Also, and I feel like this one deserves its own point: Also, when they chase the killer outside the boiler room, they don't think that hey, this person just went through storm and is probably drenched, we should look for water on the floor. But no, they decide to kick out the servants because that solves the problem somehow, and then oops, look, they're all dead. If you search them and they don't have anything, then there you go, really high chances are they're not the killer. You know, the thing police do when they want to know if you're dangerous or not? You know they carry around demonic stakes and they have grandpa's ring. The easy solution, the one I would think every person on the planet would've thought of, would be to body search them. Like, when they're in grandpa's study, and they don't know if they should trust the servants or not because they could've placed the letter there and be the killer. There's tons of situations where people don't do the obvious thing for whatever contrived reason. Here they are, half their family lying in body parts in the garage, their blood is not even cold yet, and they have the frame of mind to be doing petty bickering, joking around, and even getting sexy in the case of Eva and Hideyoshi. The thing with the receipt is a stupid ass pull plot point that didn't even need to exist to justify what Eva was trying to prove. This feels awkward and unnatural by any standard, but feels especially bad when some characters are presented as supposed to be intelligent. Everyone else is just a passive viewer who just sits there and lets the story happen around them. She was the only one trying to think about what was going on and trying to think of solutions for figuring out the killer. Despite the large cast, only Eva is an active participant in the story. I swear if you were to ctrl+f that in the script file it would look like a mine field. The "The witch 'exists'!" "Witches aren't real!" thing is repeated over and over and over and over and over and over and it's almost to a point of self parody. If this weren't contrived enough, the stuff that the crew spends their energy discussing, in excruciating detail spanning 20 hours, is a bunch of nonsense drama that barely makes any sense. Maria even tries to tell them in the living room at some point! And the narration switches to another character and forgets to return to what Maria was saying and throws the topic under the rug with as much grace as an elephant in a china shop.
Then 2 more people die, and there it is again in the riddle. So, it makes zero sense that none of these 17 people put it together that hey, 6 people died, and the very first thing it says on the riddle is there's 6 sacrifices.
Then it's made extra prominent when there's mentions of Beatrice having returned, and how the riddle is sitting in the lobby of the house, and they see it every single time they come and go from their rooms. They should know it like the back of their hand.
They've gone up and down the thing, researched places they thought were connected to it, and nothing. This thing is hiding grandpa's supposed secret inheritance, which everyone seems to be willing to sell their soul to obtain, and they tell you that even though this is the first time Battler is seeing the riddle, the family has been trying to solve this for years. From the very beginning of the game they go super heavy on how important it is.
The twist, if you can even call it that, of the riddle reflecting the murders, is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen.
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