vs. TimedMission: Stalked By The Bell

I recently hit both of these articles to emphasize the distinction between them:

• A Timed Mission is any arbitrary gameplay sequence with an attached time limit, causing immediate Critical Existence Failure and/or Game Over if it expires.
• Stalked by the Bell is any Timed Mission whose punishment for running out of time is not immediately lethal; it may be possible to still complete the level after the timer expires, depending on exactly what the punishment is.

I also sampled the wikilinks on the latter, found/fixed an estimate of 10-20% misuse where "Stalked by the Bell" was being used as a synonym for an ordinary Timed Mission. It's not. (In particular, the memetic Kremling sniper from Donkey Kong 64 was not an example.)

edited 22nd Jun '11 1:06:46 PM by Stratadrake

Added the above to the Canonical List of Subtle Trope Distinctions.

Actually, that sniper from Donkey Kong 64 was only sometimes an instant kill - other times, he only took off a single hit point every time the timer ran out.

This discussion didn't go very far. Is a lock called for?

We can probably lock this.

Let me check that I added how Stalked by the Bell is not just a Justified Timed Mission" — most Timed Missions are already 'justified' by an in-universe bomb, Self-Destruct Mechanism, etc.

edited 27th Sep '11 9:12:35 AM by Stratadrake