even great games can be annoying from
time to time welcome to watchmojo.com
and today we’ll be counting down our
picks for another top 10 frustrating
video game levels
leave them alone they’re innocent for
this list we selected 10 of the hardest
and most annoyingly frustrating levels
in gaming history however the game as a
whole can’t be horribly crappy or broken
so stuff like flying Superman through an
endless stream of floating hoops in
Superman 64 does not count
additionally boss stages like the
showdown with Mike Tyson in punch-out
also don’t count if some levels seem to
be missing be sure to check out our
first list on this topic the top 10
frustrating video game levels
number ten Eggman land sonic unleashed
welcome to brain child of mine
Eggman land is the culmination of
everything you’ve experienced in Sonic
Unleashed so far and boy did developers
ever go overboard with this nightmare of
a level one instant death hazard after
another after another after another did
we mention that this level is
notoriously long good bride yeah been
popular insane precision is required to
make it through alive and even still a
lot of it is pure luck this place is
crazy I’ll never understand Eggman
tastes you need to constantly switch
into Sonic’s werehog form but the
problem is the camera angles are so bad
in the werehog sections that you’re
gonna die it doesn’t cheap deaths before
you make it to the end that’s right baby
number nine Blighttown Dark Souls
picking the most frustrating section in
Dark Souls is tough
yet there’s something extra-special
about flight town that makes it stick
out from the rest the first section is a
maddeningly tough vertical descent with
lots of confusing possible routes
enemies that appear from nowhere and
plenty of opportunities to fall to your
death once you actually make to the
bottom you’ll find yourself in a swamp
filled with enemies and land hazards
that poison you the boss at the end
though still tough
feels like cakewalk compared to what
came before number 8 demolition man
grand theft auto vice city
Rockstar decided that the best way to
destroy a construction site was to make
you fly a heart control RC helicopter
through narrow spaces while a bunch of
construction workers try to smack you
with their hammers all while an
extremely strict time limit ticks away
that makes sense right you catch on
quick anyway a couple of hammer whacks
and your chopper is in flames and that
means game over look seriously couldn’t
Tommy have just walked into the
construction site and planted the bombs
himself he’s murdered thousands of
people in broad daylight already it’s
not like planting a few bombs is
crossing some sort of line I’m no
Builder no I was thinking more of your
demolition skills number seven the
library halo combat Evolved relatively
linear compared to many levels in Halo
the library is nonetheless one of the
most frustrating you’re basically under
constant attack from the flood as you
slowly follow the monitor around the
library what makes things really
annoying is that your progress is
constantly impeded by closed doors that
three-for-three Guilty Spark must slowly
override the security lock wait here of
course while you’re standing around
waiting an onslaught of the flood is
gonna make things interesting for you
it’s just all kind of slow plodding and
boring and oh those rocket launcher
toting flood our new cakewalk
number six Death Mountain Zelda 2 The
Adventure of Link most Delta games
follow a standard difficulty curve as
you make your way deeper into the game
the dungeons get tougher sure there are
some exceptions but nothing is quite as
rough as Zelda two’s death Mountain this
dungeon occurs early when link is
underpowered and without access to most
of his magic to make matters worse the
dungeon is a giant maze filled with
convoluted twists and dead ends as well
as some of the hardest enemies in the
game your only real hope is to grind
with link and try to level up as much as
possible
number 5 velvet hammer MechWarrior to
31st century combat escort missions are
some of the most annoying mission types
just in general but velvet hammer is one
of the worst you’re charged with
escorting a hover limousine to the Opera
yes that means dozens of mission retries
and hair pulling frustration just to get
some dude to the Opera the worst part is
how fragile the limousine is just one or
two untimely hits and it destroyed game
over
your only real hope is to play the
mission repeatedly memorize the enemy
positions and cross your fingers it
ain’t over till the fat lady sings
number four castle siege The Witcher 2
don’t be a fool this is no game tutorial
or prologue missions should not take
this long to complete am i right
master Gerald The Witcher 2’s prologue
is pretty darn frustrating and rather
restrictive especially in a game that
becomes fairly open-ended later on I’m
inclined to believe there are a lot of
really tough fights like when you need
to aim a ballista while being swarmed by
foes and it’s all just really
aggravating especially if you’re new to
the series ah Shh this level has
single-handedly turned many people off
of an otherwise great game and we
haven’t mentioned the chief auto deaths
that occur when you’re running away from
that stupid dragon trick number 3
welcome to the Machine Ecco the Dolphin
a game where you control a cute little
dolphin as he swims innocently through
the ocean shouldn’t be so unforgivingly
tough Ecco the Dolphin is pretty
punishingly hard as a whole
yet nothing can prepare you for the last
stage the machine is a hive of an alien
species known as the vortex
it’s a quickly auto-scrolling level so
one wrong move and Ecco is crushed by
the screen
there are also dozens of alien drones
flying or swimming everywhere and even
worse if you die you have to start over
from the very beginning number two
tubular super mario world mario games
are all about precision platforming but
tubular takes that concept a bit too far
tubular is like a checklist of all the
moments that had you wasting ten lives
on a single level those people UN’s that
turn Mario into a super vulnerable
balloon yup
dozens of football players throwing
balls at you and other punishing
obstacles bugging you while you float
slowly through the sky check so what’s
the secret to beating it lots and lots
of trial and error with a whole bunch of
dumb luck thrown in before we unveil our
top pick here are a few honorable
mentions
number one parking lot tutorials driver
in a way driver was kind of a precursor
to much of the gameplay found in the
groundbreaking grand theft auto 3 yet it
never really gets much recognition why
well it’s probably because half of the
people who tried to play this game never
made it past this annoying tutorial
stage tutorials are meant to ease you
into a game by teaching you the basic
controls driver decided to say screw
that and force you to complete a bunch
of finicky precise driving moves in the
confines of a cramped indoor parking lot
in under 60 seconds you scratch your car
four times and it’s game over seriously
it’s just the worst
do you agree with our list yeah did we
forget any super frustrating video game
levels for more hair-pulling League rate
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time to time welcome to watchmojo.com
and today we’ll be counting down our
picks for another top 10 frustrating
video game levels
leave them alone they’re innocent for
this list we selected 10 of the hardest
and most annoyingly frustrating levels
in gaming history however the game as a
whole can’t be horribly crappy or broken
so stuff like flying Superman through an
endless stream of floating hoops in
Superman 64 does not count
additionally boss stages like the
showdown with Mike Tyson in punch-out
also don’t count if some levels seem to
be missing be sure to check out our
first list on this topic the top 10
frustrating video game levels
number ten Eggman land sonic unleashed
welcome to brain child of mine
Eggman land is the culmination of
everything you’ve experienced in Sonic
Unleashed so far and boy did developers
ever go overboard with this nightmare of
a level one instant death hazard after
another after another after another did
we mention that this level is
notoriously long good bride yeah been
popular insane precision is required to
make it through alive and even still a
lot of it is pure luck this place is
crazy I’ll never understand Eggman
tastes you need to constantly switch
into Sonic’s werehog form but the
problem is the camera angles are so bad
in the werehog sections that you’re
gonna die it doesn’t cheap deaths before
you make it to the end that’s right baby
number nine Blighttown Dark Souls
picking the most frustrating section in
Dark Souls is tough
yet there’s something extra-special
about flight town that makes it stick
out from the rest the first section is a
maddeningly tough vertical descent with
lots of confusing possible routes
enemies that appear from nowhere and
plenty of opportunities to fall to your
death once you actually make to the
bottom you’ll find yourself in a swamp
filled with enemies and land hazards
that poison you the boss at the end
though still tough
feels like cakewalk compared to what
came before number 8 demolition man
grand theft auto vice city
Rockstar decided that the best way to
destroy a construction site was to make
you fly a heart control RC helicopter
through narrow spaces while a bunch of
construction workers try to smack you
with their hammers all while an
extremely strict time limit ticks away
that makes sense right you catch on
quick anyway a couple of hammer whacks
and your chopper is in flames and that
means game over look seriously couldn’t
Tommy have just walked into the
construction site and planted the bombs
himself he’s murdered thousands of
people in broad daylight already it’s
not like planting a few bombs is
crossing some sort of line I’m no
Builder no I was thinking more of your
demolition skills number seven the
library halo combat Evolved relatively
linear compared to many levels in Halo
the library is nonetheless one of the
most frustrating you’re basically under
constant attack from the flood as you
slowly follow the monitor around the
library what makes things really
annoying is that your progress is
constantly impeded by closed doors that
three-for-three Guilty Spark must slowly
override the security lock wait here of
course while you’re standing around
waiting an onslaught of the flood is
gonna make things interesting for you
it’s just all kind of slow plodding and
boring and oh those rocket launcher
toting flood our new cakewalk
number six Death Mountain Zelda 2 The
Adventure of Link most Delta games
follow a standard difficulty curve as
you make your way deeper into the game
the dungeons get tougher sure there are
some exceptions but nothing is quite as
rough as Zelda two’s death Mountain this
dungeon occurs early when link is
underpowered and without access to most
of his magic to make matters worse the
dungeon is a giant maze filled with
convoluted twists and dead ends as well
as some of the hardest enemies in the
game your only real hope is to grind
with link and try to level up as much as
possible
number 5 velvet hammer MechWarrior to
31st century combat escort missions are
some of the most annoying mission types
just in general but velvet hammer is one
of the worst you’re charged with
escorting a hover limousine to the Opera
yes that means dozens of mission retries
and hair pulling frustration just to get
some dude to the Opera the worst part is
how fragile the limousine is just one or
two untimely hits and it destroyed game
over
your only real hope is to play the
mission repeatedly memorize the enemy
positions and cross your fingers it
ain’t over till the fat lady sings
number four castle siege The Witcher 2
don’t be a fool this is no game tutorial
or prologue missions should not take
this long to complete am i right
master Gerald The Witcher 2’s prologue
is pretty darn frustrating and rather
restrictive especially in a game that
becomes fairly open-ended later on I’m
inclined to believe there are a lot of
really tough fights like when you need
to aim a ballista while being swarmed by
foes and it’s all just really
aggravating especially if you’re new to
the series ah Shh this level has
single-handedly turned many people off
of an otherwise great game and we
haven’t mentioned the chief auto deaths
that occur when you’re running away from
that stupid dragon trick number 3
welcome to the Machine Ecco the Dolphin
a game where you control a cute little
dolphin as he swims innocently through
the ocean shouldn’t be so unforgivingly
tough Ecco the Dolphin is pretty
punishingly hard as a whole
yet nothing can prepare you for the last
stage the machine is a hive of an alien
species known as the vortex
it’s a quickly auto-scrolling level so
one wrong move and Ecco is crushed by
the screen
there are also dozens of alien drones
flying or swimming everywhere and even
worse if you die you have to start over
from the very beginning number two
tubular super mario world mario games
are all about precision platforming but
tubular takes that concept a bit too far
tubular is like a checklist of all the
moments that had you wasting ten lives
on a single level those people UN’s that
turn Mario into a super vulnerable
balloon yup
dozens of football players throwing
balls at you and other punishing
obstacles bugging you while you float
slowly through the sky check so what’s
the secret to beating it lots and lots
of trial and error with a whole bunch of
dumb luck thrown in before we unveil our
top pick here are a few honorable
mentions
number one parking lot tutorials driver
in a way driver was kind of a precursor
to much of the gameplay found in the
groundbreaking grand theft auto 3 yet it
never really gets much recognition why
well it’s probably because half of the
people who tried to play this game never
made it past this annoying tutorial
stage tutorials are meant to ease you
into a game by teaching you the basic
controls driver decided to say screw
that and force you to complete a bunch
of finicky precise driving moves in the
confines of a cramped indoor parking lot
in under 60 seconds you scratch your car
four times and it’s game over seriously
it’s just the worst
do you agree with our list yeah did we
forget any super frustrating video game
levels for more hair-pulling League rate
top 10s published every day be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com where can I
get more guys like you
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