10 Video Games That Punish You For Playing Perfectly

For the most part, Banjo-Tooie manages to balance out its difficulty fair well. You can't compete everything perfectly first try unless you're a dyed in the wool platforming expert, but if you're a decent hand at video games, there also aren't too many areas that'll give you grief.

Aside from your last race against Canary Mary, of course, which is almost infamously painful if you don't know about it already. The gist is that Mary is coded with the rubberband catch up system that most racing games or minigames use, in order to ensure you can some kind of competition by having the other players remain (relatively) close to you.

Issue is, if you speed away too early in the race, Mary will speed up and not slow down, meaning that your chances of beating her become suddenly much lower. For your best shot, you need to gently stay a little ahead of your opponent until basically the last lap, unless you want her to suddenly gain superspeed when its most inconvenient.