When You Die, You Go Back to the Beginning.

[Koh]

Um, can you give examples?

If it's what I'm thinking - like Giana Sisters Twisted Dreams' Ultra Hardcore difficulty, where you die once and you start back at level 1-1 - it's for true gaming masochists; you know, the type that attempts to speedrun games with a perfect time or without dying once. :V

But there, it's served as an option, which is the best way to approach this I feel. Games that just force it on everyone, like Fester's Quest, Zelda II or Double Dragon 3 (one life, back to stage 1) for example.