9th January 2003, 5:23 PM
Yeah, lucky you I guess. I wish I had actually experimented with it. The description was just too vague considering my previous experience with "hint modes". In all previous games with options like that, the "hint mode" was always something that simply popped up instructions on screen to tell you how to do stuff like control the camera, use special items, use various weapons, and do special moves. I always left them on because I never knew what kind of cool move I might be missing out on (as an example of situations I wanted to avoid, when I played Banjo-Kazooie, I assumed that when I became invincible, I couldn't jump, not consciously, but somehow I "knew" that was the case, until I actually tried it in frustration trying to get something from one of those snapper plants in tick tock woods).
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)