10 Video Games With "That One Level" Everyone Hates

Developer Double Fine's Psychonauts is an almost perfect game. It's imaginative, well written, hilarious, and mechanically inventive.

It's a drag that the final level, the Meat Circus, ends the game on such a bitter note.

The result of a mind-meld between protagonist Raz, a circus performer, and antagonist Coach Oleander, a butcher's son, the level is, as the name implies, a circus made of... meat.

It's also technically considered a war crime as defined by the 1949 Geneva Conventions.

The level is an upward climb of escalating platforms. You'll be dealing with timed jumps, regenerating enemies, projectile attacks, environmental hazards, and repeated boss-like encounters. Almost all of the jumps require your "levitation ball," a wildly unwieldy ball you balance and bounce on. With such small platforms, you will take damage, be knocked down and lose progress. And the whole time you will be doing battle with a frequently obstructed camera.

And did I mention there's an escort mission mixed in?

Thankfully the remaster reduced the difficulty dramatically. Count your blessings if you never had to play the original version.