![]() Not all Game Over screens are too scary.Once again, these situations do nothing but delay giving you another chance at beating a challenge. It's also just as bad when it involves having to rewatch cutscenes after losing like say, a boss fight.Case in point, losing progress after getting a game over. an RPG game), you'll lose all your progress from when you last saved, forcing you to redo the tasks you had to do up to that point. Should you get a game over in a game that has limited saving options (e.g. The worst instances with game overs occurring is when they come hand-in-hand a game with poor saving mechanics.While they may serve as a good initiative to not die next time, they can be so needlessly excessive, players would prefer not touching the game for weeks or even months out of fear, even worse in levels they can't get through regardless of their strategies.In Easier difficulty settings, this could also appear in certain games, making it look like the game is giving the beginner a middle-finger, somewhat like bad endings.Even on games that give you one or more revives and/or are multiplayer, it can still be too harsh to fail (because should you lose all your revives and/or your teammates dies, you will fail).On games that have a Hardcore mode (or a similar version), should you die even by ACCIDENT, your character will be permanently removed, disabled, or forced into spectating, as to make them see everything that they achieved went to crumble.They can really get on your nerves by coming across them repeatedly in particularly infuriating levels, burning them further in your memory than they should, even worse when it's something like those mentioned here.The most infamous one is Kirby's Dream Land's game over screen being copied for almost every Kirby game, which can end up becoming repetitive. Some of them are copy-and-paste cows for games.Is it really worth it to do such a thing in the first place? If that wasn't enough, an NES bootleg, this time based on The Lion King, which was called The Lion King 5, the characters COMMIT SUICIDE, (Timon digs his own grave, Simba climbs through a neck rope and Pumbaa jumps into a boiling pot of water respectively) like some kind of dark joke about ending their one & only life by themselves. A good example would be the bootleg port of Felix the Cat for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drivewhere Felix RIPS HIS OWN FACE OFF (see #135 for more details). ![]() Some Game Overs also tend to be a little disrespectful, rude, or too harsh towards the player, because rather than tease them to play again, they will instead give up.In some Game Overs, the music will begin playing in the background, which in some games like Sonic CD, can not only be terrifying but also annoying too.However, it's still bad because in some games, if you lose your lives again, you won’t be able to get another continue. ![]()
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