Playing With / Out of Continues

Basic Trope: The player doesn't have anymore continues, it's Game Over if they're not careful.

• Straight: In Clyde Adventure, Clyde is only given 3 continues at any given point, and the game can be beaten in under an hour.
• Exaggerated: ''Clyde Adventure" only has 1 continue, and has no way of getting extra lives, so at most, Clyde can get six lives (if he's lucky to start with 3 lives)
• Logical Extreme: Permadeath
• Downplayed:
  • You can continue up to 9 times, and should you get a Game Over, you don't have to reset the entire game/world, you are just kicked out of the level and all of it's checkpoints, you just have to restart the level.
  • There is an unlockable secret to enable Infinite Continues.
• Justified:
  • Clyde Adventure is a Retraux game based on the 8-bit/16-bit era of games.
  • In-Universe: Clyde is revived by a White Mage every time he dies without extra lives to spare, running out of continues means she's either dead or she ran out of magic, or both.
• Subverted: A message pops up that says "You have used (X) credits" or "You continued (X) times", but nothing happens.
• Double Subverted: Point of No Continues
• Inverted: ?????
• Parodied: ?????
• Averted: The game has infinite continues.
• Defied: The trope is known by the characters who actively attempt to subvert or avert it. 4th wall breaks may be included.
• Zig-Zagged: ?????
• Enforced: The trope happens because of the reasons given by the writers or the company.
• Lampshaded: "Damn, this game is hard, plus i only get three credits!"
• Discussed:
  • (After you used up your third credit)
    • Liane: I-i'm s-sorry Clyde, t-th-th they f-found m-mee..... and k-ki........
    • Clyde: Ah fuck, i guess i'm a goner after four more deaths, which are how many times my gem can revive me without extra energy.
• Conversed: The trope is talked about in a irrelevant situation.
• Invoked: Emperor Evuls cursed Clyde that only allow him to have three continues.
• Exploited: ?????
• Played for Laughs: The trope is played for comedic purposes.
• Played for Drama: The trope is used as a device in drama.
• Played for Horror: The trope is instead used to scare people.
• Implied: The trope is not explicitly shown, but may have happened off-screen.
• Deconstructed: The trope is played out as it would in real life, usually putting it in a negative light.
• Reconstructed:
  • The sequel features infinite continues
  • Clyde manages to beat the game without using a continue, and dying as least as possible

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