Riptor posted... I've always hated any secret that you couldn't figure out from in-game hints. My least favorite are ones that include a percentage chance of it occurring in addition to being completely obscure.
Yep. I'm fine with having to look closely, but when finding stuff becomes a matter of combing every pixel such that the only realistic way to find it is to draw on the collective knowledge of the community sharing what everyone has randomly stumbled into. I especially dislike secrets that require you to make blind leaps of faith into death pits in platformers, effectively requiring you to jump into every hole if you want to trial-and-error your way there instead of relying on guides.
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