15 Most Brutally Hard Video Games Of The Generation (So Far)

10. Titan Souls

Carrying on from that idea of difficulty still being maintained even if you can restart the challenge right from before it starts, Titan Souls employs the Shadow of the Colossus mentality of running across the landscape before you can even try again.

The game itself is a boss rush, meaning no NPCs or regular enemies, just a set number of bosses located in the environment - all with patterns to memorise and weakspots to exploit. Such a mentality is of course routed in trial and error, and it's here where Titan Souls annoyances rear their head.

It's apparently not enough to go toe-to-toe with these fearsome foes, but you'll have to remember the route from your checkpoint back to said boss, figure out what's needed to win and do the entire thing without perishing. Needless to say it's unforgiving, but at least Titan Souls' art style is charmingly simplistic.