Totally agree about the shackles! Hidding them from the Tab highlights would have been fair, since it's part of the hint system. But preventing detection on mouse over is cheating as it breaks the UI rules. More surprisingly it seems to encourage the randomly try every item on everything on screen brute force kind of approach to puzzle solving which I thought Ron was considering to be bad design. Anyway deepest respects to whom actually discovered the trick in the 1st place! 🧐
But to be fair maybe the unlabeled spots on Mêlée map, which were hard to miss for anybody who has played MI1, served as an early game warning that there would be more to find than what meets the tooltip!
.And then came the photocall hidden pic to confirm this... boy what exciting times we live in! 😄