I think Hollow Knight, in terms of most recent games I've played (and am still playing). Like some others have said, the base game is challenging enough, but some of the optional stuff is absolutely nuts. I've really enjoyed the game so far though, and I highly recommend it if you like platforming, challenges, story, and have a lot of patience haha. I can see if you're more of a casual gamer the game might not be for you, or if you get frustrated easily because the game definitely tests your patience every now and then. If you can get past that though the game has a lot to offer and is definitely worth picking up!
I was gonna say Cuphead but I only completed the first world and haven't played it in over a year I definitely need to get back to it eventually but I think juggling that with Hollow Knight would be a recipe for disasterl-lol
I think this is probably gonna be laughable but for me its gotta be Shovel Knight because I never play platforming and I don't think I'm ever gonna attempt Hollow Knight ever....
Other games that were supper difficult would be most of the Touhou games (especially Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom and Unidentified Fantastic Object) and League of Legends
I would love to try Dark Souls but my computer sucks at running it and I don't have the money to buy it again on the switch >.>
Oof also Cuphead for me, I’m just so bad at timing my jumps
also dark souls or any soulsborne games honestly.. I suck at parrying and I have accepted this fact needed my bf to help with Sekiro bc he’s better at parrying than me
There's a lot of NES games that fall in this category. Ninja Gaiden, Battletoads, Castlevania, Contra, Super Mario Bros The Lost Levels... I haven't beaten any of them yet. I do want to though.
Cuphead, any racing game, Sekiro, and for some reason I cannot get into Call of Duty Cold War. I find this installment really different to the rest of them. I really struggle with it (even though there’s no really completing it)
I'm a hyper-casual player, so I don't really play difficult games all that often, especially games that use their high difficulty as a selling point. The most difficult game I've completed would probably be Zelda 2. I also cleared a significant portion of Call of Duty: World at War on Veteran many years ago, but got stuck on one of the missions toward the end and never ended up finishing it.
Hardcore gamers are probably going to laugh in my face, but... I'm still struggling half through Legend of Legacy
I've got the game years ago, and thus far I'm in my fifth run. Three more to go to consider it "finished". And gosh, those three dragons are outright murderous! I only dared to go against them in my first run with Filmia just to get them in the encyclopedia, and avoided them since.
Besides, this was my first game where levelling up was this kind of random system, which took a lot to get used too. I couldn't understand it one bit. Even more, whatever you accomplish in the current run is completely lost to the next, none of your efforts carry over except a few specific items that don't actually help that much
Cuphead is the hardest game that I have ever played. I have beaten two bosses they took me a couple days to get the hang of. All the other games that I have played don’t even come close to its difficulty level. I did find normal mode of Ashen Wolves dlc really hard though.
Its Bugs Bunny Rabbit Rampage SNES. Seriously that game is so hard to even beat. If you lose all your lives, you have to start all the way over from the beginning. To Quote AVGN "NO CONTINUES?!" Yes seriously there are no continues, no way of saving on what level you left off on, and you constantly have to not die. I remember screaming at this game as a kid because it was so hard.
Castlevania : Rondo of Blood. Honestly find 2D platformers harder than every other genre. Although the final battles at the end of Dragon Quest XI are virtually impossible.
Flappy bird if that counts. Copter is a similar concept so that one too.
I found Zelda 2 difficult like a lot of people. Never completed it. If you want a more unique answer there is a somewhat obscure PSP game called Death Jr. I found incredibly hard. I loved the concepts and character designs but I can understand why it remained obscure.
Usually I don't try a game if I know it's made to be impossibly hard or is hard out of poor design/mechanics.
Oh, I have so many titles... I just suck at gaming in general. lol
But I guess if I have to pick one, maybe Undertale? Though that's meant to be hard.
Those retro games too like Space Invaders. Man, games today have it easy. Which is probably why I don't consider myself a gamer. lol I hate challenges in games. I like to relax and have fun.
Oof.... getting flashbacks to playing the Lion King game on my best friends Game Boy as a kid. We'd take turns to see who would get the furthest in the game but never made it very far. I swear the stampede and swinging vines were truly evil! Never actually completed the game but we had fun none the less,
dark souls. i never had the persistence to beat it :c i remember feeling amazing whenever i successfully cleared another boss or area though. i think i stopped bc i had a problem of wanting to grind an area i was comfortable with for a while to beef up for the next area rather than practicing my techniques and just going for the new and interesting fights, and i burned myself out. idk if i would spend the time trying to beat it now though.. i tend to play a lot of cute looking games haha
I had to think about it for a bit, but Dark Souls is what I'd go with. I, uh, ended up playing an unpatched version of it since I've never bothered connecting my Xbox 360 to the internet, so it was actually much harder than the patched version that exists these days. It was really rough to begin with, but I eventually just decided to grind the hell out of it to balance out how difficult it was, and in the process ended up getting much better at the game and finally ended up beating it, but woof, that was not exactly a pleasant journey.
As a side note, since I've seen it mentioned a lot, Zelda II was definitely tough, and I never beat it as a kid when I played it in the Collector's Edition (though I got halfway through the game!), though I trivialized a lot of the difficulty through abusing save states when I played it on the Wii U VC, lol.
It’s either Super Mario 64 (Ds version) or the Aladdin game. I made it up to the final level of Super Mario 64 before rage quitting.
For the Aladdin game I was trying to help my niece out of the first level. We gave up after 30 minutes, and played Pokemon: Let’s Go, Evee instead. I still don’t know why my BIL thought that it was a good idea to buy that game.
Dead cells. I beat the main game, but I am trying to beat the game with Boss Cells and can't even get past BC 1. Even though its technically post game content (I think), to get the true ending you have to beat BC 5 with a certain expansion pass which I really want to do. I can see myself beating at least 2 BC if I really commit BUT after watching playthroughs of BC 3-5 I honestly don't think I can do it which has made me less inspired to play the game. I usually am pretty good at video games, for example in Hades I beat 32 heat with several weapons (currently trying to beat 32 heat with all weapons), and at first was confident I could beat Dead cells BCs before I saw the playthrough of how hard it is lmao. The amount of enemies in the higher BCs is really crazy plus the fact that there is so little healing just makes it seem impossible
I've really enjoyed the game so far though, and I highly recommend it if you like platforming, challenges, story, and have a lot of patience haha. I can see if you're more of a casual gamer the game might not be for you, or if you get frustrated easily because the game definitely tests your patience every now and then. If you can get past that though the game has a lot to offer and is definitely worth picking up!
I definitely need to get back to it eventually but I think juggling that with Hollow Knight would be a recipe for disasterl-lol
