10 Video Game Decisions You Immediately Regret Making

9. Stealing Anything (Legend Of Zelda: Link's Awakening)

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Just because some reed-bound prophet with an overzealous engraving hand carved an arbitrary law onto a tablet three thousand years ago, doesn't mean that stealing is inherently wrong. Everyone likes a freebie, and if you're sufficiently stealthy, you can get just about owt for nowt. Groceries, games, a garden shed; your loot's only as big as your overcoat.

That's not to say there aren't repercussions if you're caught trying to cash in your five-finger discount. Extant laws range from fines, prison time, and in some countries, amputation. The inhabitants of Koholint Island, the tropical setting of Nintendo's portable dream Link's Awakening, take the law into their own hands. And their vigilantism takes precisely zero prisoners.

It's entirely possible for Link to deceive Mabe Village's otherwise eagle-eyed shopkeeper and slip out unnoticed, with an overpriced bow and arrow in tow (or above his head, as it happens). But only once. Word spreads of our not-so-heroic hero's larceny. Not only will every character now refer to him as 'THIEF', but dare return to the store and he'll get a faceful of an electric zapper. Link can cheat the clerk, but he can't cheat death.

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