What's the hardest level you've ever played on a video game?

[Dre Space Age]

I swear there was a bug in my Water Temple

 

[Dre Space Age]

the underwater bomb diffusion level on teenage mutant ninja turtles on the nes.

I was like 4 and thought the shyt was impossible except for the one time I lucked out but I didn' realize until decades later that everybody has nightmares of that shyt

Got damn I remember that shyt.

fukk water levels forreal.

 

[Dre Space Age]

Basically any halo 2 level on legendary

Would spend all night just to beat one level solo until I got good.

 

[IslandG]

Water in TMNT wasnt that hard. Just take the electric shocks when you have to but switch between turtles before any one of them dies.

 

[Amor fati]

Jurrasic park 3 = First level



The controls on this garbage ass game made no sense. To make things even worse the camera angle was all over the place. All the levels were hard.


Good. Game but it was hard for younger me to play this as I was unable to read patterns, horrible timing and lacked pre-planning. If you play the game anyhow Level 2 is hard but once you play properly by 7 gets very hard.


Nioh is probably one of the hardest that I've currently played. There's just so many ways to die stopping you from getting further in the game.

I suck at pretty much most Shoot em ups as they are too fast for me and there are too many projectiles flying towards the aircraft. Shoot em ups are pretty much hard I don't know how people can play the former at the arcades.

 

[Micron]

So many...but one had me really frustrated as a kid.

NES - Gauntlet this stage.



Honorable mentions
NES - Castlevania III - Final Stage fighting Dracula.
NES - Battletoads...bikes.
Genesis - Gaiares Stage 7 aka the Boss Rush.
SNES - Hagane 3rd stage.
Arcade - Dragon's Lair the part with the snake. Really the whole game.
PS1 - Armored Core "Destroy Floating mines". Without plus enhancements that stage is super hard.
PS1 - Castlevania Chronicles, Stage 5. Yeah, the She-Wolf.
PS2 - Armored Core 2 Another Age 9 Ball Seraph stage.
XBox - Ninja Gaiden, Alma.

 

[Tj Bronson]

The last level of Ninja Gaiden 1 on NES. Haven't played the shyt in like 25 years or more, but I can still remember the fury it brought out of me

 

[natturnher]

Another vote for Battletoads speed bike level. Maybe not the single most difficult stage/level that I ever encountered, but certainly one of the most memorable from my NES days.

 

[Geek Nasty]

The final stage of Dead Space 2. I honestly got kind of bored of it and I only play games at max difficulty. I blew through the last round all the way up to the final boss, but I didn't pick up enough shyt to take him on. Could not finish no matter how many times I tried. Had to crank the level down and call it a wrap.

Now Dead Space 1 had some tough spots like that but I respected the game enough not to cheat it.

 

[Black White Sox Hat]

 

[Jacaveli The Don]

Right now, the barrel levels on Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze

I play my Switch as handheld 99% of the time and this level had me ready to throw it at the wall

 

[Mʀ2ᴋDᴇᴇᴢ]

DBZ Budokai, fighting Frieza as a young nikka legit had me ripping my wife beaters & punching my tv. Will never forget the day I actually managed to beat him, shyt was so relieving


shyt probably wasn't even that difficult in retrospect, who knows

 

[Liquid]

Nobody mentions it, but motherfukking Karate Kid on the NES.

fukk them mini games

 

[MMA]

First game has to be that mine game on window 98 with the numbers

Insert all of Dark Souls right here

Insert the longevity of Final Fantasy games on portable consoles

Spoiler

Have yet to beat any

 

[lurker emeritus]

this may look all easy and cute, but this was some bullsh!t back n the day:

hard as fvck. never got passed that last world.