Mission 0 - Two Heroes:

Well that started off with a bang. A guy named Luke goes up onto a rooftop and fights with a guy named Aaron over a chip Aaron has betrayed Luke over to sell to the enemy. After Aaron beats the tar out of a determined Luke, the story goes back in time to show how it got there.

Man the VA cast is stacked!

Interesting, so Aaron is known as the jewel thief 'Beast' to the media.

...I guess I'm not a good backseat gamer, the player of the LP I'm watching made a mistake and I was NOT happy.

So Luke's dad was a lot like him (more like the other way around), and Luke carries his father's old gun.

16 years ago he was in an abusive facility and Edward adopted him. Little Luuuke. 😭 I understand completely why he is the way is he is now... Young Luke not even letting himself grieve at Edward's funeral until he couldn't hold his tears in anymore ahhh.

Someone sends a video of a kidnapped woman to Luke's station but no one will take it seriously but him. We also see that they are connected to Beast, who has to hand over something to them to save her. She looks a lot like him so I'm guessing it's his sister.

Luke goes off and investigates on his own, figures out where she is and goes in to rescue her...except only Beast is there tied up instead!

So here's what I think happened: he didn't get the thing they wanted (that orange sapphire) so they took her somewhere else, beat and tied him up - maybe to make him rethink things. But Luke is not going to forget about the girl or that Beast is a thief, so how does Beast get him to help him? Maybe he does tell him about his sister and Luke says 'we'll save her together without giving in to the bad guys' only for Beast to do what he did in the opening scene.

I really wish I could play this game myself. Maybe someday if there's 'replay' value.

Chapter 1.1: So MC got into a media called 'Dark Exploration Records' enough to buy merch for it, did a roulette at the store and landed on the tiniest sliver on the wheel. I think it must be like Call of Cthulhu, an RPG popular in Japan where people have made their own characters and stories set in it.

But come on, this thing had a 15+ age recommendation slapped on the wiki!’

Why are there so many kids here?

Quote of the century right there! A media will be for adults but you'll see kids in fandom yelling about how adults interact with it.

Chapter 1.2:

And the Field Exploration Team…
‘It’s the department that’s no different to a suicide squad.’
Like the red-shirt crew members in a certain sci-fi drama. They rush in at the slightest excuse to ‘explore paranormal phenomena’ and get chewed up in the process.

Star Trek reference. 😂 Not good foreshadowing!

Chapter 1.3: Okay so he was transported into the world of Dark Exploration Records as a new employee of the Dreamcorp Inc company but the newbies have to pass a test first, which is making it through one of the ghost stories. This one takes place on a subway where you have to get off at the right station to survive.

Apparently Soleum's name is the onomatopoeia for goosebumps? He likes text-based horror but can't handle visual-based like movies or images.

Chapter 2.1: The prize got from the roulette was a tool that allowed him to read the wiki on his phone. He realizes he needs to convince people to get off at the right stop with him because he's too scared to go alone. The man sitting next to him at the Daydream Inc company introduces himself as Baek Saheon.

Chapter 2.2: Baek Saheon is a named character from the story who later becomes Section Chief and does a lot of explorations.

Chapter 2.3: The option comes up for one person to safely disembark.

Chapter 3: I literally said holy shit out loud, Baek Saheon's future nickname Viper comes in to play, he really struck like a snake when he thought the moment was right. I love Soleum holding out the real lost item to the window for Baek Saheon to see. 👌 I wonder if we'll see Saheon again the future...minus one eye.

Chapter 4: ‘Dear fuck almighty. Save me.’ 🤣 I like that Soleum isn't some fearless leader. 7/10 people escaped, not bad! But who'd want to stay employed there after that lmao.

Chapter 5.1: Daaamn they just straight up melted a bunch of people who survived for not contributing more. Only 4 of 7 from Soleum's group left... They have to listen to the 'employee benefits' before they can safely resign. The main benefit is a potion called 'Wish Ticket' which can grant any wish. This is why a lot of people still stay in the company instead of leaving. But I'm sure they don't just get the potion for joining, they probably have to fill some quota...

Chapter 5.2: How does Soleum know he won't just wake up back at home if he quits?? He doesn't even have a home in this world. And why is he seemingly the only human to have been transported to this world, surely there were other participating merch stores where someone won...though I guess the chances were that slim.

Of course I had to stop at a bit of a cliffhanger. I'm enjoying this so far and am curious to see where it will go.

CW: People dying in horrible ways, not too explicit descriptively imo.