Quotes / Platform Hell

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"For the platforming, imagine a Prince of Persia mod made by an insane person."

—Hardcore Gaming 101 on Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero

Difficulty is a mere fabric that mortals have created to rationalize the extent to which the level is beatable by human beings. Bowser, in a fit to maledict Mario from ever getting hope to beat it, has, many times, broken the scale that we have been adhering to... For this level, "hell" is only a word; the reality is much, much worse."

Youtube commenter on Z-Break, Mario Must Die 3

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"Obviously, your biggest obstacle is surviving the onslaught of demons you encounter—and of course platforming, but that's an automatic SS-tier obstacle."

—decino, "Doom (2016) Ultra-Nightmare Monster Tier List"

After you beat the game, you unlock a bonus level, which is one of the best parts of the game, except you're gated off from entering it until you get four hearts. Now, at this point in the game, I had collected 85 of 180 strawberries, and ZERO hearts, I didn't even know these were in the game. To get hearts, you have to beat these cassette levels, and what's interesting about the cassette levels is that... they are fucking EVIL!
(The footage shows that he died 420 times on Golden Ridge's B-side)
If the main game's difficulty curve looks like this, then the cassette levels are up here. It, it, it doesn't really make sense going from this...
(The footage shows Madeline platforming through extremely tight corridors of spikes across Solid Clouds that instantly disappear when she steps on them)
back to this...
(The footage shows Madeline performing a very simple, safe jump off a spring)
for the bonus level.

— videogamedunkey, reviewing Celeste

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