There is a reason why the phrase "Nintendo hard" has entered the lexicon of gamers over the company's history. The Japanese company became known primarily in the Nes and Snes days for making difficult games, sometimes because of their challenging nature and sometimes because of their impossible, broken gameplay.

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Although modern Nintendo games don't always fit neatly into this category, they often still manage to fit in some high-difficulty elements that lead to them being relatively easy to beat but difficult to 100% finish. Fully completing Nintendo games, both old and new, takes plenty of patience from completists, making for a whole new kind of "Nintendo hard" to frustrate players.