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Originally Posted by Will Wright
So...Umineko doesn't satisfy the mystery rules because it can't provide the certainty other novels provide. It's fine to provide uncertainty if it provides enough information on the why, but otherwise, it must have certainty as to the who and the how. Umineko does none of it.
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If someone ripped out the last ten pages of a mystery novel, and in those ten pages was all the denouement we expect out of a mystery resolution, does that render the work incompatible with the rules? For all we know, that's exactly what happened in
End. And is there a significant difference between a book which happens to have those pages ripped out and a book that just didn't have them?