>>43283888Windom has an insane side quest where you have to look for a guy without sun glasses who looks like other NPCs with them. You would think when they tell you to find him he would be any where in the city, but he never leaves the exact screen he "runs" from. He's always in the town center, 3 times in a row in fact. Once hidden in a phone booth. This turned out to be the hardest bit of SwSh where, I know children got soft locked because they couldn't find him hiding in the phone booth. A problem I struggled with as an adult as well.
The problem here cannot be solved by brute force ala Mt Moon or other complex dungeons with multiple levels. You have to find the 1 solution and could miss it entirely because at no other point is the phone booth relevant and you have an entire town hinted at but not used. So even if GF are stream lining the games for children, children are still getting stuck if they DO read the story and many children won't read the story and skip it all then use youtube to solve their problems.
The whole children "gamers" set up is fucked. They're entirely dependent on tutorials they don't even use, so never develop skills to surpass problems which the tutorials are not needed to force you to solve. We go from "Flash works in dark caves" to "Caves are straight paths except the optional areas you have to use a late game item to access 1 rare item or pokemon".
It's learned helplessness.
