You see our visual novel is a little different. Our protagonist seems to be a regular guy but he is actually a bit hornier then the average guy. We also have some characters with memory loss and we talk about such complex topics like Schrödinger's cat.
thinking about how Isabel Fall wrote a Hugo-nominated science fiction story about how the military-industrial complex dehumanizes and exploits your marginalization to bomb schools was harassed offline by people who worked in the actual MIC
I don’t think that was the intent. Arkane clearly wanted the world to react to player’s actions. Things like “more rat swarms appear because there’s more corpses to eat, or you can find an enemy as a weeper later” is cool world reactivity.
It’s the multiple endings that misfire.