Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection, which has about 40 games from the Genesis and other Sega consoles, including the old Sonic games. The collection let's you save at any point of every game, so it makes everything easier. I have it for the Xbox 360, but I don't remember if it's for any other console.
True, considering I haven't played the early Sonic games in over 20 yrs, but just a few seconds of that "your going to drownd" music brings back flashbacks of fear, in a game that isn't a horror game 😱
I actually really enjoy most underwater areas in games. Maybe it's the fact that I am terrified of actually being underwater, so it's nice to see different artistic representations of the deep, from the safety and comfort of my couch.
You haven't played subnautica, I've played Below Zero, the sequel, but returning to the original I still nearly pissed myself the 1st time I went away from the spawn biome
@@Narusasu98 I don't have a Wii unfortunately. It's the last system I need to pick up still. When I was a kid I was a big time Nintendo fan. Just haven't gotten around to it yet. I'm pretty sure I've seen trailers for that game and it does really cool.
Thank you for putting the Sonic 2 chemical plant zone in this. It’s what immediately comes mind for me when anyone mentions water levels. As a young kid playing this growing up it was NOT fun at all!
I replayed it for the first time in over 20 years recently… I got re-traumatised. When the drowning countdown kicks in… I panic, then it’s all over. Bad times :(
Most Colossi were not very hard in practice since they were more of a puzzle, but I would say that water Colossus, Hydrus, was the toughest one in practice, along with those such as Avion, Phalanx, and Malus.
I loved the hell out of Ecco. Definitely one of my favorite games when I was a kid. That TMNT level though -- even seeing someone else play it now ~30 years later -- still makes me feel sick.
Tomb Raider's 40 fathoms level is one of the best designed, atmospheric and tense levels in the franchsie. Not only it's a clever twist on what a tomb can mean but the whole thing is built around tense short bursts in the water adding lots of vertical exploration and shirt stressful moments. And it is all mixed with regular on foot shenanigans for mahority of the level. Maria Doria may be a tad too long and dull but 40 fathoms is an example how to do water levels correctly.
Should be a video on the best underwater levels in games, we always get told of the bad ones but would be interesting to see what developers should be copying.
I guess the only bad thing about having a Best Underwater Level ranking would be that the video would be like 3 minutes long because nearly all of them suck lol.
There was a water level on COD modern warfare 2 or black ops 1 I can't remember which game but I thought it was fun but you're not in the water the whole time.
Hearing the Sonic music literally raised my blood pressure. The TMNT one was like remembering a traumatic event from my childhood. I was wondering if Vashj'ir from WoW would make the list. Pretty sure I never set foot there after the opening quests for YEARS.
battlefield 4 campaign under water level on the ship that still is buggy to this day- somehow you can get a movement glitch and drown because you cant progress and the worst part is that the game autosaves at the point when the glitch just started so you are just locked into endless deaths
I literally had this happen a couple months ago and it was frustrating as fuck. I just had to super slowly go through it while it rubber bands me back into place lol
We NEED to take a second and appreciate Metal Gear's underwater section. That was from the PLAYSTATION 2 and developed before the year 2000!!! In Kojima we trust.
We don’t need to. The community is rabid to call the games perfect, so yah we’ve heard that praise millions of times. You guys thought mgsV was a proper game bc kojima made it even though it was painfully unfinished. It’s been praised enough
Kojima is good when he has some one to reel him in. If you just let him do whatever he wants, he goes off of the deep end. You can be very creative but you have to have some one on the other end to say "That is a bad idea."
@@jigawatt1.215 Yeah, he's like an AI that constantly pumps out weird ideas. You need an actual human supervising him and choosing the good amongst the many ideas.
I was asking "What's number 1?" when I saw where it was placed. No water level is worse than that. Bloodstained Water Level should be higher. I really hated it. Great Game though.
The most _frustrating_ part for me? It's possible to do water levels _right_ You make the player move like in Subnautica - make it fluid and responsive like it _should_ be; you have a lot of fluid to push off to change direction, after al - and players will _love_ it. That so many game studios insist on making movement in water slow and sluggish is just plain bizarre.
problem with Water LEVELS is that its just that one level, so less effort goes into the mechanics of that part. For Subnautica it was the entire Game, so it had to work...
I was hoping someone else would take issue with this. I'll admit that before you get the Gravity Pack, it's annoying but Torvus Bog is one of the cooler parts of an otherwise damn good game.
You gain the ability to walk normally underwater in Bloodstained. It's required to get the true ending. Being forced to use the water jet only lasts a few minutes.
@@nathan.d.c I'm not sure of the name but it wasn't the level mentioned in this video. At the time it was hard for me because it was also a later level towards the end.
The Ocarina of Time water level (grown up Link version) made me stop playing for 7 years. 1998-2005. After that time I dusted off the N64 and eventually beat the game 😅
Seems so sad that after buying the Gamecube version, I ended up buying the official strategy guide to walk me through the lvl. TH-cam didn't exist yet so options were limited back then.
I remember playing the game as a kid. I couldn't even pass the beginning because I didn't know wtf I was supposed to do with that effing chicken. Oh and I was scared of a witch at the beginning too ^^'.
The key to the sonic water level was to not panic. Trying to rush it results in missed platforms, just letting it run at its pace keeps you just on the edge of drowning but still ok.
I was thinking the same thing. I mean sure if you're not into the songs then in KH2 it can get boring, I loved it because it was different. But in Kingdom Hearts 1 the level frustrated me that much that I often left te game unplayed for a long time until I was ready again.
Not to mention on that part in the sonic level, there's the platforms you have to land on perfectly or you'll fall back into the same part, and if you forget or mistime the sliding floor further up, same again.
OH LAWD! 40 Fathoms! You're bringing back some repressed memories! XD At the beginning of that level I drowned so many freaking times cuz I could not find that little opening I had to get to, on that upturned hull.
I think the definite worse level would have to be amnesia with the water monster. It may not be hard but it's definitely terrifying and it always sucks dealing with that level
Seeing that Earth Worm Jim footage made me feel so much nostalgia. Even though, yeah, I do remember that level being really frustrating. It also reminded me of the underwater level in Xargon.
I hated the pirahna sections in Shadow of The Tomb Raider. In low difficulties they were easy but in the hardest difficulty they were painful. I would waste 30 minutes completing a section just to end up dying to piranhas and be forced to restart the whole section.
As soon as I saw this video uploaded, I was screaming, "Earthworm Jim!". Then, as the countdown began I kept yelling, "Earthworm Jim!" So glad you added it because it irritated the absolute hell out of me.
Me too...and it never failed I would always finish with one turtle left and his health bar was beeping. Back then the only way me and my little brother could beat that game was with a GameShark.
Every time I hear someone say something like "take it to the next level", I tell them "but the next level is a water level, and everyone hates water levels."
I love water levels honestly, except the ones in the first devil may cry and a couple others. I like that they always change things up a tad, it can be refreshing, but only if done right
Here's a couple more from the PS2 era: - Jak II, when you have to use the Titan Suit in the Underport while getting mobbed by Metal Head squids. - Ratchet & Clank, when racing through the flooding sewers section on Blackwater City, Rilgar.
I can’t believe the underwater car level from 007 night fire isn’t on this list. It was so easy to make a mistake and instantly die, the level was long with no checkpoints. Hopefully someone remembers. Was my nightmare as a kid.
Earth Worm Jim on Sega Genesis water level always kicked my ass as a kid. I had to turn down the sound to beat it due to the anxiety it created for me.
Although it's not really a water level, I've found that any swimming in Far Cry 6 is just awful whether your character's head is above or below the water. Swimming is slow and tedious, no matter if you click your thumbstick to swim faster, that's still really slow and they can't hold their breath for more than 10 seconds without running out of air. There's no perk available on your gear to increase it. The only perk available that increases your breath holding duration, is just for aiming your rifles. Makes you think the protagonist must be a chain smoker or something with how terrible their lung capacity is
The flooded section of the queen zenobia in RE Revelations was pretty bad too. All the hidden BOWs in the dark water and the shock grenades were kinda jank. Running out of air was an issue too
water ruins in Megaman Legends 2. You had two options for travel: A really slow walk or a underwater dash that always sent you flying into a enemy or wall. Absolute worse thing about that great game.
10 GAME STORYLINES WE THOUGHT WOULD HAPPEN BUT NEVER DID eg: 1.Playing as Desmond miles as modern assassin in final ac. 2.Alex mercer survived as a good guy in P3. 3.Wei shen as a high temper Rough cop returned from shaolin after many years from the events of SD. 4.Max as a veteran cop with a junior cop as trainee dealing with heists where situation got wrong. MP4 5.Regina returns to save Dylan and Paula after the events of DC2. 6.Raiden X in MGR2. ... And many more.
The Black Hole Of Battersee in Watch Dogs 3 has an underground water level, If you fall into it, you're basically stuck because you can't see a thing. Dark as a cave. Keep your drone close to shed light on where you need to go to navigate this area. Not quite a water level but it had the same feeling.
Hey! Aqua is one of my favorite levels in Star Fox 64! I remember when I was younger, I was always taking the upper road from Corneria, only to reach Aqua. I absolutely love the music of this level
oh yea i remember the tomb raider 2 water level back in the 90's was really hard on the PlayStation even with a strategy guide. i would image back then players of tomb raider 2 without a strategy guide must been even harder.
I will point out for Metroid Echos...once inside the bog.....you are REQUIRED to have the suit upgrade in order to LEAVE. And it's behind a relatively difficult boss. So if you didn't get many health upgrades (me)... you're essentially trapped.
Obviously everytime you're getting any near the water in GTA 3. The engine has an unfixable glitch where in random places totally out of blue you get launched a couple of feet forward. When it happens when you're near the water, you end up getting wet and dead.
I myself don't exactly hate, but maaaaaan, AC Black Flag shipwrecks are stressful AF. Those sea snakes, red circles telling you the sharks are gonna gangbang you, and you still need to grab that one last chest with the ship upgrade 😩 Was surprised they put in stingrays visually and not make them attack us as well...
I think the challenge to many of these games is that the controls were created for running and jumping on land, so the same controls scheme don't work to well under water.
How about the diving bell sections of Assassin's Creed Black Flag? You have limited air but you can come back to the diving bell to breathe. Your main objective is to search for treasure chests and animus fragments. There are sharks everywhere and they can see you from a long ways away and will chase you. You're basically defenseless. If you can use a knife or something I haven't found a way to do it. You can accidentally run into sea urchins which will blend into the environment if you're not paying attention. You can be mauled by moray eels that almost come out of nowhere. There are even jellyfish which you need to avoid. It's all around not a fun time.
When will developers understand that no one likes water levels? They think they have the level that will crack the code, but they don't. They never will
You should add Battlefield 4. It's just a short section where you have to dive underwater in a sinking ship, but it's bugged to this day where you rubberband backwards. If this happens you basically can't get through it
The Vault of Trophies in Tomb Raider Angel of Darkness. Breath timer, spikes coming out of the walls of narrow tunnels, Lara's just barely fast enough to swim by. There are a few places where you can come up for air, and there's an aqua lung. Supposedly there are 2 but I've never found the 2nd one. The exploit in the museum where you can get an extra gas mask is helpful here. The gas mask works the same as the aqua lung but lasts longer.
This reminds when IGN rated a Pokémon game and said “it has too much water”
They sure said that once
@@dontreadmypicture8003 Sorry. No clue what you said. Here’s hoping you get that attention you’re clearly desperate for
@@JoshuaJacobs83 but you better not dare read their profile picture!!1!11!1!
@Thetribeshoahmyaccounts ??
Jim sterling gave shadow of the tomb raider a 7/10 because he says to much water.
Ahhh water levels, timed levels, and levels where you have to protect someone or something. Every gamers worst nightmare lol.
@Tarik Steen oh god that even worse and add dark souls level of damage
Escort levels
@Tarik Steen And then play as John Marston.
You can say that again. Worst nightmare
Don't forget tailing missions
What if one of your favourite games is an entire water level (Subnautica).
👌
Knew someone would say this, Subnautica is the best game ever made change my mind.
@@akshsehgal998 need to expand your inventory if that's the case
@@akshsehgal998 you need to play more games if that's the case!
I totally feel you. I started another play through the other day. And now we have Subnautica below zero were the most awkward parts are on land lol.
"Water levels are the bane of a gamers existence" Subnautica would like to have a word with you.
I refuse to play that game lol ive tried i just get bored right away. I hate swimming in games and real life.
There are a lot of bad water levels in video games though.
in my case i am just to terrified of all the leviathens
That entire game would give a human PTSD.
Clicked on this immediately expecting to see the water temple.
Facts
Same 😂
Really thought it would be higher too
F*** that s*** man! I hate the Water Temple! It’s unbeatable in both OoT and MM.
Everyone cries about it like its hard its a central room with puzzle rooms on the left and right sides. Its super easy
Sonic drowning is my alarm clock tone. I can sleep through the smoke detector going off, sonic gets me right up.
Putting nightmarish anxiety to good use! Thanks for the pro tip!
@@RyuzakiIzaya gotta use psychology on yourself some times lol
That Sonic oxygen level music never fails to make my heart race. You just playing the music for a few seconds had me anxious lol
ive met multiple ppl who said that music gave them panic attacks.
Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection, which has about 40 games from the Genesis and other Sega consoles, including the old Sonic games. The collection let's you save at any point of every game, so it makes everything easier. I have it for the Xbox 360, but I don't remember if it's for any other console.
True, considering I haven't played the early Sonic games in over 20 yrs, but just a few seconds of that "your going to drownd" music brings back flashbacks of fear, in a game that isn't a horror game 😱
That music triggers PTSD for anyone who played Sega
a costumer once had the drowning theme as their ring tone and i nearly panicked
Late 90s - early 2000s devs: "so, we have this masterpiece about ready, it's near perfect in every aspect but... what about the *water level* "
HALF LIFE 2 DIDNT DO THAT AND IT WAS THE GAME SOLD BILLIONS ON PC ALONE IN 2004 ALONE
@@NigerianCrusader uhhh, great to know, mate, no need for all the caps, though
@@acoffeewithsatan THANKS AND I JUST SPEAK IN CAPS TO GET MY POINT ACROSS
@@NigerianCrusader actually, it’s just rude and demeaning to the reader, I can read just fine…
Now you should do a video on sewer levels, which are much worse.
Civvie 11 ding !
You made me remmeber the sewers in Return of the King.
Why sewer levels are hated?
TMNT on NES
I actually really enjoy most underwater areas in games. Maybe it's the fact that I am terrified of actually being underwater, so it's nice to see different artistic representations of the deep, from the safety and comfort of my couch.
You haven't played subnautica, I've played Below Zero, the sequel, but returning to the original I still nearly pissed myself the 1st time I went away from the spawn biome
@@bluestar_kun Especially the first time it gets dark on you. 😵💫
If you have a wii or a wii U, I think you would really enjoy endless ocean 1 and 2 (2 especially)
@@Narusasu98 I don't have a Wii unfortunately. It's the last system I need to pick up still. When I was a kid I was a big time Nintendo fan. Just haven't gotten around to it yet. I'm pretty sure I've seen trailers for that game and it does really cool.
Thank you for putting the Sonic 2 chemical plant zone in this. It’s what immediately comes mind for me when anyone mentions water levels. As a young kid playing this growing up it was NOT fun at all!
I've played the chemical plant probably hundreds of times in my life, I don't think it's that bad anymore
@@charsquatch600 I agree
There is worse sonic levels with water. Sonic 1 had labyrinth that was 3 zones of wtf
I replayed it for the first time in over 20 years recently… I got re-traumatised. When the drowning countdown kicks in… I panic, then it’s all over. Bad times :(
@@stablish4314 after you died a couple times its the most easiest ever. That's probably just me tho lol
Water levels fill me with so much anxiety lol. I remember in Shadow of the Colossus I had a near panic attack when fighting the water Colossus...
Most Colossi were not very hard in practice since they were more of a puzzle, but I would say that water Colossus, Hydrus, was the toughest one in practice, along with those such as Avion, Phalanx, and Malus.
Lets take a moment to Thank Falcon for keeping us entertained, and managing to continue to find/reuse content to keep us intrigued
👍 -falcon
@@gameranxTV
Falcon is #1
ty for confirming, I feel like the last few vids that have gone up on this channel were recycled.
I loved the hell out of Ecco. Definitely one of my favorite games when I was a kid. That TMNT level though -- even seeing someone else play it now ~30 years later -- still makes me feel sick.
That drowning music is why I still have PTSD as an adult...
Love how everyone agrees "bad water level" is synonymous with Sonic
Tomb Raider's 40 fathoms level is one of the best designed, atmospheric and tense levels in the franchsie. Not only it's a clever twist on what a tomb can mean but the whole thing is built around tense short bursts in the water adding lots of vertical exploration and shirt stressful moments. And it is all mixed with regular on foot shenanigans for mahority of the level. Maria Doria may be a tad too long and dull but 40 fathoms is an example how to do water levels correctly.
Should be a video on the best underwater levels in games, we always get told of the bad ones but would be interesting to see what developers should be copying.
I guess the only bad thing about having a Best Underwater Level ranking would be that the video would be like 3 minutes long because nearly all of them suck lol.
I don't think there are enough "good" water lvl's to make a list of them.
@@amyhoard1222 I can only think Pac Man World 1 and 2, then Spongebob Squarepants.
There was a water level on COD modern warfare 2 or black ops 1 I can't remember which game but I thought it was fun but you're not in the water the whole time.
I think Kirby has good water levels. No need to worry about drowning, and Kirby has a cute snorkel.
I don't know why but my anxiety spiked with that TMNT section... Man, I thought I put that game behind me... Thanks Falcon, thanks.
:P
Hearing the Sonic music literally raised my blood pressure. The TMNT one was like remembering a traumatic event from my childhood. I was wondering if Vashj'ir from WoW would make the list. Pretty sure I never set foot there after the opening quests for YEARS.
battlefield 4 campaign under water level on the ship that still is buggy to this day- somehow you can get a movement glitch and drown because you cant progress and the worst part is that the game autosaves at the point when the glitch just started so you are just locked into endless deaths
Omg. That was so frustrating. I played it a few weeks ago. So bad
I literally had this happen a couple months ago and it was frustrating as fuck. I just had to super slowly go through it while it rubber bands me back into place lol
Just realized how good the donkey Kong series looked. Imgaine if they rebooted the series and kept that same art style
We NEED to take a second and appreciate Metal Gear's underwater section. That was from the PLAYSTATION 2 and developed before the year 2000!!! In Kojima we trust.
We don’t need to. The community is rabid to call the games perfect, so yah we’ve heard that praise millions of times. You guys thought mgsV was a proper game bc kojima made it even though it was painfully unfinished. It’s been praised enough
@@zzodysseuszz Graphically. Purely graphics here!
Kojima is good when he has some one to reel him in. If you just let him do whatever he wants, he goes off of the deep end. You can be very creative but you have to have some one on the other end to say "That is a bad idea."
@@jigawatt1.215 Yeah, he's like an AI that constantly pumps out weird ideas. You need an actual human supervising him and choosing the good amongst the many ideas.
Now I wanna know which water levels got it right? What are the best ones?
if NES TMNT isn't first, im gonna riot.
The Manaan level is good, the whole setup is a tense mystery, with a feeling of helplessness before the the sea.
Yeah killing their fish god is always so satisfying. They're such a-holes on that planet.
That TMNT level not being #1 is a travesty. That shit was impossibly hard as a kid. The other ones past it just arent "fun" TMNT was insane.
Any water lvl in the Sonic series should be #1. That damn music causes anxiety.
I can still hear that electric seaweed,
Yup, TMNT was the worse. You lose a turtle and it was gone for that play through. That level took at least two if not three on average from me.
I said the same thing
I was asking "What's number 1?" when I saw where it was placed. No water level is worse than that. Bloodstained Water Level should be higher. I really hated it. Great Game though.
The most _frustrating_ part for me? It's possible to do water levels _right_
You make the player move like in Subnautica - make it fluid and responsive like it _should_ be; you have a lot of fluid to push off to change direction, after al - and players will _love_ it.
That so many game studios insist on making movement in water slow and sluggish is just plain bizarre.
Also I think Nox was pretty cool. It's older, basically Subnautica but as a FPS action-adventure.
problem with Water LEVELS is that its just that one level, so less effort goes into the mechanics of that part. For Subnautica it was the entire Game, so it had to work...
I actually think Torvus Bog from MP2E is incredible, especially the music since it's another version from Super Metroid music.
I was hoping someone else would take issue with this. I'll admit that before you get the Gravity Pack, it's annoying but Torvus Bog is one of the cooler parts of an otherwise damn good game.
You gain the ability to walk normally underwater in Bloodstained. It's required to get the true ending. Being forced to use the water jet only lasts a few minutes.
It'll always be the Mario 64 water level where the depth changes depending on how high you jump into the picture. That water level was brutal.
Wet Dry World? That level was one of my favorites haha
@@nathan.d.c I'm not sure of the name but it wasn't the level mentioned in this video. At the time it was hard for me because it was also a later level towards the end.
@@nathan.d.c after further inspection that was definitely the name of it lol.
I feel like any Mario 64 water level deserves to be on this list. The controls for that game in water were just plain horrible
Hard core throw back for me was Ecco the Dolphin probably one of the most difficult games to play.
I put many hours into that game, it was hard af 😂.
The Ocarina of Time water level (grown up Link version) made me stop playing for 7 years. 1998-2005. After that time I dusted off the N64 and eventually beat the game 😅
Dude I too stopped playing for 7 years because I was stuck in water temple😵 approximately from 2000-2007. Feel you man
Seems so sad that after buying the Gamecube version, I ended up buying the official strategy guide to walk me through the lvl. TH-cam didn't exist yet so options were limited back then.
@@amyhoard1222 I had the strategy guide in 1998. Still couldn't beat it as a kid. Had to wait until I grew up a bit 😅
I remember playing the game as a kid. I couldn't even pass the beginning because I didn't know wtf I was supposed to do with that effing chicken. Oh and I was scared of a witch at the beginning too ^^'.
You can walk underwater in bloodstained with the Deep Sinker shard I know because I oddly just played through the game lol
True, but you need to navigate through most of the area to begin with using the propulsion method to get it.
Personally i didnt mind KOTOR but what about the diving in banjo kazooie n64, diving below that chained shark sucked
The key to the sonic water level was to not panic. Trying to rush it results in missed platforms, just letting it run at its pace keeps you just on the edge of drowning but still ok.
The water level in the first Kingdom Hearts was way worse than the one in 2
Sure was, you can't get lost or confused in 2, but most certainly will in 1. I'm just glad there wasn't a Little Mermaid lvl in 3.
I was thinking the same thing. I mean sure if you're not into the songs then in KH2 it can get boring, I loved it because it was different.
But in Kingdom Hearts 1 the level frustrated me that much that I often left te game unplayed for a long time until I was ready again.
Not to mention on that part in the sonic level, there's the platforms you have to land on perfectly or you'll fall back into the same part, and if you forget or mistime the sliding floor further up, same again.
The only thing that made Dire Dire Docks bearable was the music
It's worst when you navigate completely dark caves and they aren't small at all. Or walking on invisible bridges.
I haven’t watch this video yet and I know Zelda water temple is number one lol
Shit, I'd say half the people watching this video haven't even experienced OoT just due to not being born yet lol
I came to post this exact comment😅
Gonna laugh so hard if it’s not
Hahahaha It’s #8!!!!
@@kylew7180 you might be right
@@JoshuaJacobs83 I saw your comment just as I saw it wasn't the top, lol.
I actually really like the sekiro water sections, i thought they made them pretty fun. Jumped in water every chance i got
yeah, same. And that place at the fountainhead isn't that big either. And the carp is in a cave. You can go through in under 1 minute
OH LAWD! 40 Fathoms! You're bringing back some repressed memories! XD
At the beginning of that level I drowned so many freaking times cuz I could not find that little opening I had to get to, on that upturned hull.
At least Dire Dire Docks has a catchy stage tune; also, *damn* you're right about that Sonic drowning music being absolutely *terrifying* .
I think the definite worse level would have to be amnesia with the water monster. It may not be hard but it's definitely terrifying and it always sucks dealing with that level
Yea but its supposed to be terrifying and most water levels are not supposed to be hard
Seeing that Earth Worm Jim footage made me feel so much nostalgia. Even though, yeah, I do remember that level being really frustrating. It also reminded me of the underwater level in Xargon.
I hated the pirahna sections in Shadow of The Tomb Raider. In low difficulties they were easy but in the hardest difficulty they were painful. I would waste 30 minutes completing a section just to end up dying to piranhas and be forced to restart the whole section.
I actually enjoyed the new tomb raider water sections.
Yes can't agree more, the ones with the piranhas are terrible.
@@slappydoodle normal difficulty lol
As soon as I clicked the video I heard Raiden's voice in my head saying "we've managed to avoid drowning"
"And number seven... TEEN."
That threw me off and I had to re listen to it, lol.
As soon as I saw this video uploaded, I was screaming, "Earthworm Jim!". Then, as the countdown began I kept yelling, "Earthworm Jim!" So glad you added it because it irritated the absolute hell out of me.
Water temple is legendary.
Actually a saving grace for KH2’s atlantica is that it’s not required and you can 100% skip it and still beat the game
The lvl in 1 was so much worse than 2. 2 is easy, I just mute the TV so I can focus on the qte. Yet I'm glad there wasn't a lvl in 3.
I can't think of a single game where the water level is fun.
It's as if they threw it in there because it has to be there.
Beach bowl from Mario Galaxy? Seaside kingdom from Mario Odyssey?
Nope and noooooope :D
Hydrocity zone from sonic 3 and sonic mania ?
@@awsomemodels Not a fan of that one either (nor carnival, marble garden or mushroom hill). Ice cap tho :P
I agree and will add that there has never been point at which RNG based game mechanics improved my experience.
007 night fire on xbox OG
Underwater level driving the aston dodging bombs, was hard af
But damn do I miss that game!
The TMNT game was one of the first games I played. I hated the water level.
Me too...and it never failed I would always finish with one turtle left and his health bar was beeping. Back then the only way me and my little brother could beat that game was with a GameShark.
Every time I hear someone say something like "take it to the next level", I tell them "but the next level is a water level, and everyone hates water levels."
I love water levels honestly, except the ones in the first devil may cry and a couple others. I like that they always change things up a tad, it can be refreshing, but only if done right
"I like water levels, they can be refreshing" 😁😠😑
Here's a couple more from the PS2 era:
- Jak II, when you have to use the Titan Suit in the Underport while getting mobbed by Metal Head squids.
- Ratchet & Clank, when racing through the flooding sewers section on Blackwater City, Rilgar.
I came for tmnt water level, I wasn’t disappointed
I can’t believe the underwater car level from 007 night fire isn’t on this list. It was so easy to make a mistake and instantly die, the level was long with no checkpoints. Hopefully someone remembers. Was my nightmare as a kid.
Earth Worm Jim on Sega Genesis water level always kicked my ass as a kid. I had to turn down the sound to beat it due to the anxiety it created for me.
I used to play the hell outta that game lol but it was on Sega Saturn
@@eddiegreencheez ok
Tbh I was expecting to see: ‘All of Subnautica’
Damn reaper leviathans…
My worst was water temple in Zelda twilight princess. That was just God awful I was surprised it didn't make the list.
Deserves an honorable meantion at the very least. Then again the Sky Temple is much worse, in my opinion.
The love/hate nature of these in shown in the fact that you could take half of these and put them in a "best videogame music" list.
This is my entertainment on my drive home from work, love the videos.
Thanks Cody.
Although it's not really a water level, I've found that any swimming in Far Cry 6 is just awful whether your character's head is above or below the water. Swimming is slow and tedious, no matter if you click your thumbstick to swim faster, that's still really slow and they can't hold their breath for more than 10 seconds without running out of air. There's no perk available on your gear to increase it. The only perk available that increases your breath holding duration, is just for aiming your rifles. Makes you think the protagonist must be a chain smoker or something with how terrible their lung capacity is
Shout out to the Vashj’ir zone in WoW… And I can’t be mad at Dire Dire Docks because of the music !
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The flooded section of the queen zenobia in RE Revelations was pretty bad too. All the hidden BOWs in the dark water and the shock grenades were kinda jank. Running out of air was an issue too
Idk if it counts, but the Underground Sewer System in "Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire" was literally the worst.
Sewer Levels are their own category.
Can't believe Mario Sunshine's Lily Pad level wasn't even mentioned. Yet again, you aren't exactly *under* the water in that level.
This, and the boss fight where you need to clean the eel's teeth
I remember Ocarina's water temple fondly, for the satisfaction of completing it.
Same
I'm still trying to finish the water level of Subnautica
Aw, come on... Dire dire docks has the best ost in the whole game... That must count for something.
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yea but jolly roger bay also had the same song but was a better level so.........
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water ruins in Megaman Legends 2. You had two options for travel: A really slow walk or a underwater dash that always sent you flying into a enemy or wall. Absolute worse thing about that great game.
I actually enjoy Sekiro water level
I understand why it's on the list, but Fountain Head Palace in Sekiro was overall.. EPIC
number 1: all of them (i feel like i'm underwater myself irl when playing underwater levels and i'm having troubles breathing because of that)
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10 GAME STORYLINES WE THOUGHT WOULD HAPPEN BUT NEVER DID
eg: 1.Playing as Desmond miles as modern assassin in final ac.
2.Alex mercer survived as a good guy in P3.
3.Wei shen as a high temper Rough cop returned from shaolin after many years from the events of SD.
4.Max as a veteran cop with a junior cop as trainee dealing with heists where situation got wrong. MP4
5.Regina returns to save Dylan and Paula after the events of DC2.
6.Raiden X in MGR2.
... And many more.
The Black Hole Of Battersee in Watch Dogs 3 has an underground water level, If you fall into it, you're basically stuck because you can't see a thing. Dark as a cave. Keep your drone close to shed light on where you need to go to navigate this area. Not quite a water level but it had the same feeling.
Hey! Aqua is one of my favorite levels in Star Fox 64! I remember when I was younger, I was always taking the upper road from Corneria, only to reach Aqua. I absolutely love the music of this level
oh yea i remember the tomb raider 2 water level back in the 90's was really hard on the PlayStation even with a strategy guide. i would image back then players of tomb raider 2 without a strategy guide must been even harder.
It is still one of my favourite levels in the franchise. But indeed it can be quite tense.
CoD Ghosts was always one of my favorite campaigns in the entire franchise, and I always loved that level too…
I agree. I always thought that was a really unique and fun level.
Dire docks was one of my favorite levels when I was a kid. It also had the best music.
Seeing Aquas in Starfox was a blast of nostalgia....level was pretty stressful tho lol
The underwater temple in 'Minecraft', you don't come lightly prepared cuz the guardians are a big pain.
"We managed to avoid drowning." "Good job."
I will point out for Metroid Echos...once inside the bog.....you are REQUIRED to have the suit upgrade in order to LEAVE. And it's behind a relatively difficult boss. So if you didn't get many health upgrades (me)... you're essentially trapped.
This video reminded me how much I loved Emma Emmerich, hated that mission but she made it bearable.
Obviously everytime you're getting any near the water in GTA 3. The engine has an unfixable glitch where in random places totally out of blue you get launched a couple of feet forward. When it happens when you're near the water, you end up getting wet and dead.
I myself don't exactly hate, but maaaaaan, AC Black Flag shipwrecks are stressful AF. Those sea snakes, red circles telling you the sharks are gonna gangbang you, and you still need to grab that one last chest with the ship upgrade 😩
Was surprised they put in stingrays visually and not make them attack us as well...
I think the challenge to many of these games is that the controls were created for running and jumping on land, so the same controls scheme don't work to well under water.
How about the diving bell sections of Assassin's Creed Black Flag? You have limited air but you can come back to the diving bell to breathe. Your main objective is to search for treasure chests and animus fragments. There are sharks everywhere and they can see you from a long ways away and will chase you. You're basically defenseless. If you can use a knife or something I haven't found a way to do it.
You can accidentally run into sea urchins which will blend into the environment if you're not paying attention. You can be mauled by moray eels that almost come out of nowhere. There are even jellyfish which you need to avoid. It's all around not a fun time.
I still have flashbacks of drowning Sonic when I was a kid
if I could ever ask Haley Joel Osment ONE question, it would be "how did you feel about the singing section"
When will developers understand that no one likes water levels? They think they have the level that will crack the code, but they don't. They never will
Guardiola on a gameranx video...made my day
You should add Battlefield 4. It's just a short section where you have to dive underwater in a sinking ship, but it's bugged to this day where you rubberband backwards. If this happens you basically can't get through it
"most hated water levels in video games"
*subnautica sweating bullets since almost the whole game is under water*
The Vault of Trophies in Tomb Raider Angel of Darkness. Breath timer, spikes coming out of the walls of narrow tunnels, Lara's just barely fast enough to swim by. There are a few places where you can come up for air, and there's an aqua lung. Supposedly there are 2 but I've never found the 2nd one. The exploit in the museum where you can get an extra gas mask is helpful here. The gas mask works the same as the aqua lung but lasts longer.