/vr/ - Retro Games

>>1366764
A couple of things about that.
>One, walk through a poster (Shawshank Redemption style).
Is exactly right, it entirely based off shawshank, including the poster covering the escape and the sewer exit. If you've seen the movie the year before it was released that might have been a large clue since it was full of pop culture references. As well as the general idea of 'prison escapes' and digging tunnels legends that exist anyway.

Let's take a look at some of the other hints.
1.) Demonstration that holes may exist in cells.
2.) That poster stands out a lot even from the outside. It's placed very suspiciously
3.) There's a map in the area before you unlock those side corridors in plain sight that points you to that very wall.
4.) Looking at the poster itself period you can see a gap that leads into the tunnel.

If anything they told you where it was. That's extremely good map design. They went above and beyond. It wasn't just a small oh what the fuck that was there randomly. The elements of the map pretty much forced you to look at the damn thing. If I recall there wasn't even anything in that cell so you had to even wonder about it given that every other cell had something. Once you got through the poster, the pipebombs to continue were glaringly obvious.