Your favourite/the single best level in a game you have ever played

[DevilRedeemed]

Not that I'm a massive racing game fan but the first stage in Sega Rally, both at the cades and at home to me, represent perfection. It is in itself a standalone complete game. So simple and yet the challenge of getting the best time is there
I remember my younger brother obsessed over it and it got me hooked too. I could never beat his records but I became competent enough.
Anyway I love it.
What was the level that to you represents the highest point in gaming? For whatever reason I mean.

 

[madman]

Mario Kart 64 Bowser's Castle.

 

[NeoSneth]

Not that I'm a massive racing game fan but the first stage in Sega Rally, both at the cades and at home to me, represent perfection. It is in itself a standalone complete game. So simple and yet the challenge of getting the best time is there
I remember my younger brother obsessed over it and it got me hooked too. I could never beat his records but I became competent enough.
Anyway I love it.
What was the level that to you represents the highest point in gaming? For whatever reason I mean.

funny you mention that. i did the first level probably 600 times. the other tracks are easily 5% of that.

that one Tony hawk level on the Dreamcast demo disc. that was fun.

Emerald Hill Zone

 

[DevilRedeemed]

funny you mention that. i did the first level probably 600 times. the other tracks are easily 5% of that.

Ha!

 

[JoeAwesome]

Not the highest level of gaming perfection, but an enjoyable first level? How about Growl?

If not that, then the first stage of Battle Garegga.

 

[jro]

The last fight against Jeanne in the original Bayonetta comes to mind.

The opera house sequence in Nier Automata would also be high on my list. The machines doing Shakespeare and the really macabre nature of pretty much everything about the fight against Beauvoir are really well done. Also great music.

 

[norton9478]

I used to spend hours dicking around on the Casino level of Sonic 2.

 

[RAZO]

Amusement Park SOR2

 

[Ip Man]

i can't actually think of one. off the top of my head, maybe some of the levels in sonic adventure, majora's mask or metal gear rising.

 

[snes_collector]

Donkey Kong Country 2 - Screech's Sprint

My favorite level in my favorite game of all time. The difficulty is brutal and the music is awesome. I can go back to this one anytime.

 

[DevilRedeemed]

also, for me, the 5th stage - Bay Area - Final Fight - is perfection. again, I will play this game just to go through this entire level. from start to finish (the build up to the fight with Abigail with the sun rising behind the statue of liberty, most of the level fought through the night) is the reason I love Final Fight the most in terms of videogames and probably any medium related to entertainment

 

[Electric Grave]

There's too many but my absolute best genre defining moment for action platformers is in Ninja Gaiden NES, after the jungle you get the best cut scene sequence of the game and then you proceed to my favorite stage, the railroad, in it you get the boomerang shuriken which is great for dodging eagles and jumping to make the boomerang loop, it's just an awesome moment, you feel like a real bad ass and the best part is the OST, which is amazing, best song in the game, the song is so damn good that it plays again at the credits once beaten. I can't describe it, the moment is amazing! I think this is the greatest example of platforming and story telling ever, you can feel the momentum, it's a fine orchestrated series of events just to get you there, and being there it's just awesome, so to me it really exemplifies the genre at its absolute best!

 

[ChuChu Flamingo]

It is hard for me to decide on one, but the the whole elevator sequence in Streets of Rage 2 would definitely be one of my top picks.

 

[BlackaneseNiNjA]

Any story battle against Geese Howard in any Fatal Fury game.

Runner up: That epic staircase battle from Ninja Gaiden II on xbox 360 (not the watered down version from NG Sigma 2)

 

[DanAdamKOF]

LUV TO ME (Ucchie's Edition) Another7 is my favorite 11* chart, period.

 

[F4U57]

I don't have a favourite, but one I really enjoy due to atmosphere and music is second stage FF in the subway and on the train.

 

[Colorado Rockie]

Orangutan Gang - DKC, SNES
Baby Park - MK Double Dash, GC
Onett - Smash Bros., N64

 

[oliverclaude]

Strider Hiryu - Stage 3: The Balrog

 

[Ip Man]

Any story battle against Geese Howard in any Fatal Fury game.

Runner up: That epic staircase battle from Ninja Gaiden II on xbox 360 (not the watered down version from NG Sigma 2)

yes!. the end fight with geese in real bout 1 has to be one of my all time favourites.

 

[Tron]

This stage came to mind for me from cv bloodlines.

 

[Heinz]

The Nürburgring in GT6.

 

[RAZO]

This stage came to mind for me from cv bloodlines.

This stage is pretty dope.

 

[xsq]

This stage came to mind for me from cv bloodlines.

So beautiful and much fun...

 

[BlackaneseNiNjA]

yes!. the end fight with geese in real bout 1 has to be one of my all time favourites.

Hell yeah. The Geese fight in FF3 and RB are definitely tops. The “Geese Ja!!” theme that plays before everything burns to cinder is just so damn awesome:

 

[famicommander]

This is possibly cheating, but the Ancient Cave from Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals:
-Randomly generated, 99 floor dungeon
-Must complete the whole thing in one sitting
-there are ladders down, but not up, so once you go down a floor there's no going back
-upon entering you lose all your weapons and items and you can only use what you find inside
-all your levels are capsule monsters are reset to level 1
-There are random health restoration pads but nothing to restore MP

The only exception is that there are some special item chests in the dungeon which contain times that you can take back out of the dungeon with you, and then back in (but you still start back from level 1). There's a one time use item you find someone in the 20-30th floors that gets you out.

It's kind of like they crammed an entire Mystery Dungeon game into another game.