10 Nasty Video Game Levels Designed To Torture You

9. Rescuing Emma - Metal Gear Solid 2

Underwater mission
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Nobody playtested this particular part of Metal Gear Solid 2's campaign. If they had, it never would have seen the light of day.

Escort missions are never fun, especially when the baggage your stoic hero has to chauffeur to safety is a defenseless liability, but even the worst examples out there (take a bow, Ashley) can't beat the lengths Kojima went to in order to ensure fans hated the sequel for more than just the infamous bait-and-switch.

Just in case you were worried that shepherding Emma through unending corridors wasn't going to be enough of an inane borefest in itself, some bright mind came up with the idea to set a large portion of the sequence underwater, because, you know, having impaired control over two, let alone one, characters in a stealth title was always going to be a promotion-winning idea.

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