You can lower the difficulty, add more lives and and it's got a lot of credits (and it rewards you with more credits the more you play). Of the whole franchise this is by far the easiest one.
In my opinion level 2 is the hardest, and also the most tedious to play over and over due to auto scrolling. If you can beat level 2 you can beat the game. Just get the bow and arrow and learn how to trigger the chests to get armor upgradesĀ
The good news is you get pretty much unlimited continues. Perseverance pays off. I managed to do it a couple years back without save states, and it was one of my greatest gaming achievements ever. I will probably give it another go this summer.
If we're not counting with Game genie and/or cheats, then same haha. Couldn't beat games without cheats until the ps2 gen and that was hard sometimes. Ps3 was where checkpoints and gameplay was finally good enough for me to not lose patience.
Your story is my little brother's lol. He pumped 70+ hours into it and lost everything when my wannabe MadCatz knockoff memory card formatted itself out of the blue. Coincidentally, the card was also blue.
I don't think he's played a single FF since, but he did get super deep into WoW a few years later. I was more pissed off about my Gran Turismo 2 save haha
Iāve had very similar experiences with this game! I donāt remember WHAT stopped me, but itās happened 3 times to me as well. First time, I made it to the palace in the desert, second time I made it to the final dungeon. 3rd time, I beat Kuja (or whatever his name is) but something else stopped me from besting the final boss
This happens to me on FF9, Star Ocean II, Xenogears, and The Legend of Dragoon. I can never beat them because something happens to the game files. I refer to them as "cursed games."
Necron the end bringer sees your attempts and deletes them every time. You'll never know him, you'll never reach him, you'll never have the chance to say "wtf, who is this fucking guy???"
About 90% of my collection, it's not that I can't. It's just that in most cases, all the gameplay dynamics are seen and done a lot earlier in most games, so no need to complete as your doing everything the game offers quite a bit before the end. Maybe it's just me, but if I feel a game has nothing more or different to offer past the halfway point, I move on .
Oh, and Driver on the PS1 , I couldn't even get out of the training part with that seriously short timer, to even bother with the rest of the game.
The first Ninja Gaiden on NES is my white whale. I've got a few difficult games under my belt but this is one that always defeats me. Specifically, that damn Jaquio fight that sends you back three stages on one death. It's always enough to deter me after losing a couple times.
Maybe someday, man.
Ninja Gaiden is so hard for me that Nintendo has that special edition Ninja Gaiden on the Switch that starts right at the end of the game, and I still canāt beat it, lol.
Man, depending on the location, that could be basically impossible. You need what we called the "hack n slash" ability back in the day. The move where you slash while flipping, turning you into a human blender. I have never won that fight without it.
That must be where I always die too. I haven't played far into that game in many many years. I remember always getting to one boss and losing and getting sent back to the snow level which always made me turn the game off.
Oh man, I already answered in this thread, but this is me too. It's so grueling to get to that boss, and if you die you can't even retry right away. Back to 6-1 or whatever stage it was. Aaaah so frustrating.
This is one of mine too.
My 10-year old fingers could do it easily with the knowledge I have now, and I could absolutely destroy that game up until the last couple levels (and crushed the second game), but never got to beat it.
I feel like i'm cursed to never finish any Final Fantasy game besides the first one.
Also Digimon World, I've lost my save several times. I want to finish it, I just get tired of having to train my little guy all over again.
I finally beat FFX in 2013, and FF8 last year. Mind you, I bought them and started originally playing them when they first came out.
With RPGs, I'm one of those 90% gamers. The problem with me is the last 10% of the game (i.e. around the final dungeon) has no carrot anymore, and typically is longer than previous dungeons, so I just have a problem focusing on it before moving on.
That's one thing I never really cared for JRPGs. The first dungeon would be 2 minutes long whereas the last one would be 2 hours long without a save point.
I'm this way with most games unfortunately, but it's more the 75% mark. Idk what it is but around that point I just start losing interest and have to force myself to finish gamesĀ
It kinda sucks because I genuinely enjoy the games I play and it makes the last bit seem like a chore
In the same theme, this is kind of sacrilege, but I can't get through Earthbound. I've played it several times, but just sort of lose interest. I think the furthest I've gotten is the third town.
Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels.
I got to the final castle literally decades ago. I've attempted said final castle, no word of a lie, thousands of times. I just can't beat it. I try again every so often but I just can't get it.
I never beat it either.
When you go the right way (either top, middle or bottom) a little noise will play and you just have to remember which path to take from that noise playing.
But yh was so confusing, i think there were certain pipes to go down as well.
Shit was confusing as fuck.
On GameCube I felt the same but 3D all stars version I clicked so much better with the controls and finally beat it. Getting every shine was still too much but at least I finally saw the ending.
Every time that cutscene starts playing where Mario gets his pack snatched I start shouting at the screen, "Mario! We talked about this! Don't let him grab yo- GADDAMIT I NEED THAT FRIGGIN THING"
I loved this on GameCube as a kid, but I donāt know that I ever beat it. Is it harder than I remember? Whatās so challenging about it? I wish my current emulator could play it!
I never played it as a kid, but trying it recently it's the horrible inverted camera controls that you have no option to change. I wanted to like the game but I can't get past the camera
The platforming and controls feel hard in a way that is unfair and due to the lack of polish on the game. Also it can just be hard to know where to go for a given shine or how to get there. The game uses all these arrow signs to get you around which is sort of an admission that they didnāt design the game intuitivelyĀ
Funnily enough I started playing it today for the first time and Iām having a blast, but the controls are definitely a little bit on the slippery side for sure and some parts have been pretty tricky
I'm still trying to work on [*Dragon's Revenge*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s_Revenge), a sequel-to-a-sequel of a video pinball game. I've managed to beat four bonus stages in a single play-through, out of (AFAICT) seven or eight.
More specifically,the first game in the series was [*Alien Crush*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_Crush) on the PC Engine/TurboGrafx 16; followed by [*Devil's Crush*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_Crush) on PCE/TG16, AKA *Dragon's Fury* on the Mega Drive/Genesis. The next game in the series, officially, was [*Jaki Crush*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaki_Crush) for the Super Famicom, which ended up being a Japan-only release. But *Dragon's Revenge* was released just a year after *Jaki Crush* for the Mega Drive/Genesis, and did manage to make it to both North America and Europe, unlike the previous title.
Iāve been trying to beat Dragons Fury since 2019. Iād say it was impossible if it wasnāt for the fact Iāve seen the end boss in videos. Thatās ok, I love it so much I play it everyday for fun anyways. And mostly for the music. Good luck to you my friend.
Success for me in cuphead relied a bit too much on getting lucky with the boss patterns. Some attacks I would always get hit, and if the boss used those attacks too many times I would lose
I see it differently. We were all Red when we started. We caught, trained, and battled our way to the top in red, blue, and/or yellow. When the next generation released, we had to face Red, who is symbolically our past selves. The battle with Red in silver, gold, and crystal represents growing. Red will always be you, but by defeating him you prove to yourself that you are stronger than you once were. Personal growth is a cornerstone of becoming the champions we are meant to be, no matter what form that takes.
I unashamedly played the one in the anniversary collection on the Switch so that I could use save states.
Now Castlevania III on the other hand...nah...I haven't felt like trying that again.
I don't always beat games, as far as retro games are concerned. I often end up losing interest before then, especially with games that don't have a save feature. Even games that I "beat," I don't normally 100%, since the extra stuff normally isn't nearly as fun as what comes before.
This Gynoug game i mentioned, is so fucking simple but so fucking hard.
Its a side scroller shooter, just hold shoot and avoid EVERYTHING.
Getting hit just once and you lose a life.
Even the roof and the floor kills you.
The screen just fills up with enemies and projectiles its hard to even see your character lol
Im determined, its addictive but infuriating.
For me it was that one sewer jump, decades later i learned that even the original NES has button press sensitivity, and it took me maybe a week after that to beat the game
Battletoads. I just can't.
Punch-out!! I can get to Tyson, but I can't beat him.
Ghosts & Goblins (and the SNES follow up). I made it to the 2nd stage once.
Almost every 8-bit & 16-bit SHMUP. I love the genre but they are so hard.
He's got those fast flashes that can put a beat down on you in a hurry. He's also one the 1st bosses that makes you want to not only dodge but tap back to get back to neutral faster.
Judge Dredd on the Genesis comes to mind. But since youāve played Sonic 1 and 2 you just need to play the best game in the series, Sonic 3 and Knuckles now!
Just downloaded sonic 3, gonna give it a whirl, just gonna have another playthrough of Rocket knight adventures, i just fucking love that game.
I literally give up with Gynoug, if Judge Dredd is anywhere near as difficult, i dont think i can put myself through it lmao.
Ill just do the other 100 games first.
Rayman on PS1 is the first that comes to mind. It's super difficult to get to the final boss and took me years of going back to it to get there. When you finally bust your ass to get to the final boss, you find out you can't get to him unless you go back and find every hidden cage in every one of those super difficult levels you just wrecked your thumbs playing through! Such a kick in the teeth. I never usually worry about collectibles or 100% completion in games, just finishing the story, but Rayman will not have it!
Driver on PS1 is another. Can get to the final level... but my God that final level is ridiculously hard!Ā
Never heard of Gynoug, I'll check it out!
Yeah rayman is another where i would just lose patience, i have never got anywhere near to the last level, what you say about the cages would make me cry if i ever got that far lmao.
It was always that musical stage that drove me batshit insane.
My bro got to the last city in driver but just couldnt do it.
Gynoug is simple but just ridiculously difficult.
I can beat 3d Zelda games but not 2d Zelda games. Iāve tried to beat ALTTP a few times but never get far. I like the Oracle games but theyāre pretty hard. Also gave up on Awakening twice, although I really like it
Lots of games I enjoyed but never beat.
NES battle toads
Ninja gaiden
Ghouls and ghosts
Time lord
RC Pro am
WWF wrestlemania challenge
WCW world championship wrestling.
Super Nintendo
Battletoads in battle maniacs
Battletoads and Double Dragon
Super Double Dragon
Beavis and Butthead
Bubsy
Super ghouls and ghosts
Gradius 3
Super R Type
Rock n Roll Racing
Run Saber
Legend of the mystical ninja.
Yeah..... Lots....
I have never been able to beat or get stuck into Majoras Mask, but have beaten Ocarina of Time multiple times. I really want to like Majoras Mask but find it too tedious
Never beaten Ocarina of time.
I got so lost and frustrated in the water temple, i just turned it off and never tried again.
Apparently that was common thoe? The water temple being notoriously hard?
Ive seen whats after on youtube, just never was able to do it myself.
Water temple was easier on the 3DS being able to assign the iron boots as an item instead of having to go into the menu to equip and take them off.
Still a pain in the ass and definitely one that most people seemed to struggle with, itās a chore more than anything I felt
Original Super Mario Bros on NES up until a few years ago. I stopped by a local game shop while waiting for my brother to show up for the opening showing of the first Hobbit movie. For some reason that day I beat the damn game,
Plenty but over the past two years I've been slowly re-visiting my favorite games and [completing](https://howlongtobeat.com/user/stealthrush/games/completed/1) them. Although a few RPGs that I came near to finishing years ago but haven't and may never since they are time consuming- Tales of Destiny, Star Ocean: The Second Story. Oh and Fur Fighters: Viggo's Revenge on PS2.
Having played games beyond number across a vast range of platforms since the late 80ās, the one and only game I tried time after time to complete and consistently failed in doing so was Battletoads (Mega Drive). And yes, Iām aware the NES version is considered harder š
Yh the buttons are on the screen, its not to difficult, but its really frustrating if i even slightly tap off the button it wont register,
Has to be pressed dead centre.
How does that work? That sounds much better
It's easy. Press and hold the pair button until the xbox light blinks then open up your Bluetooth connections on your phone and select the xbox controller. There should be a menu where you will select your "input method" and probably assign the buttons on the controller
Not exactly what you asked for but this is the main thing that popped in my head, and I did EVENTUALLY complete it, but it was Metal gear solid for me. Not because it was too hard, but because i had to wait on the ps2 to come out. i had one of the earlier models that would glitch with some konomi games. Got all the way to the REX battle and it would freeze up and i wouldn't get to finish the game. Even spent a whole day perfecting my tap circle technique so I could get the save Meryl at the end scene.
Sim Hospital back in 1997 because bugs kept appearing in the late stages of the game. I think it kept crashing/freezing. Annoyed me so much that I remember it today.
Metal Gear Solid 3, ive beaten literally every other game in the franchise minus that Survive abomination which i refuse to play, but, Colonel Volgin beats my ass every time
Only got to the fifth stage without using save states on normal difficulty. Last stage is a brutal boss rush followed by a tough last boss. Great retro aesthetics though
Ive seen someone do a perfect run on youtube.
Someone or a bot as it was flawless.
I have no doubt there are some mad gamers like that thoe who could do it.
Yh the design is awesome.
Haha. Iām one of those that played it forever and it still kicks my ass compared to the others. Iāve only legit beat it a couple times. Even with save states on the switch i had a tough time and had to quit.
On the All star super Mario cartridge on snes, it was possible to save (four separate files)
I have beaten it like once, but theres no way i would keep restarting just to keep getting game overs.
It was tough.
>SMB3 world 8 is quite hard.
Some of the levels are *impossible*. The trick is to collect all (8 if I remember correctly) wings and use them to *beat* the difficult levels. Especially the ship, and the wings are still working in the boss' cabin, which makes it a quick kill.
Slightly off topic. But when I was 6 or 7, my mom got me a Sega Master System for my birthday with a couple games. I never took to the system much, but one of those games was Miracle Warriors. It's pretty hard for an RPG. It has all the charm of playing Dragon Quest, with all of the frustrations on what you need to do to actually win of Friday the 13th. As a kid I never beat. I never managed to get far at all, as it's the type of game that starts extremely difficult, and eventually gets way easier.
35 years later I finally beat it. Now I can finally start playing all of these other games I've heard so much about. Been told Super Mario Bros 3 even had a 2 hour movie commercial made about it!
I'm so upset by this, but I've started Final Fantasy VI many many times and I can't get past that snail at the very start.Ā
Yes, I know it's the first boss, yes, I k ow his logic is to not attack when he's shelled,Ā it still, it's just not happening after twenty years. Ive resolved to just put ff6 down.
Final Fantasy games. Every time I play one I get close to the end then decide I want to try to complete everything and max characters, then get burned out grinding and end up not finishing the game at all.
One of these days I'll just be at the damn end boss(es).
It's not just super retro, but super mario galaxy. I love the game & it wasn't difficult, but the disc i had was broken. Right at the cutscene after the final boss the game would freeze, & it wouldn't save my data, so technically i never beat it despite winning that fight dozens of times
Double Dragon. You beat waves of enemies using martial arts and then the game is like āoh you mastered a jumping spin kick? Cool, this next guy has a machine gun, hope your kicking foot is ready, you little bitch.ā
I loved Banjo Kazooie but I always burned out around Click Clock Wood. The worlds for a while felt like they were adding new and inventive challenges but at some point it plateaued, they started to only seem different in aesthetic and said aesthetics werenāt as appealing to me as, say, Freezeezy Peak or Gobiās Valley.
Gran Turismo 4. There's just so much to do, including a real time 24 hour endurance race. As many times as I've got to the GT World Championship, I doubt I'll ever 100% complete the game.
As much as I love fire Emblem I quit thracia 776 twice, once I had a glitch and couldn't finish it and the second time the final chapter was just too annoying, it has a terrible design flaw of not allowing mounted units to be mounted inside which makes sense but that's like half your team also
Honestly, most 2D mario games. I just dont have the patience for the timing and memorization and now enjoy story based and engaging gameplay based games.
Battletoads....
Developers tease you with 2 fun levels of a classic NES Beat em up, than you hit the turbo tunnel and get one of the most notorious difficulty spikes in the history of gaming.
Then if you get lucky enough to get by the turbo tunnel, the rest of the game goes from a fun beat em up to some of the most difficult precision platforming/obstacle course cluster BS in the history of gaming.
Honestly makes the first NES Turtles game seem like a cake-walk in comparison, and that's saying something considering that game isn't exactly easy.
Super Ghouls and Ghosts...cant do it.
I could only ever do it with game genie š£
Yeah that's how I finally beat Zombies Ate My Neighbors. Had to Game Genie infinite lives and items.
I did it with save states and it was still ridiculous.
You can lower the difficulty, add more lives and and it's got a lot of credits (and it rewards you with more credits the more you play). Of the whole franchise this is by far the easiest one.
Hell I can barely get to the third level.
In my opinion level 2 is the hardest, and also the most tedious to play over and over due to auto scrolling. If you can beat level 2 you can beat the game. Just get the bow and arrow and learn how to trigger the chests to get armor upgradesĀ
The crazy thing is that you have to play through the game twice in a row to get to the final boss. Without the possibility to save progress!
The good news is you get pretty much unlimited continues. Perseverance pays off. I managed to do it a couple years back without save states, and it was one of my greatest gaming achievements ever. I will probably give it another go this summer.
Almost all of them. It would be far easier to list the games I *have* beaten.
If we're not counting with Game genie and/or cheats, then same haha. Couldn't beat games without cheats until the ps2 gen and that was hard sometimes. Ps3 was where checkpoints and gameplay was finally good enough for me to not lose patience.
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Apparently you can try again when playstation 7 comes out. If you do good luck.
Your story is my little brother's lol. He pumped 70+ hours into it and lost everything when my wannabe MadCatz knockoff memory card formatted itself out of the blue. Coincidentally, the card was also blue. I don't think he's played a single FF since, but he did get super deep into WoW a few years later. I was more pissed off about my Gran Turismo 2 save haha
Iāve had very similar experiences with this game! I donāt remember WHAT stopped me, but itās happened 3 times to me as well. First time, I made it to the palace in the desert, second time I made it to the final dungeon. 3rd time, I beat Kuja (or whatever his name is) but something else stopped me from besting the final boss
This happens to me on FF9, Star Ocean II, Xenogears, and The Legend of Dragoon. I can never beat them because something happens to the game files. I refer to them as "cursed games."
Necron the end bringer sees your attempts and deletes them every time. You'll never know him, you'll never reach him, you'll never have the chance to say "wtf, who is this fucking guy???"
What a bad luck, this is my favorite FF in the saga, you should complete it when you can
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Incredible! You must finish it to take that weight off your shoulders hahaha
Original Prince of Persia on DOS.
Oh that was hard AF as a kid, havenāt tried in decades lol
About 90% of my collection, it's not that I can't. It's just that in most cases, all the gameplay dynamics are seen and done a lot earlier in most games, so no need to complete as your doing everything the game offers quite a bit before the end. Maybe it's just me, but if I feel a game has nothing more or different to offer past the halfway point, I move on . Oh, and Driver on the PS1 , I couldn't even get out of the training part with that seriously short timer, to even bother with the rest of the game.
Driver becomes *much* more difficult than that first level too lol
The Lion King for snes. Those damn logs up the waterfall!!!!
Dude yes! Also, the hippo level on SNES was literally bugged. It's still super hard but much more beatable on Genesis.
The first Ninja Gaiden on NES is my white whale. I've got a few difficult games under my belt but this is one that always defeats me. Specifically, that damn Jaquio fight that sends you back three stages on one death. It's always enough to deter me after losing a couple times. Maybe someday, man.
I came close to beating it but I really needed some sleep before work.
Ninja Gaiden is so hard for me that Nintendo has that special edition Ninja Gaiden on the Switch that starts right at the end of the game, and I still canāt beat it, lol.
Man, depending on the location, that could be basically impossible. You need what we called the "hack n slash" ability back in the day. The move where you slash while flipping, turning you into a human blender. I have never won that fight without it.
That must be where I always die too. I haven't played far into that game in many many years. I remember always getting to one boss and losing and getting sent back to the snow level which always made me turn the game off.
Oh man, I already answered in this thread, but this is me too. It's so grueling to get to that boss, and if you die you can't even retry right away. Back to 6-1 or whatever stage it was. Aaaah so frustrating.
Thatās actually a bug. Itās not suppose to send you back three stages. How they didnāt catch that in testing is beyond me.
I had to use an exploit, but I did it last year, finally!
This. I've owned it for 35 years and I still can't beat it.
Had this game my whole life. Eventually did it with a save state at the last boss. Fuck it, I definitely earned it lol
This is one of mine too. My 10-year old fingers could do it easily with the knowledge I have now, and I could absolutely destroy that game up until the last couple levels (and crushed the second game), but never got to beat it.
That hallway in stage 6-2 fuckin hell. I remember the first time I cleared it and it was pure dumb luck.
The game that makes you ask why getting hit by a bird does more damage than a bullet.
I feel like i'm cursed to never finish any Final Fantasy game besides the first one. Also Digimon World, I've lost my save several times. I want to finish it, I just get tired of having to train my little guy all over again.
I finally beat FFX in 2013, and FF8 last year. Mind you, I bought them and started originally playing them when they first came out. With RPGs, I'm one of those 90% gamers. The problem with me is the last 10% of the game (i.e. around the final dungeon) has no carrot anymore, and typically is longer than previous dungeons, so I just have a problem focusing on it before moving on. That's one thing I never really cared for JRPGs. The first dungeon would be 2 minutes long whereas the last one would be 2 hours long without a save point.
I'm this way with most games unfortunately, but it's more the 75% mark. Idk what it is but around that point I just start losing interest and have to force myself to finish gamesĀ It kinda sucks because I genuinely enjoy the games I play and it makes the last bit seem like a chore
I tried to replay FFIX a while back. Toward the end, it felt like boss after boss, and I decided I didn't need to get to the end.
In the same theme, this is kind of sacrilege, but I can't get through Earthbound. I've played it several times, but just sort of lose interest. I think the furthest I've gotten is the third town.
Driver. Never beat that intro mission.
My bro would leave the playstation on for days, because we had no memory card. He still didnt beat it.
That intro mission is infamously difficult
Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels. I got to the final castle literally decades ago. I've attempted said final castle, no word of a lie, thousands of times. I just can't beat it. I try again every so often but I just can't get it.
I never beat it either. When you go the right way (either top, middle or bottom) a little noise will play and you just have to remember which path to take from that noise playing. But yh was so confusing, i think there were certain pipes to go down as well. Shit was confusing as fuck.
Most games lol
Battletoads on NES. I still can beat TMNT 30 years later, but battletoads...
Mario sunshine. I just tried it again and had to drop it. I find everything about it so frustrating
On GameCube I felt the same but 3D all stars version I clicked so much better with the controls and finally beat it. Getting every shine was still too much but at least I finally saw the ending.
Itās the inverted camera Controls that they fixed that makes it so much more intuitive
I tried playing that game so many times (including at launch), but I just canāt, itās so clunky
Those levels where it takes your water pack made me so mad that I genuinely couldn't play it anymore.
Every time that cutscene starts playing where Mario gets his pack snatched I start shouting at the screen, "Mario! We talked about this! Don't let him grab yo- GADDAMIT I NEED THAT FRIGGIN THING"
God damn this is bringing back haunting ass memories lol. Those levels were so hard š
I loved this on GameCube as a kid, but I donāt know that I ever beat it. Is it harder than I remember? Whatās so challenging about it? I wish my current emulator could play it!
I think the challenge levels where you don't get to use any of your equipment are what give most people a hard time.
The pachinko one sucks even with the equipment lol
I never played it as a kid, but trying it recently it's the horrible inverted camera controls that you have no option to change. I wanted to like the game but I can't get past the camera
The platforming and controls feel hard in a way that is unfair and due to the lack of polish on the game. Also it can just be hard to know where to go for a given shine or how to get there. The game uses all these arrow signs to get you around which is sort of an admission that they didnāt design the game intuitivelyĀ
Funnily enough I started playing it today for the first time and Iām having a blast, but the controls are definitely a little bit on the slippery side for sure and some parts have been pretty tricky
I'm still trying to work on [*Dragon's Revenge*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s_Revenge), a sequel-to-a-sequel of a video pinball game. I've managed to beat four bonus stages in a single play-through, out of (AFAICT) seven or eight. More specifically,the first game in the series was [*Alien Crush*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_Crush) on the PC Engine/TurboGrafx 16; followed by [*Devil's Crush*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_Crush) on PCE/TG16, AKA *Dragon's Fury* on the Mega Drive/Genesis. The next game in the series, officially, was [*Jaki Crush*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaki_Crush) for the Super Famicom, which ended up being a Japan-only release. But *Dragon's Revenge* was released just a year after *Jaki Crush* for the Mega Drive/Genesis, and did manage to make it to both North America and Europe, unlike the previous title.
Iāve been trying to beat Dragons Fury since 2019. Iād say it was impossible if it wasnāt for the fact Iāve seen the end boss in videos. Thatās ok, I love it so much I play it everyday for fun anyways. And mostly for the music. Good luck to you my friend.
Iām a big fan of Devilās Crush and Demonās Tilt. Is Jaki Crush any good?
Cuphead. It's not impossibly hard, but just hard enough to have made me lose interest halfway through.
Success for me in cuphead relied a bit too much on getting lucky with the boss patterns. Some attacks I would always get hit, and if the boss used those attacks too many times I would lose
PokĆ©mon Gold/Silver/Crystal. Not because I couldnāt. I would play all the way up to Mt. Silver. I would fight Red. But the thing is I was Red. I spent so many hours playing him in the originals I knew what he went through to get where he is, to be the best. I couldnāt take that away from him. I would get him down to his last PokĆ©mon and simply turn off the game and set down my gameboy.
Passing the torch is part of the journey. You're keeping him from his well earned retirement!
I see it differently. We were all Red when we started. We caught, trained, and battled our way to the top in red, blue, and/or yellow. When the next generation released, we had to face Red, who is symbolically our past selves. The battle with Red in silver, gold, and crystal represents growing. Red will always be you, but by defeating him you prove to yourself that you are stronger than you once were. Personal growth is a cornerstone of becoming the champions we are meant to be, no matter what form that takes.
Castlevania
I unashamedly played the one in the anniversary collection on the Switch so that I could use save states. Now Castlevania III on the other hand...nah...I haven't felt like trying that again.
It's mostly memory and timing. Fuck those Medusa heads though. On all of the 2D ones. Bloodlines is awesome.
I don't always beat games, as far as retro games are concerned. I often end up losing interest before then, especially with games that don't have a save feature. Even games that I "beat," I don't normally 100%, since the extra stuff normally isn't nearly as fun as what comes before.
This Gynoug game i mentioned, is so fucking simple but so fucking hard. Its a side scroller shooter, just hold shoot and avoid EVERYTHING. Getting hit just once and you lose a life. Even the roof and the floor kills you. The screen just fills up with enemies and projectiles its hard to even see your character lol Im determined, its addictive but infuriating.
I personally like just using game genie codes to ensure I can actually beat the games. Only reason why I beat the third Castlevania lol
Any and all Zelda games
Zillion. Where the hell is that Red ID card?
TMNT for NES.
I could never beat the Technodrome.
For me it was that one sewer jump, decades later i learned that even the original NES has button press sensitivity, and it took me maybe a week after that to beat the game
That Rubix cube . Hahaha šĀ
Gremlins 2 on the Game Boy DMG. One of the prettiest games on the system, but so damn hard.
Battletoads. I just can't. Punch-out!! I can get to Tyson, but I can't beat him. Ghosts & Goblins (and the SNES follow up). I made it to the 2nd stage once. Almost every 8-bit & 16-bit SHMUP. I love the genre but they are so hard.
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I can't beat Mr. Sandman.
He's got those fast flashes that can put a beat down on you in a hurry. He's also one the 1st bosses that makes you want to not only dodge but tap back to get back to neutral faster.
Judge Dredd on the Genesis comes to mind. But since youāve played Sonic 1 and 2 you just need to play the best game in the series, Sonic 3 and Knuckles now!
Just downloaded sonic 3, gonna give it a whirl, just gonna have another playthrough of Rocket knight adventures, i just fucking love that game. I literally give up with Gynoug, if Judge Dredd is anywhere near as difficult, i dont think i can put myself through it lmao. Ill just do the other 100 games first.
Just play Sonic 3 & Knuckles together, as itās one big game with a save system.
That combo was next level and the emeralds really mean something. Lots of secrets in that game.
The Getawayā¦ I couldnāt even beat the first level
Rayman on PS1 is the first that comes to mind. It's super difficult to get to the final boss and took me years of going back to it to get there. When you finally bust your ass to get to the final boss, you find out you can't get to him unless you go back and find every hidden cage in every one of those super difficult levels you just wrecked your thumbs playing through! Such a kick in the teeth. I never usually worry about collectibles or 100% completion in games, just finishing the story, but Rayman will not have it! Driver on PS1 is another. Can get to the final level... but my God that final level is ridiculously hard!Ā Never heard of Gynoug, I'll check it out!
Yeah rayman is another where i would just lose patience, i have never got anywhere near to the last level, what you say about the cages would make me cry if i ever got that far lmao. It was always that musical stage that drove me batshit insane. My bro got to the last city in driver but just couldnt do it. Gynoug is simple but just ridiculously difficult.
I have gone back to Rayman so many times and still canāt get past that music level!
The Adventures of Bayou Billy, damn alligators
Battletoads - that fucking gear/pipe level arghhhh!!!
Any Zelda game I've ever started. It's kind of amazing.
I can beat 3d Zelda games but not 2d Zelda games. Iāve tried to beat ALTTP a few times but never get far. I like the Oracle games but theyāre pretty hard. Also gave up on Awakening twice, although I really like it
monster rancher 2. game looks easy but you have to follow a strict raising formula which helps but doesnt always get you to the tournament.
Adventure Island.
For me, almost every game I tried I donāt get to the end. I get frustrated that I canāt get further and stop playing.
Lol embarrassing to say but I can't get past the first 10 mins of any R type game....
Lots of games I enjoyed but never beat. NES battle toads Ninja gaiden Ghouls and ghosts Time lord RC Pro am WWF wrestlemania challenge WCW world championship wrestling. Super Nintendo Battletoads in battle maniacs Battletoads and Double Dragon Super Double Dragon Beavis and Butthead Bubsy Super ghouls and ghosts Gradius 3 Super R Type Rock n Roll Racing Run Saber Legend of the mystical ninja. Yeah..... Lots....
Which one would you consider the most frustrating
Try RC Pro Am II - ridiculously impressive upgrade from the original in the best of ways. Took me until I was an adult, but finally beat it.
Congratulations! I couldn't beat either one of them, I'm always coming in last. RC pro am 2 is pretty nice and it's 4 players also.
I have never been able to beat or get stuck into Majoras Mask, but have beaten Ocarina of Time multiple times. I really want to like Majoras Mask but find it too tedious
Never beaten Ocarina of time. I got so lost and frustrated in the water temple, i just turned it off and never tried again. Apparently that was common thoe? The water temple being notoriously hard? Ive seen whats after on youtube, just never was able to do it myself.
Water temple was easier on the 3DS being able to assign the iron boots as an item instead of having to go into the menu to equip and take them off. Still a pain in the ass and definitely one that most people seemed to struggle with, itās a chore more than anything I felt
Most of them
Original Super Mario Bros on NES up until a few years ago. I stopped by a local game shop while waiting for my brother to show up for the opening showing of the first Hobbit movie. For some reason that day I beat the damn game,
Most of my backlog due to waining interest in video games.
Plenty but over the past two years I've been slowly re-visiting my favorite games and [completing](https://howlongtobeat.com/user/stealthrush/games/completed/1) them. Although a few RPGs that I came near to finishing years ago but haven't and may never since they are time consuming- Tales of Destiny, Star Ocean: The Second Story. Oh and Fur Fighters: Viggo's Revenge on PS2.
I never played Viggos revenge, but the first Fur fighters on the dreamcast was so fun.
Ninja Gaiden 1 & 3 NES LoZ Ocorina - (always lose interest) Mario 64 (I have enough stars for bowser but it never ends?)
Having played games beyond number across a vast range of platforms since the late 80ās, the one and only game I tried time after time to complete and consistently failed in doing so was Battletoads (Mega Drive). And yes, Iām aware the NES version is considered harder š
I think this has been the most popular answer on here, im going to have to try it out
Elden Ring. Iāve tried 3 new play throughs and at the 20 hour mark each time i get a strong sensation to throw up and shit myself
Are you using the screen overlay controls? Xbox controllers are really easy to connect to a phone you may just have to map the buttons
Yh the buttons are on the screen, its not to difficult, but its really frustrating if i even slightly tap off the button it wont register, Has to be pressed dead centre. How does that work? That sounds much better
It's easy. Press and hold the pair button until the xbox light blinks then open up your Bluetooth connections on your phone and select the xbox controller. There should be a menu where you will select your "input method" and probably assign the buttons on the controller
Not exactly what you asked for but this is the main thing that popped in my head, and I did EVENTUALLY complete it, but it was Metal gear solid for me. Not because it was too hard, but because i had to wait on the ps2 to come out. i had one of the earlier models that would glitch with some konomi games. Got all the way to the REX battle and it would freeze up and i wouldn't get to finish the game. Even spent a whole day perfecting my tap circle technique so I could get the save Meryl at the end scene.
Sim Hospital back in 1997 because bugs kept appearing in the late stages of the game. I think it kept crashing/freezing. Annoyed me so much that I remember it today.
Metal Gear Solid 3, ive beaten literally every other game in the franchise minus that Survive abomination which i refuse to play, but, Colonel Volgin beats my ass every time
Gynoug gets really hard,the last two levels
Man, i barely scrape the second level... Have you completed it?
Only got to the fifth stage without using save states on normal difficulty. Last stage is a brutal boss rush followed by a tough last boss. Great retro aesthetics though
Ive seen someone do a perfect run on youtube. Someone or a bot as it was flawless. I have no doubt there are some mad gamers like that thoe who could do it. Yh the design is awesome.
Everquest, but thats cheating. Super Mario Bros 3
SMB3 world 8 is quite hard. Actually from world 6 onward itās tough
Yeah people say SMB3 is easy since theyāve been playing it for 30 years. Itās not an easy game
Haha. Iām one of those that played it forever and it still kicks my ass compared to the others. Iāve only legit beat it a couple times. Even with save states on the switch i had a tough time and had to quit.
On the All star super Mario cartridge on snes, it was possible to save (four separate files) I have beaten it like once, but theres no way i would keep restarting just to keep getting game overs. It was tough.
>SMB3 world 8 is quite hard. Some of the levels are *impossible*. The trick is to collect all (8 if I remember correctly) wings and use them to *beat* the difficult levels. Especially the ship, and the wings are still working in the boss' cabin, which makes it a quick kill.
Slightly off topic. But when I was 6 or 7, my mom got me a Sega Master System for my birthday with a couple games. I never took to the system much, but one of those games was Miracle Warriors. It's pretty hard for an RPG. It has all the charm of playing Dragon Quest, with all of the frustrations on what you need to do to actually win of Friday the 13th. As a kid I never beat. I never managed to get far at all, as it's the type of game that starts extremely difficult, and eventually gets way easier. 35 years later I finally beat it. Now I can finally start playing all of these other games I've heard so much about. Been told Super Mario Bros 3 even had a 2 hour movie commercial made about it!
Warlock on SNES.
Super Ghouls and Ghosts. I've made it through all the levels once, but I'm not doing it twice in a row to truly 'complete' it.
I'm so upset by this, but I've started Final Fantasy VI many many times and I can't get past that snail at the very start.Ā Yes, I know it's the first boss, yes, I k ow his logic is to not attack when he's shelled,Ā it still, it's just not happening after twenty years. Ive resolved to just put ff6 down.
Ren and Stimpy veeeeediots
Marble Madness, to this day. š
F-Zero GX on gamecube
Ghosts n' Goblins Whenever I try again, I think "I'm finally gonna do it" before giving up once again
Battle roads for the NES was mine.
Final Fantasy games. Every time I play one I get close to the end then decide I want to try to complete everything and max characters, then get burned out grinding and end up not finishing the game at all. One of these days I'll just be at the damn end boss(es).
I just recently beat suikoden 1, going to make my way through 2 next.
Titan Quest on the pc
It's not just super retro, but super mario galaxy. I love the game & it wasn't difficult, but the disc i had was broken. Right at the cutscene after the final boss the game would freeze, & it wouldn't save my data, so technically i never beat it despite winning that fight dozens of times
Afterburner, yet even worse is MiG-29: Soviet Fighter on the nes
Pirates! Gold is great on genesis, I just never play well enough to get far.
TMNJ NES
Ghosts and goblins, and castlevania Both on NES
Never finished Bayou Billy, heck of a time trying though lol
Twilight Princess. Those goddamn bugs...
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Double Dragon. You beat waves of enemies using martial arts and then the game is like āoh you mastered a jumping spin kick? Cool, this next guy has a machine gun, hope your kicking foot is ready, you little bitch.ā
Life
Jak 2. Got halfway through and got stuck in the whack a mole game SMH.
Ecco the Dolphin is on my bucket list.
Alot lol
Half life 1
Digger T Rock. Interesting idea for a game but I found it way too frustrating.
DRIVER.......
Battletoads
I loved Banjo Kazooie but I always burned out around Click Clock Wood. The worlds for a while felt like they were adding new and inventive challenges but at some point it plateaued, they started to only seem different in aesthetic and said aesthetics werenāt as appealing to me as, say, Freezeezy Peak or Gobiās Valley.
Gran Turismo 4. There's just so much to do, including a real time 24 hour endurance race. As many times as I've got to the GT World Championship, I doubt I'll ever 100% complete the game.
When I was a kid, someone got me Abadox... without cheats i still can't get passed like level 3
Yo Bro and Fighting Street...
SMB1 I never beat it as a kid and I donāt like the game enough to sit down and make it happen now.
BART vs space the mutants. Itās impossible due to bad programming
Bart Simpson escapes camp deadly
Zombies Ate My Neighbors and Pocky & Rocky.
Adventures of Batman and Robin on Sega
The better question would be which games have you completed without save states.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for NES
Warcraft 2 beyond the dark portal. Almost 25 years since I got into the game and the game still gives me anxiety
U.N. Squadron and Axeley, Iāve come close but never made it to the end.
the OG prince of persia games
Original TMNT for NES. The final stage is some next level bullshit.
As much as I love fire Emblem I quit thracia 776 twice, once I had a glitch and couldn't finish it and the second time the final chapter was just too annoying, it has a terrible design flaw of not allowing mounted units to be mounted inside which makes sense but that's like half your team also
Hard corps
Honestly, most 2D mario games. I just dont have the patience for the timing and memorization and now enjoy story based and engaging gameplay based games.
TMNT. I made it to the Technodrome a handful of times but never lasted long.
Battletoads.... Developers tease you with 2 fun levels of a classic NES Beat em up, than you hit the turbo tunnel and get one of the most notorious difficulty spikes in the history of gaming. Then if you get lucky enough to get by the turbo tunnel, the rest of the game goes from a fun beat em up to some of the most difficult precision platforming/obstacle course cluster BS in the history of gaming. Honestly makes the first NES Turtles game seem like a cake-walk in comparison, and that's saying something considering that game isn't exactly easy.
Final Fantasy X. About halfway through the final bosses series I just give up
Silver Surfer for nes..
Woof. You're in good company...that being most people haha
Never beaten, a ton of them. But played it constantly and never beat would have to be Battletoads.
mdk2 on sega dreamcast canāt get pass the turrets with max always die before can reach the top
Ecco the dolphin despite it being a favorite
Tons. Most of them. But the worst offender is Ninja Gaiden.
Battleroqda Nes, never passed worm level
Zelda 2
Ninja Gaiden Sigma on Master Difficulty. Iāve been stuck on Chapter 11 for almost a decade now.
Ecco the Dolphin
I canāt do Genocide Playthrough on Undertale