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** ''VideoGame/{{Digimon World 3}}''

** ''GuideDangIt/ShinMegamiTenseiPersona''

* TalkToEveryone and TryEverything 3 times or you will miss crucial stuff.

This is particularly necessary when dealing with random [[TheMaze maze sections]], determining RelationshipValues, earning the GoldenEnding, or trying to achieve HundredPercentCompletion (to avoid missing PermanentlyMissableContent).

Most of these examples are basically just poor design, where the manual or in-game instructions just fail to elaborate on some things. There were also some more sinister versions where the developers ''[[CopyProtection wanted]]'' [[CopyProtection you to spend money by calling their hotline or buying their hintbook]] or [[Magazine/NintendoPower Magazine]]. Now that Website/GameFAQs, {{walkthrough}}s, forums, and even dedicated wikis are ubiquitous and easily accessible, this practice has died out.

->''"They make it so you can't defeat Zurg unless you buy this book! \\
It's extortion, that's what it is!"''

* Cryptic puzzles that betray [[DamnYouMuscleMemory what you've learned to expect]], like resetting the game to move on when normal logic would dictate that doing so means losing all your progress.

** ''GuideDangIt/TheElderScrolls''

Battles are tough but {{save point}}s are [[CheckPointStarvation terribly placed?]] - Check.

Inventory decisions must be made with extrasensory perception? - Check.

TalkToEveryone and TryEverything 3 times or you will miss crucial stuff? - Check.

Cannot tell when MissionControlIsOffItsMeds and when it's helping? - Check.

Cryptic puzzles that betray [[DamnYouMuscleMemory what you've learned to expect]], like resetting the game to move on when normal logic would dictate that doing so means losing all your progress? - Check.

Instead of doing things within the actual game, [[BreakingTheFourthWall the player]] [[ParadiegeticGameplay has to mess around with the game interface itself?]] - Check plus.

After you get used to seeing a menu or message pop up as part of the game, [[PoisonMushroom a deceptively phony version of it pops up to catch you off guard]] and [[FissionMailed and you might overlook it, causing a disastrous outcome?]] - Check plus plus.

** GuideDangIt/ChooseYourOwnAdventure and other Gamebooks

** GuideDangIt/{{Gamebooks}}

* GuideDangIt/{{Gamebooks}}

This is particularly necessary when dealing with random [[TheMaze maze sections]], determining RelationshipValues, or trying to achieve HundredPercentCompletion (to avoid missing PermanentlyMissableContent).

** ''GuideDangIt/ShinMegamiTenseiPersona''

Instead of doing things within the actual game, [[BreakingTheFourthWall the player]] [[InterfaceScrew has to mess around with the game interface itself?]] - Check plus.

Most of these examples are basically just poor design, where the manual or in-game instructions just fail to elaborate on some things. There were also some more sinister versions where the developers ''wanted'' you to spend money by calling their hotline or buying their hintbook or [[Magazine/NintendoPower Magazine]]. Now that Website/GameFAQs, {{walkthrough}}s, forums, and even dedicated wikis are ubiquitous and easily accessible, this practice has died out.

->''"They make it so you can't defeat Zurg unless you buy this book! It's extortion, that's what it is!"''

Battles are tough but {{save point}}s are terribly placed? - Check.

->''They make it so you can't defeat Zurg unless you buy this book! It's extortion, that's what it is!''

Cannot tell when MissionControlIsOffItsMeds and when its helping? - Check.