Basileus777
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Your suggestion would be just another dumb and stale twist.
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Your suggestion would be just another dumb and stale twist.
Spieler Eins
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Yeah, because that happens so often.
I was really pumped at that moment, until the chickening out and them following the safest/boring route.
Crash Station
Member
Remember, Danganronpa was originally supposed to be MUCH darker back when it was Distrust. Gang killings, decapitation by guillotine, Monokuma being an anatomical model instead of a bear, etc. In fact, the first execution (not the one before the game starts) is a leftover from that time.
The team decided it would be too bleak, so they lightened it up and injected a lot of humor in it.
Not gonna lie, I would have loved to see how it turned out, but I'm also a massive fan of what we got instead. Maybe someday if DR ever gets massive, we could get something that used the original plans as a spin-off.
I'm expecting V3 to have a decoy protagonist that gets executed in the first chapter.
I'll just post my impressions from the VN thread:
So good mindfucks, poor explanation of said mindfucks. A solid 6/10.
The team decided it would be too bleak, so they lightened it up and injected a lot of humor in it.
Not gonna lie, I would have loved to see how it turned out, but I'm also a massive fan of what we got instead. Maybe someday if DR ever gets massive, we could get something that used the original plans as a spin-off.
I'm expecting V3 to have a decoy protagonist that gets executed in the first chapter.
Sölf;196888139 said:
I'll just post my impressions from the VN thread:
So good mindfucks, poor explanation of said mindfucks. A solid 6/10.
OniBarubary
Banned
My big takeaway from that review is that you've written erotica.
...interesting
...interesting
Funyarinpa
Member
Ooooohhh yes. DISTRUST could have been my GOAT. So good. A damn shame we never got it instead of DR, and I'm saying this as someone who has DR1 and DR2 in his top 5 games of all time.
I like the pink blood and Monokuma and whatnot, but that doesn't mean the game couldn't be more twisted and a bit less goofy. An example is (DR1 spoiler)
the videos given to the students in CH1. The mental strain it puts on Sayaka causes her to break down and is, in fact, her motive. That's so fucked up, so beautifully fucked up.
(SERIES SPOILERS)
What would be my dream Danganronpa is a game which would have Monokuma (and maybe the art style and OST) as the ONLY goofy or cheerful element in the game. Make the cast scared and terrified as fuck. Maybe make the Class Trials feel more mournful and devastated instead of "SORE WA FUCKING CHIGAU YO!". Cut down the extreme anime trope aspect and make them people with questionable motives and whatnot instead. Give the game a sad, depressing atmosphere. Instead of beaches, let's have rooms with torture devices, prisons, corpses, dismemberment, rape as a motive (or -although it's impossible- as an execution), twisted people, Monokuma doing fucked up things and being cruel, horrible acts, horror to the max, breakdowns, collapses, sheer terror. That's the Danganronpa I want, and that's the Danganronpa that'll never happen.
I was also considering the chances of
names that can be translated as numbers possibly being used as clues. For example, Ikusaba Mukuro could become 1938 696, Byakuya could be 108, Hifumi would be 123, Touko could be 15 and Yasuhiro wouldn't fit due to the su, resulting in 8su16.
how easy it is to replace the syllabes of someone's name with numbers.
Spoiler for those who haven't finished the game:
there's some nice things to notice when you replay the game. For me, one such moment is when the seemingly useless yasuhiro predicts after trial 3 that there won't be another murder. He was absolutely correct. Sakura killed herself and Mukuro Ikusaba was killed at the start when pretending to be Junko.
edit: actually you're right, dunno why I responded like that
OniBarubary
Banned
Holy crap Julian, I never noticed those things.
Probably cause I don't speak glorious nippon
Probably cause I don't speak glorious nippon
lazyproblems
Member
Agreed, the "psycho pop horror" is a big part of what I love about Danganronpa. I do think they pushed the humor a little bit too much for a few things in Ultra Despair Girls, but overall I feel like they've achieved a good balance in the mainline games.
Currently wrapping up the sixth trial, I can't believe I missed the fact that
Now, I'll go back to listening to the final manga deduction for the case...
Junko was wearing a Monokuma-pattern tie in that group photo Makoto was given by the mastermind, and I didn't actually pay attention to her face being obscured, focusing instead on how Celeste was laways in the same stiff poses, and how her execution was the weirdest of them all since she wasn't burned to death, but instead rammed by a fire truck in a way that left no traces of her.
I was expecting a death to be fake as soon as I saw nine corpses in the morgue, but I didn't consider the possibility of Junko not being herself.
I was expecting a death to be fake as soon as I saw nine corpses in the morgue, but I didn't consider the possibility of Junko not being herself.
Now, I'll go back to listening to the final manga deduction for the case...
I like the intellectual pose. boobs.
OniBarubary
Banned
Upupupupu. As soon as I figured Trial 6 out I lost my shit. Like "No way!" type stuff. Then
Junko revealed herself and started explaining stuff/continuing the trial and I fell in love.
And depressed mushroom Junko is best Junko.
To be fair
Since Junko pretty much built all of the crazy stuff including Monokuma, it's kind of make sense that she created some kind of amnesia machine.
Great timing, I just got to the part where they're likening their situation with Schrodinger's cat.
...Looks like this's going to be a revolving door of turnabouts, which is kind of lame, since all this continous expositon rants that keep getting outdone by ever crazier stuff has already gotten stale. It's almost like when shows play with the Scooby Doo monster unmasking trope and have the bad guy wear a thousand masks beneath the monsters'.
I mean, I said "oh, that's interesting" for the first couple twists this case threw at me, but I've long stopped caring about what's going on after so many more twists.
Crash Station
Member
Writing-gaf had a whole competition for it because that shit pays VERY well if you do it right.
None of us except for like 2 people did it right.
Heh.
It's a fine twist when you get more info on it in other stuff like Danganronpa Zero.
OniBarubary
Banned
I loved all the twists. I live for the twists. Said "Oh shit!" at all of them.
The way the truth bullet absorption mechanic is being used right now... it's such a perfect marriage of mechanics and storytelling working together in a way that neither of them would've been able to on their own...
Wow.
Edit: Still, what the heck's up with
? That's really boring.
@Blizzard: Yeah, the classic
... it's funny to read that again in retrospect.
Edit2: Aaaaand credits roll. I thought it might've been it, but I wasn't entirely sure that Touko was freaking Sawashiro. I'm always in for more characters voiced by her.
Overall, the game was okay. Cases were simple but serviceable, and the only thing that really bothered me were the enless stream of twists near the end and how little development several characters got. While I hated the
twist particularily, I'm really glad things didn't end up involving
Oh, and that freaking epilogue...
Wow.
Edit: Still, what the heck's up with
Junko being a load-bearing boss
@Blizzard: Yeah, the classic
bait-and-switch throwaway character
Edit2: Aaaaand credits roll. I thought it might've been it, but I wasn't entirely sure that Touko was freaking Sawashiro. I'm always in for more characters voiced by her.
Overall, the game was okay. Cases were simple but serviceable, and the only thing that really bothered me were the enless stream of twists near the end and how little development several characters got. While I hated the
amnesia
any sort of thing that could've undone the character's deaths such as clones or virutal reality.
Oh, and that freaking epilogue...
Baron von Loathsome
Member
Just finished the fifth chapter. I'll try to finish the last chapter tomorrow.
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
God, the font in this game is SO distracting. Are there any mods to change it? The word "promise" has such awful kerning that I had to stop and post this request. I can deal with the crappy, lazily ported Vita UI but ugly font in a text heavy game is so hard to ignore.
Edit: it's any letter preceeding an i. Saying, this, promise. It's so distracting.
Edit: it's any letter preceeding an i. Saying, this, promise. It's so distracting.
Ludger Kresnik
Member
Sooooooooooooo, in for the sequel? It may or may not address certain things you've brought up ITT.
INDIRECT DR2 SPOILERS DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVEN'T PLAYED DR2 THO:
I really wanna say something but I know I shouldn't and it's killing me inside.
OniBarubary
Banned
I love DR. I loved so much about it, and so few of the flaws took me out. (END GAME SPOILERS)
DR2 is equally amazing. Love love love this series to pieces.
I fucking LOVE Junko being the actual boss and all the foreshadowing of it being her (the pictures, the way Monokuma dismisses the line in the first trial about there being 16 seats in the trial, Mukuro's death lines, not looking like the magazine covers, all of it). I also adore her design and character. I'm going to PAX East crossplaying as her now that I have the money to buy the outfit.
DR2 is equally amazing. Love love love this series to pieces.
OniBarubary
Banned
Imma be honest, I haven't seen the UI or text issues or whatever that a lot of people have mentioned. I'm sure it was problematic for them but I played on my 32" and had no issues really.
So I'd say very easily. No slow down in trials was nice
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
Does anyone have any beginner tips?
It runs fine but it looks like shit, per my above post.
GoldandBlue
Member
Just beat the game and I enjoyed it well enough. I don't think it being any darker and bleaker would have made the story any better imo.
End game spoilers
I hope it wont take too long for DR2 to hit steam, I'll definitely pick that one up day one too. Wonder what the chances of Another Episode hitting PC later are.
End game spoilers
When Monokuma said early on they were keeping them in the school for their safety, I assumed the world outside ended and that turned out to be the case. The DVDs they gave each student to drive the first kill made it more obvious. I didn't care much for the big mystery but enjoyed the characters and humor. It was hard to care about some, especially with how quick people got killed off but it was still enjoyable.
I hope it wont take too long for DR2 to hit steam, I'll definitely pick that one up day one too. Wonder what the chances of Another Episode hitting PC later are.
Ludger Kresnik
Member
Hang out with people you like and butter them up with gifts. Don't worry about filling the report cards on your first go, you can take care of that later since your progress there will carry over between runs. Pixel hunt for monokuma coins if you feel the need to.
Set the difficulty to mean/mean if you want the class trial bits to not be a complete cakewalk. The game will still be really easy, but it'll be a little more engaging.
OniBarubary
Banned
Use the slow down during trials. Trust me, it's worth it. Only reason not to is for an achievement.
Or just give into despair. Upupupu~
Finished the game recently. I really enjoyed the game overall. Kept me hooked from start to finish, though I will say I was correctly guessing the general flow of the story more than I thought I would (I'm normally pretty bad at that stuff). Honestly, I still find it pretty surprising in Case 1
Case 3
Case 4
Lastly, regarding the mastermind and end of the game
Overall, this was really fun to play. I played this in English and thought the cast was pretty great, too. The music was really catchy and did a great job to get you pumped up during the testimony sections. I'm really happy to get to play this and now eagerly await when Danganronpa 2 arrives on PC.
where they set up your childhood friend as your sidekick to be, which made me make the similarities to Maya in Ace Attorney or June in 999, and have her kick the bucket pretty much immediately. Even more surprising was learning that she made the first attempt to murder someone and was planning on pinning the blame on Makoto. Boy, what an interesting trial that would have been if she actually succeeded. Was she really expecting Makoto to just let her get away with that? It was honestly one of the bigger twists in the game for me, based on my expectation of her being the game's sidekick.
Case 3
I felt telegraphed the culprit a little too much. I really liked Celeste too, but it was still a pretty fun chapter to unravel.
Case 4
also felt a little obvious given that the first showing of Sakura's corpse displayed her smiling contently, and the fact that it took them so long to consider that she was the one to lock the door as well. Had it turned out that someone else actually did it, I would have been totally shocked.
Lastly, regarding the mastermind and end of the game
I really wasn't expecting Junko to have such a big role at all at first. That was, until they mentioned the body's measurements and hers was the only one to match it. Then there was the photo thing that I immediately noticed, with her face obscured in every photo. I knew there was more to her, but I wasn't sure if it really was her or Mukuro. She got a little too wordy with the "love despair, hate hope" spiel, but she was interesting to take down overall. I honestly expected Yasuhiro to have a bigger role, for a while I was expecting him to be the mastermind for no other reason than the fact that he seemed to be the least impressionable compared to the other characters, and by the time you found his notebook in the wrecked locker rooms, I was expecting some major twist involving him. Glad I was wrong about that though.
Overall, this was really fun to play. I played this in English and thought the cast was pretty great, too. The music was really catchy and did a great job to get you pumped up during the testimony sections. I'm really happy to get to play this and now eagerly await when Danganronpa 2 arrives on PC.
themagicalkitsune
Member
You should play DR 2 when it comes to steam, they stepped their game up with the cases.
Sky Interloper
Member
I haven't reached the last chapter in my English playthrough, but I hope that (Endgame spoilers)
Still, glad to see the newcomers liking the game. I think if anyone is interested in the main canon, they should read DR0 before DR2 comes out in Steam as it establishes several plot threads explored in the sequel and may seem somewhat random without some background. But considering that both the Danganronpa wiki and Tumblr are filled to the brim with spoilers, probably the series subreddit is the safest place to search..
Junko's voice is good. The original japanese VA sold the character for me, and was part of the reason I loved her in the first place. Sadly, as she wasn't included in School Life (although she was originally planned alongside actual Mukuro, as the Reload artbook shows) that's her only appearance.
Still, glad to see the newcomers liking the game. I think if anyone is interested in the main canon, they should read DR0 before DR2 comes out in Steam as it establishes several plot threads explored in the sequel and may seem somewhat random without some background. But considering that both the Danganronpa wiki and Tumblr are filled to the brim with spoilers, probably the series subreddit is the safest place to search..
OniBarubary
Banned
I've said it before but I actually prefer the English VAs for a lot of the characters. Byakuya, Celeste, Junko, Monokuma and Toko off the top of my head.
Ludger Kresnik
Member
SpacePirate Ridley
Member
Yep. Thank god.
Is the only series that tries to do grim dark elements, something i absolutely distate the majority of the time, that gets the balance right for me.
Edit. Oh yeah and VLR. But that also has a bunch of humour. Probably why I prefered vlr to 999.
Funyarinpa
Member
I just want to see a dark rendition of "Talented teenagers forced to murder each other and get away with it in Class Trials" 
Even if it's a spinoff...
Even if it's a spinoff...
Theodoricos
Member
I'm really, really glad that Danganronpa isn't darker than it is. Its humorous elements are big part of why I love it so much. It wouldn't have been as good if it was darker.
Also, the way the series presents itself means that when it wants to be dark as all hell, it hits home even harder than it would do otherwise.
The final case of DR2 says hi as a prime example.
Crash Station
Member
The contrast and even cognitive dissonance from the clashing tones is effective and very much apart of the series now and I wouldn't change that for anything. Even in AE which is far darker, it works. I remember the Best Friends saying something along the lines of "this would be super insensitive in anything BUT Danganronpa" in their playthrough.
That being said, it's natural to want to know how the original concept turned out after seeing beta stuff and the brutal concept art. In a perfect world, we''d get both.
That being said, it's natural to want to know how the original concept turned out after seeing beta stuff and the brutal concept art. In a perfect world, we''d get both.
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