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[feotakahari]

In general, I’m probably going to dislike any story that breaks the fourth wall. I place a lot of value on the idea of a story as a world to itself, self-consistent and perfectly contained. If I’m suspending disbelief at all, I’m suspending it absolutely, and reminding me that it’s actually just a story feels like an insult to all the faith I’m putting in. If you get sufficiently experimental, you can create a story where our world is itself a part of the self-consistent universe (e.g. 1/0 by Tailsteak), but most of the time, asking me to believe in a story and then reminding me it’s a story feels like pointing at the ceiling and then flicking my face when I look.

You might think this is an Undertale post, and it is. But I don’t hate Undertale nearly as much as, say, The Order of the Stick.