One Little Thing Left Unresolved

I just beat the Switch version after seeing a portion of Vinesauce Vinny's playthrough, and I loved it thoroughly. The only thing I didn't like was the extended periods of frustration when I didn't know what to do next, but I think that comes with the territory of puzzle games like this. Plus, I think all the puzzles were really well executed and there's enough to keep me entertained that I'm happy to find stuff even if it isn't the answer to the puzzle I'm stuck on. The only times I really search for help was finding the secret path in The Freelands and figuring out that I need to use 3y3.hex. In the case of the former, I think it was a little too well hidden, but then again I'm not very perceptive. In the latter, I just kind of assumed the 3y3.hex did nothing, which was dumb of me considering how even the pets, which you'd expect to just be for fun, are utilized in puzzles. It was a combination of just not making the connection that the eye can be used to decrypt stuff and that there are multiple instances with just barely readable text. Otherwise, I had a lot of fun figuring out what to do, even if it involved just browsing pages. I think growing up with the internet has made this game feel right at home for me.

Anyways, the main reason I'm making this post is because I feel like I never got an explanation as to how Re3koning figured out that the headbands would be deadly. I think it would've been clarified if we got to see the uncensored version of the STOP. USING. HYPNOSPACE. page, which seemed to imply evidence that we never got. The evidence we did find seemed to just be about Merchantsoft staff choosing to ignore the report about people not getting the proper sleep they need and Dylan ignoring bugs in order to get his game finished before the Y2K update. I guess the combination of a device that is hooked up to the brain and its developers being careless despite a recent incident of those devices destroying themselves would be enough red flags for someone to conclude that it's going to be deadly, but I think it's far more likely that Re3koning had access to more information we didn't get to see, and the fact we don't get to see it makes the end feel less satisfying than it could have. When Dylan confessed, it felt premature to me considering how nothing I found really proved him to be responsible for the deaths, the evidence mainly just implied it. After beating the game, I still hadn't visited the M1NX page, so I expected to find it there, and what I did find was some of my favorite pieces of text in the entire game, but I didn't get what I was looking for.

If I'm overlooking something or just haven't yet found it, please let me know.