The Opposite of Hand-holding

How little information is too little?
Is it completely subjective?
Does it vary from genera to genera?
Where is the sweet spot?

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Pissy grabbing

Having a very verbose manual

Did anyone ever figure this out on their own?

I'm pretty sure stuff like that and a lot of things in the first Zelda were done to sell game guides.

Some retards keep spouting this but Nintendo Power was only sold in America

Armed and Delirious has a puzzle that there literally isn't a hint for in the entire game. You are forced to guess the solution. The walkthrough for the game even points out that there are only 500 or so possible combinations

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Didn't the Japanese have an equivalent, either in the form of a magazine, or telephone service?

I did both Zelda games without a guide when I was a kid. I couldn't do CV2 though. In Zelda if you talk to everyone you get all the info you need (if you do a bit of exploring and experimenting on your own) but in CV2 the townspeople deliberately fucking lie to you.