Line #7 PlayingWith/PlatformHell


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:
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37	%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
38	%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

Context PlayingWith / PlatformHell