Why Crypt of the NecroDancer is the Hardest Game Ever made - A "Brief" Overview

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  • @octosushi013
    @octosushi013 6 місяців тому +91

    now there is miku ingame

    • @krynixtm6177
      @krynixtm6177 6 місяців тому +9

      my biggest mistake was to try to beat the game with miku charachter without completing it with original one, its so hard to follow the rhyhtm, and for skipping it there is a damage

  • @Somethinorother.
    @Somethinorother. 8 місяців тому +118

    I wonder somtimes how you haven’t been evicted solely because of the amount screaming you do when you beat a challenge XD

    • @azthtj
      @azthtj  8 місяців тому +20

      oh you dont know LOL

    • @AlephSchlafli
      @AlephSchlafli 8 місяців тому +5

      it's called "being threatened at gunpoint"

    • @peterjalgalado2243
      @peterjalgalado2243 2 місяці тому

      Pretty lame joke

    • @wanshitong5101
      @wanshitong5101 2 місяці тому

      @@peterjalgalado2243 Bruh. Get tf outta here with that comment.

  • @SlimSantaGaming94
    @SlimSantaGaming94 6 місяців тому +52

    Great video, I got the platinum trophy for this game a few years ago and yeah, it's definitely the hardest platinum trophy i've ever gotten. Fantastic game though, can't recommend it enough to people.

    • @azthtj
      @azthtj  6 місяців тому +8

      woah holy shit! thats really impressive dude, gg lmao

    • @AndiZ-j3c
      @AndiZ-j3c 6 місяців тому +2

      ​@@azthtj hey tho.
      *We gotta talk about the leek loving, beautiful voice singing,walking banger soundtrack that is, HATSUNE MIKU*

    • @1thedanfan949
      @1thedanfan949 6 місяців тому +5

      THE FUCK!?!? ISN'T THERE ONLY LIKE 12 PEOPLE WHO HAVE THAT????

    • @Gans848
      @Gans848 2 місяці тому

      About 30 but only on playstation. We dont know what about steam since it is so easy to just give yourself achievements with SAM​@@1thedanfan949

    • @joaco.
      @joaco. 12 днів тому

      ​@@1thedanfan949theres a few yeah, but it is not rare that you found one on this video given that the game is not widely known and surely only people who play the game watch this kind of videos

  • @Louis1227_
    @Louis1227_ 8 місяців тому +15

    They also made a crossover with LoZ, which was great

  • @randompurpleslime8963
    @randompurpleslime8963 8 місяців тому +38

    The dark souls of rhythm games
    Also after watching this vid i understand how dominic hasnt gone crazy from damageless UK, hes already lost his sanity

    • @cataclysmkataklysm
      @cataclysmkataklysm 8 місяців тому +1

      ultratweaking

    • @azthtj
      @azthtj  8 місяців тому +9

      Yea crypt kinda killed me from before ultrakill

    • @arkhaic1792
      @arkhaic1792 5 місяців тому

      mmm i think a different game could take that title

    • @joaco.
      @joaco. 12 днів тому

      ​@@arkhaic1792which one?

    • @joaco.
      @joaco. 12 днів тому

      ​@@arkhaic1792anyways not like dark souls is hard at all

  • @GreedInhabitant
    @GreedInhabitant 8 місяців тому +43

    Dominic’s rant about this game being ideal for a masochist genuinely makes me want to play it.

  • @ninjatoaster924
    @ninjatoaster924 7 місяців тому +47

    The hardest part of this game are the co-op achievements. You need friends. 💀💀

    • @griled_chez647
      @griled_chez647 5 місяців тому

      That's why synchrony exists, for people who don't have friends

  • @ohmygodmateitbearinnitkid9251
    @ohmygodmateitbearinnitkid9251 8 місяців тому +11

    you think you're the necrodancer??? I'M THE NECRODANCER!!!!!!

    • @tacopizzasandwich621
      @tacopizzasandwich621 6 місяців тому

      “Oh, you’re a dancer all right. Just not a NECRO one!”

  • @X3kuba3X
    @X3kuba3X 8 місяців тому +14

    Seeing Necrodancer on this channel is quite a surprise. I used to tryhard it a bit before I picked up ULTRAKILL, where I got a couple Bolt clears and then moved on (we don't talk about my one season of CoNDOR performance in the worst tier...). I really hope this video gains traction since everything is well explained in a way that is simple to understand for people who haven't heard of Necrodancer. Game's brutal, but fun. Everyone should give it a shot.
    For the ULTRAKILL fans watching, playing Coda is comparable to trying to P rank P-2 with no damage using melee only on radiance tier 10. Haven't unlocked Coda myself, although i played it once or twice in a multiplayer lobby and after an hour i got to the zone 1 boss (where I instantly died).
    love the niko sprite for cadence @ 4:57

    • @azthtj
      @azthtj  8 місяців тому +1

      yoo !! thats actually sweet, and the p2 comparison is shockingly accurate lmao
      i forgot i had the niko sprites on and just didnt realize it since all the footage i used was from my winning runs so nice to see someone notice it ig lmao

  • @BigPapaSam96
    @BigPapaSam96 7 місяців тому +4

    I can't beat zone 4 as Cadence but somehow managed to beat an All Zones mode with Dove. Lol

  • @sox316
    @sox316 8 місяців тому +4

    this isn't P-2 part 2, but i still enjoy all your content, man :D

  • @phantommarcus8392
    @phantommarcus8392 7 місяців тому +2

    I’ve been playing this game for almost a month, my hardest trophy/achievement is aria low%. I only have a few trophies left but they are all looking impossible. Except for undeadly which seems doable I guess.

  • @beetlebottle
    @beetlebottle 3 місяці тому +2

    I'm in the middle of playing elden ring for the first time and I snorted at the thought of someone calling it harder than this
    Seriously though, necrodancer's difficulty comes from constantly having to make on-the-spot decisions in a tight space, with the harder runs leaving you with no second chances (unless you happen to stumble upon a potion). You can prepare, even over-prepare, for hard scenarios in games like elden ring, respawn from a checkpoint if you fail; in necrodancer, you have to pray for good rng and try not to lose focus.
    I love this game, have bought it four different times even, but I am not good at it lmao. I still love it, it feels like a challenge that is fair, one where you know what it is that you did wrong, much like the souls games.

  • @batgameruniverse6212
    @batgameruniverse6212 4 місяці тому +3

    I stopped playing this game after numerous attempts at aria. Can't even get past zone 1 with her. Hardest challenge I beat was the monk run which was crazy. Can't even touch Mary either lol Fun game tho

  • @Nandru85
    @Nandru85 2 дні тому

    Easily on my top 5 fav games, and the one I'm pretty sure I'll never finish

  • @abylaiashken2611
    @abylaiashken2611 8 місяців тому +4

    Really good video!
    I wonder how Crypt compares to difficulty of arcade beat em ups like Final Fight or Streets of Rage 2, Ghosts n Goblins Ressurection, and shoot em ups like Dodonpachi or Radiant Silvergun.

    • @azthtj
      @azthtj  8 місяців тому +4

      i think crypt is the hardest game because not only do you have to have extremely good reaction time + good thinking skills, you need to be extremely good at keeping the rhythm of the song, which sometimes is fatal if you end up missing one or two beats
      there could be some other random game nobodys ever heard of thats completely skill based and harder than crypt but until we find out about that game i feel safe in saying crypt is the hardest one

    • @abylaiashken2611
      @abylaiashken2611 8 місяців тому +1

      ​​@@azthtj that's perfectly valid ofc. I personally didn't play games I mentioned but my friend did, and what he is describing is nuts. In those games mistakes compound and punishment comes later, so to most people these games would come off as completely unfair. That could be the case with Crypt, you could already be on path on failure and not know, though I didn't play it either cause not my style. From what I see, the rhythmic nature of Crypt actually makes punishment come as quick as possible, especially with double speed.

  • @fish-on-the-internet
    @fish-on-the-internet 2 місяці тому +1

    "thw first time you get to [the necrodancer fight], you will not survive"
    ... so that was a lie, apparently
    cause i just WON

  • @Millenia3D
    @Millenia3D 3 місяці тому +1

    I did actually beat the Necrodancer on my first try! (let's not talk about the fact it took me MANY attempts at Dead Ringer to actually get there, though)

  • @azozlion
    @azozlion 3 місяці тому

    Totally agree best review i ever see for the game I see 3 videos but your video number 4 is the best and explains the game ultimate challenge in very perfect way and for sure its the hardest game and achievement or platinum has ever existed in gaming history

  • @ISkibidiRizzedABaddieWithAGyat
    @ISkibidiRizzedABaddieWithAGyat 6 місяців тому +1

    I spoke to one guy on PSN profiles, he got the platinum in 1000 hours of playtime. He said it’s possible you just have to keep trying.

  • @aBlueNPC
    @aBlueNPC 8 місяців тому +1

    0:30 is me with my friends when my parents arent home lmao

  • @rykehuss3435
    @rykehuss3435 Місяць тому

    There are harder games, if you go by a little bit of self-imposed rules. Namely rhythm games like Guitar Hero 3 and full comboing every song in the game. Through the Fire and Flames, Devil Went Down to Georgia, and The Way It Ends will take you years to accomplish. And even then if you dont have the genetics for it, tough luck. For those who have played Necrodancer but not Guitar Hero games, imagine an Aria run where the run lasts 7 and a half minutes, and there's 3700+ move actions with sections where you have to at times do up to 26 moves per second in a specific order. Miss once and reset. And no enemies. Or rest of the game.
    I recently saw a video about an interview with a couple of guys who platinum'd Necrodancer, and they said it took about 600-700 hours for them. Thats about enough time to get good enough at Guitar Hero that you can start PRACTICING and grinding those three songs and the techniques required.

  • @monsteralta
    @monsteralta Місяць тому +1

    Spoiler alert:
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    Bard don't care the beat because he's the one who started the curse. No curse there before him.

  • @keiyakins
    @keiyakins 6 місяців тому +3

    And now there's a 19th vharacter: Hatsune Miku. Yes really.

    • @widzu95_
      @widzu95_ Місяць тому

      Well, she's not tied to any achiev, so it's character just for fun.

  • @WilliamWatrous
    @WilliamWatrous 2 місяці тому

    Impressive that theyre still updating the game almost 10 years later. Have had it in my steam library forever but its why too frustrating for me

  • @matiasgonzalez3146
    @matiasgonzalez3146 4 місяці тому +1

    I love playing hard games where less than 50% of players has completed the first level. (Or zone in this case)

  • @danknecoarc7174
    @danknecoarc7174 4 місяці тому +2

    I hated on isaac characters like jacob and esau and tainted lazarus because I couldn't even fathom the horrors of coda.

  • @jancirnfus8129
    @jancirnfus8129 5 місяців тому +1

    Apparently this was at some point/maybe is available on mobile for free and I saw an ad for it. I thought 'eh, just one of those fast-paced rythm games'. I just saw your video. Ho ly *******, I am so glad I didn´t download it, because I have a tendency to try my hardest to 100% any interesting game I play for more than ten minutes. I probably will try it out still (not attempting to 100% this ever).

  • @gbri
    @gbri 8 місяців тому +1

    Currently I'm trying to fully complete this game. Started over a year ago, I think. I've already gotten used to the game and learned the patterns for every single enemy (because I'm a god tier gamer) but holy hell it's still difficult. I'm trying to beat all characters mode but I can't get past Aria. It's really tough because I'll end up pressing another key or double tapping and immediately dying. Also the nerves frequently get to me and I'll miss a beat or get tunnel vision. But I'm gonna keep trying. I've already done crazy stuff like Hollow Knight's Steel Heart achievement or So Over It so why should this stop me?

    • @lilpain1997
      @lilpain1997 3 місяці тому +1

      Because this is way, way, way, way harder than hollow knight lol. As someone who plat a lot of hard games Crypt is one that I can safely say is the top of the chart by a long shot. DJMAX 100% is arguably harder ( 100% harder if we are talking about PC version ) but we are talking just plats here. All chars low% is boring af and outright stupid with how long that run is. I wouldn't even say Hollow knight is crazy, especially seeing as people cheese that game, but even legit its no way near crypt. Gl in your run, I am currently doing it on PC but ill probably just not bother with all chars low% and just get Coda done

  • @justdecode9573
    @justdecode9573 6 місяців тому

    Funny thing, death ringer took so long, but i killed the necrodancer on my first attempt, so cool

  • @Blvck_B01
    @Blvck_B01 8 місяців тому +1

    I dont know what is game is this and it doesn’t seem interesting to me but your hilarious scream makes me wanna watch the whole video :)

  • @lilpain1997
    @lilpain1997 3 місяці тому

    DJMAX 100% I'm pretty sure is harder/on par achievement wise ( at least I think slim said it was harder and this was console version which is easier than PC version ). If we are going by full game 100% completion ( not just basing it off achievements ) then DJMAX is miles harder than Crypt ( both PC and console ). Its a rhythm game and 100% would require you to perfect all 8000+ charts, there's a chart called DIE IN and its 8 button mode ( SC difficulty ) has only been perfected by one person since it came out. I think it took a guy called brokenpastel 9000+ hours to get all charts perfect on console version... Which is far easier to do so as you don't have SC difficulty which is miles harder than anything MX has to offer on consoles. Also very enjoyable vid, explained it very well why this game is far harder than almost everything out by a far margin. Im currently re trying it on PC

  • @jrmloh
    @jrmloh 6 місяців тому +1

    I remember a trick for beating the All Characters Run back when Necrodancer had no DLCs yet was just running the game without DLCs installed. Is that still a possible tactic?

    • @zowayix
      @zowayix Місяць тому

      Yes, you can disable DLC from the Mods -> Downloadable content menu.

  • @ÉmerickBrault
    @ÉmerickBrault 18 днів тому

    I played it and I think it is not super hard, but you need to be endurant enought to focus for a long time. A smal mistake can put you directly at half health. I think it is easy beacause you do not need any precision compared to games like shooter and platformers. You only need realy good fast thinking.

    • @azthtj
      @azthtj  20 годин тому

      “you dont need any precision” is completely false whenever it comes to the harder characters lol
      beating the game with cadence sure you dont need much but like….. play coda then you get it

  • @Jellydoughnuthole
    @Jellydoughnuthole 6 місяців тому

    My friend set me up with a run as Kota and it wasn’t to bad been thinking to get this game but I’m probably not going to play it while DDR and guitar hero exist plus 90% of my time is spent playing that old air force sim of a nuclear war from like the Cold War I believe gonna have to check its name but I’m still figuring how to economically brace the will of the people so the Soviets don’t take out one of my three centers of gravity for anyone familiar with the readings of Carl Von clausewitz plus not including that little old thing I’m still running a game of OGRE that’s been running for about six years since we just slammed all the boards together and as we add on more we’re fighting out the rise and fall of Pittsburgh but with enough space to add New York into the fold. Only issue is the guy playing as Fac-South has several OGRE’s and like three GEV’s on an encirclement play to trap my expeditionary force in the suburbs but I’ve rambled about unrelated topics to nobody for long enough and for anyone reading this last line I am so sorry you had to read everything above this.

  • @Ligmamonkey
    @Ligmamonkey 2 місяці тому

    I've never been able to beat zone 2

  • @megayoshi614
    @megayoshi614 2 місяці тому

    It’d be nice if you did audio balancing when you scream, just a thought

  • @DonutVibin
    @DonutVibin 2 місяці тому +1

    4:19 do you think you can get away with niko oneshot cadence?

    • @azthtj
      @azthtj  20 годин тому

      i forgot i had that mod on lol

  • @thedootlord
    @thedootlord 8 місяців тому

    Idk why but i didnt see this in my reccomendee

  • @Devective135
    @Devective135 6 місяців тому

    Yo I have 150h and I didn’t realise zone 3 switches songs on hot and cold tiles

    • @Miles_yo
      @Miles_yo 2 місяці тому

      I’ve got the 100% and didn’t notice until a friend told me

  • @ranga3239
    @ranga3239 6 місяців тому

    i absolutely agree its taken my over 100 hours to beat the game with aria, im not looking forward to coda

  • @philiphunt-bull5817
    @philiphunt-bull5817 2 місяці тому +1

    Why did you put quotes around brief? 15 minutes *_is_* brief!

  • @Manavine
    @Manavine 2 місяці тому

    how much do you wanna bet the final character of synchronity will be a impified Mary
    (aka Coda but fuck you you get Marv as well, have fun)

    • @zowayix
      @zowayix Місяць тому

      There's already a mod of this called Lambda (coda with a lamb)

  • @francofinazzi6476
    @francofinazzi6476 4 місяці тому

    thank you for the unannounced spoiler

  • @aaronr.265
    @aaronr.265 3 місяці тому

    I was dumb and thought “no mention of Miku?” Then checked the date. Where would she fall as far as difficulty goes in your opinion?

    • @azthtj
      @azthtj  3 місяці тому

      havent played her enough, but probably on the easier side, maybe around like dorian or eli or smth

  • @loganm2924
    @loganm2924 8 місяців тому +1

    To say there's no competition for hardest game is... a take. At least compared to things like Trials Rising or many traditional roguelikes that are continuously developed for decades (ToME, Nethack, etc) it's not as bad to 100%.

    • @azthtj
      @azthtj  8 місяців тому +2

      for what crypt expects you to pull off, i genuinely dont think anything compares (atleast that im aware of), watching and playing the game are two very different things, and its actually pretty crazy how different it is

    • @loganm2924
      @loganm2924 8 місяців тому +1

      @@azthtj there are communities which rank the hardest games, and while cond is near the top it doesn’t demand thousands of hours to complete like some others.

    • @azthtj
      @azthtj  8 місяців тому +2

      @@loganm2924 i would say that it does require thousands of hours, the VERY top players have all taken around 300-500 on both coda and lowest each, which with the about 60 people to have ever 100% the game (be it on steam or platinum trophy) in the around 8 years the game has been out agree with me that cotnd is very high up, the demand from the game in terms of what its asking you to do is just absurd compared to many other games. i want you to name me some of those games since i genuinely think that crypt is one of, if not the hardest fully skill based games (like top 5 at the very least) of all time

    • @loganm2924
      @loganm2924 8 місяців тому

      @@azthtj I’ve watched a good few people 100% it in under a thousand hours, but regardless: Trials Rising has I think less than half the number of completions, with most of them being over 3000 hours in the Trials franchise. Tales of Maj’Eyal has no clears without mods and many people well over 5000 hours. The only person I’ve seen get all achievements in Elastomania Remastered took about 1400 hours, 900 on a single achievement. DoDonPachi Resurrection isn’t always considered harder than CoND but was generally rated similar by people who are already experts when it comes to bullet hell games, and it’s basically impossible to get into otherwise. Completing everything in NetHack or Ancient Domains of Mystery pretty much the same goes as for ToME, these games have been developed and played for decades with some absolutely insane challenges. Pretty sure that’s enough to knock CoND out of the top 5. Yes CoND is ridiculously hard, and the hardest thing I’ve done is just Farewell Golden in Celeste which is much easier, but some games just require honestly absurd amounts of time to put in.

    • @loganm2924
      @loganm2924 8 місяців тому

      @@azthtj While the hardest thing I've done in a game is just Farewell Golden in Celeste, which is much easier, I am basing all this off the opinions of people far more skilled than myself. The only person I've seen clear Elasto Mania Remastered took about 1400 hours, 900 on a single achievement. Trials Rising has far less clears than CoND and many of them with many thousands of hours in the Trials franchise. Trackmania Turbo is very similar to Rising in those regards, the challenges in these franchises get insane. DoDonPachi Resurrection is rated similarly to CoND, but with the bias of people with many thousands of hours experience in bullet hell games, and this one is nigh impossible to get into without such experience. Tales of Maj'Eyal has no clears without game-altering mods, and many people over 5000 hours etc. Similarly other such traditional roguelikes like NetHack or Ancient Domains of Mystery have (like ToME) been in development and being played for decades with more and more content being added, many people with thousands of hours and not a lot of progress.

  • @lemertoniii1452
    @lemertoniii1452 5 місяців тому

    Still better at this than Dead Cells

  • @litessbu
    @litessbu 4 місяці тому +2

    There is no “hardest game ever.” There is only the standards you set yourself to. Basically rhythm game ever made has a customs scene, and in each of those games there are levels that would take you well over a 1000 hours just to be good enough to beat them, much less full combo or whatever the equivalent of that is. In my rhythm game of choice, Beat Saber, You can take it a step further than a full combo. You can go for 100% accuracy. How hard is 100% accuracy? Well, the hardest songs in the game that people have beaten can go upwards of 30 notes per second, and contain at the very least over 2000 notes, very often more. In all of the entire game, for everyone whose every played, 17 notes is the record for the longest song ever hit at 100% accuracy, and it had less than 2 notes per second. You can take it even further with modifiers. Like I said, there is no hardest game, only the standards you set yourself to, because no one would reasonably say that they can 100% those 30 notes per second maps. I’ve also coded a “game” where your goal is to blindly guess a number between 1 and 1000000000000000000000000000000000 or some number like that. Not fun, just hard. Harder than this game will ever be.

  • @2.7182e
    @2.7182e 6 місяців тому

    Hateune miku time

  • @runestone951
    @runestone951 2 місяці тому

    so what you are saying is that the optional stuff is hard, the game itself doesnt seem to hard

    • @_CNT_
      @_CNT_ 2 місяці тому

      It's a roguelike, beating the game with all characters is the main stuff

    • @runestone951
      @runestone951 2 місяці тому

      @@_CNT_ i would say ADOM is a harder roguelike if you do all characters

    • @_CNT_
      @_CNT_ 2 місяці тому

      @@runestone951 tbh I know nothing of that game, so I can't speak on the difficulty. But yeah, I feel like all characters should count in it too

    • @runestone951
      @runestone951 2 місяці тому

      @@_CNT_ your grave bud, your grave

    • @runestone951
      @runestone951 2 місяці тому

      @@_CNT_ it has 6336 possible characters, not counting starting talents

  • @Cubiccl41
    @Cubiccl41 4 місяці тому

    I strongly disagree with coda being easier than lowest of the low. I have beaten lowest of the low in ten-ish attempts and still haven't cleared Coda zone 1

    • @azthtj
      @azthtj  4 місяці тому

      yea i guess coda is a very different skillset from lotl

  • @kubek3345
    @kubek3345 5 місяців тому

    Hello brother. I also despise Mary
    Have a nice day

  • @bradfordthain3911
    @bradfordthain3911 8 місяців тому +3

    skill issue

  • @fireblastershelton8404
    @fireblastershelton8404 8 місяців тому

    What about nuclear throne?

  • @krypt1ccc739
    @krypt1ccc739 4 місяці тому

    Why did the lgbtq community have to forgive tempo? 😭

  • @bigguyisdead
    @bigguyisdead 8 місяців тому

    you call a fifteen minute video not brief?

  • @jinxpianista
    @jinxpianista 4 місяці тому

    As a musician and a gamer, Crypt is one of my favorite games. But people tend to abandon it pretty quickly when they keep dying at the first levels. C'mon it's not that hard