What's the highest number of tutorials you've seen in a game?

[Deleted member 46489]

I started playing CrossCode, and it has 4 back to back tutorials. Puzzles, combat, lectures about town stuff, and even optional tutorials inside the mandatory tutorials. This game is like the Inception of tutorials.

I like the gameplay, but the front-loading of all the info is a bit too much. A lot of games introduce you to their systems over the first few hours, but they do it sneakily, so your brain thinks you're playing the game instead of the tutorial. Unfortunately, CrossCode's tutorials are very obviously tutorials. Made me feel more like I was reading a book than playing a game, since I had little control over where I went and what I did.

I'm sure the game will open up soon and be awesome, but I do wish they had done this better.

So what's the largest/longest tutorials you have found in a game?

 

[OGlol]

Under night in-birth is pretty long and robust if you include character challenges.

 

[Favio Bolo]

probably not the highest number but i laughed at a tutorial screen popping up when i was at like 80% of my xenoblade 2 playthrough

 

[Aaron D.]

Dragon Quest Builders 2 was dropping new tutorial content more than 2 dozen hours into the game.

 

[HammerOfThor]

Doesn't one of the Xenoblade game throw tutorials at you even when you're like 40 hours into it?

 

[DanteMenethil]

This game drops a tutorial like a flight sim manual; 179 lessons

 

[Funkallero]

I felt like the first 10hrs or so of Persona 5 was a big long tutorial.

 

[eXistor]

The entirety of Mario & Luigi Dream Team feels like a tutorial.

 

[Jogi]

Avengers has a weird way of teaching you how to do things you've already had to have been doing for the previous 2-3 hours. It may not be a lot in amount, but it makes zero sense into how they are utilized and conveyed. There should be a "Yes, I have played a game in the last 10 years" option to avoid all of them haha.

 

[JuanAndOnly]

Marvel's Avengers had tutorials throughout the entire campaign. Found it annoying and unnecesary at times.

 

[It’s Time To Go]

Have you played Pokemon sun and moon? Endless tutorials.

 

[Deleted member 14377]

I felt like the first 10hrs or so of Persona 5 was a big long tutorial.

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I dont buy it. Like 20+ easy.

At least Xenoblade 2 spaces it out and adds to its systems. P5 is a handholding slog for a very long time.

 

[werezompire]

Not a fan of the constant repeated tutorial messages in your typical Zelda game.

 

[The Crystal Exarch]

I remember having so many different tutorials for the convoluted systems in Tales Of Zestiria, by the third one I already didn't know what was going on.

 

[Patryn]

I was just playing Tales of Graces F for the first time, and in the final dungeon I got a tutorial screen. Turns out I hadn't been hit by a specific status ailment the entire game, and the first time you get hit with any one, you get a tutorial screen explaining what it was.

This was like 5 rooms before the final boss.

Oh, also obligatory mention of Infamous Second Son:

Spoiler

The final boss is literally a tutorial fight, because you get a new power set just for that fight.

 

[Horns]

Witcher 3 has a bunch. I'm 20 hours into and I am still getting them.

 

[Legacy]

Completely agree Op, CrossCode tutorials were laborious

 

[Skitso]

GTA V and RDR2 feels like half of the game is a tutorial...

 

[HylianSeven]

Xenoblade. All of them. Constantly popping up with tutorials for at least the first few hours, and still occasionally throwing tutorials at you late in the game.

 

[aiswyda]

probably not the highest number but i laughed at a tutorial screen popping up when i was at like 80% of my xenoblade 2 playthrough

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Doesn't one of the Xenoblade game throw tutorials at you even when you're like 40 hours into it?

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I was also thinking of Xenoblade 2...but I do think those are just really spaced out to give you time to learn the battle system piece by piece. Probably far too spaced out, but I'm guessing that's the intent?

 

[joffocakes]

I'm glad Under Night In Birth has already been posted; loooooads of tutorials. Absolutely excellent fun and very informative though.

 

[pbayne]

I feel like the modern tales games are usally frontloaded with tons of turorials trying to explain how bullshit/convuted their new battle system is

 

[solidr]

knights of nightmare (ds/psp) literally half game is a tutorial

 

[N64Controller]

AC Origins and AC Odyssey

These tutorials were death.

 

[Big G]

Not a fan of the constant repeated tutorial messages in your typical Zelda game.

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Yup, this. And IMO Skyward Sword is the worst offender. The games that have come out since then have been much better in that regard.

 

[OmegaDL50]

Ni No Kuni is one egregious example with overabundance of tutorials and Drippy giving you tips in combat well beyond the point you should already know them. There should be a point when the tutorials need to stop and the player should allowed to play unhindered or be allowed to make mistakes to learn by trial and error. The fact they persist well into the end game where tutorials should no longer matter is a serious problem.

Drippy interrupting you and doing the "How you how to defend against a boss special" during the final boss was a bit too much. Yes, this is actually a thing.

 

[Jencks]

Xenoblade 2.

 

[Deleted member 46489]

I think I would like to mention Hades by Supergiant games here as an example of tutorials done well. The game has tons of complexity, but drip feeds it to you through gameplay. From the very first moment, I felt like I was playing the game. Nothing felt like a tutorial. So kudos to them. I'm sure it wasn't easy.

 

[Waxy]

Avengers has a weird way of teaching you how to do things you've already had to have been doing for the previous 2-3 hours. It may not be a lot in amount, but it makes zero sense into how they are utilized and conveyed. There should be a "Yes, I have played a game in the last 10 years" option to avoid all of them haha.

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Ya this, I'm enjoying Avengers but it's pretty insane how many small tutorial pop ups there are. Like every character has perfect dodge with B why does a thing need to pop up each time I use a new character.

 

[LumberPanda]

It's been a while, but from what I remembered Final Fantasy 13 was a tutorial until the last 3 or so chapters.

 

[Deleted member 864]

Pretty much all of Mario and Luigi Dream Team is a tutorial.

Pokemon Sun and Moon too, the amount of tutorials in that game especially early in the game made me drop it.

 

[Charcoal]

I remember thinking "just let me play the damn thing" when starting Doom Eternal for the first time.

 

[Zool]

Mario & Luigi: Dreamteam on the 3ds has a loooot of tutorials.

 

[Glio]

Crusader Kings 2 and yet I have never really understood how trading works.

 

[super-famicom]

This game drops a tutorial like a flight sim manual; 179 lessons

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Sorry, what game is this?

 

[Alex840]

I stopped playing Skyward Sword before the tutorials stopped.

AC3 is also horrendous.

 

[danmaku]

Sorry, what game is this?

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It's a fighting game. The only genre where people demand more tutorials instead of less.

 

[Deleted member 10737]

maybe xenoblade 2? i'm pretty sure 20 hours into the game i was still getting tutorial screens.

 

[DanteMenethil]

Sorry, what game is this?

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[Deleted member 60582]

Not a fan of the constant repeated tutorial messages in your typical Zelda game.

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Skyward Sword. The entire game.

 

[ctc43f]

Ring Fit Adventure. EVERY TIME you get ready to do an exercise it reminds you how to do the exercise. Granted, part of the time is probably recalibrate the joy-con but after the game reminds you for the 3,000th time how to do an Ab Guard it gets old.