may have solved the yellow paint dilemma for good. On social media, "" has become a kind of shorthand for what some players see as excessive hand-holding in video games.
Often, it manifests itself as actual yellow paint, slathered all over interactable objects like climbable walls and ladders.
Some players and game devs argue that this kind of design is ostentatious, breaks immersion, disrespects intelligence, and limits freedom.
Others hold that it's strictly necessary, since players are too obtuse to figure out where they're supposed to go otherwise.
Although the debate appears to have been reignited by the remakes, which introduced yellow paint even where the original games had none, yellow paint has since infected many major releases:,,, the list goes on and on.