The winner of every difficulty comparison

Did we already forget about Battletoads?

I beat Battletoads a ton when I was a kid, we never beat the Turtles game.

I beat both back in the day. I definitely feel like battletoads was the more difficult of the two.

Tbf, tons of nes and snes/Sega games were crazy hard. It hid how short they were. Like, Altered Beast is a game that no one ever beat on the Sega without using like a game genie. The entire game is only like 15 or 20 minutes long, though. Tmnt and battle battletoads were just super popular games you couldn’t beat.

I think they were made to be quarter guzzling arcade games.

Altered Beast absolutely was. Some games never made it to arcades, though.

Battletoads has nothing on Ghosts 'n Goblins! I can at least play Battletoads until the stupid vehicle jumping section. I don’t think I’ve ever even made it more than like 3 checkpoints into Ghosts 'n Goblins

Battle toads was truly the hardest game

Some of us remember!!! Damn you, first level!!!

Sorry about the PTSD, but…

I watch a streamer who mastered speed running dozens of NES games. He says Battletoads was the hardest game to learn. Just getting through the game, not even pushing for a fast time, was extremely challenging. Much harder than TMNT 1 or Ninja Gaiden.

Yeah, for all the difficulty I had with the dam on NES TMNT as a kid, I saw a streamer do it last year I think (I believe on first attempt?) not realizing it was supposed to be difficult. Blew my mind.

I have never met anyone that could beat this level. It’s like it was made to sell the Game Genie.

You have to memorize the level and jump a bit before that one tricky one comes on screen.

Child me could beat it after hours of repeated attempts and running out of continues.

Adult me went back after a decade. The muscle memory was still there and I beat it on the first try. I probably got about an 80% success rate on first attempts now. But level 4 and beyond I’m terrible.

I only got it by state save scumming in zsnes, and even then it was tough not to save yourself into a corner.

My brother and I played the game so much we were able to beat that stage co-op. It gets much worse later. I learned not that long ago that the reason we were never able to beat it co-op is there’s a bug that prevents the 11th stage from being beatable with two players.

I need to find an emulated version of this. Mine was faulty and always glitches as soon as you finished this stage so I never got to see neyond it for more than a few seconds. I’ve always wondered what was there!

Fun fact: that’s one of the easiest levels in the game. It barely cracks the top 10 hardest levels in a game with 12 levels, and only because the first 2 are trivial to lull you into a false sense of security.

Lion King on SEGA Genesis?

Takeshi’s Challenge?

Dragon’s Lair?

Ninja Gaiden?

Marble Madness?

Battletoads?

Fuckin battletoads. WAY harder than turtles.

Gaiden and Madness were beatable. It’d take you months to get the know how and skill level but 8yr me did it. I could also beat Contra without dying. Now I need the Konami code to get past stage 1.

IMHO Elden Ring isn’t the most difficult fromsoft game.

That honor goes to Sekiro.

Elden Ring may in fact be the easiest From game tbh.

You might be inclined to say that if you don’t really know much of the games From has made.

The Adventures of Cookie and Cream on PS2 was a very easy game by comparison.

Lol, okay fair, but I think it’s pretty common to be referring to the “soulslike” genre when you say a From game.

Armored Core series, but those have always had a way to cheese through the campaign, almost universally.

Coming from ER to DS3 I think DS3 is much easier. I didn’t put much thought into my build and it was a breeze. I beat many bosses first try.

Much of the difficulty in ER comes from the often hard to telegraph attacks.

Might be worth clarifying Demon’s Souls and onward, some of us are old enough to have played Armored Core.

I 100% agree. Sekiro is my favorite of them all.

Elden Ring isn’t difficult, it’s tedious and repetitive. I really didn’t like it

Just came in here to support Sekiro

Nah Sekiro is great. Sometimes I just pull it up and play it a couple of days because it’s so satisfying. I think Sword Saint Isshin is supposed to be the hardest boss, and it definitely takes a lot of runs until you have him memorized. But on NG+ I first-, or second-tried him. I think all Sekiro bosses are pretty chill once you know them.

Consort Radahn however… I don’t know if I have the will to ever struggle through this fight again

I think you mean the hardest Fromsoft game you liked. Go Beat the original armored core and get back to me. you could also give last raven a shot.

That honor goes to Demon’s Souls…

Not sure why you were downvoted. I found Demon Souls was frustrating more than difficult but to each their own.

the chief irony of this game is turtles are supposed to be good at swimming underwater.

Well. But the way the TMNT’s legs poke out their shells before they get mutated heavily implies they’re actually Teenage Mutant Ninja Tortoises. I think the mistake comes from that their crew was named by a rat who only ever read about ninjutsu. What the fuck does master splinter know about identifying the difference between a turtle and a tortoise?

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