10 Most Infuriatingly Awkward Video Game Levels Of All Time

2. Anor Londo's Walkway - Dark Souls

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There are many disgustingly hard and ultimately cheap levels in Dark Souls history (and that's coming from someone who ranks it as one of the best games of all time), however nothing beats the sheer "F*ck you" nature of Anor Londo's archer section.

Already set a hefty amount of time away from the last checkpoint, there's a stretch of this level where you're forced to traverse an extremely thin walkway - all as two archers take shots at you from afar. They're using Greatbows with Dragonslayer Arrows, meaning even if you're blocking, your character will still take a slight hit and get knocked backwards into the abyss.

Get up this first walkway and you're then tasked with literally running headlong into the right-side archer, meaning if your timing isn't exactly in-step with this NPC reloading (a stupidly tiny window), he'll easily shoot you straight off the tiny outcrop once again.

Fall and it's game over, but of course the archers respawn, and so do all the enemies you fought to get there, too.

Agony, thy name is Dark Souls.

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