The early Castlevania games are pretty hard, but I never felt that the games were super unfair or frustrating.  Challenging?  Yes.  Unfair at times?  Sure, but so are the Mega Man games, and, like Mega Man, Castlevania is a classic.  Also, I've always wondered why that weird mid-air staircase was there.  The first time I saw it I thought I had to actually try and reach it, which obviously I never ...

@tayruh: I haven't played Underworld yet, but I plan on buying it at some point.  It's pretty low on my list though.  The biggest problem with Legend was that I didn't feel like it was Lara's "glorious return" like so many said.  It felt more like the original Lara disappeared and was replaced by a different Lara that looked, sounded, and acted a lot like the regular Lara, but wasn't.  ...

As someone who's played every Tomb Raider game up until Underworld and been loyal to the series since the beginning, I feel like the Tomb Raider series has fucked around with its fans so much now that I've given up on the series anyway.  Seriously, them rebooting the series doesn't surprise me at all.  Even Legend (which was a good game) all but abandoned much of what I liked about ...