/vr/ - Retro Games

I just beat this level for the first time. It took me about 10 tries. It's a bit janky sure, but the whole game is a bit janky to be honest, and this is nowhere close to the worst thing in it. It just doesn't seem deserving of the absolute magnitude of seething that was produced over it. Even if you get sent back to the beginning it doesn't feel like that much of a setback since it's such a short level. My 10 tries probably took me about 15 minutes total, if not less.

Meanwhile, I was playing Uncork the waterfall in Noki Bay and that level made me seethe like crazy. I got all the way to the top and beat the fucking boss, but somehow during the cutscene that plays when you beat him I fell all the way down to the bottom and died in the poison water because I couldn't swim to anything in time. Something similar happened on another attempt to but before I beat the boss. I wasted more time and seethed more on those two attempts at Noki Bay than on all my pachinko attempts combined. Is it just a meme, or did someone actually struggle with the pachinko level and genuinely hate it?