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5458283 No.5458283 [Reply] [Original]

What's the Dark Souls of the 16bit era? I'm looking for a good action combat game with good aesthetics and insane Soulslike difficulty.

>pic unrelated

>> No.5458295
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5458295

>>5458283

Shinobi/Shadow Dancer, both from arcade, if you force yourself to play without shurikens.

>> No.5458301

Shinobi, maybe Ninja Gaiden if you don't mind 8 bit. There's tons of Contra games if you want ballbusting difficulty but don't mind using guns instead of swords, you still get to blow up lots of huge bosses and every mook is just as dangerous because you die in one hit.

>> No.5458457
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Adventures of Batman & Robin on the Genesis/ Mega Drive

>> No.5458473
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>>5458283
Chakan the Forever Man is the Demon's Souls of the 16 bit era. It has kind of janky, early, western Genesis sound and limited animation, comparable to something like the first X-Men on Genesis. If you can deal with that it should be exactly what you're after.

>> No.5458479

>>5458473
Chakan is fucking bullshit, the final boss is pretty hard and you get only one chance on him per playthrough, you die, you get the bad end.

>> No.5458489

>>5458479
He's not that bad if your avoidance game is strong. He's not exactly all that mobile. The hardest part for me was unironically figuring out you could use the roll move to clear otherwise nearly impassable jumps. I actually rage quit over that shit the first time I was going through the game and made it to one of the later ice levels.

>> No.5458495

Symphony of the Night or Super Metroid are fairly similar to Dark Souls in style.

>> No.5458529

Every old Castlevania game.

>> No.5458628
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5458628

Super Shinobi Bros. fucking sucked

Shinobi was only good for arcades.

>> No.5458630

>the dark souls of...
Fack off

>> No.5458795

>>5458457
Seriously, fuck this game. It's in the same vein as Contra:Hard Corps (EU/US) for me, i love the design and gameplay but even as a kid i could beat neither.

>> No.5458798

>>5458283
Dragon's Lair is unfair

>> No.5458801

>>5458295
playing without shurikens doesn't make it that much harder since the tougher enemies are better off killed with the sword anyway.

>> No.5458803

>>5458457
this game's difficulty makes contra look like a joke.

>> No.5458816

>>5458295
Both great games, but pretty easy.

>> No.5458823

>>5458283
Do people still consider contra hard?
I enjoy them 1ccing them and I consider myself just average

>> No.5458898

>>5458823
Yeah they do, for no good reason since they are easy games, particularly the first two on NES being some of the easier ones on the system.

>> No.5458905

>>5458457
Just checked out a video. Holy SHIT is that music exactly my thing.

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>>5458283
Ninja kid 2

>> No.5458951

>>5458905
Seriously an underrated soundtrack. It was done by the great Jesper Kyd.

>> No.5458975

>>5458816
They're probably the hardest games ITT so I don't know why you'd single them out

>>5458940
If only the 1P ninja had a white hood and robe instead

>> No.5458991

>>5458801
This isnt true for Shadow Dancer the shuriken lets you cheese out a lot of things that you cant with sword only, the most basic being the shield guys you HAVE to dodge their shield tosses every time if youre only using a sword while with shurikens you can just stand far away and kill them safely. Avoid using the shinobi magic and this gets even tougher. Certain encounters require you to jump over a shitton of bullets to get close. The original Shinboi's much easier though.

>> No.5458995

>>5458283
Ghouls and Ghosts.

>> No.5459002

>>5458951
If I like this, what else will I like?

>> No.5459027

>>5458283
Revenge of Shinobi was slower and harder, so...

>> No.5459031

>>5458479
That's by design, though, to portray Chakan's hopelessness.
>if you win you get a sequel tease
>but it never happened

>> No.5459035

>>5458283
Castlevania Bloodlines

>> No.5459036

>>5458995
>Ghouls and Ghosts.

Possibly the right answer.

>> No.5459083

>>5459027
>Revenge of Shinobi hard

Lol?

>> No.5459186

>>5458283
Ghouls n Ghosts.