Although there has been snow on the ground si♊nce November here in the Northeast, it wasn’t officially winter until December 21st. That means we can finally discuss something near and dear to every gamer’s heart, provided they live in the northern hemisphere: snow levels.
There are a lot of gre♉at snow levels in gaming, and picking our top five was tough. However, these are the levels that really made us fee🔯l the wind on our cheeks, the snow in our eyes, and the ice in our veins.
5 Cool, Cool Mountain - Mario 64 ꧃
You race a penguin. How much snowier can you get?
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Mario 64 actually had two snow levꦓels, but between Cool, Cool Mountain and Snowman’s Land, we had to give it to the mountain. Racing down an ice-covered slide against a giant penguin was just way more memorable than trying to grab stars in a winter wonderland overseen by a massive snowma🐈n.
On top of that, Mario 64 did something different when it came to their snow levels. While other games would make ice and snow a hindrance, Mario 64 never let the ice stand in your way. If anything, Mario became faster thanks to a patch of ⭕ice.
And we can’t talk about Cool, Cool Mountain without mentioning that music. Of all the Mario 64 tunes, this is the one that sticks with you.
4 Wint✅erhold - Skyrim
Admittedly, most of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Skyrim could be considered a snow level, but Winterhold specifically is the snowiest of the frozen Nord lands. It also contains the College of Winterhold, perhaps the most memorable loca༺tion inꦰ Skyrim as the seat of all magic.
Just as soon as you arrive at the College you're enrolled as a student. After that, you go from first-year to Dead in record time after you save the College from a nefarious plot. Apparently, the line of succession after the༺ first Arch-Mage bites the dust is determined based on who is closest to the body at the time of death and not based on any 💛sort of academic merit.
3 Frozen Wilds - Horizon Zero Dawn 𝓰
Okay, this might be stretching the definition of "level" even worse than Skyrim, but you can't deny that the Frozen Wilds expansion for168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Horizon Zero Dawn is the prettiest example of sn🌄ow in a🐽ny video game, ever.
On top of that, they get the entire feel of winter perfect. It's grey and dismal all the time, wit꧂h snowfall obscuring your view for any given distance. And on the rare occasions when it's not snowing, it's gorgeous.
2 🗹 🎀 Ice Cap Zone - Sonic The Hedgehog 3
Up until Sonic the Hedgehog 3, Sonic had never experienced winter before. Sure, there was a slight dusting of snow in Sonic 2's Hill Top Zone, but you could hardly 🐻call it a winter wonderl🃏and.
And then came Sonic 3, in which Sonic goes from a winter novice to riding a🔥 snowboard down an icy slope. Y🌠ou'd think he was a born snowboarder right up until he runs headlong into the side of a mountain.
Ice Cap Zone captures the eerie brilliance of ice that is rarely replicat🅘ed in video games. For that, we honor the blue hedgehog's contribution to winter gaming.
1 Freezeezy Peak – Banjo𝐆-Kazooie
If any game has captured the magic of the holidays, it’s 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Banjo-Kazooie in Freezeezy Peak. You fight snowmen, decorate a Christmas tree, and save a chokꦑing polar bear all in a single level. Then you race that polar bear in a slalom sleigh race down the side of a mo⛄untain.
Freezeezy Peak doesn't ask hoꦆw much winter can be stuffed into a game. Instead, it asks how much winter can a player take before 🀅they freeze to death.
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