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[[I Thought It Meant|Not]] a [[Lighter and Softer]] version of "[[Nightwish (Music)|Planet Hell]]."
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== [[Action Adventure]] ==
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** Fire Field, for the series in general.
== [[First
* ''[[Doom]]'' is the archetypal example, with the player tasked with stopping an [[The Legions of Hell|invasion of demons]] at their source. In ''Doom II'', it's the same thing over again, and this time you actually [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|destroy Hell]], and afterwards idly wonder [[Nirvana|where bad folks will go when they die.]]
** ''Doom 3'' plays this about as straight as you can get, with a trip to hell and back in the middle of the game. But it was pretty [[Best Level Ever|Cool]].
* ''Spear Of Destiny'', the [[Mission Pack Sequel]] to ''[[Wolfenstein 3D (Video Game)|Wolfenstein 3D]]''.
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== [[Platform Game]] ==
* The [[Trope Namer]] is ''[[Earthworm Jim (Video Game)|Earthworm Jim]]'', where the second level, "What the Heck?" takes you to a planet of [[Fire and Brimstone Hell]] to face off against [[Cats Are Mean|Evil the Cat]].
** And the background music? ''Night on Bald Mountain.'' You know, that one scene with the demon rising from a volcano in ''[[Fantasia (Disney)|Fantasia]]''? That one. Then it changes impromptu into the, according to the [[All There in the Manual|manual]], most evil music genre in the whole universe: [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|Elevator music]].
** It's also not a bonus level, but the ''second'' level. Which means Hell is your ''warmup level''.
* ''[[La Mulana]]'' has a Hell Temple with even more stringent requirements, and its difficulty [[Platform Hell|outdoes the already-hard rest of the game by a couple of orders of magnitude]]. And just to add insult to injury, completing it 'rewards' you not with a better ending, but with [[Squick|Squick Fuel]]. It doesn't help that the Hell Temple has background music that will [[Ear Worm|ring in your ears]] and drive you to despair as you fall into Lands of Hell over and over again. And all this is topped with the fact that if you don't know how to activate the checkpoints or any of the secret passages, every time you screw up and get dropped into the Land of Hell, you are sent back several rooms. Worse still, to get to the final room, you have to traverse the entire temple ''three times'', carrying three mutually exclusive items in your inventory.
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* The final venue in ''[[Guitar Hero]] III: Legends of Rock'' takes place in Hell {{spoiler|after the player's manager [[Louis Cypher|Lou, who is actually the devil - Lucifer]] - in disguise, sends the band there for refusing to perform on Celebrity Has-Been Dance-Off and threatening to fire him for even suggesting it. The band must then perform for the Legions of Hell and eventually face off against Lou in [[Chess With Death|a climactic guitar battle to redeem themselves]]. The song in question? A rock version of "The Devil Went Down To Georgia", appropriately enough. Afterwards, Hell EXPLODES and the band ride out on flying motorcycles.}}
** Then you get to play the [[Brutal Bonus Level|hellish bonus song]] Through The Fire and the Flames during the credits.
** ''[[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made On Drugs?|What?]]''
*** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_Out_of_Hell Philistine...]
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* The Reaches from ''[[The Way]]''.
== [[Shoot
* With all the spirits, demons and otherworldly characters wandering around the ''[[Touhou]]'' universe, it's not surprising that a few of the games have the characters traveling to the Netherworld (and, predictably, "[[Defeat Means Friendship|befriending]]" the inhabitants via [[More Dakka]]). Although this isn't the ''Western'' Hell, it's indisputably the Realm of the Dead. So far Reimu's been to Makai (''Highly Responsive to Prayers'', ''Mystic Square'', and ''Undefined Fantastic Object''), Yuyuko's Netherworld (''Perfect Cherry Blossom''), the Sanzu River and the Yama's realm (''Phantasmagoria of Flower View''), Hell (''Highly Responsive to Prayers'' and ''Subterranean Animism''), and Heaven (''Scarlet Weather Rhapsody'').
** Ironically, the one Windows game that was actually situated in (a former) Hell had the Extra Stage in a shrine.
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* In ''[[Tony Hawk Pro Skater|Tony Hawk's Underground 2]]'', the level one can unlock by passing Career mode has three sections: a space station, a South American temple, and Hell itself. In spite of this, however, it's not a big deal; There aren't any goals to accomplish, or anything.
== [[Third
* In ''[[Rune]]'' the player dies at the beginning of the game, is resurrected and has to fight his way out of the underworld. Upon doing so, he immediately has to turn around and fight his way back ''in'' in order to stop an evil plot, and then fight his way back out ''again'' afterwards.
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