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* ''[[Final Fantasy IV the After Years (Video Game)|Final Fantasy IV the After Years]]'' provides the player with a way to avoid the [[Player Punch]] where {{spoiler|Calca and Brina must be scrapped for parts}}, requiring them to get three items, left completely unmentioned by the game. One of the items is in an obvious jar the player is unlikely to miss. Fair enough. The other two, however? [[Randomly Drops|Random drops]] from a monster that only appears in one out-of-the-way room during one specific lunar cycle (which is the ''worst'' lunar cycle for a party with a black mage and no white mages, as the chapter in question is), and the drop rate is absolutely inexcusably low in this game. And you need two different items from this. Yet any player who knows about this will do it, because {{spoiler|[[Videogame Caring Potential|who could really allow Calca and Brina to die?]]}}

* In ''[[Final Fantasy X (Video Game)|Final Fantasy X]]'', players can input one-word destination passwords in the [[Global Airship]] that lead to hidden locations that each contain a treasure chest, one of which houses Rikku's [[Infinity Plus One Sword]]. While perhaps not technically a Guide Dang It, virtually all players learned of these passwords via a guide, as the method for discovering the passwords the normal way is so incredibly obscure that most players don't even know it exists (it involves [[Moon Logic Puzzle|deciphering deeply-hidden, nonsensical messages left throughout the game world]]).

*** And yet we still haven't talked about the gardening yet. It sounds easy: buy a flower pot and get some seeds, then put the pot in your Mog House and plant the seeds. What they don't tell you is that the seeds will not only have different yields, but also give you different crops depending on: what day of the week you planted them on, what [[Elemental Rock Paper Scissors|elemental energy]] is flowing in your house, what [[Green Rocks|crystal]], if any, you feed the plant when you have the option to, how long you leave it planted, [[Overly Long Gag|how many times you examined it per day when it was growing, and the phases of the in-game moon.]] Squenix apparently loves having you figure crap out by yourself because time it takes you to figure it out means more subscription money for them. Those [[Magnificent Bastard|magnificent bastards...]]

** Also, for the ingredient needed to create Rank 3 weapons (basically the [[Infinity Plus One Sword]]) you either have to buy it for 2,000,000 gil for all 6 characters (you'll most likely never gather 12 million gil) or getting it as a 1% random drop from one of the strongest random enemies (which will decimate even a high leveled party really quickly). And there is no way finding it otherwise.

* In ''[[Crisis Core (Video Game)|Crisis Core]]: [[Final Fantasy VII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VII]]'', Minerva is MADE of this. This [[Bonus Boss]] requires you to look up guides every step of the way. Locating the best armor in the game will require this, in addition to learning how to craft the best fusion materia in the game that is mandatory to surviving more than 10 seconds in her presence. Did we forget to mention she spams [[One Hit Kill]] Ultima spells that leave you barely alive even if you block it while wearing said best gear and materia in the game? You'll need a guide to BEATING her too. Also, her [[Limit Break]] Judgment Arrow disables Phoenix Downs. Thankfully, you can Mug her for 99 of them.