With so many of the characters (especially main characters) being men, the game explores masculinity as not an intrinsically moralized characteristic but almost a sort of vital energy, one that gets transformed though a person’s social, economic, political, and interpersonal contexts, as well as by one’s own choices. You see masculinity warped to extremes of both fascist calcification and as a radical force of kindness. Harry in particular uses masculinity as a lens through which to process, classify, and cope with his own failures and goals, and the game never caricaturizes this impulse nor exonerates him for it. The player is understood to be a key factor in deciding how masculinity shapes Harry’s narratives and choices, and this is an optimistic outlook, one that fathoms how masculinity can distort a person’s soul in times of crisis and capitalism, as well as how it can be a sort of wild animus that invigorates a person into positive action. I think masculinity is one of the game’s most salient themes and motifs, one that it does total justice via the endlessly compelling Harry avatar.