Maybe it has absolutely nothing to do with interpersonal relationships? For all I know he may make it a future story with plasma guns where the main character is a big-eared monkey-dog-lemur thing that has a robot companion and has an irritatiing, robotic, skinny-as-shit arch-nemesis ... wait, that's Ratchet and Clank 3, and that game is awesome. On the other hand, he could just be making it without magic or maybe you play as an irritating, dwarven, physically-disabled platypus and all you can use is magic because you can't use melee weapons, but all the magic spells are horribly over-powered yet highly situational, so you end up insta-killing bosses but getting killed by minions because the spell doesn't affect them.