Journalists from Vulture collected a rating of the 100 most difficult levels in the history of video games: from NES to PS5.
The levels have earned a place in the top for various reasons: in some you need to spend too much time on passing, somewhere you need an incredible reaction speed, and somewhere the puzzles are too puzzling. At the same time, the authors preferred levels and games, after passing which you feel satisfaction from the work done, and do not doubt whether it was a bug.
Here's what the top 10 looks like:
Mission 18, in which Dante needs to re-fight with the bosses who met in the passage earlier. Only this time we need to deal with all nine in a row. The problems were added by the fact that the original American release had problems with the balance of complexity.
This level is a kind of exam in which the player must prove that he has mastered all the mechanics and tricks that he was taught earlier.
In addition to the need to count bullets, fend off an endless stream of cultists and solve puzzles, in this location the hero also needs to protect the president's daughter from enemy attacks.
The 8-minute track at breakneck speed divided the rhythm games into before and after. He showed that such games can test not only the sense of rhythm, but also endurance.
The second world of the popular 2D platformer was not distinguished by leniency towards players: you need to dodge literally everything here, and any mistake returns to the beginning of the level.
Such a rating simply could not do without the Souls series games. In this location, the hero will be constantly showered with arrows of arrows, forced to fight with giants and try not to fall off a cliff (which, of course, will happen more than a dozen times before the first passage).
Another game that begs for a similar list. The Kid is a hidden arena in the fifth world, which requires you to make impossible jumps with the highest accuracy and speed.
As in the case of Portal, this level checks everything that the player had to learn earlier. It can take hours or even days to solve complex puzzles.
For those who played the first Battletoads as a child, this level clearly appeared in nightmares for a long time. This is a cruel and unfair test for reaction speed, which not everyone could pass.
Surprisingly, the helicopter missions from GTA: Vice City are not on the list. But in 32nd place, the no less annoying "Wrong side of the rail" from San Andreas is the one where you need to follow the train.
And what level of video game do you think is the most difficult? Tell us in the comments!
