Some Games Are Just Too Damn Hard!

Have you ever played a game so difficult that you want to rip all your hair, because I have and it's not fun at all. Some times games are so hard they are just plain stressful and tedious.

So let's start with Ninja Gaiden, back in 2007 I decided to pick up Ninja Gaiden for my PS3 because it looked pretty cool since I think ninjas are pretty awesome. I thought I knew what I was getting myself into because I played the demo of the first level that I downloaded from PSN and I knew that the game would be difficult. I was able to beat that level on the hardest difficulty and decided that I would be able to handle the full game and I went down to my local game store and picked it up. Unfortunately I was very wrong, I tried to play through the game on the second easiest difficulty and it was probably one of the most frustrating experiences in my life (well besides trying to teach myself calculus). Each time I played the game I was either tempted to rip my hair out or chuck my Six-axis controller into my TV. Eventually I gave up after I fought a particular boss battle. This is what went down, I fought the boss drained all its health but I had almost no health as well, as the boss died and fell to the ground it touched me and I died. After a great deal of time, effort and "x" amount of tries to beat this boss I was so enraged that I was probably cursing at the game for a few minutes. Shortly after I sold that game, never again would I endure such torture.

A few years before that little episode with Ninja Gaiden, back when the PS2 was the it console I bought the Wolverine's Revenge game that came out when X-men 2 was released. The difference between this game and Ninja Gaiden is that in Ninja Gaiden you can actually move forward in the game although it is very hard but in Wolverine's Revenge a lot of parts actually seemed physically impossible. I remember I was playing this game on the normal difficulty and I got to a the first boss I think and it was so impossibly hard that I had to go onto the internet to look up cheats to beat this boss. So I got all the cheats ready including, the most useful one was me being "invincible". It seemed like that fight should have been a piece of cake, once again I was mistaken the boss was still able to kill me by somehow throwing me into a pit full of spikes so easily. So much for invincibility my twelve year old self thought, that game got sold so quickly.

Now when I hear a game is ludicrously difficult, I don't even attempt to try them anymore. I don't think it's worth all the the time and stress, I don't even think it's worth the ego boost to say I could beat Ninja Gaiden on hard, especially since I would have Hulk smashed a few TV's in the process.