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Do you enjoy Challenging Platformers?

Yes, I enjoy my Platforme... 78 86.67%
 
No, I like my Platformers easy 10 11.11%
 
Total:88
sundin13 on 11 August 2014

As for big ones, Donkey Kong Country came out earlier this year. Indie ones come out weekly...



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CladInShadows on 11 August 2014

Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures - The lower difficulties aren't what I'd call super hard, but they are challenging.  It's when you increase the difficulty that the game gets real.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=733ThI4YoEE



chriscox1121 on 11 August 2014

Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze is difficult to 100% or 200% for that matter. The last level on each of the worlds are down right brutal.




McGilliguts on 11 August 2014


I still haven't seen a better platformer than mario 64, and it was quite challenging if you wanted all the stars.

Alice madness returns was cool but the platforming was very basic.

Full 3d platformers barely even exist now.



Namiirei on 11 August 2014

enditall727 said:

 

Whatever happened to challenging platformers like these? Are there any platformers today that are challenging like these? What is the most recent platformer you've played that provided that challenge factor?


Prinny 1 and prinny 2 on psp.



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ice on 11 August 2014

Well this was the last one I've played 



TurboElder on 11 August 2014
Anfebious said:
You should play Donkey Kong Country Returns and Tropical Freeze then!

And btw Crash 2 and 3 where incredibly easy. The only difficult one was the first one, and that was because the save system sucked.


I totally agree with you.



outlawauron on 11 August 2014
Conina said:
Saeko said:
Knack ? test of the game said this was pretty hard no ?

Is Knack even a platformer? Were there platforms and gaps between these platforms Knack could fall in?

Yes, you could fall off the stage.



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kupomogli on 11 August 2014
enditall727 said:

Castlevania Dracula X Chronicles.  It's a remake of Rondo of Blood, but there's a few changes outside of graphics that balance the difficulty a lot better and clean up the stage design.  Stage 5' is a completely remade stage rather than what was in Rondo of Blood.  The game is difficult without being cheap, like Super Meat Boy which is pure frusturation rather than a good platformer. 

Prinny Can I Really Be The Hero and Prinny 2 are also great but difficult platformers, again, not cheap, but very hard.  Just like the classic Castlevania titles, the Prinny titles have the stiff movement and jumping, where once your action is set in motion, it can't be undone, although while Prinny can do a single jump, Prinny can also double jump, do the butt stomp like Mario 64, or even do a slow starting dash which even has some invincibility frames. 

Here are some videos.  First one is a recording of mine.  The framerate issues don't exist in the actual game, they come from being recorded through a fat PSP through the use of custom firmware and remotejoy lite.  I should actually rerecord them since I have a slim.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey84svvU6_0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnp93PM95oA



prayformojo on 11 August 2014
enditall727 said:

I have recently been playing through an old game that i used to love when i was younger and that game is non other than the original Rayman.

 

 

 

 

Playing through this game again reminded me how challenging it was and how BEAST we were back then because you actually had to be good. Not only was it challenging but EVERY life counted when playing. They didn't just give you infinite lives.

 

Another challenging game was the original Crash Bandicoot.

 

 

 

 

This was another hard game, but to be fair, i didn't like the save system in this game and the controls weren't as good as they were in Crash 2 and 3.

 

Whatever happened to challenging platformers like these? Are there any platformers today that are challenging like these? What is the most recent platformer you've played that provided that challenge factor? 

 

Also, has any of you beat the original Rayman or Crash Bandicoot? I have to give credit to the people that have actually beat these games without any cheats.

 


Super Meat Boy. Try getting 100%. Hell, try just beating the GAME.