Negative Reinforcement

The secret art of sitting down on a staircase so foes can't get past you and immediately give up trying.

Works every time.

Investigation Station

When entering an investigation screen in any point-and-click style game like Professor Layton or Phoenix Wright (or Professor Layton AND Phoenix Wright), it is important to try to immediately determine whatever object is the Important Thing that will advance the game to the next segment. Not so you can interact with it, but so you can exhaust the rest of the game for things to do before doing so.

Gnostic

Well that settles that.

Hunter Gatherer

Sometimes in Red Dead Redemption the smell of a dead animal being skinned will attract a predator, which you will then want to dispatch. You will then want to skin the dead predator, which will attract more predators. This will continue until you die of old age.

Easy-Bake Coven

I know it's always implied that the real guilty party of a Phoenix Wright case is going to face the death penalty, but the court usually doesn't carry it out on the spot, right in front of you. Kind of puts a damper on the confetti.

Haunch Hunch

Anthropomorphic space animal characters like Fox kind of get an anatomical pass when they're just human-shaped bodies with an animal head and tail stapled on either end, but once you try to deconstruct that idea a little further the shambling homunculus starts to fall apart.

I have no idea if Fox is maybe just a normal-proportioned human dude with way too much hair or instead a weird dog that has crushed its horrible body into the vague shape of a man. Someone needs to ask Nintendo these tough and important questions??

Loophole

I tend to try to do The Right Thing when I play videogames, which typically means stopping badguys in as non-lethal a way as possible. Red Dead Redemption gives you a non-lethal lasso towards that goal, but everyone you fight has a gun and therefore the ability to instantly murder you while you're swinging your stupid lasso around like an idiot.

Pocket Monsters

He'll be fine.

Sibling Revelry

I don't know why this kind of thing is always the first thing I think of, but it is.

Crime Seen

Traveling around in Fake Texas you're bound to come across crimes in progress, into which, by nature of being the Most Important Dude in Fake Texas, you are obligated to interject. Unfortunately, the game usually does not give you enough time to assess the situation (or even determine who's shooting whom) before one or both of the parties instantly murders you with guns.