User blog comment:CoolCat123450/Alpha/@comment-26210042-20141011223718/@comment-4867780-20141011233006

Grey slaughtered the... planar invaders that tried to carpet-bomb his home with nuclear missiles. Alfred is the one who led his "people" (little more than talking tools to him really, just like everyone else) to their death in an attempt to take many more lives without any provocation, all for the sake of his psychotic and megalomaniac ambitions.

Alfred visibly suffers from a devouring case of narcissistic inferiority complex, and a complete inability to take responsibility for his actions and learn from his mistakes.

That confirms what I feared : it is only the protagonist's misery and ordeals that keep a keep the story ruining. In short, the audience basically feeds on his suffering.