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By "any help" I mean that by another person, any type of guide, any information from the internet, etc. Just you and your wits and skills.

For me, I'd have to say Super Ghouls and Ghosts for the SNES. I was 11 when the game released and I played the hell out of it for months on end. I figured out how to get certain chests to spawn, memorized enemy spawns, realized which weapons were the best for every area and boss, was able to do no damage runs, and of course got the true ending. Probably stuff I wouldn't be able to do anymore, but I feel it was a great accomplishment in my video gaming life.

Inspector Gadget

Probably Zelda 1 first quest. That game was really fun when you dont have a guide and you have to find anything on your own

Rabi Ribi

Idk

I didn't quite get to the end of smash tv. Easily would have been it for me. I envy the no death plays on youtube.

Pong

Dragon Warrior 2.
Once the game opens up with a boat things get pretty open ended. For some reason Water Flying Cloth sticks out in my mind though it's hazy.

Sickero

A bunch of NES games growing up where cheap difficulty was used to artificially lengthen short games. Also many games had limited lives/limited continues or death simply took you back to the title screen. Some of the games I see consistently listed as hard NES games werent even that hard in my opinion.

Id say the games that took me the longest to master where I could go through without dying were Ninja Gaiden (original) and TMNT. Ninja Gaiden world 6-2 specifically was a pain in my ass.

Ragnarok

Because that's not really a easy to search word, here's the Wikipedia article for it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnarok_(video_game)#

All classic rogue likes are brutally difficult. This one is no exception. Not getting fucking destroyed by a bear as soon as the game starts deserves a guide all on its own.

Not sure. Probably a platformer where the only applicable 'help' would be "git gud".

Ninja Gaiden on XBox.

Idunno

maybe call of duty world at war on veteran

Vyrulisse posted...

Dragon Warrior 2.
Once the game opens up with a boat things get pretty open ended. For some reason Water Flying Cloth sticks out in my mind though it's hazy.

I sent away for some printed guide from Enix for help.

Majoras Mask at way the hell too young. Having to juggle timelines, NPC quests, puzzles and comprehend the cryptic dialog at like 8 goddamn years old was such a challenge lol.

When I was a fully functional human being, Ninja Gaiden Black on Xbox or MGS3 on Extreme did a number on teenage me.

Shinobi for the PS2 would definitely be high on the list for me.

Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness is another, mainly because I remember Dracula's final form to be tough as hell.

The swapper
astronaut clone puzzle game with an ending I still remember

Yeah I dunno. Maybe Contra 3 on hard mode

Faxanadu. I tried a recent replay of it. My thoughts were. I remember finishing this but struggled to get to the next town in the replay. I know it was one of the "4". Games I played a lot on NES and Faxanadu was the only I finished

The 4 were
Deadly Towers
Legacy of the Wizard
Faxanadu
Dungeon Magic

Crash N. Sane Trilogy full completion
Halo: Reach solo legendary

Probably a lot of NES/SNES

Lies of P and then they patched it

Kirby dreamland 2

Idk probably Crash Bandicoot or some shit. I had a lot of strategy guides growing up.

Probably any given Megaman game.

Probably Super Meat Boy (especially for the Secret Ending).

Elden Ring. My first playthrough was completely blind.

Halo 2 Legendary I suppose. Not that a guide would even help with that game.

Unreal Tournament III on its hardest difficulty is a pure nightmare. Incompetent teammates and cheating enemy AI that can see through walls, has auto aim, knows the exact moment powerups appear on the field, etc. It took me a while to fight my way through it.

Dark Souls 3?

Don't ask me how because I have no idea, but definitely MMX5 and X6 when I was 6.

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Super Mario Land on my brother's OG Game Boy as a kid. I know it's not a hard game, it's just having to do it in one sitting with no breaks.

I couldn't do it now.

Actually I'm changing to Nioh 2. I played that entire game, every mission and DLC mission, as if it was Dark Souls or Nioh 1. I had a lot of fun, but when I came back after learning more about the mechanic changes from Nioh 1 I couldn't believe how much harder I'd made it on myself.

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Blue's ABC TIme Activities. My SureStart teacher gifted this to me when I was 4 years old. English was my 3rd language at the time so I found this game pretty tough tbh. I just clicked random stuff most of the time till i passed the objectives. Honestly not much diff from the use every item on everything approach in some adventure games lmao.

Anyway, this is probably the toughest game I've played without a guide for sure. But im not one to play tough action games