January:February:13) Quackshot Starring Donald Duck (GEN) (7.5) (2/7) (~2 hours)14) Fire Emblem Heroes (Android) (8.0) (2/9) (~10 hours)15) Super C (NES) (9.5) (2/20) (~0.5 hours)16) Contra (NES) (10.0) (2/20) (~0.5 hours)17) Mickey's Dangerous Chase (GB) (6.5) (2/24) (~1 hour)So this is one of the games I found in a retro game store today. It's basically a
Rescue Rangers-style platformer. It seems pretty simple to start, but it
really gets quite tough starting in Stage 4. Stage 5 also has some brutal segments, and the last boss can be really rough if you don't have much life. I don't think it was the emulator, but at times the controls felt pretty laggy, I'm assuming when there were too many boxes on-screen among other things. This made some jumps really tough.
Speaking of jumps, you know those sort of wraparound jumps that you sometimes need to do in
Super Mario Bros.? Jumping out and then pulling back in to get on a block directly overhead? Yeah, that's quite literally a significant part of the level design here, except the physics for those jumps require you to be nearly frame-perfect. It's really, really tough.
Also, there are auto-scrolling chase levels where you pilot some vehicle, like a boat, car, balloon, or ride birds down a cliff. Those can be really challenging as well.
Anyway, I was doing great until I hit 4-2, got to that chase segment, and beat my head against it until I just decided to save state. Funnily enough, when I did that, I cleared it.
If you want a decent GB platformer, it's worth a shot, just don't expect a cakewalk!
EDIT: And I'm apparently not crazy, the speedrunners at AGDQ mention the same things about the difficulty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w1dxDhAW0Y