Ask for the shape of the challenge.

Pure execution with zero consequence: you will restart a seven-second track four hundred times and enjoy every one of them.

One hit kills, restarts land in under a second, and momentum is mandatory — stopping to think is usually the thing that kills you.

The purest execution test on this list and also one of the gentlest, because the retry is faster than your regret.

You can finish it by mashing. The difficulty lives entirely in the gap between finishing it and playing it, and the game is happy to let you ignore that gap forever.

The demons are a resource puzzle solved at a hundred and twenty beats per minute; stop moving to think and you are already dead.

Instant death in both directions and an instant restart. The difficulty is entirely in how quickly you commit to a floor plan you have already memorised.

Each boss is a fixed piece of choreography that you learn by dying to its second phase forty consecutive times.

Parry-first combat with windows tight enough that blocking on reflex fails and blocking on rhythm works.

Kinder than the first in every way that matters — the instant-death platforming is gone — and the map is still built to be read rather than followed.

The EMMI zones are one-hit deaths with a counter window measured in frames, and the bosses expect dodges on reaction rather than pattern.