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6-20-2008 @ 10:27AM
Dylan said...
My vote's for Sprung. Remember that game? Having to navigate dialog trees, sometimes thirty or forty pages long, with only one "path" through the choices that lead to success? And you could pick the wrong line, which would make it impossible to win, but the game wouldn't tell you that until about five minutes later? Yeah, good times.
Either that, or Jam Sessions. It's about as hard to pick up as really learning to play acoustic, so for someone like me with no guitar skills, it was pretty tough.
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6-20-2008 @ 10:27AM
ian said...
Probably the original metal gear (NES). I was also, what, 12 at the time?
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6-20-2008 @ 10:28AM
Flip McSquible said...
Contra.
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6-20-2008 @ 10:30AM
Zach Toups said...
lame but...pokemon mystery dungeon, I think...
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6-20-2008 @ 10:31AM
flameofdoom666 said...
It would have to be Final Fantasy III. I am still stuck in the last dungeon! I hope Final Fantasy IV will be easier.
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6-20-2008 @ 10:31AM
Josh said...
Contra and Trauma Center.
For the love of all that is holy, let me win this game!
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6-20-2008 @ 10:35AM
TJF588 said...
Well, my DS exposure is pretty limited, so of the, what, three games I've tried, it comes down between FFIII and MPH:FH. FFIII prolly wins out, though, since First Hunt was more a case of actualy handling the thing, whereas FFIII features dungeons that will either hand you your ass or just get in your way, with both setups leading to a boss that you'll hope to damage enough before having to use that last Phoenix Down. Damn you, Salamander and your cheap fire breath move! *shakes fist*
Prepare for a daily Copy+Paste of the above!
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6-20-2008 @ 10:35AM
Halamar said...
I know you guys are going to hear this over and over again probably, but it would have to be Contra. I've never beat the first one, probably never going to be able to be this one. I try at it for an hour, get a little bit farther each time, but its just futile...
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6-20-2008 @ 10:36AM
jprev said...
Sunday puzzles in NYT Crosswords are very hard. Rondo of Swords is pretty difficult as well.
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6-20-2008 @ 10:41AM
rdaneel72 said...
Hardest DS game for me was Trauma Center. Still haven't finished it. It stopped being fun.
But old-school RPGs are a different kind of hard. I played the original Wizardry on my Apple IIc forever. The labyrinth was littered with the corpses of my dead heros. The basement was littered with reams of graph paper maps. It never stopped being fun.
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6-20-2008 @ 10:43AM
Commonc said...
Contra 4 and Advaced Wars (all ofthem). Anyone else love turned based strategy games but suck really bad at them like I do?
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6-20-2008 @ 10:44AM
chivalry is dead said...
I can't beat the last part of FFIII
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6-20-2008 @ 10:45AM
coltcannon said...
Any Ace Attorney, cant stay awake playing after work.
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6-20-2008 @ 10:48AM
joon said...
there's no hard game on the ds, snes had harder games
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6-20-2008 @ 10:49AM
Roman said...
A few of the level in Revenant Winds really ticked me off.
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6-20-2008 @ 10:54AM
andyscout said...
Hardest DS game?
Well, the only games I currently own are Pokemon and Advance Wars DS, neither of which are particularly challenging, especially as a veteran of both series. Although, I must say that the Elite Four in D/P are much harder than in previous installments.
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6-20-2008 @ 11:00AM
Professor Lario said...
Contra 4.... on easy. !
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6-20-2008 @ 11:01AM
Ryan G said...
I'm having a hard time with some parts of The World Ends with You, but Picross DS has some brain-killing puzzles as well.
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6-20-2008 @ 11:03AM
jfanny88 said...
most of the ds games i've played haven't been especially challenging, but some missions in advanced wars: days of ruin were pretty tough
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6-20-2008 @ 11:06AM
Daniel said...
Definitely Rondo of Swords. Shiren the Wanderer is probably a close second. No room for error in either.
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