Zelda: OOT Comparison

[GrooveMan.exe]

Already addressed this. Selectable difficulty. Harder to implement but the effort pays off because it ensures a balanced and fair game for multiple skill levels, as opposed to "now we can put some random counterintuitive adventure game puzzles in because our Prima Strategy Guide is already inbuilt" or "peek-a-boo laser time right before the enemy appears, kids."

Selectable Difficulty Levels are usually way less involved than what you're implying. It usually just involves a change in damage dealt/received, more than actual changes to level design. Master Quest interestingly DOES do this, and even then it's more often than not about enemy placement.

See, aside from an excuse for developers to make games harder, I don't see Super Guides actually doing much of anything for people not interested in using it. Complaining about how other people may play/enjoy a game differently to you is p. dumb. And complaining that it's going to ruin the future of the gaming industry is also pretty misguided (at the end of the day, it's a business. If developers an add a function that makes their game more accessible while not making the game itself inherently easier, they're sure as fuck gonna take it).

Super Guides are only an issue for the people who DO want to use it; and if you're not one of them, then I'm finding it hard to see why you'd care. Oh actually, Super Guides in Nintendo games (and L.A. Noire, kinda!) only kick in when you're doing really badly. *insert burn about you sucking less here*