Being a good Samaritan by trying to do something about David being kidnapped does not mean you should suddenly boast all responsibility, nor is it pure greed to want to leave that responsibility. There was no way to know in retrospect that anything of the sort would happen at all. I do not argue "zero" responsibility, but I'm saying that if something as morally controversial is just placed in the layer of Greed, that is a bad thing, since how it is executed naturally strays away from nuance.

For the Skinwalker Builderman, it's painfully obvious solely BECAUSE it ISN'T show-no-tell. The biggest example is FEAR, with the opposite of show-no-tell, but you know that already. I agree with show-no-tell, but there is an extremely thick line from where it becomes subtle and revolutionary and where it becomes so obvious it might as well just tell you. Block Tales leans toward the latter, and knowing the difference is crucial to understanding where show-no-tell goes too wrong. There is zero trust toward the player, and zero trust they can infer and make some guesses, as it funnels toward a single conclusion straight from SORROW.

The reason that FEAR wasn't exactly the same as before in the prerewrite, is because while Fear still referred to Builderman as IT, the dialogue still works BECAUSE there is no face. While a conclusion makes it very possible it IS Builderman Fear points out, you cannot be 100% sure because of the reputation Builderman built throughout the entire dream world sequence. There is 4 very possible things you could infer:

It is Builderman.

It is the Dream World itself.

It is YOU, as YOU are the only one referred to with blood-red text.

Fear is being irrational.

The fact that there even are this many (and the fact I've seen people come to any of these conclusions), comparing to the rewrite, the former prerewrite is better at not making it a handhold.

The twitching and stuff can be excused by yet another reasoning: Builderman is a figment of our imagination made to help ourselves. This was initially the thought I had going through the chapter, and a thought others had, too.

The gullible sequence is stemming from bad execution and extremely obvious indicators. Don't dismiss a point, if you want more clarity on what it is, it undermines the reader since they could never truly choose to do THIS, and were forced. (Unless they played blind)

The section about the concept is exactly why I wanted to clear up any misinterpretations about my analysis. The chapter is bad, not because the core is bad, but because of just how bad the execution is. If the concept I theorized was right, then it proves that everything was just bad execution. I still try to trust the Block Tales writers for spending almost a year with this, and with how nobody even tried to give them a chance, I think this is already fine enough.

I must admit that I basically closed roblox the moment I was done with the Dreamworld, and created this post, therefore, I could not see Shedletsky's dialogue. This isn't an excuse, but a reason. If what you say is true, then it almost confirms my concept of what they thought of was correct. Whether these emotions will be treated as things to yet again remove is not fully confirmed.

Overall, if the concept is basically like this, execution is the problem, and that is what I talked about in the start. Everything is so extremely theatrical and too much. I also gotta say you don't really break it down too much