Interestingly this is something heavily discussed in many game communities. People feel a tension between looking things up while possibly ruining their experie

Interestingly this is something heavily discussed in many game communities. People feel a tension between looking things up while possibly ruining their experience and experimenting, learning themselves but spending much more time. I think this has to do with a prevalence of frankly stupefying reward structure of many games. I call it spreadsheet progression. Instead of opening up new gameplay options, you often get a huge list of entirely arbitrary choices that only differ in the most superficial ways.