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If anything that's toned down from the setting's "corpobrats literally hire mercs to babysit them while they hunt metahumans for sport in the barrens" canon. I feel like Shadowrun and to a lesser extent Cyberpunk are tonally basically the Disco Elysium "mask of capital" quote except the mask has been whittled down to like some novelty sunglasses and still nobody cares, because the average person is so blackpilled that TV stations run liveleak grade videos at primetime on network TV, with the only alternative being Disney grade bottom of the barrel flavorless nostalgia slop.
That is to say you literally cannot be too heavy handed in making the setting a bizarre and horrifying mirror of reality, because that's what it's supposed to be. Write it like it's an onion piece mocking [current fad] and slap some neon paint on there and it's fine.
Urban Brawl would be the same, just more obnoxious and plastic-feeling