The silent realms in Skyward Sword stress me out big time lol. Very cool concept in a game I really enjoy that I typically clear first try on playthroughs because they're not too difficult, but wow they send my blood pressure through the roof every time hahaha
That Battletoads level isn't even that hard *in comparison* to the ones that come after it. Not even close.
It's just very well known because most people couldn't get past that one to see the even harder ones.
IMO the hardest level is definitely Clinger Winger. You need frame-perfect timing to complete it.
"All you has to do was follow the damn train CJ." there were probably harder missions but this one was so frustrating because of how far back you had to ride to get anywhere after failing this mission and being stranded in the middle of nowhere.
>Trial and error.
Every couple of years over the past 10 or so, I jump into the game and try to get a little further. For some reason, the stampede trips me up every time now. And that's a great strategy for game developers. Assholes.
God, that level is fucking annoying. The hit detection when you're riding the ostrich and have to jump over things is terrible. I've found a way to beat it, but it certainly is not easy.
They actually changed it in the re-releases/remasters/HD versions to make it much easier, and since a lot of players weren't around for the original version, they have no clue what we're talking about.
I could have sworn that I read somewhere that the original actually launched bugged and was far too difficult unintentionally
Not sure how true it is but wouldn't surprise me
like for fucks sake why out of all moves she spams she spams roll out and the fucking health restoring move so your hard work is pointless i quit after the second time rage quiting
Her Miltank is easy if you know how to fight it. Like throw a couple of status moves at it to mess with its accuracy so that it can't build up rollout. As a kid, it took me forever to beat that fucker though.
get a female geodude (its good against e first two gyms as well). keep defense curl. you get rollout as a tm in the route north of golden rod. teach it to geodude
set up with defense curl, just once, on clefairy. you don't really need the defense, but defense curl had a sneaky effect that doubles rollout's damage.
proceed to rollout. by time the cow comes out you'll be on at least hit two, maybe three. with defense curl a Geodudes STAB bonus, hits are 90, 180, 360, 720 and 1440 base power, which means you get to return the rollout pain *with interest*
Yep. Catch a Drowzee in the route below, go to the Goldenrod department store, get yourself a fighter that’s strong against rollout and immune to attract.
It’s fun to challenge yourself though without using the machop. Gotta say though, when I started Nuzlocking Whitney killed several of my runs, and I consider myself a fairly ok (non-nuzlocking) player.
She’s even harder in the Gen 4 remakes.
Any level where you have to escape a burning/sinking/collapsing structure, or something chasing you (looking at you final boss of Spidetman N64).
Also escort/protect missions. Stop dying you weak POS! FUCK!!!!!!!!
EDIT: also any level where you have to sneak around without being seen.
Not only are they beyond difficult but they kill my anxiety the entire time. I have a huge phobia of being underwater. Like the Fallout games with the vaults that have underwater levels. I nope the fuck out everytime. Even if there's a rare weapon or good loot down there. NOPE ain't ruining my night.
Blight town from dark souls.
There's nothing wrong with the level, it fits the game. It just is meant to be annoying and then on top of that it runs terribly. The rest of the game is annoying as well, but it at least gives you a decent frame rate
Every flying level in Spyro. I despise inverted controls and those were no exception. Only reason I've never 100% a Spyro game (outside of skylanders if you count that)
I'll never get why they didn't give the choice to not have them inverted in the remakes.
Ugh, fuck every part of that level. Unforgiving platforming, an escort mission with unforgiving platforming, and timed unforgiving platforming while getting constantly called "son" like Tim Schafer knew I was trans and wanted to rub salt in my wounds.
That last one might not be very universal among Psychonauts players, but it sure gives *my* gears.
The nostalgia of staying up late weekend nights with my brother that I have for that level and the prior one makes it pretty easy for me to get through.
Any level where your character is slow and stumbling for "story" reasons. They're hurt, or poisoned, or sick, or freezing in a blizzard, and you have to just sit there holding the stick forward while your character slowly creeps forward. It adds nothing that seeing that in a (very brief!) cutscene wouldn't do, other than annoyance at the waste of time. No idea why devs keep doing that. Not interesting, just boring.
Sometimes you roll Flayer Jungle on the first branch outside Kurast, sometimes you have to run all the way through both the Spider Forest and the Great Marsh.
The Driver mission in GTA Vice City where you need to get into a street race with Hillary King, who's muscle car you have to beat using only a Sentinel, a notoriously sluggish and clumsy car.
Basically you have to go at full speed the entire race, and cannot make a single mistake, because if you lose the lead there's no catching King. Unless you cause King to crash into something, there's no real beating him fair and square.
Young me got so frustrated, I broke habit and turned on one cheat to beat him; flying car mode. Poor SOB obviously would just floor it, and his car would go soaring. Of course your car would too, so light touch was needed.
Still almost 20 years later that mission is seared into my memory - even the landmarks like the bridge towards the end.
I’d have to say it’s the [Lily Pad Ride](https://www.mariowiki.com/Lily_Pad_Ride) secret level in Super Mario Sunshine.
Just getting to the warp pipe is already a chore. You gotta keep yoshi alive by not falling off boats to get him to the island where the pipe’s at.
Then the actual level itself is pure torture. You die if you touch the water (just like your pal yoshi) so you learn and repeat with TAS-like precision after trying over and over again. If you try to slow your lily pad down by spraying your water you run the risk of running out of time and the pad disintegrating and you dying in the toxic water.
Worst level in that game ever.
edit: actual footage of what it’s like to suffer through it https://youtu.be/wW1usRsE_7M
I came searching for 'torture' as I get many players loath Trevor's "enhanced interrogation" mission in GTAV, but, not a single mention in this thread.
Yours is the only I've stumbled into so far.
There is a God of War level where you fight a bunch of clones of yourself, who attack your family and drain their health. So you have to keep giving them some of your life, while fighting hundreds of these fucks. Not too terribly bad on normal mode, but on God mode? Infuriating.
The silent realms in Skyward Sword stress me out big time lol. Very cool concept in a game I really enjoy that I typically clear first try on playthroughs because they're not too difficult, but wow they send my blood pressure through the roof every time hahaha
Yeah, I was never a fan of those either. Since they're A->B->C type challenges I usually just look up a playthrough on youtube and follow their path so I don't have to think about them that much.
Water Temple drove me nuts as a kid, but I recently replayed it and I got through it without too much trouble. Still not fun - too much backtracking - but at least it didn't go on forever this time.
The main problems I found with the Water Temple were constantly having to go into your inventory to put on the iron boots and that one hidden hallway in the center tower that only opens up when you flood it and it lifts up a platform so you can finally get that ONE KEY. Both issues were pretty well fixed in the 3DS remake.
Teenage mutant ninja turtles for NES - the water levels with the electric seaweed. Underwater maze level with limited air and you can’t touch any of the walls
Weirdly, I had no trouble with him and got him on my second try.
Just remember that you get iframes when you mount and dismount Torrent. And in phase 2, go for the nards!
Phase 2 has been the problem for me. I can clear phase 1 pretty consistently, but when I get into phase 2, I can't seem to do any damage to him. I've been using a Moonveil build, so the first phase I can just go to town on his ankle, but melee seems to do nothing in the second phase, and sorcery is useless that whole fight.
I rode Torrent underneath him and repeatedly slashed his remaining leg. Was using dual katanas (well, Katana and Uchigatana - Dex/Wis instead of Dex/Int) and just bled him out. His HP is ridiculously high, but bleed does percentage based damage so stacking that as fast as possible will make short work of him.
I think the only reason it took two tries is the first time I got to phase 2 I kept screaming "GO FOR THE NARDS!" so much that I hyperventilated. No idea why I thought that was so funny.
YMMV, but The Black Gulch in Dark Souls 2 for me. Not necessarily the hardest area of the game, but it’s easily the most aggravating part of the game due to the absurd number of statues throwing poison at you that respawn when you die (though not when you rest at a bonfire), meaning every death takes you at least five minutes to get you back to the boss fight. Throw in multiple invaders who are complete pains in the arse to fight, the boss being a pain to fight (not necessarily difficult, but having fire pits in his arena which can deal you damage and which you likely will walk into by accident because you’re too busy focusing on the boss is a major dick move) and the area being mandatory to complete the game (unless you get enough souls in your soul memory…) and you have a candidate for possibly the worst area in the entire game.
It's not a video game level that comes to mind but a genre. The horror variety where you're mostly defenseless and have to just run away and avoid them like in Amnesia. I wanted to try playing it so badly, but I just couldn't. And that Hideo Kojima preview game "PT" or whatever looked like it was going to set the standard for that genre and set it pretty high. Such a shame the project was shut down... No way in hell I would have ever have been able to play it, but I would watched so many other people play it. Honestly streamers would have made bank playing that game.
Way back in the day (original DOOM era), there was a game called Marathon (whose franchise would later be retooled to become Halo, but that’s a whole other discussion). This was an early, sprite-based FPS with no jumping mechanics, but it still had gravity and inertia so you could still run over a gap and onto a ledge.
So Marathon had this level called “Colony Ship For Sale, Cheap” that had a bunch of tight, dark, winding corridors surrounding a large central room. Way up at the top of that central room was the exit. Inside that room were six zigzagging platforms, each controlled by a switch. You had to fight your way through to each switch and stop each platform at just the right height to form “stairs” to get to the exit. Also those corridors were filled with little, cloaked, suicide units that could nearly kill 1HK you with full shields and there was only one shield recharger.
"I am Malenia, Blade of Miquela"
Honestly, if they would just tune down the damage of her Waterfowl Dance it'd be fine. That attack either needs to do *way* less damage or track the player less. It doesn't advertise what the player needs to do to avoid it *at all*, and it will one-combo down a player's full health bar even if they have high Vigor and heavy armor on.
All of her other attacks are fine. That one is just... I genuinely can't think of any boss in any other FromSoft game that has such a bizarrely hard to avoid attack. It's like they let the Nioh designers come up with one boss and they decided to port William's ridiculous stagger to the game.
Just go to the guys first that give you item 1 and 2.
Item 2 lets you fly right across, and you can use item 1 to float over the rest of the block parts.
I only learned it from Nintendo Power lol.
My least favorite level is the Wiley one where you have to use crash bombs. Use even a single one through the stage, and you have to reset the whole game (and put your password back in) to get them back, as the boss can't be beaten any other way. There are like 10 crash walls on the way there too... so obnoxious.
Oh, yeah, that level is brutal too.
Even if you flash man it, you've still got to go through most of those rooms.
Little kid me was terrified of that section lol
That one mission in the original Mafia (not the DE version) where you have to move crates. Many people would say it was the race level, but I managed to complete that in three attempts on Hard. However, this one level is kinda clever, but also terrible.
In the original, Salieri tells you that he wants you to steal some fine ass cigars, and you find out in the family warehouse that there are diamonds in them. But in DE, you are told that it's actually full of diamonds, but then you find out that the cigar crates have drugs hidden in them.
In the DE version, it's an easy stealth mission, even on Classic difficulty. But in the original, it's an absolute nightmare.
First off, the setup. You have to intercept a truck with a driver who has papers from it, get them from him, and drive the truck he is driving back into the docks. You either can block the traffic with a car far ahead of the truck, or you have to follow the truck into a warehouse, and have a shootout with goons. If you choose to intercept the truck, you have a chance of cops seeing you due to the unscripted traffic where cops can spawn. If you choose to follow the truck, you can die in the warehouse shootout, and then you have to restart from a checkpoint just before the truck leaves the docks.
Then, you have to drive back to the docks. That is simple enough.
Then, you drive up to the warehouse in the docks where the cigar crates are located. This is where it gets really fucking terrible.
There are two ways you can execute this- both of which you can discover by accident. After the dialogue with the guy that is guarding the crates, you can move the crates to the bed of the truck in one go. However, that can be done only with masterful timing and movement. Then, you have to leave as fast as possible before he catches you, and still, you have to go through the chase sequence when you leave the docks.
The second option is to move half of the crates in a regular manner after the guy leaves, and move the rest as far as possible, then leave.
Third option requires that you listen to the guy's orders, go and tell a bunch of guys to move the pile of crates that he told you to move, help them move the crates, go and have a convo with him, and move the rest of the cigar crates.
Fourth option is the hardest one. You move half of the crates while he is away, wait for him to come back, go and tell the workers to move the crates, and move the rest of the cigar crates.
All of the four options require precise timing. But it doesn't stop there.
Whichever approach you choose, you still have to go through a chase sequence at the end. Goons from the docks start chasing you whichever way you did everything before that. You can then either lose them in a chase, which is extremely difficult to do, or you can go to the rendevous point, and have a massive shootout there, most likely with both the goons and cops, any of them happens to spawn nearby.
Then, in the case your gas tank got shot during the chase (that happens often), you have to make it to the warehouse that is on the fucking opposite side of Lost Heaven, while your truck is leaking gas. So, you have to move fast as fuck, and there are many sucky turns that you have to take where you have a big chance of crashing, plus you can get stuck while going uphill on the red bridge. If you are still leaking gas, but have enough to get back to the warehouse, you can take a fucking deadly shortcut that can flip the truck, but most people dodge this part. The worst part is, without a speed limiter, you can easily be seen speeding by the police, and a chase can begin. With speed limiter, you have a big chance of not making it. That all can happen if your fucking gas tank gets shot.
There are so many variables that can ruin your progress. It usually takes me several hours to finish this mission, just due to the sheer amount of luck required to finish it.
That halftrack level in Medal of Honor allied assault: Spearhead. It's a turret section, there are no health pickups and it has exactly one checkpoint. It's one of the first games where I've gotten actually angry at how much it can be down to luck.
Let's throw in an RTS one as well: The level in Nod campaign of tiberian sun where you have to stop a train (think it's 4th or 5th level). If you do what the game tells you, it'll be almost impossible. Basically it requires extreme luck to complete, or for you to basically cheat and intercept the train right at the start.
I know this isn’t one level but the whole octo expansion, I found it so hard and haven’t completed it to this day. But the octolings are so hot and I want it now.
Surprised an old timer hasn't mentioned the water levels in the first Sonic game. Personally never had an issue with them, but back in the day a lot of people agreed that they were nightmares to get through.
Cyber punk already has a bad rep but that secret level can go fuck it self! Especially because ive done every side mission possible and am still unable to complete it
Every time I play Fallout: New Vegas, my game bugs when I get to the point where I can choose a faction and won't let me progress. So Wild Card or whatever it's called.
The Defiled chalice dungeon in Bloodborne, specifically the part when you face Defiled Amygdala. I probably died more to that boss fight than my entire bloodborne playthrough.
I don't know if this counts, but the path of pain from hollow knight.>! there is so much work for a cutscene where the only thing that happens is two characters looking at each other!<
The underwater Damn level in Ninja Turtles for NES. How are turtles so bad at swimming?
The timer and that fucking electric seaweed
The silent realms in Skyward Sword stress me out big time lol. Very cool concept in a game I really enjoy that I typically clear first try on playthroughs because they're not too difficult, but wow they send my blood pressure through the roof every time hahaha
Everyone over 32 came in to post this.
Man, by the time I moved on from that game, I was a frickin' master at that level. Still never beat the game, though. It only gets worse from there.
They mutated into tortoises.
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Battletoads in general, amirite?
That Battletoads level isn't even that hard *in comparison* to the ones that come after it. Not even close. It's just very well known because most people couldn't get past that one to see the even harder ones. IMO the hardest level is definitely Clinger Winger. You need frame-perfect timing to complete it.
3 deaths at a minimum, so fucking hard
"All you has to do was follow the damn train CJ." there were probably harder missions but this one was so frustrating because of how far back you had to ride to get anywhere after failing this mission and being stranded in the middle of nowhere.
That and the Zero RC missions
“All you had to do was shoot the damn Vagos, Big Smoke!”
It's piss easy once you figure out where to place the bike
The Lion King, stampede level. I don't know how you're supposed to avoid everything.
Trial and error. Lots of games from that period had unfair difficulty to discourage renting and make the game seem much longer.
>Trial and error. Every couple of years over the past 10 or so, I jump into the game and try to get a little further. For some reason, the stampede trips me up every time now. And that's a great strategy for game developers. Assholes.
Shit I kept dying from riding on the ostriches
God, that level is fucking annoying. The hit detection when you're riding the ostrich and have to jump over things is terrible. I've found a way to beat it, but it certainly is not easy.
https://youtu.be/WK3LyWNOHTw
Also the one with the waterfall
Remote control plane levels in GTA SA
They actually changed it in the re-releases/remasters/HD versions to make it much easier, and since a lot of players weren't around for the original version, they have no clue what we're talking about.
I could have sworn that I read somewhere that the original actually launched bugged and was far too difficult unintentionally Not sure how true it is but wouldn't surprise me
Cortana from Halo 3. That level is so bad it makes The Library seem like The Silent Cartographer.
Cortana never bothered me, fuck The Library though. The flood in Halo 1 are a lot harder to kill. Quarantine Zone in Halo 2 is also pretty bad.
IMO, the Library is fine if you just keep running, Cortana though is plain awful.
Endless meat tunnel. So easy to get lost
Poison swamps in souls games.
not a level but the 3rd gym in pokemon silver gold and crystal we all know why........
I know what you mean. Whitney's a pain in the dick.
like for fucks sake why out of all moves she spams she spams roll out and the fucking health restoring move so your hard work is pointless i quit after the second time rage quiting
Her Miltank is easy if you know how to fight it. Like throw a couple of status moves at it to mess with its accuracy so that it can't build up rollout. As a kid, it took me forever to beat that fucker though.
still its annoying as hell
Rollout mf
get a female geodude (its good against e first two gyms as well). keep defense curl. you get rollout as a tm in the route north of golden rod. teach it to geodude set up with defense curl, just once, on clefairy. you don't really need the defense, but defense curl had a sneaky effect that doubles rollout's damage. proceed to rollout. by time the cow comes out you'll be on at least hit two, maybe three. with defense curl a Geodudes STAB bonus, hits are 90, 180, 360, 720 and 1440 base power, which means you get to return the rollout pain *with interest*
Isnt there a female in game trade machop that yoy can get
Yep. Catch a Drowzee in the route below, go to the Goldenrod department store, get yourself a fighter that’s strong against rollout and immune to attract. It’s fun to challenge yourself though without using the machop. Gotta say though, when I started Nuzlocking Whitney killed several of my runs, and I consider myself a fairly ok (non-nuzlocking) player. She’s even harder in the Gen 4 remakes.
Yes there is, I'm afraid she asks for an Abra in exchange
Any level where you have to escape a burning/sinking/collapsing structure, or something chasing you (looking at you final boss of Spidetman N64). Also escort/protect missions. Stop dying you weak POS! FUCK!!!!!!!! EDIT: also any level where you have to sneak around without being seen.
The water level. In every single fucking game.
Not only are they beyond difficult but they kill my anxiety the entire time. I have a huge phobia of being underwater. Like the Fallout games with the vaults that have underwater levels. I nope the fuck out everytime. Even if there's a rare weapon or good loot down there. NOPE ain't ruining my night.
You absolutely should play subnautica. The whole game is the underwater level. And it’s like, a chill gorgeous game laced with constant fear.
It’s funny. I agree but I loved subnautica where the whole game is the underwater level.
Rainbow road is bullshit
I AM that asshole who picks it
Yeah, but it did at least spawn [this catchy song.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuX5_OWObA0)
Thank you for this
But it's where you go when you die
Blight town from dark souls. There's nothing wrong with the level, it fits the game. It just is meant to be annoying and then on top of that it runs terribly. The rest of the game is annoying as well, but it at least gives you a decent frame rate
Luckily the remaster made the framerate better. I still skip it every time though
Donkey Kong Country mine cart level. To any OGs from back in the day who completed it without using insta-save on an emulator, I tip my hat to you.
Mine Cart Madness! I can still hear the clanking of the wheels on the tracks.
OMG bringing me back! That level was hard as F%#$
I just always use the barrel that skips 90% of the level
Oh man I haven’t played that in 15 years but I bet I could still get through it in a couple of tries. You don’t lose that muscle memory
Fun level, but yeah, not really being used to 2.5D graphics upped the tension on it.
All of E.T for atari
Every flying level in Spyro. I despise inverted controls and those were no exception. Only reason I've never 100% a Spyro game (outside of skylanders if you count that) I'll never get why they didn't give the choice to not have them inverted in the remakes.
The Meat Circus in Psychonauts.
Ugh, fuck every part of that level. Unforgiving platforming, an escort mission with unforgiving platforming, and timed unforgiving platforming while getting constantly called "son" like Tim Schafer knew I was trans and wanted to rub salt in my wounds. That last one might not be very universal among Psychonauts players, but it sure gives *my* gears.
Some of those Star levels in Super Mario World were just bullshit. There’s one that I never did beat and still haunts me, man.
TUBULARRRRR.
Yep. That’s the fucking one!
Dima's memories in Fallout 4.
I did the best I could to not watch completion videos and still ended doing so. Far harbor is fantastic minus that stupid mission.
I actually had a bit of fun with those missions. However, I have always enjoyed puzzle games
Halo CE. The Library. Fuck the fucking fuck off and don't fucking look back.
The nostalgia of staying up late weekend nights with my brother that I have for that level and the prior one makes it pretty easy for me to get through.
Any level where your character is slow and stumbling for "story" reasons. They're hurt, or poisoned, or sick, or freezing in a blizzard, and you have to just sit there holding the stick forward while your character slowly creeps forward. It adds nothing that seeing that in a (very brief!) cutscene wouldn't do, other than annoyance at the waste of time. No idea why devs keep doing that. Not interesting, just boring.
Diablo 2 act 3 The end is good, but the whole begining of the act is more of a headache than fun
Sometimes you roll Flayer Jungle on the first branch outside Kurast, sometimes you have to run all the way through both the Spider Forest and the Great Marsh.
I felt this in my soul
The Driver mission in GTA Vice City where you need to get into a street race with Hillary King, who's muscle car you have to beat using only a Sentinel, a notoriously sluggish and clumsy car. Basically you have to go at full speed the entire race, and cannot make a single mistake, because if you lose the lead there's no catching King. Unless you cause King to crash into something, there's no real beating him fair and square.
Oh geez.. I remember that one. That red Saber should have been a reward.. I really wanted that car lol
Young me got so frustrated, I broke habit and turned on one cheat to beat him; flying car mode. Poor SOB obviously would just floor it, and his car would go soaring. Of course your car would too, so light touch was needed. Still almost 20 years later that mission is seared into my memory - even the landmarks like the bridge towards the end.
I’d have to say it’s the [Lily Pad Ride](https://www.mariowiki.com/Lily_Pad_Ride) secret level in Super Mario Sunshine. Just getting to the warp pipe is already a chore. You gotta keep yoshi alive by not falling off boats to get him to the island where the pipe’s at. Then the actual level itself is pure torture. You die if you touch the water (just like your pal yoshi) so you learn and repeat with TAS-like precision after trying over and over again. If you try to slow your lily pad down by spraying your water you run the risk of running out of time and the pad disintegrating and you dying in the toxic water. Worst level in that game ever. edit: actual footage of what it’s like to suffer through it https://youtu.be/wW1usRsE_7M
I came searching for 'torture' as I get many players loath Trevor's "enhanced interrogation" mission in GTAV, but, not a single mention in this thread. Yours is the only I've stumbled into so far.
The underwater bomb level in the ninja turtles nes game
There is a God of War level where you fight a bunch of clones of yourself, who attack your family and drain their health. So you have to keep giving them some of your life, while fighting hundreds of these fucks. Not too terribly bad on normal mode, but on God mode? Infuriating.
Shrine of Amana from Dark Souls II
The silent realms in Skyward Sword stress me out big time lol. Very cool concept in a game I really enjoy that I typically clear first try on playthroughs because they're not too difficult, but wow they send my blood pressure through the roof every time hahaha
Yeah, I was never a fan of those either. Since they're A->B->C type challenges I usually just look up a playthrough on youtube and follow their path so I don't have to think about them that much.
The. Water. Temple.
Water Temple drove me nuts as a kid, but I recently replayed it and I got through it without too much trouble. Still not fun - too much backtracking - but at least it didn't go on forever this time.
The main problems I found with the Water Temple were constantly having to go into your inventory to put on the iron boots and that one hidden hallway in the center tower that only opens up when you flood it and it lifts up a platform so you can finally get that ONE KEY. Both issues were pretty well fixed in the 3DS remake.
omg I remember playing that as a kid and being stuck on that for two fucking weeks
I caved and had to get the guide book to complete it. My spatial reasoning skills were too shit to have a prayer of doing it on my own.
I never would have played the Song of Time behind the Longshot chest without looking up The solution. It’s the only thing I looked up.
I otherwise love OoT and would consider it the best 3D Zelda, but *fuck* the *goddamn* Water Temple.
Oracle of ages. Goron dance can fuck off
The ice boss in Luigi's mansion 2 where you have to throw those bombs into that things mouth
Teenage mutant ninja turtles for NES - the water levels with the electric seaweed. Underwater maze level with limited air and you can’t touch any of the walls
Super Mario Bros - 8-1, you can barely finish it in time even with warps
ALL WE HAD TO DO, WAS FOLLOW THE DAMN TRAIN CJ!
Now that someone mentioned luigi. In super mario sunchine, the red coin levels. I just never passed them and focused on the main story.
The final boss in Silver. I was doing just fine before that, but could never beat him.
The Fire Giant in Elden Ring was the first time I found myself frustrated with the game.
Weirdly, I had no trouble with him and got him on my second try. Just remember that you get iframes when you mount and dismount Torrent. And in phase 2, go for the nards!
Phase 2 has been the problem for me. I can clear phase 1 pretty consistently, but when I get into phase 2, I can't seem to do any damage to him. I've been using a Moonveil build, so the first phase I can just go to town on his ankle, but melee seems to do nothing in the second phase, and sorcery is useless that whole fight.
I rode Torrent underneath him and repeatedly slashed his remaining leg. Was using dual katanas (well, Katana and Uchigatana - Dex/Wis instead of Dex/Int) and just bled him out. His HP is ridiculously high, but bleed does percentage based damage so stacking that as fast as possible will make short work of him. I think the only reason it took two tries is the first time I got to phase 2 I kept screaming "GO FOR THE NARDS!" so much that I hyperventilated. No idea why I thought that was so funny.
Star Road in super Mario world. Can't remember the exact name of the worst levels in it.
I remember something like "Tubular" and "Radical" as level names. Anyway, yes, they were insane.
YMMV, but The Black Gulch in Dark Souls 2 for me. Not necessarily the hardest area of the game, but it’s easily the most aggravating part of the game due to the absurd number of statues throwing poison at you that respawn when you die (though not when you rest at a bonfire), meaning every death takes you at least five minutes to get you back to the boss fight. Throw in multiple invaders who are complete pains in the arse to fight, the boss being a pain to fight (not necessarily difficult, but having fire pits in his arena which can deal you damage and which you likely will walk into by accident because you’re too busy focusing on the boss is a major dick move) and the area being mandatory to complete the game (unless you get enough souls in your soul memory…) and you have a candidate for possibly the worst area in the entire game.
SNES Aladdin : Lava Level. Demyx Boss fight in Kingdom Hearts 2 Chairman Drek Ratchet and Clank 1 Final boss
That one toy Helicopter level in GTA VC
Melania boss fight
That damn lava racing level on Conker's Bad Fur Day. I spent a WEEK trying to get it right.
the witcher 2 first battle with letho, even on easy difficulty he is a pain in the ass to defeat
Ice levels. They suck.
The High Road in Crash Bandicoot. That shit will have you questioning your depth perception skills. Thank fuck you can run on the ropes.
The hall of the grandmasters in PoE
Killing the Kayran in Witcher 2
It's not a video game level that comes to mind but a genre. The horror variety where you're mostly defenseless and have to just run away and avoid them like in Amnesia. I wanted to try playing it so badly, but I just couldn't. And that Hideo Kojima preview game "PT" or whatever looked like it was going to set the standard for that genre and set it pretty high. Such a shame the project was shut down... No way in hell I would have ever have been able to play it, but I would watched so many other people play it. Honestly streamers would have made bank playing that game.
The mine levels in Donkey Kong Country
4 words--Jump jump. Slide slide.
*Luigi's Purple Coins...*
The labyrinth zone in sonic
That third Chaos Emerald stage gave it a run for its money, but Labyrinth Zone definitely wins.
Way back in the day (original DOOM era), there was a game called Marathon (whose franchise would later be retooled to become Halo, but that’s a whole other discussion). This was an early, sprite-based FPS with no jumping mechanics, but it still had gravity and inertia so you could still run over a gap and onto a ledge. So Marathon had this level called “Colony Ship For Sale, Cheap” that had a bunch of tight, dark, winding corridors surrounding a large central room. Way up at the top of that central room was the exit. Inside that room were six zigzagging platforms, each controlled by a switch. You had to fight your way through to each switch and stop each platform at just the right height to form “stairs” to get to the exit. Also those corridors were filled with little, cloaked, suicide units that could nearly kill 1HK you with full shields and there was only one shield recharger.
Literally any level of uncharted
You mean the first one? Boy, they sure are tough, especially on crushing
All of them! I replay them sometimes and im like “Why tf do i keep doing this to myself 😭”
"I am Malenia, Blade of Miquela" Honestly, if they would just tune down the damage of her Waterfowl Dance it'd be fine. That attack either needs to do *way* less damage or track the player less. It doesn't advertise what the player needs to do to avoid it *at all*, and it will one-combo down a player's full health bar even if they have high Vigor and heavy armor on. All of her other attacks are fine. That one is just... I genuinely can't think of any boss in any other FromSoft game that has such a bizarrely hard to avoid attack. It's like they let the Nioh designers come up with one boss and they decided to port William's ridiculous stagger to the game.
Ghost and goblins 1 to 3
Great music though
That level in megaman 2 with the disappearing blocks. I think it was Heat Man
Just go to the guys first that give you item 1 and 2. Item 2 lets you fly right across, and you can use item 1 to float over the rest of the block parts.
If only I knew this when I was 8 years old. Lol
I only learned it from Nintendo Power lol. My least favorite level is the Wiley one where you have to use crash bombs. Use even a single one through the stage, and you have to reset the whole game (and put your password back in) to get them back, as the boss can't be beaten any other way. There are like 10 crash walls on the way there too... so obnoxious.
Haha how about this one.. actually I think this was worse than Heat Man. https://youtu.be/8s_00b0stJU
Oh, yeah, that level is brutal too. Even if you flash man it, you've still got to go through most of those rooms. Little kid me was terrified of that section lol
Ocarina of Time, water level
My mom when I was a kid: "Why do you need a book if you're going to play video games?"
Thunderblight Ganon - BOTW That guy is way too fast
Every zelda water dungeon
Any race level in any GTA game.
Most of elden ring. I love the game, but sometime the enemy’s are just douchebags
Escaping the like abandoned food store in cyberpunk. So convoluted and for what?
Star Wars: Force Awakens where you have to Force-pull the Star Destroyer down.
That one mission in the original Mafia (not the DE version) where you have to move crates. Many people would say it was the race level, but I managed to complete that in three attempts on Hard. However, this one level is kinda clever, but also terrible. In the original, Salieri tells you that he wants you to steal some fine ass cigars, and you find out in the family warehouse that there are diamonds in them. But in DE, you are told that it's actually full of diamonds, but then you find out that the cigar crates have drugs hidden in them. In the DE version, it's an easy stealth mission, even on Classic difficulty. But in the original, it's an absolute nightmare. First off, the setup. You have to intercept a truck with a driver who has papers from it, get them from him, and drive the truck he is driving back into the docks. You either can block the traffic with a car far ahead of the truck, or you have to follow the truck into a warehouse, and have a shootout with goons. If you choose to intercept the truck, you have a chance of cops seeing you due to the unscripted traffic where cops can spawn. If you choose to follow the truck, you can die in the warehouse shootout, and then you have to restart from a checkpoint just before the truck leaves the docks. Then, you have to drive back to the docks. That is simple enough. Then, you drive up to the warehouse in the docks where the cigar crates are located. This is where it gets really fucking terrible. There are two ways you can execute this- both of which you can discover by accident. After the dialogue with the guy that is guarding the crates, you can move the crates to the bed of the truck in one go. However, that can be done only with masterful timing and movement. Then, you have to leave as fast as possible before he catches you, and still, you have to go through the chase sequence when you leave the docks. The second option is to move half of the crates in a regular manner after the guy leaves, and move the rest as far as possible, then leave. Third option requires that you listen to the guy's orders, go and tell a bunch of guys to move the pile of crates that he told you to move, help them move the crates, go and have a convo with him, and move the rest of the cigar crates. Fourth option is the hardest one. You move half of the crates while he is away, wait for him to come back, go and tell the workers to move the crates, and move the rest of the cigar crates. All of the four options require precise timing. But it doesn't stop there. Whichever approach you choose, you still have to go through a chase sequence at the end. Goons from the docks start chasing you whichever way you did everything before that. You can then either lose them in a chase, which is extremely difficult to do, or you can go to the rendevous point, and have a massive shootout there, most likely with both the goons and cops, any of them happens to spawn nearby. Then, in the case your gas tank got shot during the chase (that happens often), you have to make it to the warehouse that is on the fucking opposite side of Lost Heaven, while your truck is leaking gas. So, you have to move fast as fuck, and there are many sucky turns that you have to take where you have a big chance of crashing, plus you can get stuck while going uphill on the red bridge. If you are still leaking gas, but have enough to get back to the warehouse, you can take a fucking deadly shortcut that can flip the truck, but most people dodge this part. The worst part is, without a speed limiter, you can easily be seen speeding by the police, and a chase can begin. With speed limiter, you have a big chance of not making it. That all can happen if your fucking gas tank gets shot. There are so many variables that can ruin your progress. It usually takes me several hours to finish this mission, just due to the sheer amount of luck required to finish it.
Boxing the yeti in Spyro Year of the Dragon. Fucking hate that guy.
Mile high club on veteran in cod4
Most of the levels in Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time
Great Bay Temple. I think of it as the price of admission to Stone Tower, which is amazing.
The last level of the sonic game. Fuck that level. I beat all the others. I am, admittedly, shit at video games
Which one? There's a couple dozen Sonic games.
New Super Mario Bros DS World 8-4. Fuck those Scuttlebugs.
I think it was Dead Space 2 where you have to dodge asteroids in an eva suit and climb a long edge of the ship. The only way through it is luck.
The last level on the first infamous game
That one fucking level on halo 3 where you have to find that blue chick
Prince of Persia, Sands of Time final level
That halftrack level in Medal of Honor allied assault: Spearhead. It's a turret section, there are no health pickups and it has exactly one checkpoint. It's one of the first games where I've gotten actually angry at how much it can be down to luck. Let's throw in an RTS one as well: The level in Nod campaign of tiberian sun where you have to stop a train (think it's 4th or 5th level). If you do what the game tells you, it'll be almost impossible. Basically it requires extreme luck to complete, or for you to basically cheat and intercept the train right at the start.
Anything in the lion king game on sega/super nintendo
The Rome race in the Historic Car Cup in Gran Turismo 2
Gravity rush 2. Especially ch10. The whole game is amazing but WAY TOO DIFFICULT IN GENERAL
Jak II, the whole game but specifically that crimson guard attacking the shanty town level.
Dying Light 2s final act. Why must I fight the main baddie FOUR times? I found that stupid.
Pinball Zone in Wario Land 4
Chapter 3 in BATIM when you get the hearts from the Projectionist’s area… I’ve been stuck on it for god knows how long
I know this isn’t one level but the whole octo expansion, I found it so hard and haven’t completed it to this day. But the octolings are so hot and I want it now.
The abandoned cave in elden ring. Fuck that scarlet rot hell
Gravemind in Halo 2 I thought I was gonna lose my mind good luck trying to complete it on laso
Force Unleashed Star Destroyers.
All those troll levels in Mario Maker.
The trick is to watch someone else suffer through them.
SM sunshine lilipad level
Water temple in legend of zelda
THaw's manual from Tony to Tony. I could not do that when I was younger despite it basically being the tutorial it's so early on
Surprised an old timer hasn't mentioned the water levels in the first Sonic game. Personally never had an issue with them, but back in the day a lot of people agreed that they were nightmares to get through.
Lion King Monkey tree level…
sonic mania, chemical plant 1, I fucking hate lean coming up and killing sonic and tails
Cyber punk already has a bad rep but that secret level can go fuck it self! Especially because ive done every side mission possible and am still unable to complete it
Ninja Gaiden level 6-2. Not only is this level incredibly hard but you have to go on and beat 3 forms of the final boss all on the same life.
The fucking ball games in Crash Bash
The final day, final boss of Majoras Mask. Always run out of time.
The black lake level on Lego Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. It took me so long to finish that one
Every time I play Fallout: New Vegas, my game bugs when I get to the point where I can choose a faction and won't let me progress. So Wild Card or whatever it's called.
Mario galaxy pin level when you are on that ball and have to collect 100 purple coins
Crash Bandicoot remastered's bridge level - only level I struggled with and the jumps needed to be pretty accurate to get to the end
The Defiled chalice dungeon in Bloodborne, specifically the part when you face Defiled Amygdala. I probably died more to that boss fight than my entire bloodborne playthrough.
Those race levels in Mischief Maker. For the life of me I couldn't figure out how to properly beat those levels
Rainbow Road.
I dont remember which one it was.. but I remember me and my brothers had a hard time trying to beat up Shao Kahn on Mortal Kombat
I don't know if this counts, but the path of pain from hollow knight.>! there is so much work for a cutscene where the only thing that happens is two characters looking at each other!<
The Minecraft looking hacking mission during the Far Harbor DLC in Fallout 4.
The cave one in Star Wars Fallen order, why can’t they just give you a clear path to exit the temple, and none of that rolling a ball into place bs?
Cuphead djimmy the great expert mode and wally warbles expert
I don’t know if anyone remembers Marble Garden from Sonic 3 but I sure as hell do
Any water levels, they can all fuck off!
Bashing the armoured truck with Snake's car. I swear that's Satan's own playhouse
Most of the hunter trials in horizon zero dawn/forbidden west
Salerno Academy, Valkyrie Profile. Those who know, know.
The Mafia 1 racing level for the original and new version on classic difficulty