10 Intense Video Game Levels NO ONE Beat First Time

Crash Bandicoot may not be a scary game, but it demands no less patience - and sweat! - from players.

Though debates continue to rage about which of the series' levels is the hardest, the most downright stressful is surely the original Crash Bandicoot's The High Road.

While hardly an overlong slog like some of the game's later levels, it demands pitch-perfect maneuvering from players as they navigate a series of rickety rope bridges complete with loose panels, one-hit-kill hogs, spiked turtles, and ice which can cause you to lose all sense of momentum.

Now, nobody is expected to beat the High Road on their first try, but what takes the level up several notches on the intensity scale is the fact that, if you let it, it'll drain your hard-earned stockpile of lives with reckless abandon.

It's entirely possible to have 99 lives and still not make it to the end, triggering a Game Over and forcing you to either grind another 99 lives or, if you're smart, load a backup save full of lives.

Finally making it through is a truly triumphant experience, but given that every forward movement represents immediate peril and the possibility of instant death, it's far more likely to leave you a jittery wreck than actually entertained.