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29th Apr '13 4:55:31 PM Amagicalbadger

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27th Apr '13 1:56:58 AM SeptimusHeap

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21st Apr '13 5:28:47 AM mariofan1000

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* As one of the earliest games for Gameboy and Gameboy Color, besides not letting you save Kirby's Dreamland grows exponentially in difficulty as the game progresses. Oh sure, we're all familiar with world 1 starts you off with Green Greens with that iconic upbeat tune with only select enemies. THAT's the "easiness" that overshadows gamer's memory. Get to the bubbly world 3 where nearly ''everything is trying to kill you'' and unlike the adorable Whispy or adorable Lololo twins, there's a freaking cannon mounted blimp as a boss. World 4's Kracko is even more difficult as you have to fight two incarnations of him and can only be killed by inhaling the beam firing Waddle Doos. And to top that off, when you get to Castle Dedede and you think you're ready to fight the boss NOPE! The game makes you fight every single boss '''in succession''', guaranteeing you the loss of at least one and half health when you finally fight the penguined king. Oh and did I mention that there's no save points, no copy abilities, and only 6 lives in the entire game?

6th Apr '13 1:58:31 PM nombretomado

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* The fact that this trope is now rarely used was highlighted when in ''DonkeyKong 64'', you must defeat a few levels of the original ''Donkey Kong'' arcade game to progress. These levels were harder than the rest of the newfangled 3-D game. (Most amazingly, they actually made them ''harder'' than the arcade game by giving you only one (1) life instead of three.)
** ''DonkeyKongCountryReturns'' does not disappoint (to the point that Gamespy's review mentions the NintendoHard page with the quote "[[http://wii.gamespy.com/wii/donkey-kong-country-returns/1135968p1.html You'd better believe that Donkey Kong Country Returns fits this bill, through and through.]]"). Try to beat World 8 without losing more than 50 lives, and several screw with your [[DamnYouMuscleMemory muscle memory]]. Players may also find the Wii controls far less intuitive for sensitive platforming than the SNES layout. However, the worst bits are the rocket barrel levels, which make you into a OneHitPointWonder that dies if they touch anything - the enemies, the ceiling, the floor... anything. The entire level. While the mine cart levels also make you into a OneHitPointWonder, they are not nearly as finicky.

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* The fact that this trope is now rarely used was highlighted when in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'', you must defeat a few levels of the original ''Donkey Kong'' arcade game to progress. These levels were harder than the rest of the newfangled 3-D game. (Most amazingly, they actually made them ''harder'' than the arcade game by giving you only one (1) life instead of three.)
** ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryReturns'' does not disappoint (to the point that Gamespy's review mentions the NintendoHard page with the quote "[[http://wii.gamespy.com/wii/donkey-kong-country-returns/1135968p1.html You'd better believe that Donkey Kong Country Returns fits this bill, through and through.]]"). Try to beat World 8 without losing more than 50 lives, and several screw with your [[DamnYouMuscleMemory muscle memory]]. Players may also find the Wii controls far less intuitive for sensitive platforming than the SNES layout. However, the worst bits are the rocket barrel levels, which make you into a OneHitPointWonder that dies if they touch anything - the enemies, the ceiling, the floor... anything. The entire level. While the mine cart levels also make you into a OneHitPointWonder, they are not nearly as finicky.

4th Apr '13 1:53:46 AM mariofan1000

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9th Mar '13 10:08:17 PM polutropon

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2nd Mar '13 9:52:44 PM Kyrios9

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2nd Mar '13 11:08:32 AM Luigifan

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** The first ''VideoGame/{{Castlevania|1986}}'' doesn't get too harsh until Frankenstein (a real pain in the hunchback without the fire bomb), and Death is a pain but far from insurmountable; you just gotta keep trying. It's Dracula that ramps it up to Nintendo Hard level. Warping all over the place, including right on top of you (and frequently), tossing a trio of fireballs each time that required precise timing to either knock down or evade, can only be damaged in the head, and takes sixteen hits to beat, whereupon he transforms into a bounding firebreathing hulk that takes ''another'' sixteen hits to finally do away with. And did you know that at this stage you can only take four hits yourself before dying? (Yes, there's a definite pattern to what he does and it's actually possible to slay him without taking any damage, but this definitely qualifies.) It's so unforgiving that Konami actually did a Japan-only rerelease in 1993 (long after the NES had been supplanted by the 16-bit systems) ''just to add an Easy level''.
** The eldritch horrors disguised as game designers who localized ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaIIIDraculasCurse Castlevania III]]'' decided that exponentially elevated difficulty was a fair trade-up for the loss of the better sound chip. If you thought that Dracula's third form was a bit difficult after having played ''Akumajo Densetsu'' (it can be; the bottomless pits in the floor are a pain)...oh, just wait until you get to that point in the American-European version. Dracula's FrickinLaserBeams are not only fired more frequently, they're longer and can launch in any of sixteen directions instead of the usual eight. Good luck, and may [[CrystalDragonJesus $Deity]] have mercy on your thumbs.

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** The first ''VideoGame/{{Castlevania|1986}}'' doesn't get too harsh until Frankenstein (a real pain in the hunchback without the fire bomb), and Death is a pain but far from insurmountable; you just gotta keep trying. It's Dracula that ramps it up to Nintendo Hard level. Warping all over the place, including right on top of you (and frequently), tossing a trio of fireballs each time that required precise timing to either knock down or evade, can only be damaged in the head, and takes sixteen hits to beat, whereupon he transforms into a bounding firebreathing hulk that takes ''another'' sixteen hits to finally do away with. And did you know that at this stage you can only take four hits yourself before dying? (Yes, there's a definite pattern to what he does, and it's actually possible to slay him without taking any damage, but this definitely qualifies.) It's so unforgiving that Konami actually did a Japan-only rerelease in 1993 (long after the NES had been supplanted by the 16-bit systems) ''just to add an Easy level''.
** The eldritch horrors disguised as game designers who localized ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaIIIDraculasCurse Castlevania III]]'' decided that exponentially elevated difficulty was a fair trade-up for the loss of the better sound chip. If you thought that Dracula's third form was a bit difficult after having played ''Akumajo Densetsu'' (it can be; the bottomless pits in the floor are a pain)... oh, just wait until you get to that point in the American-European version. Dracula's FrickinLaserBeams are not only fired more frequently, they're longer and can launch in any of sixteen directions instead of the usual eight. Good luck, and may [[CrystalDragonJesus $Deity]] have mercy on your thumbs.

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** In particular, the helicopter boss at the end of Area 12 requires the player to fire a single rocket through the windshield of the helicopter as the player is falling. If the player misses, they're killed by machine gun fire. The chopper pilot is Hitler's expy, however, who looks just like the man himself. The game rewards you for passing its murderously difficult stages by giving you a chance to [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome shoot Hitler in the face with a rocket launcher]] and his head explodes.
** ''Bionic Commando Rearmed'', the recent remake of the NES version, is harder on its first level than the original was on its final levels - and it only scales up from there. [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]] went on to note that even though he'd never played the original Bionic Commando, he could still tell Rearmed was a faithful remake because of how console-stompingly frustrating it was.
*** And then if you go to any difficulty level above normal? Forget about it. On the hardest difficulty level, Super Joe Hard, you become a OneHitPointWonder, enemies fire as if they have turbo controllers and duck behind cover almost immediately. Blocking bullets with the bionic arm, difficult on normal difficulty, becomes a requirement, making the game reach new levels of impossible, like...''Super'' Nintendo Hard.

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** In particular, the helicopter boss at the end of Area 12 requires the player to fire a single rocket through the windshield of the helicopter as the player is falling. If the player misses, they're killed by machine gun fire. The chopper pilot is Hitler's expy, however, who looks just like the man himself. The game rewards you for passing its murderously difficult stages by giving you a chance to [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome shoot Hitler in the face with a rocket launcher]], and his head explodes.
** ''Bionic Commando Rearmed'', the recent remake of the NES version, is harder on its first level than the original was on its final levels -- and it only scales up from there. [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]] went on to note that even though he'd never played the original Bionic Commando, he could still tell Rearmed was a faithful remake because of how console-stompingly frustrating it was.
*** And then if you go to any difficulty level above normal? Forget about it. On the hardest difficulty level, Super Joe Hard, you become a OneHitPointWonder, enemies fire as if they have turbo controllers and duck behind cover almost immediately. Blocking bullets with the bionic arm, difficult on normal difficulty, becomes a requirement, making the game reach new levels of impossible, like... ''Super'' Nintendo Hard.

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* The first ''VideoGame/MegaMan'' game is in the running, too. The six Robot Masters aren't so bad (except for Guts Man's infamous lifts and Ice Man's level, which introduces the possibly more infamous disappearing/appearing platforms), but players who can get past the Yellow Devil boss -- to say nothing of Dr. Wily himself -- without resorting to the Select trick are few and far between. ''2'' and onward have passwords, but those never go into Wily's fortress...and he often has more than one. Sometimes the levels will do even worse damage to our patience. Quick Man's kill beams and Heat Man's disappearing blocks of doom are noteworthy examples.
** And even the Yellow Devil is cake compared to the final level. There, you're required to fight Bomb Man, Fire Man, Ice Man, and Guts Man a second time. The catch is that you have to do it all on one life - they respawn if you die - and the bosses don't drop any refills when you kill them. Even if you have a whole bunch of lives, you'll eventually run out of weapon power after two or three tries. Later installments of the game reprised the element of refighting earlier bosses, but at least there you could pick the order, you got a large life power-up for each one you defeated, and they'd stay dead if you lost a life along the way.
*** MegaManPoweredUp has the traditional teleportation rooms ... but no health pickup!
** The ''Anniversary Collection'' - at least the Gamecube version - adds another level of FakeDifficulty to all the original games by ''reversing the controls'' so you now jump with the B button and shoot with the A button. [[DamnYouMuscleMemory If you've got it burned into your brain as to which buttons to push from playing the originals]]... Yeah.

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* The first ''VideoGame/MegaMan'' game is in the running, too. The six Robot Masters aren't so bad (except for Guts Man's infamous lifts and Ice Man's level, which introduces the possibly more infamous disappearing/appearing platforms), but players who can get past the Yellow Devil boss -- to say nothing of Dr. Wily himself -- without resorting to the Select trick are few and far between. ''2'' and onward have passwords, but those never go into Wily's fortress... and he often has more than one. Sometimes the levels will do even worse damage to our patience. Quick Man's kill beams and Heat Man's disappearing blocks of doom are noteworthy examples.
** And even the Yellow Devil is cake compared to the final level. There, you're required to fight Bomb Man, Fire Man, Ice Man, and Guts Man a second time. The catch is that you have to do it all on one life -- they respawn if you die -- and the bosses don't drop any refills when you kill them. Even if you have a whole bunch of lives, you'll eventually run out of weapon power after two or three tries. Later installments of the game reprised the element of refighting earlier bosses, but at least there you could pick the order, you got a large life power-up for each one you defeated, and they'd stay dead if you lost a life along the way.
*** MegaManPoweredUp has the traditional teleportation rooms... but no health pickup!
** The ''Anniversary Collection'' -- at least the Gamecube version -- adds another level of FakeDifficulty to all the original games by ''reversing the controls'' so you now jump with the B button and shoot with the A button. [[DamnYouMuscleMemory If you've got it burned into your brain as to which buttons to push from playing the originals]]... Yeah.

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28th Feb '13 2:10:15 PM Prfnoff

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