>Story is set in a book
>Dungeons are chapters
>bad guys are mirrors of E33 protags
>Written by the writers
>You equip footnotes instead of pictos
>You chain up skills and attacks to create special effects, like one create sentences with words
>You dont play as the individuals per se, but an in universe bodyless entity that orders the party around. A narrator. They obey you because its like obeying a squad leader.
>YOU talk to the characters and learn their stories.
The story is about Death of the Author and how we view the bad guy as bad because we take into perspective the author's biases as a Writer. We slowly learn that the antagonists are actually the heroes of the story and we are the villains trying to stop them.
Once this revelation comes the characters "break" from the narrator's control and now you (the player) control the characters directly and not via a narrator, who is actually tainted by the writer's bias.
Bonus points for Death of the Author being a Fremch essay written by Roland Barthes.

I dunno I'm spitballing here.