Creative Direction: The Cost of Correction

Purpose and applicability

Shared by the novel and game. The audience should feel the tension between correcting a public lie and protecting a compromised witness.

Promise and filters

Prefer consequences of understandable human decisions over supernatural fixes. Prefer evidence that complicates a judgment over a villain's explanatory speech. Exclude combat solutions and the ability to undo the past. The theme asks whether justice can protect everyone involved.

Checks and stability

A new scene or mechanic must help investigation, moral pressure or its consequences. The priority is coherent human stakes over spectacle. Exact scene order and delivery can vary by medium. A spectacle-first revision requires impact review across both works.