History PlayingWith / PlayerNudge

** Dying to the ZeroEffortBoss makes Velvet say "As the prophecy states, 'Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair.'"

* '''Inverted''': Velvet gives you a hint every time you start a new puzzle. If you fail despite that, tough luck - you're not seeing that hint again unless you start the game over.

* '''Defied''': Any player who decides to not read the hints because he wants the satisfaction of figuring it out himself intentionally defies this trope.

* '''Inverted''': ... but Velvet turns out to be an UnreliableNarrator and, if only for sake of the story, the hint is wrong and leads the hero astray.

* '''Double Subverted''': ...Unless the hero dies enough times to trigger the game's "[[HintSystem pity hint]]" mode.

* '''Exploited''': ???

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* '''Averted''': [[NintendoHard No Hints.]] [[NintendoPower Try Nintendo Power.]]

* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Justified''': Velvet is established as a powerful [[{{Seers}} Seer]] who shares a connection with the hero and knows how everything ''should'' play out.

* '''Parodied''': "Brave Hero, you've died such a miraculously hilarious number of times, I, Velvet, shall solve the puzzle FOR YOU."

* '''Deconstructed''': [[HelloInsertNameHere The hero]] questions his journey if it can be so easily foretold in a prophecy and begins to wonder if anything he does matters if he's fated to do it anyway.
* '''Reconstructed''': ... but Velvet's last words of [[PlayerNudge advice for the hero]] is that he should never ever give up, and though he controls his own actions, destiny will see him to a happy end.

* '''Lampshaded''': "Shouldn't I learn how to do this myself?"

* '''Invoked''': ALL ONLINE WALKTHROUGHS

* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': While this appears to be just the game's way of nudging players in the right direction, it's actually setting up TheReveal that Velvet is more powerful than she lets on, and is [[UnwittingPawn manipulating the hero]] for her own ends. After this reveal, the player no longer recieves any hints, for obvious reasons (though Velvet may engage in EvilGloating on the GameOver screen instead).

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* '''Straight''': If [[HelloInsertNameHere the hero]] of ''Troparadise'' dies during a PuzzleBoss battle, the WaifProphet Velvet appears before the GameOver screen and reminds them "As the prophecy states, only the [[SwordOfPlotAdvancement Holy Blade Edin]] can destroy [[ShapeShifter Llortro]]."

* '''Inverted''': ... but Velvet turns out to be an UnreliableNarrator and, if only for sake of the story, the hint is wrong and leads the hero astray.

* '''Discussed''': "Plus, where would you be without my hints, Brave Hero? Still in the [[TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Water Temple]], That's where."

* '''Subverted''': The game [[GuideDangIt provides no hints whatsoever]] about what TheHero is doing wrong or missing.

* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': While this appears to be just the game's way of nudging players in the right direction, it's actually setting up TheReveal that Velvet is more powerful than she lets on, and is [[XanatosSucker manipulating the hero]] for her own ends. After this reveal, the player no longer recieves any hints, for obvious reasons (though Velvet may engage in EvilGloating on the GameOver screen instead).

** "Excuse me, Mrs.[[{{Seers}}Seer]]? I forgot the hint. And died. Can you run it past me one more time please?"

* '''Inverted''': ???

* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''Deconstructed''': ???
* '''Reconstructed''': ???
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': ???

* '''Lampshaded''': ???
* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???