Difficulty Spikes.

[Anonymous No.10852364]

What are some examples of difficulty spikes in retro video games ?

[Anonymous No.10852643]

Zelda II...right after you leave the palace.
:(

[Anonymous No.10852653]

>>10852643
A very important notice, if you don't have the up strike ability and the Reflect magic, you will not beat this palace. You would need the up strike ability to get a key from above and you would need the Reflect magic to beat the boss; no physical attack can harm the boss only his own attack.

[Anonymous No.10852659]

>>10852364
MIssion 1 is a tutorial, there is literally no way to lose. Mission 2 has you face off against some strike craft raiders and if you're patient, you can win just by leaving everyone in the mothership and having it shoot down the enemy strike craft.

Mission 3 has you face off against 4 enemy Frigates with no ability to build anything as big. Also they're attacking your cryo trays and you have to beat them down FAST. Yes, you can beat them fairly easily with some distraction scouts and some salvettes, but if this is your first time playing this is also the first time that salvettes are actually useful, and you might not realize how essential they are.

[Anonymous No.10852671]

>>10852653
Why can't I just kiss Zelda to wake her up?

[Anonymous No.10852697]

>>10852671


Because it's corny as all hell and not everything needs shoehorned romance. You can find plenty of this sort of thing on Deviantart and fanfiction.net... made by 14 year olds.
Zelda may not have the most original story, but at least it's above that level of corny cliche.

[Anonymous No.10852780]

Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries is not ever an easy game if you don't know how to build up mechs but it's also not very hard when you get the hang of it. The only really gay shit is the last couple Solaris fights spawning you between two Clan assault mechs where you are eating an alpha strike to the back no matter what.

If you side with Victor you are on the canonically winning side of the FedCom Civil War and the mission structure generally reflects this. If you side with Katrina Steiner it's literally all of the decisive losses her side took except you are also there to save the day by killing a company worth of Clan mechs every mission. A couple of the missions basically require you to skip over marked navpoints and go straight for the objective. Once you hit New Avalon it goes off the rails (looking at you, random Davion lance that has two fucking Madcats) with how tough it gets.

[Anonymous No.10852792]

>>10852643
Silver surfer

[Anonymous No.10852823]

StarTropics
Chapter 3

First 2 dungeons are a cakewalk and then chapter 3 is the hardest string of dungeons in the game.
The rest of the game is still a fair challenge.

[Anonymous No.10853389]

>>10852364
the boss in brandish 1 with the four genies really pissed me off
the game expects you to have a certain item (teleportation magic) but never gives it to you directly, and without it i can't get past the boss
it sucks because due to the way brandish is set up it's one long trek to the end, meaning the game expects you to backtrack all the way to the item (which you don't know where it is mind you)

[Anonymous No.10854931]

Burstiness, which refers to the sudden spikes in difficulty that players encounter throughout a game. These bursts of challenge can be frustrating, but they also add excitement and a sense of urgency to the gameplay.

[Anonymous No.10856464]

[Anonymous No.10856503]

>>10856464
thats like level 1 screen 1 ... RFLOL

[Anonymous No.10856830]

Cerberus in DMC3

[Anonymous No.10856996]

Mother 1/EarthBound Zero/EarthBound Beginnings, Duncan's Factory and Mt. Itoi. Mt. Itoi especially, since that shit was legit not playtested.

[Anonymous No.10857040]

>>10852697
You took that post way too seriously and got way too invested in a response that is pretty retarded.

[Anonymous No.10857046]

>>10856503
You think you're doing fine killing/evading the bats and then the bridge starts collapsing and a fucking dragon pops up.

[Anonymous No.10857515]

>>10856830
come on, its not THAT bad unless it's on dmd

[Anonymous No.10857528]

>>10852364
Mines of titans end game dungeon is fucking retardedly brutal, but nothing like some of the wizardry end game dungeons... Pure masochism

[Anonymous No.10857743]

[Anonymous No.10858234]

>>10852364
Everything after Khelavaster in Ancient Domains of Mystery, ADOM is fairly hard as far as roguelikes go but when you have to do the orbs you're going head-first into areas where the very environment is a bigger threat than the monsters.

[Anonymous No.10858248]

>>10852364
Obligatory.

[Anonymous No.10858656]

>>10857743
One of the hardest stages in all of video games. Like a true Kaizo challenge.

[Anonymous No.10858660]

>>10858656
It only gets harder from here.

[Anonymous No.10858780]

>>10858248
The butcher in Diablo 1 was really popular for several reasons. If I'm not mistaken, one of the reasons is that he was the first and last boss in the demo version, which I played on the PlayStation 1 at a friend's house back in the day. Good times.

[Anonymous No.10859952]

>>10852364
fixed

[Anonymous No.10859983]

>>10852697
>fails to see the point of romance in fairy tales
ngmi

[Anonymous No.10860649]

>>10852364
>>10858780
picrel is similar, the only boss at the end of the shareware version and he fucks

[Anonymous No.10860871]

>>10852643
i beat that game in an afternoon, don't understand the complaints about difficulty. i found zelda 1 harder desu

[Anonymous No.10861006]

>>10858248
press left-clock and hold. slurp potion when low health. such difficultness