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Basic Trope: The player must finish a mission in a finite amount of time, or they fail.

  • Straight: One mission in the game is escaping the burning tower in minute or they fail it.
  • Exaggerated:
    • Every mission in the game has a set amount of time to complete.
    • He has to escape the tower in five seconds.
  • Downplayed:
    • Once the timer runner out, the player doesn't immediatly lose the mission but start taking damage gradually from now on until they escape.
    • The player only need to escape a certain part of a tower in time, not the whole tower.
  • Justified: The player will die from the fire if they don't escape quickly.
  • Inverted: The player is attacked in the tower and must hold his position for a finite amount of time. If he manages to survive, the mission is won.
  • Subverted: The player is given a mission of escaping the burning tower. Surprisingly, you got as much time as you want to escape.
  • Double Subverted: …But in order to get the Gold rank, you need to escape the tower in a minute or less.
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