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** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', Link starts the game inside an ArborealAbode, since the Kokiri live in them (although Link isn't one) and you can enter some of them. The very first dungeon is located inside the Great Deku Tree, where Link has to find and slay the parasitic GiantSpider Gohma.
** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'', Link ends up in Termina after entering a tree (which functions as a portal between that world and Hyrule).
** Happens a lot in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap'' due to Link's ability to shrink himself and the fact that the game's featured race, the Minish, mostly live inside {{Arboreal Abode}}s.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'' also has a large tree, with a hollow section that must be entered in order to reach the top. Besides more common overworld foes, Link will have to fight his way through giant hornets, [[BatOutOfHell bat-like Keese]] and wall-creeping spiders.

[[caption-width-right:300:Don't look so smug, Kiddy. [[PlayerTic You're probably in the lead so you'll soak up the first hit]].]]

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* ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'' has Treetop Trouble, one of the few platforming levels of the game, featuring a variety of ramps, platforms and mosquito-carried leafs as supports and an enemy population of giant beetles and living logs, alongside giant woodpeckers as obstacles and a dragonfly boss.

Compare ArborealAbode, which is when an entire residence is found within a tree. It's possible for both tropes to overlap too, in case your game features tree-living people whose homes can be entered.

* ''[[VideoGame/{{Prehistorik}} Prehistorik Man]]'' has three such levels: First a RiseToTheChallenge in the aftermath of the volcano eruption, then an AirAidedAcrobatics level, and finally a BlackoutBasement ending with the second boss (the last level in Easy mode).

* ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'' has Treetop Trouble, one of the few platforming levels of the game, featuring many of the usual elements described in the trope's entry.

** ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'' 4: In a variant, Noble Mandrago's level starts with you entering a tree... and then fall down to see multiple underground artificial vine growths that cover the whole stage. Zero has to clear his way through thick vines, spikes, multiple enemies and one miniboss to get to the boss.

This setting might be its own level or part of a greater LostWoods or JungleJapes level. It might even lead to a TreeTopTown. Common obstacles include tree-living creatures such as [[BigCreepyCrawlies giant bugs]] (like [[SpidersAreScary spiders]] or [[BeeAfraid bees]]), [[ManiacMonkeys angry monkeys]] or [[FeatheredFiend territorial birds]].

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* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry''

* Much of [[FourSeasonsLevel Click Clock Wood]] in ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' takes place in a giant tree, with such inhabitants as [[VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry Gnawty the Beaver]], Nabnut the Squirrel, Eyrie the Eagle, and [[BeeAfraid The Zubbas]].
* The ''VideoGame/TheJungleBook'' LicensedGame has The Great Tree. In most versions of the game, it serves as the second level[[note]]It serves as the third level of the [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]] version[[/note]]. Certain versions of the game have entrance holes that serve as elevators when Mowgli goes into them. The boss of the level is [[SnakesAreSinister Kaa]]. There is also a later level called The Tree Village that acts similarly.

* In ''VideoGame/MalditaCastilla'', the second part of stage 5 takes place inside a tree where the witch practices the dark arts.
* ''[[VideoGame/{{Prehistorik}} Prehistorik Man]]'' has three such levels: First a RiseToTheChallenge in the aftermath of the volcano eruption, then an AirAidedAcrobatics level, and finally a BlackoutBasement ending with the second boss (the last level in Easy mode).

-->-- '''Goombario's Tattle''', ''VideoGame/PaperMario64''

** ''Videogame/KirbySuperStar'': the third section of Revenge of Meta Knight also has a part where you have to enter a tree and then climb it up from the inside.

* There's an unusual example in Tall Trunk Galaxy from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2''. Mario never gets inside the level's resident big tree, but he climbs it throught its branches. He also does get to traverse a giant log and slide down a long, hollow tree in the same level.

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'' also has a large tree, with a hollow section that must be entered in order to reach the top. Besides more common overworked foes, Link will have to fight his way through giant hornets, [[BatOutOfHell bat-like Keese]] and wall-creeping spiders.

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'':
*** The very first dungeon is located inside the Great Deku Tree, where Link has to find and slay the parasitic GiantSpider Gohma. Probably one of the most well-known examples of this trope.
*** Link starts the game inside an ArborealAbode. Overall, the Kokiri live in those as well, and you can enter some of them.

** Happens a lot in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap'' due to Link's ability to shrink himself and the fact that the game's featured race, the Minish, mostly live inside {{Arboreal Abode}}s.

** ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'' has a variation in Fungi Forest, with a [[FungusHumongous giant mushroom]] being climbed from the inside instead. The same level also features a tree stump that Tiny Kong can enter with her shrinking ability.

Simply said, this is when a video game leads your character to adventure within a gigantic tree. For whatever reason, the insides of the tree in question are hollow and [[BenevolentArchitecture carved just right enough]] for you to advance through, frequently by climbing up the whole thing. A common variant includes paths carved or built on the outer trunk itself, allowing the tree to be climbed from the outside, but not in the way most would expect.

Simply said, this is when a video game leads your character to adventure within a gigantic tree. For whatever reason, the insides of the tree in question are hollow and [[BenevolentArchitecture carved just right enough]] for you to advance through, frequently by climbing up the whole thing. A common variant includes paths carved on the outer trunk itself, allowing the tree to be climbed from the outside, but not in the way most would expect.

* There's an unusual example in Tall Trunk Galaxy from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2''. Mario never gets inside the level's resident big tree, but he does get to traverse a giant log and slide down a long, hollow tree.

Simply said, this is when a video game leads your character to adventure within a gigantic tree. For whatever reason, the insides of the tree in question are hollow and [[BenevolentArchitecture carved just right enough]] for you to advance through, frequently by climbing up the whole thing.

* ''[[VideoGame/Prehistorik Prehistorik Man]]'' has three such levels: First a RiseToTheChallenge in the aftermath of the volcano eruption, then an AirAidedAcrobatics level, and finally a BlackoutBasement ending with the second boss (the last level in Easy mode).

*** Link starts the game inside an ArborealAbode. The Kokiri overall live in those as well, and you can enter some of them.

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' has its very first dungeon located inside the Great Deku Tree, where Link has to find and slay the parasitic GiantSpider Gohma. Probably one of the most well-known examples of this trope.
*** Link himself starts the game inside an ArborealAbode. The Kokiri overall live in those as well, and you can enter some of them.

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'' also has a large tree, with a hollow section that must be entered in order to reach the top.

** The area before you meet Raphael The Raven in Chapter 5 takes place inside a rather spacious tree.
** The final area of Chapter 2 in ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'' (appropriately called "The Great Tree") takes place in an enemy base built within said tree by the game's main antagonists, the X-Nauts.
** Chapter 3-3 of ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'' takes place entirely within a tree.

** The Battle Tree of ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'', the game's version of the usual post-game battle areas, is a giant tree building where you can fight other trainers.

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** The latter half of the second level in ''VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards'' has Franchise/{{Kirby}} climbing up and down the insides of two trees.
** The original ''Videogame/KirbysAdventure'' has it in the very first level, where you enter a tree from below, go up the insides of the tree (which contains enemies) and then go out from above to encounter Whispy Woods.

* Both Angel Island Zone and Mushroom Hill Zone in ''VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles'' have [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]] running up large trees from the inside.

** The final area of Chapter 2 in ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'' (appropriately called "The Great Tree'') takes place in an enemy base built within said tree by the game's main antagonists, the X-Nauts.

* The majority of ''Faxanadu'' takes place in a giant tree. The tree is so massive, the protagonist's home town is housed within.

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