SNES, Nintendo 64, and the Wii were always my gaming systems growing up. Tons of great games on those but then there's always those games that were functionally bad or the levels were too hard.
My least favorites:
ActRaiser 2 (SNES)
You'd have 3 tries to get through the sidescrolling levels that were swarming with enemies, with a boss battle at the end. I don't think I beat a single one on the map. I remember spending hours trying over and over, getting the levels memorized, only to go back in and have the guy land wrong from a jump, or die during a boss battle.
Dr Franken (SNES) and Aero the Acro-Bat (SNES) were similar to Act Raiser in that stupidly hard levels and random surprise deaths thing.
I actually enjoyed the Lion King (SNES) but it was frustrating as hell. There weren't save files. So, every time, you'd start from the beginning level. And the second level was a tree with all these different colored monkeys that you had to roar at to get them turned the right way, so that when you jumped into the hands of the first one and got tossed from monkey to monkey, it'd take you to the parts of the tree where you needed to go. It was very easy to fall off the tree entirely and it was easy to get confused by the monkeys. You'd get tossed through this line of 3-4 of them only to realize you mistakenly turned the wrong one and ended up in the wrong place in the tree. Oh, but then, once you're done dealing with monkeys, they drop you on the back of an ostrich that starts running in a sidescroll where obstacles above and below would come in off screen. If you didn't duck or jump or have Simba jump at the right time, the ostrich would crash and you'd have to start over. There was this one part, I swear I pushed jump at but the ostrich would fall anyway. Definitely a hair pull kinda game.
My least favorites:
ActRaiser 2 (SNES)
You'd have 3 tries to get through the sidescrolling levels that were swarming with enemies, with a boss battle at the end. I don't think I beat a single one on the map. I remember spending hours trying over and over, getting the levels memorized, only to go back in and have the guy land wrong from a jump, or die during a boss battle.
Dr Franken (SNES) and Aero the Acro-Bat (SNES) were similar to Act Raiser in that stupidly hard levels and random surprise deaths thing.
I actually enjoyed the Lion King (SNES) but it was frustrating as hell. There weren't save files. So, every time, you'd start from the beginning level. And the second level was a tree with all these different colored monkeys that you had to roar at to get them turned the right way, so that when you jumped into the hands of the first one and got tossed from monkey to monkey, it'd take you to the parts of the tree where you needed to go. It was very easy to fall off the tree entirely and it was easy to get confused by the monkeys. You'd get tossed through this line of 3-4 of them only to realize you mistakenly turned the wrong one and ended up in the wrong place in the tree. Oh, but then, once you're done dealing with monkeys, they drop you on the back of an ostrich that starts running in a sidescroll where obstacles above and below would come in off screen. If you didn't duck or jump or have Simba jump at the right time, the ostrich would crash and you'd have to start over. There was this one part, I swear I pushed jump at but the ostrich would fall anyway. Definitely a hair pull kinda game.
