Hot diggidy what a trainwreck of a narrative!. The first 2 chapters felt kind of dry as in they were having trouble making stuff up to mock it, but the chapters 3-4 delivered a lot more of the funnies "Sherlock Foster Holmes" really got me. That and the yoyo cosplay.
All you gents have touched on how sociopathic and sheltered the writers are to write such a retarded plot (that could have been solved by saying "no stalker child, you will not go to the mountain and become pepperoni today"). The scene with the interrogation of the geologist was surreal, some little hapa comes and sits next to you and starts grilling you and you want her to fuck off, then the town bicycle talks to you and you instantly go "AM I BLUSHING LITTLE HAPA, AM I BLUSSHING?!" to then instantly be told off by said town bicycle after getting you hot and bothered (because of course the Colorado mountain town would be a fulcrum of Lebanese)-
I wanted to focus on the setting. I mean, I may not have been to Colorado ever, but I doubt any sort of town with like 20-30 tops can survive on a hipster cafe, a flower shop, and a vintage record store. Also, the absolute faggotry of the lantern thing, it reeks of "wow asians do it and it's so KAWAIIII UwU, lets dooo it!" even though it seems like it would be a gigantic forest fire hazard.
Also, Mac is bad cause he's white, don't read much more into it. He's woke retards not understanding the world 101 because my god, he has every reason to believe his gf and the half chink are bumping uglies. Got to love how Alex goes "mmm, I found out the evil company, has extorted him and just saw him imagining what being a yoyo must be like, I know, I'll leave him as is because EMPATH!", wouldn't be surprised if that was required for the true mega happy ending.
Also, I don't know dick about the game, but I expect Jed to be the villain (cause he's a white hero and we can't have those) and the LARP was supposed to be foreshadowing.