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Reader Comments (Page 7 of 25)
6-20-2008 @ 6:43PM
VexLenin said...
Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow is definitely one of the hardest DS games I've played. Like most castlevania games you find yourself getting stuck and lost constantly. Then once you have finally found your way out you have to fight ridiculously hard bosses which you should have trained hours before to defeat. Very annoying and hard, but oddly enjoyable!
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6-20-2008 @ 6:47PM
Paul said...
Hardest game? Perhaps 'The World Ends With You' if you're trying to properly control both characters yourself :p
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6-20-2008 @ 7:13PM
ggamdizzle said...
contra wasn't as bad as cutting those damn triangle growing virus things in trauma center..
i had to buy a new ds, let's just put it that way.
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6-20-2008 @ 7:55PM
xjl said...
Trauma Center. Ick. WATCH THE PATIENT'S VITALS, DOCTOR!!! AHH, BUT I NEED TO FINISH SUTURING UP THIS WOUND...you lose. Hate that game. Do what I did, folks: try it before you buy it. Same with Trauma Center 2, I'm sure.
Contra 4 is much less frustrating, since the difficulty is adjustable. Eventually, I finished the easy mode, which gave me hope that SOME DAY I could beat medium (maybe not hard). Don't get me wrong, Contra 4 is BRUTAL, but if you try hard enough, you can get some value out of the game.
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6-20-2008 @ 7:57PM
HarDCoRe ManSTuFF tomato STyLE said...
sweet Jesus on hard Contra 4
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6-20-2008 @ 8:24PM
autumnrocko said...
front mission, never had a harder time with a strategy game.
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6-20-2008 @ 8:32PM
Rob R said...
Final Fantasy III
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6-20-2008 @ 8:48PM
Oneiromancer said...
Contra 4 and the original Etrian Odyssey.
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6-20-2008 @ 8:59PM
Jeronz said...
Izuna: Legend of the unemployed ninja. That game was so hard. It's a roguelike, and if you die it saves automatically and you lose all your items and money. You need to be really careful in that game and actually think about what you're going to do and how you're going to do it. I must've died hundreds of times.
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6-20-2008 @ 9:00PM
RJ said...
I tried the Contra demo. Hardest game I've played on the DS.
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6-20-2008 @ 9:06PM
Z. said...
I have yet to complete the successfully training level on Rondo of Swords.
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6-20-2008 @ 9:22PM
Mark said...
Puzzle Quest. Not because it's hard, but because the only other game I have played is Brain Age 2.
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6-20-2008 @ 9:22PM
Gennataos said...
FFIII DS. Having to play for that long at the end without a save point, only to get destroyed by the final boss? Made me trade it in.
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6-20-2008 @ 9:28PM
shamon said...
most difficult games played on the DS was Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin
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6-20-2008 @ 9:29PM
shamon said...
Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin
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6-20-2008 @ 9:55PM
Sami said...
Final Fantasy III gave me some trouble, and I did take a pretty long time adjusting to the battle system in The World Ends With You, which in and of itself made the game a bit more challenging for me at first.
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6-20-2008 @ 10:03PM
vonpookie said...
At this point, I think would have to say Professor Layton. A lot of those puzzles are nowhere *near* as hard as you end up making them. Top that off with the inevitable *facepalm* moment once you get the answer and you are your own worst enemy with that one :)
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6-20-2008 @ 10:10PM
rigsreco said...
Contra...need I say more
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6-20-2008 @ 10:35PM
s1n said...
Contra 4, hands down.
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6-20-2008 @ 11:04PM
twarin said...
Contra 4, FOR REALS.
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