remains to be seen what else they'll do with it and with vriska going forward but i will say as it stands the concept of helltier, on its face, is very funny to me

like, "ok we know the last bullshit game construct was a metaphor for the idea that power =/= self actualization and a deconstruction/parody of the popular idea in a lot of videogames and shonen-like media that maturity and emotional growth are tied at the hip to leveling up and gaining more magical abilities and that a bildungsroman filled with trials and powerscaling and dramatic fights would leave someone as a fully actualized Big Hero rather than a traumatized wreck and really the idea that an impersonal magic power system would ever be a good judge of character and maturity at all, but THIS bullshit game construct, this one's the real deal. The true Good Shit, as it were."

so yeah i would guess that we're probably not meant to be taking it quite at face value? especially with the Noted Absence of terezi in there as well. but i guess we'll see where it goes