[General Discussion] Hardest. Level. Ever.

The last level of R-Type is needlessly hard, especially given that if you die once and lose all your power-ups you pretty much have to start the whole bloody game again to stand a chance and the collision detection on the original is somewhat suspect at best.

Also, there's one strategy battle near the end of Saga Frontier (2 possibly, the one that got a PAL PS1 release) where you have to survive four turns or something and the enemy army just swarms down and fucks you over in two normally. It took me fucking days to crack that one.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by BIGWORM

I guess I'll have to say Galamoth from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. I was on this boss for a while.

Symphony of the night instantly becomes an incredibly easy game once you pick up the Chysagrim sword from those float head things in the reverse library. It has a katana style multi hit effort you can use while moving and is very powerful to boot. Using that and a couple of Heaven swords for their two-weapon combo makes Galamoth a piece of piss.

Another one I remembered earlier was the last mission as the Church in Syndicate Wars. You get about a minute to run the entire length of a long level with hundred of people shooting at you. Playing on the PS1, the analogue controller simply doesn't give you enough speed around the screen with the pointer to do it.

Also, anyone ever play the American Revolt expansion for the original Syndicate? I only ever managed to finish two of the missions on that, it was insanely hard. My average survival time on the Atlantic Accelerator was about 20 seconds...

There's nowhere I can't reach.