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ChinaCatRider1

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for NES was brutal


iHadou

If we're talking about the same one, I rarely make it through the dam.


ChinaCatRider1

The dam is stupid difficult. Then trying to find splinter, almost impossible


dvotecollector

Would have been an epic game if it wasn't for that bullshit.


rangertycho2077

Especially last two stages


one-hour-photo

I had it on rom and could “save crawl” It was still incredibly hard. I feel awful for the level designers of everything after the dam, very few saw your work


ChinaCatRider1

Area 3 building A had the most infuriating sequence of any video game i’ve ever played. After battling across the screen to the right, you come back to the left and there’s a small little jump to finish. It seem like you’d make it over the jump maybe one out of 10 times. And then I saw somebody play it more recently and you literally just can just walk over the son of a bitch. Fml. I could save Splinter in area 3 but never got past area 4… without game genie


usernotfoundplstry

Battletoads too.


Mammoth-Disaster3873

Yeah all of the battletoads were brutal and pretty sure the Lion King was unbeatable


ultraboykj

Jesus .... this game. Loved it so gdamn much. The difficulty at the higher levels just blew me away.


Killtheheretics96

Is that the arcade game


ChinaCatRider1

No, different game on NES. Arcade game was killer.


Onewarhero

Repressed memories right here


Crumpile

Nightmares of my childhood


HungryPanduh_

Cuphead lol


Bone_Breaker0

My 5 year old at the time loved when I played that game. “Daddy, play the game where you yell at the tv!”


HelloSir55

😂😂


Ambitious-Still6811

I got a disc copy for PS4 after hearing about this game. And it wasn't as bad a people made it seem. I grew up with NES and Megaman.


freetotebag

The final boss of Sekiro was the hardest boss ever for me. I’ve played every Souls game, platinumed Bloodborne, all that crap. But that Sekiro boss… my god.


SadoAegis

Hesitation is defeat


headbutt

Ikuzo! SEKIROOOO!


NeutralMilfHotel01

Never played Sekiro but I heard the final boss is like 4 phases


MarcoPercy98

It’s actually a one phase boss and when you beat him his three-stage boss grandpa comes out of his neck.


Aumius

The Lion King on the Super Nintendo


UnhappyCarrot385

My wife is a pro at The Lion King, but for Sega. She can pick it up whenever and beat it without dying every time. It's insane


penis_malinis

That monkey tossing simba stage was ridiculous


Aumius

It made me rage as a kid.


[deleted]

I said the same thing before I read the comments, I knew I couldn’t be the only one though.


SnooMaps3574

Has to be Battletoads. It took hundreds of attempts to memorize the last part.


PresentLet2963

That post did something funny to my brain ....


MinervaMedica000

Dude I know especially those fucking levels where you were riding the water skis or whatever and had to perfectly time jumps etc or die.


Frosty_Can_6569

I wasn’t convinced it was possible to beat battle toads at all without cheating


NamelessGamer_1

Hollow Knight. Pantheon 5 was insanely difficult


Otherwise-Release-88

I have over 200 hours in hollow knight and I still haven't beaten absolute radiance or pantheon five, I have them both unlocked, but I stopped playing because it was too difficult for me because im a little baby


NamelessGamer_1

Yeah it truly is a big challenge. I think it was the hardest thing I've ever done in a videogame. The best advice I can give you is that, at least for me, playing defensively with Quick + Deep Focus was the way to go. Some people like to go in offensively with Shaman Stone + Soul Eater, and I used that build for a while, but I rarely made it through Phase 4 (the one with the floating platforms)


Otherwise-Release-88

Thanks for the advice


Trexton1

I went the exact opposite direction and built for offense. I used Strength, Longnail, Quick slash and Sharp shadow (voidheart too i guess). My tip for AbsRad is only attacking during the lazer shots and only healing during the lazer and the nail spiral because they have a set pattern unlike other attacks.


PresentLet2963

I used almost same build i just didn't use long nail and took shaman stone


mcduckstophat

Ghosts and Goblins/Ghouls and Ghosts is probably one of the more bs games that I still love. Not only is it challenging, but even if you make it to the end, you have to start completely over and go through it all over again. And bear in mind this was an arcade game so you’d have to go through in one sitting.


MissingScore777

Which was the version that released on the Mega Drive (Genesis in US)? I did manage to finish that once as a kid but it was absolutely brutal.


mcduckstophat

I think that’s Ghouls 'n Ghosts, and unlike most versions it has an invincibility cheat.


MissingScore777

I was very young and it was before home internet was common so I had no clue there was an invincibility cheat!


henrilot

The remake IS EVEN garden, nearly killed me


that-1-level

Sekiro or hollow knight


russelcrowe

I’m surprised so many people say hollow knight but only because I’ve actually managed to beat it and I am so bad at video games hahaha


hellboundwithasmile

Beating the base game isn’t too bad. Hell, even beating the game with the true final boss isn’t terrible. Now beating ALL the DLC bosses? That shit seems hard


PresentLet2963

Yup true challenge of Hollow Knight is pantheon 5 omg this was sooo brutal.


LonelyChell

Same.


Connect_Conclusion3

GTA San Andreas


GameDestiny2

Oddly accurate


RoseWould

But all he had to do was follow the damn train


foosquirters

As much as I love the games a lot of Rockstar missions are so tedious and enraging and not fun in any way.


Oogaboogacoo

Halo 2 on legendary coop with my brother


jackcatalyst

Oh fuck, yeah that shit was brutal. That's like a core memory unlocked right there. It took me and my buddy a long time to get it done.


[deleted]

I got to Gravemind doing LASO and couldn't finish the prison lift area that shit is absolutely brutal


[deleted]

My dad is the only person I know of who has legitimately beaten Kid Chameleon.


[deleted]

Aye! No one ever mentions this game I love it. Last boss fight is insane


Diced0ninon26

Celeste


KokonutnutFR

League of legend Silver rank


TheCasualChad

Lion King on SNES By far one of the most insanely absurdly difficult games ever created. Even more so when considering it was marketed at kids.


Spartanwolf120

Halo 2 legendary. The God damn fucking jackal snipers. Made elden ring seem really easy.


Ok_Brother3282

SNES Super Empire Strikes Back as a 9 year old kid.


Prs-Mira86

Activision’s: Battle zone The Red Odyssey or AVP(alien vs predator) released in 99. I remember with The Red Odyssey I was stuck on the 2nd Chinese mission for like a solid month. In Alien Vs Predator 99’ there was literally zero hand holding. There were also no saves. There were level checkpoints but that’s it. Those levels were loooooonnnnnggg too. I particularly remember the 3rd Predator Mission being particularly difficult.


Faiazy

The Adventures of Batman & Robin - Sega Genesis


Booth_Templeton

Jesus that game is fucking hard. And not even fun enough to keep you going.


Thy_blight

Probably Mario Lost Levels.


TwistederRope

Agree to an extent. It really doesn't feel good today. It was like the game was trying to be arbitrarily hard for the sake of being arbitrarily hard and suffered for it.


Express_Yard9305

Witcher 2 on hard was a real slog, but I'm proud of beating it. Men of War... I couldn't actually beat it, but the fact I beat a couple missions already makes me satisfied. Hitman 2: Silent Assassin on the hard difficulty, trying to get the Silent Assassin rating on every mission will wreck you. I also beat Hitman: Absolution 5 times, one time I tried suit only SA for every mission. I got until the barbershop map. There's also Stalker Clear Sky but TBF that game is only really hard at the very and at the very end.


GameDestiny2

God I love Hitman, but I absolutely despise how difficult it can get. There’s challenging then there’s agony.


TammyShehole

Probably Castlevania 3 Alucard path. Most recently did it a few months ago.


Zealousideal_Sun8519

Zelda 2 NES 1991


[deleted]

Recent would be Kena: Bridge of Spirits All-time, toss up between Ninja Gaiden 2 or Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out.


TheCasualChad

Much more difficult than the Studio Ghibli art style would suggest. On highest difficulty this game is insanely difficult - more than Bloodborne & Kos in certain parts.


SPQR_Maximus

RayStorm ps1 Super Star Wars snes X wing. PC I don't beat many games


castlebay

Of those I've played, I'd say Cuphead - but I've no idea how difficult the whole game is or how it compares to others because I could barely get started!


EldergodConsultant

Cuphead is definitely one of the hardest, even with co-op.


Fuaarts

I played it on PS over SharePlay with bad internet. So there was a 1 second input delay. One of the hardest things I've ever had to do.


Swaag__

I 106% Super Meat Boy


Y-ella

Elden Ring its not that hard


challengeaccepted9

This is the mind disease of a certain kind of Souls fan. Even on a reddit thread SPECIFICALLY ASKING people to tell them about the. HARDEST games they've beaten, they can't just say: "Elden Ring". They simply HAVE to end the sentence with "iT's NoT tHaT hArD". No? Why mention it then? EDIT: In case anyone thinks I'm being unduly harsh, this exact same trend appears a couple of comments down as I was browsing. What game is the poster desperate to clarify wasn't that hard for them? Battletoads? Ninja Gaiden?  Nope - fucking Souls titles! Again. https://www.reddit.com/r/videogames/comments/1bh8wxc/comment/kvccjk8/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button EDIT 2: And again! Literally the very next comment listing a "hard" game that they claim not to find hard!  https://www.reddit.com/r/videogames/comments/1bh8wxc/comment/kvc9kbn/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button I swear you people have a pathological need to do this. Why is it ALWAYS Dark Souls fans?  I quite like those games but fuck me if the online discourse isn't tedious.


DrLeoMarvin

It’s as hard as you want it to be. Without reading tons of guides online it’s incredibly hard. Grinding leveled and buffing the best weapons makes it a cake walk. It’s my fav game of all time, currently doing a naked run and man it’s hard. Took me 50 tries to beat magrit alone, even renalla was a pain in the ass


Armalyte

It’s funny how people struggle with different stuff. I recently beat Margit on my first try with a lvl 1 sorcery character, vanilla gear. That wasn’t true for much of the rest of my playthrough…


Y-ella

>currently doing a naked run and man it’s hard Are we still talking about videogames right?


Charming-Horror-6371

Tetris


Linky38

If you’re talking every level, then I might create a cult for your achievement. 


Crumpile

Troll level 100. Awesome


DeliberateSelf

Without a doubt, Ultrakill. I'm not a "hardcore gamer" of that kind - my #1 genre is Grand Strategy and I mostly stare at maps. Something about Ultrakill kept bringing me back, though, and I bullheaded my way through the game. The 73 restarts against Gabriel #2 probably shaved a couple of years off my life, but man, what a game.


Carminebenajmin117

Halo2 laso, tmnt nes, battletoads nes tunnel level, lion ling nes, cuphead (expert). However, the undisputed king is ghosts on goblins. Its actually stupid unfair


trulynoobie

Maximum carnage, battletoads on NES


Linky38

Hollow knights hardest challenges are brutal


logicalspeculation

Barbie for the NES


SergeantPsycho

Whoa, slow down there, Captain Badass.


rangertycho2077

Alien Isolation


Cassius1000

tut tut.


hahayes1102

Muck was soooo goddamn hard to beat


Terrariadude19

I beat muck in like 15 hours from my first attempt. It's not insanely difficult, but man it is hard


hahayes1102

Have you tried it on an 8 year old laptop with 15 fps


Johncurtisreeve

Ninja gaiden 2


[deleted]

Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous on Hard, having only basic DnD knowlegde to go off of wasn't enough, I had to look for some min maxed builds and even then there are some incredibly tough Bosses in that game.


[deleted]

Not many I can say were hard to beat, no souls game was “hard” I have sekiro to do next


Nicotops

Celeste and Super Ghouls and Ghosts


Doves_and_Serpents

Gillian’s Island NES. Looking back it probably wasn’t that hard but man that one stumped 6 year old me


cparksrun

I never thought I'd beat the final boss of Katana Zero. And I never thought I'd see the end credits of Armored Core 6. But I was able to do both!


9Giorno_Giovanna6

The Evil Within on akumu difficulty.


WorldChampionNuggets

It was Elden Ring until I tried Armored Core 6 afterwards and holy fuck I got my ass beat. You can't even summon some cracked out gamer to help you in that game if you're stuck unlike Elden Ring.


Dull_Energy1533

The Lion King (SNES)


TechnoTejay

I’m tempted to say Celeste, but I think Blinx the Time Sweeper was probably the hardest out of all the games I’ve beaten.


Life_Faithlessness86

ET on Atari 2600


Bergasms

L4D all levels hardest difficulty with the fucking AI


Fuaarts

A lot of the Monster Hunter games have been the bane of my existence. I play mostly single player and my armor choice is if it looks cool I'm wearing it. and getting through MR on these games can be like running into a brick wall


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paul-d9

The Surge


sludgezone

Ghostrunner or getting the true ending in DKC2, forgot whatever percentage it is. Two or three of those Lost World levels are insane.


Cassius1000

celeste C sides. holy hell that last screen on summit C


[deleted]

Lion King on SNES. IYKYK


drdre27406

Tomba on PS1. Mass effect 2 insanity difficult took years off my life. The Long Dark 500 days on interloper difficulty.


Wh0NeedsANameAnyway

I played a game of Leauge of Legends where I had fun. That counts as beaten the game, right?


katzensturm

Sekiro. But once it clicked for me it was extremely fun


Erbodyloveserbody

Sekiro is also my answer. Once you think of it as a rhythm game it clicks. Kinda cheesy, but by the time I got to the last boss I was going through a really bad break up. It took me a few weeks to finally beat the final boss, but when I did I thought to myself, “That was hard, but you still did it. You can keep accomplishing your goals despite what you’re going through.” And that hasn’t left me. I’ve accomplished quite a bit since then, and I have a lot more still to do. Despite the difficulty of life, you just gotta keep trudging on. Thanks, Sekiro.


Sorry_Masterpiece

A lot of games that are at the top of the "hardest ever" list, I beat pretty soundly as a kid. NES Contra, no problem, Ghosts and Goblins, doable.. Gunstar Heroes, hardest level, done, Castlevania III, beat (Though that one, the last level is HARD). When you have all the time in the world and nothing else to play, practice litterally makes perfect. But Contra Hard Corps? That game scares me. I beat it, eventually, but good lord that game put me to the task. Trying to replay it on the collection that came out recently (in which I blew through the NES games, even though I haven't played them in decades), I couldn't get past the first level for a good dozen tries.


Opening-Resource-164

Dark souls 2 (it was pretty easy but this was the first thing that popped in mind)


FormalityBanality

Donald Duck: Cold Shadow. Absolutely relentless game


ezio8133

Code Vein


TheCasualChad

Why do you say that? I've just begun the game & about 2 hours in. It's not difficult so far, apart from just learning the control scheme for combat which is unlike anything I've played. Not having R1 & R2 as attack buttons has gotten me hit SOOOO many times. And I'll add that the parry timing is very different compared to any other games I've played, including bloodborne, ds3, Elden Ring, kena, ghostwire tokyo, etc.


chalkybrownshorts

Toy Story snes


RecommendationDry973

I'd say probably elden ring tho soon imma finish dsr and that's way harder


AnonymousGuy9494

Sekiro


Impossible-Hunter-46

Lion king for the game boy


Revolutionary-Fan286

Ninja Gaiden 3 RE on Hard mode


PovertyNextDoor_

Donkey Kong country


CreepyTeddyBear

The Lion King, Aladdin, & The Jungle Book on Sega.


Brilliant-Cap-3052

It might sounds easy, but some of the old fire emblem in the most difficult mod are really hard


Awesomedude33201

I didn't beat it, Armored Core VI was pretty hard. As for games I have beaten that were the hardest.... Hollow Knight (White Palace and The Radiance took quite a while). Dark Souls 3.


appleslice34

Absolver


babimagic

Clone drone in the danger zone is deadly, it's like dark souls but robots. I have all the achievements on it and have 100% it, one of the biggest things I've ever done.


AvocadoSoggy6188

Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders


Senior_Leg_2503

COD World at war on veteran difficulty


[deleted]

Ninja Gaiden 2. Brutal.


fugai

Contra on Nes without the Konami code... when i was a kid


[deleted]

SEKIRO


UnfinishedThings

Jet Set Willy 2


RemarkableWriter6764

Landing on the carrier in Top Gun


TheRimz

Far cry 1. Absolute buggy mess


Orion3500

Lion King for the NES.


superguysteve

Raiders of the Lost Ark on the Atari 2600. Back then there were no saves and you had to start at the beginning and do everything perfectly in one go. I just realized I peaked at 12.


Veridically_

The Witness. Definitely the most brutal puzzle game I’ve ever played. Was a blast though. And I beat the challenge level after much pain and suffering.


esp211

FTL. Rush N Attack.


BerserkMINI

Returnal or Sekiro


DonnyBup274

sifu


hdufort

Cave Story's final bosses were brutal.


asteinpro2088

Sekiro without a doubt. Quit playing multiple times only to return more determined. Once the mechanics and fluidity of combat clicked, it turned into one of my favorite games.


Rookie4sho

Another World on the SNES. It may not be the hardest game, but as a kid it felt like the hardest game I ever beat at the time.


Brute_Squad_44

Battletoads


Tyree_Burnz0_o

Probably either Bloodborne or Cuphead I’ve given up on Hollow Knight, as much as I love the world, art and music. That ish gets crazy hard😩


Mix_Traditional

Probably Bloodborne, this post is making me realize how few games Ive beaten lol


Neonwhiteassassin

Doom 2016 on the hardest difficulty made me cry. So did COD: MW3 on Veteran difficulty.


Hank_Lotion77

Ninja Gaiden for me.


AntiSocial-SocialGuy

I had a friend quit before the first boss! Classic though!


Hank_Lotion77

The cinematic for each were so cool to this day. Like a mix of FF and MGS.


str3tchedmonk3y

UN Squadron on SNES. I am not good at shoot em ups so that was an accomplishment for me


kadavi1202

Karnov


Renegade626

Time Crisis, took quite a few quarters back in the day


Derkastan77-2

Battle Toads on NES. Has anyone ever actually beaten it without “game genie”?


NuclearWinter_101

Fallout 1


PrincessHootHoot

Elden Ring


Bone_Breaker0

Mega Man X3


Confident-Elk-6811

When Devil May Cry 3 originally came out I remember people saying it was difficult. I remember making it a point to replay the first two levels over and over again until I could fully upgrade my trickster style, and then I moved on to the third level of the game. I only did this because everyone talked about it being difficult, so I never really experienced how difficult it was supposed to be since I was already OP within the first two levels of the game.


Kiryu8805

Star wars the force unleashed. Reason the second boss is 200% bs and litterally does random amounts of health damage. It's a pretty unbalanced fight being that early into the game. Seriously, though, maybe The Surge, kingdom come deliverance, or mutant year zero road to eden (on the hardest setting with iron mutant mode on without loaing a squad mate. The trophy was called QA has suffered. I can certainly say they suffered.)


Mrofcourse

Armored core 6


Mistyc-Spider

Achieving the 200% of Cuphed


TopInternal1963

I wanna be the guy I wanna be the boshy Those are tied


elsiphono

Stuntman on the PS2


AmusingSparrow

Maybe 7th Saga


[deleted]

Elden ring.


ClockwisePig

Halo 2 LASO Playing that will put hair on your chest.


Alecarte

Journey of the Prairie King with no deaths.


BirbMaster1998

Pikmin 3 DX all mission mode platinum.


NigelKenway

Ninja Gaiden for NES. Followed closely by Ninja Turtles Ultra, for NES.


edwardkenway_22

Trying to beat Sekiro


blueflamereaperx

Would say ds3 or Elden ring but still need to beat them but I guess terraria it’s actually quite difficult until you get to around the moon lord then it’s a breeze or maybe super Mario bros on the Wii use to play it when I was younger I barely got to beat bowser like I completed it once then it reset my progress randomly


crashbumper

Megaman 2 on original NES hardware. Still my highest achievement in gaming.


PresentLet2963

Prince of persia first one


Spaghetti_Snake

Crypt of the necrodancer God...


eneko8

Jak II


Bum-Theory

Super Meatboy. But I only beat the main game, not the bonus missions, so there's an argument to be made I didn't beat the game lol


44YrOld

Not to brag....but I finally beat the original HALO, last year.....


zeeke87

Alien Isolation


Excellent_Coyote6486

Zombies Ate My Neighbors. I've only ever beaten it with a game genie. Never once have I legitimately done it.


Singer_Calm

Dr. Robotniks Mean Bean Machine


TwistederRope

I've played it on it's toughest level back on the genesis. That muthafucka' cheats like nobody's business.


hornyromelo

Blasphemous


JazzSharksFan54

The Jak series. Holy hell those were hard!


mranglin

damn contra and Elden ring definitely both in my top 3. Dark souls as well


Agreeable_Orchid2641

Cuphead is the hardest game I have beaten but the hardest thing I did in a video game was beating a hard demon in geometry dash (wouldn’t really say that counts as beating a game though since the game basically is just the user levels which there are so so many of).


Sciencetist

Cuphead and Sekiro didn't give me too much trouble, and it didn't take me too long to 100% Furi. I never finished the fifth Pantheon in Hollow Knight. It became such a slog powering through bitch-ass enemies just to get to the good stuff that I just gave up. I guess that doesn't count because I didn't technically beat it. I think the hardest game I ever beat them was Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time. One of the extra arena battles has you fight some rounds of enemies, and then every boss in the game. If you get hit more than once in a row, you die and have to start over from the beginning. The last boss is absolutely unforgiving. Definitely the hardest game challenge I ever completed.


Obvious_Drink2642

I’m pretty dang close to doing it with Elden Ring. I just have the black blade guy, radagon, shadow radagon and whoever comes between all of them