what are the hardest mario levels ever?

[Lumastar]

I did Champion's Road with Mario first. It was a pain.

 

[freakworld]

i did it with toad like i did with every level

 

[Mcmadness]

Pick any level from lost levels, chances are it's one of the hardest in the franchise.

 

[DragonFreak]

Pick any level from lost levels, chances are it's one of the hardest in the franchise.

IDK man I beat Lost Levels, but I haven't been able to do a lot of levels in Galaxy.

Well I did use save states in LL, so eh.

 

[Glitchy Bowser Jr.]

Pick any level from lost levels, chances are it's one of the hardest in the franchise.

IDK man I beat Lost Levels, but I haven't been able to do a lot of levels in Galaxy.

Well I did use save states in LL, so eh.

I only made it to World 4 because of VC save states.

 

[PrincessPeach1989]

Rainbow Ride
Grandmaster Galaxy
Champion's Road.
World 8-4 (SMB)

 

[Cirdec]

Pick any level from lost levels, chances are it's one of the hardest in the franchise.

IDK man I beat Lost Levels, but I haven't been able to do a lot of levels in Galaxy.

Well I did use save states in LL, so eh.

Well of course it doesn't count if you used savestates.

 

[LeftyGreenMario]

Champions Road wins a place in my heart for being the most miserable few hours in my life I had to endure through.

 

[Lord Bowser]

Pick any level from lost levels, chances are it's one of the hardest in the franchise.

IDK man I beat Lost Levels, but I haven't been able to do a lot of levels in Galaxy.

Well I did use save states in LL, so eh.

Well of course it doesn't count if you used savestates.

you try beating it without save states lol

 

[Cirdec]

Pick any level from lost levels, chances are it's one of the hardest in the franchise.

IDK man I beat Lost Levels, but I haven't been able to do a lot of levels in Galaxy.

Well I did use save states in LL, so eh.

Well of course it doesn't count if you used savestates.

you try beating it without save states lol

I did it. It's hard but definitively not impossible.

 

[RandomYoshi]

I did it. It's hard but definitively not impossible.

Which version did you play?

 

[Cirdec]

I did it. It's hard but definitively not impossible.

Which version did you play?

Original and Super Mario All Stars version.

 

[RandomYoshi]

The original, really? On a Famicom?

EDIT: I just remembered that emulators were a thing. Never mind me, I'm being a massive idiot, once again.

Either way, cool.

 

[Keqing]

i did it on all stars
i used that trick to get like 99 lives in the first level and then did it from there
shit took me a whole day i think
like 8 hours of straight ll
all the way to d-4

 

[Cirdec]

The original, really? On a Famicom?

EDIT: I just remembered that emulators were a thing. Never mind me, I'm being a massive idiot, once again.

Either way, cool.

The original game on the Wii Virtual Console.
I don't use emulators (illegal stuff blabla)

 

[Mcmadness]

I did it. It's hard but definitively not impossible.

Nobody is saying it's impossible but it's reputation as the hardest Mario game is well earned.

 

[The Ultimate Mario Fan]

The Perfect Run I actually beat on my second try. ..Which made it anti-climactic for me, since it was toted to be so difficult by people and it was over so quickly. Why am I so good at Mario...

That freaking Pachinko Machine in Sunshine, the physics are all over the place.

This is harder. Argh, I remember that took me forever to complete (also that leaf raft level was pretty tough). Some of those Sunshine special levels were really difficult.


But honestly, this is a question I need to mull over. I don't generally encounter great difficulty with Mario levels, even for the Lost Levels. A likely candidate for me would be one of the DLC Coin Rush levels from NSMB2. Some of those are just cruel.

 

[Ray Trace]

Beating the Perfect Run in two tries doesn't necessarily make you good at Mario tho.

 

[Giga12]

Beating the Perfect Run in two tries doesn't necessarily make you good at Mario tho.

Definitely. It's not particularly difficult, just annoying. A testament to EAD Tokyo's horrible interpretation of difficulty.

 

[MnSG]

Beating the Perfect Run in two tries doesn't necessarily make you good at Mario tho.

Definitely. It's not particularly difficult, just annoying. A testament to EAD Tokyo's horrible interpretation of difficulty.

Nintendo is never going to go down the Kaizo road though. The Lost Levels may be for more experienced players, but at least its difficulty is on the fair side.