i like the subversion of the "chivalrous knight" trope, usually when you see a knight character they're a symbol of justice and generally a nice guy, and even with knight characters who are evil you don't see a ton of them get as vile as sir knight with sadism. or at least not in such a direct and personal way i guess? i don't enjoy it on an emotional level but in retrospect it is a very interesting twist, especially since he IS very respectful towards his "master". it does kinda make me question what kind of person the master was, if they were actually a nice person and the knight just changed overtime or if they were also a horrible sadist? because one would assume that if the master was nice, they would probably have forbade sir knight from acting on... well... you know. but who knows? (context: this is after i played the more gruesome route for him, the verbal bullying from the normal route made sense and wasnt that bad but the physical stuff in the gruesome route stood out to me)
i will say: the game does live up to its name. particularly the mediator part. it makes a lot of sense that because you're a *mediator*, you're supposed to settle things verbally, so the routes where you do get into a physical altercation go heavy on the horror and usually get you a bad end.