Since the GameCube how many of Nintendo 1st party games been challenging throughout the game?

[CrimsonTider]

I’m not talking about waiting for the post game content nor finding “secrets”

Name the games that have provided a good challenge in completing?

I’m playing Luigi Mansion 3 and it has a decent gameplay loop and good graphics but the game is so mindlessly easy that it is boring me to tears (not to mention lack of real story and voice acting but that’s for another thread)

 

[Apollo Kid]

Mario Galaxy 2's Perfect Run stage had me raging

 

[CrimsonTider]

Mario Galaxy 2's Perfect Run stage had me raging

 

[el_oh_el]

Retarded

 

[GambinoMakeItWork]

Idk, some of the try hards on here might say otherwise but didn’t the general public think BOTW was kinda challenging at the time of release? Especially compared to previous 3D Zeldas

 

[CrimsonTider]

Idk, some of the try hards on here might say otherwise but didn’t the general public think BOTW was kinda challenging at the time of release? Especially compared to previous 3D Zeldas

Game wasn’t hard at all

 

[Squirtle]

I can't front some parts of Metroid: Other M were difficult for me. I still never beat that secret boss after you beat the game.

 

[Cryptocurrency Scarface]

You like cinematic games with QTE bosses at the end stop fronting like you like hard games

 

[Kingshango]

Looking for challenging Nintendo games is like finding a faithful woman at the strip club.

 

[The_Phonz]

Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze was pretty difficult for me. They introduced the mechanics in the game early and after that it was go time. Still a damn fun game

 

[the_FUTURE]

Idk, some of the try hards on here might say otherwise but didn’t the general public think BOTW was kinda challenging at the time of release? Especially compared to previous 3D Zeldas

it would be hard if you played it without ways to heal yourself.

Tropical freeze is hard as fukk.

Xenoblade Chronicles X was pretty tough, and oddly complex.

 

[Kaydigi]

Tropical Freeze was ridiculous.

 

[CM_Burns]

BOTW was pretty hard depending on how you played it. Odyssey you could walk through most of it, but the last few levels were challenging.

 

[Baka's Weird Case]

the Donkey Kong games were. everything else
hopefully Metroid Prime 4 restores the feeling theyre usually good for a challenge

 

[Return of the Jedi]

Nintendo doesn't need to make their games challenging for them to be great. One more reason they're the GOAT publisher.