Is there a SINGLE good snow level in video games?

Is there a SINGLE good snow level in video games?

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cold hard crash in crash bandicoot 2 :^P

Ice levels and water levels are usually good. Try playing something other than Mario for once. Hell, even if you're adamant about sticking to Nintendo you could find good examples of ice and water levels in their other franchises.

None that spring to mind

There are some that winter to mind, though.

Pic related.
If you wanted a snow thread you could have just asked.

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I like Valak Mountain and Tantal in Xenoblade 1 and 2.
Kirby games usually have great snow levels too.

Ice levels and water levels are usually good

Yet you cannot name one.

The 2 ice levels in original SMW are alright.

Tidal Tempest, Hydrocity Zone, Ice Cap Zone, Shiver Star

The snow levels are ok in Megaman x 1 2 and 3.

Seashore War from DKC Tropical Freeze

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unfunny samefag

Snow levels are among the most comfy in all of vidya though.

goat atmosphere

goat music

not suitable for brownies because they need heat to live

Feels good man.

They're usually the worst. Gimmick levels like those, pit levels, autoscrollers and the like are always the shittiest levels in their games.

Ice levels are a mixed bag and water levels are almost universally shit. The only game that I can think of with a good water section is Majora's Mask. Zora Link is just too fun.

It's kind of weird how SMW had only two snow levels in the entire game.

Rayman 3 has a great snow level that finishes with an even greater snowboard race.

Phendrena drifts I liked

Atlantis from Banjo-Tooie is so good if you get the fast swimming from Roystein in Spiral Mountain.

donkey kong country 1 and 2

I like the one in Yoshi's Island with the downhill skiing

Chill Penguin in MMX.

Smartball Smartball Smartball

Ice levels and water levels are usually good

Blood had a whole episode of them

NOLF 2 Siberia is a-mazing! Them hares, man, them borscht jokes.

The Division 1

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all the retards seething at this post while ignoring the numerous examples from other anons

kek
spbp

snowboarding games?

banjo kazooie
mario 64
diddy kong racing
hydro thunder

Super Mario Galaxy 2 - World 3
Kirby's Epic Yarn - Snowy Fields

What game? Looks comfy as hell. Been into driving games more after I got my Dodge Challenger.

Need for speed porsche unleashed/2000. PC version specifically (this is important as the psx version has different tracks).

Comfy dungeon.

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Painted World of Ariamis

I love the one with the purple pillar tileset that only appears in that one singular level.

All snow levels are good imo. Only desert levels come close to the euphoria

Where are they even on the map it's been a long time. Is one of them the star world?

can't let assets go to waste by being only used once goy
also they sucked

The snowbeast level in ratchet and clank 2 sucks.

Well done you picked my most hated snow level of all time. It's okay when you're not on the tundra but those yeti spawn rates are hilarious

Yes.

forgotten land

Snow levels are usually the best alongside riding on train levels and amusement parks.

NOOO I SLIDE A LITTLE I HAVE TO ADJUST MY MOVEMENT A LITTLE NOOOO

NOOO I HAVE TO SWIMM AHHH

Not saying that they can't be done poorly, but the mechanics they allow usually make the levels fun. Just a bunch of babies following popular opinions.

ICE LEVELS GOT THE BEST JAMS
TURN IT UP

Zora Link fun

he played the 3ds version

You mean didn't

DK Bananza, I played it already

Stark difference between underwater levels and pool levels. Rarely are underwater levels designed well and they end up tediously over simplified. If it's a level where you have pools but you're mostly on surface that's cool

Go look up Useless Podcasts on youtube and find when they reached that level. The guys playing worked at insomniac at the time and have some very interesting things to say about that level but the part I want to highlight here is the snowbeasts break a core enemy design element of the game. In R&C ALL enemies have a wind up for their attack so the player has a choice in how to react to said attack. The snowbeasts have a windup of about half a second so to the player they attack waaaaaaay too fast. The spawn quantity on its own wouldn't be a problem but the rate at which they attack with no warning is too much.

Also: there was an award internally at insomniac known as the snowbeast award - given to the person responsible for the most disliked enemy in whatever game insomniac shipped. I really go recommend the podcast as they did an entire playthrough of R&C 2 and 3 and it is a fascinating insight into how the games were developed.

ice levels are good, you just have to play them outside of games made by the company that made them a staple of the industry

I know most of that outside of the wind up part. There health bars were so extreme that with the quantity you ran out of ammo constantly and had to run back to buy ammo continuously

Donut Secret 2 and Awesome.

lol

The entirety of MSG1

You aren't playing kino

Majora's Mask

None of these are good apart from Shiver Star.

Majora's Mask has the best dungeon quality of the franchise, they're all so kino. Ocarina of time is close, but Dodongo's Cavern is really boring

See? That wasn't so hard.

alright OP you better cool it before I put you on ice

cool edge (day and night) from sonic unleashed

Dodongo's is a lot more fun as an adult.

Revisting it for the spiders is neat, but just playing through it as child Link my brain just goes into autopilot. The dungeon is almost a complete straight line.

Yes.

Is it even possible to beat Wizpig? I could beat any stage with any vehicle, but this was impossible.

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Most of Ocarina's dungeons are basically very elaborate hallways, dude. Very nice hallways, but still hallways. Sometimes there are side doors though, I guess.

you are hearing the music now manually

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Snow levels = good
Ice levels = bad

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