That One Level/Video Games/Simulation Game: Difference between revisions

*** ''Zero'' had "Valley of Kings" which made you brave a gauntlet of Anti-Aircraft Artillery, Surface-to-Air Missiles and Pillboxes just to get ''to'' the tunnel. Flying above 2000 feet would lead to a missile warning: if you didn't get below that in time, [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard|you'd have a missile launched at you from out of nowhere and automatically hit you]]. Did I mention the bridges in the way? Finally, if you're not using the FAE Bomb or the MPBM you'll need to make multiple tunnel runs since you have to destroy all of the joint locks for each V2 controller before the controller itself can be hit. (''''Consolation'''': at least if you enter the tunnel through the south, the named ace in the tunnel who appears after you destroy the first two controllers is flying away from you and thus makes possibly the game's easiest kill; it's certainly the easier named ace in an ''Ace Combat'' game to shoot down.)

*** ''5'' introduced the twisty-turvy tunnel later used in ''Zero'' but with multiple altitude changes along the way (not just at the entrance and exit of the tunnel), had enemy fighters in the tunnel in front of you headed in your direction, and whereas you can just slow down in all other tunnel missions and use autopilot to stabilize your flight path, here you have an enemy fighter hot on your tail the whole time!

*** In "Chandelier" in ''6'' you had to travel a ''long'' way to the action with nothing going on before then having a ton of heavy anti-aircraft fire tossed into your face on top of some ships (including ''missile'' boats!) ''and'' the last of Strigon Team, ace pilots one and all; after you destroy all of the targets (which will take quite some time since some require multiple hits and from particular angles) your wingman goes down and even heavier AAA appears in the form of a double-stacked line of gun towers; only after you destroy those can you go after the remaining targets and the very end has you flying into the tunnel which itself can attack you by ''[[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|firing a cruise missile into your face]]''. And this is assuming that you got this far, as unlike "Valley of Kings" which gave a definite time limit you have to complete the mission before too many cruise missiles are fired and can hit {{spoiler|Gracemeria}}, so you'll have to guesstimate how much time/cruise missile launches you have left based on the dialogue. (Fortunately if you manage to survive the AAA on the way in, there's a conveyor belt underneath Chandelier that carries the cruise missiles to its rear; destroying the cruise missiles before they can be loaded will buy you some time depending on how you're balancing it with destroying the targets.)

**** That's nothing compared to "The Liberation of Gracemeria" and the horrific boss battle against [[That One Boss|Ilya Pasternak]]. Even if you're flying the [[Game Breaker|Nosferatu]], it's still extremely hard.

** In ''[[Trauma Team]]'', Tomoe's final mission is {{spoiler|searching through a collapsed mall for people trapped in the rubble.}} The way the stage is set up, it's _very_ hard to keep track of what you're looking for, and every time you find one, you get sent back to the start - at which point the level changes shape. It's essentially a 3D maze from hell.

* Any mine in any ''[[Harvest Moon]]'' game ever.

** DS and [[DS Cute]] weren't as bad in the fact that dropping a level didn't kill most of your stamina. It just gets annoying when you have to drop ONE LEVEL AT A TIME through digging up stairs, like you have to in Island of Happiness and Sunshine Islands.

** They also just had to have animals trying to kill you, and hundreds upon hundreds of levels. It's especially bad if you want to marry Keria.

** Then, in the sequel, ''Secret Missions of WWII'', there are lot of infuriating levels (especially where you have to use a tailgunner), but "Flashlight to a Gunfight" is the most annoying. You have no weapons at all, so you have to use a weapon that blinds enemies and leads to them crashlanding into an iceberg. But the big problem is, you have to practically almost crash into an iceberg for them to even ''think'' about crashing. It basically turns into a [[Luck-Based Mission]], and you've got to kill at least 10 enemies with this "weapon". Obligitory mention goes to "Target: Red Square", since it's a defense level that includes an army of enemies, followed by a boss that can easily destroy the Red Square very quickly, and "Rendezvous", where you have to kill 10 enemies while you're under watch, who shoot you if you do anything, followed by an [[Escort Mission]] with ''tons'' of turrets to take down. <ref> Take down the turrets ''before'' you start the escort, it'll make it ''much'' easier for you. At least during the escort, anyways.</ref>

* [[Mechwarrior]] IV: Mercenaries has [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgWdxxZmvt4 Talon/Wernke - Night Op]. You're meant to pilot a light, fast 'mech, trying to be as stealthy as possible, trying to sneak past several 'mechs that can stomp you in a heartbeat, and there's generally enough enemy 'mechs that it's suicide to take anything heavier. For contrast, there's a ludicrously easy stealth mission elsewhere in the game.

* The first [[Rollercoaster Tycoon]] and its expansions each had one of these:

** The original had Rainbow Valley, the penultimate scenario. It pales in comparison to many of the expansion scenarios, but at the time, being unable to remove trees or alter the landscape made it by far the most annoying original scenario, much harder than final level Thunder Rock.

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