Playing Games in the "Wrong" Way 

ey! thanks for watching. if you are interested in seeing the full interview I did with DougDoug for this video, it is posted over on Nebula: nebula.tv/videos/razbuten-an-interview-with-dougdoug-about-playing-games-wrong

*Wait are you telling me Todd Howard didn't intend the fork to be the default weapon to beat Skyrim with?*

I played Cyberpunk 2077 while following all traffic laws I could. Stopped at red lights, maintained lane discipline, checked my blind spot before turning, overtaking with plenty of space, the whole thing. Ended up in a traffic jam once or twice. I'm reasonably certain the devs expected me to play these sections like a racing game, but for some reason it felt more fun to drive as I would in a real life city

My friend and I once had a “race for last place” in Mario Kart Wii, where we drove the course backwards and tried desperately to hold onto 12th place. The race wouldn’t end until we both finished, so it was like an endless mode. Whenever we got the bullet bill power up we screamed “NO!” because it would take us in the wrong direction (forwards) and the only way to get rid of it (so that we could use other power ups) was to use it. We laughed our asses off the whole time, it was great.

There are few constants in life. But Outer Wilds making an appearance in a Raz video essay is certainly one of them.

Playing games wrong is why I love the "Let's Game it Out" channel. It is genuinely interesting to see how someone can play a game in ways you never considered. It is also hilarious. I do appreciate when developers embrace those playstyles instead of limit them. To me this is what truly differentiates gaming from other entertainment, the ability to shape your experience and determine your own outcome.

I love how DougDoug gave a shoutout to Raz's channel on stream the other day, and this feels like Raz being such a stupidly nice guy that he made a whole video to give DougDoug a shoutout back. Both of you guys are awesome!

My second, full, "white robe" playthrough of journey was perhaps the most memorable and emotional video game experience I've ever had. I was going for the trophy where you've shared the majority the journey with 1 player, and was immediately paired with another white robed player. We preceded to fly through the game by giving each other infinite flight, as if we both knew exactly why we were playing this playthrough. But the real beautiful moments came from the surfing scene where we couldn't go faster than the game intended, so we spontaneously criss-crossed paths. From then onwards, and at the very end of the game, we continued to weave patterns together. Journey is honestly such a fantastic work of art as an exploration of human communication.

the best case i’ve ever had of “Playing a game wrong” is playing Forza Horizon 4 like a driving sim. I would put on a podcast, put the controls on the most realistic settings, I followed stopped signs, i followed red lights and green lights, and followed speed signs, followed traffic laws and looked at the pretty sights like a tourist. It was extremely relaxing and extremely odd in a fun way as I knew this was not the intended way to play the game XD

I spent my first BotW play-through completely ignoring the main story quests, running around shirtless and climbing everything. I only entered Kakariko Village after I had gotten the Master Sword, cleared all four Divine Beasts, and completed ~115 shrines, and it was so I could complete yet another shrine. My roommate at the time kept asking me when I was going to go to Kakariko, to which I frequently reminded him that it wouldn’t happen, only to finally get there and realize the shrine in question was a combat tutorial. Having already beaten most if not all of the tests of strength, I found this absolutely hilarious

This exact message is why I fell in love with games and Role Play in MMO’s, which eventually developed into me becoming a Dungeon Master for the last decade. My players making decisions that completely baffle me and permanently change the story creates unforgettable memories. It makes the story ours and not mine. ❤ Thank you Raz.

I fricking love the entire genre of let's plays where players try to break the game or intentionally don't try to do what the developers intended. RTGame and Let's Game It Out are some of my favourites.

Discovering new things and mechanics not even the developers know about is always a wonderful experience

I really like how you included Human Fall Flat in the footage - I think that game does a really great job of suggesting that finding your own solution to the puzzle can be just as entertaining as solving it in the way the devs intended

I think the beauty of Outer Wilds, at least before the DLC, was that there isn't a wrong way to play it. The game doesn't push you towards a specific order to approach things, it just gives the player an interesting mystery then gives you a spaceship and sends you on your way to explore it's universe in any way you please.

The point made about flexibility at around 8:15 reminds me of a lesson I learned when pursuing illustration and artwork as a hobby in the past years. Having limitations breeds creativity, just like having resistance to a players creativity makes a player want to do more to see what they can get away with. It's a lot like an artist stuck with just one brush, one pen, or maybe a selection of just 3 paint colors for their canvas. When a person is presented a limited range of options they will use those options in ways they probably never would of imagined they could.

A related aspect is the "the developer actually thought of that??" effect. When you try something decidedly weird that the vast majority of players would never think to try, *and the game actually responds appropriately* - that is one of the most satisfying experiences for me. It's like this secret little conversation I'm having with the developer.

I'm 2min in and I'm immediately thinking of how art is not complete when the artist is done, it's complete when the viewer interprets it.

My brother once asked me to playtest a level he'd been building and was dismayed when I took the controller and immediately jumped into the completely cosmetic river and tried to walk up it underwater. He was asking me to stop when his girlfriend cut in and said "Let her do it. This is exactly the kind of stupid stuff people are going to do." It has to be a weird 'kill your darlings' moment for game devs to realise that the beautiful path that they've constructed is a challenge of limitation to others in a way I didn't really think about until then.

One of my fondest gaming memories is my sister and I playing "gardner" in Mario Kart 64. Staying in last place and getting the star to see who could remove the most trees from Peach's Castle

The amount of joy I get from clipping into a debug room is unmatched.

I played through dark souls 3 with a first person mod with some friends and my buddy learned in the last boss fight that holding circle let’s you run. Ended up being accidentally impressive he almost beat DS3 without running once.

Huh, somehow it had never really occured to me that 'death of the author' really does apply to videogames as well as literature. This was a really inspiring essay, thank you Raz. Also I know Doug's not exactly a small creator, but it's still cool to see him being shared around the internet, so that was awesome too!

As I've got older I've found myself becoming less and less infatuated with gaming. I know a lot of us do and we put it down to responsibilities and lack of time. I've always felt like it was the death of couch co-op that did it for me, and a lot of what you've just said in this video validate my feelings. My fav memories are ducking about in games with my mates, whether it be catching a friend mid jump just to drag him off screen in little big planet or driving 2 different direction on Gran Turismo A-spec just so we can collide at top speed further around the track. At the end of the day we are social creatures and having someone sat next to you sharing your experience and fun will always top sitting in a dark room by yourself for hours on end. Bring back couch co-op and lan parties!

"The most rewarding part of pursuing dumb things is doing it with others." 11:25 Well said sir.

"Sharing experiences makes them feel more important." I think that is another reason why reaction videos have become so prevalent, besides living vicariously through others to re-experience something for the first time. When you play a game on your own, the experience doesn't have that same feeling of significance as when you experience it with someone else. Watching someone else react to something you played can, albeit to a lesser degree, still give you some of that feeling.

I think this is the core of why TTRPGs are so much fun; while there is no 'right' way to play them, there are so many layers of expectation and interpretation - the DM has what they expect, each player has their own view, then they own character's view, and these interact with everyone else's view. You often get so wrapped up in your own expectations and interpretations that what everyone else does, or even your own character does, comes as a surprise and invokes this feeling of communal discovery. I absolutely love it when my players do something I didn't expect, even if it throws me off in the moment because it leads to the best and most memorable parts of a game, and seeing how even my own NPCs react and provoke situations according to their choices is just so interesting.

Halo 2 is just such a special game. The fact that Bungie placed things such as the Blind skull or the Scarab gun in the weirdest, least accessible out-of-bounds places tells me that they fully expected people to break the game the way they did and I think that's absolutely beautiful.

On the topic of Journey, it has some of my favorite glitchy movement in any game ever. With enough finesse, you are able to launch yourself at mach speeds and fly around like superman. It’s a skill that you can master and the community calls it fancy flying. You can even slowly just elevate yourself infinitely to the edge of the sky. I love replaying the game now and it’s because of this other world attached but separate from the intended experience

I remember in Smackdown: Here Comes the Pain, you can actually glitch out of the Elimination Chamber and basically play hide-and-seek in the crowd. Also, when playing a hardcore match outside of the arena where there's a helicopter overhead, pressing the square button on the PS2 controller while standing on a platform will basically make your wrestler do a super jump w/o taking any damage.

There was a unity game - splat death salad - that had a gun that oriented your gravity to whatever surface you pointed it at. If you went underneath stairs on one map and ran into the area they intersect with the wall, you would clip out of bounds. I spent far more time exploring and messing around with that than playing the game correctly. One time me and a friend used that to go inside the stairs and shoot rockets at anyone who entered the room.

Playing Skyrim as an npc is one of the most fun and surprisingly entertaining things you can do in the game. Changing the game’s perspective makes you feel almost part of the game itself and allows true immersion.

It's such intriguing seeing the boundaries of a stiff experience getting shattered just for the sake of it, it even gives players the feeling of control over it. I love it

Recently a couple of friends and I bought ICARUS, the survival game. We set up a dedicated server and started making a base. After a while we discovered that not all the map was accesible and that we had to do missions to unlock it. We didn't do that, instead we built a giant fucking tower to get over the mountains into the desert. We didn't play much after that but it was fun. Edit: The last part of the video is why streaming is so compelling for so many people. Sharing that moment is so so powerful.

Not playing games the right way has given me my best memories with games, and I love combining that with getting achievements with others, because then I have an indicator to the memory. There's an achievement in Halo Infinite that asks you to have 3 other players get into your vehicle after you've used the horn. I carried the achievement out with my friend that I always play games with, my brother on his PC, and my dad on his own console. We then all hopped out of our seats, and rotated around the vehicle clockwise - each taking our turn to get the achievement. Meanwhile, some other player on our team was stood there watching us perform something that looked like a ritual. They probably didn't even know it was related to an achievement, so it would've looked ridiculous, and that just made it even funnier. Now I'll always remember that and all of us laughing into our mics, whenever I see the achievement.

I’m so glad DougDoug was highlighted for his differing stream ideas!

There's something beautiful about forging your own experience. It's like you become your own little game dev or play tester, enjoying every nook and cranny of the game. Or even the opposite, instead of enjoying everything you prefer to experience only certain parts - but you explore them to the fullest. Speedrunners know many of these feelings/experiences very well. As to play the game fast, you must first play it slow and learn everything you can about it. Bending intended mechanics into unintended ones just feels so good.

This made me cried. Although I have friends, none of them are interested in gaming. I love games and they have accompany me through the loneliest times. Now I wish I could share them with others

This reminds of how inside jokes are bonding experiences - they're typically shared group experiences

I've noticed my interest in gaming nearly stopped after graduating college and moving away from my roommates. With the move-out took away nearly all those small interactions and opportunities to share my experiences with others, and... with it my motivation went away. I honestly don't have many friends right now, so I'm not in the game playing mood since I wouldn't even have that many people to share my experiences with afterward. It reminds me of how people always want to consume the latest media - if they consume something at the same time as others, they get to socialize more in this new social circle. Consume the media significantly afterward, and nobody cares anymore.

The Stanley Parable is a weird one, it intends you to play the game in an unintended way.

i like that outer wilds always comes up in good video game essays its just such an extraordinary game even the music

My favorite thing to do in Halo 2 as a kid was seeing how far I could go with a ghost vehicle😂 I would fit it through every door and hallway I could until the next mission

I always love going out of bounds. I like being outside looking in, and just exploring.

Honestly seeing a player demolish a level in a way you didn't even think was possible is amazing.

Sniper Elite is a game series that, true to its name, is designed for the player to use sniper rifles as much as possible. The levels are clearly designed with this in mind. On one playthrough of Sniper Elite 4, I chose to only use a revolver pistol to kill enemies in a game where half of the words in the title were "Sniper". I ended up completing the entire game in this fashion, including the DLC mission where you kill Hitler. It felt like I was playing an entirely different game, since long-range targets (such as enemy snipers) were almost completely out of my reach, and because I had limited myself to a single weapon I had to watch my ammo usage carefully. It was also very funny to hear the enemies refer to me as "Sniper" despite having no evidence to support that accusation. In the Hitler mission, I had to choose my kills carefully since firing a single shot could be enough to trigger the alarm and get Hitler to try to escape, and the revolver doesn't have a silencer. I ended up only killing 3 enemies (including Hitler himself) because of this. Definitely one of my favorite playthroughs of that game, hands down.

I don't think games are alone in this. Every art form is only complete when it is viewed, listened to, or read by the audience. It's more obvious with games, since the active role of the audience is so physical, but I don't think it's more important than the act (note the word relation between 'act' and 'active) of interpreting a painting, empathising with characters in a novel, or just vibing to music.

one can solve a rubik’s cube if they enjoy puzzles, but is it as satisfying as solving the one puzzle that wasn’t meant to be solved: picking a lock? their one goal is to become resistant to being forcefully opened and that makes them all the more entertaining to open

I'm largely a rule-follower, so stumbling across speedrunning & other game-breaking shenanigans baffled me at first. But you're right, instances of playing a game "wrong" are often more memorable and hilarious than the "right" way. My earliest memory is probably goofing off with my brother playing Dark Orbit (the one that got erased) on PC, with me controlling movement of the ship, and him in charge of the guns. Naturally, it was pretty funny to brake suddenly or go the wrong way =P

I’ll never forget as a kid, the countless hours I spent and halo 2 just trying to get vehicles in parts of the campaign that they weren’t supposed to be. I remember spending hours trying to get the tank on the bridge map into the tunnel or try to hijack a banshee to bring it through the tunnel and then shooting the wings off at the end of the tunnel to get it to the next section of the map. As much as I love a good story based campaign, it’s memories like those I’ll have forever.

Something that should also be mentioned is how awful it can feel if you play a game your way and get told by friends or diehard Fans that you "play it wrong". Whilst they want to you to experience the best the game has to offer, they try too hard and Ruin it for you. I remember Undertale during it high time being a very big victim of this mentality

As a child, I had Sly 3 for the PS2, and once I revisited it now that I'm grown up, I realized I never made it past level 1. I would just keep running around the Hub world rooftops of Paris, sneaking behind guards and stealing their coins. I had the introduction island and the police breakout memorized, but I never did the stages past that!

Me tearing up from a video about playing games in the most stupid way possible is a testament to how great your videos really are. Thank you for this content! :)

Outer Wilds is definitely one of those games that gives you free reign to mess about however you want, but equally predicts almost exactly how you'll mess about. You decided to throw yourself at one particular planet with a speed that would otherwise instantly kill you? We have an achievement for that :)

Love to hear your thoughts Raz, your ideas always change the way I think! Your ability to see games from so many different angles is really special.

Growing up I often played games alone, no one else in my family was all that interested in games so it was just me and I enjoyed the boundaries of the game just fine. But then, it was always so strange to me how as soon as I had a friend over to game with how the process of play devolved into pushing against and outright attacking the "form" of the game, riddled with laughter and exclamations of "holy shit, how did that happen?". Seeing something through the eyes of someone else, even just by having them sitting next to you can be a powerful influence on your "now" I suppose. I could probably keep unpacking this, but it's the weekend and my brain is tired. Anyways, great video!

I feel like I used to play games more like this when I was a kid and didn't have 1000 games I can play

So cool to see Atrioc’s hitman run in the beginning! Hitman is such a good example of people breaking down game mechanics to run the game as quickly as possible, and build there own experience

Growing up I played a lot of Lego Star Wars with my friend from across the street, and I remember the days that were most fun we never even really made any progress. We would sabotage each other from trying to get collectibles, murder each other when they got the hat that I wanted, etc. The part of it that I think really made it possible was the couch splitscreen, and it makes me really sad for the next generation of kids and gamers who won't have those experiences of sitting down on the couch with your best friend.

Dougdoug is in this one?!

I remember reading a game design book where on the subject of player agency, it said to think of video games as something along the lines of “a giant play where everyone has their set parts and rules, and the main character is played by a member of the audience… …And this time, the audience member is drunk… and keeps missing their mark… and keeps trying to put buckets on people’s heads, but they’re having fun. It’s up to the playwrights whether they encourage them, or kick them off the stage.”

Back in the Halo 1 days, my friends and I would load up Boarding Action, a weird map where you're always within a few feet of the central abyss. In Halo, falling off the map denies everyone credit for the kill -- unless they just damaged you. So we'd spawn and immediately jump into the void, giving the others a few seconds to try to land a single shot for the credit. We did this for hours on end and had a blast... high school amirite

I thought this was gonna be an essay on the appeal of speedrunning, but instead it was just a really heartfelt expression of unintended fun, and while you used clips of speedruns I don't think you even bothered to mention it. So, thanks for subverting my expectations, this was a great video!

Back in the 360 days, I invited 4 friends over. They all played minecraft for the first time ever, in splitscreen mode. With no restrictions or goals, all of them did their own thing, and showed their personality. One tried to build a house, another tried to kill everyone, another was obsessed with getting pets, while the last tried to break the world by building the tallest possible tower. Instead of working together they clashed and laughed at each other and joined in the shared confusion and chaos. It was the most fun I had with minecraft, and I wasn't even playing.

Honestly one of the angles for this that is incredibly relevant is that the argument of "limitations" has been discussed for multiple decades now within the TTRPG genre, such as DnD and pathfinder. Games ARE defined by the rules and limitations, same as play, same as DND, what makes it compelling for me to talk about that one time my player monk ran down a wall to chase a fleeing enemy to kick it to its death and climb back up is because the rules for pathfinder 2e and his choices allowed him to do that WITHIN the rules, not just because "i said so" That is why elden ring and souls like games are so compelling with how you can "exploit" to win because so much of it is within the rules but makes sense, cheesing something through a small open door or poisoning to death is allowed within the rules, even if its not a "fair fight"

For those who don’t know, Doug Doug’s brother is Davey Wreden, makers of the Stanley parable. That just makes the world seem small to me

great video! a sincere thank you for including captions. this topic reminded me of "pick my unit" restrictions on fire emblem playthroughs: where unit selection/restriction is something that creates a tension that makes each playthrough potentially unique and often memorable

This whole video makes me realize how crappy my "friends" were growing up. They all just wanted to one up me no matter how much I tried to just have us enjoy the experiences we were having and could never go off track of just beating the game. It made me appreciate playing alone 😔

Fantastic video as always my man. I love how thought provoking your videos are. Also very pleasantly surprised to see DougDoug here

One thing i always love to is that Doug Doug and the vast majority of people who play like him never treat the games random glitches or bugs maliciously he’s always having a good time and that really translates when watching.

As a small unknown indie dev, the 18:27 part, the final line of the main video, after all its build up, it made me tear a bit. It's hard to get our games noticed with a very saturated market and everyone is competing against each other, regardless of their budgets. But every time someone does find your game and tell me about their experiences, it's the best day of my life. Every time. And also, I'm developing a new title now and I'm in the prototyping stage and I've already found an unintentional bug/feature that it's very fun and I'm letting it in. Just to reiterate that devs leave some stuff for the players like that for sure.

Seeing DougDoug in a Razbuten video is something I never thought I needed until now

I remember playing the halo 1 demo splitscreen with my cousin and we just stayed on the beach for hours finding new ways to crash the warthogs while avoiding the one elite who had a 1 hit kill sword and shooting rockets at eachother. It was like playing tag/keepaway and so fun.

This whole video is just a DougDoug callout. Go easy on the guy, his wife just left him.

I think that's why we need more immersive sim games, it's literally a genre that captures this exact feeling of experimenting and playing the game your way, with each playthrough being different

When I saw the title, I literally thought to myself "DougDoug is the perfect case study"

I did NOT expect 2 of my all-time favourite content creators to collab, this was a pleasant surprise!

A yt channel I love that plays games like this (kinda) is @Sample, he does crazy challenges like beating hollow knight without directly killing enemies, beating celeste without climbing or beating the whole Kirby series without jumping

A decent amount of my World of Warcraft experience was not doing raids, quests, instances, or grinding. A decent amount of it involved me just trying to reach places I wasn't supposed to get to, like the areas made to look nice that you fly over pre-Cataclysm. I spent sooooo much time doing that. It was lots of fun though glitching up on top of mountains and what not.

honestly that start speech is exactly how it was when I made my mods, spent countless hours making it just right then some person comes by, steals all my work and modifies it so it's completely unbalanced

XD, seeing plague Tale as an example for a game you can more or less only play the was it was intended is so funny to me. I spend forever trapping every rat I could find in a corner and burning it untill none were left in a room and trying to kill every enemy I could, no metter how unnessiarily hard it was. I don't know why but I just had to play the game this "wrong" way. Super funny to me

This is kinda why I have so much time Cyberpunk exploring the city. The freerunning isn't perfect, but it's super satisfying to platform up and leap across massive gaps, just barely hanging off a ledge after holding your double jump for just the right moment to get you up onto (or off of) a tower or crane and into some new vantage point, or to even little areas that had development but you are usually barred from etc. Nothing beats OG Live party days messing around on various games, it's something I enjoy for sleepless nights and all.

This video unintentionally broke my heart. I’ve been playing video games all my life (I’m nearly thirty, so it’s been a long time), and while I enjoy occasionally checking out the creative ways speed runners may break and/or take advantage of games in order to play them wrong, I’ve never gotten into playing games “wrong”, myself. Like you said in the beginning of the video, I always felt that the devs/designers made a specific story/experience they wanted me to see and play, and so while I’d search for easter eggs or test whether standing on the fire would hurt me, I never really tried to get creative with my mischief. What I noticed about your video was that these experiences and the examples you gave were all tied up in interactions with *other people*. Friends, or siblings, or twitch chats, or competitive gaming. And I…didn’t have that. I had me and my console and a lack of a social life. I didn’t dip into adding mods to my games until my early twenties - adding a hundred or so to Stardew Valley - and that was only after playing the entire vanilla game three separate times. I can’t help but feel like I’ve missed out on something amazing. I’ve made actual gamer friends in my adult years and we have fun being silly together and making jokes in Elden Ring, but even then it’s all within the confines of the game’s mechanics. It feels like my opportunity to gain that whimsical and creative out-of-the-box thinking has long since passed.

Funny how you upload this now, as I'm on my second hour of an Elden Ring Level 1 run. Sometimes playing a game wrong can be more fun than playing it how the developer intended. I haven't done a normal run of Pokemon in years, and I'm sure if I play Scarlet and Violet I'll just jump right into a Nuzlocke without any knowledge of the game.

11:25 This kinda makes me think of dnd in a way. The stuff is fun cause you do it with a group. Additionally, I've been workshoping the concept of live world building a setting with a audiance. I think that it could make for a very unique experience to see an audiance building a setting with a streamer on stream. I can't actually do that cause I don't have an audiance, but who knows maybe someday. Also, I love seeing human fall flat clips here

A few years ago I was playing Phasmophobia with a friend I no longer talk to. We had already finished the objective of the game which is to identify the ghost but suddenly he called for us to raid the house. We then spent the next 45-60 minutes stealing every moveable object from the house. It's truly a memory I treasure and I thank you that this video expressed the importance of doing things just like it

This really put a lot of my experiences into perspective, and you continue to have insights into games that give me more tools to use when trying to get more out of my game experience, and I'm grateful for that. kind of disappointed you didn't include a clip of driving the gauss warthog into the scarab in halo 2 though 😅

As you were talking about how complete freedom doesn't always give you the best experience, with the horse climbing a mountain at 9:02 i imagined trying to climb a mountain in Minecraft, to which I immediately thought of nerd polling up, not that fun, or flying with an elytra, also not that fun, but the clip you show looked fun to me, which goes to prove the point that the fun isn't always in doing the things, but doing the things in a way the game doesn't really want you to do them

I always question if what I'm doing in a game is what the devs intended for me to do. Games like Dishonored 2 have given me lots of these questions, and I would often reload multiple times until I'd do something that seemed "right" in the game.

Hey Raz,. I just want to say that your videos are a cut above a lot of other gaming content here on youtube. I love how you talk about the experience of gaming, rather than about the games themselves. Your tone consistently comes off as inquisitive and open-minded, and that goes a long way to establishing a sense of acceptance, as opposed to the eternal complaining you get from some other channels. I always look forward to watching your next vid :)

As a game dev, nothing makes me more excited than people finding fun exploits that I didn’t know about. I’ve even gone as far as to intentionally leave bugs that made the game more fun.

This is why I love playing games with my partner watching. Every now and then she'll ask a question or suggest a weird thing that I wouldn't have thought of, and it's lead to a lot of really funny and memorable moments.

Another absolute BANGER of a video. You're one of my favorite creators and you inspire me to look at video games differently. Thank you Raz!

Love the collab! Really like doug's content so it was super fun to see him making an appearance here :)

Raz + DougDoug, an incredible collaboration I never knew I needed. Thanks for another excellent video homeboy!

Never thought I'd see the crossover between two of my favorite channels.

As a fan of Doug Doug listening to this video with headphones on and washing dishes, hearing "I reached out to the world's foremost expert on playing games in the wrong way" followed by the sudden "I'm DougDoug" had me dying with laughter

my favorite most recent way I played a game "wrong" was when I was sneaking through the yiga hideout in botw. I knew it was supposed to be a stealth quest but I thought I had to kill everyone anyway; I figured out pretty quickly that you can kill the clan members who weild a -katana- windcleaver fairly easily by attacking them repeatedly with bomb arrows (the blast of the bomb always knocks them down, which means if you can corner them and hit them quickly enough it's possible to drain their hp before they're able to sound the alarm). I was way too invested in my way by the time I realized I was making it more difficult for myself, so after many many frustrating attempts I was finally able to wipe out the entire hideout before confronting the final boss 😆

Amazing video, as always! And such a wonderful, unexpected collab! (Also I see what you did there at 17:56, in-tree-guing indeed)

Learning how to cheese a game is one of my few joys in life. Outsmarting the game mechanics is so much fun