

But that is not what this trope is about. These are all standard failings, usually treated with a simple default message: " Game Over."Īlternatively, you have successfully finished the game, defeated the Final Boss and receive a Game Over message after the credits because technically the "game is over". …Or, maybe you just forgot to pause the game while reading the walkthrough you pulled from GameFAQs and the game's timer ran out - you get the idea. You might have been caught or captured during a Stealth-Based Mission. Maybe you failed a story important mission or lost a critical Non-Player Character during an Escort Mission. Maybe you fell down too many Bottomless Pits and lost all your lives, or the Player Character was beaten to death by a particularly vicious Demonic Spider.

In most games, players see the dreaded Game Over screen when they lose in some way.
