Demon's Souls

Bingo!

I was talking about this type of difficulty.

Great examples of "Nintendo Hard" are Super Meat Boy and IWBTG.

I was bored so I read through all the games they said were too difficult. The RPG segment is either incorrect or I was an exceedingly gifted RPG player as a child. Lufia II and much later, Odin Sphere, in particular. They were both pretty hard games but not impossible....OS's only real difficult part was Odette and her friggen 5frames per second attacks that lagged the game to all hell, and Lufia II's only hard part was an option postgame puzzle, correctly dubbed "The World's Hardest Puzzle", which took me without a guide 27 hours straight to clear, and miraculously zero broken controls. Also, DA:O was hard? Compared to what, seriously. I barely got a challenge out of that even on hard mode, it's the only one I honestly feel doesn't belong at all. Eternal Sonata NG+ certainly belongs on there, though, being a survivor of that particular hell.

Honestly, the hardest game I've ever played, which I'm currently still trying to 100% (not trophywise, screw those they are too luck based and time consuming), is Star Ocean 4's PS3 version, my god. Normal mode was kinda hard, universe mode was horrible, and chaos all the monsters suddenly have 3x invincibility mode chargerate, 350% all stats, the ability to parry and counter normal attacks, and the ability to counter your counter of their counter of a blindside attack, so aside from the fact that noncrits are 0 damage on them, all of their hits are going to be 1shotting you. My goal is 8wing Ethereal Queen, and just recently I beat 1wing Gabriel Celeste after an hour or so of getting massacred nearly as badly as Freya on 4D of SO3 did to me, so I feel like that goal may be out of my reach at this point.

I'm hoping Dark Souls beats it, somehow. October cannot come fast enough.