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Nobody said being a superhero was easy. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today, we’re counting down our picks for the toughest superhero video games!
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00:00 The blinds tell us they've turned the building
00:01 into a weapons depot.
00:03 - Time for housekeeping to clean this place up.
00:05 - Welcome to WatchMojo, and today,
00:09 we're counting down our picks
00:10 for the top 10 toughest superhero video games.
00:14 - Look, Ma, I'm gonna be DLC.
00:17 - Number 10, The Wonderful 101.
00:21 - Team, unite up.
00:29 - The Wonderful 101 is in a weird spot
00:32 because it isn't necessarily difficult
00:34 in terms of its gameplay.
00:35 The game does a pretty decent job
00:38 at maintaining its difficulty level,
00:40 even if it is kind of the oddball
00:42 in developer Platinum Games' catalog.
00:44 No, the biggest hurdle you'll have to face is the controls.
00:48 The Wonderful 101 demands a full understanding
00:50 of the game's mechanics.
00:52 It's a game where everything will
00:54 either just click with you or not,
00:56 and if it doesn't, well, you might find yourself struggling
01:00 to understand what exactly you need to do.
01:02 ♪ There's a cause ♪
01:04 ♪ The one stoppable wonder ♪
01:06 ♪ The wonderful, wonderful ♪
01:09 - Number nine, Marvel's Spider-Man 2.
01:13 You could just set the game to the easiest difficulty,
01:22 but in doing so, you kinda miss out
01:25 on the full Spider-Man 2 experience.
01:27 We won't lie, though.
01:28 Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is one of the toughest games
01:31 Insomniac has ever made.
01:33 While upgrading Peter and Miles
01:35 will make you more formidable in battle,
01:37 it isn't going to solely carry you.
01:40 Powers and abilities are now tied to cooldowns
01:42 rather than ammunition,
01:44 forcing you to use them a bit more strategically.
01:47 And the bosses, they hit hard, really hard.
01:51 (grunting)
01:53 Number eight, Deadpool.
01:58 - Ooh, Spider-Man.
01:59 But does Spider-Man have a sweet-ass
02:01 supercharged healing factor?
02:03 No, but me, some jackass gets lucky
02:06 and tags me with a stray bullet, whatever.
02:09 - Much like Spider-Man 2, you can play through Deadpool
02:12 under the easy or normal difficulty with very few problems.
02:16 But when cranked to ultra-violent, the hardest difficulty,
02:20 you have to start playing it differently.
02:22 Not only do enemies hit harder,
02:24 but some of them can end you with a single attack.
02:27 To make things worse, your dodging is way more limited
02:31 in the number of times you can use it.
02:33 Many who played on ultra-violent
02:35 have walked away frustrated.
02:37 Those who stuck with it, still frustrated.
02:40 - That's for never washing the dishes.
02:42 That's for last year's white elephant gift.
02:44 Who wants a white elephant?
02:46 And finally, that's because the whole setup
02:49 just added five minutes of bonus play
02:50 to the most awesome game ever devised by Mutant or Man.
02:54 - Number seven, Injustice 2.
02:57 - How about slaps and tickles at 10 paces?
03:00 - Not the answer I was expecting.
03:04 - If you played Mortal Kombat 10
03:07 and found it to be difficult,
03:08 well, you might struggle the same way here.
03:11 Injustice 2 wound up filtering out a lot of players,
03:15 for better or worse.
03:17 First off, the gameplay is just as fast as MKX,
03:20 meaning much of your skill
03:22 depends on incredibly fast inputs.
03:24 Not only that, but some characters have moves
03:27 that require weird inputs in order to execute them.
03:30 It can all be very overwhelming,
03:33 even for your average fighting game fan.
03:35 It doesn't help that some of the balance feels a bit whack.
03:39 (guns firing)
03:41 - Number six, Infamous.
03:46 (guns firing)
03:49 - Infamous can be a bit of a pain to deal with at times.
03:54 For starters, the traversal here isn't as refined
03:57 as it is in later games in the franchise.
03:59 Cole will sometimes grab onto things
04:01 or fail to recognize ledges he can grab onto.
04:04 Kombat, on the other hand, can sometimes feel cheap
04:07 in how certain enemies become bolt sponges,
04:10 particularly the Dustmen
04:12 and their significantly less armored first sons.
04:15 We don't say this to make puns out of the developer,
04:17 but be prepared to get sucker punched on several occasions.
04:21 Number five, Batman Arkham Knight.
04:27 (guns firing)
04:30 Arkham Asylum can be spent in detective mode
04:35 for most of the game,
04:36 and Arkham City is really only hard
04:38 when you go for the new game plus playthrough.
04:41 Arkham Knight, though?
04:42 Easily the hardest of the Arkham games.
04:45 This installment gave enemies even more weapons
04:48 to use against the Dark Knight,
04:50 forcing players to counter through other means
04:52 and play more carefully during stealth missions.
04:54 And God help those who may not be great at driving games
04:59 during Batmobile sections.
05:00 The challenge maps were equally brutal
05:03 when going for all of the medals.
05:05 (guns firing)
05:08 (grunting)
05:10 Number four, Marvel's Midnight Suns.
05:16 (guns firing)
05:19 If you haven't grabbed Marvel's Midnight Suns,
05:24 you absolutely need to give this a shot.
05:26 Here, the difficulty is what makes the gameplay truly shine.
05:30 On the surface, the game might seem as oppressive as XCOM,
05:34 giving you limited actions you can do.
05:37 However, once you find ways to KO enemies,
05:39 save on your card plays, and maximize your damage output,
05:43 Midnight Suns become incredibly satisfying to play.
05:46 Just make sure you aren't playing cards recklessly
05:49 the second you think,
05:50 oh, this one card can do a lot of damage now.
05:53 Think more resourcefully.
05:55 (grunting)
05:57 - Give the mother my regard.
06:03 - Number three, Venom, Spider-Man, Separation Anxiety.
06:07 (upbeat music)
06:09 Now, most of the entries we've gone over
06:15 have been hard because you need a firm understanding
06:18 of their mechanics.
06:19 For Venom, Spider-Man, Separation Anxiety,
06:22 there isn't anything in the world to prepare you for this.
06:25 This game takes the difficulty from its predecessor,
06:27 Spider-Man and Venom, Maximum Carnage, and breaks it.
06:30 The entire game is loaded with nonsensical hitboxes
06:34 and pot shots against the player.
06:36 Really, Venom shouldn't be dying so easily
06:39 and taking cheap shots this often.
06:41 Spidey, sure, maybe, but not Venom.
06:44 (upbeat music)
06:47 Number two, Beautiful Joe.
06:54 (upbeat music)
06:57 Beautiful Joe is a game that will either make or break you.
07:03 You can't really play this the same way you would
07:06 with classic arcade beat 'em ups.
07:08 You need to find a balance between darting around the stage
07:11 and pummeling the crap out of your enemies.
07:14 Bosses will test your patience,
07:16 and it is important that you experiment
07:18 to figure out how to counter enemies.
07:20 So long as you jump in knowing this isn't
07:22 another run-of-the-mill brawler,
07:24 you might love Beautiful Joe,
07:26 no matter how many times you die.
07:28 (gunshots)
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07:47 Number one, Silver Surfer.
07:52 (upbeat music)
07:54 To this day, Silver Surfer on the Nintendo
08:01 is the cruelest superhero game you could ever play.
08:04 How so?
08:05 Well, the game forgets that you are, you know, a superhero.
08:10 Just about every little thing in the game
08:12 can kill you instantly, from a single hit from an enemy
08:15 to accidentally running into something
08:17 that looks like it was part of the background.
08:19 It is all absolutely BS, and no matter what comes out
08:23 in the coming weeks, months, years, or decade,
08:28 Silver Surfer will always be the hardest superhero game
08:32 in the most negative way possible.
08:35 (upbeat music)
08:37 Which superhero game did you find the most difficult to play?
08:44 Did it make our list?
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