10 Video Games That Secretly REWARD You For Cheating

10. The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild - Think Outside The Box

For some, Zelda's 'puzzle room' Shrines were a nice way to break up the usual act of exploration. For others, a sorry replacement for traditional dungeons that served as more of an annoyance. Fortunately, the easiest way to complete many of the shrines was not to do them at all.

Thanks to the game's robust mechanics and physics, players found so many possible exploits that finding ways to skip shrines became almost a game unto itself.

Walls can be bypassed with "shield jumps" - a technique where a player leaps into the air, shield surfs, then plants and detonates a bomb in midair to send them careening over barriers.

Alternatively, you can freeze an object in place with the stasis power, hit it to build up its momentum, then grab on and wait for it to launch you across the room. Does a motion-controlled Marble-Madness-like puzzle got you down? All it takes is a careful flick of the wrist to toss that ball right over the maze you were meant to navigate.

For players who can think abstractly, finding ways to skip the shrines comes more naturally than the puzzles themselves, meaning you net those oh-so rewarding treasure chests even faster.