How was I supposed to know THAT?! moments in gaming

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Hell yeah, and this game has some good ones. Would have loved to have known them back in the Genesis days, when i was never able to get past the 3rd level.

Beast select for each stage:
Press and Hold A, B, C, and diagonal down/left, and then press Start

^^ Not only is it really cool to be able to pick which beast you want to be, but also the final boss(rhino) is really tough. However, if you’re the Dragon, you can just hover right overhead out of harm’s way, and use the electric field move to beat him easy. With any other beast form you’re likely to lose horribly.

Stage select, set difficulty, extra lives, and Health:
Press and hold B, and press start.

^^ Important to note that after exiting out of this screen, you have to Press and hold A, and then start to go to the stage you want.

Lastly, restart the last stage you were on:
Press and hold A, and then Start.

^^ OMG! Being able to restart/replay the last stage you were on would have helped immensely back in the day, instead of having to start over.

There is also a sound test mode, but meh, its a sound test. Hold A, C, Up/Right and press Start.

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While some were easy to figure out, there were puzzles that spanned different rooms that were difficult to solve.

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OMG. I hope this will work on the PSN version of the game. yeah, that damn last boss (or ANY of them past the first one) is a bitch for the animal form that you have to use in normal. Now I have to do is remember when and where the damn two-headed wolves with the power ups show up and it’s on!!!

LOL @ Sound test mode. :rofl: “WISE FROM YOUR GWAVE!!!” Tell me you don’t want to Blast that through the LOUDEST speakers in the house at least once a day. I know I do. If I now have the power, I’m gonna do it!! Neighbor’s can GET FUCKED!!!

-Starhammer-

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Aw dayum. :rofl: I was WAY older than that when I played, but the thought of unleashing that level of mind-fuckery on a little kid would be cruelty. If that wasn’t enough, I’m betting you got leviathan too, didn’t you? Evil, that was. I STILL wanna rip that bitch in half.

-Starhammer-

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I actually learned, and played, this game recently. I know EXACTLY what you’re talking about. MY problem with it was that I saw pretty much two trees and so, per the hint, I figure-8 them. Nothing happened. I was so goddamn confused, but thankfully GameFAQs told me I was not at the right area.

Catherine Hard mode first play-through is nearly ALL “How was I supposed to know THAT?!” moments.

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the english translated mod for Slayers on the Snes has a lot of these moments. most of the moments are basically “how was i supposed to know to go there” kind of situation. this mostly has to do with the fact that it’s a translation of a 17 year old game done by one person.

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Tons of hints? They came from that one old dude in the hut, and he wouldn’t say shit most of the time, and everything that he said when he did say something was cryptic as fuck.

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I did that as well, as well as beating Myst.

How many of you found Secret Star Island without cheating or being told about it as well. And how many of you beat it. SMW is one of the few games I 100pct. Found and beat every single land there was.

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Didn´t find it without help as well, but at least it was before the internet era :slight_smile:
But how the F was I supposed to know that the number behind this game´s savefiles were not percentage of completion but rather the number of completed levels (I think). 96 was the maximum I think and I searched for hours for more levels, that one blank spot in the wood area drove me crazy!

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I found the Secret Star World by complete accident while in Star World just fucking around. I was basically like WTF IS THIS!

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Actually, I just thought of one. In Halo 2 (or 3, I forgot), there are these skulls you can collect for cheats. Many of them are hard to find without a guide, but you probably could if you searched really hard. Cept for one skull. To get this skull, you have to go to a certain part of a level where there are these hoops off to the sides. If you ever jump through one, you MIGHT notice it makes a sound. You then have to jump through these hoops in a certain order to play a song. If you somehow guess which song to play and do it correctly, you’ll get the skull. Needless to say the chances of finding this one out without a guide are extremely low.

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There are actually tons of tricks you can do with Altered Beast, but it involves taking the cartridge out of the Genesis while the power’s still on. Doing that can damage the system, but nothing bad happened to mine (or my Saturn, when I did a cart swap to play KoF '95). You could get unlimited lives, a ‘rainbow edition’ of the game (I remember the first boss would rain hundreds of those dirt-heads at you, the wolf’s charge attack would be faster, etc) and other stuff I can’t think of atm. You could also start the Genesis with the AB cart in, take it out with the power on, then put in a game like Strider or Revenge of Shinobi and get invincibility glitches in those games.

I really think Sega heard of the Altered Beast cart cheats and came up with the idea for the Sonic and Knuckles lock-on cart, which also does a lot of random stuff to different games that it’s connected to.

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pretty much everything in dark souls

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Everything in Dark Souls was discoverable, with enough effort.

I don’t count the trophies.

Because they were utter bullshit.

Fuck a Knight’s Honor.

Rolling Sif for the third time, to get the plat, with a +5 Black Knight Shield was lols though.

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Myst … the piano puzzle. It literally just gives you a 7-8 note tune and you have to replicate it on a full virtual keyboard. That taught me the harsh life lesson I’m a tone deaf motherfucker. Had to have my uncle do it for me.

Chests you can’t open in final fantasy XII if you want the ultimate weapon. <- no seriously there are chests right next to save points that if you open … your fucked. If you don’t have a guide odds are you won’t get it. Luckily that game is piss easy when you realize gun’s don’t scale based on level and can beat the entire game at like level 20 something by just giving everyone gun’s and playing well.

There are some really wierd one’s like the having to hold down for 10 seconds in one of the old castlevania’s near a wall to get teleported to the next area. But that shit is just stupid.

I have done everything this game has to offer except gte Lulu’s ultimate weapon. She should be a better character if she wants me to waste my fucking time dodging 200 bolts. I foundout you could check your number in the guide, but what it didn’t mention is that if you check how many you’ve done it resets the count. Figured I was near 150 or so and decided to check and it reset … never again.

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now that you mention it… most of the time he would just like snore at you or whatever, i guess it’s not very intuitive… although you had to know he was special with how big a pain he is to find in hit hut in the middle of nowhere.

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i just remembered one the final dungeon in links awakening where you have to go through the rooms in a correct sequence shit was nuts

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that stupid gap you had to walk over (not jump over) in tmnt for the nes.

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The crown jewel being the infamous Yeti in King’s Quest V. You have to defeat him with… a custard pie. Which you could also have unwittingly eaten earlier in the game, meaning that you might have rendered the game unwinnable.

There is another point-and-click in the same vein where you have to CALL the company for the password to take off in a spaceship before explosion (which means you can’t beat the game now, pretty much), but I can’t remember what it is and I’ve only read about it in articles/threads similar to this one. I mean really?

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When I saw this thread, I knew that this would be the first thing listed. To this day, I STILL cannot believe that was actually approved to happen in this game.