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* ''[[Gears of War]] 2'' can best be described as an entire ''game'' of Awesome Video Game Levels. Some of the best parts:

** The entirety of the Tip of the Spear act. A massed armored assault with Delta on the back of building sized assault rigs, fighting off boarders and shooting down Reavers and Locust mortars, with delta having to leap off mid-transit to protect Dizzy as he repairs "Betty" while Locust swarm at you from every direction.

* The Battle of Rhodes in ''[[God of War (series)|God of War]] II''.

** In fact pretty much any of the intro sequences.

* ''[[GoldenEye 007 (1997 video game)|Golden Eye 1997]]''. St. Petersburg + ''TANK'' = Squishy WIN. Ah, memories...

** Unacceptable Nonmilitary Casualties.

* Venus Lighthouse in [[Golden Sun]]. Visited in both games too, so you can hear that awesome music.

** And the beginning of ''The Lost Age'', in which the player gets to beat the crap out of adult men with a 17-year-old girl accompanied by the best battle music ever.

* ''[[Gradius]] Gaiden'' takes ''Gradius'' level design to new heights. Stage 2 is a junkyard of past ''Gradius'' bosses; can you name them all? Stage 3 is set in a crystal corridor where laser shots--yours and enemies'--will refract through the crystals. Then there's Stage 7, which starts off as an innocent-looking volcano stage...that gets ''gradually sucked into a black hole behind you'', as well as enemies, bullets, and even your own missiles. Your ship is not affected by it, though, since it's [[Hand Wave|capable of cruising at five times the speed of light]].

* Damn near ''every'' level in [[Graffiti Kingdom]] counts, but the Chess Tower stands out.

* ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV]]'', bucking the trend set by previous games in the series by having their toughest missions serve as the game's [[Scrappy Level]] (see "The Driver" in ''Vice City'' and "Supply Lines" in ''San Andreas''), actually has some really fun missions among its toughest, including "The Snow Storm" and "Three Leaf Clover" (an [[Escort Mission]] where the people you're supposed to protect actually help you by taking out the cops and drawing their fire. Also, it's [[Heat]], the video game). You'll probably die several times in the course of these missions, but you'll enjoy playing through them again.

** Another great ''Grand Theft Auto IV'' mission is "Hostile Negotiation", which has Niko charging into a warehouse trying to save his kidnapped cousin Roman. There's something really exhilarating about wielding an AK-47 while screaming "NOBODY FUCKS WITH MY FAMILY!" at the top of your lungs while about twenty guys are shooting at you.

* The fifth episode of ''[[Gunstar Heroes]]'', after the four selectable stages, is one long uninterrupted run of mass destruction, allowing you to shoot, kick and throw your way through an endless horde of enemies in your own style.

** Although some of those previous stages are no doubt counted by other games, such as Black's (silly) Dice Maze.

** Or Green's, complete with exploding trains and transforming 7-force boss. All while riding a gravity-flipping minecart.

* Ravenholm in ''[[Half-Life 2]]'' gives you ''throwing buzzsaw blades'' to hurl at zombies, effectively cutting them in half. Throwing buzzsaw blades. The only way it could top that would be by giving you a gun that shoots [[This Is a Drill|drills]] [[Incendiary Exponent|on fire]]. [[Bavarian Fire Drill|From Bavaria]].

** The following level allows you to use a crane to drop ''shipping containers'' on your enemies.

* The Ark in [[Halo]] 3. Opens with a sniper battle, then a fight against hunters. Then it's a long, fast-moving vehicle section in Prowlers...then you get the tank. It's approximately fifteen minutes of just ''blowing shit up''. Your vehicle kills for the level total 2 prowlers, 8 or 9 wraiths, 2 anti-air wraiths, one scarab, at least two dozen ghosts and choppers, and at least one phantom.

** Also, don't forget that this level also has one of the best scenes in Halo 3, the Forward Unto Dawn touching down on the Ark. Viewable in it's full glory [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TLlQpqTg6o Here]

* Tom Clancy's HAWX. Your PMC {{spoiler|takes an offer from some foreign powers and attacks America. What do you do? Take your 3 man squad and SAVE WASHINGTON D.C. The next level is your squad SAVING AIR FORCE ONE. The final level is an extended dogfight against some of the best planes in the game, and ends with you destroying a nuke that was about to blow up LA. And, the campaign to reclaim the eastern US starts with you flying stealth bombing runs over enemy installations while having to dodge missiles and fly in a narrow "don't get shot" pipe.}}

** The Rio level. You're flying along, and it seems like you'll get there and nothing will happen, then your AWACS controller says that there's a massive invasion force of planes, tanks, and landing craft headed towards the city. Cue what might be the largest battle in the entire game, culminating in a battle with you and your squadron mates against a quartet of Aces (the only pilots in the game that are actually challenging even with ERS) flying Su-47s. AWE. SOME.

* The ''[[Hitman]]'' series has a few:

** Plutonium Runs Loose from ''Codename 47'': Running around a humongous map setting up bits and pieces of a [[Gambit Index|gambit]] and systematically making most every guard in the area disappear, before finally culminating in storming a ship, having to avoid or massacre the multitude of gun-toting crewmen while making your way to the engine room in a race against time to ''disarm a nuke''.

* The final level of Homeworld. You're the last people from your planet left. You've just wiped out multiple enemy fleets coming from multiple directions, more are still coming and you're running out of ships. It zooms out to a cutscene and seriously depressing classical music starts playing, as {{spoiler|a huge fleet starts to hyperspace in right on top of you. You're left thinking "Well, shit, this is it". Then they finish appearing and turn out to be some allies from earlier in the game. And you go on to spread ion cannony death to your foes.}}

** What about [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZQBv0WRJBI the last level] of Homeworld 2? The Vaygr are about to overrun the last of Hiigara's defenses. Then {{spoiler|Sajuuk arrives. If not for the Planet Killers showing up in the middle of the battle, it would be over '''very''' quickly since Sajuuk can one-shot-kill nearly everything and is nigh indestructible}}.

* The final course in the arcade version of ''Hydro Thunder'', Nile Adventure, is an amusement ride-like take on the Nile River, with many amazing features such as multi-colored lightning, a dome with a spinning starfield,, and a huge chamber containing a huge cyclopic monster in the water that shoots lasers (though they don't hurt you). It's also one of the longest courses in the game, taking nearly four minutes to complete.

* In ''Hype: The Time Quest'', the thieves' village (not exactly a level, but an area nonetheless) is definitely befitting of this trope. Amazing music, golden light, people in green tights, and fully explorable REALLY thick tree branches!

* '' [[Iji]]'', Sector 5. After four levels of introductory skirmishing with the Tasen, ''this'' is where you finally discover what the game is really about. You suddenly find yourself in the role of a mere spectator as two alien races duke it out, and it's up to you whether to respond by trying to slip past them while they're occupied with each other... or just blow them both to pieces. It helps that it's also one of the largest levels and has what's widely regarded as the game's best non-boss music track. Keep in mind that basically ''every'' song in ''Iji'' is [[Crowning Music of Awesome]].

* Alden's Tower in Infamous. A colossal structure that dominates the landscape, with Cole and Zeke fighting their way to the top whilst you climb to dangerous jumps. And then there's a battle at the top with the big cheeses of Empire City fighting for the Ray Sphere...good times.

** The second game has the mission "Death Toll", where you have unlimited energy by '''directly draining electricity from the thunder storm'''. The game pits you against the [[An Ice Person|Ice]] [[Elite Mooks|Gang]] and gives you the ability for a [[Curb Stomp Battle|untold amount of asskicking]].

* Everything after the point where {{spoiler|you die}} in ''[[Jade Empire]]'' just kicks ''so much arse'' (although the part where you fight hundreds of little cannibal monsters is pretty damned awesome too).

* The third ''[[Jak and Daxter]]'' game features a level containing absurd quantities of win and awesome, which ''isn't even the end battle''. It's the one in which you are basically given a gunship (''[[Took a Level In Badass|VASTLY]]'' [[Rescued From the Scrappy Heap|improved from its appearances in the previous game]]) with unlimited ammunition and a regenerating supply of smart missiles, and set loose on a flying war factory. By yourself. Waftching a smart bomb explosion significantly bigger than your own ship while spamming ammunition at tanks, defensive structures, and flying KG drones, ''solo''? Sign me up.

** The Dark Maker assault on Spargas City. Unlike the Metal Head/KG Bot attacks in Haven City, ''everyone'' in the Wasteland is armed, and they're [[Fighting for Survival|fighting back]]. The Dark Makers have shields, and even ''they're'' not helping much.

* One for oldbies; "We Must Perform A Quirkafleeg" in ''[[Jet Set Willy]]''.

** And for the sequel, The Cartography Room.

* The final level in most ''[[Katamari Damacy]]'' games, that has you rolling up the islands of Japan, rainbows, the clouds, volcanoes, and [[Expy|expies]] of Godzilla, other Kaiju, and [[Ultraman]]. If you're good enough, you can even roll up the [[King of All Cosmos]].

** The "final" level of ''We ? Katamari'' has to be mentioned. You're tasked with rolling up the whole freaking solar system... using the ''Earth'' as your katamari! All to a surprisingly understated, kind of eerie song in the background. Equally awesome is the penalty for failure (which you must see at least once to progress in the game): Your rolled-up planets hit the sun and burst into flames.

* The first [[Kingdom Hearts]] features Hollow Bastion, which is a huge epic castle with great world music and plot-important, dramatic boss fights. Also, it lets you go from packing a near-worthless toy sword made of driftwood all the way up to the awesomely badass-looking Oblivion, the second-strongest Keyblade in the game.

** Hollow Bastion ought to be the official name of Crowning Game Levels. The scenery is breathtaking, right from the self-explanatory(?) Rising Falls that usher in the level down to the labyrinthine inner sanctum; the boss fights are some of the most intense, emotionally-charged battles in the game; the gamut of challenges is more complete than you even thought possible, even forcing you to go back to the basest of basic weapons as mentioned above, and later including a ''gummy ship'' segment, just to make sure you've mastered every art the game offers; the plot takes a breakneck-speed dive into the most epic of territory with dark possession, evil sorcery, gratuitous amounts of [[Power of Friendship]], and even the transformation of the main character into a Heartless; and to bring everything to a height of awesome that only the word "crowning" can describe, there's that ''haunting'' organ that ushers in the ultimate boss of the world. You face the rival the hero never managed to top, you meet [[The Man Behind the Man]], fight [[The Dragon]] ([[Scaled Up|literally]],) and then fight the rival ''again'' with his own ''evil version of the Keyblade''. And when he's beaten you free the princesses, and then the hero dies and is revived as the party flees and escapes. Seriously, was this originally where the game ended? The End of the World, despite being suitably epic and large-scale, seems like an afterthought compared to Hollow Bastion.

* The entirety of the ''Revenge of Meta-Knight'' mode in ''[[Kirby]] Super Star''. The running dialogue from the enemies makes Kirby seem like an unstoppable force of destruction!

** And at the height of it all during the final assault on the airship, all of it is set to [[Crowning Music of Awesome]].

* ''Klonoa: Door to Phantomile'' has the Wind Ruins. It's really the first level in the game where the difficulty gets kicked up to interesting, has great background music, and the best boss in the game.

** Mts. of Mira-Mira in ''Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil''. An extremely fun boarding level with some awesome background music in the form of Stepping Wind (Wahoo Stomp in translated versions).

*** Kingdom of Sorrow. It really, really is.

* [[La-Mulana]] has the Dimensional Corridor. It's one long string of miniboss fights, and if Lemeza is at full power, you can basically curbstomp ''all'' of them. Unless you get stuck trying to get that damn [[Heart Container|Life Jewel]] in the room above the Dragon.

* The Giant's Mausoleum deserves a mention. It's the second area in the game, and it's where the game starts getting serious. Also, the music is some of the best in the game.

* The Black Caesar, the first Vice case in [[LA Noire|L.A. Noire]]. First off, Cole and his new partner, Roy Earle, have great chemistry, even if they dislike each other. The dialogue is great, with Cole and Earle both positing their differing views on law enforcement. The case itself is really intriguing, drawing Cole into the dark underworld of organised crime and the morphine trade, where you can't quite be sure who is or isn't involved, including the LAPD themselves. You've also got some great crime scenes to investigate, and a memorable shootout in the finale. And the title of the case is a [[Red Dead Redemption]] [[Mythology Gag]].

* The Quarter Moon Murders, the last Homicide case. You've already solved five homicide case, but you feel that something's up and the individual cases are all actually connected, and you've been charging inncocent men. In this case you are led around LA {{spoiler|by the actual killer in the previous five cases}} using clips from Prometheus Unbound to determine the next landmark you need to go to. The end has you {{spoiler|uncovering the real killer: Garett Mason, a seemingly innocuous bartender you questioned four cases ago}}

* Avernus Cathedral in ''[[Legacy of Kain]]: Defiance''. Finally meeting vampire Turel, the one brother that escaped you in Raziels first game. Finally getting Raziels TK upgraded to Kains level. Encountering Mortanius, who hasn't been seen since the first game. And then, [[Doctor Who|aaaaaaaand then]] Raziel and Kain finally battle it out to the death ''and'' you control one then the other and finally {{spoiler|Raziel rips Kains heart out of his chest and flings him into hell}}. And there's ''still'' a good two hours of game left.

** From said game, mine would be Goron Mines. The boss is awesome and scary looking! {{spoiler|Well, he's easy, being in temple number 2, but still.}}

** Gerudo Desert and the Arbiter's Grounds are the best levels in the game. First you get to be a ninja in the night in the desert and the Bulblin encampment, then you fight your way through the most ancient, elaborate, haunting, Nightmare-Fueled dungeon ever.

* The Game of the Movie, A Series of Unfortunate Events (the console version, not the PC version) has one minigame that involves playing a specific song on a piano. Not only is the song depressingly catchy, but it requires three tries to get to the end, each time getting faster. After you get into the pattern, it becomes surprisingly easy for this game.

* In ''[[Little Big Planet]]'', Skulldozer takes the cake. You're running away from a giant bicycle-wheeled, bull skull-headed mechanical beast surrounded in red fog, piloted by {{spoiler|[[Woman Scorned|an insane zombie bride who thinks she's been jilted]]}}. Blazing guitar plays in the background, and it's downright ''awesome.''

* From ''[[The Lost Vikings]] 2'', the level 4RGH. Coming between [[That One Level]] H3LL and the [[Boss Battle]] against [[Big Bad|Tomator]], it has very few enemies but plenty of timed switches and thought provoking puzzles.

* [[Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven]] might be [[Nintendo Hard]] in so many ways, but some parts are just great. But the most epic is ''The Whore'' where you need to storm Hotel Corleone and kill a whore. Going through the hotel is filled to the end with supsense and you're the edge of your seat. After reaching the top, what do you do? You plant a bomb, run through a corridor and jump out a roof. After being chased by the police through the roofs you enter a church. Inside follows an epic shoot-out during the funeral of an old enemy. How do you top it off? You escape in a freaking ''hearse''.

* ''Left 4 Dead 2''s Concert finale. You set up a rock concert, then fight zombies. also, the Tank has remixes of its theme to match the two songs that play. AWESOMEST ZOMBIE FIGHT EVER.

* ''Mickey Mania'' has a level exclusive to the [[Sega Genesis|Sega CD]] and [[PlayStation]] versions that comes right before the final battle. Pete stands on top of a stack of three crates, and he laughs off any marbles you throw at him. Fortunately, he doesn't actually harm you, not even when you run into him. However, you have to run back and forth collecting pencils to call the other Mickeys as Pete summons [[Multi Mook Melee|more weasel guards]] to take care of you. The first of the Mickeys, Mad Doctor Mickey, lights a cannon that destroys the top crate. Next, Mickey and the Beanstalk Mickey takes a saw and saws down the second crate. Lonesome Ghost Mickey then runs in, bumps into the last crate a few times, and finally pushes it away. But the level is still not over. The next pencil summons Moose Hunter Mickey, who blows his horn and leaves, followed by a moose running in and trampling Pete. Then the Prince and Pauper Mickey (or is it [[Prince and Pauper|Pauper Mickey dressed as the Prince and vice versa?]]) each swing in on a chain, the latter swinging a sword and exposing Pete's [[Goofy Print Underwear]]. The last pencil brings in Steamboat Willie, who blows a whistle and summons a crane that carries Pete away, ending the level. It's [[Better Than It Sounds]].

* ''[[Super Mario Kart]]'''s Rainbow Road. All its level design is aimed towards making Rainbow Road the epic final stage. It features devilishly thin stretches without guardrails and partrolled by invincible Thwomps, whom you can't even touch safely. These obstacles, plus the aggressive computer racers, make this Rainbow Road the most intense race in all of Mario Kart.

** Especially if you're able to complete the course without ever falling off. And considering even the [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard|AI]] has trouble, that's quite something to accomplish.

* Luigi's Engine Room, Bowser's Magma Mountain, and Eternal Star from the first [[Mario Party]] all had some cool board effects while being fairly challenging.

* Mario Party 2 had Space Land, Mystery Land, Horror Land, and Bowser Land. Horror Land especially stands out for its day and night system, eery atmosphere, and Big Boo. Bowser Land meanwhile put a new spin on the established Bank System, had Warp Pipes that could help or hinder you, and ? Spaces which did different things depending on what was near it for the first time.

* Arcade's World in ''[[Marvel Ultimate Alliance]]''. It starts up with you (and the characters) duped into thinking it's Dr. Doom's castle, but smash the stone pillars and you reveal brightly coloured spirals, as well as carnival music some other oddities. When the rug is pulled about halfway in, the players pursue Arcade through a funfair called ''Murderworld'', fight Shocker and Rhino, participate in life-size games of Space Invaders and Pitfall, and run over infinitely spawning clowns in a bumper car. Then they fight Arcade in a giant robot. All of this in a stage with brilliant fairground music and visuals. ...And then you beat him, and he promptly ends the fun by revealing that whilst he led you on, {{spoiler|Nightcrawler has been captured and imprisoned in Mephisto's realm.}}

** Additionally, ''Ultimate Alliance'' had the balls to {{spoiler|force the player to choose who out of Jean Grey and Nightcrawler got to live, before casually killing off the other character for the rest of the game.}}

* The final level of [[Mass Effect]]. {{spoiler|It ''starts'' with you and your squad being flung halfway across the galaxy and flying out of a mass relay gate in your APC, right onto the heads of several [[Mecha-Mooks]]. From there, you proceed to run up the central tower of the Citadel, tearing your way through hundreds of enemies, while half the military forces of the ''entire galaxy'' are battling a robotic [[Eldritch Abomination]] (no, that is not an oxymoron) in the background. It culminates in either one or two extremely well-done boss battles, depending on how many points are in your persuasion skill.}} Oh, and there's [[Crowning Music of Awesome]], just for kicks.

** Becomes even more awesome (although a bit of a cakewalk) if you bring {{spoiler|biotics along, preferably Kaidan and Liara while playing as an Adept. Get ready for a biotic-powered [[Curb Stomp Battle]] of epic proportions. Saren can't shoot you if he's floating helplessly in the air, now can he?}}

* Looferland in ''The Maw''. After Maw eats the Loofer at the start of the stage, he turns into an unstoppable laser-spewing platform of destruction, which Frank rides as his mighty steed, pumping his arms triumphantly as all that stand in their way are destroyed with lasers. It's too bad it comes two levels before the end, as they can ''only'' be disappointing by comparison.

* In ''[[Mechwarrior]] 2: Mercenaries'', one campaign for the Draconis Combine has you up against a mercenary company that went rogue. On approach for the final battle, you receive the following message:

{{quote|"Attention, Mercenary: This is the dread legion. Whatever the Combine's paying you, we'll double it. Just turn around, go back to your [[Drop Ship]], and we'll do the rest."}}

* ''Medal Of Honor: Allied Assault'' has a level where you hijack a tank called a "[[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|King Tiger]]" from [[Those Wacky Nazis]] and barrel your way through an occupied town full of enemy tanks and Nazis with rocket launchers. 99% of the buildings in town are [[Made of Explodium]], Germans go flying in graceful arcs when they take a tank shell to the face, and your tank ''owns'' '''everything'''. The fact that the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMiH1PEQRAg soundtrack] is by [[Video Games/Awesome Music|Michael Giacchino]] is just icing on the cake at this point.

** Battle Mountain, the final level of the final expansion pack. You're completely outnumbered, forced to perform a messy retreat the entire level in an attempt to reach a castle the allies have holed up in. Everyone is using the most powerful weapons in the game, SWARMS of axis forces mob you from every direction, many of the kills you make are too far away to grab the health pickups they drop, ammo dropped by enemies can't be picked up (at least when [[Eric DVH|I]] played it,) and absolutely nowhere is safe. When you finally make it to the castle, it's being overrun, so the decision is made to radio for bombardment of the castle, except a generator has failed. You then have to defend a tower from an all-out assault with a sniper rifle while it's repaired, and then retreat from the castle as it's blown to smithereens. In summary, it's an FPS level where you fight as hard as you can possibly fight, vie against impossible odds, and LOSE, and it's awesome.

* ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]] 9'' deserves this with quite a few stages, but a mention must be made for the Endless Stage, which is a single level that has you travel through 42 randomly chosen rooms. And did we mention that you [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|traverse these rooms repeatedly on a single life]] and the game records how many screens you traverse through each run? And just so were're clear... '''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kxkSMHGol4 FORTY]-[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFSXRbppXsU TWO] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMHUhnuuSbo ROOMS].'''

** ''[[Mega Man 2]]''. Dr. Wily's Castle. [[Crowning Music of Awesome|That is all.]]

** [[Egoraptor]] makes a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FpigqfcvlM compelling argument] for the ''opening level'' of ''[[Mega Man X]]'' for being one of the best levels in the game, if only for the fact that it teaches you the games controls without any kind of onscreen prompt.

* The "Sidecar" sequence in ''[[Metal Gear]] Solid 3''. It's a marathon slog of escalating awesomeness with adrenaline-raising music.

** Or just the jeep escape in the original. The Metal Gear theme kicks in, in all its awesomeness.

* The final level of ''[[Metal Slug]] 3'' - {{spoiler|You storm the Martian mothership, fighting clones of your previously kidnapped teammate, eventually being joined by Morden's troops which you've fought in the first half of the game - including [[Badass|Allen O'Neil]] - and after your teammate is rescued the machine that was creating the clones stats pumping out the [[Zombie Apocalypse|harder zombified versions of that character]]; all this eventually culminates in destroying the mothership, but then you still have to fight a giant ship as it's falling to Earth}}.

** {{spoiler|Not to mention the fact that it's longer than every other level in the game combined. Jesus CHRIST.}}

* ''[[Metroid]] Prime 3'' has the mission where you team up with the Galactic Federation and ''storm into the mines on the Space Pirates' home planet in order to gain access to the seed.'' This is the one time in the series where Federation soldiers have assisted Samus, and it's freaking awesome!

** And yet this level is an [[Escort Mission]]. But it's all made up for when {{spoiler|An enemy that served as the first boss back at the start and later a mid-boss since you upgraded in power can now be [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|destroyed in one well-aimed hit!]] }}

* The Tomb of Varn in [[Might and Magic]] VI. Not only is it one of the most massive dungeons in any game of the series, it also has some of the coolest enemies, genies and jackals.

* [[Mirror's Edge]] has the Jacknife level. You start off fleeing through a drainage ditch, before moving through ''vast'' storm drains, leaping between broken service railings and dodging snipers. Then you have to climb back ''out'' of the storm drains, do battle with a group of shotgun-wielding guards, and then engage the titular Jacknife in a daring, high-speed chase across the rooftops.

* The final stage of ''[[Mushihime-sama]] Futari'' has you weaving through and raiding an [[Wutai|Eastern-style village]] while taking out waves of dragons that are ''as wide as the screen.'' And then you fly into a palace and take on Queen Larsa, the infamous [[Final Boss]].

** Stage 2, particularly on [[Harder Than Hard|God Mode]] where you can take advantage of the many bullet-cancelling opportunities to cancel the [[Bullet Hell|huge swarms of bullets]] into gold gems that can raise your score by as much as ''25 million points in 5 seconds.''

* The Amateria age in ''[[Myst]]: Exile''. A series of seemingly nonsensical disconnected puzzles whose only common feature is that they all involve rolling glass balls. Then at the end, you discover that you've been constructing the greatest roller-coaster ''ever'', complete with a cutscene of you going through it at the end.

** There's something incredibly satisfying about the final age, Narayan, where you meet Saavedro face-to-face, and with the flick of a single switch, reduce him to a crying mess begging you to have mercy.

*** He deserves it! After all, if you do what he says and {{spoiler|you drop the outer shield to his home}}, he just {{spoiler|throws away the book anyway!}} Bastard!

** Along the way, you read from Sirrus' journals, and learn how he not only emotionally manipulated his father into giving him some [[Green Rocks]], he gained his sister's trust and hatched a plan to use the [[Applied Phlebotinum]] of a different world ''he had never used before.'' Atrus may have had two evil sons, but only one was a [[Magnificent Bastard]].

* The Mountains and the Jungle Temple in ''[[My Sims Agents]]'' certainly count.