10 Confusing Video Game Levels We NEVER Want To Play Again

6. The Path Of Hades - God Of War

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It’s been said this particular level requires patience and skill. If you don’t have the latter I hope you have the former in spades because otherwise this one is going to get ugly. Perhaps the most hated level in the whole God of War series is The Path of Hades.

If I just unlocked a painful memory with this one, hit me up in the comments, we’ll have some group therapy.

Pun fully intended, this level can go to hell. Kratos is a tough dude but even he has a real rough time climbing back out of Hades as the path is riddled with infuriating platforming sections that you have to pull off with a fixed camera, loads of enemies to defeat, traps to evade, and a rotating wheel wall which has claimed many a gamer many a time. If the spinning cylindrical walkways don’t get you, the blades sticking out of them will and if you’re able to get past that you might get knocked off a floating platform by an enemy anyway. Just watching this level play out is anxiety inducing.

This level starts chaotic and tricky and somehow keeps upping the ante until it’s over.

The difficulty of the puzzles and the foes you have to contend with on narrow platforms is so unbalanced, it deters fans from wanting to replay the full game itself, let alone how much they don’t want to touch this one infuriating level.

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Jess has been a journalist and content creator in the games industry for over 15 years and has been WhatCulture's resident Australian import and sorry cop since 2020, upping the quotient of swearing and apologising in WhatCulture Gaming's annual blooper videos considerably. She previously worked at GameSpot for 10 years, most notably hosting GameSpot News in addition to E3 live shows, and PAX panels. She regularly livestreams a variety of games on her 'jessmcdonell' YouTube and Twitch channels and hosts the 'Do It On The Day' podcast. She has won awards for her news and feature work in gaming as well as an accolade for her comedic writing (likely an admin error). She can be found on X at @jessmcdonell and Instagram at @jessicamcdonell sharing her current videogame fixations, industry insights, and videos of her cat, Karma.