(On TVTropes this is called Always Close It's a necessary trope, arguably, because either way you do it deflates the tension - if it is possible to fail, and a certain % of people fail over and over again, then it goes from being cool and exciting to obnoxious)
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One of the *potentially* fascinating things which sadly goes underexamined in a lot of "transparently a game world" fiction is the potential fun of transposing old school band stuff back into serious world building in a place people have to live
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I've mentioned before one of the fun little jokes in FF14 is that when you fight Gilgamesh, who is actually from the classic FF games transposed to this more high serious fantasy world, not only does he act more comedic, he uses status effects and attacks that are cartoonish.
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(Which led to the whole thing about how after the Kilrathi defector character Hobbes had been created WC3 has him turn on the humans again and reveal he was a loyal sleeper agent all along because having a genuinely good Kilrathi just can't be allowed)
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The era of FMV games seems particularly prone to this goofy dissonance. Like how in Red Alert nobody has EVER taken it seriously and it leads to stuff like the harvesters asking "what is IN this ore stuff anyways?" while the other side yells at them to stop asking silly questions
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