Yeah I didn't have that much trouble with Hydrocity because you had a lot more opportunities to get some speed going and ways to almost bypass most of the water depending on the path you took. As for Labyrinth everyone remembers it being a pain. When I played the first Sonic waaaaay back, I was able to breeze through Green Hill, Marble, and Spring Yard but Labyrinth was where I died and started using continues then I breezed through Starlight Zone though Scrap Brain was harder as well as just to piss us off more they throw in that last water stage in act III.
But water levels suck. PERIOD!! Clanker's Cavern, Labyrinth Zone, any of Mario's water levels unless you have the right suit.
Here's the link to the vid. http://www.gametrailers.com/video/top-10-screwattack/717175
Some thoughts on the ones I played.
Yeah Hyrdocity isn't awful though how many times did that bugger Tails steal your bubbles? Almost as bad as him geting rings in Sonic 2's special stages then taking a hit and knocking the total down to where you lose.
The TMNT dam where you have to swim through the dam water dodging the dam obstacles to stop the dam bombs and swimming around dam seaweed and everyone hates the dam level.
Yeah I'll be devil's advocate and say I didn't mind the sailing in Wind Waker mainly because I would stop along the way to hunt for treasure, explore the little mini dungeon islands, fight the pirates on the towers etc. Also I do think people hate Ocarina's Water temple more than they should as well. It's just easy to forget which level you need to go to next and it's a pain that they only item that works in the water is the hookshot.
Also I'm surprised no mention of some of the 3D Mario water levels. One of the few times in usually polished Mario games where the camera can get stuck and the fact that after the jump to 3D they started giving Mario limited air as well. I blame Sonic.
Also I have a dishonorable mention. Kameo: Elements of Power (360)there's a form called Deep Blue which is a sort of sea monster. On land he's ok, just slow but shoots powerful water jets however he's the only form you can use to go into the water and the minute you're in the water the controls go to hell thanks to the weird control scheme the game set up since the x, y, a,b buttons aren't used for attacks or jumping like most normal games and instead used to switch between selected forms, you have to use the shoulder buttons to make deep blue swim and this is about as effective as hitting yourself in the head with a hammer.
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