by lamperiie
Trying to finish on original hardware, default difficulty/settings, without any cheats, save states, patches, or exploits.
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It took me many, many hours to beat the game on Easy. On the default difficulty, Brave, I've only made it half way so far (through the obnoxious cantina monster.)
Secret best game on SNES (maybe.) I have only finished it on easy so far.
This game is part of the reason I am making these lists. I only picked it up a couple months ago and already can't remember if I finished it or not. I only remember that the music was outstanding.
I am in love with this version of the game. It resolves some issues with the original, and tosses in some of the best parts of the "real" Japanese Super Mario 2. I don't have the arcade cabinet, but instead a homebrew cartridge with physical dipswitches coming out of the front. Given that the Vs. hardware is the same as the NES aside from color palette, I'll consider it a legitimate completion if I get through it.
One of my favorite Neo-Geo games. I think the best I did was clear it with ten credits or so, but there is no point where it is particularly cheap. It's just a matter of improving in a few tricky spots, and not getting impatient or lazy with the final boss fight.
Great soundtrack, and that two-level Shinobi style of gameplay is always appealing to me. It's also the most impressive arcade port on Genesis.
Genesis version. I got through it once, but you need to finish it twice in a row to get the actual ending. To be clear, I am fully taking advantage of the game's infinite continues here. The checkpoints are far enough apart that it's still enormously difficult even with infinite continues.
I was dedicated to beating the Wii Virtual Console version of this, but never quite did it. Now I am playing it on an N64, and am hoping the presence of the original controller will help me get over the hump.
Blatant Castlevania clone that may or may not justify the effort to grind through the harder levels. This is less a question of whether I can do it, but whether I even want to.
I never cared about my inability to beat Mike Tyson until Dan Ryckert accomplished the feat on video. Until I saw that, I never understood that you need to lay low in the early parts of the round because you aren't expected to do damage. It still looked really damn hard though, so this is a bit of wishful thinking putting it on the list.