The 20 Hardest Games Of All Time (That I've Played!)
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- Today I look at the hardest games of all time! Let me know your hard games!
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I'm a married man with a toddler in twins on the way, the hardest game for me is anything beyond hitting the start button
Sounds like you’d fined up for years of headache to me
@@BradBrad-ff6hqsounds like you’re a boy and he’s a man
sounds like pull out game is the hardest game for you
I have a toddler (3 years old) and twin boys (1 and a half yrs ols). My advice is getting them on a sleeping schedule with white noise and a nany cam. With time and consistency. You will succeed! Currently passing RDRD2
A big reason why Devil May Cry 3 was so hard is because the difficulty was deliberately increased from the original Japanese release. Their Normal was our Easy, their Hard was our Normal, and so on. The Special Edition was closer to the Japanese difficulty system, making the game noticeably easier, though still no walk in the park.
Only normal mode made a difference, playing on hard-DMD is the same as the og and as far as im aware there were no noticeable balancing tweaks.
Depends on which one you played. The Original one Normal mode was like the hard mode for the American release. Then they released it in special edition which made each region equal.
I had to farm a lot in the second stage only to beat Cerberus, yeah DMC3 was no joke, but when you spend all your savings in just one game you can't chicken out. Even if I beaten DMC1 in DMD mode DMC3 was hard as ballz.
@@diegomireles Funny enough, Cerberus is actually probably the easiest boss in the game, besides the optional Jester fights. They only get harder from there.
I was there, Gandalf.
All Souls games are stupid easy compared to Ninja Gaiden Black/Sigma and Ninja Gaiden II on Master Ninja
Two different types of difficult. Master Ninja difficulty is just plain unfair and unbalanced. The Souls series has the perfect difficulty balance.
@@ElGaby323its not unfair it just test how good you are enemies can die with one combo if you know how to execute it the only downside is spamming explosive shurikens
@@ElGaby323Im a huge souls fan but dont act like its perfectly balanced, there is a lot of bullshit in these games, just less than most on this list.
i took out NG1+2 on master ninja without to much difficulty. in the third one i struggled due to very limited healing. dark souls i find so easy that i dont even get hit if i put some effort into it. but BATTLETOADS and other ultra hard NES games i just cant beat them without either practicing rough parts with savestates or watching a speedrun and copying their strats.
@smoothyodaproductions4373 especially elden Ring, it's easy with summons, but when you play the right way the bosses are extremely artificially difficult for no reason, like Maliketh was artificially difficult dude was broken as all he'll
Great video. Sekiro might be my favorite game of all time. It’s just perfect.
And not nearly as hard as he makes it out to be in the video
@@notimportant8643 Sekiro is not that hard to learn, but it does take a lot of time to learn and a lot of tries on each boss. Also, it feels really hard because it's almost impossible to just jump in and actually be good at the combat.
Sekiro is not even hard lmao
@@notimportant8643he did say that "difficulty is subjective"
@notimportant8643 if you dont cheese it in any way and don't go out of your way to make the game easier, it's hard bro don't even lie. The first hours of any player are just a massacre and the game does not help at all. When you are at your lowest all you'll get is a new dragon rot notification telling you another one of your friends is about to die because of you
No matter how hard Battletoads is, it’s still a blast to play.
Agreed. I've only beaten it once when I was a kid. It was a Blockbuster rental weekend and I HAD to make sure I beat it before I returned it. Thank God for Nintendo Power. Lol
When you mentioned Toy Story 1 ( a game for "kids" that most people would think would be easy) I immediately got vietnam flashbacks of the Abe's Odyssey games on the PS1 and Lion King for the SNES and Genesis😭😭
man Abes Odyssey is a honorable mention for sure game was hard but honestly more frustrating than difficult it felt like lol
the lion king was NEVER that hard. It was challenging sure but I can breeze through that game without dying easily now
I forgot about Abes Odessy totally freaking insane.... I'm definitely putting Wipeout 2097 on my list just trying to unlock gold in latter tracks is insane when combined with the speed and speed reaction time.
The lion king was made with a hard difficulty on purpose because in that years people used to rent games and games developers were worried about lower sales,when Westwood Studios was making the lion king Disney ordered them make the second part of the game harder.
Thank you for your time man great video 🙏
Im a an average gamer skill wise and Returnal took me like 10 hours to get to the second level but after putting around 50 hours into the game, I started a new game with no upgrades and was able to complete the entire game without dying. Returnal is a very well balanced game.
100% agreed about Returnal. The difficulty doesn't change as far as I remember, what changed is your skill level you got super good at it.
I loved Returnal. Your skills improve and you eventually dominate. It is perfectly balanced
Underated, it's console exclusiveness made it relatively unknown
Coincidentally Housemarque just announced a Returnal graphic novel and animated show
What do you mean by second level? The red desert area? I don’t understand how you beat the whole game in one life. The game gets much harder after Act 1 (after you defeat the final boss), with new enemies and completely new attack patterns. To be able to figure all that out on your first attemp makes you an impressive gamer, not average.
I struggled and never progressed in Cuphead, that game is insane. Just when you think you/re getting good at it....
Spent a whole 2 weeks on and off working on getting the platinum trophy. Probably the hardest plat difficulty wise that I’ve ever done. There are much long and tedious plats but this is easily the worst difficulty wise.
I beat it in a day after seeing some videos of it on TH-cam. Pretty harsh and occasionally super annoying, but I think people call the game way harder than it actually is
Skill issue. Cuphead is too fair and well-balanced game to be called "one of the hardest of all time"
This is a really fun list! Nice vid!
TMNT NES. Truly wonder how many kids in the 90s beat that game.
Agreed.
Great video idea man, congrats!
Difficulty was truly insane in the old era of gaming, since game design was completely different.
So here are my 2 cents from games I’ve played.
I don’t know the hardest game I ever played because I played too many classic games, like Splatterhouse and Battletoads.
I also loved Arcade games, and House of the Dead 2 gets a mention from me. The fire-rate requiered to play well is something that most people can’t achieve. No wonder internet people play with a mouse instead of a light gun with auto-reload.
When it comes to popular games, Resident Evil Code Veronica is the hardest one of that series. DMC1 is the hardest one from that one since Gold orbs weren’t that but rather Yellow, so if you didn’t know strategies, ran out of items, and lacked gaming skills/brains to load a save if you messed up. You could be stuck on a guaranteed D rank save that will force you to play the entire level once you die.
Souls-likes are overrated on the difficulty topic IMO, but Nioh 1 has to be the hardest if you aren’t paying attention. On the late game there are too many “duo fights” and gauntlets. They are great if you manage to create a build, but hell on earth if you are going with a character that dies in 1 hit.
my top 10 is this:
Ghosts n Goblins Resurrection
Devil May Cry 3
Megaman 9
Donkey Kong Country 2
Sekiro
Super Mario Bros Lost Levels
Cuphead
Bayonetta
FZero GX
Spelunky 2
DMC 1 was a living headache, I went back for a 2nd playthrough, the game made me want to pull out my eyes
DMC 3 was extremely Versatile with Dante and had many ways of combo-ing, but dmc 1 was something I wouldn't even recommend
bayonetta ? on the hardest difficulty or you mean Rodin ?
That's the new ghosts and goblins right? If so i agree that shit is relentless. It's harder than any of the other ones I've played I think.
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Glad you never played battletoads 😅
Great list!! I’ve played almost all of these but most importantly you’ve confirmed you’ll do a Mega Man video someday and you also mentioned Castlevania!
Great video bro
OMGGGG I felt so validated when you put Jak 2 on here! I love difficult games, but Jak 2 has so much jank to the point where the game is just plain unfair.
Yeah I liked the game overall and got all the trophies on PS3 version but man is it frustrating and downright cheap.
Yep raged so hard at that shit when I was like 12-13 took it back to the trade in store for credit. Awful game, such a troll for young kids that think it's gonna be fun like the first one.
The final boss in JAK 3 sucked, very difficult.
Cuphead is the one video game that broke me
It’s a great game, modern classic but I fucking hate it and I earned that right
If you haven't played La Mulana 1 and 2 I strongly recommend you do so. Cave story is also pretty damn difficult too. I liked and subscribed, keep up the good work sir.
I’m so glad you mentioned Mega Man 9! The final 3 levels and THEN beating all of the bosses and THEN Dr Wily in 3 forms…it is absolutely insane.
The hardest game I have ever played in the history of gaming is The Adventures of Bayou Billy. I would go on to say that it’s actually impossible. Journey to Silius, SILVER SURFER and Ninja Gaiden (OG Xbox!) are all brutal too.
By the way, I loved the video! Great picks and I really enjoyed your commentary, very detailed with each game. Subscribed 😊
I remember as a kid renting Battletoads from Pharmor, if I recall (pretty sure they had video games to rent, or maybe it was a different place NOT called Blockbuster). Like the AVGN used to say, the rented game was our entire weekend once chores & HW were done. We never beat the turbo tunnel. Endless attempts, but no success. We eventually beat Super Ghouls n Ghosts but never Battletoads. We kept replaying the first 3 levels because it was fun, but the tunnel was the endgame.
Cool video man
YOOOO, super glad to hear Darksiders be mentioned at the DMC3 segment in this video :D love that series!
And i'm hearing that Sheep, Dog 'n Wolf/Sheep Raider OST playing during that segment.
Where it concerns games in that genre, i can heartily recommend Soulstice by Reply Game Studios from 2022! One of my favourites in the entire genre with a lot to offer, some shortcomings notwithstanding. *Lot* to offer on gameplay, mechanics, world and characters.
The upcoming Genokids, Enenra, Yasuke: A Lost Descendant and Gori: Cuddly Carnage are looking interesting too. Honorary shout to No Straight Roads from 2020. Not *exactly* in the same genre, much shorter and boss-centric, but full of style, character, personality and a big, big love for music. (All bosses have at least five versions of their boss themes: Base, EDM, Rock, Christmas version and Encore Edition remix).
Thanks for putting respect on Nioh 1. Going from the base game to DLC bosses is the most insane difficult jump I've ever had.
One of my favorite channels, really.
Great list! I've never beaten the turbo tunnel of Battle Toads and have no idea what the other levels look like. 😂 Nioh was way too difficult for me. I gave up on that one.
Battletoads 😢 I also first played it on Rare Replay. Never finished the game but man I can't imagine the 90s where you and your school friends cannot beat the turbo tunnel to even see the rest of the game 😮
Watch Bootsy (Cinemassacre/Angry Video Game Nerd) play Battletoads and beaten it.
this channel is criminally underrated and FOR WHAT TH-cam?? FOR WHATT
Same
Great list, I also remembered a brutally difficult game if you want the true ending: Volgarr the Viking. An indie game from 2013. Even if the game has 5-6 levels I think you must not die on any of them and beat the final boss to get the true ending. You die in max 3-4 hits and lose pieces of your armor like in the Ghouls games. Have fun! 😆
I do remember beating Jak 2 as a kid with cheats on which is a testament to how hard it was. Out of the games here that I've played, Nioh 1 edges out Sekiro for difficulty. Isshin the Sword Saint took the most attempts out of any fromsoftware boss, but Nioh's combination of Date Masamune and Maria really gave me a hard time. Only reason I beat Maria was cause she glitched into the wall otherwise I wouldn't have beaten her ever.
Not ever eventually you would have beated her. it will only took longer thats all. Isshin was indeed one of the all time hardest bosses ever!
I have a few for you: Hagane: The Final Conflict (SNES), Nightmare Busters (SNES), Holy Diver (Famicom/NES my Kryptonite), Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight (NES, and NO, this is NOT a 2D fighting game), Undead Line (Genesis), Chakkan: The Forever Man (Genesis). I'm sure I forgot some but give this list a try, LOL. If you think Ikaruga is hard, you haven't played Ketsui, give that one a try then tell me Ikaruga is hard, LOL again. Maximo is NOT that hard. The original Ghosts N Goblins is hard. I did beat it on both arcade and NES (and yes, went through the second loop and got the true ending on both of them). I enjoyed the video.
Thank you for watching! Of the ones you mentioned the only one I have tried or really even heard of is Street Fighter 2010. And major props for beating Ghosts N Goblins!
@@TotallyTubularJonathan Try the other games, but don't say I didn't warn you. Insert sinister grin here.
I totally agree with the number one, you have choose of the 20 Hardest Games Of All Time that you, and also i have played.
I play video games since 1986, and i have finished every game i wanted to finish, including most of the games on your list (there are some, i didn´t played Cuphead, Returnal and Super Meat Boy), but in those 38 years of playing video games, i was never able to finish Battletoads on the NES or Super Nintendo.
I was hoping that with the rewind feature in Rare Replay, it will be easy to finish it but still no success in this case.
At least Battletoads Arcade has unlimited lives and continues, otherwise i don´t think i could finish this game either.
Sekiro is definitely my favourite platinum I have, it is so damn rewarding
Sekiro is one of the greatest games of all time
@@Lou_Begga I 100% agree
Sekiro's plat would've been the best one... if it wasn't for that goddamn "unlock all skills" trophy/achievement. It takes forever. When I 100% the game again (played it 1st on PS4, then a 2nd time on PC) I got every achievement really fast except for that grind. Oh and getting all materials kinda sucked too. I'd say Elden Ring has the least tedious plat so far
I literally quit on Castlevania 3 because every time I tried to get off the stairs I would just plummet.
If you crave for more Contra i recommend playing Hard Corps Uprising although not as hard its still super fun
Its in my 25 most loved game
Dude Jak 2 is brutal. That mission where you are on the docks and all the ships come down dropping a million dudes. Ninja Gaiden always jumps forward for me. The first boss is insane. That idiot with the nunchucks. A couple newer ones that I played recently that killed me were the first ghost runner and nioh 2. The underwater level in returnal was pretty brutal as well. Donkey kong country 3 is a killer also
The toughest for me was fricking Lion King on SNES. That second level with the giraffes and whatnot was just too much lol.
Aside from that, probably Battletoads yeah. It's 100% the toughest.
It's always worthy of a good chuckle seeing games like Nioh pop up on these types of lists. Sekiro kicked my ass so hard 'cause I couldn't git gud enough to pass the skill checks, but Nioh's way more a matter of knowledge than skill. Build your character in a halfway smart manner, spam shurikens/kunai/etc. Almost all bosses and regular enemies die long before you run out of ammo, and you can stay way out of range of their attacks with weapons like the Kusarigama. Nioh 1 was laughably easy with the exception of one annoying slime boss that everyone (including the devs) agree is BS. Nioh 2 balanced stats and options out better so not every enemy was a complete pushover, but also it came with so many more build choices that fleshed out every combat option thoroughly. Cuphead, Sekiro, Mario Lost Levels, F Zero GX, now those are some HARD as cement games that demand nothing less than highly skilled play to make it through.
Maybe it's just a different way of viewing what qualifies as "hardest". If there's an easy mode that offers a much lower skill floor, I don't think that competes on the same level as games that don't have a super duper easy mode.
Sekiro was a lot easier than Nioh for me 🤷🏻♂️
Souls vet here. Sekiro was the toughest but Ninja Gaiden 1 was absolutely hellish! NG1 is the hardest game I’ve ever played (both the NES and Sigma, but NES first)
hey bro, would you do a video ranking your 10/20 favourite games? big love from the UK ❤
well I love the UK! And man one day I might do like a top 50 haha
@@TotallyTubularJonathan dat'd be sick
I've got one harder than Battletoads. It's a shooter on the NES called Recca: Summer Carnival. It was never released outside of Japan and was never intended for mass production. It was a competition game made just for a festival in Japan. I've only been able to play it through emulation; but man, it's fucking incredible what those programmers did with the hardware. The very definition of the earliest examples of a bullet hell shooter and it was on the fucking NES. Fast paced as fuck, and even with the screen filled with enemy fire; pretty much ZERO slowdown. It's incredible. Highly recommend. (If you're a glutton for punishment.)
Whenever someone mentions a hard game my mind immidiately goes to the original Rayman. It's like getting you ass beat by a childrens cartoon
Playing games such as:
Battletoads
Bucky o hare
Willow
Contra
Guardian legend
TMNT 1
Double dragon 3
All back in the mid 90’s with no help or guides/internet and being 10-11 years old is about as hard as it can get.
Great times with friends trying to figure it out!!!!
Some of the guardian moves and casting slow on some of the harder bosses was a lifesaver on my way to the Nioh plat!
for ikaruga, see the person playing 2-player through the arcade version controlling both ships, one with each hand. sheer lunacy
I'm gonna recommend 3 SNES games that will brutalize any player:
1. ActRaiser 2
2. Hagane
3. Out of This World
Jak II is the only Jak game I have played. It made me cry as a kid almost everyday. Racing missions like you mentioned felt unfair.
I feel validated with Jak too. It was so hard I gave up on gaming as a kid, because I thought I didn't have the skills to game. It wasn't until 2018 that I tried again. Cement.
I found the Souls series to really not be that bad. You can level up, enhance weapons, use spells from range, and befriend various NPCs that'll show up at boss fights to help out. Bloodborne is the toughest (since it's faster moving). However any games where you can level up and overpower foes can be surmounted with some time and effort. Sekiro is the From game that goes against this by getting rid of all your potential advantages, but even that game I found to not be as hard as the media hyped it up to be. Your parries go up and down so quickly that you're not really penalized for mistiming a parry, so tapping it a couple times as an attack comes in works well. Try to get it close to the attack but it's okay to parry too early because boom you can do another one right away. I didn't really need to learn the rhythm of enemy attacks, just tap-tap when an attack was incoming.
Now the Nioh games, on the other hand, those are hard. You can level up but it doesn't make the kind of huge difference it makes in the Souls series, plus they move very fast (faster than Sekiro). After platinuming all of the From games, I got crushed in Nioh. Think I made it about halfway through it before I just kinda trailed off. I need to give it another go eventually.
It's always worthy of a good chuckle seeing games like Nioh pop up on these types of lists. Sekiro kicked my ass so hard 'cause I couldn't git gud enough to pass the skill checks, but Nioh's way more a matter of knowledge than skill. Build your character in a halfway smart manner, spam shurikens/kunai/etc. Almost all bosses and regular enemies die long before you run out of ammo, and you can stay way out of range of their attacks with weapons like the Kusarigama. Nioh 1 was laughably easy with the exception of one annoying slime boss that everyone (including the devs) agree is BS. Nioh 2 balanced stats and options out better so not every enemy was a complete pushover, but also it came with so many more build choices that fleshed out every combat option thoroughly. Cuphead, Sekiro, Mario Lost Levels, F Zero GX, now those are some HARD hard games that demand nothing less than highly skilled play to make it through.
Maybe it's just a different way of viewing what qualifies as "hardest". If there's an easy mode that offers a much lower skill floor, I don't think that competes on the same level as games that don't have a super duper easy mode.
Yeah, dark souls mostly has its reputation for being so hard because of the era, and while there were a couple sections in the game that I really struggled with (smough & ornstein) it is a game that is fundamentally built to be overcome no matter how bad you are, it’s why dying is contextualised and it suits the world and story thematically. Hollows only go hollow because they’ve given up, but even in death the player doesn’t go hollow because they are pushing forward until the end. A very fundamental core value of the game is that you will get stronger and win. All souls games are built like that.
That being said, for the type of game that dark souls is, the difficulty is pretty high even to this day outside of games that try to emulate it. Arcade games and character action games on the hardest difficulties will always be THE MOST difficult but that is entirely by design, quarter sucking and level by level games that are purely about knowledge and execution- by nature of just design souls games cannot be more difficult, but they are definitely hard.
Their difficulty is overblown for sure. They are challenging but nothing near Ninja Gaiden or older Monster Hunters for example
@@smmemperorlucifer2Nice copypasta that you posted already, you can cheese Sekiro too with firecrackers, Mikiri, Ichimonji, 2nd life...
Bloodborne was easy for a miyazaki game, because of the mobility from start to finish.
lol it took me 4 hours of grinding to beat the final boss ishin the sword saint in sekiro . i legit screamed i was so pumped to beat him lmao, ill never forget that feeling - so satisfying.
The boss fights are so satisfying 10/10 - played it after elden ring and maybe loved it even more than elden ring
When it comes to difficulty, Battle Garegga is the GOAT for me. I feel like I'm in an abusive relationship with that game. It constantly hurts me but I can't help but keep on getting back to it. It's a true masterpiece of EVIL game design I would say. I have a thing of always playing hard games blind for the first couple of days/weeks/months, and Battle Garegga is such a treasure trove of game mechanics if going in blind, holy shit! You start by not knowing ANYTHING about rank, ships and pickups, and slowly game teaches you by delivering strategic amounts of pain to your psyche. But slowly you learn to persevere - both physically by building up necessary reflexes, and mentally by strengthening your character through hundreds of failed attempts. Truly a GREAT game.
Now try Sekiro with the Long May the Shadows Reflect Mod for even more brutal difficulty, as well as the Resurrection mod, another difficulty mod! Both add mini bosses I believe, enemies, and more!
NINJA GAIDEN BLACK is one of the very few games I've beaten multiple times. The very first run through I struggled mid-game with Alma - I wanted to throw the controller multiple times. Then one Saturday I repeatedly tried to beat her taking long breaks after multiple attempts and about 8 hours later, VICTORY. I was stunned. Fast forward to the last time I faced Alma (a while ago) and I beat her without her touching me ONCE. :-) Though I have to say, I would not have the patience to get that good today.
Once you said jack too I knew exactly which level you were going to mention 😂😂
Listen man, since you are covering subgenres lately which i really enjoy, some of my favourite videos on youtube period. Anyway i just want to make a special request for a subgenre i really love since forever. It might not even be your thing really, just a reccomendation thats all, anyway i am Talking Isometric arpgs. Not baldurs gate, i mean the diablo clones like path of exile or torchlight 2 or you know, Diablo. Thanks! Have a nice christmas.
Interesting request! Well to be totally honest I haven’t played a bunch of them but I will see what I can do. I haven’t even played Diablo 2 or 4 lol
@@TotallyTubularJonathan I am playing Diablo 4 currently. Anyway thanks for considering the idea, btw I really adore Diablo 4 even though A LOT of people hate it.
I actually got Sekiro's platinum earlier this year and while it was incredibly hard it was also so much fun.
I have to shout-out SMT 3 Nocturne as doing the impossible of taking a turn based JRPG and somehow making it as punishing as Bloodborne, still love the game though.
I LOVE nocturne and they have dante, but I'm sht at it. I have HD on pc, I beat Matador with low af health so am I trash and how do I get better? General tips because I'm really loving this game.
@@titaniumcranium3755 Agility buffs/debuffs and wind magic resistance, theres actually a video on this topic to cheese the hell outta him lol
@@MILDMONSTER1234 I already beat mat, I just need to know if that's good enough for the rest of the game and what other tips
@@titaniumcranium3755 Strength build is always better than magic for the MC.
Fog Breath and War Cry are must have support moves.
The next Fiend you'll fight (Daisoujou) is totally broken and basically a MP-giving machine, besides being a great healer. Put him on your team ASAP.
@@SteelBallRunner tysm! I put too much mag on demi Fiend to fight matador but looks like I can reload a save and put stats into strength instead
My list would be ALL NES games
Dude i kept watching it going through the list and was like this man ain’t played battle toads. Then i got to the end and laughed and was like yep
Og dmc3 is hard as sht and makes no sense at how hard it was. Special edition reallly saved this game
Sekiro is hard but it really is a masterpiece. Once it clicks there is no game that is more rewarding and satisfying. That's why even if sekiro isn't the hardest game on this list, it's definitely the best.
I think the rat race and airplane level in Battletoads are by far more difficult than level 3. I’ll get back into Battletoads and master it sometime. Sekiro was a fun one.
I guess I’m a good gamer. I made it to level 11 in battletoads. Maybe I could beat the game sooner enough
Sekiro is truly one of the smoothest and hardest games ever. Beat it 4 times for the 4 endings, and it is so damn rewarding!
Boss fights in snk fighting games…. Legendary
Geese Howard in the OG Fatal Fury can bite me
My first run in Returnal I beat the game, I was confused why it was so hard. Think I got lucky with the drops that run, but it was challenging.
But in Returnal you can quit out now and continue later, thank god.
Amazing video!
What is the name of the song played on background for mario lost levels? sounds like something from nintendo.
it is the Mario Kart wii menu theme!
I'm proud to say I beat F Zero GX on Very Hard and have the full roster unlocked :)
It took me a total of 2 years to beat it.
I remember the underwater, bomb disarming level from TMNT on the NES being pretty hard. But I cant judge the difficulty of the entire game because we only beat it once or twice without enough lives or continues left to get much further.
I felt so accomplished when finally beat Returnal.
"Cement" The only game I wasn't expecting was DMC. I played it like 2 years ago but didn't really find it that difficult (I played it on devil hunter the first time). It wasn't the combat that made it difficult for me but the navigation in some levels. I was lost for like hours in one area.
Respect!! Cement
My top 20, all beaten:
1 Super Hexagon
2 Spelunky HD
3 Rain World
4 Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!
5 Cruelty Squad
6 Super Ghouls 'n' Ghosts
7 Ikaruga
8 Contra III: The Alien Wars
9 Contra: Hard Corps
10 Thunder Force IV
11 Dark Souls
12 Demon's Souls
13 Bloodborne
14 Elden Ring
15 Hollow Knight
16 Mega Man 9
17 Castlevania III
18 Nioh
19 Hyper Light Drifter
20 Ninja Gaiden (NES)
Still have to try Returnal, Sekiro, F-Zero GX, Cuphead, and Battletoads #fakegamer
Off the top of my head Heart of Darkness on the PS1 and Split/Second on Xbox 360. The rubberbanding on S/S is insane
Sifu, hollow knight and jump king are good contenders as well 👍
Sifu is the hardest game I’ve ever played. I couldn’t beat on master difficulty. Maybe my broken AC and hot weather at the time played a role, but even disciple difficulty made me feel physically ill.
I hated Hollow Knight, but it’s definitely a great game that deserves to be on this list.
Honorable mention for me: Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 Adventure Mode. Still can't beat it for the last trophy. You need to have perfect runs and luck on your side to clear all maps in the last round of levels. It reminds me of how you were describing F-Zero. The game just decides to randomly let you win and you move on. It's frustrating and annoying but also addictive since you come seconds close to beating it every time until it finally just let's you win. It's a game I have to quit and come back to like I had to with the gold spheres from Sonic Mania!!!!
Saw Battletoads in the intro and IMMEDIATELY had Vietnam flashbacks
You can make a list with 20 fighting games from the 90's and it would hold up.
I really enjoyed playing Maximo 1&2 Back then in early 2000's.
Sweet, Maximo being mentioned!
Crash Bandicoot 4. The purple relic time trials. That's the hardest challenge i have ever done. I stopped playing platformers for about a year after completing that challenge.
Yeah here comes the irony of the subjectivity of the definition of “difficulty”. The thing is that for me Sekiro is massively easier than even the dang third game of Darksouls. It actually has something to do with the fact that Sekiro was pretty much my first souls-like game, but that fact is what actually doesn’t make it actually a subjective scenario but opens the eyes on real things. The thing is that although Sekiro is also a souls-like game yet it differs from its predecessor drastically, and while the community was being exposed to dark souls series gradually game after game, Sekiro just appeared on its own, Miadzaki found a way to make his brand-new game hard not by the way of improving the previous methods and logic but by just making the game really different (not arguing with the fact the game’s still hard), and that was just that leap that typical darksouls enjoyer experienced when they decided on booting that new “Miadzaki” game. For me Sekiro is a really logical game, there’s just that strike-parry approach, it’s really like these rhythm games, meanwhile darksoul 3 is just something, it requires me much more time to beat anybody because what made me good at Sekiro doesn’t really work that well in DS. It’s the learning and self-improving part. Sekiro like I said was quite simple in its logic of combat but pretty tough in punishing (which makes it even more similar to rhythm games) which made the learning of patterns part nearly automatic and unconscious, you didn’t really need to learn a boss’s moves on purpose, it just came fluidly and naturally, just like learning a song’s melody, meanwhile darksouls 3 was just overall about timings between the rolls when you can land your strike or a couple, and it didn’t do quite well at teaching you stuff, there was just no motive, you didn’t understand what was actually going on with the boss most of the time. That’s the way I see it
Hi man, your video is very good.
I do have a question: my first souls game was Sekiro and I completed it through the difficult ending. It took me tones of hours and effort. The most difficult game of my life. Then i went through Darks Souls games, ER, Lies of P... They are difficult but not as challenging as Sekiro. Question is... Will I suffer a lot when playing Nioh?
no nioh isn’t hard lmaoo compared to any other souls game lol idk why this guy finds nioh hard
My first incursion in the FromSoftware series was Bloodborne.
Bought it second hand one Saturday morning. Played it less than an hour. Returned it in the afternoon.
you should buy it again - one of my favorite all-times games (and first From game) and I probably died 50-100 times before I became somewhat competent - it's really awesome!
Why did you return it? Its The easiest soulsborne game imo
43:00 Yaiba has to be my most challenging platinum trophy on PS! It surpasses anything I had to do in Souls, Bloodborne and Elden Ring. The only platinum I didn't have the patience to get was Demons Souls plat.😢
battletoads was such a great game for the first 2 levels and then it went sideways. Could have been the best game on the NES.
i like when you invent arguments with nobody so that you can own them for us
Oh , I had a copy of battletoads as a kid, played it many many many times when I was 10-12. I once made it to the final boss, only once.
Sonic colors ultimate edition on switch is also hard. ,Because of the hover wisp and the dark blue whip controls are wired .
I finished most of these and recently started playing sonic games. My god, I get deleted in sonic unleashed. The speed... Insane.
I needed tutorial to beat Tomb Raider 1 and Rayman 1
Gun.Smoke (Mame emulator) & Alienation (PS4) on Hardcore mode.
Respect to anyone whose completed either one.
When i finally managed to defeat Isshin after who knows how many hours and attempts the red circle appeared for the execution, my fking controller battery died and Isshin got up and killed me so I had to do it all over again I was so mad but got so good at that specific fight I just did it first try after that. Sekiro was such a great game
Oh god I thought I was the only one who had Toy Story on the SNES!
No idea how I finished it when I was a kid
Kaiser knuckles I think is called like that is a Taito fighting game that has one of the hardest boss fight ever.
Tubular do you like games from Taito?they are quiet good and dam hard
Great list and I agree with virtually all of your picks. Have you not played Celeste though? Because it's definitely harder than Dark Souls and some other games on this list.
What’s hard about Celeste? I have it on my ps5 and have been reluctant to start it as I heard it’s platforming hell. I love hard games, but platforming stresses me out in the unfun way. I’ll eventually give it a try because everyone says it’s amazing.
@@DragnGo try it it’s amazing
Dark souls and dmc3 shouldn’t be here tbh because I’ve been able to beat them on my first playthrough but games like ninja gaiden I can’t even get past the second level
OP explicitly said it's THEIR list with games THEY'VE found difficult. So yh, anything they put on the list, should be on the list.
Streets of Rage 3 US version is definitely up there with the toughest game I've ever played
Toy Story. Man what a hard game. Emblematic of the times though, that movie tie in games weren’t made to be accessible. I remember renting aladin when I was like 6 and just got destroyed thinking it would be a fun game based on my then favorite movie lol
I suppose you've never played R-Type III on the SNES
I’m playing Sekiro right now and it’s one of the best games I’ve ever played. I’ve only played Elden Ring (beaten it twice) and Sekiro is quite difficult. I’m on the final three bosses of the game.. Father Owl, Demon of Hatred, and Isshin. Most of the endgame bosses have taken me 30-45 minutes, so I’m ready to battle.
Imo Armored Core 6 is pretty rough. That Ibis series C weapon toward the end is no joke!
I wonder how would you rank Ninja Turtles NES and Silver Surfer rank 😮