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Originally Posted by naikou
Ryukishi confirmed that Kinzo was dead at the end of EP4. Before he revealed any of the answers, he went and said, "Hey look, guys! Looks like I've got some unreliable narrators in there! Might want to check on that!"
How that is cheap, I don't know.
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You can argue on how fair it is, and that's fine. But it's
bad writing. That's what we are discussing here, or at least what I'm arguing. It violates a few rules in literature, and those rules are there for a reason, not just to keep the man down. You gotta either be an amazing writer to break them, or they stay, if only to protect your story from your nice-but-unpolished ideas.
This amount of unreliability decreases the mystery's quality. Hell, it decreases the novel's quality. As for why it's cheap from a mystery perspective, I think I made a few posts on that topic already.