What is the hardest console game you have played ?

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Kabob

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Sep 5, 2004
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Hardest game? Tetris probably.

There's a whole list of games that are straight up infuriatingly "cheap" that come to mind too (Ninja Gaiden 2 on the Xbox 360 for instance). Get hit once and you're in the middle of an enemy's 20 hit combo...

I beat the xbox Ninja Gaiden on normal and the 360 Ninja Gaiden 2 on normal. I'm not quite gutsy enough to try them on the harder settings, they were difficult enough on normal. In Ninja Gaiden 2 my game kept locking up on a video on like level 11 or 12 and I even exchanged the disk and it didn't work. I thought I was gonna have to start over and I almost cried. A game update fixed it luckily like 2 weeks later.

I remember having a friend tell me that Viewtiful Joe was crazy hard, never tried it myself though.

Ninja Gaiden/Black weren't that hard really, you just had to learn the combo system and learn to block/counter. NG2 though was awful with the enemy cheapness.

I beat Viewtiful Joe on the Normal difficulty, it wasn't bad. Never tried it above that though.
 
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Slew Foot

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Sep 22, 2005
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One of my crowning achievments as a kid was beating TMNT 1 on the NES. Shredder was stupidly easy, he couldnt even hit you when you jumped onto the top ledge.