afaik, he's not a part of the game but since Doha took him, he became "one of the players" and if i recall correctly the story explained why Bada is good in the game.
Agree. I think that perhaps there was a glitch in the game, so he reached the end where you can leave the mountains but couldn’t log out. So when the game reset with new players he became an NPC just outside the tunnel. He might even truly be Seunghchan’s cousin which is why it was his default setting even as the “NPC”.
I agree for one basic reason: he can complete endings on his own. An NPC couldn't do that. He's probably the dev which is why he cannot kill the killer but every other player can, they're tester's. He's helping them. Clearing each zone would be necessary. The inability to escape ads to the dread.
I have so many questions regarding Bada.
1. If he is a NPC in a rural town/area why is his character design so different
2. His knowledge on horror games makes no sense if he was never supposed to go past the initial interaction with the real players
3. His ability to use a tape to save (if they thought he was an NPC they should have tried the same with a different NPC to see what happened)
4. His ability to create memories without prompting and to also have feelings
5. Why is he able to interact with everything else in the game but not kill the killer
I truly believe he isn’t an NPC but maybe a previous player who was left behind and became part of the game or became an anomaly as a result of his interfering. He is to odd of a character to simply be an NPC.