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Metal_Bug posted...

See, here's the thing about saying NES games are super hard. Those games were designed with a different philosophy in mind. A lot of those games originated as arcade games that were made to eat up the $5 Jimmy's mom gave him for the arcade. Plus games had space and hardware limitations, so they were made more difficult to artificialize the length of the game so people would feel like they were getting their money's worth.

Just because games were made insanely difficult for stupid and unfair reasons back then doesn't mean a modern game that designs the difficulty as part of the experience can't be called hard.

This is fact. Also, to be clear, I don't want 80s style difficulty. I don't have the patience for that like I did as a kid. I like Dark Souls level (or Returnal for something I played recently), where steady progression and practice will get you through it.