Are you asking for the hardest games ever or games we "had a hard time getting through"? I had some trouble getting the best ending in Cave Story. (The final level is like an endurance run, with enemy and falling-rock patterns to memorize.)
It's been a while, "secretly" I have worked on my Rockman 2 improvement. * Flashman boss fight without taking any damage. * Heatman contains a neat trick I found and is now 16 frames faster. Also I optimized some item3 heights. * Airman is now 16 frames faster as well, I saved some item1s, optimized their raising speeds and used them in the front of the gates to zip. * In the Crashman stage I used the trick to zip after the death (saves around 5-6 frames), also because of different item1 heights I have a lead but I still have to finish DelayLadderTech off without losing too much time Here's the teaser picture (this trick I found motivated me to start this project once again):
Abahbob = uh bah bob
Ok, maybe we should start adapting existing, but less known jokes to TASing. Like for example: "My wife told me that either I stop making tool-assisted speedruns, or she will leave me." "But that's terrible!" "Indeed. I will miss my wife quite a lot."
SB used magic at 2:01 and I'm a bit surprised some fans predicted the color correctly. Did I miss something or did the show runners copy the fanarts' color? I loved this episode btw
I found this old comic here, back from the time when ragefaces were funny
Zephyr and Gergoth Mostly just running around. Some souls skipped for later, since they're either faster or avoid soul travel. Medusa for example can be aquired during a red door transition to the WakWak tree.
