In the world of fiction, I believe the term best suited to describe CI5’s story is “formulaic” - it follows a rinse-and-repeat structure so for the most part, you know what’s happening. And it doesn’t try to hide it, by any means.
All the games are in this weird range of humor where you’re never quite sure how self-aware they’re being. I’m pretty sure it’s intentional, in which case, it is indeed rather funny.
In any case, this is getting off-topic so I’m making a separate topic to talk about it: