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what's your favorite individual level/stage/chapter in a video game
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I have to at least give a mention to Titanfall 2's Effect and Cause as an easy ass pick
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and Mass Effect 2's Omega Relay
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gonna be extremely predictably on brand and say the birthplace segment in hollow knight
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That Was Some Shit
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god yes
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there's so many ways you can do it
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the second half of the yami boss fight in okami
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i'm a fucking sucker for those "everyone in the world is watching and you're going to win" scenarios
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i cry like a wee baby every time
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oh also the lead up to the primal reversion legendary encounter in ORAS absolutely fucking slaps
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also from ORAS, the reveal of what was in the meteorite at the end of the delta episode
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I feel like boss fights are their own consideration apart from levels
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i was somehow completely unaware that deoxys was in it, so when the birth island symbol popped out and started zipping around i did a big yell
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OH GOD I FORGOT
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THE ENDING SEQUENCE FROM BASTION
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IF YOU DONT PICK UP THE RAM
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that ENTIRE fucking sequence, jesus
Snake-Kun
All those guys just
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watching you
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one of them take a pot shot and one of his own dudes cuts him down
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you can't dodge, you can't do anything
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all you do is take damage and walk
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also this is predictable but the credits from nier automata
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I want to say Microwave Corridor but no, that's a boss fight
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yeah i'm also a big fan of the Save Path of the last level of Bastion
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the ending of the first episode of Tales from the Borderlands still just has the energy of a season finale of another telltale game
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it's amazing
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the date with papyrus in undertale
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I like the sequence in BG2 where you go back to the vampire lair and now you have stakes and allies swarming around and you methodically detrap everything and steal their shit and vaporize so many fucking vampires
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New Home for emotion. Arsenal Gear for gameplay and story.
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New Home is absolutely up there
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Favorite is hard but something worth mentioning:
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on the whole this is a difficult question though...
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Part 2 Endgame of FE10
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the best defense map in the series
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New Home is insanely good yeah
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but YES 2-Endgame of Radiant Dawn
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perfectly balanced to feel like a huge grueling Helm's Deep-ass siege right up until the literal cavalry arrives to reinforce you
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by which point you go on the offensive in a major way
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and the fuckin CUTSCENES AFTER
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with the boys being back in town
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and Elincia being amazing
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New Home and Pacifist True Ending in Undertale
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There's a lot of levels in Paper Mario I adore, but I think I'll throw a vote in for the Glitz Pit
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Wrestlemania level that slowly reveals itself to actually be a murder mystery
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Does "All of Midgar" count
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Midgar is a bit broad
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because it is such a perfect introduction to the tone and world of ff7
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fair
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since it's like a third of the game
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Anor Londo feels basic to even have to explain
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Anor Londo for sure is up there
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but to be only slightly counter to it, since I think a lot of AL's impact is the buildup to it:
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Sen's Fucking Fortress
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also excellent
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I feel like there are a lot of parts of Bloodborne that I'd call excellent for various reasons but I don't know if I'd put any of them on "all time" lists
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like Cainhurst is this beautiful gothic location that has some cool backstory information but it's totally irrelevant
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yeah the whole game is cool but I dunno if any is like "this. this is the level"
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I feel like level design is the 1 area where Dark Souls 1 is the best Souls game
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which says a lot about its good levels considering it also contains Izalith
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Oh, I've thought of one: MGS3, the Shagohod fight onward
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Zanarkand in FF10
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okay as someone that doesn't know even two things about soulsborne
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what's anor londo
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so, Dark Souls 1
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at the beginning of the game, you get your basic quest/prophecy
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for the obligatory Zelda-ing I'm gonna cheat and say Ikana as a whole instead of just the inside of Stone Tower Temple
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thaht you must ring the two bells of awakening, then proceed through Sen's Fortress to reach Anor Londo, city of the gods
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the first one is pretty easy (relatively) to get to
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then you go through the sewers, the the horrible place beneath the sewers, to the top of hell itself to ring the second bell
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and then you crawl through a massive labyrinthine fortress full of murder traps, and fight (maybe) a giant iron golem at the top of one of the hardest dungeons you've ever seen
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Welcome to Anor Londo
then you get this
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and it's like... this is it
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the place you've been fighting to reach for all this time
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it is time for dark souls to begin
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even apart from the intro it's just, like, a level made up entirely of unforgettable setpieces
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yeah
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and the beginning of it really hammers home this idea of just
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climbing up on the ceilings and flying buttresses of a giant beautiful city full of French cathedrals built by and for people who begin at twice your size and go up to like 30 feet
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"what do you mean, normal enemies"
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"this is just where bosses live"
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dueling ninjas on rafters a hundred feet off the floor
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ooh ooh
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fountainhead palace
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in Sekiro
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being sniped by knights
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this bright, colorful, impossibly beautiful wonderland
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full of sick, twisted, decadent nobles
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Oh, Anor Londo is in DS3 isn't it
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part of it
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I didn't realize it had that history
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and it's all fucked up by time
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no yeah god arriving in Anor Londo in DS3 is lie
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like
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the biggest "RECOGNIZE THIS, MOTHERFUCKER???" sledgehammer to the kneecaps in a video game
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oooh that's cool
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DS3 is our first proper dark souls
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so we didnt have that context, but that's neat
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DS3 brings you to the broken, dead shell of what once was
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in general DS3 feels like a very decayed world
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Irithill was super cool though
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even by Dark Souls 1, the world is dying
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but by DS3 it's even more gone
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it's down from a flickering flame to softly glowing cinder
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My understanding of the Dark Souls plot as a whole is
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oh god
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the world goes through repeated apocalypses and each time the player has to avert it
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i forgot about this until now but here's an ancient throwback:
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but each time the world still kind of ends a little bit
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so each time there's less and less of it to save
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the 'through the fire and the flames' sequence from brutal legend
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and ultimately is it worth it
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but that's derailing this plurk a bit
thetaClysm
amaurot
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Aumarot is a lot
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honestly bran bal/terra in general always stuck with me
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from
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Psychonauts: The Milkman Conspiracy
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Tanetane island
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Tanetane island from
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bran bal/terra is final fantasy 9
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Mother 3!
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oh is that
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