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*** And the clogged garbage chute in SH 2, which you have to drop a case of soda down to dislodge a critical puzzle item (see [[Soup Cans]]).
** A Guide Dang It on all difficulties: the scene where Heather holds Claudia at gunpoint. If you shoot her, the God will possess Heather, resulting in a [[Nonstandard Game Over]]. The solution is {{spoiler|to ingest the [[Holding Back the Phlebotinum|Held Back Phlebotinum pill]] inside the pendant she's been carrying since the beginning of the game}}. You only know of its existence by examining the pendant, and like in SH1, the in-game hints only vaguely reference its use.
** ''[[Silent Hill]] 1'': To get the Good+ ending, you must collect the red liquid (later revealed to be Aglaophotis, a form of [[Applied Phlebotinum]]) from the broken vial in a plastic bottle, then, during the fight with the Puppet Cybil, throw it on her to exorcise the demonic parasite from her. The few in-game hints only remotely reference this substance's power, but scenario writer Hiroyuki Owaku stated that Cybil's fate after
*** This is not really a [[Guide Dang It]], because you're not supposed to know how to use it until you get the Good ending, which is the only instance in the game which informs you of its purpose. The Plus endings are intended to be earned in replays.
** And that's not forget the Crematorium puzzle, also on Silent Hill 3's hard mode. Which requires you to know the real life habits of a particular, obscure bird most people don't know of, let alone know the real life habits of. Oh, and that's not to mention the part of the poem applied to this bird seems to identify an entirely different bird based on the poems provided in game.
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** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZEqrPoma5c Pretty much what happens in the games.]
* ''[[Resident Evil Outbreak]]''. Try figuring out how to get all the SP items without a guide, much less try figuring out that they're even there in the first place since it's entirely possible to complete the whole game many times over without ever realising that they're there. And the "set" of items spawned on the map is determined by a [[Luck-Based Mission|random variable]] and further confusing people, some can only be obtained on certain difficulties and by certain characters. Have fun. Your reward for all of this? [[And Your Reward Is Clothes|Costumes and alternate character models that play identically to existing characters]]
** A less annoying example but still valid, is that in order to complete the Event Checklist for each scenario and therefore unlock an extra mode, you are required to ''kill yourself'' in a specific way on ''two separate occasions''. One isn't so bad to figure out and might be accomplished by the player for [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|laughs or just out of curiosity]] but the other requires the player to stand around for close to ''two minutes'' while nothing happens with no indication that anything even ''will'' happen there.
* In ''[[Rule of Rose]]'' many important plot-points are hidden out of the beaten path, and you can miss the introduction of one of the most important characters in the story if you don't know where to look in the first chapter. Also, you can't get the best ending unless you do the most unintuitive thing imaginable in the final bossfight: {{spoiler|give the first and only firearm that you have to the Stray Dog. He will shoot himself dead.}}
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