Children all over the land are being born “without souls,” which amounts to them being severely developmentally disabled, although the way we hear it told is put in terms of likening them to either zombies or wild animals – incidentally, the exact same kind of rhetoric as that deployed by anti-vaccine types who like to blame children with autism for absolutely every single thing wrong with society. The only good thing about this notion, which puts the player in the shoes of an eugenicist trying to safeguard the future of the race, is that the game frontloads it, so that it’s not possible to have any illusions about what you’re getting into. Regardless, I kept going for a good while after having it made clear to me that I just do not care about this world at all, mostly for the sake of finding out if it gets better. It never seemed to.

Some truly astonishing leaps here. The most malicious possible interpretation that also manages to equate autism with brain death. The hollowborn aren't disabled, they're literally mindless. Purely running on autonomic functions.

And the player is cast as a "eugenicist" for trying to restore the cycle of reincarnation?

And "safeguard the future of the race"? What race, exactly? There's a million of them and you can be any of them from basically any country on the fantasy planet.

The rest made more sense, but my god, the takes in this paragraph.