I would love this option for JRPGs, which I can never seem to finish.

The thing everyone seems to forget about the patents on this is that you cannot save your progress. The game cannot actually finish the hard parts for you: the best it can do is show you one possible strategy, which you will still have to execute for yourself.

With the sole exception of puzzle games, this will -or should- have negligible effect on a game's challenge. If merely knowing what to do makes a game easy -again, with the notable exception of puzzle games- then something was seriously flawed in the game's design to begin with. Knowing the path and walking the path are two very different things, and this patent is designed to keep those separate.

I don't mind. As long as the button is only acessable when the game is paused. I don't want to "accidently" win.

If it ruins it for the people without any self control though, then the game is no longer for everyone, is it? You could say Nintendo is instead catering to one demographic to the detriment of another.

Really though, people without self control will find other ways to cheat or wouldn't be able to finish hard games anyway, so they are not actually discluding these people - in fact, they are including people who have no self control but don't care about actually "beating" a game.

No different than cheats, which have been around since the dawn of gaming.

Yeah, but it's getting easier to do so, isn't it?

Nah. I had a Game Genie waaaay back in the day.

Sorry. Forgot to add this in for effect...

Ahp! You got me.

I was got.