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Alex_The_Hedgehog said:

New Super Mario Bros. U snow levels, with the starry backgrounds, are so beautiful!

Its really generic isnt it? Thats the best designed "snow" element area, you 've seen in a game?

Ka-pi96 said:
Snowpoint City and the routes around it in Pokemon Platinum.

I just really liked that area, it looked awesome to walk around in and I just generally love snowy places in games too

I can respect this for its spirtes.... not visually a hugely impressive snow/winter level though.

Machina said:

God of War's crunchy snow is pretty damn satisfying to walk through and marvel at.

Horizon Zero Dawn's Frozen Wilds expansion is the best part of the game imo. It's got a similar level of detail to God of War's, although not quite as good. But the atmosphere as a whole is stronger and there's great use of colour.

^ a real answear.

Esp in God of War.



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Hebra Mountain in Breath of the Wild



These might not count as levels, but I love playing through winter in bully and the winter season in animal crossing.



Poliwrathlord said:
Honestly I really loved the snow dungeon in Twilight Princess, Snow Peak I believe it was called; not only the dungeon itself but getting there was a nice experience as well.

Yea, that was a good one. Making the soup was cool too.



Basically all of Rise of the Tomb Raider is a snow level lol



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DKC Tropical Freeze. A whole game dedicated to awesome ice levels.



Bf5 Narvik is looking  awesome also if you think about that it is a Multiplayer map with 64 players on it and inclusive destructional environments and it feels like you play the campaign from the techniqual view (Lag/ netcode)



Theres a lot I like

TLOU's entire Winter chapter is very intense
Heart of Ice of Uncharted 2 is one I absolutely adore.
Snowpeak Ruins from Twilight Princess is up there for me as well.
The Frozen Wilds of Horizon.
The WOTLK expansion of WOW is my 2nd favorite (next to BC, obviously)
Death Peak from Chrono Trigger counts? If so, Death Peak.
Kamui of Okami
Some parts of I am Setsuna are just gorgeous, tho I wouldnt put it in my favs the whole game counts as an ice level.



Well, unlike Curl, I come from a part of the world where it gets so cold, I've had frostbite on my eyeballs. I mean wtf are you even supposed to do about that? Cover them and walk out into traffic? I still love snow in games though. Donkey Kong Country on SNES was one of the first games to really nail it IMO. I just finished Horizon Zero Dawn: The Frozen Wilds, and it did an amazing job. It think it's the best representation of a cold climate I've ever seen in a video game.



- "If you have the heart of a true winner, you can always get more pissed off than some other asshole."

The first thing that comes to mind is the northern area in Final Fantasy 7. I am pretty sure that it doesn't look terribly impressive by today's standards, but I really liked the experience of walking through it. The story of the game was about to head to a major turning point at the same time which probably added to the experience.