Third Crisis actually started as an Overwatch parody game, but they received a cease and desist from Blizzard which resulted in them pivoting entirely into their own IP very early in development. They were forced to scrub all references to Overwatch and the main character was redesigned.
Agreed about the story losing steam partway through. The fire character was introduced and dealt with too early in the story, despite providing most of the tension as an early game antagonist. Tonally the halfway point of the game feels like a major shift from the worldbuilding and sexual/corruption elements that they were building to.
It honestly feels like the developers got attached to their characters too much to put them into the typical multiple bad ends, corruption story like we see in Claire's Quest, and instead wanted to tell a more traditional hero story after they had too heavily invested in the more niche non-con genre. That's why I think the main bad end routes with Pleitho and the Slut route are written and developed by a different member of the team and feel so disconnected from the main game: they're the only things remaining true to the game's original vision (just my opinion, anyways).
