Jumping into the Everfall, however, is not fatal: in addition to having multiple ledges where bosses await, falling into the bottom of the Everfall simply teleports you back above the Everfall. Late in Dragon's Dogma, the Everfall opens up, swallowing over half of Gran Soren in the process.Once you scroll the screen above it, it ceases to exist try to jump on it and it will be the same as falling into a bottomless pit. A platform on the screen will be safe only so long as it remains above the bottom of the screen. Super Castlevania IV has parts of stages where you must climb up.Not only is falling damage never suffered anywhere else, but the fourth level of the first game begins with a quick cutscene showing Simon falling down a well shaft to an underground cave - and the level you just beat ends at the top floor of a tower. Very often, you climb a set of stairs out of one screen with nothing but solid ground all around, sometimes very close to the top, but as soon as you leave the screen it no longer exists, and falling off the platform you're on will kill you, instead of you just falling the few spaces to the screen below. The early games make common use of them, although many holes are only one screen deep.Several "bottomless" pits actually have items in them that you can only reach by jumping in with the Linen. The catch is that you can acquire a Relic called the Linen of Golden Thread that prevents you from dying. There are pits like this scattered hither and yon throughout Blasphemous.Watch out for Ledge Bats, which live to knock you into these while you are jumping.Ī Super-Trope to Non-Lethal Bottomless Pits, Bottomless Pit Rescue Service. Unintentional versions are very common in Dummied Out levels, Kill Screens or Minus Worlds, due to them typically having broken or even no collision data. Note also that "bottomless" in this context is a holdover from older English usage, and means "than which there is no deeper". Other times, there may be deadly chemicals, Spikes of Doom, or a host of other things, which brings us back to Malevolent Architecture. If there's lava instead, then you likely have a case of Convection, Schmonvection. If the pit has water in it, it's a case of Super Drowning Skills. Sometimes, the designers try to explain their lethality by putting something in them, though this often leads to other cases of weird logic. Note that, in many cases, not all pits are "bottomless". Sometimes, the pits are clearly not bottomless but are treated as if they were anyway, because the player would be unable to get back up to the designated path. Still, one wonders why science labs, factories, and temples have so many deadly drops built in them, or why the building inspectors allow them. With the advent of 3-D and Falling Damage, most "bottomless" pits are shown (or assumed) to be really, really deep pits. The screen will simply refuse to scroll down if you fall into it. However, the biggest threat to a player's Willing Suspension of Disbelief is the pits which are treated as being fatal, even when they are located above safe landing ground. More egregiously, bottomless pits are almost always instantly fatal, even in games where your character can take a point-blank explosion or a volley of bullets and only lose one point of health.
There may be certain levels where you fall many, many, many screens down, but hit the bottom completely unharmed, yet a simple pit will end your life instantly. If the player character does not take damage from long falls as long as they land on a non-damaging surface (as was common in the early days of Video Games), this can be especially jarring. In many games, there are sheer-faced bottomless pits nearly everywhere you travel, waiting for you to mistime a jump (or get smacked into it by annoyingly placed enemies). One of the longest-standing video game hazards in existence: pits that send your character plummeting to an early grave, usually costing one of the player's lives.
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