The 10 hardest video games of all time
See how many of them have managed to beat.
These days, video games There is a business of several billion dollars, but there was a time when many people considered them things of simple children. But this categorization denies the fact that becoming masterful in video games requires real skills - not unlike, let's say, to play a musical instrument (no doubt more, because each game has different mechanisms). And this is doubly true for the games that are really, really difficult - like one of the following 10 games, which are among the most difficult ever made. Read the rest to see which ones - if you are - you have conquered.
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1 Ghosts' n Gobelins (1985)
Released in the Arcades in 1985 and brought to the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) a year later, this action-adventure game exhibits you as a heroic knight who fights against the holders of your quest to save a princess ... Who will probably be quite short, because you have apparently decided to go in your underwear (although you can collect armor, that does not help much). Worse, to really beat the game, you have to play levels a second time - at an even higher level of difficulty - and there are no backups or continuations.
2 Ninja Turtles mutant teenage (1989)
I was one of the millions of children from the 80s obsessed with reptiles who ran to buy the first Nintendo game with the heroes on a half-shell. I was also one of the millions that never exceeded level 2, in which you must sail in turtles through sewers in New York trapped to defuse the mines before being able to destroy the Hudson river dam. This level alone earned him a place of dishonor on the lists of Games that no one has ever beaten . Are the following levels even more difficult? I would not know.
3 Battlest (1991)
THE Battlest were a ninja turtle scam, so it seems appropriate that their Nintendo game has an equally impossible level. In this case, it was level 3, "Turbo Tunnel", in which you control one of the "toads while running through a landscape covered by an obstacle on a hoverboard. The timing necessary to dodge and jump beyond everything that will kill you is so precise, you cannot pass through the playing through hundreds of times to develop your muscle memory. Of course, A guy finally made his eyes blindfolded , but for a child in the 90s, which even in fact 30 seconds was like an impossible feat.
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4 Super Mario Bros: Lost levels (1993)
This game was released in Japan under Super Mario Bros. 2 , shortly after the original. Nintendo refused to export it quickly to America, respecting a completely different game to create a Mario suite for the American market, because the company feared that the game will be too difficult and alienated Western players. When he was finally released in North America as part of Super Mario All-Stars On the Super Nintendo in 1993, we all discovered that the company was right.
5 Ikaruga (2003)
Ikaruga comes from a game sub-genre known as " Buet Hell , "And this is an appropriate descriptor. In this game, you control a small ship on an endless scrolling screen teeming with enemies (and enemy projectiles). Progress in any hell of the balls of the balls comes down to rehearsal and hair trigger reflexes, Ikaruga UPS Put it by you also forces you to return the "polarity" of your ship according to the type of enemy that you are faced with this particular second. It is the equivalent of the video game to rub your head, to tap your stomach and to play Bach on a piano, suddenly.
6 Hollow knight (2017)
I really wanted to love Hollow knight , not only for the beautiful animation, which looks like an interactive Disney cartoon (with the sensitivity of Tim Burton ), but also for the engaging scenario, in which you play as a pretty little guerrier of bugs who has lost his memory and must escape an underground and infested underground labyrinth to recover it. However, the game doubly confused me: not only do you have to go back and forth through a large network of caves in the shape of the labyrinth to find your way, but you also face a constant and punishing enemies ever more strong. Yes, you can become stronger and find new weapons along the way, but I couldn't even better the first boss.
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Celestial (2018)
Independent play feeling Celestial is a moving story of self -acceptance in which you control an anxious young woman while she leaves on a solo rise of a treacherous mountain, fighting against self -doubts and more powerful interior demons (sometimes literally manifested) With each germ increasingly leaving meter. It is a help of help but deeply emotionally affecting - and also hard as hell. The levels are broken down into unique screens, and you could die dozens of times before cleaning everyone. Used, the game maintains a count of death in running for you (I could never finish it, but I got closer ... how much I have already failed more than 1,500 times.) AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
8 Cup (2017)
Cup The adorable style - inspired by cartoons from the 1930s and 40s and with an endearing sense of dark fantasy - provides attractive coverage for one of the most difficult games ever made. You assume the role of Cuphead (who indeed has a cup for a head) or his brother Mugman, trying to bring the devil to abandon his affirmation on your soul by collecting the soul of others in turn - which is translated By a whole game made up of sharp boss to fights with wacky characters, each requiring the expert calendar and the fast reflexes at best. And if you really want to finish the game, you are not allowed to play in easy mode.
9 Hell (2020)
Hell is a game built around failure. The plot follows the son of Hades (Yeah, This Hades) while he tries to escape hell and kill his father, and there is simply no way to cross him without dying. A lot. Yes, you will become a little louder and progress a little further with each of your dozens (hundreds?) Cycles through the game. But then comes the real bootter: even once you have managed to deactivate your father, the Cycle starts again and to progress father, you must in fact handicap to make the game more difficult. (They should have called him Sisyphus .)
10 Elden ring (2022)
Located in a sprawling fantastic landscape and with a story co-written by Game Of Thrones brain George R.R. Martin , the playing phenomenon of last year Elden Ring is the dream game of a gender fan - provided that I don't mind dying a whole bunch. The adventure of the open world allows you to do whatever you want, when you wish, without a ton of advice along the way. In practice, this means that you could walk in a brutal boss fight of tens of hours of gameplay before being equipped to manage it - a fact that you may only realize when you have already launched your controller Against the wall for hours.
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