10 Video Game Levels That Confused Everyone As Kids

6. The Water Temple - The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time

The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time is fondly remembered by an entire generation of N64 owners as one of their formative gaming experiences.

That is, until they reached that damn Water Temple.

One of the most infamously challenging levels in any AAA video game, the temple comprises five floors which the player can navigate by changing the water level.

The slapdash, maze-like layout of the Water Temple is made to wilfully befuddle, while using Iron Boots to sink and slowly trudge through the water feels like designer Eiji Aonuma flat-out trolling players.

Even if played with a pen and paper at the ready, the level is headache-inducingly labyrinthine, and it's incredibly easy to end up in a loop of revisiting the same rooms over and over again while thinking you've stumbled across a new area.

So many of us have not-so-fond memories of wasting hours of our youth trying to make sense of this place, and though strategy guides helped lessen the frustration, it was still an absolute slog making it to the end.

Aonuma eventually apologised for the level's arduousness, and significantly nerfed its difficulty for the 2011 3DS remake.