Instead players were faced with watching a menu and
depleting life bars.
This is ten times worse with the tougher enemies as this timer will circle a lot quicker, and if you are not fast enough — really fast — you will be hit by multiple enemies at once,
depleting your life bar, ending the battle, with you needing to start it all over again.
Not exact matches
As if tanks have
life bars that are
depleted by tiny little hits!
Hardcorps keeps that same Contra-esque difficulty but makes it a little more user friendly offering you a
life bar as well as
lives to keep the fun going as long as you can keep those from
depleting.
This vagueness caused confusion when I noticed I had to switch musical tracks, observed my
life bar rapidly
deplete, or saw notes spin and change direction.
Once your stamina
bar is
depleted you essentially lose a
life, which can cost you precious points, which can be used to purchase items such as food and drinks which boost your stamina, healing items, and items to regain your focus, which highlights clues in the environment to aid you in your investigation.
While you have a standard
life bar that
depletes or replenishes based on performance, you must be able to grab a majority of points by the song's end (usually 50 or 60 percent) in order to clear the song.
In turn, your character has a fairly generous
life bar, although due to their large size, the short invulnerability period, and the generally tenacious enemies, you can find yourself
depleted very quickly.