In Deadly Premonition 2 you get your standard incest plot with a side of transphobia since the brother in question here is actually a trans woman. The game came out in 2019 but feels like it was written in 2005 with how the character’s gender is handled
The game is just all over the place. Swery wrote an incestuous perverted trans murderer and constantly misgenders her but also has several scenes where Francis York Morgan chastises small town hicks for their transphobia 
Obviously Swery didn’t consult anyone while writing the game and it’s interesting no one in the localisation/translation team flagged these issues in the script either. Swery got predictably pilloried on Twitter when the game came out on Switch and they scrambled to patch the game to make the dialogue less offensive. Yes, the PC version you see here is the patched version of the game 
Aside from all the transphobia, there’s plenty of other iffy shit going on with the game’s writing. The main villain is building up to be a black guy and his monstrous, morbidly obese blonde wife which feels a bit weird with how many of the game’s black characters are written, like the black lady who starts every sentence with OH LAWD. There’s also a running theme of older male characters being in love with much younger female characters, the most extreme example being a 16-year-old girl dating an adult man that looks to be in his thirties which is NEVER REMARKED UPON and treated as completely normal. York also has a 10-year-old girl sidekick in this game and some of the shit he says to her just comes off as really fucking weird sometimes
Francis Discord Mod Morgan
I’m nearing the end of the game and it’s just shocking how bad Deadly Premonition 2 is compared to the original. The graphics and gameplay being absolute dogshit could be explained by the game having basically no budget but how the fuck is the writing so awful when that was the glue holding Swery’s previous games together
The part where she sleeps in your hotel room was fucking crazy. Thankfully nothing happens but it was such a weird thing to do. The entire time I was like “please nothing weird happen.” Haven’t finished the game yet but I think I’m near where you are.
I thought it was really funny when he lectures the black cop to not be transphobic to one of the characters. I can’t tell if that was written in earnest, but it’s really funny if you view it as like some dipshit lecturing people on things he barely understands like he does with Arnold S. movies, criminal profiling, etc. I don’t think you’re supposed to uncritically agree with everything York says, but it’s hard to tell.
I do think Swery basically only uses movies for reference points when writing and that’s where a lot of the bad shit is coming from.
In the scene with Patricia in front of Lena’s house York is meant to have an epiphany when he realises the entire town has been shunning Lena the entire time and he’s so deeply offended by their close mindedness that he says something to the effect of “FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE I HATE THE COUNTRYSIDE”
Forcing the idealistic York to confront the darker aspects of close-knit small rural communities could be interesting but if that was Swery was going for it just falls flat on its face. The town consists of silly one-dimensional cartoon characters that barely interact with each other and don’t feel like a cohesive community at all and the overall tone is just too light to make that kind of thing work. I feel like if Swery wanted to make a point about the town being transphobic he could’ve written the town pastor/doctor to be a bigoted, bible-thumping piece of shit but he wouldn’t do that because he likes priests being a Buddhist priest in real life and tends to write priest characters in his games as minor self-inserts which is why the pastor wears an owl feather. He did the same thing in The Good Life too with the alcoholic town vicar
Also speaking of movies I think Swery completely overdid the movie loving aspect of York’s personality. He’s constantly going on long tangents about his obsession with hyperrealism in random 80s movies in every conversation when in the first game he mostly reminisced about old movies during long car rides