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== [[Fighting Game]] ==
* The ''[[Super Smash Bros.]].'' games distribute points based on your performance in battles; high points for playing well, and you can actually lose points for relying too much on a single move. Unless, of course, you ''only'' use a single move, or any number of other self imposed challenges. One of the trickiest was called "Switzerland" and asked you to finish the round without ever attacking or taking damage.
* ''[[No More Heroes]]'' has the interesting challenge of completing the game using the most basic weapon, the Blood Berry. This can range from being [[Idiosyncratic Difficulty Levels|mildly easy on Sweet to insanely hard on Bitter.]] On Bitter, towards the end of the game, bosses can have around 400% more health than normal, and even mooks become walking brick walls.
** Fortunately, there are several ''[[One-Hit Kill]]'' moves a player can use on mooks, which become nearly essential in the later stages. However, [[Useless Useful Spell|bosses are immune to these moves.]]
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** Low Level, No Materia, Initial Equipment, No Accessories
** Lowest Level, No Items, Initial Equipment, No Accessories, No Enemy Skills
** [[Super Smash Bros.|Initial Equipment, No Accessories, No Escaping, No Physical Attacks, No Limit Breaks, Command Materia Only]]
** [[Unwinnable|No Physical Attacks, No Magic, No Escaping]].
* ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'' steps up the [[Low-Level Run]] to the unique Level 1 Challenge, requiring players to skip and avoid all possible experience in battle, resulting in a Level 1 team against the final boss.
* The diehard ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' community is the king of them all. Not satisfied with the already insanely difficult bonus content, such as the [[Monster Arena]] or the Dark Aeons and Penance, there's a massive array of guides on [[
* ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'' has quite a few of these. The "Natural Magic" challenge, where you forgo the use of all Espers (or any equipment that offers spells); thus, the only magic that is available are characters who learn Magic through the natural process of leveling (hence the name). This also nixes any form of Esper-based stat boosting, so it is quite difficult. The "CES" challenge is another popular one; you must beat the game using only Celes, Edgar, and Setzer when the game doesn't force other characters onto you. These are the only three characters you ''must'' have when assaulting Kefka's tower. Combining CES and Natural Magic is only for the highly skilled.
** [[Solo Character Run|Solo Character Runs]] with Natural Magic are also popular. Difficulty ranges from the challenging but doable Terra to the near impossible Relm, Cyan and Umaro. [[Low-Level Run|Low Level Runs]] are common, too, through skilled use of Gau's abilities, among other things.
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== [[Turn-Based Strategy]] ==
* ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics]]'', already a challenging game with a [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard|cheating computer]], overwhelming odds and some of the hardest bosses in all of video game history (though strongly mitigated by almost all class having at least one [[Game Breaker]]), has a whole FAQ on [[
** It has also been beaten using a single class and no out-of-class abilities with ''every'' class, though with a full party. This notably includes the Calculator, whose ability is to cast other classes' magic on all characters fitting certain criteria on the battlefield - but you don't ''learn'' any of that other magic in this challenge, and the Calculator "chassis" is weak, fragile, and '''incredibly''' slow. Another FAQ was written to tell you how to fight every battle with the Calculators, sometimes all the way to turn-by-turn strategies. It still comes down to [[Luck-Based Mission|pure luck]] for many of them.
** The only solo class run that has been deemed impossible is the Mime. The Lucavi boss Queklain/Cuchulainn has no abilities that can be mimicked, so there is no way to damage him.
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