This game is a throwback to the days where puzzles in games were hard. Take everything that you just said... stack on some terrible game mechanics and the fact that the internet (as we know it now) didn't exist... and you have a hit game from the 90s.
Not even close, this is a poorly and inconsistently programmed game, done in the modern day that has no excuse for being released in the condition it's in only to have people say look it up and treat this as something it's not. Whenever a developer gets lazy the defense mechanism every moronic gamers flocks to saying is LOOK IT UP..
I refuse to look up anything that is the developers responsibility.
The internet has made developers get out of doing their job as well as gamers think that the internet has become school.
Sure there isn't anything that cannot be looked up but that's totally irrelevant. Games are not school, and developers that do not do their job correctly shouldn't be getting paid.