10 WORST Mini Games Absolutely Crucial To Complete The Game

8. Ocelot's Torture - Metal Gear Solid

Metal Gear Solid features one of the most iconic and infamous mini-games of all time, with its late-game torture sequence after Solid Snake is captured.

Snake is placed in a torture device and electrocuted, causing his life to drain away, all while the player frantically mashes the Circle button as much as possible to keep Snake's life bar from being depleted.

You see, failing to resist the torture still allows players to progress through the rest of the story, but results in Meryl's death at the end of the game.

Countless infuriated players found themselves unable to successfully beat Ocelot's torture, short of buying an unofficial PlayStation controller with a "turbo" setting which allowed them to spam the Circle button simply by holding it down.

But if you did it the hard way, it was an extremely taxing mini-game, albeit one that successfully translated the gruelling nature of the torture to the player.