20 Gaming Moments That Insulted Your Intelligence

16. Yellow Paint - Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is a mostly excellent middle-entry into Square Enix's ongoing Final Fantasy VII remake project, but a moment early in the game did re-ignite one of the most contentious discourses in recent gaming history.

While climbing up Mt. Nibel at the start of the game, you'll find the path handily charted by yellow paint that's been helpfully slathered over the handholds you need to grab in order to scale the cliff.

The presence of yellow paint in games to signpost where players need to go has been a majorly divisive subject for years, some seeing it as immersion-breaking and excessively hand-holding, even while many developers ascertain that it's a simple way to point more casual players in the right direction.

But in this particular instance, it caught so much pushback precisely because the paint's placement is so ridiculous - are we really supposed to accept that someone, somehow, painstakingly painted every usable handhold all the way up the mountain?

There had to be a better way to lead the player onward, because if we're busy thinking about the mechanics of how the yellow paint got there, we're clearly not as immersed in the game world as Square Enix would like us to be.