quote Kotaku

Instead I want to focus on one aspect I found troubling. Near the end of my play session I entered a large room housing a small central chamber. Inside that chamber were five thugs pointing their guns at the woman I was meant to rescue. Directly in front of me the wall of the chamber showed a weak point that I could destroy by spraying it with and then detonating some explosive gel. My Bat-vision told me three of the thugs were immediately behind this wall, meaning I’d take them out in the blast.

So I did. As soon as the wall exploded, killing three of the thugs, a cutscene kicked in to show the other two thugs fire upon their hostage. She died and I’d failed in my rescue bid. Game over.

But during that cutscene I noticed the other two thugs were standing in front of a wall similar to the one I’d just destroyed. A-ha! I thought. If I apply the explosive gel to both walls before detonating, I should take out all five thugs in one go, and thus keep the hostage alive.

I hit Retry on the Game Over menu and a loading screen popped up. It advised me to consider applying the explosive gel to both walls before detonating in order to take out all five thugs in one go.

Irritation hit me first, as I felt denied of the opportunity to test my solution. I now knew it worked, so where’s the fun in that?

quote oliveroliver m

have you played the game then?

No. I haven't played the game. I was basically just stating things that we have heard in the past from people who have previewed the game through the demo.

But yeah; Hints are stupid. I know I've gone online to look for help when I've gotten stuck, but its always a last resort.