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Deadlock Clock: Feb 26th 2012 at 11:59:00 PM
IronLion Since: Feb, 2010
#1: Jan 21st 2012 at 10:34:57 AM

Maybe I'm missing something, but I can't see anything in this picture that suggests anything about Trial-and-Error Gameplay to someone unfamiliar with the game.

What happened to the old image from IWBTG, with a room consisting entirely of spiked walls? It might have relied on the caption to explain it, but it worked a lot better than this one.

KaiserMazoku Since: Apr, 2011
#2: Jan 21st 2012 at 10:58:24 AM

Keep Until Better Image Suggested. I think that even people unfamiliar with Lost Levels could see the pipe leading back to World 1 when he's on World 3 and take that to mean "this is really irritating"

troacctid "µ." from California Since: Apr, 2010
#3: Jan 21st 2012 at 11:16:06 AM

What happened was he went into the warp zone, but it turned out the only warp there was one that made him go backwards instead of forwards.

Rhymes with "Protracted."
IronLion Since: Feb, 2010
#4: Jan 21st 2012 at 11:22:27 AM

D'oh - missed the World 3 bit entirely. I'm an idiot.

DragonQuestZ The Other Troper from Somewhere in California Since: Jan, 2001
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#5: Jan 21st 2012 at 12:26:45 PM

If it's not that obvious, then we need a better one. We can keep this one for now, but let's look for something else.

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#6: Jan 21st 2012 at 12:30:00 PM

I'm meh on it myself, but I have no idea what to suggest for a replacement so I vote Keep Until Better Image Suggested.

AweStriker RM/8 from a moving point. Since: Jul, 2010
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#7: Jan 21st 2012 at 6:22:10 PM

Something like this might be a good start...

This is a screencap from a ROM hack called Rockman Exhaust. Those weird coil things kill you, and the last screen was a lot like this one.

Maybe if it were edited to make the "instant death" factor more obvious...

"Only now, after being besieged by a flock of talking ponies, did he really understand what he'd lost. "
Feather7603 Devil's Advocate from Yggdrasil Since: Dec, 2011
#8: Jan 21st 2012 at 7:34:37 PM

I remember that IWBTG too. It was about as good as the current one.

The Mega Man one doesn't work at all.

Keep Until Better Image Suggested

edited 21st Jan '12 7:35:19 PM by Feather7603

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#10: Feb 27th 2012 at 6:12:04 AM

Clock's up; locking for inactivity/lack of consensus. No action is to be taken based on this thread.

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