1 | '''Basic Trope''': A nearly {{unwinnable}} {{fake difficulty}}-ridden game designed to continuously {{troll}} the player. |
2 | * '''Straight''': ''VideoGame/{{I Wanna Be|The Guy}} The VideoGame/{{Kaizo|Mario World}}'' starts with Bob having to perform multiple pixel-perfect jumps over SpikesOfDoom while dodging a NinjaPirateZombieRobot, and only gets harder from there. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': The level also has a KaizoTrap at the end, and a very strict time limit. And [[PointOfNoContinues the game starts over if Bob dies.]] |
4 | * '''Downplayed''': NintendoHard |
5 | * '''Justified''': It's the HarderThanHard difficulty of a game that wasn't easy to begin with. |
6 | * '''Inverted''': You cannot lose the game. |
7 | * '''Subverted''': After the game starts, [[GameBreaker Alice]] appears and {{Curb Stomp|Battle}}s the enemies. |
8 | * '''Double Subverted''': Then she starts throwing giant ninja stars at you. |
9 | * '''Parodied''': |
10 | ** The game ''starts'' with the player dropping onto several spikes. |
11 | ** UnwinnableJokeGame |
12 | ** The game resorts to repeatedly reminding the player that they are having fun. |
13 | ** The game [[HaveANiceDeath makes fun of the player for every new death]]. |
14 | * '''Zig Zagged''': SchizophrenicDifficulty |
15 | * '''Averted''': The game is of normal difficulty. |
16 | * '''Enforced''': |
17 | ** The game is an {{unwinnable joke|Game}} [[ShowWithinAShow game within a game]]. |
18 | ** The creator [[CreatorBreakdown broke up with his girlfriend of seven years]]. |
19 | ** The creator is a TrollingCreator and he's messing with the player. |
20 | * '''Lampshaded''': "Don't bother playing this. It's way too hard." |
21 | * '''Invoked''': The BigBad drops Bob into his testing chambers to torture him. |
22 | * '''Exploited''': The devs install a feature in which they watch you struggle to play the game so they can mock you. |
23 | * '''Defied''': [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Bob storms out of the game.]] |
24 | * '''Discussed''': "[[SaveThePrincess That princess]] had better be grateful that I went through all this to rescue her...” |
25 | * '''Conversed''': "Freakin' game! So freakin' difficult..." |
26 | * '''Implied''': The game is shown [[ShowWithinAShow in the background]], and its player is very visibly frustrated. |
27 | * '''Deconstructed''': |
28 | ** The game is so hard that nobody ever bothers to beat it. |
29 | ** The sadistic difficulty of the game causes people to assume that it's UnwinnableJokeGame and once word gets out, sales of the game plummet. |
30 | ** In the game universe, Bob never gets to [[SaveThePrincess save Carol]], while [[BigBad Emperor Evulz]] becomes a KarmaHoudini. |
31 | * '''Reconstructed''': [[VindicatedByHistory The game becomes more well-regarded after a while]], and the skill of the playerbase increases until someone manages to win. |
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33 | Dodge the abruptly appearing falling spikes, then double jump onto a wall and grab the key to the door to PlatformHell - [[ShootTheShaggyDog woops, you screwed up!]] |
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35 | %% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
36 | %% |
37 | %%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ??? |
38 | %%* '''Played For Laughs''': ??? |
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