A Sub-Trope of Guide Dang It, where the game itself - through NPC advice, tutorials, in-game hints, etc. - tells you how to proceed, but their advice is either substandard (better ways are available at that point) or an outright lie (and not for plot based reasons, either). This is often due to a bad translating job, or faulty programming, where what the developers intended doesn't line up with what is actually said. Sometimes the lies are meant to invoke Artificial Difficulty and sometimes They Just Didn't Care.