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Ninja Gaiden. Even with freaking Game Genie I still couldn't beat the damn game! I know this was said already but the game has too many cheap shot deaths.

I beat Castlevania w/ Game Genie though and I still found it pretty tough. The one thing that has always pissed me off w/ CV is when you get hit you get that freaking flying leap backwards crap. I love both games though regardless of things like these it can just get extremely frustrating and you literally have to walk away from the game for awhile. They don't make them like they used to that's for damn sure!

final fight cd wrote:this isn't even contest. ninja gaiden, for me, is hands down harder than castlevania... ninja gaiden is just too cheap. and when i play it, luck seems to be the only factor that gets me from level to level.

The controls are stiffer, enemies get guaranteed damage (Jaquio between transformations), there is freaking wind in areas that are just hard enough without it. (In fact, I remember during a required wind-assisted jump only to be blown down into a pit mid-way through.)

Ninja Gaiden (US) will cheese the player off on so many levels. Castlevania has Dracula at the end to do that, but you can cheese back (Holy Water). Belmont has a stiff jump, stair-climbing issues, but gets range and slow enemies. Ninja Gaiden throws crap at you at, well, ninja speeds and all you have is a slow stick. Annoying platforming elements aside, several boss battles broke me (at this point, I've never gotten to 3rd stage Jaquio).

I will add that, despite having blind jumps and spikes from out of nowhere, NG3 is insanely easy compared to NG1 (or even NG2) simply because you have the wide Super Sword at your disposal.

I chose Castlevania because the boss fights are way harder and enemies can kill you in only 4 hits by the time you reach the later stages while in Ninja Gaiden the damage you take from enemies stays consistent throughout.

I should note that I beat Castlevania the hard way without using holy water because i did not know about that trick at the time.