8 Video Game "Gifts" That Made You Say HUMBUG
3. Secret Boots - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Players who explore the Underground Caverns in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night will be rewarded with the Secret Boots, which you might rightly assume would give Alucard some sort of physical advantage - increasing his speed, grip, and so on.
But hilariously, all the boots do is - and we're paraphrasing the item description here - "discreetly increase your height." Yup, that's it.
If you still thought that description might be a tad tongue-in-cheek, it isn't at all - Alucard will indeed grow taller by magnitude of just a few pixels while wearing the boots, and that's the whole "reward."
The boots do admittedly let you reach a few otherwise inaccessible items, though few players are likely to keep them on long enough to realise this.
Props to Konami for mocking the very notion of in-game rewards years before games en masse started getting cute and self-aware with it.