Kitty crossing your path? Throw a boot at it, of course!
The kitty does not cross your path, its chasing a rat. The boot, or alternatively the stick is to scare the cat away(boot or stick will work against the dog as well).
Trapped in a cave with thousands of coins? Better pick up the right one, or you're screwed.
No its pick the flashy one right by the door all by itself. While ignoring the huge golden pile of bling. Its all rather obvious. Especially since if you try to go for the pile you die. What's worse is if you wait too long or go out before picking up the coin and bottle.
Did the tree just give me a string instrument? Graham, you never told me you were a harp connoisseur!
The harp is help you against "Harpies", get it? Oh ya it works against a cold-hearted queen as well. Music is doorway to the cold soul, :). I think ice queen bit is based on fairy tale I once hard as well.
How dare you venture into a forest without an amulet & brass bottle? Who do you think you are? Frodo?!
Well cedric did warn you not to go in there or you would be lost. Doesn't take long until you get turned into a toad to know that you can't go in there until you get more items. If you don't have the brass bottle, well you'll get killed by plants if you try to walk around the place. But the bottle is right next to the lone coin so its all rather obvious. Only people that forget to pick those items up are probably trying to find out what kind of crazy death scene occurs for the "dead-end".
Travelling to the Alps? Don't leave home without your sled/pie/meat/hammer! Hmm, maybe that should be AMEX's new slogan.
Without the meat, well you starve to death. Without the sled you can't make it past an ice bridge which will kill you. Well without hte pie you can't kill the yeti so you die. If you don't have the hammer, well you don't get the crystal so you die once you get to mordack's island... Yep definitely dead ends.
On the other hand getting those items aren't terrible that difficult to find. The shoe is given to you... And the shoemaker says earlier if you took the time to talk to him, that he did say he needed some shoes to sell. The pie was said to be sold for 1 silver each. Well the silver is rather right in the open, and easy to spot. The meat is in an obvious position, that you will find once you are saved by the rat you saved earlier.
Plus the game warns you if you go intohte mountains without the meat, telling you you need to find something to eat... Sure that might mean you try to eat hte pie, which leads to a dead end heh heh. If you didn't have the pie well, you die if you try to go too far into the mountains.
You can also return to Serenia proper if you need to, once you use the sled however there is no return.
Aww, hungry Graham? WHAT? Did I say you could eat my pie?!"
yep if you eat the pie instead of the meat you are screwed.
Feed a baby bird? I know Graham rocks, but that's just ridiculous.
Feed a baby bird? What are you talking about? Do you mean the "Roc"? The roc was trying to eat him. ...or do you mean the Eagle? The eagle asks him for food. Its rather obvious. He only accepts the half a leg of meat.
What a pwetty crystal! Smash it? What, I'm Lex Luther now too?
He uses the hammer to take a shard. If you look at the shard he says something about how he might need it for later.
Who needs a Dink, I can finish this game without that beast! Damnit Graham, of all the days to forget to bobbypin your hair!"
If you don't find dink you don't get the key(so you are trapped in the maze until you find dink again). If you get hte bobbypin the game tells you it looks like a key. If you never got the tamborine will you never would have gotten out of main parts of serenia anyways.
Spellbooks? Oh, sorry, I didn't realize Graham also moonlights as Harry Potter.
Iconomancy magic without words, and as it says he didn't even need to know magic to cast it, it just embedded itself into his mind. The game makes it rather obvious.
I literally had no problems with KQ5, everything seemed mostly logical to me... Clues were in what people said, or what I knew about fairy tales, or the varous warnings the game gives you, and what it tells you blatently.
Granted finding the boot wasn't that easy... I just randomly came accross it.