Tutorial levels, ranked: teaching you to play versus wasting your time

[Dank15]

A good tutorial level teaches you the actual mechanics you'll need without ever feeling like a tutorial, folding lessons naturally into something that also happens to be fun on its own merits. A bad one either condescends by over-explaining the obvious, or dumps so much information at once that none of it actually sticks

At the top of a rough ranking sit tutorials disguised as genuine gameplay, teaching core mechanics through natural environmental design rather than a wall of text boxes. In the middle sit the straightforward, competent tutorials that get the job done without much personality. At the bottom sit the tutorials people actively skip on a second playthrough because they add nothing but friction

Nominate your own pick for the best or worst tutorial level you've actually played through, and let's see where the community consensus lands