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Nintendo hard

Nintendo hard adjective: having an extremely high level of difficulty, even at easier difficulties.

Adjective

Nintendo hard (comparative more Nintendo hard, superlative most Nintendo hard)

  1. (informal) Having an extremely high level of difficulty, even at easier difficulties.
    • Notably, the fairness of difficulty in Nintendo hard games has been called into question in recent years (Lessel 2013), highlighting that such designs can sometimes serve more to infuriate players through frequent unfair death rather than provide an appropriate challenge.2020, Barbaros Bostan, Game User Experience And Player-Centered Design, page 267

Forms of Nintendo hard

comparativemore Nintendo hard
superlativemost Nintendo hard

Questions about Nintendo hard

What does Nintendo hard mean?
Nintendo hard means having an extremely high level of difficulty, even at easier difficulties.
What part of speech is Nintendo hard?
Nintendo hard is an adjective.

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  4. Nintendo
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  8. Nintendocore
  9. Nintendonitis
  10. Nintendos
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