Top 15 games that make you feel that playing “chicken” is also a crime (P.2)

Not playing the game well is very painful…

Before entering a game, you usually have to choose the difficulty level. Depending on your preferences or skills, gamers will choose a mode that suits them. In particular, the easiest level will be suitable for those who do not have much experience or want to play in the style of horseback riding.

However, some developers don’t think so. They find ways to tease and tease gamers for choosing “light things”. In some situations, if you choose easy mode, the game will lock some content, forcing you to replay at a harder level to get the full experience. Here is the next part in the top 15 games that make you feel… “chicken” is also a sin.

Crash Bandicoot 2: Wrath Of Cortex

If you die more than five times in Crash Bandicoot 2: Wrath of Cortex, this game will give you the Aku Aku Mask (equivalent to the red mushroom in Super Mario Bros) until you drag the old body to the nearest checkpoint. . It doesn’t sound like much of a joke, but if you die again, this game will turn the nearest box into a checkpoint, as if it has run out of patience with you.

Although this is not a mode or a setting that you choose for yourself, the game will make you feel “chicken” because of the constant help to complete the level. And if you still die it’s no one else’s fault but yours.

Street Of Rage 3

Sometimes the same game but the version released in Japan is very different from the version released in the US. There are times when the developer intentionally makes the US version easier by renaming the mode, for example, “Medium” to “Hard”, “Hard” to “Super Hard”, so that the player will not feel embarrassed when play games like Ninja Gaiden and Devil May Cry.

However, there are times when the developer expects Western players to be able to complete the game’s challenges in a more decent and kind way. For example, in Streets of Rage 3, if you choose the easy mode, you will not be able to play the last 2 levels. You can only know the end of the game by… watching the video. Worse yet, after the 5th level of the game, Robot X will constantly nag the player every time he makes the mistake of saying “You play this game like a beginner!” (rough translation: You play like a beginner!).

The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile

Like many other titles on this list, The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile will let you change the difficulty setting after a certain number of deaths.

However, if you choose the easiest mode “Pretty Princess Difficulty” (roughly translated: the difficulty of the beautiful princess), then this game will tease you. At this point, damage from enemies in the game will be almost nullified, they can no longer cause direct blood loss to you. And instead of blood, what flows out throughout the game will be big animated hearts. The whole journey in the game will be as easy as walking in the park.

For a game that prides itself on the level of gore and violence like The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile, this is an extremely obvious humiliation. When you choose less of a challenge, the challenge will reject you, making you feel like an abandoned coward.

Spider-Man (PS1)

Released on the PS1 in 2001, Spider-Man was a game that received rave reviews, both for its gameplay and its story.

As you all know, there are some difficulty levels that make the whole game meaningless. Spider-Man’s “Kid Mode” is one such mode. It makes the game almost self-playing, even some parts of the game are cut off altogether. It will skip certain puzzles and bosses, and the game sometimes even takes control of the player to complete some levels for them.

The most classic is a mission in the first part of the game, where Spider-Man was tasked with safely defuse bombs after a bank robbery. If you play “Kid Mode”, he will say “I should find a safe place to put this” (I should find a safe place to put this), as if you couldn’t find it yourself.

If you’re a kid who’s just getting started with the game and doesn’t have the ability to play it properly then Kid Mode is probably a great mode. Otherwise there is no reason why this mode should exist.

Devil May Cry series

Throughout the Devil May Cry series, the player will be entitled to a decrease in difficulty after each death. For example, in Devil May Cry 3, you can switch to easy mode: For example, reduce a certain number of enemies, or how often they appear.

In the first Devil May Cry, easy mode does even more. Once you turn on the “Automatic” mode, it not only reduces the difficulty of the game, but also reduces the complexity of the most difficult combos.

This means you can perform complex combos with just a few simple keystrokes. For a series where combos play such an important role as Devil May Cry, simplifying the implementation of these combos is honestly no longer fun. In addition, the game will also lock you in this mode and force you to destroy the game to give you the opportunity to adjust the difficulty, or be forced to … play from the beginning.

Source: What Culture