Schizophrenic Difficulty/Playing With

Basic Trope: Game's difficulty is not directly dependened on game's process or any kind of game's mechanic.

• Straight: Some levels are quite difficult or easy for no reason.
• Exaggerated: Difficulty of levels is interchangeable annoyingly hard or stupidly easy.
• Up to Eleven: See: Parodied.
  • Game difficulty is changing drastically after each second of level.
• Downplayed: Game is getting easier or harder, but it is practically inconspicuous.
• Justified: The first level was highly fortified by the Evil Overlord and the next level is easy because everyone thinks that you died in the first level
• Inverted: The difficulty is constant or increasing or decreasing throught whole game.
• Subverted: At the beginning difficulty looks random, but later is increasing in proportion to game's progress.
• Double Subverted: ...but only for some moment.
• Parodied: First level is almost impossible to clear without using cheats. You easily die on one hit, there are many invisible enemies or/and traps, hero is utterly weak and overall design sucks. Next level abounds infinite 1-ups, the best weapon and armor in this game and you grant invicibility. Then again difficulty is suddenly high, and previously gotten items are now useless.
• Deconstructed: Most of players get annoyed, because of sudden difficulty change, so they drop it.
• Reconstructed: ???
• Zig Zagged: Trope is once time subverted, and other double subverted.
• Averted: Game's difficulty is not dependent game's process or any kind of game's mechanic, but difficulty is constant and it isn't increasing or decreasing.
  • See: Downplayed
• Enforced: Creators tried make level fitting to actual place.
• Lampshaded: "Difficulty of this game makes no sense, doesn't it?"
• Invoked: The Big Bad took his guards out of the area as to make Bob overconfidant so that he loses on the next level
• Exploited: Bob uses the easy parts to Level Grind
• Defied: ???
• Discussed: ???
• Conversed: ???

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