>>1825160
Picrel's introduction is lighthearted but yes, the story so far is pretty much suffering porn (even almost all the sidequests are either about some tragedy or end on a tragedy or a bad note at the least).
If you want I can give you the bullet points.
That said, after the first major storyline it does lighten up in a way because the bad things happen to guys, not cute girls.
The devs did expect that there will be people who don't like the story even before CBT1 because during a dev stream they went out of their way to say it won't be all doom and gloom and the story will apparently lighten up when it's outside the Hyperborean Empire.
Although the most recent trailer hinted at picrel's backstory being inspired by "The Little Match Girl" and she's from the Elysian Church so who knows...
