10 Video Games That Secretly Get Harder Without You Realising
3. Not Using The Knife - Ghosts and Goblins
There's a lot of advice you can follow to make the original Ghosts and Goblins on the NES just a bit easier on yourself, but chief among them is this: Get The Knife. Above all else, get the damned knife.
The knife is the only one that deals out the right amount of damage at the right speed to get you through the challenges ahead with any kind of reliability. The other weapons technically work as well, but they just don't compare.
The flame weapon's travel arc is just too high to reliably hit anything on the ground, and the lance's fire rate doesn't compare to the knife's. The shield weapon, due to an infamous trick on the final level, is the only one that you should even consider swapping the knife out for.
The knife is one of the best weapons in gaming history, if only because it is the only weapon that truly measures up to the obstacles the game puts in front of you. Playing the game without it is playing it on a default hard mode.