i just finished a funny trick i did on my partner and it’s very amusing to me how well it turned out.
she just recently got pokemon scarlet and has been wanting the DLC. i told her i’d consider getting it for her, but i was unsure, i’d think about it, and she’s not quite at the end of the base game anyways, so there’s time to consider it.
she told me tonight that yeah, she definitely wants the DLC, and i told her. okay! i’ll get it for you, right now. i then proceeded to snap my fingers and say “done, it’s on your switch, go ahead and check”, she was confused, but, i pointed out that the DLC was, indeed, installed.
she, of course, didn’t think that my snapping my fingers was me installing it, and obviously nothing changed from me snapping, so she asked, seriously, when i installed it. i let her know that it’s been on her switch this entire time she’s been playing.
before the game arrived, while she was asleep, i went on her switch and bought the DLC. she, unknowingly, hid some of the evidence I did this. she never turned the switch on until she got the game and put it into the console, so the pokemon scarlet icon already being there from me buying and downloading the DLC didn’t seem out of place.
she then managed to miss some of the hints the game itself gave that she had the DLC - she thought the outfits it gives you for purchasing the DLC were given to everyone, she thought the notification about a field trip that starts the DLC was just an ad/teaser for the DLC, and she completely missed the point of the green checkmark next to “downloadable content”.
she felt a bit silly and i felt glad how well it turned out and amused that she completely missed it until the moment i told her, despite the game trying to tell her itself. x3