I played Mafia 3 and throughout my gameplay i often felt lost. Either because i wouldn't perceived the feedback they tried to give me or because the information displayed was missleading. The first example is in this clip. In the game whenever you open a bathroom cabinet it gives you 1 medikit. It took me a loooong time before understanding how it works. the reason is that the amount of kits you have is displayed in the lower left part of the screen next to the health sign, but the font is very small and and the contrast is not very small. I didn't understand for a long time how the kits were working and how i could refill them, did it refill it even ? If you pay attention, when the character opens the cabinet, the 2 changes in 3 (which already on its own is hard to see since the two numbers are very similarly shaped) but you have no feedback at all, no sound, no symbol "Up" or "+1" showing up, nothing, the players just had to guess how it was working
Another example of bad feedback is the signs that would be displayed to the player. I often found myself seeing signs without understanding their meaning. The players shouldn't be force to remember the meanings, they should be able to recognize what they see whitout thinking about it.
Or they do show you wish button to press to enter the car but the problem is that, depending on the angle you approach the car from, the button would be barely visible. It can be a problem for players who just started the game, struggle remembering the controls or haven't played in a long time.
Another problem that i have encounter is with the missions menu. it has so many colors for different types of missions and the contrast changes when you are on a mission. As shown below, you have many colors displayed. The selected mission is the one with the blue shade. The texts are very hard to read basically everywhere (especially the purple one).
On the second image, you can see again the same problem, it is pretty hard to assess where you are in the menu just by watching it.
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