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was gonna post Pokestar Studios, but someone else already did so i'll nominate Abyssal Ruins instead, specifically the BW version. it's not particularly egregious as an area atmosphere and music wise, but i'm still a huge unovafag so i'm biased in that regard. note that i'm talking about it without using the internet to help solve the puzzles.
this shit is genuinely unsolvable in all the most arbitrary ways. before talking about the actual floors and ways to solve it, GF literally made up a whole ass language to write the hints on for each pillar that must be transliterated into the roman alphabet, which will already filter out 99% of their target audience that won't bother even trying to figure out and learn this new set of characters. if you actually wanted to though, tough luck for you. the messages are not only written backwards, but put behind an increasingly difficult cipher on later floors(although this is a moot point because by the time you encounter these you'll likely have to have already figured out the cipher to get there).
while the first floor can be somewhat reasonably brute forced without the pillars hints directing you to the pillar that must be interacted with before taking 190 steps(and even that's a huge stretch, as while there are multiple paths to get to it you have to be very intentional in doing so and therefore need to know your goal here, which the pillar message "no king gets lost" barely hints towards), the second and third floors need you to use flash and strength on very specific pillars that you need to path very specifically towards, lest you surpass the step counter that the area places on you. while the pillars do give you pretty straightforward hints on what to do, they're still hidden behind the symbol-language that's, again, backwards and behind a cipher, so no player is ever going to pass these without autistically poring over this massive puzzle that has NO point of reference on how to solve it throughout the ENTIRE game.
