Thank you for this review!
My inspirations for this project absolutely include Bladerunner. We’re looking at Film Noir, Spy Thrillers, Cyberfantasy Speculative Fiction video game staples like the Xeno series (Xenogears, Xenosaga), and obviously Cyberpunk staples like Neuromancer. Pretty much all of these explore different nuances of the human condition, and argue there’s often few clear distinctions between the virtuous and the villainous.
I’m not going to pretend that I’ll explore those themes as gracefully as elevated authors like Philip K Dick or William Gibson, haha, but rest assured that black and white is not the aim here.