It's more strange than anything else to me. Feels like I downloaded an entirely different game to everyone else. There is edgy text on some loading screens and descriptions in the game, and that's about it really. It's like the person writing the game and steam description and the people actually designing the gameplay never actually interacted at all. The game just says "Wow, this is so horrible, aren't we so cool and edgy?" but the gameplay isn't really like that at all. As I said somewhere else, this isn't subtext, it's just text, and if I didn't know what the advertising was like I'd assume it's a bad translation before assuming the guy doing the writing was just an edgy loser. Feels more like a marketing gimmick more than anything else, as if they just had the cutesy discount pokemon and the text was just fairly generic, it wouldn't have gotten nearly the attention it did. It's controversy for controversy's sake more than anything else.