Line #16 PlayingWith/PressStartToGameOver


1	'''Basic Trope''': You can lose the game, get a GameOver before you start it.
2	* '''Straight''': You can spawn on a DeathTrap and die at the start of the level. Then you get directed to a NonstandardGameOver.
3	* '''Exaggerated''':
4	** If you [[PressXToDie create a character who would have negative stats]] clicking start will instantly give you a NonStandardGameOver of [[TheChosenOne child of prophecy]] being stillborn.
5	** You can get a NonstandardGameOver ''after the game is installed.''
6	** You can get a NonstandardGameOver ''before the game is installed.''
7	** You already got a NonstandardGameOver ''[[MindScrew before the game was even made.]]''
8	** You already got a NonstandardGameOver ''[[MindScrew a few seconds after your birth.]]''
9	** You already got a NonstandardGameOver ''[[MindScrew before your conception.]]''
10	** [[SerialEscalation You lost the game a moment after the Big Bang.]] [[MindScrew Or, heck, ]]''[[OverlyLongGag before it.]]''
11	* '''Downplayed''': You can die at the beginning of the tutorial.
12	* '''Justified''':
13	** The RandomlyGeneratedLevels system has a GameBreakingBug.
14	** The enemies have set up a trap in the beginning, allowing them to capture or kill the player easily.
15	** (from Exaggerrated 3-7) You used TimeTravel CheatCode to play, [[NoFairCheating rendering the game to mess up]].
16	** To show how NintendoHard the game is, the developer added this as an example.
17	** There was a “[[ShmuckBait lose]]” button on the main menu, and [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin pressing it makes you lose before the game begins]].
18	** The download was corrupted, changing your starting position to somewhere in a [[BottomlessPits failsafe Kill Zone]].
19	* '''Inverted''':
20	** A dead avatar can be ressurected at the beginning.
21	** You can only die on the FinalBoss.
22	** The game is ''extremely'' short, and you ''[[InstantWinCondition win instantly]]'' when you start.
23	* '''Subverted''': It only looks like you died, causing FissionMailed effects.
24	* '''Double Subverted''': But then you die anyway, sending to a GameOver screen.
25	* '''Parodied''': The "[[FakeInteractivity game]]" is ''just an image of a GameOver screen''.
26	* '''Zig Zagged''': Dropping on the KaizoTrap for the first time will get you a FissionMailed effect, but do it again in subsequent times and you will get a NonstandardGameOver.
27	* '''Averted''': You can't die at the beginning.
28	* '''Enforced''': The developers wanted to have players lose the game early and get GameOver screens as part of their TrialAndErrorGameplay.
29	* '''Lampshaded''': "I died?" says the character's ghost on the 'you died, click X to respawn' screen. "But I was only just born! Oh, well, guess I'd better respawn."
30	* '''Invoked''': This combined with PressXToDie.
31	* '''Exploited''': ???
32	* '''Defied''': The player gives their character something which means the character can do something which prevents them from dying too early.
33	* '''Discussed''': ???
34	* '''Conversed''': "It sucks when you spawn on a death trap and die at the beginning of the level"
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38	%% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
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40	%%* '''Implied''': ???
41	%%* '''Deconstructed''': ???
42	%%* '''Reconstructed''': ???
43	%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

Context PlayingWith / PressStartToGameOver