Dude, the ARG isn't even over yet. What about Michael Hammond? What about the rooms, and the censored material? What about the previous owners of the game who left the notes with the disc? What about Care's dad? And who the player character is (as in the character controlled in the game)? Who is TOOL? There's way more that's completely missing from this puzzle, this isn't just about Cadence, this is about multiple children who have been through traumatic experiences that are manifesting in this game.
Absoforgetin'lutely. I'm saying once you get in with Cadence, the whole thing falls apart because you go from 'what happened to these kids' to 'dead kids'. Not knowing what happened is a hell of a lot scarier than knowing the full story. It's the reason we don't see Sadako (The Ring for you cucks without Google) starve in the well or if the pelican (Who Goes There) was really a Thing or just a bird.
You wanna hear some horror? Watch Samurai Jack. Think about how much time would've passed between Jack getting thrown into the future and landing. The world gets totally obliterated and remade. Think about how many people got killed in genocides out of boredom on Aku's part.
Makes the series a hell of a lot darker, right? It's not the 'people were killed' bit, that's boring. It's the sheer number and the fact you never see them, your mind is open to guess at what's going on.
My point is this: The ARG threw it's punchline too early and now it's going to have to reel like a motherforgeter to get people drawn in. Right now it's working on the fact that we have no idea what the hell is actually going on or what anything represents. Giving overt hints at child abuse is one thing, namedropping one of the most famous cases is another.
