Basic Trope: Players of a game have to go through a tutorial even if they have played it before and know what to do.
- Straight: Alice's mentor Bob forces her to go through a training course whether she needs it or not.
- Exaggerated: The entire game is one massive tutorial. The sequel is the real thing that the prequel had prepared the player for.
- Downplayed:
- Bob very heavily discourages Alice from skipping the tutorial, but eventually relents if she refuses enough.
- The player's subsequent playthroughs after finishing the game are justified by in universe time travel. It is only then where Bob acknowledges that Alice "has done all of this before", offers her a refresher, and allows her to decline.
- Justified:
- Bob's last student Charlie skipped the tutorial and got killed five minutes into his journey, and Bob is in no mood to see Alice suffer the same fate.
- Alice is going through the mandated by law Pentadic Refresher Course for her license.
- Inverted: Bob refuses to allow Alice to do the tutorial and forces her to figure everything out on her own.
- Subverted: Alice refuses to do the tutorial. When Bob ignores her and begins his lecture, Alice wanders off to do something more interesting.
- Double Subverted: Bob notices her leaving and drags her back to the tutorial.
- Parodied:
- "But I don't want to do the tutorial!" "Shut up, nobody cares what you want."
- After Bob puts Alice through an annoying tutorial, despite knowing the player is already familiar with the game, Alice decides to construct for him a mentoring tutorial! "Remember: people get very annoyed when you force them to learn things they already know!"
- Averted:
- There is no tutorial.
- The tutorial is completely optional.
- The tutorial is worked into the story.
- Enforced:
- The game's producers think Viewers Are Morons and need to have their hands held.
- The game is still in Beta and
A. doesn't yet have saves implemented.
B. still needs to integrate most of the lessons into a more natural form.
- Deconstructed: The time spent on the tutorial allows Emperor Evulz to conquer the world.
- Reconstructed: Alice uses the skills she learned from the tutorial to waste Evulz and free the world from his control.
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It's as simple as taking your mouse, sliding it until the very tip of the cursor on your screen is on the blue link, then press down on the leftmost button. Note that you cannot simply put your cursor anywhere on the blue link, rather, the pointy end has to be directly touching it.
For touchpad users, the instructions above can be followed by dragging your finger across the large flat pad where references are made to "sliding the mouse". Some touchpads are designed such that you will be unable to move the cursor by dragging your finger across one of the areas designated for the left and right mouse buttons. Sometimes, there are no mouse buttons, and clicking a link is as simple as pressing down on any part of the touchpad - or just the lower-left.
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