Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31536324-20190117214835/@comment-27136653-20190330231328

''Allow me to clarify: There are many forms of fictions that knew that they're fictions, and occassionally breaks the forth wall, but it doesn't means that the world is fake. It ust means that their world is real to them as our world is real to us; It's that they know about our existence, how we interact with their world, and what their world are to us.''

A fictional world cannot be real. So there is no way that any members of a fictional world can know about our world. No matter how clever it is, it will always clash with the fact that their world isn't real within this world. And that's especially bad if you're trying to make the player/viewer believe in its reality for a moment, to let themselves get surrounded by emotions the real world would otherwise surround them with.

It's always a tradeoff, either they know about us, which makes it especially hard for us to empathize with them, or the opposite.