be able to play for more than 30 minutes before dropping it lol.
I’m pretty sure Toy Story on SNES has more gameplay problems in general on top of the difficulty. The Genesis version is the more polished experience if you had to play any versions of these games. It doesn’t change the fact it’s hard across the board, but at least it spare you from hit detection or weirder gameplay issues. Back in the day any Disney tie ins had a reputation for being harder than they should. But I have to wonder why Lion King is even on the thumbnail if that hasn’t been played? I was looking forward to how you felt about the difficulty. Though I’m sure it would be what everyone else would say about it.
@@darthvaderbn If you like side scrolling action platformers yes. Depends on your difficulty tastes. It’s not particularly a bad game, just not well liked because of its difficulty. And the Toy Story 2 video game have since overshadowed it even further. To me it’s worth it if you can deal with the challenge, and how much you like the film. Assuming you never played it ever.
I found those stupid Street X modes in underground 2 to be so hard for no reason. Other than that, the game is easy once you get a decent car and learn how to tune it.
I never got past the final level on normal/advanced mode in the first monkey ball game and was never able to get past the 3rd level on hard/expert mode so I got rid of that game long ago. The second monkey ball game had more to choose from so I held on to that game but never finished storymode and had not played that game since New Year's Day of 2007. I also never finished Super Mario Sunshine. Because I was never able to find out where you are supposed to go to get to the final boss meaning I never even made it to the chucksters. Other surprisingly difficult games you forgot to mention are Donkey Kong 64 because of too many collectables, Turock for N64, and the first 2 Zelda games ever made, the ones for the NES. I finished the first one 10 months ago but was still never able to finish the second to this day.
i think if you have beat the Toy Story game, beating the lion king game shouldnt be a hard thing, recently i played it for a review and after a few game overs i could beat it, it is a hard game but one of the hardest of all time? i dont think so, by the way thanks for the hard work, making content THIS GOOD at this speed is really impressive 👍
The reason a lot of the retro Disney games were so brutal was because Disney was fighting against the rental market dominated by Blockbuster and Hollywood Videos at the time - they didn’t want kids to rent their games then return them after they were done, so they mandated games have spiked difficulty in the hopes kids would just outright buy copies of it in frustration
Man I still have ptsd over the toy story 2 game with buzz lightyear 😂
What type of bs you read that from , makes no sense
Disney was smart for making games brutal at the time.
Games lacked storage to be 100+ hours long at the time, so the best way for games to get bought, not just rented was to make games brutally difficult till kids would spend hundreds of hours worth of trial and error until they finally do it.
It was what made Castlevania, Mega Man, Ninja Gaiden, ect so popular.
@MrAjking808 That how it was back then. The North American versions of games were always harder than the Japanese versions because Japan made renting software illegal so publishers didn't need to worry about kids beating it over a weekend and returning it.
Havent remotely watched the vid yet, but Im so glad I came across this channel.
Getting massive ranking lists from someone who actually played these games honestly is refreshing and Ive been binging on these lists.
More people need to know about this channel. Keep up the awesome work!
You pump these videos out like crazy. Easily my favorite gaming channel.
Dude, Last of Us Part 2 on Grounded is easier than Jak 2 on standard difficulty. Jak 2 is absolutely ridiculous. Ninja Gaiden Black, and 2 are easier than Jak 2 for goodness sake. Great channel man.
Jak 2 has like 2 or 3 missions are that re very difficult. Most of it is pretty fair.
Jak 2 was one of my favorite games growing up but damn dude… that dock mission was brutal
I finished Jak 2 for the first time recently. If I'm not mistaken, you are talking about the dock mission where you have to escape from the guards. All I did was get on the floating board and move around them to escape. It took me a few tries but it's doable. As a kid I never finished Jak 2 because it seemed really hard to me. After finishing it recently, I realized some missions are harder than some, but they are doable. Now that I am older, playing it again and completing it this time is probably because it seems like the older you get, the easier you pick up on how to beat games.
@@YourMusic-JoshuaWilliamsyou talk like your still 15😭
Honestly, 100% completion of Super Mario 3D World is easier than completing Sunshine once. That shi changes a man
One of the most surprisingly difficult games for me was Conker’s Bad Fur Day. Certain sections like the War chapter with the Tediz and the lava boarding section took me ages to beat my first time playing. It sometimes felt like you could start it on New Year’s Day and not beat it until Christmas.
Dead Rising is a rogue-lite. It's normal not to be able to finish the scenario in one attempt. The story is re-told at a more advanced level. But above all, with a deeper understanding of travel times, weapon locations and specific uses in a given situation.
In Dark Souls, the difficulty comes mainly from the need to learn how to dance with bosses and plan your build. This requires hands-on learning and an interest in lore (and a bit of community sharing).
Dead Rising is quite similar: at the start, you're oblivious to the ubiquitous aids and shortcuts, you rush headlong, you arrive late, NPCs die and take their rewards with them, and you get beaten up by bosses. But through exploration, learning and optimization, we free up time and adapt our equipment. The game remains unforgiving, but it's much easier to navigate, so you can have fun or prepare yourself.
It's a sandbox game, with hundreds of interactions and ways to achieve your goals. There are many ways to regulate difficulty or abuse the game. It all depends on your ingenuity. Look at the dinginess of BOTW players with a physics engine.
Mariokart Wii on 150cc. There was severe banding and the rng of the items was insane. You could run perfect and a blue shell bad timing and you go from 1st to 6th in the last 10 seconds.
For me, Knack was stupidly difficult and I didn't expect to suffer so much with that game
You're totally right about NFS Underground. I loved those games, but I tried replaying as an adult, and it was very frustrating lol. The rubber-banding is so much worse than I remembered.
The og rayman makes souls games difficulty like childs play
I still never beat the music level. Fun af sliding down the bars, but those lightning drums can f right off 😅
@@mooby1721 same here 🤣
No offence but coming from someone who’s beaten all but one of fromsofts souls games, they’re actually really accessible, like for example dark souls can be some of the easiest games as long as you don’t try to make it hard, the difficulty is highly overrated
“The game requires you to go full Completionist, minus the charity fraud.”
Sick burn.
When it comes to Jak 2, the second Baron Praxis fight and that sewer mission with the three guys is brutal. I don't find most of Mario Sunshine too difficult but definitely agree some of the Sprites are unforgiving. FLUDD-less levels can be excruciating due to how wonky the physics are, the volcano level has no room for error, and the pachinko game is downright broken. As for Kingdom Hearts, the amount of times I had to watch that cutscene before the second Riku fight...
The camera in kingdom hearts is the true endboss. I finished it on Proud recently and it was pretty hard.
Don’t get me started, without cheesing it’s nearly impossible to beat sephiroth on proud because the game itself doesn’t allow u to, like sephiroth is moving like a Dmc boss but your moving like a Skyrim character 😂😂
new Totally Tubular video, feels like Christmas
This channel deserves AT LEAST 1mil subs
+ I 100% Mario sunshine and dare I say it it’s genuinely one of the hardest games to 100%
I got need for speed underground on Christmas of 03!! And it’s crazy cause I started it last week on the steam deck. I’m happy to see someone recently uploaded a video mentioning it.
21:29 Most appropriate comment about a a Diddy Kong game I could hear. hahahaha
If you think the rubber banding in Need for Speed is bad, don't even try the Motorstorm games, the AI in those games is completely broken
Man, I have played all the Motorstorm games and have only completed Apocalypse. The AI is brutal. If you will master your skills to the best, then also it’s not enough. Luck won’t even favour you.
@@piyushtripathi7515 Which MotorStorm game is the most fun?
@@lucasblekeberg6648 Personally, all of them are fun. I prefer Apocalypse because it has the spectacle. Arctic Edge is a close second. And Pacific Rift will the third.
@@piyushtripathi7515 If I can only play one in the series, which would you recommend?
@@lucasblekeberg6648 Apocalypse
One game that was surprisingly hard was Klonoa. Most of the game is pretty easy but the final world has a huge difficulty spike.
I love jak and daxter 2 for its difficulty. Its the only 3d platformer that has such a good moveset that can give me a challange and also has a good ass story. I broke my first controller because of this game but hell was i proud when i finished it in my 24 hour playtime.(little tipp. There is a button combination debug mode wich allows infinite health or to skip missions on all platforms)
Other very challenging racing games I played were Midnight Club 3 and its sequel Los Angeles. Their maps have way too much traffic all the time, and it's also very easy to miss a checkpoint during a race in high speed, and it doesn't have rewind.
honestly I should have had Midnight Club on here, all of them outside of 1 are mad difficult
Dead Rising was a pain, it was truly hard at the point i start over like 3 times because i was underleveled, At least you can carry your level to the next new game. I 'm still have my 360 copy somewhere
Ahhh another quality TH-cam channel found and subbed to. Love seeing these channels with not a lot of subscribers making actual quality content before the money drops and then they always become the exact same as everybody else lmfaoo
I never beat Super-Mario Sunshine as a kid. I decided to pick it up again now that I’m 26. I just beat it a few days ago. 😀 I managed to do it in like 12-18ish hours. it was a lot easier than I remember it being. I guess it’s just age.
I always thought I hated difficult games, but I’m getting pretty close to beating Celeste too.
Completing Need for Speed Underground is one of my favorite gaming memories. That game is punishing.
I first found your channel looking up videos on Toy Story games. Seeing it return gave me a full circle moment. Tubular.
Gradius for the NES is one of the hardest games ever made. I went on a quest to 100% every NES game and this one stopped my run. I was beating sports games on the hardest difficulties, platformers, etc…but Gradius was impossible. Put well over 100 hours in to it (a game that takes 30 minutes to beat) and I couldn’t do it. I always died and lost my power ups on stage 5, and that far in the game once you die once is basically over because you lose all your power ups. I only made it to stage 6 with all my powerups once, but I died before I beat the stage. I still had stage 7, which I never did get to see.
There’s almost no information on the internet with how difficult this game is. That just goes to show that few people have actually tried to beat it. The hardest part is that the more you upgrade your ship, the more aggressive and difficult the enemies get (and the more health they have), so it’s about finding the balance of only having a few upgrades so you don’t beef up the enemies too much. But I was never able to beat it. Stage 5 was too tough. And that’s if you can get past the insanely hard stage 3, which is like a 30% chance, even with tons of training.
Yeah I am currently playing Returnal and it's tough ! To be honest I noticed that roguelike/lite games are always harder than expected and I say that in a good way, it is a different approach on video game difficulty that really works greatly in my opinion. Not all games should be like that of course, but it's good we are getting more of them!
I’ve tried finishing kingdom hearts multiple times. all of your criticisms are valid.
You’re absolutely right about Jak 2. It’s ridiculously hard at times (and I’ve beaten Sekiro 5 times). It was hard as a kid and when I replayed it as an adult and beat it, I told myself “I’m never putting myself through that again” same with Crash 1, that game is nuts how difficult it can get.
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Rayman is hella hard. I remember Bugs Bunny Lost in Time being brick hard too.
As for rubber banding, Split/Second's is ridiculous. The last couple of races are near impossible to win.
Not started this video yet, but as soon as I saw the topic, three games came to mind for their brutal difficulty, despite looking tame on the surface: Crash Bandicoot 1, Rayman 1 and Jak 2. Oh, and as a kid, Mickey Mania and Aladdin (both for the Sega Megadrive) gave me a hard time.
Playing through Underground 2 rn and it’s so strange. Some races I’m blowing out the opponents by 20 sec, others I can’t keep up with them lol
Strongly recommend Rayman Redemption if you want to play a more playable version of Rayman 1
It’s a fan remake that aims to improve upon the original game and it does so very well in a lot of ways
i remember lick mickeys christmas thyme or something i forget, but i was stuck on that for ages and finally beat it yesterday in thyme for christopherrobinsonmas
Your game collection is crazy
Ya I liked the video before watching it, what’s it to ya?
Merry Christmas sir, and glad your featuring yourself on camera!
Am new to the channel and have seen a lot of your videos already. Even went back and watched the one when you quit Wendys. 😂 Keep up the great work! Christmas!!
I remember playing Rayman for the first time ever and being flabbergasted at how brutally difficult the game gets once you make it to Band Land
Game goes from being somewhat challenging to flat-out impossible once you've gotten to that point and used up all your continues >_
I found Super Mario Galaxy 2 to be frustratingly difficult at times. I think it can even rival Sunshine although I was much younger when I played it.
Need For Speed Underground 2 is one of my favorite games of all time. I haven’t played Underground myself but maybe one day.
The fact that he didnt even mention the master levels in monkey ball shows that its truly that hard which tbh most people never reach them. You have to beat expert mode without dying to unlock them and theyre even more rediculous than expert levels, damn near impossible. At the end of the day its one of those games that you really need to practice over and over to get good at and patience is key.
Ratchet and clank kicked my ass. I thought it was a baby game.
It was hard for me to play the original Ratchet and Clank because there was no strafe mechanic.
You forgot to mention how turning the difficulty down in NFSU does nothing
The only game I didn't expect to be difficult but was really difficult, it was so difficult that made me stop dead in my track was the longest journey, looking for a jacket, that had the same colour as the background, it was a pixel hunt to find that keycard.
Anyone remember Zool now that was a tough platformer.
I knew Monkey Ball would be on here.
Funny thing about the Dead Rising convicts, I used to hate having to go outside when I played it as a kid in 2007 because I thought they were so hard. Replaying it now though, they're rarely a threat. The terrible survivor AI seems to apply to them because almost every time they'll be parked somewhere and won't even move or try to attack unless I approach them, and even then they usually stay still. Very weird.
I loved Diddy Kong Racing but the very last race on the second run through is brutal.
I LOVE monkey ball and NFS underground. So many good memories.
NFS Underground rubber-band is brutal. Also another factor to such a difficulty is just how lightweight cars are, one mistake and you done. Underground 2 is more managable as car crashes aren't as damaging. Except URL races, they can be as brutal as first game. Also Hot Pursuit 2 PS2 version is even more exhausting as it has the same AI that if more than 3 secs gap you can restart the whole race and these races usually lasts more than 10 minutes and some of them can be almost half an hour.
That's how I felt about the first Crash Bandicoot, it got to a point where it was straight up impossible
I’m currently trying to play through Kingdom Hearts 1 and I agree completely. The combat is straight up not fun in this game, seriously.
The fight against Sephiroth is a nightmare.
im so glad to see underground 2 in the thumbnail. i LOVE that game but got damn it be hard
Pro tip: use Pablo Sanchez from backyard baseball to clear Winnie the Pooh Home Run Derby in one attempt.
YES!! DIDDY kong racing REALLY made me want to cry 😂 i mean damn... WhizPig, i played that race at least more than 30 times trying to beat him and some of the other bosses. I'm also glad you include Star Wars: Fallen Order, i thought i was just a terrible gamer because i ALSO had a hard time with it, especially Boss Magnius or whatever at the witch coven location. I had to take a break after FINALLY beating him as it was so difficult. I'm surprised no one talks about how difficult that game is. 😅😅
Jak 2 was very hard on my first playthrough, but upon a second playthrough it is more fair. A lot of people are reliant on the Blaster and just jump in the air and shoot the gun, but if you use more of Jak's moveset the game is fairer. The checkpoints can be unfair, though.
I'm shocked that you didn't mention the infamous Riku battle when speaking about Kingdom Hearts.
My first difficult game that I didn't think would be was Digimon World on the PS1. I got no where in a hurry despite playing it off and on for years.
Speaking of surprisingly hard Disney games, I’ve been replaying Cars: Mater National on Xbox on Champion difficulty, and that is genuinely one of the hardest racing games I’ve ever played
Most races aren’t that bad but there are some massive difficulty spikes, specifically whenever Snot Rod shows up
Winnie the Pooh baseball is the Dark Souls of baseball games. ☝️🤓
I've never had any problems beating any need for speed game I blasted through the first underground so fast I barely remember it and the second one I took my time on but never had any issues with either one being too hard
It IS nearly Christmas!
I've been watching your videos for ages. You make really great content. I love that you include a lot of older games in your lists, as that's where my heart lies.
I thought your #1 pick was a joke, until I looked it up! Even it's Wikipedia article says "In 2012 and 2013, the game became a viral phenomenon hit because of its extreme difficulty, especially considering its target audience of young children." I love it when shit like this happens! Wtf where the developers thinking?! 🤣
I can confirm that kingdom hearts is quite difficult. Ice played it the first time on ps5 this year and ive got stuck so many times because i didnt knew where to go and had to grind a lot because the bosses were tough as nails.
Ive played kh2 on easy then and it was pure joy until i came to the end roxxas fight. I didnt want to grind so i dropped it and watched the rest on youtube.
PLAY KINGDOM HEARTS ON EASY.
Oh and even though kh has german voice acting just on ps2. Believe me ypu dont want to play it on there. The camera moves with l2 r2
Midnight club is extremely difficult but it's my favorite racing series, and I love the customization along with the street racing. I really love difficult games. If you want something hard try Breakdown on og Xbox on expert difficulty. I'm currently playing through and it's brutal. So are some of survival horror games like resident evil 2- 3 PS1, silent hill, and there's eternal darkness. Just to name a few
I completed Overcooked 1 and 2 with my wife, and they were hands down the most stressful gaming experiences of my life.
Sunshine’s difficulty caught me off guard when I first played it. Today I can 100% the game with relative ease (and a guide for blue coins) but that first playthrough…yikes.
japanese ninja gaiden released where your normal difficulty was actually hard, i heard that shit was tough, its a tough game to begin with anyway.
midnight club 2 is a great controller crushing experience
Lol man I busted my ass off to complete returnal. I was so hopeless after a point I was only playing coop with random people. At 47 hours I played with 20-30 different people and holy crap the things that I experience in that game. For crying out loud I was with a 96 level scout and just before we were about to finish the game he logged out of the game because I totally by mistake took an item that he wanted. Great game !
No hard Star Wars games?
- Super Star Wars
- Fallen Order and Jedi Survivor
- Star Wars X-Wing Alliance
- Star Wars X- Wing vs Tie Fighter
- Rebel Aussault 1-3
- Shadows
- Rogue series (Squadron especially)
- Star Wars Episode 1 Battle for Naboo
- Star Wars Episode 1 Racer
- Dark Forces
- Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2
- Jedi Knight 2
- Star Wars Episode 1 Jedi Power Battles
- Star Wars Empire at war
- And arguably Force Unleashed 1 and KOTOR are at least not easy
Actually Star Wars games mostly have a tradition to be pretty hard. There are definitely more decently hard or even brutal Star Wars games I can think of than easy ones.
Happy Christmas bud, I saw the twilight game on Wii info. But also I had to like, super agree on pretty much the entire list little bro, especially the bit on Bayonetta and Jedi F.O. currently as I'm doing a run on both of these games and like yourself, I hate Giant Mutant Frogs, yuck. ☮️
Drinking game: Take a shot every time he says “difficult”
Promise you, that you won’t wake up until next Monday
13:33 nooooooooooooooo. Not that level! Its all coming back to me. That level traumatized me lol 😂
Edit: only five months til Christmas 😃
Sorry that's meant to be an edit not a new comment I messed that one up lol
Minecraft Dungeons is a game I thought would be a shut your brain off kill everything on screen situation, just because it presents itself as a very basic kid friendly colourful ARPG. I was so wrong though, some of those bosses (even on default difficulty) will game over you quickly. Once you get to Apocalypse Difficulty (around 9+), you better be running top tier Unique Gilded in every slot with damage reduction & numerous BIS Artefacts equipped as well as swap between on the fly, or you're getting crushed within seconds (or even 1 shot). You have to be running the most OP/efficient/optimal enchants on all your armour/weaponry too if you're planning on surviving Apocalypse difficulty (E.G. Radiance is a MUST on every melee weapon for me).
I thought it would be a cake walk after playing ARPG's like PoE, it's definitely not a cake walk. The tutorial & first few levels lower your guard for what's to come.
The OG kh1 on ps2 is a hard game, while the remasters are challenging they added a lot of quality of life things.. Like being able to skip cutscenes.
Imagine getting some of these for Christmas. I still can't beat Diddy Kong Racing as an adult. I beat NFS Underground 1 & 2 but they were on easy mode, even then the first one was frustrating as heck. Btw, people weren't lying about Lion King. I had the Mega Drive version and it takes a bit of effort to say the least.
Edit: If I had to add my own to the list of surprisingly difficult games it would be Ecco the Dolphin and the first Earthworm Jim.
Love the timestamp for Dead Rising
Oggdo Bogdo is SWFO is easier than most people realise start off with a drop attack you can take almost half its health in one hit.
Toy Story 1 is way Easier then Lion King
Kingdom Hearts was hard af. I remember being stuck on that second Riku fight for days. Once I got passed that I soared through the game. Other than fighting Sephiroth. Screw him in KH1. I had a guide, only reason I knew where to go but if I didn't have a guide, yeah; I'd of been lost.
The Lion King game isn't difficult on easy and you see the whole game. Its actually a pretty great game, beat it on easy many many times as a kid and you don't miss out on anything.
Jak 2 isnt just the hardest game in the series, its the game that feels the most...alive? It feels like a lived in world. I loved Jak and Daxter and Jak 3, but Jak 2 is still my favorite game. Even over Super Mario World. Even over Dark Souls. Even over any Zelda you could name(personally id say A Link to the Past but ya know, Ocarina and Breath). Its just an amazing game that i have never "grown" out of, and i dont feel the same about J&D and Jak 3.
Midnight Club 2
Dang I should have added it. That game was mad difficult
Can confirm Lion King is brutal. I've only beaten it with cheats.
Great list Sharkman! Your “Um actually” made me laugh really loud! I’ve met people in person that are like that 😂😂 “Um actually I invented sign twirling so I know what I’m taking about.”
Also what was the music in the background when you were talking about Returnal??! It sounded SUPER familiar???? 🤔🤔🤔
Christmas 🎄
It is the gamecube menu theme lol thanks for watching!
Jedi Fallen Order was harder because, despite releasing what like 5 years after Dark Souls 3, DS3 was a more polished and fluid game. Sekiro was a great difficult game. Jedi fallen order was an okay game, but the difficulty wasn't deliberate
When I was younger I never played the original Dead Rising, I only played 2 when it came out and as a side note, I think 2 is the best one (haven’t played 4 yet though from what I hear I’m not missing much). 2 is just so nostalgic for me and it is a somewhat challenging game at times but it’s also very fun and totally doable without ripping your hair out. But last year I went back and played the original Dead Rising and yeah, I feel the same way. Sure for the time it’s game mechanics were pretty normal, but going back to play it for the first time now is absolutely brutal. Hour after hour I kept wanting to rip my hair out from the difficulty. I actually made it past those stupid guys in the truck, I beat the sniper boss and grocery store. But when I got to the bitch on the bike I was on that shit for HOURS and I just gave up. I was just saying to myself I’d rather be playing 2 right now! And that’s exactly what I did! Swap to 2 because 1 while it is a fun game to explore and see how the franchise started, it’s a brutal game. Maybe I suck too but yeah, I agree.
Here’s a title I played recently that I’ll mention here. Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime. It was a 360 arcade only game in the like of Deadops arcade from BO1, except it was in the realm of Ghostbusters. Granted, the game is meant to be played co-op with 3 other live humans but I have to play with the NPCs because the game doesn’t go online anymore. In general I think this game sucks and the entire time I played it I was thinking I’d rather pop in BO1 and play Deadops because Sanctum really is the inferior version of that. There are only 12 levels, and when the game starts off it’s pretty chill and fun I might add. By stage 6 or 7 that’s when the difficulty starts to ramp up and the NPCs can no longer keep up. By stage 10 the game just became so brutally difficult that I spent hours on that 1 stage before giving up. I’m a huge ghostbusters fan, but this easily was the worst one I’ve ever played. I’m sure if I was able to have real teammates I could beat the game but as it stands playing it in 2024 yeah the game is just brutal by the last 2 stages.
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Some of the Mario Sunshine Fludd-less levels were way too hard, but for me the Red Coin lily pad ride was the worst...I think it's the only level I never completed. One game that was ostensibly for kids but wayyy to difficult was Batman & Robin on Sega Genesis...I've seen "hardest game" lists that put it below Contra Hard Corps, and I find it hard to believe. With a little practice I was able to beat Hard Corps without much issue, but I've never made it past the 2nd level of Batman & Robin.
I picked up Jedi Fallen Order thinking it would be an entertaining Star Wars game and it damn near made me hate the entire franchise. I think I only got about 3 hours into it before quitting for my mental well being. Struggling so badly at that game solidified that I will never even attempt a Souls game
Ninja: Shadow of darkness... so hard it's legendary
Christmas… When talking about how Kingdom Hearts has aged. You should do like a Top 10 games that have aged like wine or like milk lists. That would be fun.
I dont think the world is ready for my take on games that have aged poorly lol. I looked at every Rareware N64 game and said Goldeneye hasnt aged well and talk about a flaming
reading this back, this is perfect for a video
@@TotallyTubularJonathan that’s 100% true tho. Try to make someone who loved Goldeneye as a kid but hadn’t touched the game since their childhood, I guarantee they would be able to play for more than 30 minutes before dropping it lol.
Agree with Toy Story . Fuck that game. I played it in Ps2 era when my friend sold me his Genesis. Anyway Christmas time.
I’m pretty sure Toy Story on SNES has more gameplay problems in general on top of the difficulty. The Genesis version is the more polished experience if you had to play any versions of these games. It doesn’t change the fact it’s hard across the board, but at least it spare you from hit detection or weirder gameplay issues. Back in the day any Disney tie ins had a reputation for being harder than they should. But I have to wonder why Lion King is even on the thumbnail if that hasn’t been played? I was looking forward to how you felt about the difficulty. Though I’m sure it would be what everyone else would say about it.
Is toy story 1 even worth playing?
@@darthvaderbn If you like side scrolling action platformers yes. Depends on your difficulty tastes. It’s not particularly a bad game, just not well liked because of its difficulty. And the Toy Story 2 video game have since overshadowed it even further. To me it’s worth it if you can deal with the challenge, and how much you like the film. Assuming you never played it ever.
add ni no kuni in there, some of those battles are harder than anything dark souls has
I found those stupid Street X modes in underground 2 to be so hard for no reason. Other than that, the game is easy once you get a decent car and learn how to tune it.
I never got past the final level on normal/advanced mode in the first monkey ball game and was never able to get past the 3rd level on hard/expert mode so I got rid of that game long ago. The second monkey ball game had more to choose from so I held on to that game but never finished storymode and had not played that game since New Year's Day of 2007. I also never finished Super Mario Sunshine. Because I was never able to find out where you are supposed to go to get to the final boss meaning I never even made it to the chucksters. Other surprisingly difficult games you forgot to mention are Donkey Kong 64 because of too many collectables, Turock for N64, and the first 2 Zelda games ever made, the ones for the NES. I finished the first one 10 months ago but was still never able to finish the second to this day.
Christmas. Lmao about Winnie the Pooh actually being the hardest.
i think if you have beat the Toy Story game, beating the lion king game shouldnt be a hard thing,
recently i played it for a review and after a few game overs i could beat it,
it is a hard game but one of the hardest of all time? i dont think so,
by the way thanks for the hard work, making content THIS GOOD at this speed is really impressive 👍