Oh my god.

So...I Wanna Be The Guy?

Pretty much, though the "cute anime" look kind of makes it all the more perfect for what it's trying to do. The last thing people expect is to be throwing controllers and screaming at their computer screens when they start to play a game that looks like this. XD

actually all of these artificial difficulty "gotcha" games have a cutsey look from what I've seen.

You should try SuperMeatBoy.

I did try Super Meat Boy, and I enjoyed it for a while. But honestly? It was a little too simple for me to keep at. It was great for what it was, but like many other indi platformers, it forgot the genre was more about just running and jumping. That's why I couldn't really bring myself to get through Fez, either. Fez was a wonderful game when you were trying to solve the puzzles, but at some point early on just navigating the world became so mind numbingly monotonous. It's like yeah, I get it, this is supposed to be a throwback to old games... only in old games there was quite a lot of stuff to do between point A and B. Fez could have used some enemies (or something) to break up the monotony of walking from puzzle to puzzle.

That's why this game I posted caught my attention. You can do soo much in it aside form just walk and jump, and that stuff is littered between the beginning and end of each stage. Picking up items, moving platforms around, messing with the physics, solving puzzles, trying to predict and avoid the nearly infinite possible traps. There is basically never a dull moment, and aside from the trolling, the rest of the game seems to have superb design.

The fist few worlds of MeatBoy were pretty simple. In the later areas and especially after the 'end-game' you unlock the Cotton Alley stages. Which are basically the 99% impossible stages. Fun, but will cause you to swear up a storm.

On the topic, what style of games catch your interest the most? Do you lean more towards games mostly known for their difficulty like say Eryi or Ninja Gaiden?

Do you lean more towards games mostly known for their difficulty like say Eryi or Ninja Gaiden?

Not neccisairly, I am really just out to have a good time when I decide to play video games. Challenge (especially impossible challenge) is fun! But so is a lot of other things, like the colorful and varied worlds of Mario, for example. Both the 3D games and the old school Mario games all are great fun, even if the majority of those games aren't that challenging. So many different springs and pathways and bosses and things to ride.
I tend to shy away from things trying to be too realistic or "mature", because most often then not there is very little to do in those games, (thanks to the very fact they're trying to be realistic) and such things often rely on their story/cinematics to entertain. I find that very crippling to the experience I want. My favorite kind of game is actually metroidvanias. Not only do you usually have to power up in those, you have to do so through power-ups and items you find, and you have to do that to navigate the map better, just to do it more and keep delving deeper into a mysterious world where enemies and bosses get harder and harder: it's very exciting to me. The map itself is a giant puzzle to, and if the game is designed well the combat is usually fun. Metroidvanias are just so fun because you are always doing something and often thinking while doing it. I hate turning my brain off while gaming; I game because it's fun using it.

While I do like many modern day games, I also like the aesthetics of the 16-bit era and even early 3D (PS1/Saturn) the most. Not because "muh Nostalgia", but for an artistic reason. I think we can all agree that Books and movies both have their own kind of appeal, but I believe games do to. I want my games to look distinctly different from the movies I watch, not more like them. I think it's neat games have a look all their own, and I think it's dreadful so many people in this day and age want to take that away from the medium. To me, thats like people wanting movies to have more scrolling text, or books to have video screens with video. Of course I don't judge games purely on their looks, but I admit I am more likely to try something that looks like an SNES game then a Xbox game. Whether or not I actually end up liking the game in question still relies on all the other stipulations above.

I can totally respect that. If a game isn't challenging in some aspect, then I feel it will grow stale over time and not become as memorable. Not saying it's like that for all games, because games like Myst, Bad Mojo, Condemned, and even the series running games like Bioshock and Silent Hill may not be all THAT difficult to beat; they all however have such expertly crafted stories that they become memorable classics. I love games like these because the story isn't presented to you like on a platter. It leaves it up to your own intuition and imagination and yadda yadda ya.

Oh, so deceptive. I can almost feel frustrated by just looking at him play. Anyway, I stopped after part 2. Thanks for sharing this almost frustrating experience. :E

... can they just stand behind him?

A cool guy would take Croco's spike balls head on

They did. They had a new eps up already. They beat him. ... by doing exactly that. ... nerds.

YES. I love really hard, really cute games. XD

I usually don't say this about games. But this IS artificial difficulty.

The traps most definitely are, there is no question there. There does seem to be several parts that are genuinely difficult though, like the third spike-ball barrage of that Croco boss.

Nope. Games should not be like this... or there would be no real market for them. And there would be people hunting down the creators... going to tech cons and such just for a chance to nail them in the temple with a thrown controller.

Nope. Games should not be like this... or there would be no real market for them

This game basically looks like a 90s arcade game, it's just one thats been booby trapped. I'm sure there is an audience for that, especially with soooo many people online complaining games are too easy and boring because of that.

I was only half serious about this. The very fact that this game exists means *someone* wanted to play something like this. What I think would prevent this from becoming something mainstream though is the sheer amount of frustration these kinds of games would cause some people. All the gaming world would need is cases of extreme stress and health issues that are related to it being caused by people just going home to play some "fun" games.

There's a big difference (at least to me) between challenging and mindnumbingly frustrating.

im like jeeeeeeeeeess thats crazyy iddea XD

I love the idea of subverting conventional game design.

When I get killed in a video game, I scream, pull my hair out, and hit things. No, games should NOT be ANYWHERE NEAR this hard. EVER.

It's nice to see another Game Grumps fan...I cannot say enough wonderful things about this show. ^^

Looks like a well made cat mario. I love watching people play these kind of games lol