Not sure if I did something wrong when I played it but the tags do not appear to be accurate. Having reached the epilogue, there does not appear to be any "character creation". You do get to name a person that very briefly appears on a monitor as a silhouette - just before the epilogue. You do not get to "play" as that character at all - there is nothing that the "created character" experiences, so "character creation" appears to be placed there as an extra tag as opposed to being an accurate descriptor. I don't know if "You get to name an npc that appears once very late into the story and does not do anything beyond talk a bit" can be described as creating a character. Mind control is.. strong as a descriptor, but maybe not exactly accurate.
On to what the novel does have. The voice acting is mediocre, and the writing is pretty bad. The art style is very nice.