I arrived to Ota: END. The writing of this game is very good.
Edit: I passed the mark of 10 hours! Who would believe I started this a week ago.
It really is. Hitomi's backstory in particular was seriously fantastic character writing. Mayumi's was incredibly well done too.
That's why when people focus solely on the sexual jokes it seems unfair and it sells the game short when it handles the serious moments so incredibly well.
The game knows when to be serious and when to be silly like 95% of the time, which is something I personally think Danganronpa failed at.
It tackles a lot of serious themes that most games won't even touch and it totally pulls them off shockingly well with an eerie sense of realism. That's why I can forgive a few lame jokes.
The game is a triumph when it comes to the amount of emotions it makes the player feel - anger, disgust, sadness, confusion, shock. The humour never got in the way of those moments for me.
For example, when you go to confront
So at his mansion, the whole electrocution scene and shooting a bullet through a pipe was obviously whacky and ridiculous (in an entertaining and charming way I thought), but right after that when Mizuki was being held as a hostage, the game turned on the serious switch fast and my heart started racing. I went from being amused to panicking and being tense instantly! The way the game constantly juggles scenes like this is not easy to do and I think it's worthy of praise.
Do they go overboard with the sex jokes? Yes, they do. Some of the stuff with Iris and Moma in particular was really pushing it. Same with the receptionist. The problem is that they limited the humour to puns (a lot would have been lost in translation unfortunately), obscure references and sex jokes.
The humour needed more variety. Yet even with that said, I still clicked on literally everything multiple times because occasionally some of the dialogue would be hilarious and it would be worth listening to all the other jokes that didn't quite land.
On the plus side, a lot of the crappy sex jokes and puns are from clicking optional stuff in the environment, so if they really bother you, you can just limit yourself to what you click.