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00:13Welcome to MojoPlays, and today we're uncovering the hardest characters to unlock throughout
00:18video game history.
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00:48In the first Bayonetta, you can find 21 combat challenges spread across the game's various
00:53chapters.
00:54After completing each of those, you unlock a survival challenge where you must make it
00:58through 51 waves of enemies.
01:00The first 10 are set to normal difficulty, the next 20 are on hard, and the last 20 are
01:06on non-stop climax.
01:07The final fight is against Bayonetta herself, with 5 health bars.
01:17Only after conquering all of this will you unlock Zero, a secret character who has the
01:22same basic controls, but who goes down in only a couple of hits, just in case you wanted one
01:27final challenge for the game to give you.
01:36Captain Blue – Beautiful Joe
01:47Unique in both its style and its gameplay, Capcom's Beautiful Joe is already a pretty
01:52tough game all around.
01:53And to unlock its final hidden character, players are forced to climb a scaling obstacle
01:58of difficulty.
02:06You unlock a new character, as well as a new difficulty mode, the first time you beat the
02:11game on a previous one.
02:12If you beat it on adults mode, you unlock Sylvia in V-rated mode.
02:16Beating it again on that mode unlocks Alistar in Ultra V-rated mode.
02:20Finally, beating it on this setting gets you Captain Blue.
02:23Not only do these difficulty levels climb to absurd heights, but the requirement to beat
02:28the game multiple times, in order to unlock this character, means most players probably
02:33never did.
02:38William Borden – Urban Rain
02:47This underappreciated beat-em-up from Namco had a ton of unlockable characters for players
02:51to strive for, even the big bad of the story himself, William Borden.
02:55But from how weak they made him in multiplayer, and how much effort you have to put in to unlock
03:00him, he isn't really worth it honestly.
03:10To play as him, you must achieve an S rank on every single stage.
03:13That means you have to play them pretty much perfectly, taking minimal damage, moving quickly,
03:18and playing on higher difficulties.
03:20You have to actually consider what characters work best for you while taking their own star
03:25rating into account.
03:26Borden's stats are low and his attacks are weak, so he's really only worth it if for
03:30the bragging rights alone.
03:40Raiji Kiddo – Revelations Persona
03:49There are several RPG characters whose recruitment methods are ridiculously obscure, almost impossible
03:55to know about without a guide.
03:57In the original Persona, that character was Raiji Kiddo.
04:00From the start, you'd have to know how to basically go from the infirmary to the teacher's
04:04lounge, and talk to a specific NPC to cause Raiji to appear in a classroom on the second
04:09floor.
04:10That's just to actually meet him.
04:11You'd then have to follow a very strict path, including finding and talking to his mother
04:16only once, and declining certain other optional characters when they try to join you.
04:21Raiji is a strong party member worth getting, to be sure, but with a long list of hoops to
04:26actually jump through, it's almost guaranteed you'll miss recruiting him on a first playthrough
04:30unless you actually know how.
04:39skelly, chronocross.
04:51There are a total of 45 possible party members in chronocross.
04:55and Skelly, the jolly clown skeleton, is the hardest one to unlock. You can find his skull
05:00in Fossil Valley, where he'll ask you to reassemble him by finding the remaining six
05:05pieces of his body. Unfortunately, these are scattered in hidden locations all around the
05:09game's world, which is pretty big. While some are relatively easy to stumble upon,
05:13others definitely aren't, and require a lot of exploring and digging into the game's nooks and
05:18crannies. After putting Skelly back together, you then have to return to Termina to watch him
05:23reunite with his grandma before he finally joins you.
05:37Junkyard Dog Fallout 4
05:38You've got a deal.
05:39Oh, yeah. You sure? I mean, she's a great dog. Don't get me wrong. I just don't want to sell
05:46her to
05:46anyone who isn't going to take good care of her.
05:48The Fallout series has known plenty of memorable companions, even canine ones.
05:53But in Fallout 4, there's another dog that most players probably never get,
05:57simply because of how rare it is to actually find him. Each time you enter the commonwealth,
06:02a trader named Gene will spawn in a random location. You have no hint towards where this
06:06will actually be, but if you do manage to find him, he'll be traveling with the dog you can buy
06:11from him for 250 caps. And you can only do this after passing a charisma check of a six or
06:17higher.
06:18Naturally, the random occurrence of Gene makes the Junkyard Dog an unknown possibilities
06:22to most players.
06:23You be a good girl. Bye-bye. I gotta go. You take care of her, alright?
06:31Thanos Infinite Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 The Black Order
06:34The Ultimate Alliance games have a few tough characters to unlock, but the series saved its
06:40hardest for the so far last. Added in with the game's final DLC, Shadow of Doom, this alternate
06:45version of Thanos came with the Infinity Gauntlet, and therefore a pretty overpowered moveset. But to
06:51wield it, you of course had to earn it. You had to first beat the DLC on superior difficulty,
06:56pretty hard if the name already wasn't obvious enough. This would only unlock the harder Ultimate
07:00difficulty, which would grant you infinite Thanos upon completion. That takes genuine dedication,
07:06grinding through some really challenging fights. But with the gauntlet, Thanos is basically unstoppable,
07:11so the challenge at least makes sense here.
07:13Sherry Farayna Tactics Ogre Let Us Cling Together
07:17But no matter. Such fancies will not stay my blade.
07:22Sherry is another RPG character whose unlock method is so obscure, we have no idea how anyone
07:28would think of it without outside assistance. Players fight Sherry in Chapter 4 of Let Us Cling
07:33Together, and to unlock her, they must reduce her health to 10% or lower, and then allow her to
07:38teleport to safety. Then, before reaching a certain point in the story, you have to return to Balamasu
07:55with Olivia in your party at medium to high loyalty, specifically when it's raining, to trigger a
08:01cutscene between the two sisters. Afterwards, Sherry will join your party. Honestly, that is one of the
08:06most specific checklists for recruiting a character that we've ever seen.
08:10Warthog Twisted Metal
08:19Although Warthog has appeared in multiple entries across the Twisted Metal series, getting to play as
08:25this modified tank car in the 2012 game is a pretty big challenge. You must get a gold medal in
08:30every
08:30story mode, even on Twisted difficulty, the highest difficulty setting, mind you. It's obviously a challenge
08:36to just beat this moat in and of itself.
08:47Using some of the other unlockable vehicles you get from completing other challenges can make it
08:52manageable, but to get gold in every story event? Well, that is of course something else entirely,
08:58and something that is going to take most players a lot of time, a lot of patience, and skill to
09:02overcome.
09:14Nordom Plainscape Torment
09:23An obscure unlock method and a tough dungeon? Well, you get both in Nordom. To add him to your party
09:29in
09:29Planescape Torment, you must first buy what looks to be a regular cube from the Curiosity Shop.
09:34The cube is actually a figurine of Modron, Nordrom's race, but you'll only learn that by speaking to
09:40either Yavanna, the Galleria owner, or an actual Modron while it's in your possession. This allows
09:45you to solve a puzzle with the cube, which then teleports you to a labyrinth. What follows is,
09:50unfortunately, one of the hardest and most confusing dungeons in the game, but only by making
09:55your way through it will you have the chance to add Nordom to your party.
10:05Go-Go Final Fantasy 6
10:12The silent mimic of Final Fantasy 6, Go-Go can be very easy to miss if you don't know what
10:18you're
10:18doing, and can only be recruited fairly late in the game. When you get to Triangle Island in the World
10:22of Ruin and come across a Zone Eater, your first natural instinct would be to kill it just like any
10:27other enemy. Instead, survive until it uses its inhale ability on the entire party. Once you do,
10:33you'll find yourself inside the belly of the beast. Traverse the dungeon and congratulations,
10:44you found Go-Go. He's pretty useful in battle, so we highly recommend going off the bean path to find
10:49him.
10:53Mewtwo Pokemon Red and Blue Versions
11:02Look, we know a lot of the entries on this list will be well-known quantities at this point, but
11:07put yourself in the
11:08shoes of a kid playing Pokemon for the very first time. After finally becoming strong enough to take down the
11:14Elite Four
11:14power and becoming champion, we just didn't want the game to end, not at all. So imagine our surprise when
11:19we discovered that the
11:20Cerulean Cave was now open, and a powerful legendary Pokemon was waiting at the end of it.
11:30Finding Mewtwo by today's standard isn't too difficult, of course, but at the time, battling and catching him was one
11:36of the toughest challenges ever up to that point,
11:38especially if you mistakenly used your master ball earlier on. His powerful psychic-type attacks and recover ability made that
11:44feel like it just went on forever.
11:55Vincent Valentine Final Fantasy 7
12:02The recent Final Fantasy 7 pair of remakes doesn't make Vincent optional, but in the 1997 original, unlocking the moody
12:09gunslinger required quite a bit of detective work.
12:12You can only unlock Vincent when the party is exploring the Shinra Manor in Nibelheim, relatively late in the game.
12:23Scattered around the mansion are clues for the combination to a big safe on the second floor. Once you find
12:28the right numbers and unlock the safe within the allotted time limit,
12:31you fight a fairly difficult boss called Lost Number. After a lengthy back and forth, Vincent finally joins your party.
12:43Super Mario Galaxy is one of the very best Nintendo games of the Wii era.
12:55It's a unique take on the 3D Mario formula with tons of unlockables and secrets to collect.
13:00One of these secrets is the ability to play as the green man himself, Luigi.
13:10To do so, you'll have to collect all 120 stars in the game and then roll credits once.
13:15Then fight Bowser all over again. It seemed enough, right? Wrong.
13:19There are a ton of challenge levels in the game that feel borderline impossible to beat, like the Dreadnought Galaxy's
13:24purple coin objective.
13:26Good on you if you've unlocked Luigi here. It was quite the struggle for many.
13:30Super Luigi Galaxy!
13:33Ollie the Magic Bum, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3.
13:36The Tony Hawk series has known its fair share of tough, weird, unlockable characters.
13:41Shout out to Jack Black as Constable Richard in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 Plus 4,
13:45who's unlocked after collecting every hidden panda plushie in each of the 19 levels.
13:50Very weird, very hard to unlock. The original third entry had someone even harder though.
13:55Players could unlock Ollie the Magic Bum by completing every goal,
13:59while getting all three gold medals in career mode, a total of seven times.
14:04It would be one thing if you only had to beat the game with seven characters,
14:07but the extra challenge of completing everything for each of the skaters makes Ollie a chore to unlock.
14:13MOCAP Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance
14:21Almost every fighting game franchise has their fair share of fun and goofy secret characters,
14:26and Mortal Kombat is of course no different.
14:282002's Deadly Alliance has one of these with mocap, a human character dressed in,
14:32you probably guessed it, a motion capture suit. It's great.
14:35The best part is that he's part of the overall Mortal Kombat canon,
14:39serving as a motion capture artist and stunt guy with ties to Johnny Cage.
14:48To unlock him, you have to finish Conquest with every playable character.
14:51It may not sound difficult in terms of overall challenge, but it will take forever.
14:56Once you do, at the character select screen, highlight Cyrax,
14:59then hold down and the confirm button to play at him.
15:05MOCAP TOFU Resident Evil 2
15:12In both the original Resident Evil 2 and the 2019 remake, Tofu Survivor is a minigame available to
15:19players who beat both main scenarios with an A rank or higher and finish the fourth Survivor minigame.
15:24Tofu Survivor is clearly a parody of this, where you play as a life-sized block of Tofu,
15:29instead of Super Secret Agent Hunk.
15:39Getting an A rank on the main scenarios can be a bit tough if you haven't played before,
15:43but finishing the fourth Survivor side scenario isn't all that bad.
15:47Once you do all this, you can play as Tofu and other various plant-based characters with unique
15:51loadouts and designs, at least in the remake. It's a much harder challenge, as Tofu is only equipped
15:56with the combat knife and a couple of green herbs. So yeah, good luck.
16:061. Mr. Game & Watch Super Smash Bros. Melee
16:09Mr. Game & Watch is easily one of the Super Smash Bros. franchise's weirdest and most iconic fighters.
16:21For many of us, when we first encountered him back in the day, we had absolutely no idea who he
16:26was,
16:26and that feeling of mystery and not knowing was one of the best parts of Melee.
16:30Unlocking him, however, is pretty tedious and honestly not super fun.
16:39While there are a handful of ways to unlock Mr. Game & Watch, they all require excessive grinding.
16:44You can either compete in 1,000 versus matches or complete your choice of classic, adventure,
16:49all-star, or target test mode with every character in the game. In theory, this doesn't sound too
16:54difficult, but it includes the other secret characters. Unlocking Mewtwo and Ganondorf are
16:58difficult in their own right, sure, and they're required for Mr. Game & Watch, and that's why he makes this
17:03list.
17:11Cloud Strife Final Fantasy Tactics
17:19Final Fantasy 7's Cloud is easily the face of the franchise. He's the most popular protagonist the
17:25series has seen, and has had appearances in a handful of other games. Final Fantasy Tactics on the original
17:30PlayStation is one such example, and playing as the former soldier first class is pretty tricky.
17:41We won't get into the nitty gritty as there are a lot of steps here, but after chapter 4,
17:46you have to make a series of very specific choices for certain conditions to be met,
17:50which will ultimately result in being able to play as Cloud. In battle, he's definitely a force to be
17:55reckoned with, and with the right build, is the best unit in the game.
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18:32The Forgotten, The Binding of Isaac
18:39Unlocking The Forgotten in The Binding of Isaac also requires a handful of steps, but they are fairly
18:44tedious and require a lot of skill. Again, we won't delve too deeply into all of the steps here,
18:49but the only prerequisite is to have beaten the lamb at once. And trust us when we say the rest
18:54of it is one of the most unforgiving challenges in the entirety of the game.
19:04Dealing with everything from timed boss battles, precise inventory management, and, of course,
19:09not dying are all things you'll have to focus on to unlock this powerful playable character. Once you do,
19:14the Forgotten is a useful character to do runs with due to its unique playstyle and versatility.
19:24What secret character took you the most effort to unlock? Share your thoughts in the comments,
19:28and we'll see you next time.
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