Haha! I was waiting for this very reply! Even the developers later admitted the difficulty was too high on that original GameCube version, so well done there to your younger self. It'd be interesting to know what your older self makes of that difficulty now. And yes, that morph ball boss was an absolute pain - probably the worst in the game! Btw, anyone playing the latest trilogy version should select 'hard' for a taste of the original default difficulty Mind you, when ninja gaiden was first released on 360, that game was notorious for its high difficulty, yet apart from the first boss, I didn't think it was particularly hard at all. So it's funny how people can sometimes sail through apparently hard games