star wars: jedi knight IV: dark forces 5: the force unleashed 3: Rebel Assault

They do a really neat thing in the tutorial, where they don’t show the button prompt for jumping, sidling, crouching, and the like, unless the player waits for about 5 seconds. So a player familiar with genre standards experiences it closer to the platform & talk segment it ideally plays as.

On the other hand, they’re as terrified of puzzles as any focus-tested AAA game, and pop up ‘Need a hint? D-PAD DOWN’ every 15 seconds in ‘puzzle rooms’.

Everyone’s anxious and unsure of themselves in their own ways…

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