What was that one game that you were able to beat as a kid but cannot seem to do so as an adult? What was that one game that made you wonder, "How did I beat this game as a kid?!"? For me it was Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island for the Super Nintendo, I was to beat the first few worlds but the later worlds are beyond me. That game was deceptively hard despite its colorful art style.
What is that one game that you could beat as a child but not as an adult?
Yeah everyone says its such a hard game. And undoubtly so, but I must have just lovd videos games so much more when I was a kid.
Lion King and Alladin
And fucking Battletoads.
Aladdin isn’t so bad as an adult! We played it to completion not to long ago for the first time and while the last level was rough, it wasn’t anything impossible
I have never beat lion king, in fact when I was in 8th grade I watched my friend play it and I realized I never even got to the last level. I can't remember exactly, but I got to either the second to last or the third to last level.
There was so much muscle memory involved I can't imagine I would have the patience nowadays.
Crash Bandicoot. I guess I’m so overstimulated that the thought of just moving the joystick slightly and pressing X the entire time is frustrating.. it’s so fucking tedious tho
I remember beating that game as a kid and then my cousin came and asked for help a few years ago. Holy cow some of those levels are an absolute nightmare and incredibly difficult. Idk how younger me did them bc I don't remember them being so rough
If your cousin asked you to beat the Remastered version then it actually is harder - some of the hit boxes for Crash and some platforms were changed.
I tell myself this too so I don't feel as bad about my terrible performance attempting the remaster.
For the record, I know this information is accurate regarding the changes. Still feels bad lol
Because at that time all you could think about was the level , now you are thinking about laundry or doing the dishes while you play lmao
More patience as a kid when You could only choose between the games you had on hard copy. Now the steam library of hundreds of games it's hard to have the patience.
You were just a kid cracked out on sugar.
My son started gaming mad early. At 2 he was obsessed with Many Me on xbox. He could beat the game. Memorized everything in each level before he could even really talk. It was such a sight to see this diapered baby butt getting greasey with that game.
He's 7 now and doesnt remember it. He went to play it on ps4 and was terrible at it. Couldn't figure anything out.
Took him a couple of months, but he's back at it and Trying to 100% it.
Note that if you're playing the remasters they actually altered collision so they're really a bit harder.
Crash’s shoes are no longer flat. Makes jumps harder.
Run? In THESE heels?!?
Really? I thought my timing jut got worse... I noticed they also give you more lives it seems
Dude yes I came here to same the exact same thing. I was sooo stoked for the remastered version and all I could think was WTTFFFFF lol
I recently replayed through Crash Bandicoots 1-3 on an emulator just a couple years ago. If I wasn't using Save States, I would NOT have been able to beat any of them
If you’re not playing them on a crt, then there is definitely input lag and display delay messing up your timing.
I tried playing Einhander on a lcd monitor: couldn’t beat it. Played it on a CRT, and it was infinitely easier.
theres input lag on crt as well if youre emulating and converting to analogue
I just want to say I have been trying to find this game forever. Played it on a PlayStation demo disk ( had ff8 on it as well), but could never find it.
Replaying them on PS3. Damn using a Dpad to move instead of a analong stick is hard
Why Crash 3 was the easiest because I can use the analog stick.
I beat all those games as a kid, and I don't remember it being that hard. But the trilogy released a few years ago was so fucking hard, I could barely make it to the first boss! Maybe I was just a very patient kid because I had nothing else to play?
Oof, I feel this. I just booted up Crash 4 for the first time ever and I'm like... Okay so I can just walk, spin, and jump?
Can't do it.
Using the D-pad is easier in some instances than the joystick
I literally was already hitting the comment button to type this when this comment caught my eye. I got all the way to the second motorbike level in Warped and it's literally impossible lol
I have beaten almost every Dark Souls and Souls like game there is but it doesn't touch the later levels of Crash Bandicoot
I never played it growing up so I have no nostalgia for it and watching videos for it makes it just look painful to play and not in a fun way
When the remastered collection came out I honestly struggled hard. I don't remember it being that hard as a child.
If you’re playing the reboot it’s substantially harder. The jumps are different I can’t really explain it
Star fox 64. I kid you not, when I was a wee lad I could beat the entire game without getting it at all.
I tried it again, and I was able to magoo myself to the end but it was pitiful
Same I recently beat it on the switch but it took me a billion tries and I saved it through the middle so that way I don’t have to start from the very beginning of the stage.As a kid I probably beat the game from beginning to end in just one sitting but now I can barely play past 2 planets without taking a nap or stop playing
Do a barrel roll!
Shut up, Slippy!
Such a fun game 😎
What a gem! Loved it as a kid and had found all of the alternative routes. I recently did a play through with my nieces and nephews and had a blast but that rapid A pressing definitely takes a toll on my much older hands.
You need an emulator with turbo if you’re an adult.
Pressing that A button over and over is hell as an adult.
Opposite for me, I struggled as a kid, picked it up as an adult and beat it without losing a life.
A lot of the older Sega platformers. Hell even Sonic the Hedgehog is surprisingly difficult for me these days.
I think the issue with Sonic as an adult (for me) is it’s really easy to get lost and get on the wrong path.
The underwater levels with breath meter are particularly hard.
The final stage of Sonic 2. Having to defeat two bosses (although the first one isn't particularly hard) with no rings is something i just can't do nowadays.
I can do it as Sonic. Tried to play through as Knuckles (locked the cartridge onto Sonic and Knuckles for those who don't remember you can do that) a couple years ago, the slightly lower jump height was absolutely impossible.
Sonic! I got a SEGA emulator console for Christmas and I was so ashamed of how badly I was doing playing Sonic.
Came here to say Sonic as well. I beat it back in the day but now the Genesis trilogy is more than I want to worry about.
Myst
I tried the remake when it popped up on game pass.
No, just No I can’t play that shit today, even with an update
I've come to believe that Myst is best as a two-player game: one to play the game and another to watch and write down clues and important info. Plus maybe a third and fourth to get through the tunnels in the Rocketship Age. I refuse to call it the Selenitic Age. Really it should be called the Pointless Bastardry Age, but the rocket ship is sufficiently cool to save it from that title.
I second this …
We had Myst in one of my high school classes. Four of us would play at a time. One on the game and the rest of us watching, using our collective brain to try to figure it out.
In hindsight, we thought we were gaming at school but the teacher probably tricked us into learning.
That's how my Dad and I played when I was a kid.
I was young, but I would write stuff down and we'd solve the puzzles together.
Twisted Metal 2 - I fired it up with an old buddy and couldn’t tell what was what, all the cars screaming their powers on top of each other, plus I’m used to R2 trigger for acceleration in games now, was trying to remember the Freeze and Shield commands, switching weapons was hell…
Had more fun just watching the campy endings on youtube.
So many (happily) wasted afternoons playing this with my friends
One of my favorite games ever. I rushed to download it on ps5 and did not have a good time
Gotta L1 up down left to get minion.
And I think it's left right up and right left up for freeze and shield.
Holding all shoulder buttons and doing up down left right right left down up is god mode and unlimited ammo.
Metroid Prime.
I’ve been playing it on my Switch for months and it’s not going well at all.
Dang I want to reply Metroid Fusion now.
My favorite game of all time, destroyed it as a teenager found it extremely hard as An adult
Look into Ori! Much friendlier metroidvania! (I play it on story difficulty lol)
It’s SO easy to get lost in that game. Especially with all the backtracking.
And morph ball changes perspective and turning and movement so much that I’m immediately lost as soon as I change to or from morph ball.
I was so close to beating the game when I was a kid. Got stuck. Came back several years later to realize the one thing I didn’t do was switch on my x-ray visor to reveal invisible platforms that essentially led to the final boss.
I'm pretty sure I had to look up how to progress because of the stupid combination laser thing. I think the game tells you about it but you need to look up the exact controls because the explanation is bad. I wonder if the remaster adjusted any test. I was stuck in Phendrana Rifts or whatever the snowy place was.
Took me a solid month to find all those blasted Artifacts when I was a little girl.
I'm scared just to think how much it will take me as an adult.
I think mario 64 fits this for me, although it wasnt something i really bothered to beat.
It was the only game i had growing up on an old hand me down n64 so i got pretty good at it but as ive gotten older experiencing more games and getting used to modern control and gameplay styles going back to mario 64 with the all star collection was very tough because of how primitive the camera controls were.
This is my answer too
I tried picking it up again, for nostalgia sake. All I had to do was walk around a 90 degree corner. And I just kept walking off the cliff lol
Aladdin on SNES. I used to be able to be the magic carpet lava level in one go. Me and my best friend tried beating it a couple years ago and died like 20 times apiece.
At least you made it to the lava level, I can't even get past the "boss" in level 3 anymore...
i can reach the stage with the genie and then it becomes extremely difficult. i'm still amazed how great the game looks AND SOUNDS for super nintendo.
I don't think I was ever able to beat Aladdin.
That lava stage got me every time even as a kid.
Home Alone 2. I could beat it if I wanted to, but I can't imagine putting myself through that today
Any of the older Mario Karts. This is probably me being used to how easy Mario Kart 8 is so going back to Double Dash or Super Circuit feels even tougher than playing on 200cc.
Same for me, except with Super Mario Kart (the SNES game).
I got my Switch in 2017, got Mario Kart 8 Deluxe in 2018. Played it a lot until 2020.
Somewhere in that time, probably between 6 months and 1.5 years after getting into MK8D, I decided to dig out and try SMK again, and I'm just not good at it anymore.
I never was a pro at the game or anything, but I can remember vividly back in the 90s being able to rank in 1st or 2nd every race on 50cc or 100cc. Then after playing MK8D so much, all I did was rank out on even 50cc every time, resulting in losing my lives / tries.
I will probably go back to it sometime soon, I haven't played MK8D since 2020, and I've been doing a bunch of SNES stuff lately.
I played a lot of Gradius III on the Super Nintendo as a kid. I could beat it back then, but I'm almost positive it would kick my butt and have me wanting to start a game of catch with the wall and my controller today.
People don't even KNOW bout them last gradius 3 levels dead ASS. That games so tough without codes.
first Rayman, the music level make me cry from anger and pure spite when I was young, but I insisted. Now, if I come back to that level, I simply unistall the ubisoft launcher forever.
Jk, great game, but THAT level, jeez.
Rayman 1 is legitimately one of the hardest platformer ever created so don’t be mad. There are MANY frame perfect jumps and it was straight up just not even play tested to make sure it was fair.
Yo Rayman 1 those music levels were so convoluted you couldn't even tell where to go half the time. Rayman WAS hard as fuck.
Gradius 3 for the SNES. Can't do that super fast autoscroll level anymore. Unrelated, Star Fox was much easier?
Because its unexplicably hard suddenly, or because it sucks so much now i get bored before completing it?
I think I run into the second one much more, I just don’t have the time or energy for all the tedious and repetitive things I used to have.
Original Mario Bros for NES. I just can’t do it anymore.
This is gonna sound so stupid but I beat Zelda ocarina of time as a kid and I tried playing it as an adult, for the life of me I could not figure out how to access the women gerudo part for literal HOURS, but I refused to look it up. Finally, after a painstaking amount of hours, I found out I just had to break a barrier underwater that opened the way inside for me... I felt so, so, so so dumb.
Edit: Another commentor pointed out this was actually Majora's mask, not Oot. Lol
Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask. I tried again after playing Breath of the Wild, Tears of the Kingsom, Skyward Sword and Twilight Princess but I had such a hard time managing the controls playing again after getting so used to the streamlined controls of the current games.
Yeah, early 3D is hard to navigate, especially days before dual stick movement was accepted.
Probably the lasting legacy of Halo: movement and camera controls between both sticks.
I will not stand for this Alien Resurrection erasure!
Kids nowdays will never understand the struggle with the C-Buttons.
That 8 way directional movement with poor camera control is rough, especially when your direction of movement doesn't line up with the narrow path you need to go down.
Same. I really hope they remaster both at some point
Ship of harkinian pc port allows you to have a free camera. It’s amazing
I was not a child but I got so frustrated with twilight Princess, I swear it put me into labour in 2009. I cannot ever go back to it without feeling nauseous
I can go back and play super Mario 64 and goldeneye and still get som enjoyment out of them but I cannot for the life of me get into ocarina og time or major as mask again which makes me sad because they were so good when I was a kid.
Chakan: The Forever Man, Comix Zone, Contra: Hard Corps, Batman (NES).
My mate couldn't complete comix zone until I showed him the papers airplane trick
I have the opposite with Chakan. 20+ years later, I'm actually getting somewhere.
Still can't beat it, though... HARD game.
Alex the Kidd in Miracle world.
Just genuinely have absolutely no idea how I managed to play that game.
Honourable mentions to Lion king, and, some of the DK games.
Mickey Mouse Castle of illusion
I was real good at donkey kong country as a good but struggle mightily as an adult
I've never really encountered this honestly. Any game that I played as a kid is seemingly significantly easier as an adult. One part due to just muscle memory and knowledge and secondly because my reaction times and game playing have yet to go to shit (28)
Gunsmoke
This game was tough and I managed to one-shot it after some time. Now, it's just freaking ragebait.
Need for Speed V-Rally and Tekken 3 on PS. Mostly won Tekken by button mashing and as for NFS Idk how the fuck I ever managed some of those turns in V-Rally with the D-pad.
Resident Evil 4. Beat the original, but couldn’t handle the remake, and I don’t think it’s the remake’s fault.
I’m the opposite lol. Played through the remake and didn’t have a single problem and then tried playing the original and it was a mess lol. It just feels so ancient and stiff to me. Great game though.
Like I said, I don’t blame the remake. My reflexes aren’t what they used to be.
I didn't remember the original looking as terrible as it does now. I know it's a 20 year old game, but still, damn it aged badly.
Robin Hood The Legend of Sherwood. It was so easy back then, now it's hard af
Super Ghouls and Ghosts. I used to do really well as a child. Played as an adult and can’t get out of the first world.
Back in the day I completed most of timesplitters 2 on hard. I whipped it out of storage recently and I struggle with normal mode now 😅
I'm mystified by how I used to clear consecutive The Binding of Isaac runs regularly. These days, I can barely eke out a win in a way easier roguelike like Hades.
Battletoads Battlemaniacs on SNES. Those snake and and rocket levels would ruin me now, if I could get anywhere close to them.
Any old school Battletoads... My favorite was battletoads vs DoubleDragon.
I thought there would be more lol
Mega Man 2
Any NES game, honestly. I don’t have the time or patience for the dedication I had as a kid with games like Mario Bros 1-3, Who Framed Roger Rabbit(which I actually beat as a kid), Tiny Toons, Ducktales.
I waffle between thinking I’ve gotten worse at games or they’ve just gotten easier.
Contra on SNES (without the Konami code).
I tried again the other day and I'm just not up to it anymore.
Spider-Man 64. I had to call it quits after the first stealth part. No indication for what I'm meant to do, and failure seems both arbitrary and severe- have to redo the entire stage again.
Goosebumps Horrorland for the Wii. I could play pretty decently as a kid because I wasn’t used to better controls. Now I’m not used to the jank and it’s pretty much impossible.
ngl there’s more than one
Contra.
Pokémon Gameboy games. Keep getting lost. Idk how I knew where I was going
One game? Rather a lot of games, actually.
Part of it is no longer having the manual dexterity of a teenager. And part of it is being no longer willing to put up with the same damn boss for hours and hours on end. I have better things to do and funner games to play.
And part of it is being no longer willing to put up with the same damn boss for hours and hours on end.
Yup. And, yet, I'll play any From Software game until my hands are bleeding. But I guess that's the difference between frustrating but good bosses and just plain frustrating ones.
I gotta try some of these games now to see if my hand eye coordination is shot.
ConSumo arcade game in Bully
When I saw they were remastering MediEvil, I was excited. I played that game a ton when I was young. But after years of gaming on new systems, the controls and camera angles were too much for me. I didn't get very far in the game.
Timeshift.
I can't think of any, I must of been pretty stupid as a child lol
I used to play battle toads with a clicky clacky keyboard and I could make it so far in that game, now I can barely make it through the rappelling section
I beat super Star Wars trilogy on snes when I was in high school and RayStorm for Ps1 in college.
No way I’m gonna be able to do that again.
I too was once able to make Super Star Wars my bitch. Tried the first one a few years ago and couldn’t get into the Sandcrawler🤣
I don't remember having any difficulty finishing super mario deluxe on gameboy color (it has OG super mario bros and an unlockable SMB lost levels among other things).
As an adult, it surprised me when I learned that Lost Levels was notorious for its difficulty. Granted, the deluxe version starts you back to the first level of that chapter after a game over, but I can finish it with minimal problem, that I even tried not using the 1-up trick or warp pipes, and even managed to kill all Bowsers with fire flowers. I only had difficulty with ending up on those pesky warp pipe traps that forces you back to earlier levels, I had to memorize which ones are the bad warp pipes.
Now I can't even get to the half point in OG SMB on NSO and I refuse to use 1-Up and warp pipes. Maybe it's the screen size, or the subtle difference in the feel that I am not aware of, or the controller, but I just cannot muster the skills that I had back then where I can essentially speedrun through each level. Now even with careful platforming I still find myself dying.
Donkey Kong Junior on my Colecovision. I was an ace at that game. Now I probably couldn’t get past the first level.
Road rash, I was so good at that game when I was a kid. Recently, I tried playing it again for the nostalgia but how bad I am at it now pissed me off.
Anything old school mario. I just don’t think I have the patience for some of the harder levels anymore.
Perfect Dark
Insanely difficult with its precise controls on Perfect Agent difficulty, despite the mission objectives being memorised still for the last 24 years
The older Resident Evils and the first Metal Gear Solid games (not the first two NES ones). I mean I can still beat them but it’s so hard getting used to those fixed cameras again. I was so good at it as a kid/teen and now I’m all wonky even though there isn’t a single new game I’ve played that I can’t beat lol. It’s pretty funny to me though.
Hide and seek, too big to fit in the good hiding spots :(
Donkey Kong Country! I remember beating it in an afternoon as a kid and now, 30+ yrs old me get stuck in the mines (the level with the green/red barrels for the lights).
Pretty much any 2D platformer (except the SNES Lion King one)
Perfect Dark. I'm BETTER at fps games as a whole but cannot deal with those controls.
I’m not even talking beating but just playing it well… NES Top Gun. I was good as a kid. Tried it once as an adult. Couldn’t do a thing.
No such examples. I’m much better at games as an adult than as a kid.
NES Ninja Gaiden. I have fond memories of finally... FINALLY beating it as a child after all the sweat and tears it took to conquer that game. Now I struggle to get through the first level.
Rocket Knight on Sega Genesis. Some of those flight levels are rough.
The lion king, loved that game to death.
Lost the cartridge unfortunately.
Final fantasy 7,8,9. Thousand arms... pretty much any JRPG. I don't have the patience anymore.
Wolfenstein 3D
I tried it. I got sort of “sea sick” and was gonna throw up because the game somehow gave me vertigo.
I never get sea sick. I’m fine on all types of transport. This has never happened with another game in my 28 years of life.
I can’t play Wolfenstein 3D for more than 15 minutes now. Used to do hours when I was a kid. Go figure.
Mario Kart super circuit had awful controls that made the steering a trainwreck. Every time I turn I go into a wall or off the track. Rainbow road felt impossible with that steering. I only ever beat rainbow road and the special cup once on the highest difficulty, and it's one of my proudest moments.
As a kid I really enjoyed the game, but as an adult it feels unplayable thanks to that horrid steering.
Nes ninja gaiden 2. How the hell did I have the patience & timing for this man.
Still has awesome music though.
Every platformer and/or action adventure game ever made
I beat every MegaMan, and Battle toads games. Those things are ridiculous now.
none, im like 40 times better then how i was when i was 6/7
“Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories” (GBA version)
I don’t have the patience to go through the mechanics of a game like that anymore.
I thoroughly loved and enjoyed the game when I played it though.
Original Metroid
Landstalker on Sega Genesis. I can't believe I had the time to trial & error those isometric jumps onto moving platforms.
I don't have that, I have the reverse. I struggled with a lot of games, like half life, and such,but years later I picked up those games and wondered why I had so much trouble with it back then.
StarCraft Broodwar campaigns
Must have been the faster APM and better practiced decision making skills that allowed me to do so much better then - now I get overwhelmed easily and struggle a lot more than I remember.
..none of them? As a child I had tons of time to play and it became muscle memory. For the first three stages of Super C, 30 some odd years later, I still have a bullet hitting every enemy right after it appears on screen.
My timing in Mike Tyson's Punch-Out! was much better as a child.
Jet Grind Radio
Pretty much any racing games. I feel like irl driving ruined me
I'm 34 now and I'm actually a lot better at most games now including fps. But God damn Mario 64 was so hard for kid me. But it's leagues harder for adult me. Most N64 games are honestly
Call of duty
Bionic Commando. A lot of the muscle memory is still there but the patience is gone.
Diablo 2 LOD. Breezed thru that shit as a child, put in 1000hrs.
As an adult, I won't beat it because I know if I start playing it I'll put in another 1000hrs. So I leave that game alone now and play other things.
I was good at Megaman as a kid. Now I just nope any and every Megaman.
Sonic unleashed for whatever reason, i breezed as a kid. Come my replay of the game, i got stuck on every sonic day stage without fail. Every single time i would reset more than a few times on the day stages.
I figure maybe because as a kid, im thinking “high score? Who cares” but now adult me is starting to think that maybe that S rank would look kinda neat. And even sometimes id get stuck just trying to master one part of the stage when i could just skip past it.
i... what? none? if its just about finishing the game and i push aside my completionist brain, itd be easier now than it was back then, even with how spoiled i am by modern games.
The older you get, the more you play a video game with awareness and expect to progress. When you're young, you die, you may yell something inane, but then you just addictively do it again, and don't give a second thought to the idea that you're spending hours getting nowhere. Adults don't see it like that anymore. wipes away tear
Armored core games, i could s rank some missions as a teenager.
Literally nothing. I was awful at games as a kid. I didn't have the skill to consistently beat games until high school and even then I honestly didn't have the perseverance to actually stick with a game until my late 20s. Now I love hard games (although I have limited time so I don't go too crazy and play Sekiro on NG+5 or whatever).
Donkey Kong Country 1 and Returns. Idk how they’re so hard, and I didn’t ever even use Super Kong in Returns as a kid!!
rayman
Einhander on PS1 I prided myself on beating that game several times without dying. I dusted it off a couple of weeks ago. I have no clue how I mastered that game.
Also, Super Star Wars. Can't even beat the sandstorm at the end of stage 1
Its more the converse for me
Golden axe
Regular old Super Mario Bros was the most surprising. My timing is just off now.
My timing is likely off for Mortal Kombat, but that’s no surprise. Your reflexes fade after a week away from that game.
Justice league task force. When I was a kid I could ever fight and not lose. Now if I play as an adult i get absolutely thrashed 🤣
I don't think I have the patience to play the original Splinter Cell and even its sequel, Pandora Tomorrow. Chaos Theory is one of my favorite games of all time and I'm a huge fan of the entire franchise, but every time I try to replay the first two games I'm pretty quick to give up. When I was younger though? I knew every level and guard patrol route like the back of my hand.
Prince of Persia sands of time. I don't understand why that game is so hard for me as an adult. The controls are janky as hell but manageable and the enemies are somehow souls like level hard??
Donkey Kong Country. Tried to play it recently after picking up one those mini SNES consoles and holy crap its hard. I cant get past the mine cart level.
Not beat but get WAY further as a kid… Astrosmash on Intellivision. Holy crap you had to be fast.
Metal Gear Solid on PS1... It's way intimidating today.
Yoshi's Island was the game that came with my SNES, aesthetically the most unique thing I played in Mario series. I own this bitch till today, tested and proven on an emulator. It's all in the egg-eye coordination.
Super Mario World was madness tho... Always been even back then. I tried, and discovered you have to be on adult party drugs to even attempt a run through, 25+ years later.
Punchout, Ghosts n Goblins and Super Ghouls n Ghosts.
The Sims. I mean, it's not really "beating" the game but I tried playing it as an adult and the first Sims game is hella hard. You cannot do anything but eat, sleep, shit etc. There is no room for free time in a sims life. I used to be able to go to the magic world and master the spells and potions. But it seemed like no matter what I did my sims couldn't leave home without immediately having to come back for another shower or something.
Not really beat it, but TF2. I used to be quite good at it. My reaction times have plummeted.
I haven't tested it for proof, but I can basically guarantee I can't still beat Through the Fire and Flames
Rampage on the NES. I had time as a kid, but I can’t justify finishing that game as an adult.
Opposite for me, lots of games I couldn’t be at as a kid that I can demolish now. Maybe not guitar hero tho since I haven’t played it in so long.
Monopoly. Now I realize the bank always wins
I recently found my old PS2 memory and decided to dust off Star Ocean 3 and give it a nostalgic shot. I got curious where I left off in my save and IIRC it's the dungeon where you fight Freya. Well I tried a few normal fights and got absolutely dumped on. Not mention I had a really tough time controlling the cast. Team was Fayt, Knell, Maria. I couldn't do shit to save my life. After two game overs I sat there laughing and thinking "how the hell did I play this back then".
Super Mario 64. I loved it as a kid. Got all the power stars. Now I’m struggling with the lava painting. I fell off
Original God of War. O-mashing got me like, welp I guess I got arthritis
Sonic Adventure 2
House of the dead 2. I had that on my wii and got extremely good at the game. Regularly beating it, could play both 1 and 2 player by myself. Last time I saw hotd 2 in an arcade I got wiped so fast it was embarrassing. Shout out to guitar hero too
Used to be able to play through Splatterhouse on a single life, and now I'm struggling with the church boss, halfway through the game.
Ghouls n Ghosts on the SEGA Megadrive. One of my earliest gaming memories is beating it.
Tried Ghosts n Goblins Remake, not the same game but very similar and it took me like 6 hours to beat the first level which takes a few minutes in real time.
I got really good at Devil May Cry, beating the modes where you die in one hit but enemies don’t (Heaven and Hell mode) but now I’m struggling on Hard difficulty lol
I haven’t found a game I couldn’t beat as an adult. I have however replayed many games from childhood and thought “wow these are some intricate puzzles, how did I ever manage that as a 7 year old”
Majoras mask.
Lion King.
How did I beat it as a child? I couldn't tell you.