Board 8 > Best of the Trope Season 2: Day 192 - That One Level

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to Best of the Trope!

Here are the rules. Each day, I will post a trope from TV Tropes, and each poster can name up to three examples of that trope. Whichever nomination gets the most mentions wins! Posters may also name as many Honourable Mentions as they like, but they are purely optional and will not count towards the running score. You may look at the TV Tropes page for that day's trope for examples, but you do not have to pick all your examples from the page. You can nominate whatever examples you like, as long as they qualify for the trope. Each trope will last around 24 hours before the next one goes up.

Posters may also nominate any tropes they wish to see come up during the series. This is optional, and you don't have to do it every day, or at all. Tropes will be randomly selected from the list each day, except for some occasions where I will pick a thematically appropriate trope that may or may not be on the list.

Here's the list of previous tropes, so if you wish to nominate some tropes, check on here that it wasn't previously done. http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope

Trope list:
Game-Breaker
Magic Knight
The Reason You Suck Speech
Storming the Castle
Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence
Mentor Occupational Hazard
Acrofatic
Torch the Franchise and Run
Trash the Set
Grand Finale

The winner of yesterday's trope, Cruel and Unusual Death, was Executions (Danganronpa), which got 7 votes.

Previous Winners: Day 161 Onwards
Stone Wall - Shuckle (Pokemon)
One Scene Wonder - The Black Knight (Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
Magikarp Power - Magikarp (Pokemon) / Pawn (Chess)
Joke Character - Pichu (Super Smash Bros Melee) / Dan Hibiki (Street Fighter)
Lethal Joke Character - L-Block (GameFAQs Contests)
Stupid Statement Dance Mix - They're Taking the Hobbits to Isengard / All Your Base
Giant Space Flea from Nowhere - Necron (Final Fantasy IX)
Roaring Rampage of Revenge - The Punisher (Marvel Comics) / John Wick / The Bride (Kill Bill)
Glass Cannon (Redux) - Tracer (Overwatch) / Hypno Disc (Robot Wars) / Nightmare (Battlebots)
Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome - Marie (The Bourne Supremacy)
Even the Girls Want Her - Lana Kane (Archer)
Even the Guys Want Him - Gaston (Beauty and the Beast) / Big Boss (Metal Gear Solid)
Mighty Glacier - Tohru (Jackie Chan Adventures)
Breather Boss - Morpha (Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time) / Gi Nattak (Final Fantasy VII)
Big Bad Friend - Big Smoke (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas)
Launcher of a Thousand Ships - Nightwing (DC Comics)
Evil Cripple - Mr. Glass (Unbreakable)
Breather Level - 100 Acre Wood (Kingdom Hearts)
Beef Gate - Automatic 4-Star Wanted Level (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas)
One True Love - Buttercup and Westley (The Princess Bride) / Shrek and Fiona (Shrek)
Cliffhanger - The Snap (Avengers: Infinity War)
Anti-Climax Boss - Yu Yevon (Final Fantasy X)
Lights Off, Somebody Dies - Devil / Anthology of Interest (Futurama) / And Then There Was Shawn (Boy Meets World)
Broken Base - Sub VS Dub (Anime) / Original VS Reboot (Devil May Cry) / Country VS Pop (Taylor Swift) / Casual VS Competitive (Super Smash Bros) / Genwunners (Pokemon)
Difficult But Awesome - Ana (Overwatch)
Disc One Nuke - Hawlucha (Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon)
Lampshade Hanging - How did Yzma and Kronk get there first? (The Emperor's New Groove)
Tier Induced Scrappy - Meta Knight (Super Smash Bros Brawl)
Squishy Wizard - Alakazam (Pokemon)
Clipped Wing Angel - Genie Jafar (Aladdin)

Today's trope is That One Level. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThatOneLevel

There are times in video games where, instead of a boss becoming infamous for being frustrating and/or difficult, a level does. It could be that it is infested with Goddamned Bats or Demonic Spiders, is really long, lacks items or checkpoints, is home to That One Boss, is home to That One Puzzle (or at least one with a Guide Dang It!), has you trying to outrun an Advancing Wall of Doom or otherwise sticks you with auto scrolling, tasks you with keeping a NPC without any basic survival instincts alive, has a different mechanic in play (often from a level-specific Unexpected Gameplay Change, such as a Stealth-Based Mission or Action-Based Mission), or is The Maze level. If you experience frustration and anger at a level that may have one or more of these things, congratulations: you're playing That One Level.

Escort Missions, Slippy Slidey Ice Worlds, Under the Sea and Down the Drain-esque stages tend be more receptive to becoming these levels. For an optional level that is intentionally difficult, see Brutal Bonus Level.

TL,DR: This level is infamous for being particularly difficult.

Nominations:
The Water Temple (Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time)
The Tutorial (Driver)
Slippery Climb (Crash Bandicoot)

Water Room (Resident Evil 4)
Water Prison (Silent Hill 4: The Room)
Swimming (Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty)
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The Megatank level (Valkyria Chronicles)
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Escape From the Water Slums (Jak 2)
Valley of Defilement (Demons Souls)
Mad Space (Sonic Adventure 2)
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President's Run (Driver)

I finally gave up after well over 500 tries and left the game forever 90% complete.
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Battle of South Moundtop (SaGa Frontier 2)
Ragnarok (Super Robot Wars 3)
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6-2 Ninja Gaiden
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Escape from the Water Slums (Jack 2)
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8 Red Coins in the Sky (Super Mario 64)
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Escape From the Water Slums (Jak 2)

man fuck that level. Honestly so much of that game could fit this. Such a fun game but so horrible with checkpoints
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The High Road (Crash Bandicoot)
All of Big's levels (Sonic Adventure)
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Snake5555555555 posted...

Water Room (Resident Evil 4)
Water Prison (Silent Hill 4: The Room)
Swimming (Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty)

I sense a theme here.

I'll vote for the top 2 mentioned above, plus

Sebastian Vettel challenge (Gran Turismo 5)
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The Desert of Death (Breath of Fire 3)
Doc Robot Needle Man (Mega Man 3)
Sunken Library (Mega Man Zero 3)
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Mad Space (Sonic Adventure 2: Battle)
Meat Circus (Psychonauts)
Shrine of Amana (Dark Souls 2)
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I always had more trouble with Security Hall than Mad Space
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Speeder Bikes (Battletoads)
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Triti (Trauma Center: Under the Knife)
Water Temple (Ocarina of Time)
Wrong Side of the Tracks (GTA: San Andreas)
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Rankings so far:
Escape From the Water Slums (Jak 2) - 3 votes
Water Room (Resident Evil 4) - 2 votes
Water Prison (Silent Hill 4: The Room) - 2 votes
Mad Space (Sonic Adventure 2) - 2 votes
Water Temple (Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time) - 2 votes
The Tutorial (Driver)
Slippery Climb (Crash Bandicoot)
Swimming (Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty)
The Megatank level (Valkyria Chronicles)
Valley of Defilement (Demons Souls)
President's Run (Driver)
Battle of South Moundtop (SaGa Frontier 2)
Ragnarok (Super Robot Wars 3)
6-2 Ninja Gaiden
8 Red Coins in the Sky (Super Mario 64)
The High Road (Crash Bandicoot)
All of Big's levels (Sonic Adventure)
Sebastian Vettel challenge (Gran Turismo 5)
The Desert of Death (Breath of Fire 3)
Doc Robot Needle Man (Mega Man 3)
Sunken Library (Mega Man Zero 3)
Meat Circus (Psychonauts)
Shrine of Amana (Dark Souls 2)
Security Hall (Sonic Adventure 2)
Speeder Bikes (Battletoads)
Triti (Trauma Center: Under the Knife)
Wrong Side of the Tracks (GTA: San Andreas)

Water Temple
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The High Road (Crash Bandicoot) was the thing that came IMMEDIATELY to mind when seeing this
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