Missing an obvious game mechanic

How did that core game mechanic slip past you??

[FedralBI]

I guarantee that Rowan hit 'Skip' when the quest was explaining about Detective Mode. I'm surprised that Ben didn't grab his horse from his Horse Pocket so they could catch the bandits sooner.

[ditheraith]

One time I fought a final boss that was invisible due to old graphics drivers. At the time, I didn't know that it was not meant to be invisible, it was an epic fight.

[TrexelCat]

Rowan was on track for the achievement of having played the entire game without ever once using Detective Mode, and Ben ruined it by tricking him into using it.

[juliandelphiki]

My wife didn't realize you could lock on for things like the bow/boomerang her first play through of Wind Waker until she got frustrated during the temple of the gods. She almost beat the boss free aiming the bow at the hands/eyes.

I too was impressed she made it that far.

[jaybreezy]

Rowan being 4 levels higher than Ben makes this even better. 😆

[noam]

This is the most authentic conversation i ever heard in a sketch, especially the jump gag at the end🤣

[Warriormon]

The lack of using detective mode actually means that Rowan solving most of those quests was a legitimately impressive feat of detective work and deductive reasoning.

[VegetaLF]

My brother once came to me complaining that he was *still* level 1 in Oblivion despite days of gaming in it and he had no idea why he couldn't level up at all. I told him to just take a nap and he woke up at Level 15. Somehow he never learned that you had to sleep to level up in that game.

[davidl]

The "A to jump" at the end killed me. Pro troll move.

[ElSarto_ESP]

I'm actually impressed by the devs of the game. Apparently, they actually took the time to put clues around the investigation zones so the hardcore-inmersive players could figurate it by themselves

[picaludica]

Their interaction is very natural, it doesn't feel like a skit but like an actual conversation that happened! Kudos to Rowan and Ben for their acting skill, and to whoever wrote the dialogue 😊👍

[Aventinium]

I first played Chrono Trigger on an emulator. The domed cities in the future had a fog effect covering the screen. The emulator I was using apparently couldn’t do transparency layers. So instead of a transparent fog, everything was covered in just a layer of opaque gray.
I thought it was supposed to be that way. I ended up walking around blindly and mapping out the entire city on paper in order to get through it.

[voxar]

I feel a bit sorry for Rowan being “tricked” into botching the epic and probably world first “complete the game without using detective mode” achievement

[austinwagner]

its rare that Rowan actually learns something in these videos, very satisfying to see him growing as a person after 15 years

[melzz]

I'm actually really impressed with Rowan, it show that he never give up and work hard .
He could be a true detective 😂

[bccbuue]

That comment at the end saying A jumps totally got me. Once I was playing a first person shooter (can't remember which one), and I'd gotten more than half way through the game without realizing I could jump, when they suddenly put a short obstacle somewhere. I assumed it was intentionally unpassable, walked around looking for alternate routes, eventually came back trying to figure out how to destroy the obstacle, finally, frustrated, I hit a few buttons I hadn't tried before, and my character jumped. Turned out it was trivial to jump over. It wasn't even supposed to be a puzzle.

[Sergeant_Stammer]

Ben: "Total noob".
Rowan: has gone the entire game accidentally on hardcore mode and is 4 levels above Ben

[KwstasTsiropoulos]

Man i'm seriously impressed Rowan made it that far into the game, not giving up by doing the literal extra mile and by playing hardcode mode by default the entire time ahahaha

[MrMaradok]

And thus Rowan began the trend of “No Detective Mode” challenge runs

[WakkasLove]

I actually love the antagonistic broship of these two.