A lot of games get praised for cleverly instructing the player on how to play. Super Mario Bros has Mario start on the far left of the screen, so the obvious direction is going right.
Bloodborne got heavy praise for teaching people how to play Demon's Souls/Dark Souls. I think this kind of implies that maybe Demon's Souls didn't have people playing the game "correctly".
There's obviously always a wrong way to play every game. Every game is basically designed to have players figure out how to pass some obstacle, otherwise you're probably just watching a movie.
At the same time if everyone is doing something wrong, I would say that's due to the devs.
There seems like there should be some kind of balance between hand holding and being too obtuse.
Bloodborne got heavy praise for teaching people how to play Demon's Souls/Dark Souls. I think this kind of implies that maybe Demon's Souls didn't have people playing the game "correctly".
There's obviously always a wrong way to play every game. Every game is basically designed to have players figure out how to pass some obstacle, otherwise you're probably just watching a movie.
At the same time if everyone is doing something wrong, I would say that's due to the devs.
There seems like there should be some kind of balance between hand holding and being too obtuse.