I think the most difficult genre is the scrolling shooters, like Ikaruga or Gradius V. The Japanese studio CAVE had made some extremely hard games these year. Mushimihime, released in late 2004 in the arcade, was the craziest game I've ever seen. The enemies were simply washing the screen using there bullets......And some other games like DoDonpahi: Daioujo(DoDonpachi III in North America) and Ketsui would just make you feel hopeless too. It is said that only less than a score of players all over the world could finish Daioujo. About a week ago a Japanese player finally defeated the final boss of Mushimihime, when 3 months had passed after the release.
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