this all tracks with my preconceptions about this game, altho most of the orientalism is baked into cyberpunk writ large. doing the anonymous 'hkdev' schtick as frenchies I was not aware of, and is particularly suss.
I was in Hong Kong teaching games when word spread about “Hong Kong game” (now “Stray”). The developers were using pseudonyms so no one knew where they were from or why they would make a game about a continually colonized city’s most infamously poor and “violent” area. (1/3)