History ThatOneLevel / FightingGame

* Kenpachi's Story Mode path in ''Manga/{{Bleach}}: Blade of Fate'' is built around two-on-one battles. Of course, he's the one who's outnumbered, since he's too much of a {{Badass}} to have a partner. The first match is Byakuya Kuchiki and Renji Abarai. Byakuya can hit you from anywhere on the screen, and Renji has a massive number of distance attacks. Kenpachi? He has ''nothing'' that hits at long range. The best you can do is rush in and pray you don't get flanked. The second fight is against Hitsugaya and Hinamori, two of the game's biggest projectile users. Again, you can only rush in and hope you're not flanked.

* The Arctic Level in ''TwistedMetal'' ''2''. While having huge chunks of the glacier fall away during the battle was a VERY cool idea, playing this level in multiplayer can be a pain. The chunks fall off bit by bit, leaving you and your friends fighting on a tiny bit of glacier. There's no way to set the level to not break away the pieces to give you and your friends a larger multiplayer level to play on.
** Mean Juggernauts Death Match from the 2012 reboot of the game is the most insane mission of the game. You have to slay two Juggernauts that have been beefed up with higher stats and spawn cars every 60-30 seconds to rip you apart. The enemies are all highly aggressive, and the juggernauts are both exceptionally difficult to find because the level you're in is so damn massive.

* ''MortalKombat Armageddon'' features a few. Most notable is against Kahn's statue. Though to be fair, it is near the end of the game. Arctika can be one as well, particularly if you're looking for the [[AndYourRewardIsClothes gods' armor]].
* Raiden's chapter in MortalKombat9 is downright ''brutal''. Completely ignoring the fights against [[spoiler: Liu Kang and an even stronger Shao Khan]], the marathon fight in Netherrealm is enough to make you tear your hair out. If you're not proficient in Raiden (who isn't the easiest to master to begin with), his chapter is, appropriately enough, a living hell.

* In the original ''SuperSmashBros'', the Fighting Polygon Team is ThatOneLevel. You're always outnumbered 3 to 1 with each of those 3 being hard to hit and having an easy time outprioritizing you. As if that wasn't bad enough, you have to go through THIRTY enemies. At least the Fighting Wireframe Team in Melee were big targets (making them easy to kill) and there were only 15 of them that you go through quickly as long as you could deal with the low gravity in their case.
* ''SuperSmashBros Melee'' has Icicle Mountain. The random, often high speed, scrolling in both directions is a killer, especially for people that jump badly; it's good for your opponents, but not for you. You can often barely get in a hit either.

* ''SuperSmashBros. Brawl'' has a brutal level at the end of the Subspace Emissary which combines small portions every single other level. The player also had to go through and beat every single character they had unlocked yet (all but Sonic, Jigglypuff, Toon Link, and Wolf) and all bosses they had fought yet (all but Tabuu), making for a total of 43 fights. This level took up roughly 2 hours of play time on Easy mode. Luckily, you're able to save in the middle of the level, and switching characters also removed all damage.

** Classic mode has the 2-on-2 battles. They could be tough in the past, but Smash 4's takes the cake and shoves it down your throat. On higher difficulties, the odds are stacked so far against you that it frequently becomes a LuckBasedMission. Your ally may as well be a dead fish, as it frequently does "nothing at all", and don't think about using it as bait - as if being dumb wasn't enough, it's also handicapped to the point where it can die at 0%. They can actually prove ''worse'' than useless, particularly if you have the First Striker equipment. So what was intended to be a 2-on-2 fight is actually a 2 vs. 1, where your opponents both have frame-perfect reflexes as well as large handicaps that make them individually stronger than you. Your only hope in most cases is to avoid them and wait for an item to spawn next to you - if it spawns anywhere else, the AI will almost certainly grab it first, sometimes ''on the exact frame it appears in midair''. So remember to cherish that second life you get, always.

* The final level in Chronicles of the Sword in SoulCalibur III. Your units can't heal, and if they're [=KOed=], they're taken out of the level entirely. Adding insult to injury, the boss can regain health by attacking you. For someone without a good handle on anti-AI moves (or who doesn't want to use them), that level is an absolute nightmare.

* The 20th Floor of the Tower of Lost Souls in ''SoulCalibur IV'' easily qualifies with enemies that are equipped with auto guard impact S, auto negate throw (one of them has S rank) and one of them healing after guard impacts. The only way to win is to spam unblockable moves (best way is with auto unblockable).

** Ironically, Final Destination is starting to get this treatment in some circles, despite being [[FixedFloorFighter the blandest and most featureless stage]] in the series.

* In the original ''SuperSmashBros'', the Fighting Polygon Team is ThatOneLevel. You're always outnumbered 3 to 1 with each of those 3 being hard to hit and having an easy time outprioritizing you. As if that wasn't bad enough, you have to go through THIRTY enemies. At least the Fighting Wireframe Team in Melee were big targets (making them easy to kill) and there were only 15 of them that you go through quickly as long as you could deal with the low gravity in their case.
* ''SuperSmashBros Melee'' has Icicle Mountain. The random, often high speed, scrolling in both directions is a killer, especially for people that jump badly; it's good for your opponents, but not for you. You can often barely get in a hit either.
** Cruel Melee is rather infamous for being one of the hardest, if not the hardest, level in the game. The enemies are very powerful and can KO you in one shot, plus they all gang up on you.
** The fields ''Big Blue'' and ''Poke Floats'' are both fast paced and jump heavy; in the case of the former you have to stay on cars - if you touch the ground you'll get swooped away.

** There are some that can be bad on Intense, such as Battlefield Fortress, but the Canyon and Entrance to Subspace take the cake. Both of them are short, which would be a good thing, but what happens when the levels are made to be so short? Just ask undercoverfilmer00v if you get the chance. Don't get the picture? Well, what is going on is that there are [[CheckPointStarvation no doors to serve as checkpoints]], so the stages each have to be cleared in one shot. Oh, but here's the best part: at the end of both stages are ''[[DemonicSpiders Giant Primids teamed with tough enemies]]''. You can abuse the terrain on Canyon to get around this problem, but not so much at Entrance to Subspace.

* [[DissidiaFinalFantasy The Omega forms of Ultimecia's Castle and Pandemonium]] are a pain to play in, especially against the computer. The former, because of the lack of solid ground and the computer is obsessed with going up and down the rails in the middle, meaning there's battles where you'll be standing there waiting for them to stop playing around so you can just finish the fight; and when it goes into Time Compression, half the solid ground will turn deadly with the gears. The latter because compared to every other level (except Chaos's arena), it's ''very'' cramped with many corridors, meaning there's both little room to dodge, and the camera will screw you up; and this one's twist is that the Stage Bravery is only increased when the red-ground spikes hit a character. Of course, the computer's reflexes are not going to let ''it'' get nailed, which means practically the only way to get the Stage Bravery high is when it hits you.
** The [[FinalFantasyVI Phantom Train]] stage introduced in the sequel might also qualify, as it is even more cramped than Pandemonium, consisting of a single, rather long train car. It's difficult to move around and, while the camera has been improved, it's still rather prone to swinging to bad angles where you might not see your enemy about to hit you.

** The Ruins. Bad enough on Normal, ridiculous on Hard or above. Nearly every single [[GoddamnedBats Goddamned Bat]] makes an appearance somewhere, as do a good proportion of the DemonicSpiders in the game. You've got the auto scrolling section with the mites knocking you back into the scrolling screen of death as you try to break down barriers of bricks in the path, a relatively annoying puzzle section with switches, a four battle platform ride where the terrain and enemies go from bad to worse, and well... it's downright annoying. At least there's an easy end battle and decent music thought. Also, agreeing with Entrance to Subspace, which is basically a DemonicSpider BossRush.
** Intense is ThatOneLevel. The Great Maze is actually pretty easy compared to, levels like the Meta-Ridley level. WHYYYYYYYYYYYY. Why did it take me 3 times to get past the first stage in that level. Oh right, [[DemonicSpiders Autolances and Metal Primids]]

* ''SuperSmashBros Melee'' has Icicle Mountain. The random, often high speed, scrolling in both directions is a killer, especially for people that jump badly; it's good for your opponents, but not for you. You can often barely get in a hit either.
** Cruel Melee is rather infamous for being one of the hardest, if not the hardest, level in the game. The enemies are very powerful and can KO you in one shot, plus they all gang up on you. The fields ''Big Blue'' and ''Poke Floats'' are both fast paced and jump heavy; in the case of the former you have to stay on cars - if you touch the ground you'll get swooped away.

* Stage 7 of the Final Tower from JumpUltimateStars. You have to KO more than your opponent, but [[AIRoulette you have an incompetent AI for a partner]], two of your four opponents are [[Manga/{{Bleach}} Bankai Ichigo]] and [[Manga/GinTama Gintoki]], two of the best characters in the game, your opponents have ridiculously powerful supports, and you only have 30 seconds to win. And if you get a tie, there's no tiebreaker; you lose automatically. And you ''have'' to clear this stage if you want to unlock the last portion of the game.

* In the Story Mode of ''VideoGame/JojosBizarreAdventureAllStarBattle'', once you complete all episodes in a Part, you unlock [[AnotherSideAnotherStory Another Battle]], which lets you play through the episodes as the other side of the fight. Normally these fights are easy, since the enemy usually had numerous advantages over you in the regular story - which are now given to ''you'' in Another Battle. But then there are fights like the second Polnareff vs. Hol Horse battle in Part 3. In the storyline, this is based on the immediate aftermath of the Hanged Man fight, when Hol Horse finds out his ally J. Geil is dead and decides to book it. As such, Hol Horse is weakened and cannot use any attacks that involve J. Geil (because he's dead). And it lasts one round. Playing this fight as Hol Horse is an exercise in luck.

** Mission 56 in ''Heat The Soul 6''. Tessai and [[spoiler:Captain]] Kisuke vs. Aizen. Aizen's HP and spirit bar are hidden, Tessai is a brand new character who, unless you hack the game, you have no experience with, and Aizen has a lot of strong moves. And you lose if even one of your characters go down.

** Rumble Falls is pretty much like Icicle Mountain, except with ladders and spikes with lots of knockback.

** This is made into a complete joke, however, (and arguably into an AnticlimaxBoss as well) as soon as you realize that all you have to do is grab and throw one to turn it into a OneHitpointWonder. The same thing can be done earlier in the game with the Kirby Team.