Gaming tropes you really like?

[Ikagura Ikagura]

I always find it fun in games when characters break the 4th wall to tutorialize, like saying "Press the Circle button to climb that ledge!". I know that irks some folks but it always makes me smile.

I like it when a game shows you an important weapon or an item just out of reach, and then makes you go through hell to get it. Very rewarding.

It makes me nostalgic for the PS2 era when mascot platformers did that without minding at all.

Nowadays gaming insists so hard on realism and immersion that you cannot have that for fun anymore.