MURDER HAS HAPPENED.

One of the annoying things about modern media journalism is that in the past when reviewers had to review one thing a day, or one thing a week, they could delve into some pretty obscure pieces of modern media, so if you had a twist in something called Totally Normal Movie That Doesn't Have A Twist, you could be sure that somewhere someone would pick it up, review it, and then advertise that your movie had a twist in it in their review. If even Jandek's first album (Ready For The House) could get reviewed, albeit three years after it was released, you could be confident that anything could be reviewed eventually.

However, these days things are different. You can do what Dorkly did and pivot your entire content creation team to writing reviews and articles about Breath Of The Wild for an entire month, and the next month you could do the same for Elden Ring, and so on. Instead of journalists searching for a new thing every day for an article you'll often see 'hot takes' for the latest already popular thing that they want to use for clickbait. Oftentimes it takes years or months for a piece of media, whether it's a game or a movie or a cartoon series or a book to gain enough notoriety among a niche community for influencers to even bother to look at something.

So, because of that, I often see games advertise themselves on having a twist, which I find unfortunate. It bothers me that even something popular like Doki Doki Literature Club, where the selling point is that it looks like a normal dating sim but is actually a psychological horror game, still seems to need to advertise itself as "A psychological horror game that looks like a normal dating sim but isn't," which ruins the surprise which is the entire point of the game even at the point where you'd think it'd be well-known enough and successful enough to not need to do that. It's the need to advertise as much as possible about the story to get people to pay attention to your media to the point of spoiling the twists and turns your creation will take that I think is making it more difficult for creators to get noticed because the media can't have as much of an impact or make people talk about the media if the twists are being spoiled before the consumer even has the chance to start it up, but it's arguably more harmful to media journalism because it means that if Redfall being bad is the main talking point, every journalist is competing to write the same hot take that "Redfall is bad." It basically means that every media journalist is basically doing the same thing, which creates more competition for everyone, which necessitates a greater focus on leeching off of the latest popular topic to continue to survive.

With all that said, in this update a mystery begins, and murder happens. Enjoy.