25 Video Game Mechanics That Simply Don't Work In Real Life
24. Having Multiple Lives
As far as any of us are aware, we've only got the one life. If you get hit by a bus, fall over a discarded crisp packet and crack your head or are involved in a tragic but hilarious accident with an umbrella, that's you over and done with.
How nice it must be to live in the world of videogames, where the concept of dying is simply a minor inconvenience. Been flamed to death by a deadly plant coming out of a pipe? No worries! Been drowned by deadly pink ooze in a chemical plant? Don't worry about it!
Our videogame chums have got it easy. You have to wonder if when they die of old age, they simply just pop into being, healthy and youthful again.
Nobody mention the concept of lives to Aerith. If only the party had an item called a Phoenix Down which can revive dead people.