
The cat-and-rat chase moment happens quickly, and the game gives no obvious cues that you must throw the boot.

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In King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder!, there is a moment where you MUST throw a boot at a cat chasing a rat, so that when your character is trapped later, the grateful rat will free you.If these parties were killed, various areas became unreachable, and randomly spawning enemies like goblins and the vicious warg often killed them while Bilbo was elsewhere. The game also depended on the elves' butler to periodically open the door to the wood elves' dungeon. The text-based game of The Hobbit required Bilbo to get assistance frequently from either Gandalf or Thorin - most notably, getting out of the goblins' dungeon (you had to be carried out the window) and getting into Smaug's cave via the side entrance (the key broke if Thorin died).If you don't remember to pick up your towel once you've got the Babel Fish, you're screwed. But you also need to have the towel with you later in the game, to be able to survive. You only have a few turns to grab it, too, and you need to put down your towel as part of the convoluted method of getting the Babel Fish. The reason you need the Babel Fish is to get the atomic vector plotter. In the Vogon ship, if you don't manage to get the Babel Fish before the Guard drags you away, you might as well quit and restart, all that happens next is a lengthy lead up to Game Over.Once Earth's destroyed, of course, you're sunk.


So Long, and Thanks for All the Gear becomes this if a party member permanently leaves or dies. May be a result of Point of No Return, where the game cuts the player off from accessing earlier areas. If a Plot Coupon is permanently missable, the game becomes Unwinnable by Design. Also not to be confused with Awesome, but Temporary, where a component is deliberately taken away from the player. Not to be confused with Killed Off for Real, where a character dies permanently and cannot be resurrected. One increasingly common way around this is for the game to provide a shop or other special location that makes available all of the unique items the player missed throughout the game as an Anti-Frustration Feature. However, allowing the player to backtrack to any previously visited location can be difficult to reconcile with the game's narrative. These components may also become missable for a random or arbitrary reason (such as an NPC related to the component suddenly disappearing after a certain point in a game).īecause of their tendency to induce great frustration, smart developers tend to avoid implementing these, and allow the player to collect items or do sidequests at their own leisure. The early town that is destroyed, the mountainous area that caves in once you leave, the area that your characters are restricted from accessing after a certain point for plot reasons, the Load-Bearing Boss's hideout that explodes after you defeat them, the ship that departs after your trip is finished and never returns, and so forth. These components frequently appear in areas that can only be accessed once, or are rendered unavailable after a certain plot event occurs. If a player's window for accessing the content has closed, their only options for getting it are to either reload an earlier save (if possible) or start the game anew. A close relative and often an example of Guide Dang It! A common source of frustration for gamers, especially those shooting for 100% Completion.

Permanently Missable Content is a gameplay component (such as an item, weapon, Side Quest, character, achievement, or plot event) that can become permanently inaccessible after a certain point.
