User blog comment:BrianBerta/Why Ben Drowned is Overrated/@comment-4332975-20150810135253/@comment-4332975-20150816074517

Ironically, the story is actually a lot better if you've followed the game. There's a lot more clues to the mystery, some sort of weird "real-world" doomsday cult, other victims besides Jadusable and Ben (yes, Ben is a victim), even more sinister figures, hints of BEN breaking out onto the internet, and more...not to mention the direct involvement of the players getting them drawn into the game. Though, due to the whole thing going on hold until the creator finishes their movie project (assuming that wasn't just a ruse and another part of the game that no one figured out - he's never fully distinguished between his IC and OOC selves), that's no longer going on....

Meanwhile, people who only know about the original video(s) and just think of it as a creepypasta have kind of muddied the waters. The meme status of "BEN Drowned" has led to a lot of spinoffs and fanfiction. That makes it a little hard at times to separate out what were clues for the game, and what's just pop culture. Not to mention things that may or may not have been abandoned. For instance, one of the original videos has some odd activity from the player that I always suspected based on other information was meant to be a coded message, but no one seemed to have "solved" it, and the game had moved on from the videos by the time I got involved (also, fun fact, all the videos on Jadusable's YouTube channel had/have a connection or clue in the ARG, not just the Majora's Mask ones).