Tough as Nails: Demon’s Souls

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Daniel shares with you the nightmare difficulty of Demon’s Souls, wishing there were more games that dared to punish players so ruthlessly.

Tough as Nails: God Hand

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Sebastian explores the extremely difficult, ridiculously weird world of the 2006 PS2 game, God Hand. Did we mention the soul-crushing difficulty?

Tough as Nails: Super Mario 64

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Tom used to be good at adventure games, but Super Mario 64 put him in his place.

Tough as Nails: Catherine

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Rexly goes into the backlog of his memories and talks about his misfortunes with the action-puzzle game Catherine.

Tough as Nails: Rome: Total War

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Who needs “Nintendo hard” when you’re thoroughly incapable of playing a game properly anyway? Declan dons toga and sandals to revisit the hardships of Rome: Total War.

Tough as Nails: Etrian Odyssey 2

This box contains one game cartridge, or portal to hell.

Mapping, hacking, slashing, and dying. These are a few of the things you’ll run into, or away from, in Etrian Odyssey 2.

Tough as Nails: Castlevania

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All the holy water and garlic in the land didn’t protect from the nightmares induced by this game’s relentless challenge!

Tough as Nails: Contra III: The Alien Wars (Super Probotector)

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Martin takes more fire than a firing range in Contra III: The Alien Wars.

Tough as Nails: Flashback

Though I played it on the Amiga and SNES, Flashback was on just about every system I’ve ever heard of.

Dan takes a look at 16-bit adventure Flashback and discusses its technical accomplishments, its fist-gnawing difficulty and the very English tendency towards masochism. Plus jungle mutants.

Tough as Nails: Super Ghouls ‘n’ Ghosts

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If ye doubt your courage, or your strength, come no further, for death awaits you all with nasty, big pointy teeth!