7 Stupidly Difficult Levels Created in Super Mario Maker

6. Suspicious Skyfort

Here’s a level that differs considerably from the others on this list, as its difficulty stems from its puzzle-like design rather than traditional platforming. You can read about Kotaku’s Patrick Klepek and his fruitless journey to try and conquer the elaborate maze of “Suspicious Skyfort” here. If you take it upon yourself to try and best it yourself, just know that it could take you days to conquer. Just think of all the other Mario Maker levels you could tackle in that same amount of time. Then again, it’s your life. If you want to spend countless hours trying to make it through a Mario maze, more power to you.

http://kotaku.com/mario-maker-stage-is-a-hellish-maze-with-seemingly-no-e-1732616660 Source: kotaku.com

5. Panga’s Revenge: Shell Shock

This one lives up to its name: you won’t only have to rely on some ridiculous Koopa shell manipulation to get through this gauntlet, but will probably find yourself sufficiently drained from repeatedly dying while trying to line up a never ending succession of perfectly-timed jumps. Don’t let that 45 second completion time fool you; this one will take you hours and may forever lie outside your grasp if your reflexes aren’t absolutely perfect.

4. Super Meat Bros.

Wearing its inspiration on its sleeve, Andre GX’s “Super Meat Bros.” level is a clear homage to the notoriously difficult indie hit Super Meat Boy. Fittingly, this Mario Maker level also puts players through a meat grinder of difficult platforming, with more spinning saw blades than a lumber mill. Just have a look at the comments of despair and misery that other players have left behind. Our favorite: “I don’t really want to go on cuz getting here was hard enough.” We agree, unfortunately player: life in Mario Maker is nothing if not a grind.

3. Underground Spin!

You really only need to watch a few minutes of this to get a good idea of the torture this player puts himself through while trying to finish the ridiculous “Underground Spin!”, but here’s a spoiler for how it ends: with every one of his 91 lives lost and no level completion stat to show for it. If you actually manage to watch the video in its entirety, you may come away with a slightly clearer picture of what the term “glutton for punishment” really means. Feel free to give this one a go yourself; we’ll be sticking to the easy levels, thank you.

2. Bomb Voyage

Believe it or not, this is not actually the hardest Mario Maker level out there. If you told that to the over 11,000 players around the world who tried and failed to clear PangaeaPanga’s course before one finally succeeded, they’d likely be inclined to firmly disagree…if they weren’t too busy still drying their tears. “Bombs Voyage” will make you question everything you thought you knew about playing Mario. We get that people like a challenge but this is ridiculous. There are things in this level that we would never have thought possible in a Mario game and now we question whether we ever really knew how to play these games at all.

1. Pit of Panga: P-Break

Clearing “Pit of Panga: P-Break” should be a recruitment tool for the Air Force or any other organization that requires robot-like reflexes. As of this writing, only the level’s creator — PangaeaPanga, of course — has defeated it and it took him longer to do that than it did to actually make the level! The only reason we know this level is actually possible to beat (besides the video evidence) is that the game requires a level to actually be cleared by its creator before it can be uploaded. That’s small consolation when “P-Break” is easily one of the most difficult moments of gaming we’ve ever witnessed. Is it even possible to build a Mario Maker stage worse than this? We’re sure someone will try.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sxY8pELhqM