Top 20 HARDEST First Levels in Video Games
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- These games began the punishment early with some of the hardest first levels of all time. For this list, we’ll be looking at games that immediately threw you in the deep end with a harsh opening difficulty curve. Our countdown includes A Lengthy Battle from “NieR: Automata” (2017), The Village of Cursed Blossoms from “Nioh 2” (2020), It’s A Jungle Out Here from “Contra” (1987), The Drawbridge from “Dragon’s Lair” (1990), and more! Which of these did you power through? Are there any we missed? Share your painful memories in the comments below.
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Which of these did you power through? Are there any we missed? Share your painful memories in the comments below.
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The Legend to Zelda VS Final Fantasy
Gotham Knight VS Guardians of the Galaxy!
I wanna be the guy. Vvvvvvvv
hell level 17:00
Bloodborne is actually not all that hard. Just go Arcane and cheese everything.
20. 0:38 Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
19. 1:35 Resident Evil 4
18. 2:34 NieR: Automata
17. 3:27 Fallout 2
16. 4:21 Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
15. 5:25 Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader
14. 6:22 Jet Set Radio
13. 7:17 Polarity
12. 8:16 Dragon's Lair
11. 9:09 Another World
10. 10:03 Cuphead
9. 10:54 The Simpsons: Bart vs. The Space Mutants
8. 11:46 Back to the Future Part III
7. 12:44 Contra
6. 13:39 Superman
5. 14:35 Nioh 2
4. 15:36 Bloodborne
3. 16:32 Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts
2. 17:26 Ninja Gaiden
1. 18:42 Driver
Thank you for this
@@jamesdayton2598 shut up
Wow, this is an appreciable work 😊
“A brawl is surely brewing, and we’re off!”
You guys have no idea how much I dreaded those words when I played Cuphead
Yeah it’s so hard
@@Banjokazooie-e1q its like Dark Souls hard
Driver. I was never able to get past the parking garage mission
I know another hard first level: Onett from Earthbound. Despite it being the first level you can explore and fight in, it is SO brutal for a bunch of reasons. One, Ness is completely solo meaning he will always be fighting by himself against enemies that will outnumber him. Two, Ness is slow as hell in battle so he will most likely act after the enemy giving them a chance to whail on him. And 3, healing items are pretty darn scarce considering you earn money by fighting enemies (I know the Punks there often drop Hamburgers but you have to survive fighting them first and some of them hit HARD). This actually caused me to take a break from the game for awhile due to just me getting killed off all of the time before I even made it to the first boss.
Yikes. Sounds hard.
Don't forget the Spiteful Crows (fitting name), who are either evading your attacks or stealing your healing items.
Absolutely NO ONE could ever beat Cuphead without dying once. 🤷🏿♂️
Yeah game is really tough even if you are a master you probably have gone down at least one time
There are multiple no death runs on UA-cam.
You never know they probably are some tryhard people out there that put hours into the game till they get a no death run
@@voltagespc6097 I think he meant first time through. I can finish level 1 without dying (now and then) but only because i have played it dozens of times lol
@@voltagespc6097 🤦
19:06 A Slalom is to zigzag between obstacles, in this case probably between the garage pillars.
Yeah. It's even an olympic sport called slalom, so I thought this was fairly common knowledge
@@madsnowman4067 exactly right
But to a child who'd never seen that. They had no clue.
@@daftpunkking909 as a child i would call it zig zag racing
@@mattalan6618 that's adorable!
I hope to see Top 10 Easy First Levels in Hard Video Games. One example:
Chapter 1 Captain Falcon's Training - F-Zero GX.
As if the Grand Prix hard enough, the story mode gives a true meaning to brutal. The only exception is the first level, where you simply have to race around a simple loop 3 times and collect 25 capsules within 80 seconds. No sharp turns, no competition, no obstacles on the track. Enjoy the warm up for what lies ahead.
Im watching this countdown and realizing how much of my childhood was based around challenging myself. No wonder im so hard on myself 🥲
Contrary to popular belief, that first stage of Driver is not a tutorial. It's part of the story where Tanner has to impress his boss to see if he's fit for the task. That said, I'm happy it was included here. Driver needs more love and attention.
And the thing is, you CAN'T skip that part. You have to beat it if you want to see the rest of the story. SMH!
@@abellewis3062 and THAT is why i saved the game after that stage and as i progressed thru the story i used a different save slot. That way if i wanted to play the game again (which I did) I can just skip to the next level😊
@@stevenmanchester2104 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The cheat codes were fun. Ramping off bumps and watching the hubcaps fly off. I spent countless hours on the first three Driver games.
@@abellewis3062 i have the game and to this day i still struggle with the tutorial
Cuphead looks like a really cool game and I like the “old style” but also, it looks really hard. I never played it but I think no one can beat it without dying once, that would be absolutely insane.
there is a simple mode but its not much easier then normal
i beat cuphead but i died over 2000 times to do it without dying at all would be a sight to see lol
that being said its totally worth playing it is phenomenal ;)
I beat the game and DLC with just under 1200 deaths which is pretty good 👍
It can be done. My first playthrough I died over 400 times. the third or fourth playthrough I died like 10 times, so it can be done
Damn this top 20 hit hard. Most of those games are my favorites of all time, so many good memories !
I love Dragon's Lair NES snakes 8:10
@@erainmartinez8175 Well to be honest I was definitely not including that one in my comment xD
More like Contra, Super Star Wars, Rogue Leader and Jet Set Radio
Also every time I see a Bloodborne video I just want to jump back to it ! I hope there will be a second game in this universe or at least a PS5/PC release at 60 fps !
I like driver series. But I hate driver 1. I just ignore that game and went for driver 3.
@@superlight1999 I remember playing Driver for the first time back then, it was mind blowing ! Driver 1 and 2 were good, parallel line also decent, but driver 3 was a miss imo
The Chainsaw from Resident Evil 4 happened to me and I struggled playing RE4 for a long time after!
Resident Evil 2 (the original) dodging grasping zombies on the narrow streets of Raccoon City, with very limited ammunition. A tough job for a beginner, made much harder if you want the special key.
I just started as the directors cut instead. Get unlimited smg to begin with. Hit the chest and get that rocket launcher and gatling lmao
Wow! I knew Driver would be number 1! Rightfully so! My childhood! I remember completing the game and felt a huge achievement!
Playing Ikaruga on Hard is a nightmare, but if you manage to beat the game on Hard you'll unlock Infinite Continues.
I used to think games were only meant to challenge a player to beat the game but now oh nooooooo games are being made for you to never beat them.
Driver great game almost gave up on it because of that frustrating parking garage. After I finally passed it my friend came over and started playing it and fell in love with it. The next day he called me because he bought the game and was so upset because he was stuck in the intro and couldn't play the real game. I had to go over to his house and beat it.
despite Nioh being quite hard on the first level, it was still pretty cool though. i ended up not playing the rest though since i didn’t like the leveling/upgrade system.
Personally I don’t think Nioh 2 should count solemnly because you can have help the very first battle
Bloodborne was my first SoulsBorne. Took me 3-4 months to first COMPREHEND what the hell was going on, and then beat both Cleric Beast & Father Gascoigne !
This comment speaks to me. I did play demons souls before bloodborne but bloodborne was a completely new beast that I couldnt wrap my head around. And yet, I couldnt stop playing it. That first level wrecked me in more ways imaginable.
Driver is the first game that came to mind.
Yes for sure!
Enough said.
Bro I only clicked this to see if driver was on the list... I never pasted it in 7th grade
The first level of The Guardian Legend for NES may not be the hardest...but it could blow you away in seconds if you don't pay close attention to all the enemies and the laser cannon placements.
i still have a trauma bcs of another world, prince of persia (first) and driver, greetings from switzerland
You’re here because you’re also asking yourself : Did he really say, “oh and whatever a ‘SLA-LOM’ is”?! 🤦🏽♂️
Top Ten Hardest Levels in Easy Games
example?
@@jimbo9208The Elite 4 and Cynthia in Pokémon BDSP. The game is mostly easy until you get to the Pokémon League, where your opponents will have teams of perfect (or almost perfect) competitive Pokémon.
Top 10 easiest levels in hard games
There is an error with Super Ghouls n’ Ghosts, the gold armor doesn’t increase your hits by three. You take two hits regardless of what armor you have on.
I remember trying Driver on an emulator. I spent 30 minutes on that damn tutorial level before giving up
When I got that game as a kid, me and my Dad tried that tutorial for a week straight before we beat it. Good times
Sonic Frontiers VS Kirby and the Forgotten Land!
Raditz from Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot.
You're comfortably outleveled, only figuring out the controls, and you only have three attacks and you have to fight a full difficulty boss.
Tomb Raider 3 - level 1 Jungle - should be on here.
Silent hill put player in dangerous conditions from the beginning. fog makes experience problematic, clues to come in school finally to find a difficult puzzle to overcome. It Is also a 1999 game as Driver.
Nier Automata opened with a bang. But did they HAVE to make it so hard and make you have to watch an ending and start all over? A continue screen would have been nice!
Sonic 06 Wave Ocean (Sonic) should have deserved a mention for a hard beginning, glitchy yes but its difficulty for first few tries is understandable especially on the chasing Princess Elise portion towards the end of the level as said glitchy yes but upon replaying Sonic's high speed really goes off the charts.
Really nice to see Ninja Gaiden on the list. I didn't expect to see it at #2. I recently finished the game and it was fun af. I just started hard mode and it's really beating my ass.
Most of these games are unknown to me let me tell you. Well, all of them except for Contra (nice one).
Gotham Knight VS Guardians of the Galaxy!
Finally a list that I can agree with, that driver first mission was hard when i was a kid
20. Hoth "Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back" (1993)
19. Angry Villagers "Resident Evil 4" (2005)
18. A Lengthy Battle "NieR: Automata" (2017)
17. Temple of Trials "Fallout 2" (1998)
16. The Prologue "The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings (2011)
15. The Death Star "Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader" (2001)
14. Not Skating By "Jet Set Radio (2000)
13. Polarity "Ikaruga" (2003)
12. The Drawbridge "Dragon's Lair" (1990)
11. Death, Everywhere "Another World" (1991)
10. Forest Follies "Cuphead" (2017)
9. The Streets of Springfield "The Simpsons: Bart vs. The Space Mutants" (1991)
8. Rescuing Clara "Back to the Future Part III" (1991)
7. It's a Jungle Out Here "Contra" (1987)
6. The Rings "Superman 64" (1999)
5. The Village of Cursed Blossoms "Nioh 2" (2020)
4. The Beginning of the Hunt "Bloodborne" (2015)
3. The Graveyard "Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts" (1991)
2. The Way of the Ninja "Ninja Gaiden" (2004)
1. Parking Garage Tutorials "Driver" (1999)
Ifrit from Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII!
Heh...
I Totally Forgot About Driver.
It Took Me FOREVER To Figure Out What "Slalom" Was!
(I Looked Up TheDefinition & Figured it Out That Way.)
I have had Driver 1 since 2013.
I still haven't beaten the damn tutorial level :(
I've played "Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader" and "Superman" for a little bit. The first levels are the hardest. I didn't know there were other video games with the hardest levels, too. Also, "Superman" came out the same year I was born.
Here's an idea for a future video: *top ten weirdly good UA-cam animations.*
That Driver tutorial was ridiculous and almost kept me from playing the game at all lol. What were they thinking?!??!
Absolutely NO ONE could ever beat Cuphead without dying once.
"The Impossible Game" definitely deserves its spot in here. Also, Contra is a hard game, but the first level isn't really. I think the first levels on most of the sequels are way more difficult
The First Prince of persia has a real hard beginning
i still remember.....
As a child i always wondered why everybody was saying that contra has no health bars, because my dad brought me a japanese super famicom from a buisness trip and the japanese version of contra had no one hit kills and was way easier than the us/european game. I heard they did that because the people were renting games at this time. They made games harder, so you can't beat it on one day.
Cuphead Tutorial level is the real hard first level
tutorials are not levels
The golden armor on g&g on snes doesn't increase your hits by 3,the special shield if you point it out to a projectile makes you think you have three hits! And its useless most of the times,you have 2 hits even with the gold plated armor,it only gives you the ability to have magic in the game which is much more useful from the small upgraded shield!
Others are Prince of Persia,Crash Bandicoot,Metal Gear Solid and Castlevania considered as first hard game levels.
Wouldn’t say the first level of crash bandicoot was difficult
Code Vein should be on this list, the game doesn’t really start until you beat the first boss, but the first level is a fucking pain because the game throws swarms of enemies at you while your healing is uneven af for a majority of the game, to top it off the first boss is completely unfair and the game gives you absolutely nothing to deal with it or make it balanced
Putting driver in the 1st place is the most appropriate thing to do in this video.
Spot on with driver at #1. Brought back terrible memories 😅
I remember playing both Empire Strikes Back, and the Simpsons vs. Space Mutants long ago, they were truly hard. The Death Star was not that hard for me, I just didn't care about getting a gold medal.
P.S. Should've added Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice to this list.
That’s totally pain to see!
They must have tweaked Jet Set Radio a bit before I played it…cuz I remember the tutorial that dude is describing as optional…as in the game made it a choice on the main menu and not a mandatory start to the game
But we’re talking about WatchMojo….who butchers name pronunciation and game plot points almost regularly….so I wouldn’t be surprised if that were the case here
Top3 (In my opinion):
1. Parking Garage Tutorials
2. The Graveyard
3. It's a Jungle out there
Many of the side scrolling games would be very hard because you won't be able to anticipate what's next and their first levels would be so hard to beat, however, it is the game Driver that takes the top spot because not only it so difficult to complete in a minimum amount of time, but you wouldn't be able to understand some of the names of the tutorials, especially Slalom, who uses that word, that's just stupid! It'd be best to never play Driver! It's a horrible game!
Driver def got me good back then
I remember that Nioh 2 first stage always made me give up imediately.
That Driver tutorial is why I never ended up playing Driver lol
My dad loves Star Wars! I'm sure he would love to play those Star Wars Games if he had the chance!
I never made it past the first level on No. 1.. I gave up
I know this isn't a first level per se, but trying to beat Cyberspace level 1-2 in Sonic Frontiers within an S rank time is such a nightmare.
I was hoping driver was gonna be on here but didn’t realize it would be number 1 haha but it was the only game that I ever broke the disc on haha if only I had easier access to the internet 😂
Dark Souls 3. Only game I ever gave up on .LOL Green Hell is VERY tedious as there are virtually no clues on where to go next. You wander aimlessly until you stumble into something. But you have to survive in the meantime, which is very tough as well.
Nier: Automata's opening 2 hours are so brutal because you are basically trying to learn all the mechanics of the game, complete with no save points. I wonder if Irenacus' dungeon is going to feature on here...
LOL I played Driver as a kid and was so frustrated by the first level because I know the game gets better. However I don't think that's the hardest 1st level. An old game I played recently for the SNES called Space Ace was nearly impossible to complete the first seconds of the first screen of the first stage!
Honorable mention: Prince of Persia: Warrior Within. Enough said.
My Driver memories are fond af. Idk what this dude is talking about
I beat the first level of Super Ghouls 'n' Ghosts a while back.... only to get stuck on the second level.
Super Empire Strikes Back was absolutely stupid hard. I managed to beat Star Wars as a kid after much trial and error but this one was too much for me, as I wasn’t even able to get past the first level. Never played Return of the Jedi because of the extreme difficulty of Empire.
Y’all never tried Halo 2? Try on LASO(legendary all skulls on). It took 20 years for dude to finally beat Halo 2 on LASO without dying. And yes, the very first mission is extremely hard.
"Whatever the hell a slalom is" really shows off some impressive ignorance.
HM: World 1-1 of Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels. That damn poison mushroom got me and I was playing the SNES remake on LodgeNet!
How did Tomb Raider 3 not make it on this list?
watching the list i was prepared to write "you forgot driver in your top 5 at lear" but saw it at one.I am pleased. Hard as hell level
The Simpsons: Bart vs. the Space Mutants
i rented it lol xD played it legit n then cheated cos was so hard lol i had a game genie :3
Should’ve said DS3. Everyone new to the Dark Souls series who had DS3 as their first game knows the pain of Iudex Gundyr. Kicked my butt for more than 20 times until I beat him.
Aww, you didn't put in Under Ground Zone of Sonic 2 (Master System/Game Gear).
Bro!?!?! That superman level with the rings brings nightmares and trauma from my childhood memories lol 😭😆 I remember even my dad tried helping me beat that part, it was so frustrating especially since the controls were soo bad 💯🤬
Sonic 2, but the Game Gear version, with the Ant
The Piramid- Aztec Challenge C64
If you’re gonna reference the Drawbridge level from Dragon’s Lair…maybe show footage from that level???
no mention of Silver Surfer on the NES? this game is BRUTAL, whatever level you end up choosing first...
Getting the plat on ninja gaiden sigma plus is one of the hardest for me especially playing it on vita. Fortunately my vita survive my rage till now still working. Love my vita.
I've played 3 or the games on this list. 2 of them are Resident Evil 4 and Nier: Automata and I feel like they weren't hat hard but the third one is Bloodborne and yeah, for a newcomer the beginning was pretty tough.
I died more than 200 times in Cuphead 😆😂
I died 200 times on one level in psylosibil which is a very hard crash bandicoot ps1 inspired game
I used to play contra with my dad and my younger brother in 2003 and 2007. We never pass the second level. We didn't even knew about the code until 2014.
No we didn't missed any power through in video games on the PS3 or on the PS4 or on the switch like Angry Villagers Resident Evil 4 and Forest Follies Cuphead and The Beginning Of The Hunt Bloodborne
Super Ghouls n Ghosts, Driver, Ninja Gaiden, Bloodborne and Dark Souls first levels... all of which made me rage quit so hard the police showed up in riot gear.
ROFL
I remember playing the first mission of cod bo1 and I died ALOT,I was confused of what I was supposed to do
The clips shown in the Dragon's Lair section aren't actually from the drawbridge.
The Driver level has a special place in Hell
I Guarantee no one has ever beaten Contra without The Spreader Gun.
Gold took me a few attpts on the death Star attack, I didn't get bored though. The death Star escape bonus mission though.... Silver to this day 😅😑
Dude, no Sunsetriders? That first level is comically difficult
I still can't get used to people calling the SNES the sness
The village in re4 really isn't hard when you realize that the best strat is to run around willy-nilly while avoiding enemies without shooting
Yeah, that was the only one on the list that seemed a little off to me. Maybe it's because we've all played that game a billion times, but that whole segment really isn't challenging at all.
@@travistotle another way to make this section easier is to not go into the house with the shotgun until everyone goes away, that way the Dr. Salvador doesn't show up.
It’s pretty hard if it’s your first time playing and you haven’t gotten used to the mechanics yet. It’s gets easier of course on repeat playthroughs but I think this list only counts the first playthrough so It’s valid to have the village from RE4 here.
Haha I used to love doing the test on driver 🤣
WatchMojo, can you please do a list of the Top 50 Sega Genesis Soundtracks? I can give you examples of these soundtracks you should mention.
Examples:
The Revenge of Shinobi (1989)
Thunder Force IV (Lightening Force: Quest for the Darkstar) (1992)
Gunstar Heroes (1993)
Michael Jackson's Moonwalker (1990)
Comix Zone (1995)
Sonic the Hedgehog (1991)
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (1992)
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles (1994)
Golden Axe II (1991)
Mega Man: The Wily Wars (1994)
Streets of Rage (1991)
Streets of Rage 2 (1992)
Streets of Rage 3 (1994)
Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi (1990)
Dynamite Headdy (1994)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist (1992)
Ristar (1995)
Gunstar Heroes (1993)
M.U.S.H.A.: Metallic Un Super Hybrid Armor (1990)
Rocket Knight Adventures (1993)
Decap Attack (1991)
Sparkster: Rocket Knight Adventures 2 (1994)
Castlevania: Bloodlines (1994)
Sonic 3D Blast (1996)
Pulseman (1994)
Would you mind doing this list, WatchMojo?