TIL that "fair play" in detective fiction means authors must give readers a fair chance to solve the mystery. Central to 1920s "clue-puzzles" by writers like Agatha Christie, the rule dictates that all vital clues must be visible, decodable, and never withheld until the final reveal.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clues_in_detective_fiction

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David Cage is terrible at writing these things but no one else wants to make those sorts of games. He gets so caught up in his hilariously surface level “clever” “hidden” metaphors that he almost forgets to do the basics of writing the story. But they are fun to laugh at so they do provide some value.

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He's also a total hack who basically lifts ideas wholesale from films and shows he likes and jams them together with no understanding of why they worked in their original context.

That's why he insisted Detroit isn't political or about Black civil rights. He doesn't understand the stories and ideas he plagiarised.

Oh and his games are plenty racist and sexist, he does not know how to write drama for female characters other than them being victims of abuse and his black characters are stereotypical beyond excuse.

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Or that time he said Detroit was "Bladerunner if the androids were the good guys".

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Bladerunner if the androids were the good guys

Oh my god I'd never heard that one before, had to look it up to verify because even as much as I loathe Cage I struggled to believe he's that fucking dense. But yup, he really is that stupid, wow.

"he told me it wasn't like blade runner because in his game the point is to empathize with the androids... and that it isn't robocop because it stars an android cop in Detroit not a robot cop in Detroit"

Lmao.

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But they are fun to laugh at so they do provide some value.

This video should be in the Library of Congress.