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ITT: "That" Level

>> No.5646662
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5646662

Killed not only my turtle but also my spirit

>> No.5646663

>>5646651
but this level is fun, anon. deal with it and the fact you never played this game with friends

>> No.5646664
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>> No.5646673
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>>5646651
seriously, fuck this level

>> No.5646679
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>>5646651
Whoever designed this level can go fuck themselves

>> No.5646689

>>5646663
Dice Palace would be almost okay if there weren't a "go back to start" space.

>> No.5646692

Treasure games are all style over substance for casuals that couldn't handle actual arcade games and are crammed full of stupid gimmicks.

>> No.5646717

>>5646692
Gun
Fron
tier

off yourself

>> No.5646726

>>5646692
seething

>> No.5646745

>>5646679
Ah yes, must worry about lights, timed doors and crushing sand.

>> No.5646746

>>5646679
Honestly, whoever designed Sonic 3 can just go fuck themselves in general.

>> No.5646805

>>5646692
Do you get all your opinions secondhand, or just that one?

>> No.5646829

>>5646663
Correct. I replayed the game recently and the level was still fun.

>> No.5646837

>>5646673
that level sucks but i hate puppy love more because it takes up half the game.

>> No.5646838

>>5646692
I agree! Zoomers unite! LARPing as being a hardcore arcade player is the best thing ever, fuck boomers, fuck treasure, and fuck people who were actually alive to experience arcades back in the heyday. Fuck them all!

>> No.5646839

>>5646746
i like sonic 3 but i think the game would've been better off without the time limit or at least adjusting how much points you get from time bonuses. a lot of levels are impossible to get the highest possible time bonus.

>> No.5646840

>>5646689
only a couple of the spaces pose any real threat so i don't see what the big deal is. plus the boss is really easy even if you do reach him with low health.

>> No.5648290
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5648290

>that level repeats

>> No.5648325
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>>5646664
It's honestly just this part here where you gotta dodge double footballs and then duck the fire flowers.

>> No.5648349
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>> No.5648351

>>5646662
fuckin weak

>> No.5648354
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>> No.5648357

superC level 6. other than that, i think its a solid game

>> No.5648372

>>5646664
>have trouble with this map as a kid and eventually just have to cheese it with a cape and blue Yoshi
>come back to it a few years later and beat it with no trouble
>come back to it a few years after that and can't beat it again

>> No.5648380

>>5646664
This stage seemed so much longer as a 6 year old.

>> No.5648990
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>>5648349

>> No.5649056

>>5646662
I made it past this level when I was 5 years old. Only had one turtle left at the end usually.

>> No.5649092

>>5648990
That level was the reason Konami fired Akamatsu.

>> No.5649112

>>5649092
For real?

>> No.5649170

>>5648357
the enemy swarm is fucking nuts. i honestly like super c more than contra. i'll take the top down levels over what the original and 3 did any day.

>> No.5649178

>>5648990
He's making it look more interesting than it even is. You can do the whole thing jumping between 2 blocks.

>> No.5649184

>>5648990
But I thought CV3 was better than CV4?

>> No.5649190

>>5649184
I still think it is, but fuck that level. Thankfully there's branching paths.

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>>5646651

>> No.5649395

>>5649374

that's a good level besides that one jump

>> No.5649396
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>>5646651
>Incredibly fun levels, especially in multiplayer

>> No.5649404

>>5646664
Took me weeks to beat that as a kid. I was like 6 or something.

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>> No.5649525

>>5649419
Nah. I got through that level just fine as a kid with a little practice.

>> No.5649527
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5649527

Love this level tho

>> No.5649603

>>5648990
>>5648349
I just flew to the top as alucard

>> No.5649608

>>5649419
I don't get why people think this game is so hard. It's really not that bad

>> No.5649624

>>5649608
I think it's people who haven't played it since they were kids. Also they probably played the SNES version which has a worse field of view and some iffy collision at times.

>> No.5649642
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The first time I played FFT I wound up grinding a ton before this fight cause hey why not story battles have fixed levels
Wound up fighting a bunch of LV50 red Chocobos and they fucking stomped me, I had to reload the fight until it only spawned one red

>> No.5649647

>>5649184
it is, you can choose a different path
SCIV also has that terrible frankenstein level which overuses instakill spikes

>> No.5649671
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>> No.5650045

>>5649374
good looking water

>> No.5650079

>>5650045
A great music.

>> No.5650080

>>5650079
*And great music.

>> No.5650082

>>5646651
>using chaser + pulse combo
>using chaser + anything

That level is the least of your problems

>> No.5650167

>>5648290
Haven't played this since it came out and vividly remember that shit.
>>5649642
Remember similar shit happening to me.

>> No.5650285
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>nobody posted it yet

>> No.5650414

>>5648290
Now this is shit.

>> No.5650453

The conveyor belt level in Ghost Babel. Can't be bothered to find a screenshot because it doesn't deserve another second of my time.

>> No.5650469

>>5649184
>III - three minutes of boredom that can be skipped depending on your route
>IV - At least 3/4 of the game is slow, boring, challenge-free shit that you have to swallow down on every run
Gee, which one do I pick?

>> No.5650475
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5650475

>>5650453

>> No.5650482

>>5649374
I'll see you that and raise you the double jumping stuff on the airship level of Shinobi III. I swear to god that game has the tightest double jump timing in vidya.

>> No.5650484

>>5650475
I'm fucking mad.

>> No.5650804

>>5650285
scrub filter

>> No.5651163

>>5649419

I don't think i've ever beaten this level

>> No.5651164

>>5646651

metropolis zone in sonic 2

>> No.5651350
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5651350

Only took me several hours and dozens of attempts.......

>> No.5652141

>>5646746

every single classic sonic game has at least 1 level that is horrible

>> No.5652173

>>5646651
Sonic 1: Labyrinth Zone
Earthworm Jim: Down The Tubes
Banjo-Kazooie: Rusty Bucket Bay
Sonic 2: Metropolis Zone
Super Mario Bros 3: World 6-5
Super Mario World: Tubular
Streets of Rage: Round 8
Crash 3: Hot Coco
Crash 2: Cold Hard Crash
Spyro: Tree Tops

>> No.5652280

>>5649671
fuck that cancer

>> No.5652285

>>5651350
nothing was more soul crushing in that game than losing the magic shield.

>> No.5652331

>>5649671
I developed autism because of that level.

>> No.5652336

Presidents Run from Driver

>> No.5652368

Ahh what boss stage was it, in Mega Man X5 with the bike? Squid Adler?
Getting all of those fucking balls to open the door to get that piece for X's armor made me rage pretty hard.

>> No.5652434

>>5649396
>>5646651
There's no way that both of these games are randomly in the same thread.

>> No.5652794

>>5648349
This. Holy shit I'm still mad - even if you get the pattern down completely, it's still the longest fucking level in the game and there's like 3 bosses at the end.

>> No.5652929

>>5650475
This shit made me drop the game. What in the fuck were they thinking?

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5653363

>>5648354

>> No.5653369

>>5652173
>Tree Tops
just git gut

>>5652368
>those fucking balls
yeah but just getting through alive is no prob

>> No.5653540

>>5646651
This is one of the most amazing levels in video game history. Neck yourself for the good of humanity.

>> No.5653634

>>5653540
>dude, what if... we design a run 'n gun level where you just stay in one area and throw a dice and land on spaces to get teleported to joke bosses or shitty puzzles

DicePalacefags need to eat shit and die.

>> No.5653638

Dice Palace, the overly long and boring level 5, and the boring shmup level are why I never replay Gunshit Heroes.

>> No.5653665

>>5653638
This, plus only 2 weapons being viable on higher difficulties (flame+laser and flame+homing).

>> No.5653735

>>5653369
Fuck you, Tree Tops is shit.

>> No.5655376

>>5652434
No, I'm not the faggot OP who thinks Black's dice game is hard/frustrating.

>> No.5655510

>>5653735
Never said it wasn't niggeraids but it ain't hard either

>> No.5657014
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5657014

Looking for Baal?

>> No.5657034

>>5655376
Nobody said it was hard. It's just stupid and anti-fun.

>> No.5657682

>>5657034
I think it's fun and I like trying to get the full clear on expert mode.

>> No.5657704

>>5657014
Yes. Can you tell me where can I find him?

>> No.5657720

>>5657034
It's extremely fun, though (especially in 2-player)

>> No.5659072

>>5655510
Now that's a fucking lie and you know it, maybe if you spent less time trying to be a racist waste of oxygen you would understand, but you spent your one brain cell trying to be clever.

>> No.5659118
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DK2 - the lost world - animal antics

>> No.5659169

>>5646689
I alway love to get the restart square because I love killing as many mini bosses as possible

>> No.5659174

>>5646673
Kinda looks like the overworld from DKC3

>> No.5659178

>>5646651
This level is actually fun, fuck off pleb

>> No.5659183

>>5659178
>Video games
>Fun
Incorrect.

>> No.5659201

https://youtu.be/kQwSu7MNBJE

the Combo race in Jet Grind Radio. I eventually got past this part but it was a huge bottleneck. I basically had to memorize every part. angling yourself correctly and timing the jump right to get through that gate to go up the stairs was where I got fucked over again and again.

>> No.5659553

>>5646664
This level is the "are your d-pad diagonals working check". Took me like half an hour of attempts to realize that my diagonals weren't working and that it was meant to be far, far easier than I was making it.

>> No.5659560

>>5652336

that mission and the last mission in driver 2 are both bullshit

>> No.5659563

>>5659201

it would be a lot easier if the controls weren't so wonky in that game

>> No.5659574

>>5659178
see >>5653634

>> No.5659575
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5659575

This entire game in general, but especially this place.


>>5659174
I thought that too.

>> No.5659671

>>5659118
Animal Antics was wonderful, even if parts were a little tough. Top tier music too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP5Ct6ma00g

also your post just got me to download and start playing a dkc2 romhack, so thanks, I guess.

>> No.5659789

>>5659575
Fuck that game. The entire game is "that" level.

>> No.5660175

>>5649624
Didn't know that, would explain some of the lives lost

>> No.5660202

>>5646692
>>5646717
>gun frontier
Isn't that made by Taito? What about it? One of the best shmups ever

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>> No.5661217

>>5659072
>racist
You do know where you are, right?

>> No.5662247

>>5646838
People need to stop using LARP as an insult. I larp, I play a bard in Amtgard.

>> No.5662314

>>5653634
>dude what if I just purposely mischaracterize the level and use cheap words like "joke bosses" when the reality is it's a gauntlet of small challenges that requires skilled play because they add up to one big challenge, with random bonuses or punishments throughout to keep the player on the edge of their seat
>I'll just make stuff up like "stay in one place" when it's as action packed as any other level
First post was right, actually neck yourself for real this time, you add nothing but pointless antagonism, garbage hot takes, and on purpose purpose shitting up the board

>> No.5662319

I always do Dice Palace first to get it out of the way. What a terrible level.

>> No.5662328

>Barrels o Fun
>The Chasm

>> No.5662334
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5662334

>all these posts
>no Ecco the dolphin
Fuck the primitive asterite in EtD 1
Fuck the sky tubes in EtD 2
AND FUCK PIC RELATED IN EtD: DotF.
Even though it really was a breathtaking level and absolute vidya kino

>> No.5662636

>>5648290
I like this level as a one-off. But it's not a one-off, is it. It's a three-off, and that's terrible.

>> No.5662653

>>5648290
>>5662636
Exactly. It's a fun novelty once. When you repeat the fucker it becomes grating. What was the thought process here?