If we weren’t talking about a game, I would agree with you. It’s frustrating not knowing what you can do with what. But I like NetHack‘s verb-first approach. If

If we weren’t talking about a game, I would agree with you. It’s frustrating not knowing what you can do with what. But I like NetHack‘s verb-first approach. If you had a noun-first approach then it would basically list every single action for every object anyway, because it makes sense. Yes, you can eat a cream pie or wield it as a weapon or throw it at an enemy. You can use a towel to wipe your face or wear it as a blindfold or wield it as a weapon. The big drawback of noun-first is that it makes the player feel less creative because there’s no discovery: every object lists what it can do on the label. That’s no fun! I like engraving with my wands and dipping weapons in holy water! I like polymorphing into a metallivore and eating metal rings to gain their properties! I like dipping one potion into another to create weird effects via alchemy!