You ignored the bulk of my initial post. Silver Surfer has bad design. Yes, artificial difficulty is a subjective term. There are plenty of games that are hard that I find unfun, Super Meat Boy being one. I've also given further examples of my reasoning since. As long as you attach reasoning to..

Idk I fail to see a major difference here, and I have beaten both games. Not knocking accessibility, just cohesion, and I think we agree.

This was the scariest screen to randomly get as a kid after just powering on the game

This one looks cool. Nintendo always seems to have at least one launch title that's pretty out of left field: Excite Truck, Luigi's Mansion, ARMS, Nintendo Land, etc.

Sony's marketing strategy for the PS2 seemed to be "fuck it, we're in first place, we'll just put anything in our ads."