Playing A Game Red Spider 2: Exiled PC

Back in 2018 I said that I was "really not interested in replaying" Red Spider: Vengeance, and that leaves me in an awkward, confusing spot with its prequel Red Spider 2: Exiled. Because the opening minutes of this game are filled with character names and relationship references that I don't remember anymore.

Like, I remember that "Fatso" was a person in the first game. Was he a good person or a bad person? Was Lau supposed to be a crime lord, or big-wig in the police ... or a dirty cop?

It feels a lot like Red Spider 2 takes that pre-existing character knowledge for granted, because after only a few minutes I was totally lost. I didn't know which lines of dialog were moving the plot forward, and which were lies from a character covering his tracks. I didn't know what the plot relevancy and stakes were when someone referred to another character or a family name.

I'm not saying it's a bad story, but it is badly introduced, and failed to hook me 'cause it made no effort to re-familiarize me with its setting.

Progress: about 10 minutes.