~~ Spoilers up to build 2, and may be slightly long (TL;DR at the end) ~~
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I’m pretty worried some of the themes that will be tackled and the plot the story seems to be going for may clash a bit.
(I want to stress that these are worries about how the story may develop, according to what I believe is likely to happen, so it’s in big part speculation, and may, hopefully, turn out to be unwarranted, but I want to point this out early.)
The antagonist seems to be a big corporation with deep ties with the government, thanks to its monopoly over advanced electronics and medicine. It uses this position to strong-arm people into compliance with its plans, whether they are silencing opposition by ruining their lives or making a residential area industrial or simply gone.
The protagonist and the group he joins, whose intention is to oppose this corporation and protect people from being their victims, seem to be a very Hollywood style infiltration crew/ fighting force, training in one to one combat and use of firearms, having a “person behind the screen” to support them, shady connections and all that jazz.
The protagonists being who they are, it seems like they will be having heists to steal intelligence and thus there’s a good chance this implies they will fight Eden Corps by finding and releasing “the big secret that when revealed will lead to their downfall” or something of the sort. This would, to me, be a very disappointing approach, since it wouldn’t address appropriately an important topic introduced.
Given the antagonist and what they do to the protagonist at the beginning of the game, one of, if not the main theme of the vn seems to be how and for what reason this corporation is bad and how to go against that.
This may be that having business influence politics is fundamentally a conflict of intereset, since one aims for profit and one for quality of life of the citizens. If the story goes in another direction, it may be that technological and medical research should not be done by businesses but publicly funded institutions, since such advancements being tools of corporations makes citizens subject to their whims, since information technology and medical treatments may be tools too powerful to not be free (and/or open-source).
I can’t see the actions of the Midnight Sun, which is a secret organization, being able to tackle the root of the problem, which is political and thus fundamentally not only in the public eye, but reliant on public opinion. The power Eden Corps has is enabled by and is a consequence of the system it was born in (which in the end is the capitalism-mix-consumism we live in, but that may be a bit of a big topic to challenge, even if simplified in the story by not having it be fundamentally related to colonialism, nationalism, education, the abuse of natural resources, distribution of wealth etc); and to end it and similar entites for good the system would have to change. Having Eden Corps meet their end or stop their “evil deeds” without these causes addressed would not be a solution, and having these changes tacked on at the end like an addendum, like in a lot of other stories, would just be disappointing, since it’s actually the main goal.
It also seems a very heavy topic to have in the same vn that has moments in which the protagonist just spends a few minutes checking out a sweaty furry hunk. Not that these topics can’t coexist in the same piece of media, just that some may find it a bit jarring.
TL;DR
These are very interesting topics to tackle, and I’m excited to see where this vn goes, but I’m afraid that the “undercover heists” approach to problems that seem to require systematic change may end up unsatisfying or inappropriate.
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Or the whole Eden Corp thing may just be part of the setting to cool action pieces and horny undergorund scenes, whithout the issue even being addressed. Which would be fine, if thoroughly disappointing to have such interesting topic central to the plot be plopped right in front of our eyes and then left untouched.