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-hotdogturtle-- posted...

The entire trend of games with "meta twists" where people are like "it's not what you expect but I can't tell you anything about the game because that will spoil it!" is really annoying and overdone and gets worse every time another one of them becomes successful. Obviously everyone knows about it because it's the only thing that players ever talk about so people who haven't played the game basically get "pre-spoiled" by knowing that it's one of those types of games.

I think it's also that most meta-twist games just aren't as good as what they're trying to copy, and a lot of them feel like they're going for shock value/niche internet audiences rather than getting an authentic experience across. To use a couple of the very popular games with meta twists in this thread, Undertale and DDLC basically codified the modern deconstructions of their genres, and the twists are integral to that. They're still pretty good regardless of whether you know the twist. The same can't be said for the hundreds of other self-referential pieces of media which don't typically have the same meat on the bones to justify the whole "ohhh I can't tell you what it's about!!" stuff.