What Is The Hardest 3D Mario Level? 

I think the version of Champions Road on the Wii U is actually much harder than the Switch version just because of your lack of ability to dive on the Wii U making it a lot more difficult to make quick recoveries

You can also just run across the blocks where every second one is missing in champion's road.

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Also that champions road can be done with multiple players, which can fluctuate the difficulty depending on who you are playing with

I love how we all just collectively forgot that 3D Land also exists and also had a very difficult final bonus level.

Chamipons Road is definetly the one that gave me the hardest time of these three and i think the reason why is, as long as you arent playing peach or rosalina ,its the game that gives you the least movement options out of these three. I mean if you REALLY got the hang of odysee its kinda ridiculous what kinda stuff you can do.

8:15 oh no he doesn't know you can just hold the button to keep high bouncing on enemies in this game. No timing needed. The piranha creeper part is best done with Mario as it's designed for him to smoothly jump between them. Peach's float makes it weird since it entirely halts her upwards momentum. The other characters can do it more or less just fine. Also, I've died many times when I felt I shouldn't on the one block gap section too, you're supposed to just run across it, but the charging chucks make you jump, so at that point you can try to keep your speed and pray, or bounce on each chuck and hover (since you were using Peach, could also double jump with Rosalina), or take it carefully like you did, which is harder than it looks with the increased player speed.

You can run across the bars in Champions Road. Most jank you described is fixable by playing the sections correctly (with better strats)

Good video. The notorious "Lily Pad Ride Level" from Super Mario Sunshine might deserve a try as well.

I thinik the hardest mario level is actually when you are in a ranked match with kento and he keeps throwing

When I was a kid me and my brother grinded to beat champion's road for like two months straight at one point. It was brutal, but we got there in the end.

I think this is a really good video! Though, you did forget about the secret final hard level in 3D Land, which is similar to 3D Worlds in structure while being entirely different

Here's my ranking of these levels. For completeness, I have also included Special 8-Crown from 3D Land and The Ultimate Test (the base version of Grandmaster Galaxy). 1. The Perfect Run 2. Champion's Road 3. The Ultimate Test 4. Special 8-Crown 5. Darker Side

Just a few things about champoin's road: 7:50 you dont have to land precisely on each block. You just have to land on the first one and the others you can just run over them. The challenge here is running past all of the charging enemies because if you have to jump to avoid them, then you have to do a good landing as well. 8:06 keep in mind that this stage is beatable by every character. And this section can also be done in many ways. It it a timing challenge. And also, for the double blocks, you can walljump from the next blocks (the one that is too far to reach) and land on the next block when it switches back. 8:11 The same thing happened to me until I realized that it is NOT timing based thing. You just have to hold jump and you will always get the max height when bouncing.

For me Champion's Road is definitely the hardest, with The Perfect Run at 2nd, and Darker Side is not even close to the first 2.

One thing worth noting is that to 100% 3D World, you need to beat Champion's Road with every character. I can't recall from memory which character is the hardest, but it's most likely Toad because of his smaller jump height. So if we're comparing which level is the hardest to beat by any means necessary, then yes, Champions Road isn't too bad. But considering it's involvement in 100% which necessitates playing with characters that aren't Peach or Rosalina, I personally think Champion's Road is the hardest.

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Couldn't agree more. It's also worth mentioning that 3D world has multiplayer which can make it easier to beat Champions Road.

I'm definitely subscribed bro. Keep making your videos because we all enjoy them.

Loved the video! glad to see you branching out into more games.

Yo i clicked on this vid after a long while since i last saw ur vids and it was supper funny to hear how ur voice changed, then i realized wors mario kart vid was 2 years ago damn. Glad to see u still uploading!

The Darker Side of the Moon is the easiest level out of all levels you mentioned.

Dude, im so proud of how far you came. You gonna be a great youtuber bro

playing as toad on the wii u for mario 3d world is the hardest way to play this level in my opinion. tiny jump, slower than switch and no op dive or hover and without powerups i would say its the hardest level of them all

Great video tho I think 3d land last level, which is the "Champions Road" of that game, it's harder than Champions Road itself. Ofc it doesn't mean that's harder than Galaxy 2, that's the toughest one XD

"Bringing in powerups is cheating" *Uses easiest character in the game that basically removes all challenge from most of the sections*

Well my man you have a lot to learn about darker side so i will educate you. Firstly the goombas are there for the optional miniboss that is the hat which gives you a life-up heart after defeat. Then in the uproot section there is a hidden block with a heart in it that you can use to stand on and get to the top ledge. There will be some coins there and you skip the ice-water section. You mentioned glydon being able to skip the forks section, but if you use the wind draft correctly then you can not only skip the entire sub-area. You can also completely skip bowser and then you close of by doing u-skip in the ending wire segment. And before you ask: no, I have not executed any of these skips myself because i unfortunately don't have the ability to.

There is also a level on mario 3d land, when you finish all levels in the secret world you unlock by beating the boss, that i've never get into a half of it, but it was a few years ago and i can't play it anymore so i don't really know if it is that hard

I love your videos, keep it up

At 7:45 you could actually just dash along the blocks instead of jumping on each one. I learned that the hard way. Love your content.

7:53 you can sprint over those blocks and you'll run over the gaps instead of having to jump over each one. Same thing in the 2D Mario games with 1 block gaps

This earned a follow-up great video

Level S8-Crown from 3D Land is really hard level that nobody talks about.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but on the Wii U version of 3D World, didn’t you have to beat every level as all of the characters including Rosalina? I’m asking because I didn’t get to Champions Road on the Wii U version, but I did on the Switch and just assumed it was the same.

The beepblock section in champion's road is a lot more fun with a character that cant float. Jts really satisfying to stall in midair with ground pounds

Heyo a Jopes upload? Nice!

for the section in champion's road with the chargin chucks on the weird platforms, you can just run across the gaps. you don't have to jump.

I probably suck but no power ups Mario champions road sounds like the definition of pain

A note about the section mentioned at 7:49, the unusual feel and constant falling through the bars it not exclusive to the Switch version, it happened to me plenty of times on the Wii U version.

The perfect run only took me n my brother like 50 minutes probably because we realized how easily Co-Star Luma can be used to cheese it. It can hold the moving lasers in the pullstar bit, blow up the bomb mines, and freeze hammer bros/boomerang bros. Not to mention crouching by boomerang bros means their boomerangs miss you. Was absolutely relieving finally beating the game after 10 years. Champion’s Road on the other hand has taken us hours to beat. It was torture. And we have to go back in and beat it with the rest of the characters since there’s only two of us. Rosalina does absolutely cheese most of it though with the spin jump, especially the beat blocks. We haven’t beat darker side yet.

Champion’s Road is the only one of these I’ve beaten and AHHHH so true about some of the jumps just feeling off. Most of my deaths in 3D World felt so bad because I didn’t feel in control or like I knew where my character was going to end up after a jump. I’m still salty

In the pull star section on the perfect run, you can purposely fall out of the pull star, catch yourself for vertical momentum and use that height to ignore most obstacles.

Good video! This does make me curious, though, as a series aimed towards children, which game is the most difficult overall?

I am one of the 3 percent subscribed! Never played galaxy 2, but I agree champions road is harder than Odyssey. Part of that is how familiarity with Odyssey’s move set lets you game a lot of the level design. Which the developers did on purpose, and I love that. Have you played Celeste? If you like this sort of challenge, that’s pretty much all Celeste is.

3D land has a final level that took me a pretty long time too

2:31 I see that you lose much of your height at one point, usually you just skip to bowser's part with this technique 5:13 I have a very helpful tip here if you don't mind playing as Luigi, if you backflip while facing the camera and go as far as you can in distance, not only you go forward very fast, but the lasers don't appear, as Luigi got so much height that the shooters dont detect him anymore 6:31 The gaps at this specific spot are short enough to run over them without falling

This channel goes HARD!

Nice video Jopes!

Damn bro last time one of your videos came in my recommended was two years ago you’re a whole ass old man now

Cosmic cannon cluster! Champions road is a cakewalk

Darker side took me 2 weeks as a 10 year old and I cheesed the end half with glydon. Something mentioned in this video is you can cheese the fork part with glydon. You can actually cheese the whole end part with him (it is just harder) you can fly all the way to the bowser portal.

The cannon galaxy level on 3D world or whatever its called is much harder, just because you have to climb cannonballs which is hell

There is no question in my mind that Champion's Road is the hardest. The Perfect Run really only has two difficult sections, that being the fourth and final, whereas Champion's Road is difficult all the way through (And Darker Side was never even really a contender; it's more a test of resiliance than a test of skill, and forget skipping the Fork section, with Glydon you can also skip the Pokio and 2D sections by gliding straight to the Bowser portrait). However, I feel like Special 8-Crown from 3D Land bares mentioning. It may not have been the first final gauntlet in 3D Mario, but I like to think this level truly laid the groundwork for what these levels are truly capable of. The platforming is tight, the style of platforming keeps switching on you preventing you from getting too comfortable, the obstacles are tight, and they even threw a boss fight in the middle of it. I still think Champion's Road has a higher barrier of completion, but I also think this level at least deserves to be in the competition.

the purple coin level in super mario galaxy 1 with the disappearing platforms was hard asf

3:31 The flower part is not precise, the enemies can be avoided through timing The lazers are not random Crouching and not moving isn't a good examply of 'not making an error'

The Perfect Run. Hands down.

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Champions Road for me! I feel so good, knowing i mastered it And bro, you used peach to hover… so haha using no power ups

I beat Champions Road and Darker Side first try, I still haven’t beaten GrandMaster Galaxy. It’s the hardest easily

You should do a hardest 2d Mario level video next. There’s definitely a lot of candidates to choose from in that series.

What about Mario Sunshine's lily pad stream level or pachinko machine? They are hard because of rushed game design rather than being intelligently difficult, but are still contenders nonetheless.

Lilypad Level in Mario Sunshine is the hardest for me. Oh, the suffering to simply get there, only to realize its so messed Up and hard to Beat... No words

the perfect run from super mario galaxy 2 easily takes this part

Super Mario 3D-Land also has a super hard final level, but it's been a while since I beat it so admittedly I don't remember how difficult it is.

As someone who played both Galaxy 2’s Perfect Run and 3D World’s Champion’s Road (on Wii U), I found Champion’s Road much more painful 😂

If i had to pick one, it absolutely has to be odyssey's. You give the game the most fluid controls some of the tightest jumps while also implementing cappy abilities and shortcuts for the bold are straight up maddening to pull off, and when someone finds a frog skip _instantly_ remove it, the game becomes pure chaos but in the best way possible..seriously i dare you to use assist mode and 2 player, I'd argue the assist bubble actually makes things harder cause it blocks you of shortcuts

I feel like there was a a bit of misunderstanding when it comes to Champions Road. The 1 space platforms can be crossed by just holding Y. And holding B as you fall on an enemy makes you jump automatically.

cant believe world S8-🚩 from 3D Land wasnt mentioned but good video

Reminder to all with access to ways to play galaxy 2 that I highly recommend trying to beat the perfect run but keeping yoshi all the way through using infinite flutter. Very challenging, but one of the most rewarding experiences in a mario game (even if one of the most flexless experiences because of the amount of time you have to waste explaining why it's cool)

Three words. The. Perfect. Run.

I think Champion's Road is the most interesting of the three. It felt a lot more streamlined than a mishmash of various levels, and I never felt like it was unfair, just precise. I think the music being more or less exclusive to it makes it a lot better of a final level, honestly. It makes it feel much more special. Then again, I played on Wii U and went to the HOME menu whenever I died so I didn't have to smuggle in powerups. So that may also be related lol

For darker side you can also defeat the boss at the beginning for extra hearts

Not mentioned here but the final level for 100% of 3D Land is just as hard as these

there's a few methods to make champion's road much more consistent. For the Chargin' Chuck section, you can jump over it using boost/P speed and landing in the center. mario and toad may not be able to do this as easily, but everyone else can do it very well. you can also hug the top wall while at max speed to avoid the first chargin chuck. as for the piranha creeper section, if you're not holding any direction on the analog stick, you will lose all horizontal momentum upon bouncing. (it also seems like you weren't holding A, too). with the ants, you seemed to know the correct method, bouncing off of them and then wall jumping. the beat blocks have several ways to pass. it's possible to run full speed and do small jumps to barely reach each block at the end, and the timing will line up. you can also stall out with peach. the intended method seems to be hopping back and forth between them, however.

Me and my friend always die on the final dash panel section and haven’t gotten past it yet

The answer was Luigi's purple coin. It's the only level I remember from all these games.

Man, perfect run gives me a nostalgia burst

Champions Road, next question

I dont understand how you can give this to grandmaster galaxy like yeah i spent hours on it as a kid dying hundreds of times but after going back to it as an adult i beat it within single digit attempts just take your time, dont die trying to save a cloud, and use starbits/duck on the boomerang bros and you will be good

Man Puberty came fast little man

This probably would not change the veredict of the video but I definitely think you should've considered 3D Land's final level as well. It's the same "Grand Finale" style of level and the difficulty of it is definitely notable.

Using Peach for Champion's Road is pretty unfair. Should have played it with Mario to be able to properly compare it to the others.

as someone who's beat champions road with all 5 playable characters, i can tell you that your first mistake was picking peach. playing that level as luigi makes it several times easier

Badge Marathon from Mario Wonder should be in this conversation too, I thnk

Don't forget to cover 3D Land's hardest level

8:13 You can just hold the jump button here

I think Mario Wonder's final badge challenge is worth mentioning here, though its difficulty is cut down a bit by the inclusion of checkpoints

7:45 you're supposed to run across these blocks with gaps. Makes it a lot easier

How do you do that air role thing? I see people do it all the time, but I never figure it out.

Sandbird on Mario Sunshine

The final final level in super Mario wonder

Puberty hitting my bro like crazy

Bro said no power ups on champions road yet he uses peach

Did you know that in champions road you can run across the small bars without jumping

You can just run across the bars in the part with the chargin chucks

My ranking: 1. The Perfect Run (i have 241 stars on galaxy 2) 2. Champions Road (easy to cheese as peach) 3. Darker Side (you can skip like half the level for this one) Edit: I just beat the perfect run and yup it was pretty hard

He forgot to mention Lava Spire Daredevil Run from Super Mario Galaxy, since that level is JUST like The Perfect Run from Galaxy 2, because you have to go through the whole level without even making ONE single mistake! Because there’s no water in the level, if you lose your Bee Mushroom or Cloud Flower Suit, you die and automatically get sent all the way back to the very beginning. In fact, Lava Spire Daredevil Run is the 1st and only Daredevil comet in Super Mario Galaxy in which Mario/Luigi has to go through the entire level instead of just fighting the boss.

I knew that Darker Side couldn't be the hardest, given that it's the only one of these I have beaten.

Darker side is pretty forgiving compared to champions road and galaxy

Champions road with toad is really tough