Basic Trope: A nearly unwinnable fake difficulty-ridden game designed to continuously troll the player.
- Straight: I Wanna Be The Kaizo starts with Bob having to perform multiple pixel-perfect jumps over Spikes of Doom while dodging a Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot, and only gets harder from there.
- Exaggerated: The level also has a Kaizo Trap at the end, and a very strict time limit. And the game starts over if Bob dies.
- Downplayed: Nintendo Hard
- Justified: It's the Harder Than Hard difficulty of a game that wasn't easy to begin with.
- Inverted: You cannot lose the game.
- Subverted: After the game starts, Alice appears and Curb Stomps the enemies.
- Double Subverted: Then she starts throwing giant ninja stars at you.
- Parodied:
- The game starts with the player dropping onto several spikes.
- Unwinnable Joke Game
- The game resorts to repeatedly reminding the player that they are having fun.
- The game makes fun of the player for every new death.
- Zig Zagged: Schizophrenic Difficulty
- Averted: The game is of normal difficulty.
- Enforced:
- The game is an unwinnable joke game within a game.
- The creator broke up with his girlfriend of seven years.
- The creator is a Trolling Creator and he's messing with the player.
- Lampshaded: "Don't bother playing this. It's way too hard."
- Invoked: The Big Bad drops Bob into his testing chambers to torture him.
- Exploited: The devs install a feature in which they watch you struggle to play the game so they can mock you.
- Defied: Bob storms out of the game.
- Discussed: "That princess had better be grateful that I went through all this to rescue her...”
- Conversed: "Freakin' game! So freakin' difficult..."
- Implied: The game is shown in the background, and its player is very visibly frustrated.
- Deconstructed:
- The game is so hard that nobody ever bothers to beat it.
- The sadistic difficulty of the game causes people to assume that it's Unwinnable Joke Game and once word gets out, sales of the game plummet.
- In the game universe, Bob never gets to save Carol, while Emperor Evulz becomes a Karma Houdini.
- Reconstructed: The game becomes more well-regarded after a while, and the skill of the playerbase increases until someone manages to win.
Dodge the abruptly appearing falling spikes, then double jump onto a wall and grab the key to the door to Platform Hell - woops, you screwed up!
