I played this game while babysitting some kids in the 90s because they had a SNES. Unfortunately I taught them a few new curse words because of this game.

"They make you play it twice" They wouldn't even dare to pull a ghosts n goblins, its not that harsh

Got me with "its not called 'extraordinarily normal games'"

“Knowing EVERY enemy on the screen is the key to success” 10 seconds later after dying: I didn’t even see that guy!

Watching Ryu gradually learn how R-Type’s Force Pod works and how to use it strategically made this video sublime. My favorite part about this series is that Ryan goes into these games blind, that and the fact he is so skilled and analytical so you can see his progression in real time. Simply, this is top-shelf content.

Ryu: "How am I alive?" 2 minutes later: "Dude how am I alive right now??" Another 2 minutes later: "HoW tHe HeCk Am I aLiVe???" ...guess that truly IS an extraordinarily hard game 😅😂🤣 Thanks for the entertaining content as always Ryu ❤

Ryu is genuinely one of the most legit best youtuber around.

I have played this game so much when i was child. Unfortunately after the second stage it’s seems you forgot as you can charge your beam 😉 Nice vid by the way 👍🏼 Thanks Ruy 😁

Watching this was nerve wracking as hell BUT.. Ryukhar has some of the greatest juke moves ever 😂

Woah. This might be the fairest extraordinarily hard game I've seen yet. The hitbox for your ship is incredibly precise and generous (check out how close those missiles get to Ryu). The enemy placement tends to leave plenty of room and time to see and predict what's coming. Not to mention when you die, the game gives you just long enough to analyze the screen before starting the next life, giving the player a moment to interpret what killed them, what to do, and how to avoid getting punished in the future. Despite being insanely hard, the game gives you lots of powerful tools that have tons of technical uses beyond just adding missiles that drop from your ship every 1.5 seconds of sustained main cannon fire. It rewards skillful play and punishes slow reflexes or bad gameplay. SO FREAKING COOL!!

I really like this format when you play for a while and then you recap.

I've literally never even heard of this game...which made me even more excited to see it. I'm mainly into watching Mario stuff but I'm a huge EHG fan.

This game is actually REALLY cool. The mechanic with the separable secondary ship is really diverse and interesting. The fact that you can control it remotely, that you can attach it to your front or back, and that it takes on its own abilities in response to powerups makes the game incredibly unique and enables a lot of strategy. I love that Ryu realized that since it can absorb damage, you can put it out front as a tank/sentinel. A really surprisingly interesting game considering its reputation.

Hmmm, I'm having a really hard time finding your playthrough of Barbie's Dreamhouse Adventure.

I remembered all the rage I could possibly rage when I was playing this game back in the days... and I was a kid... now I feel the rage again... oh lord..

Silver Surfer and R-Type: "Upgrade or Die"

Never played this one before and while it does look hard it does seem to be a little forgiving in giving you unlimited continues. At least it looks like they're unlimited! Loved the video, can't wait for the next one is this series!

Ryu: "It's nice and safe down here so I don't mind." Parade of Yellow Robots: "We're bout to end this man's whole career."

22:56 is thee funniest thing ever. The look of total disbelief - welcome to our world, this was the norm for our games back then. You had to be good or you didn't see the game's end. I forgot how graphically beautiful this game is.

18:14 it looked like he was about to cry😭

This series is the best. Super R-Type was a very early (possibly launch title?) game for the SNES. I remember another shooter called Gaiares for the Genesis that was supposedly ever harder but I don’t know. They both wrecked me equally.

Turns out this is one of my favorites in the EHG series. Also you not realizing you died on the boss and thinking you had to play the level twice is a very Ryu moment. Apparently a new R Type is coming out at the end of this month looks really cool.

Definitely one of the hardest games ever made but the mechanics of the attachment was really ahead of its time. It was like nothing else seen in a side scroller and made the game a gem.

Later on EHG should be R-Type III: The Third Lightning, Gradius III (Both versions) or all of them

I played this game a ton as teenager in the 90s. One of my favs! Understanding the Force units (the extra ship things you control) and it's various power ups helps a lot. Reading the manual would help a lot of your early struggle :)

I beat this on normal as a kid. Tried hard mode literally once. Immediately peaced out and never played it again. You are a fucking hero, Ryu san.

I'm not sure it should be part of this series or not, but I use to love Star Fox on the SNES. I never got much further than beating the first planet and couldn't believe that there was more. I would certainly enjoy seeing more of that game. Thanks Ryu.

I grew up with this game! Super fun and fantastic soundtrack! Never could beat it on anything higher than Easy mode! Don't forget about your charge shot. If you can manage to charge it during a boss fight, get right in on their weak spot and blast them full force with it! Can't wait to see him fight the boss of the 5th level.

Oh man this is glorious! When I got my SNES I got SMW and Super R-Type. I have been SO ANGRY at this game SO MANY TIMES! It's good to see somebody else be tortured as well!

I absolutely loved this game as a kid and I still adore it for its advanced gameplay for a game. You should take a moment to familiarize yourself with the controls. The yellow "power up" is called "Force". Button B is manual fire and charge shots. A seperates and retracts the Force (While retracting you can press it again to stop it from retracting). X is fully automatic fire. The blue "M" is a bomb (high damage), the red/pink is two homing rockets (minimal damage). Color power ups, blue = lasers, Red/Pink = rings, Green = spherical balls of doom, Yellow = Wall hugging flames, Grey = short range missile that goes straight and causes massive damage. The "Eye" things that sticks above of you is called a "Pit". You can collect up to two of 'em at a time. Good luck with your next vid, for the 3rd boss, I recommend you charge a shot and hit the core to cause the most damage instead of poking it. Also, this game gets alot trickier towards the end. If I recall correctly, level 7 is the one that troubled me the most.

Good work, dude - especially with that being your first time playing. This game wrecked me, when I was a child. We sold our SNES after the PS2 came out and it's only been recently that I bought a copy of this and tried it out once more. I didn't make it much farther than you did, before I moved on to something else and I wasn't even playing on Hard.

actively using the pod as a weapon by lauching and recalling him helps a lot with this game as opposed to just flying over to him and attach.. also.. pick your weapon types at the right time.. ring laser was always my fav :)

Getting to stage 3 on Hard for your first playthrough is amazing, I hope you revisit this game sometime, because some of the later level sound tracks are awesome. Also, for those wondering, yes there is another difficulty after Hard called "Pro" that is unlocked via beating the game once or inputting a code at the title, this game gets even more ridiculous.

Welcome to R-Type my friend. I spent a good chunk of my childhood playing the original game on Sega Master System. It was absolutely brutal and I think it took me at least a year to beat it. The thing was that after you run out of continues you start the game all way back in the beginning again so you better memorize everything and be alert constantly. The second last stage was the most insane level in any game I've ever played and that took the longest time for me to complete. It didn't help that once I got there I would quickly run out of continues and I had to start from the very beginning of the game again.

Beating the R-Type games is one of my greatest video game accomplishments. By the way, you can "call" the attachment thingy to you with the press of a button so you don't have to go to it. Also, you can use the same button to "shoot" it as a projectile into enemies. A lot of this game is memorization. Memorizing the enemy patterns and where they go/shoot, etc. Good luck, bro.

R-Type leo in the arcades was even harder. I finally finished it on MAME emulator though :)

This game is super fun to watch. Also, really like the high-res full-screen ryu camera parts.

I played the hell out of this game when I was young, never on hard though! Still super fun to watch Ryu take in a tough game that I've actually finished.

This was super enjooyable to watch!! would love to see it finished on KZfaq, it's best edited!!!

That look of defeat at 18:15, just sums up this whole game. I played an R-Type game on Genesis with my cousin all the time, and we put it on easy and I'm pretty sure we never passed its fourth stage. Ever.

I know this is way late but I use to play this game all the time, still one of my faves. After the water stage it becomes nigh impossible on hard and you can hit the button again that launches your option to cause it to start magnetizing towards your ship. Great vid

This game is actually super cool. The art direction is something else.

A good strat for that last boss of this video is to attach your gunner-ball-thingy to the back to your ship before entering it's lair, then dettaching it to the right side of the monster where his eye pops out, then bring our ship to the left side and so, no matter what, which ever side the eye pops out, you'll get a hit on it.

I remember beating this game as a kid. You just have to play it so much and die so many times that you memorize the spawns and such. It was so long ago I can't remember how long it must have taken me to beat. R-Type, R-type 3, and Gradius 3. All the same.

10:51 Dude, I know that feeling too well 😄

The r type series has always been a challenge to play. Great replay value. R type delta still my favorite out of the series.

The music is what I remember the most about this game, one of the best ost's

Possibly the most underrated "extraordinarily hard games" are Contra: Shattered Solder and Gradius V. Both are amazing PS2 games that never got enough attention.

The look on Ryu's face at 22:57 is why I love this series so much...

I absolutely love that you brought back this series. I've commented this before I'll say it again. Do Bucky O'Hare for NES. It routinely makes lists for top 10 best games on the console as well as being notoriously difficult. It was my favorite game as a kid. Made it to the final boss once never beat him. The game is a gem. It would make great content. Check it out.

Super R-Type is one of my favourite games of all time, ive never made it passed the boss that ryukahr got to here though, i can get there, but not past it. One thing to note is the orange orb can be used against enemies by touching them with it.

I dabbled in R-Type a bit on the old 8- and 16- bit systems, but it wasn't until I picked up R-Type Final on PS2 that I really got into it. While the game was piss easy for an R-Type game, and not all that fun, the fact that you could unlock and play as something like 102 different ships was fantastic!

Holding the button down that launches also brings it back to you like a magnet. Also launching it into boss cores does massive stacking damage on top of it firing. It can be thrown at lessers that take multiple hits one shotting them. I use to fly close to bosses basically kissing them with it to do tons of damage when possible. It can clear your way in a tunnel smothered with enemy fire, launch forward clearing shots and reel it back!

One thing I think that a lot of people don't realize is just how much the game wants you to use your Force to defend yourself AND to shoot it into enemies. Blocking a lot of shots by hitting it or just how it does damage per frame when it's bumping into enemies (It does a ton!). Still it lets you be super flexible with how you're playing. But man the Charge shots hit so many more times But overall R-Type is always been brutal, although R-Type III has a bit more flexibility due to the three Force options you can use and there's a LOT less slowdown from what I can remember

This game was pretty cool back in the last century. Great artwork.

Watching some of these videos is proof of how hard some games can be when you're trying to figure out what's what without the instruction booklet. I have Super R Type & it is indeed very hard but once you figure it out the challenge is not so much dealing with the difficulty but the INTENSITY of it! I enjoyed watching you tackle the first few stages especially your reactions & commentary. The only glaring mistake you made as a 1st timer is you totally forgot about the weapon charge feature. I'll be looking for a "round two" or "play through" video from you on this one.

This used to be one of my favorite games but I forgot the name of it until you just played it. Thanks for bringing me back to my childhood

This reminds me of Gradius 3. Played it on SNES, and to this day, I cannot best that game. It is God tier hard.

0:06 "You look like you escaped from Jumanji 2 months ago" XD

The most powerful ship in the galaxy, but it can’t take a single hit. That means the canon story for this game is the pilot not so much as let a speck of dirt touch the ship, what a badass.

UN Squadron is one that haunts me. My parents only got us 4 games for SNES and I'm enough older than my brothers that I did the vast majority of playing those games for the 10-ish years before I moved out and they started to get more modern consoles. I only beat Gradius III once and I only got to the 4th area of UN Squadron once in all that time.

I wish you livestreamed these extraordinarily hard games on Twitch, but thanks for these videos anyway!

Playing the "Novice" level is a good way to get accustomed to Super R-Type, as you get to keep all power-ups after death, and you don't get nearly as many projectiles flying at you. You get a feel for the stage layouts, the obstacles in them, and powerup locations. For anyone curious, the powerups in this game are: S = Speed (as we saw) Blue M = Regular Missiles (launched slightly forward and down) Pink M = Homing Missiles Rotating Sphere Thingy = Pits (1st above, 2nd below, shields you from most impacts, but don't block projectiles as well as the Pod. Not recommended against those falling critters in Stage 3, either.) Blue Orb = Reflect Laser (3 bouncing beams straight forward and at 45-degree angles) Purple Orb = Sky Attack Laser (Bubbles straight ahead) Green Orb = Spread Beam (4 orange forward shots, slightly above and below your ship) Yellow Orb = Ground Attack Laser (beams travel straight up and down, and travel along the floor and ceiling either forward or backward, dependent on your Pod's position) Gray Orb = Shotgun Blast (Shot travels short-range, then explodes over a moderate area. First appears in Stage 4 :( ) 1st orb of any color gives you the Pod, 2nd of any color gives you a weaker version of the corresponding color, 3rd gives a strong attack of that color. Pressing A will detach or recall the Pod, making it easier to place behind you to defend against attacks from the rear.

I've seen harder shmups, but I wouldn't have made it that far on Super R-Type...love this series Ryu, keep it up

I love this game because it seems like you have zero idea what's going on with the upgrades. They're all different colours and some of them give you crazy lasers and some put your little helper bot on steroids. It's like whaaaaaat.

this game is so damn good, the soundtrack has permanently burned itself into my brain after 1 weekend at a friend when i was a kid xD

Just a little note - don't forget your full-charge shot! It works a lot like a shotgun - you can shot at large range to spread damage to the entire room, OR you can shoot it point-blank for a TON of damage.

I kicked this game's butt back when it came out. The third level music is the best!

I think its worth mentioning that R Type has a number of remasters that are all considered pretty solid. I know you prefer to focus on the snes games, but dimensions EX is on switch and is a remaster of the original arcade games. There's also R-Type Final (and Final 2 whenever it comes out) which is a tribute to the entire series. Somehow R Type is one of those rare series that continued to survive all these years later.

Love me some R-Type! That one has been remade a bunch but no matter which version, it's always fun.

I had to find a TAS (which was set to PRO difficulty!) for this one, just to see what sorts of techniques were used. The auxiliary pod definitely saw a lot of creative use, and the game gets so much harder. Some of the apparent difficulty could perhaps be chalked up to TAS showboating, but, even so, watching it makes me imagine a conversation among game developers: Dev 1: Check it out, I added a PRO difficulty level. Dev 2: Wow, is that even possible to beat?! Dev 1: I guess we'll find out!

Never played on hard.. so that level of bullet hell looked crazy at timess. I thought it was difficult enough on normal those years ago when I actually beat it as a kid. The 'destroy the ship' stage was my favorite, which I think is the stage after the one you ended on. And.. the music throughout the game is fantastic and memorable.

Huh, I mostly just remember R-Type being awesome. Maybe I was too innocent and naive to realize it was brutally difficult. But having played it a lot as a kid, watching Ryu play was pretty frustrating. XD

Growing up, I remember only a few games I could never beat despite spending hundreds of hours: Dragon Spirit R-Type Ultima IV The last may be too slow for your viewers but the others should be perfect for your series.

18:55 ah yes, the famous blue apple

Playing thru the game in normal/novice is key to learning the core mechanics and which upgrades are best for each situation. Solid color upgrades are your biggest concern. As they are the key to big damage. The first Solid color upgrade from scratch will always be the orb. "S" upgrades speed and "M" upgrades missiles. But i wont spoil anything more that that.

I remember this game when I was a kid. It was hard as heck. I love this series. I’m gonna have to look thru all my old games and give you a suggestion for another extraordinarily hard game

Long time fan. Should really check "I Want to be the Guy Gaiden" for extraordinarily hard games. Trust me, it's the challenge you deserve.

This game was so ahead of its time. Awesome video

I'd love to see Ikaruga on this series. Shmups have an inherent "Extraordinarily Hard" nature.

That look at the end is the same face I think Ryu will make as soon as he realizes he was playing in super hard mode since he never used the pull button to bring the orb TO him!

I used to LOVE R-TYPE. The series is so underrated these days. I used to okay a shooter called ?DemonStar? Loved that game. Sank in so many hours.

Playing this game as a kid: This is hard! Playing this game after playing Touhou Lunatic 1cc: I am going to 1cc this!

Wow this is really cool. I like that all the hit boxes are accurate. No jank. Happy Easter man

contra hard corps on genesis would be perfect for this series , probably the hardest game on the genesis !

I guess the normal mode of this game is already over-the-top for most players so the hard mode is more like "beyond inhumanity" difficulty, you did a great job on the first levels though. Those jukes you managed to pull on third level were just unreal and you really deserved to beat that one, but I guess checkpoints are way too soft for this game even at boss fights. Good stuff, loving second season of EHG! :)

So many fond memories with all the r-type games. Please do the third lightning!

All of the R-Type games are great. I find R-Type III harder, but I also like playing it more. And you get to choose from three different Force pods. There is also a really great version of the first R-Type on the TurboGrafx. Irem made some really brutal games.

I forgot how awesome the extraordinarily hard games was Keep it up

Hey - doesn't seem like you ever realized that you can call your Force (the shield/powerup that attaches to the front or back of the ship) BACK to you to reattach by hitting the launching button again. Lots of the strategy comes from using it this way. That's how you achieve agility with switching it from the front to the back (shoot it out, fly past it, call it back quickly), and using it as a boomerang/battering ram is a key attack strategies since it can one-shot many enemies as it flies through them. I guess what I'm saying is: awesome video, keep up this series, it's my favorite; and GET GUD

I played r-type 3rd lighting. One of the best and hardest games I have ever touched.

the bosses in the game also look so damn cool, i especially love the 2nd stage boss and i guess the final one

This makes me want to play this game. Please make more vids of this game! It’s super awesome

oh no... *PTSD flashbacks* MAKE IT STOP that's the level it didn't get through either... then I found out recently in a longplay you can one-shot that boss with a double-charged shot.

I highly recommend 2 SNES games. Solar Jetman, which is to me one of the most realistic feeling spaceship simulators ever made. And guerrilla war. Which is an intense contra style shoot em up. Both are unforgiving.

Never got past stage 4 on "novice" back in the day. Music doesn't get old though, it's fantastic.

I'm going to recommend Touhou 12: Undefined Fantastic Object. I've heard people say "Touhou" before but never specify which game. 12 is the hardest to clear (especially if you don't use continues), and the first five require an emulator for an ancient Japanese PC so they're probably a no-go.

Interesting lore about this game. The pilot is just a torso with no arms or legs. The first game you're just a brain. They switch to only using torso so that they can bring home a human that can speak to gain info on the Bydo

Coming back 3 years later to say I'm sad that he never finished the game, or if he did, he did it on Twitch and didn't upload it. :( Same with his SNES Empire Strikes Back game play. I really wanted to see him finish these two games as they were big parts of my childhood

the slowdowns in that game has saved me at times lol