10 TERRIBLE Video Game Levels That Took Away Your Powers
8. Forsaken Fortress - The Legend Of Zelda: The Wind Waker
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker at least gets its worst section out of the way early on, with the second chapter catapulting Link to the infamous Forsaken Fortress.
Link ends up losing his sword on the trip over to the Fortress, and so the player is shoved into an infuriating mandatory stealth sequence where, if spotted, you're sent back to the very beginning.
The level design is both confusing and tedious, and having your sword taken away at this point in the game is straight-up annoying, but it's the lack of checkpointing which really makes so many fans hate this one.
For newcomers to the series it was an immediate turn-off, a bizarrely irritating opening which didn't get things off on the right foot at all.