This post contains the finale of the mystery. Read at your own risk.
So... The mystery itself was pretty complicated. But this finale? It was awesome.
Reusing the Art Of The Trickster mechanics was so good. The puzzles ACTUALLY required brainpower unlike... What we have now... Which are adventures that cut out the brain requring parts of the shrines.
You get the mysterious door to open. Woah, The Siren Queen is alive after all! She traps you in a room to drown. You quickly need to play "Who Shall Not Be Returning" with the levers to escape (Also worth mentioning, We never had a scene like this).
There is no turning back, You go deeper. The Siren Queen traps you again and explains why she framed Ramsey with a dramatic theme.
When all seemed lost, Ramsey pops out, with a really epic version of "We Shall Sail Together" playing in the background he says:
"You killed my son, took my daughter. And why? All because you wanted pirates to face the wrath of a merciless Pirate Lord. Your magesty - your wish is my command!"
And then he brutally kills the siren queen with that bad**s line. After that, he talks with Lesedi, explaining what happened and why he ignored it.
We never got this good acting, or emotion before. It was perfect all round.
This is a great scene to make people fall in love with the game again, streamers will play it and and-
"Mike Chapman? Yes. I am listening. What is that? What? THE REWARD IS 10 DOUBLOONS?!?!? Not even a title? Hmm... let me think about that... WHY THE H-"
Nope. The result is actually this:
Blurbs complaining and saying he will never do it as the "Cutscene will proably be bad anyway", comments on Discord, youtube and any social media in existence HATING it instead of loving this scene.
Rare, all you had to do was give us DeMarco's hat. You already had the asset. Any sort of uniqe cosmetic would make all of the community to jump on it.
You ruined your content by not giving any sort of reason to do it. Kind of like seaforts actually...
Why make a scene as perfect as this only for it to be completed by just some lore nerds like me.