Eric The Red

Let me summarize and ask in advance: which chapter from which game am I referring to?

Hope's Peak Academy is introduced to us by a painfully average Ultimate Lucky Student who then introduces himself to us and tells us how painfully average he is compared to all the true Ultimates that attend the school.

The protagonist is knocked out and then wakes up in a classroom.

The windows and entry point to the school which is also the exit are shut off, and when the protagonist meets with his classmates there, a shadowy Monokuma makes an announcement to go to the gym.

At the gym, Monokuma reveals himself to the students and explains that they're all stuck here unless they can successfully commit a murder of a classmate.

Monokuma gets up close with the "blabbering" line.

An angry student violently grabs Monokuma which is against the rules and brings out a threat to their life (a bomb inside Monokuma in THH, a machine gun in the wall in DRA).

Monokuma gives the students their E-Handbooks that explain all the rules of the communal school life/killing game.

The prologue ends with a shot of all the bewildered students standing in the gym.

The protagonist finds their room.

The protagonist meets up with his classmates in the dining hall where they speculate and discuss possibilities of escape.

The protagonist gets jump scared by Monokuma in his room.

The protagonist starts bonding with a cute and cheerful female classmate of his who wants to be his companion.

Monokuma shows the students despair-inducing videos to try and motivate one of them into committing murder.

A murder is committed and a girl is found dead in a bathroom, and afterwards Monokuma explains the class trials.

It's discovered that nameplates on room doors got switched.

The blackened turns out to be an ultimate sports star, who freaks out with fury when he's accused, demanding they show real evidence that he committed the crime.

The blackened has a rage and fear-driven nervous breakdown where he keeps screaming a word repeatedly.

A cold and insensitive female classmate condemns the blackened's moral character, suggesting he wanted and chose to murder someone and is only using his motive as an excuse.

The fearful blackened who's been found guilty begs Monokuma not to kill him, also begging his classmates to save him. Monokuma goes through with the punishment and the blackened screams "NOOOOO!" Then chains drag him off to the site of his execution where he's killed in a blunt, bloody way that involves the sport he plays for a living all as his classmates watch with horrified reactions.

Literally the only differences are that Yuki meets all his classmates before they're all knocked out and moved, Akane doesn't try to set Yuki up nor is she the murder victim, the murder occurs in the regular public bathroom rather than the bathroom of someone's room, there's no name written in blood mistaken for a number, there's no Junko!Mukuro character to get randomly killed, and details of the case are different though they ultimately lead to a familiar outcome.

I can understand why LINUJ felt he ought to play it safe when he started his Fangan, the first real major Fangan put out there that really popularized the concept of Fangans, but given all the writing heights and even writing lows he had afterwards it ended up not aging well at all, especially when he went and wrote the misguided "this is in the same universe as the canon games and this killing game in this fake Hope's Peak was a beta test run for the real killing game in the real Hope's Peak still to come in THH" twist at the end. Think about the implications this carries - Junko is primarily motivated by a desire to not be bored and to share the despair she regularly feels with the classmates she loves by inflicting traumatic despair-inducing events on them. Both of these are contradicted by the idea that this fangame's killing game preceded the real Hope's Peak killing game, because now Junko has played her first big killing game with a different bunch of Ultimate students to whom she has no attachment, and when she sees so much repetition of what went down here pop up constantly in the real Hope's Peak killing game, she should be easily able to anticipate the general direction of what's coming and be bored out of her mind. The twist was never a good idea to start with, but it is made so much worse when DRA starts off identical to THH, which is meant to take place afterwards in the chronological timeline of this universe.