10 Hardest Super Mario Levels Nintendo Ever Created

2. The Perfect Run (Super Mario Galaxy 2)

After collecting every star it has to offer and depositing 9,999 Star Bits into the Banktoad, you€™d think Super Mario Galaxy 2 would have rewarded perseverant players for accomplishing such a feat - but instead, it punched them square in the nose repeatedly. Unlocked after all of the above was done and dusted, The Perfect Run saw players running the gauntlet against some of the toughest challenges the Mario series has to offer. Lasers, mines, Choppahs, Bullet Bills, and murderous Boomerang Bros are just some of the things that wanted you dead, standing firm between you and the ultimate Mario Galaxy 2 bragging rights. And checkpoints? Those are for wimps! Merely unlocking the level is an absolute slog, but it takes a special kind of Mario Galaxy 2 player, and a 1UP counter well into double figures, to get the better of this one.