Exactly.

[His somewhat cheerful demeanor drops, and he is in full detective mode, taking in his surroundings with a thoughtful frown.]

I know what you mean. Why would someone come up with such an advanced technology as the machines that we found ourselves in, yet use it merely for a rather shoddily designed virtual reality game? There has to be more to it, I just don't have enough information, and the software I'm usually equipped with is gone. Like they rewrote all my programming and deleted it.