Super Mario 64. Yes, I KNOW I am supposed to, as a life long Nintendo fan, love this game and everything it does. But I don't. I beat this game two, nearly three years ago, and I have never once played it since. My loathing for it as a majority is parallel to my adoration for some parts of it.
I hate the cheap shit they don't tell you about until after it happens, namely the Buzzard stealing my hat which results in me taking double damage until I manage to hit the bird somehow and yank it back, I hate many of the stages, namely the desert level for the 20+ lives I lost in it, the clock level(GOD I HATE YOU FOR THAT LEVEL ALONE), so on and so forth. I despise how fun the hats are to use, and yet how rare it is that I can get some use out of them, I hate the enemies and its exhaustive amount of invincible bastards I can only run away from, I hate how needlessly complex it can be to get every star and every red coin in the boss stages, and I HATE most of all the unfair, cheap, frustrating, and at times mercilessly cruel Likitu cameraman, he is a SADISTIC bastard the likes we have not seen in any game ever.
And yet, I LOVE the swimming areas,Dire Dire Docks and Jolly Roger Bay had the BEST musical score of the entire 3d Mario series, yes, even better than Pianta Harbor and even better than everything in Super Mario Galaxy. I adore the special stages for the fun they allow us to do, I love the Cave level because as a Kid I was enthralled with the Nessie area and it was even better that I could go in with the Metal Hat, my personal favorite hat of the series. I love Bomb'omb battle field for a majority of reasons, and I love some of the bosses and areas I get to play with.
My hatred for aspects of the game come mainly from my childhood frustrations with huge parts of it, it was a hard enough game as an adult, it was even more impossible as a child. In time as I get even older, I will probably appreciate it, and Nintendo a lot more as I look back on it, but for right now, I loath the game yet also adore it.
Tl

R. I have a bitter-sweet love and hatred for this game.