Ever almost finish a game the hard way, then happen upon an upgrade that would have made it easy?
Finally playing Sons of Sparta (am Dad, I have to be patient) and felt like I was getting close to the endgame, decided to run the map gathering olives and tributes before continuing only to >!immediately, at the very next screen, I kid you not, from where I decided to turn around, meet that bloody griffin who cheerfully announced I could now use any bloody camp fire in the game to move around… that would have saved me hours!< and those are hours I can’t afford to waste.
But this seems to happen to me every time I play anything. I always pick the path directly away from the treasure only to have to double back after my slog along the wrong route.