Shuichi suggested that Kiibo couldn’t think of the answer for himself, so the participation on the meta level - the player’s - was played off as if it was just his ‘inner voice’ talking. As if the ‘outside world’ had to project their thoughts through him, in order for him to competently give an answer.



But there’s a big problem with this:

Kiibo is making the deduction on his own. We also do not know how the inner voice truly speaks to Kiibo - other than times when the text is going wild - as we use our participation to fill in the blanks and assume. Shuichi also confounded things more by making ‘Kiibo giving the answer out’ to be some big thing, just because he wasn’t the one ‘taking charge’, for once.

That brings me to another thing:

Kiibo is NOT usually the one taking charge. The proposed “audience participation” element therefore makes no damn sense because Kiibo isn’t even front and centre most of the time. In fact, Kiibo taking charge was such a drastic change that it was akin to a ‘malfunction’, as [his hijacking kept him in line].

Speaking of that, the ‘audience’ capability is quite something, if they can delude a military robot into believing he was ‘an average student, built for a life of comfort’, with some… survey results. Got an explanation for that, Tsumugi?