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Originally Posted by flashflash account

am I crazy

yes, the game is much longer than 30 minutes. the full ending is about that length, let alone the segments where you do actual input (poems)

just because you haven't seen a game do these things does not render them immune from being cliche
they're tropes and ideas that have occurred in several games before

and in regards to comparing ddlc to undertale:

undertale did the whole FILE DELETION and ~wHoa~ haunted game thing before it.

yes, there are other games that have done it, but here's one hot example