History ThatOneLevel / JakAndDaxter

* ''VideoGame/Jak3Wastelander'':

** The Precursor City is also nasty if you're hunting for all Power Cells. It is full of either electrified water or Dark Eco, there is a plenty of timed missions combined with heavy platforming (one of which basically requires the roll move to be mastered), has nasty enemies (such as guys that you have to dive-attack that appear ''during timed puzzle'') and some rooms (especially those with timed platforms above the electrified water) are completely confusing and make difficult to know where to go. It also doesn't help that once you get to the bottom of the city, you ''must'' complete rather difficult RiseToTheChallenge without another option of getting out of the damn place.
** Boggy Swamp is another aggravating one. Unlike just about every other level in the game (only Precursor City comes even close), it's a single [[MarathonLevel long, winding obstacle course]], with only ''just'' enough side areas and looping paths to make it potentially confusing to navigate, meaning that if the player decides partway into it that they want out (which given its intimidating themeing and non-stop grind of fairly tricky platforming, players may well want to)... well, you can't. Even better, the end of the level is a drop off a short cliff back to the start of the level, which does not trigger any shortcut back up it again, so if the player hasn't cleared it 100% by the time they do that, they will have to do the whole level over again to pick up what they missed. Oh, and also, the level is full of timed spike gates, which have deceptively large hit boxes, never retract fully, and can damage the player even if they run into them from the sides.

** The Precursor City is also nasty if you're hunting for all Power Cells. It is full of either electrified water or Dark Eco, there is a plenty of timed missions combined with heavy platforming (one of which basically requires the roll move to be mastered), has nasty enemies (like guys that you have to dive-attack that appear ''during timed puzzle'') and some rooms (especially those with timed platforms above the electrified water) are a complete maze.

** The last trip to KG Fortress [[spoiler:to rescue your friends]] is grueling. The entire mission has no checkpoint, and first you have to battle an army of KG guards including a jet-pack version and the one with golden armor that takes more hits and that appeared ''just before this mission''. This is followed by a platforming over bottomless pits, where most of the (small) platforms are ''sentry guns'', followed by a jetboard segments with either open arcs of electricity or someone/something shooting at you again. This is capped by another ambush by KG, but now they are also shooting at you through the roof, so you cannot put them out of commission, and a room with small robots spawning indefinitely (though thankfully they don't shoot). To do this, you can take 3 hits, and there are 2 healing crates at maximum. Good luck.

** Something similar to 'rocket' example appears quite early into the game, except it's lizard who provides propulsion this time. The mission of catching three lizards consist of first: getting near one with the car, at which point Daxter jumps on it and second (the hard) part: steer lizard into the prepared pen. Note that the lizard runs fairly quickly, cannot be slowed and any collision with anything will result in Daxter biting the dust. By the way, mission is done in a maze with kind of limited movement. Worse yet, there are cacti over which you have to jump, or else lizard gets killed. Thankfully, the game doesn't reset the number of lizards you caught when you fail.

** It has one mission where, as part of the storyline, your weapons are disabled. Not only does this make you a sitting duck for seeker missiles and prevent you from blowing up your enemies, it adds [[MostAnnoyingSound the annoyance factor]] of continually hearing the missiles you'll inevitably get in your first and only yellow eco weapon pack locking on to enemies you can't shoot with them.

** To a lesser extent, Snowy Mountain, if you're going for 100%. Finding the last few Precursor Orbs is ''maddening'' if you forgot about that one Iron Crate in the ice canyon that can only be opened with the Yellow Eco Vent (which in turn requires you to find a secret area in a different zone to unlock the vent).

** The Precursor City is also nasty if you're hunting for all Power Cells. It is full of either electrified water or Dark Eco, there is a plenty of timed missions combined with heavy platforming (one of which basically requires the roll move to be mastered), has nasty enemies (like guys that you have to dive-attack that appear ''during timed puzzle'') and some rooms (especially those with timed platforms above the electrified water) are a complete maze. To make matters worse, it appears in second hub and other levels in that zone are much easier, meaning you'll surely be sideswept by its difficulty.

* ''Jak X: Combat Racing'', thanks in no small part to the extremely slippery handling with a fully-upgraded Engine and Turbo.

** The Precursor City is also nasty if you're hunting for all Power Cells. It is full of either electrified water or Dark Eco, there is a plenty of timed missions combined with heavy platforming (one of which basically requires the roll move to be ''mastered''), has nasty enemies (like guys that you have to dive-attack that appear ''during timed puzzle'') and some rooms (especially those with timed platforms above the electrified water) are a complete maze. To make matters worse, it appears in second hub and other levels in that zone are much easier, meaning you'll surely be sideswept by its difficulty.

** Both missions done on The Dark Ship. First one requires you to use a carbon-copy of Titan Suit as clunky and slow as ever, and while this one has shield, if it's get overwhelmed it's gone forever. The enemies usually are fast dark makers in groups. Destroy Dark Ship then has the part with Light Flight that is just ridiculous. It's bad enough it doesn't control very well but when you're at the mercy of using it through large gaps...

** Haven City is quite possibly more annoying than the Waterworks Circuit! It has a lot more side-line obstacles, 90-degree corners with no curve to them and 90-degree corners with no curve to them ''with ramps'', which utterly destroy your ability to actually turn the car because you've been launched into the air!

** The Precursor City is also nasty if you're hunting for all Power Cells. It is full of either electrified water or Dark Eco, there is a plenty of timed missions combined with heavy platforming (one of which basically requires the roll move to be ''mastered''), has nasty enemies (like guys that you have to dive-attack that appear during timed ''puzzle'') and some rooms (especially those with timed platforms above the electrified water) are a complete maze. To make matters worse, it appears in second hub and other levels in that zone are much easier, meaning you'll surely be sideswept by its difficulty.

** The Precursor City is also nasty if you're hunting for all Power Cells. It is full of either electrified water or Dark Eco, there is a plenty of timed missions combined with heavy platforming (one of which basically requires the roll move to be ''mastered''), has nasty enemies (like guys that you have to dive-attack that appear during timed ''puzzle'') and some rooms (especially those with timed platforms above the electrified water) are a complete maze. To make matters worse, it appears in second hub, meaning you can pick it up as a location without knowing what you're getting into.

** Escape from the Water Slums: you're attacked by waves of {{Mook}}s and your room to maneuver is extremely limited because you're limited to very narrow walkways (while you can normally swim in the water, it hosts an insta-kill bot in this particular stage).

** Something similar to previous example occurs fairly early into the game. Your task is go into the stronghold in the Wasteland and catch three Leaper Lizards into the pen. This consist of first: getting near one with the car, at which point Daxter jumps on it and second (the hard) part: steer lizard into the prepared pen. Note that the lizard runs fairly quickly, cannot be slowed and any collision with anything will result in Daxter biting the dust (and the doors on the pen are fairly small ...). Worse yet, there are cactuses over which you have to jump, or else lizard gets killed. Thankfully, the game doesn't reset the number of lizards you caught.

** Destroy Dark Ship. The part with Light Flight is just ridiculous. It's bad enough it doesn't control very well but when you're at the mercy of using it through large gaps...

** To a lesser extent, Snowy Mountain, if you're going for 100%. Finding the last few Precursor Orbs is ''maddening'' if you forgot about that one Iron Crate in the ice canyon that can only be opened with the Yellow Eco Vent.

** Hello level "stick Daxter on a rocket at a gazillion miles an hour and make him try to get through accelerator rings that have handily been placed all around the harbour, whilst avoiding pedestrians and guards and constantly accelerating". The result of your constant crashing is a surprisingly chirpy Daxter making a sarcastic comment about your skill.
*** To ease frustration, you don't actually have to avoid guards and pedestrians.

** Escape from the Water Slums: you're attacked by waves of {{Mook}}s and your room to manoeuvre is extremely limited because you're limited to very narrow walkways (while you can normally swim in the water, it hosts an insta-kill bot in this particular stage).
** The tank chase during the 'Blow up ammo at fortress' mission includes screwy camera controls, CheckPointStarvation and very little room for error as you run away from a large tank armed with a grinder and dual cannons.

* ''Jak X: Combat Racing'':

** Waterworks circuit. It is full of sharp angles, tight paths and stumps that will destroy your vehicle if you won't notice them. Which you won't because of explosions and blur as you try to speed through the circuit.

** The Daxter ''VideoGame/PacMan''minigame is incredibly frustrating, but it is easier once you realize that you can speed up Daxter's movement.