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* '''Reconstructed''': Bob downloads a remake of the game for the UsefulNotes/{{Xbox 360}}. The remake has checkpoints added.

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* '''Reconstructed''': Bob downloads a remake of the game for the UsefulNotes/{{Xbox Platform/{{Xbox 360}}. The remake has checkpoints added.

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* '''Justified''': MissionControl normally provides the save points. However, [[MissionControlIsOffItsMeds they turn against you in the penultimate level.]]

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* '''Justified''': '''Justified''':
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MissionControl normally provides the save points. However, [[MissionControlIsOffItsMeds they turn against you in the penultimate level.]]]]
** You're playing in FinalDeathMode. With the possible exception of on-exit, saving would be cheating.
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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???There's an abundance of checkpoints, but many are in bad locations.
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Capitalization was fixed from PlayingWith.Check Point Starvation to PlayingWith.Checkpoint Starvation. Null edit to update page.
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* '''Downplayed''': The level contains no checkpoints, but it's fairly short anyway.

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* '''Downplayed''': '''Downplayed''':
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The level contains no checkpoints, but it's fairly short anyway.
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* '''Exaggerated''': [[NintendoHard You have to beat the entire game with one life.]]

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* '''Exaggerated''': [[NintendoHard You have to beat the entire game with one life.life and/or you cannot continue should you lose.]]
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'''Basic Trope''': {{Egregious}} lack of {{checkpoint}}s or {{save point}}s.

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'''Basic Trope''': {{Egregious}} {{JustForFun/Egregious}} lack of {{checkpoint}}s or {{save point}}s.
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* '''Reconstructed''': Bob downloads a remake of the game for the {{Xbox 360}}. The remake has checkpoints added.

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* '''Reconstructed''': Bob downloads a remake of the game for the {{Xbox UsefulNotes/{{Xbox 360}}. The remake has checkpoints added.
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** The checkpoints can be destroyed by the player.

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* '''Justified''':
** The hardware that runs the game is really primitive and does not support checkpoints.
** MissionControl normally provides the save points. However, [[MissionControlIsOffItsMeds they turn against you in the penultimate level.]]

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* '''Justified''':
** The hardware that runs the game is really primitive and does not support checkpoints.
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'''Justified''': MissionControl normally provides the save points. However, [[MissionControlIsOffItsMeds they turn against you in the penultimate level.]]



* '''Enforced''': See "Justified".

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* '''Enforced''': See "Justified".The hardware that runs the game is really primitive and does not support checkpoints.



%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
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** MissionControl normally provides the save points. However [[MissionControlIsOffItsMeds they turn against you in the penultimate level.]]

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** MissionControl normally provides the save points. However However, [[MissionControlIsOffItsMeds they turn against you in the penultimate level.]]

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* '''Justified''': The hardware that runs the game is really primitive and does not support checkpoints.

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* '''Justified''': '''Justified''':
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The hardware that runs the game is really primitive and does not support checkpoints.

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** MissionControl normally provides the save points. However [[MissionControlIsOffItsMeds they turn against you in the penultimate level.]]



* '''Parodied''': ???

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* '''Parodied''': ???The game screws with you by having an incredibly long series of check points at the beginning before anything happens and after the final boss but before you walk into the final scene.
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* '''Inverted''': There is a checkpoint on every single screen of the level, which effectively means that DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist.

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* '''Inverted''': There is a checkpoint on every single screen of the level, which effectively means that DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist. And/or you have MeaninglessLives.

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* '''Justified/Enforced''': The hardware that runs the game is really primitive and does not support checkpoints.

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* '''Justified/Enforced''': '''Justified''': The hardware that runs the game is really primitive and does not support checkpoints.



* '''Deconstructed''': Bob, a retro-gamer, buys a copy of the game on the Internet and plays it. He becomes sick and frustrated of the game's lack of checkpoints, and [[RageQuit quits]].
* '''Reconstructed''': Bob downloads a remake of the game for the {{Xbox 360}}. The remake has checkpoints added.

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* '''Deconstructed''': Bob, a retro-gamer, buys a copy of the game on the Internet and plays it. He becomes sick and frustrated of the game's lack of checkpoints, and [[RageQuit quits]].
'''Parodied''': ???
* '''Reconstructed''': Bob downloads a remake of the game for the {{Xbox 360}}. The remake has checkpoints added.'''Zig Zagged''': ???



* '''Enforced''': See "Justified".



* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
* '''Deconstructed''': Bob, a retro-gamer, buys a copy of the game on the Internet and plays it. He becomes sick and frustrated of the game's lack of checkpoints, and [[RageQuit quits]].
* '''Reconstructed''': Bob downloads a remake of the game for the {{Xbox 360}}. The remake has checkpoints added.



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%%* '''Implied''': ???
%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???
%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???
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* '''Invoked''': The game has a HarderThanHard "No Deaths Mode" which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.

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* '''Invoked''': The game has a HarderThanHard "No Deaths Mode" which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.BigBad purposely destroys all the checkpoint flags in the level.
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* '''Invoked''': The game has a HarderThanHard mode that requires you to beat the game without checkpoints or save points.

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* '''Invoked''': The game has a HarderThanHard mode that requires you to beat the game without checkpoints or save points."No Deaths Mode" which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.

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