10 Extremely UNFAIR Quests in Video Games 

As a note with the 200 lightning dodges. The closer you get to 200, the more random and fast they become.

I'm glad you included the gambler challenges from RDR2, more specifically Gambler 8. I was honestly debating if going for 100 percent completion was even worth it after attempting Gambler 8. Gambler 9 isn't as bad as 8 but still painful AF.

Oh man, I remember the tank mission from AC Brotherhood. That was the only mission I couldn't fully synchronize. My save file ended up at 98% synchronisation and that was a huge blow to my 16 year old self esteem.

I remember doing the lightning strikes for FFX in a dark room with no distractions. I got to 198 and then, as the kids like to say these days, EMOTIONAL DAMAGE.

I completed Driver, eventually. That mission was a nightmare. I have no idea how many times I had to do it. It's a miracle I even got to play the game, as the initial tutorial was tooth-grindingly hard!

For the Delicate Flower quest, the easiest way to do it is to figure out the path you want to go and clear out all of the enemies on it before grabbing the flower. You will still face some enemies, but the ones that don't respawn unless you sit at a bench won't be there making it much easier. Well, at least until that one stupid jump entering the last area that ended 90% of my runs. If you set a dreamgate near where you pick up the quest you can warp back there if you take damage, allowing you to retry without having to clear your route again.

That Driver mission just unlocked a hidden memory of me playing that over and over for DAYS as a kid. I had no idea why it was so damn hard but it almost cost me a controller!

The 200 dodge is pretty easy, although time consuming. Just look up the crater trick. You can loop around a specific crater and the lightning strikes the same place, same time, every time. Still an endurance slog, but it removes the randomness making it a ton easier

That tank mission in Brotherhood is a pain to complete perfectly... even though the Da Vinci missions are sus but fun in general

I just played through the Witcher 3 and it’s entirety for the first time and I can attest that this side quest in the blood and Wine DLC is definitely the hardest thing I ever had to tackle in game By far. I just thought I was under leveled or something lol

When I encountered Extreme Cosplay in W3, I was convinced that the quest was glitched because of the incredible damage the enemies dealt. Most frustrating of all was that I thought I'd abort the quest and get back to it later and be more prepared...but you can't. When I went back, the door to the estate was closed so it's one side-quest that I never got to finish so far

FF Tactics was all about unfair fights. I remember quitting when we had to save a dude that was surrounded by enemies, and basically the only way to save them was to perfectly position the specific units in specific places, and then do specific moves. And this was in the beginning of the game.

I like a challenge but when it's stright up unfair I tend to rage quit

Honourerable mention to ultimate Spider-Man's final Johnny storm race. Currently trying to get good enough to get it done. You race around the entire city which takes about five minutes. there is absolutely no room for error and it's required for two separate costumes.

Forgot about that Driver mission, but as soon as I see the footage of the car being rammed the memories came flooding back.

Those RDR2 gambler missions just felt straight up like trolling. Like they wanted you to think about what you were doing with your time on this earth.

I only played assassin's creed brotherhood for the 1st time ever about a month ago, Enter a combination of skill and probably dumb luck I completed the tank mission without getting hit on my very 1st try, but the last arena section was definitely a nail biter moment. I just kept driving in a wide circular pattern and they couldn't seem to hit me. I had far more trouble with the glider mission

That AC Brotherhood mission actually deserves a better spot in that list !

The FFTactics mention was very worthy. Playing that game without a guide often meant replaying the same mission multiple times. Or at least until you've learned that: you need to put the right characters, with the right skill sets, on the right places on the pre-battle map; AND you need to spend some 3-5 hours leveling up your party before every "major" plot point. Then, you'll only have to go through every mission twice or thrice.

I've done the 200 lightning dodges on three different playthroughs of FFX. The first time, I found the secret was to stand away from the screen and look at the top center to see it change color. Also make sure you take a few steps forward after each dodge to get back to where you were standing. It sucks when you properly time a dodge, but there isn't enough space for Tidus to jump back into so you get hit.

I miss final fantasy tactics back in the day. Good times

Omg the last mission in Driver. I swear it’s completely RNG /luck based ,I still have no idea how many times I retried it or how I actually managed it twice, it’s so exciting when u are covering a game that I played a lot and struggled or was successful . The Witcher extreme cosplay , I didn’t even realize I was in a fight at 1st. Definitely a weird but awesome mission.

You finally mentioned a Monster Hunter thing! The Extreme Behemoth was the most fun thing in base MH:World. Loved the 'raid' like mechanics that were somewhat actually required for the Extreme version of the quest. Additionally, Dragoon Jumping the Ecliptic Meteor felt so badass!

Props for giving FFT some recognition here, it’s probably my favorite Final Fantasy game and one of my all time favorite ps1 games.. brings back good memories

the fun part of #1 is that it's off the heels of one of the hardest boss battles in that game.

You absolutely can beat that W3 mission on Deathmarch, though certain builds and gear will make your life much easier. Having the alternate Quen sign that explodes when depleted can not only heal you, but stun and damage the enemies allowing for openings, either physical or magical. Igni can lower their armor rating. Never had to bother trying Axii, but I am sure that and Yrden would also help especially with their movement speed being slowed.

I was so proud of myself for finishing the gambler challenges in RDR2, until I realized I wasted like 3 days trying to get challenge 8 done. Like morning to night. But I got it lmao

Donkey Kong 64 was one of my favorite games as a kid. I remember not being able to beat the game because of the arcade requirement. It took me until my college years and revisiting the game to finally pull an all-nighter just to beat the arcade and get the opportunity to fight the final boss. Great list!

Damn, thanks for reminding me about the witcher 3 one. I got so frustrated there that I put the game down for a month, tried it again for a while but I already forgot most of the mechanics of the game so I got even more frustrated then I never played it again.

In Final Fantasy 10, I always found it harder to get a score of 0.0 time in the Chocobo Race to get Tidus's sword. I beat the 200 lightning strikes in a row around my third try. Also, if people think that Final Fantasy: Tactics is hard, they clearly have never played Tactics: Ogre. There are so many decisions in that game, that no matter what you do will eventually end up "screwing youself" over somehow (example: "Long Live Walsta!" ending).

Im soooo glad to see that quest from The Witcher 3 mentioned, I literally just started the blood and wine expansion a few weeks ago and JUST came across this quest like a few days before I watched this. I thought I was losing my mind like I haven't been playing the game right this whole time lmao The amount of respawns I did before just loading a different save file is nuts lol never thought it would get that intense

Thank you for including the Presidents Run in Driver, I can't even remember how many attempts it took me to finally complete it. The difficulty spike just appears out of nowhere in the penultimate mission which was also a bit of a 'mare to complete, but it was trying to get into the underground car park at the end of the final mission which was the most frustrating part. I happened to luck out eventually when one of the secret service cars hit my car in such a way that threw it into the entrance to complete the mission.

Here's an old one - that freaking mech part in BloodRayne. You can't get out to refill on health. You can't use a cheat to refill on health. On the side quest side though, the freaking lightning evasion challenge to get Lulu's ultimate weapon in Final Fantasy X. Lol, you just mentioned it. That butterfly one was a pain in the ass too

When you make it all the way to the roof of Riovannes Castle in FFT you have to protect Rafa and Malak while you fight against Marquis Elmdore and his two assassins Celia and Lede. All three of them can easily KO Rafa and Malak before you even get a turn. And this is, like, the third battle in a series so if you only have one save file and have been saving over it it's entirely possible to get into a situation where you can't protect Rafa and Malak and you've soft locked yourself. The game also pulled that kind of nonsense earlier, when Ramza squares off against Weigraf solo.

God, I remember being a kid and spending a whole afternoon dodging those lightning bolts. I was so stubborn about it and always had a NEED to get everyone’s ultimate weapon in every final fantasy. Finally did it when I halfway spaced out after failing above 100 many many times. One game challenge I was happy to never do again even on remakes.

I played that DK64 arcade mission a lot as a child. So much so that when I finally played Donkey Kong on an actual arcade machine I was actually pretty good at it to the surprise of my friends. They knew nothing of the mountain of dead Mario's required to attain that high score.

Nice to see FFT still being around in 2022, such a masterpiece! And yeah, that castle level was hell and teached me the lesson of always having backup saves

That damn chocobo race to get Tidus' weapon was way harder than the lightning dodge.

Going for the platinum on ACB taught me that the tank mission is actually easy to do with no hits, easy to learn the spots to shoot along the way and then the battle at the end you can hide on the very edge of the desync zone and you’re invincible 😄

For the Witcher 3, the hardest is if you have enemy upscaling on, it would upscale the rats which are supposed to be lv 1 no matter what (I think its fixed now) but before you would have to turn upscaling off anytime you had to fight more than a couple rats or else you would almost instantly die everytime

Dodging 200 lightning strikes was easier than the chocobo race for Tidus.

I completed Driver, did the lightning challenge and delivered the flier in HK. Good times, I enjoyed the video!

Clearing the enemies along the path for the delicate flower before you get it makes this a fairly easy Hollow Knight quest. Also, dodging the lightnings can be done relatively fast if you turn left at the beginning of that map, the lightning spawns pretty consistently there. I'm surprised the rope skipping from IX wasn't in here.

Seeing the lightning FFX task made me think of the similar challenge presented in World of Warcraft. In the Throne of Thunder raid, there is a section where there are water geysers that shoot you into the air by standing on them. In one room, there's a ring of them and the task is to bounce from geyser to geyser without touching ground 250 times. Its several minutes of continuous bouncing with pretty high precision required. The reward is a super soaker toy.

9:06 the only way I was able to beat this was by going to a prior save, then right before the fight I made sure to have Protective Coating leveled for damage reduction, and put Hanged Man's Venom on the ancient elven sword that you get during the quest. Hope to god that you can get a fast Quen shield off, maybe toss a Northern Wind bomb at the closest wizard, then run back into the archways where the statues were earlier so that the enemies sort of funnel into that area and turn the corner towards you where their pikes don't have a range advantage like it would in the wide open area.

If you think about it, most of these are from older games. A lot of people whine about how games are too easy now, but I think it's a good thing we don't get nearly as many unfair bits nowadays.

9:30 i came across this mission and it was incredibly infuriating. If you’re struggling with this, just walk up the stairs next to fountain. the the enemies won’t follow you up the stairs for some reason, walk a but further until you’re standing next to the little house/shack because otherwise the lighting might still be able to hit you. From there you can throw bombs or use your crossbow, and even meditate to replenish your items.

That Driver footage unlocked memories I didn't know I had.

Zone of the Enders: the 2nd runner’s never ending final mission. Found out decade later that it’s just a never ending fight

Aah yes... The President's Run. So quick funny story. My mother bought my brother and I a PS1 waaay back when and it came with Driver. We had been free-roaming for weeks before we realised the Undercover stage was a story mode. So we managed to beat it one day and started playing through it from morning. We got through all the cities and got to the infamous President's Run. Some car hit me so hard that the game hang. Now at this time, we didn't have any memory card. Guess who lost all their progress. Eventually we got one and beat the game but that was one heck of a disappointment after a full day of gaming.

Riovanes Castle in Final Fantasy Tactics is where i got stuck and had to start the game over. I wasnt strong enough with good enough classes going into that triple battle and the fight with Velios was impossible. I LOVE that game, not enough to marry it tho, but that said i willingly restarted because i loved the game construction so much. Riovanes is tough if youre not ready.

Delicate Flower quest took me about a month (maybe a month and a half) to do, the best way to do it is to practice like I did every day. The right path makes all the different in the world, but I found the queen garden is where you need to practice the most. Especially the closer you are to the end goal, that last jump dash is almost heart attack inducing.

The Guardian Legend on the NES is an amazing game, but absolutely brutal to get past the first mission.

I feel like the Tidus chocobo red baloon race is much harder and annoying than the lighning dodge one.

I appreciate you adding the Driver final mission. That mission was beyond brutal.

That Driver mission gave me nightmares. I had to team up with a cousin to beat it. We would each do a number of tries and then swap with each other in order to avoid getting tired and frustrated. The one that wasn’t playing at the moment acted as the “navigator” giving directions, calling out enemy cars and giving potential strats. Even with that strat it took a while as you either have to drive perfectly and have the enemy AI be lenient enough or wait until the AI screwed itself badly and gave you enough room to breathe to be able to finish the mission.

Another one comes to mind. The exploding mummies part from uncharted 4 on crushing. It’s actually impossible unless you follow a guide that shows you where to hide as soon as you trigger a bomb.

this last month or so of uploads have been amazing, not that any others aren't but they've just really hit some good subjects

For the FFX lightning dodge, there is a way to make this easier. You get No Encounter on your armour and it’ll stop random fights. Also, there is a spot near a lightning tower which if you run to and fro from a crater, lightning will strike when you reach the crater almost every time. Massive time saver

Some of the final missions in Yakuza games which is to face Amon is not fair and the Amon from lost judgment is really hard.

When I think of unfair quests my mind always hearkens back to Everquest and the original Epic Weapon quests. The steps some of the classes had to go through to get their weapon were bonkers.

Hey man I’m just absolutely loving your videos, gives me something to look foward to everyday and just love sitting down and watching them, I learn so much and it makes me look foward to playing games again. What a legend you are sir

I completed the W3 Extreme Cosplay on Deathmarch. With a very specific build, the fight is very challenging and time consuming, but not impossible. The strategy to succeed is: (1) have the skill that adds health when using stamina, in this way you heal every time you use Quen; (2) upgrade your Yrden to be larger and damage enemies inside; and (3) the tactic is to place Yrden under wizards and run away (they won't approach you). Then you take care of secondary enemies first, after which is becomes a little easier to deal with just the wizards: stun them with Aard, place Yrden, run away and just dodge their attacks - eventually they die.

I didn't mind blitzball in FFX. I didn't find it difficult, just time consuming. I would take that all day over dodging lightening bolts, catching butterflies, or racing the chocobo. Finishing those 3 nearly gave me a rage induced aneurysm.

I did those 200 lightningts, but I helped myself by turning off the sound. I simply reacted to the flashes only. With no encounter - there was skill or item for that. And I disagree with the mission in Final Fantasy Tactics that was supposedly very difficult. The player there has a wide variety of different professions, and each mission was manageable with a certain combo without much problems.

The Witcher quest is possible even on Death March if you chug drugs before the fight and leg it up the stairs. It probably helped that I was on a heavy alchemy build so I had half a dozen cluster bombs of every variety to chuck down the stairs before mopping up the last couple. Still took a good few attempts even with cheese tactics and Geralt having more potions than blood in his veins.

Your assessment of that DK 64 challenge was on the money. I remember that brick walling my progress for the longest time. I did eventually beat it but someone needed to remind Rare: "Those games weren't meant to be beaten. They were designed to rob quarters!"

I've done lulu's lighting dodging. I just timed the second between lighting strikes, did the math and set a timer. I was living with my parents at the time so I even went down stairs and told them not to bother me for the next 16 minutes. I then pulled it off first try having dodged like 223 or something like that.

That's the reason why I quit getting Lulu's & Tidus' sigil. I mean, like, I TRY! It's HARD! Did I mention I also DID NOT get Wakka Ultima weapon?

Behemoth from MHW and FFT at 2 and 1, i love it. Surprised you guys didn't pick Dorter Slums since it's one of the first difficulty spikes in FFT and is usually what stops players from continuing the game, that fight or the 1v1 with Wiegraf.

The Fallen in The Last Remnant jumps to mind. It's an optional boss (though I don't remember if the game actually tells you that at the time) that opens up a path to a lot more optional fights and high powered items. Not only is it difficult, it also closes off about two thirds of the way through the game. If you know it's coming, you can develop your characters in such a way that the fight is only fairly difficult but, if you're on your first play-through and aren't reading a bunch of guides, this thing is going to rip you up. Oh, and don't think you can make the fight easy by grinding xp. Bosses scale up in Last Remnant. All you'll do is make future recruited characters relatively weaker.

The reason the Witcher 3 quest is so difficult is because the enemies do almost pure elemental damage, and almost every piece of Witcher armor you can make has absolutely no elemental resistance (with the exception of 1 or 2 sets) and the armor you’re likely to be wearing at that point in the game leaves you totally vulnerable to elemental damage. It’s the same problem you run into with Caranthir in the main game and the spectral Olgierds in the painted world in Hearts of Stone. Manticore and late game Viper armor gives you the best protection from elemental damage and even that isn’t very high.

Glad you brought up that Witcher 3 quest, took me a while to even figure out a way of finishing that, in the end I just stood on the staircase and occasionally fired something at them until they were all gone, annoying af

I finished driver 1 and 2 so many times when i was a kid.. Was my favorite games of the time. Pure nostalgia

I think the Valkyries in god of war should be an honorable mention or possibly even a top 10 on the list. No matter your skill level or how upgraded your equipment is. It’s still so unfair

The FF10 Lightning thing requires some meta game knowledge. 1) gotta have a no encounters piece of armor on so you don't have to deal with that whole thing. 2) there's like a crater at one spot in the Lightning plains where Lightning always strikes you in the same spot. You dodge perfectly backwards so you just need to hold up on the D-Pad and mash the Dodge button when appropriate. It's still tedious as hell, but it's actually not hard at all once you know the spot.

I'm surprised you didn't mention Wrong Side of the Tracks from GTA San Andreas. I can still hear Big Smoke "All you had to do was follow the damn train, CJ!".

Castlevania 64, the stage where you had to carry nitro. Caused more Game overs than the first mission of dark souls for me. I was pretty young at the time, but I'll never forget finally finishing that stage.

Didn't think The President's Run(or a driving game) would make it into such a list! The mission was difficult though, since the heavy armoured limousine was very heavy and rather slow while the game ramped up the AI's speed and aggressiveness past the point of normal, sometimes you'd hear the police cars before you'd see them as they'd fly past you over the in- and declines. Watching Jimmy Broadbent try to beat it, it was both funny and frustrating. I think I beat the whole game after it, then went on to Driver 2 and completed that as well, finally, after years of owning both. I alwways just cruised around before that as a kid, didn't have a memory card back then(yeah, I don't think I had grasped the "importance" of one back then and didn't ask for one or bought one myself) to save my progress. Maybe that was beneficial to my mental well-being xD TBH, Driver 2 was even more annoying because the framerate would keep crashing down and nearly turn into a slideshow. The mission where you have to chase a car through traffic and then basically ram it off a cliff road was made even more difficult because of it. And if you were in a longer "session", the game would also be no stranger to hang itself up(already experienced that in free roam mode). But hey, I like driving games so I didn't give up :) Did I mention yet that the menu music of Driver is a banger?

A more recent example, but playing the first mission in Triangle Strategy on New Game Plus is almost impossible. You're only given five units, two of which are incredibly squishy and will likely get massacred, while a third unit who, while not as weaker as the other two, is on the opposite end of the map and will likely get ganged up on by one the elite enemy units. While the game does allow you to change the difficulty at any time, it can be frustrating because the jump in difficulty feels like it wasn't balance as well as it could have been.

Funny thing, when you were talking about number ten I was like, "so... basically like the HK delicate flower quest?" And sure enough, at number 8, that's exactly what you mention

I’m proud of Falcon. He didn’t mention a soulsborne game this video. He even mentioned some retros, he does play different games

That Driver one was absolutely infuriating, right up there with the race in Mafia for 100%. I'd forgotten about that tank in Brotherhood, Witcher ones honestly get a lot easier on Deathmarch if you start newgame+ maxed out. The one in the video was easy enough to cheese by going up the stairs then kiting them into the corner and dealing with them one at a time. If you fight them in the courtyard it's a lot harder.

A good list, though when I think of unfair quests in gaming, I can't help thinking about the asteroid shooting mini-game in Dead Space. It was brutally difficult (especially on the hardest difficulty) and prevented you from progressing in the game. Worse was the fact it was so different from the rest of the gameplay, there was nothing in the game to prepare you for the frustration that was to come.

If I remember correctly [it's been awhile since I've played Final Fantasy Tactics] there are actually quite a few places in FFT where you can soft lock your game if you don't have backup saves. I seem to remember it happening to me a few times.

In Chrono Cross one of the trophies calls for feeding the dragons 100 times in a mini game early on. I assume it's possible, but I've only gotten to around 60 in my best attempts.

i would also like to add the captain kidd quests from ac3. you've to collect all of the 24 peg legs scattered all around the map, go on five different missions to get some hints about hte actual location of the treasure, and you get an wacky outfit that is inferior to the already given aquilla's captain outfit.

Oddworld Soulstorm! I love that series and really enjoyed playing this one, but it has parts in it that are hard as hell to get through and can take forever. I never actually finished it because I got close to the end where Gabe is riding a platform to get from A to B and has to fight off flying sligs and I spent I don't know how many countless hours trying to get through that part and couldn't. A lot of other people had the same problem and gave up like I did. The funny thing is, there are videos of some gamers beating that part but even though some games will stick with certain battle patterns, theirs looked different (and easier) than those of us who couldn't get through it. Not sure how that worked.

Any quest in a game that forces you to use some underdeveloped aspect of the game. That forces you to not only to fulfill the requirements to pass, but has the added unspoken of challenge of having to fight against awful mechanics and/or bugs. I'm reminded of, I think it was Just Cause 4? Pretty sure it was that one. A timed challenge mission that had you on a motorbike. Driving in that game is an afterthought as it is, but being on a bike makes it all the more unstable. I can't count the number of times I went through that challenge where everything from invisible ruts in the ground to inexplicably falling off the bike because the game decided you landed wrong even if it looks perfect, leads to you failing to get to the goal in time. It's optional, but it's still frustrating as hell when a game's own mechanics are so poorly done that it can turn an 'OK challenge' into something that takes far too long to beat (in my case around an hour, when the challenge would run its course in around a minute I think), assuming you don't give up in frustration. Incidentally, when I did beat that challenge it was with a relatively large margin of error (multiple seconds to spare). That's the only thing really difficult about that challenge, the devs just half-assed the part of the game that it relied on. Also, every escort mission where the NPCs are stupid and/or squishy. Nobody has ever liked an escort mission in the history of ever (hyperbole, but barely). The only time they're OK (or even have the potential to be fun) is when the one you're escorting doesn't actually need you to live (they're either invincible or just OP, and they don't move at a snail's pace).

Great video Gameranx, thank you. 👍❤💯🔔

Driver was awesome! Loved that game. The last level was insanely hard, but all we had was time back then.

8:44 Gameranx’s editors favorite meme 😂

Those Monster Hunter crossover monsters are no joke dude. The Ancient Leshen was so intense I didn't even beat him.

Lol when I saw the name of this video I thought about the final mission in driver. Lol then I seen you had it on here. I am one of the few people who have managed to beat the final driver mission. Going straight down the road till you reach the road your destination is on is the best path. Best strategy is to keep an eye on the cars chasing you and when they go to ram you line your car up with there's. This helps prevent you from spinning out because of the impact although they come at you from the opposite way as well so you really only want to look behind your self right before you see them moving in up on you. The next hardest part is dealing with all the road blocks. The best way to get around those is to willing slow down a bit once you get close take a ram in the ass from one of the cars chasing before trying to make your way through. After being ramed from behind as long as you avoid crashing the cars chasing lose abit of speed all of them do for just a split second while them hitting you will make you speed up. It will take a few seconds for another ram to come but most of the time the only way around the road block is on the sidewalk with not a lot of room. When going around the road block don't stay on the sidewalk to long because even if they hit you straight on your car still shakes abit and will still change the direction your driving slightly and you will crash and the very second you are past the road block cut back on the road because another ram from the people chasing and if your lucky you can trick them into crashing into the road block giving you a bit more time. If your unlucky they will hit you on the sidewalk and it's basically over. And on the only two turns you should really make you should cut in as close to the corners as you can get.othere wise it's almost a certain you will be hit. It's would probably be advisable to take one in the back a second or two before attempting the turns. Even with these tactics your failure rate will probably be well over 99% that is literally how hard this last mission is. And it's a driving game dark souls has nothing on this game.

I finished the last Driver mission, but I was on the mental edge after that.

One that comes to mind is suvival+ on 21 in the RE7 DLC. I beat it a couple days ago, and I'm not even sure how. I just said to myself: Let's see how far we can get! And somehow I made it all the way.

The Lightning strike dodging can be cheesed somewhat. There is a certain spot just north of the Inn where lightning will predictably strike 3 times in relatively rapid succession. You go on top of a this little hill and lightning will strike 3 times; Tidus will jump back after each dodge. After the third reset at the top of the hill. Using this method you will get 12-15 dodges per minute and you only have to count to 67 instead of 200. You still have to execute, but this method turns what would normally take over an hour into 15 minutes. Much more manageable.

Driver - the presidents run. I loved that game so, so much and it took me probably well over 500 attempts over a few months to complete. It's one game I'd be happy to see remade for PS4/5

There's this online quest in Nioh 2 called The Chinese Bellflower Dagger and you have to beat a guy named Saito Toshimitsu. He does a lot of BS and most people won't judge you if you try to cheese him. Feels like you're the antagonist and he's the main character of the game.

I forgot the exact game but in one of the Mega Man Battle Network GBA games there is a quest that involves locks and some of them are pure random number and if you get it wrong a few times it will reset. The same can be said for the Treatment Center in Virtues Last Reward (you go there if you choose to go with Clover and Quark) there is a puzzle that is required and just like the one mentioned above it is purely random and if you mess up a few times it will restart.