History Main / TutorialFailure

* When the player does enough damage to the first boss enemy in ''{{Fable}}'', the boss falls to the ground and starts writhing in agony. At this point, the [[VoiceWithAnInternetConnection Guild Master]] tells the player that the boss "is near death. A few more hits should finish her off!" In fact, the boss is already defeated and this is her death animation. Hitting her while she is writhing on the ground does absolutely nothing.

* One of the First Shogun's tutorial pits your Archers against spearmen, on a hill. Due to the game system, most of the time you'll fail against the marching spearmen.
** A subversion appears when later on the tutorial, you appear as Calvary units against the ranged units (Now gunners). You're supposed to chase them off the hill, but rushing them will achieve a victory no less.

-->-- '''[[PennyArcade Tycho Brahe]]''', on ''VideoGame/TheWitcher2AssassinsOfKings''

Then you've got a TutorialFailure.

* The Firewalker DLC for ''MassEffect2'' featured on-screen tool tips that gave the wrong keys for a number of necessary tasks to use with the Hover Tank (jumping and mining, specifically). This was presumably the result of a minor case of Porting Disaster.
* The in-game instructions for the fishing minigame in ''{{NieR}}'' are flat-out wrong. Interestingly, the correct method is actually a lot simpler than the awful tutorial would have you believe.

* In ''TheLegendOfZelda: PhantomHourglass'', the game tells you to "draw little circles at the edge of a screen" to perform a roll. In reality, the technique is more like wiggling at the edge of the screen--drawing circles will just make Link flail around with his sword.
* ''PokemonRedAndBlue'' and all of its associated media insist that ghost types are the best choices against psychic types. One trainer in Sabrina's gym even says "Psychics only fear ghosts and bugs!", which is, at best, a HalfTruth in the original Pokemon generation. Not only are the only ghosts in these games weak to psychic attacks due to their secondary poison type, and not only are there no strong ghost attacks, but psychic-types are outright immune to ghost attacks. Furthermore, there are no strong bug attacks, and many bug Pokemon are also part poison. Ghost and bug types are thus in many ways the ''worst'' choice against psychics.

-->-- '''[[PennyArcade Tycho Brahe]]''', on ''VideoGame/TheWitcher2AssassinOfKings''

-->-- '''[[PennyArcade Tycho Brahe]]''', on ''TheWitcher II: Assassin of Kings''

** Many pieces of clothing that the player can aquire have item descriptions that say they possess a special effect, when they in fact do not. The Will User's outfits are described as protecting the wearer against magic (they don't) and the Assassin's Outfit is heavily implied to increase the player's sneaking ability (it does not.)

** A more minor case from the same game is its continued insistence that rock-types are immune to electric attacks. In reality, it's ''ground''-types that are immune to electric moves; rock takes normal damage from them. However, most "rock"-type pokemon in ''Red'' and ''Blue'' are actually Rock/Ground. (The ones that aren't are rock/water type, making them ''weak'' to electric attacks.)
*** Starting with Sudowoodo in [[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver Generation II]], a total of nine pure Rock-type Pokemon have been introduced through [[PokemonBlackAndWhite Generation V]]. This would prove Rock-types to be affected normally by Electric-type attacks.

* ''FinalFantasyVII'' gives the player some infamously poor advice in its very first boss fight, owing to the game's poor translation: When the boss goes into a defensive stance, the game will tell you to "Attack while its tail is up! It's going to counterattack with its laser!" This, of course, is exactly the opposite of what you're supposed to do, because otherwise you'll get a faceful of laser.
** The real problem is that the two statements are made on two separate text boxes - the one mentioning the counterattack comes up too late to stop players who have already input attacks due to misunderstanding the first one.

* In ''{{Recettear}}'', Tear suggests you sell items at close to the highest price you can get customers to accept. Doing so is a horrible idea because at that price "near pin" bonuses are impossible to obtain, meaning you get less merchant XP and customers don't become your friends or get more cash. Worse, she leads you to think that you shouldn't be afraid to haggle as long as you make the sale, when in reality haggling ''at all'' instantly breaks your just combo, which means that you will never increase your merchant level.
* In the instruction manual for ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda'', the Pols Voice enemy is said to "hate loud noise". Naturally, the player would assume that their weakness would be the flute, then, but that's not the case at all. The flute does absolutely nothing to the Pols Voice. What the manual is actually referring to is the built-in microphone found in the Famicom, the Japanese version of the NES, the functionality of which was removed entirely for the American release.
** Fixed in later games, where musical items and the built-in DS microphone ''will'' kill or at least stun the Pols Voices.

** The game does come with an unusually thorough instructions manual which makes a tutorial largely unnecessary. Ofcourse most people nowadays are not used with using manuals, any more.

* the ''{{League of Legends}}'' tutorial leaves much to be desired. It starts with an exclusive map called the proving ground, where you get to play as Ashe, a squishy archer that derives power from utility. It tells you a good few common sense type of things like kill minions and don't try to solo turrets, and then has you buy a thornmail. There is no reason for Ashe to ever pick up a thornmail, which is a heavy duty armor item that returns auto attack damage, which Ashe is far too squishy to take advantage of. Probabally an even bigger flaw is that it pits you against Master Yi, one of the toughest conceivable low level matchups, but without any of the skills that make the matchup so difficult, misleading the player into thinking that this is a perfectly fine matchup. The second half of the tutorial is much better, it just puts you in an ai fight and lets you duke it out, the only real flaw was that it did a poor job at explaining shop mechanics and randomly sends you into the jungle for no apparent reason, even on characters with no conceivable reason for jungling (like once again, Ashe).

* A major complaint of ''[[VideoGame/TheWitcher2AssassinsOfKings The Witcher II: Assassins of Kings]]'' is the fact that the tutorial simply dumps you into a battle with limited explanation of the mechanics involved in combat, thus leading it to be accused of being a GuideDangIt by others.

* Good luck finding your way through the desert in ''BreathOfFire3'' following the in-game instructions: the initial instructions to get through it are correct, but the ones given in your camp are wrong, and due to the sheer length of the segment, it's almost guaranteed you'll have to quit the game at some point during it and end up reading the wrong set of instructions when you come back later.

This trope is for those tutorials which do a completely inadequate job of what they're supposed to do--the kind that leave the player frustrated that they can't perform that seemingly-simple move, or wrap their heads around a gameplay system which seems straightforward. Either this tutorial contains misleading or false information or fails to mention some vital aspect of gameplay. Perhaps it's because of Blind Idiot Translation; perhaps it's because the game swamps the player with mounds of text right out of the gate and expects them to remember everything immediately; or, maybe, the tutorial tries to simplify a complex game mechanic into a "rule of thumb" which ends up being more of a hindrance than a help. Perhaps the tutorial gives advice that is no longer valid after a game patch. Whatever the case, this tutorial just doesn't work. Think of this as a tutorial-induced GuideDangIt. Related to ManualMisprint. If an important gameplay element ought to be in the tutorial but is not, that might result in a NoobBridge.

* Good luck finding your way through the desert in ''BreathOfFire3'' following the in-game instructions: the initial instructions to get through it are correct, but the ones given in your camp are wrong, and due to the sheer lenght of the segment, it's almost guaranteed you'll have to quit the game at some point during it and end up reading the wrong set of instructions when you come back later.

** Fixed in later games, where musical items and the built-in DS microphone ''will'' kill the Pols Voices.

** Fixed in later games, where musical items ''will'' kill the Pols Voices.

* In ''{{Recettear}}'', Tear suggests you sell at a price that makes "near pin"s bonuses impossible to obtain, meaning you get less merchant XP and customers don't become your friends or get more cash.

* The ForcedTutorial in ''{{Driver}}'' is legendary for being complete garbage.

* Good luck finding your way through the desert in ''BreathOfFire3'' following the in-game instructions.

** Improved in patch 2.0, which includes a mini-adventure that explains things like alchemy, the quick menu, targeting, signs and a few combat tactics.

* In the instruction manual for ''TheLegendOfZelda'', the Pols Voice enemy is said to "hate loud noise". Naturally, the player would assume that their weakness would be the flute, then, but that's not the case at all. The flute does absolutely nothing to the Pols Voice. What the manual is actually referring to is the built-in microphone found in the Famicom, the Japanese version of the NES, the functionality of which was removed entirely for the American release.

** Improved in patch 2.0, which includes a mini-adventure that explains things like alchemy, the quick menu, targeting, sings and a few combat tactics.

This trope is for those tutorials which do a completely inadequate job of what they're supposed to do--the kind that leave the player frustrated that they can't perform that seemingly-simple move, or wrap their heads around a gameplay system which seems straightforward. Either this tutorial contains misleading or false information or fails to mention some vital aspect of gameplay. Perhaps it's because of Blind Idiot Translation; perhaps it's because the game swamps the player with mounds of text right out of the gate and expects them to remember everything immediately; or, maybe, the tutorial tries to simplify a complex game mechanic into a "rule of thumb" which ends up being more of a hindrance than a help. Perhaps the tutorial gives advice that is no longer valid after a game patch. Whatever the case, this tutorial just doesn't work. Think of this as a tutorial-induced GuideDangIt. Related to ManualMisprint.

* A major complaint of ''TheWitcher II: Assassin of Kings'' is the fact that the tutorial simply dumps you into a battle with limited explanation of the mechanics involved in combat, thus leading it to be accused of being a GuideDangIt by others.