'''Basic Trope''': A nearly {{unwinnable}} {{fake difficulty}}-ridden game designed to continuously {{troll}} the player.
* '''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.
* '''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.]]
* '''Downplayed''': NintendoHard
* '''Justified''': It's the HarderThanHard difficulty of a game that wasn't easy to begin with.
* '''Inverted''': You cannot lose the game.
* '''Subverted''': After the game starts, [[GameBreaker Alice]] appears and {{Curb Stomp|Battle}}s the enemies.
* '''Double Subverted''': Then she starts throwing giant ninja stars at you.
* '''Parodied''':
** The game ''starts'' with the player dropping onto several spikes.
** UnwinnableJokeGame
** The game resorts to repeatedly reminding the player that they are having fun.
** The game [[HaveANiceDeath makes fun of the player for every new death]].
* '''Zig Zagged''': SchizophrenicDifficulty
* '''Averted''': The game is of normal difficulty.
* '''Enforced''':
** The game is an {{unwinnable joke|Game}} [[ShowWithinAShow game within a game]].
** The creator [[CreatorBreakdown broke up with his girlfriend of seven years]].
** The creator is a TrollingCreator and he's messing with the player.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Don't bother playing this. It's way too hard."
* '''Invoked''': The BigBad 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''': [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Bob storms out of the game.]]
* '''Discussed''': "[[SaveThePrincess 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 [[ShowWithinAShow 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 UnwinnableJokeGame and once word gets out, sales of the game plummet.
** In the game universe, Bob never gets to [[SaveThePrincess save Carol]], while [[BigBad Emperor Evulz]] becomes a KarmaHoudini.
* '''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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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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%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???
%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???