The original game's anthology structure across seven protagonists emphasizes traditional fantasy/sci-fi adventure tropes like exploration, combat innovation, and personal quests without social justice messaging, identity politics, or critiques of norms. Some retrospective interpretations highlight incidental queer subtext in one optional scenario (Asellus, a half-demon woman with ambiguous attractions), but this is non-central original content from pre-woke era Japan, not amplified or altered in the remaster.

No DEI consultancy involvement, developer activism, localization censorship for politics, forced diversity, pronoun systems, or narrative rewrites; complaints center on bugs and port quality. Reception is solidly positive across Metacritic (around 80) with no critic-audience gaps, review bombing, or woke backlash, confirming pure entertainment focus.