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Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair |OT| Sun, Fun, and Despair
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Without spoilers, how do you think it compares to the first story and character wise? Are the Court Trials as fun in this game as they were in the first? Is the music still 100% badass?!
10X better in every single category.
There's a reason why it's called Super DanganRonpa 2
Or was :<
If by pointless you mean fun.
LOL I need to get me one of these! http://www.goodsmile.info/en/product/3849/Nendoroid+Monokuma.html
Also their Chiaki figure looks so well done!
EDIT: Forgot this might be spoilers whoops, got rid of it quick.
I'll put the link up for the cute Chiaki figure, but I wouldn't click into it so hasty just incase of possible spoilers. (I don't know if actually spoilers or not, just trying to be on the safe side -___-)
Also their Chiaki figure looks so well done!
EDIT: Forgot this might be spoilers whoops, got rid of it quick.
I'll put the link up for the cute Chiaki figure, but I wouldn't click into it so hasty just incase of possible spoilers. (I don't know if actually spoilers or not, just trying to be on the safe side -___-)
Nope. Same as Ultros. I'll pick it up later as I'm still at work today.
Crash Station
Member
I'd say both the story and characters are much better and the trials are MUCH less predictable and more intense. There's a degree of tension and discomfort that was definitely not present in the original. Just a whole lot more despair-inducing all around.
Music is great, though a lot of tracks are re-used.
teflontactics
Member
Okay, someone who beat it and has a good memory needs to PM me, I'm stuck at the end of Chapter 3 and my brain can't process wtf I'm missing.
dakkumauji
Member
I have him, he's adorable.
I really do wish they also released a Hinata nendo. Cause nendos~
How long was your playthrough? I may need to budget my time for this since I'm a bit busy with work this week.
If they bring back the "Heat UP" from the first game I'm gonna Squeeee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHMQMW8WTYk
Crash Station
Member
Maybe like 35-40 hours or something. Wasn't keeping track and you can't exactly check how long you've played. It's definitely longer than the first one, though.
Yaaaaas!! The first game took me 25 hours to get through, so this seems way longer. Man my hype just keeps rising by the hour at this point.
Thanks! I'll try to play it 1 chapter at a time but I know I'll get hooked and I won't stop till it's over.
Dguybrushfreeman
Unconfirmed Member
Anyone in Australia thought of a good way to pick this up early? I didn't realise there was stuck an extra wait for us for some reason.
dakkumauji
Member
Yeah it sucks, but the only way I can think of getting it earlier is to create a US account and get it off PSN. But I don't really wanna go through the hassle of changing regions just for one game so I'm just gonna wait :|
yes you can, when you're saving just select the little i bubble next to the save file and it tells you, i'm in the middle of chapter 4 and i'm at 18 hours
teflontactics
Member
Can you help me? I'm stuck at the end of chapter 3 :/
Crash Station
Member
Oh shit, you're right!
Final playtime was nearly 39 hours. Some of that was spent on a certain mini-game, but I can't imagine that affected it more than an hour.
If it's what I think it is, here's a hint:
camera angle.
How many chapters in total? You can spoiler tag the answer if needed. My DR1 playthrough was about 20-25 hours
Crash Station
Member
I have never said that Danganronpa invented anything, my points are:
-Danganronpa is more famous and popular than Ever17
-i dunno in Ever 17 but Schrod's and prisoner's are explicity cited in Danganronpa and VLR
-i was not talking about just of the plot, even a certain key character is TOO similar
-people like to compare VLR and Danganronpa because evidently people think that those games belongs to the same genre(not me) and since plot and characters are the key of both games people didn't like to see VLR having a similar combination of elements already seen in Danganronpa, even worse if they were in Ever17 and other games too, people expected more from the sequel of 999 than just a copy paste of other games
If you pick VLR alone, without context, it's an amazing game and like many VLR fans you would not understand why it bombed, but if you add context with the relatively popular Danganronpa(people like to compare VLR to it for some reason) released 2 years before VLR with similar contents, like also Ever17 and other games, in that case you would reconsider the real value of VLR and understand why it bombed in Japan, where people already heard the same story in Danganronpa(2010) and Ever17(2009 PSP port).
yeah, just pm me what you need
A Huge Battleship
Member
Not even a contest. I was initially drawn to her because of her design, but she turned out to have one of my favourite personalities from any game I've played. Largely regurgitating from the DR1 spoiler thread here:
- Morally bankrupt schemer who sees her former classmates as little more than expendable chips / pieces to be manipulated as she sees fit. I have an inherent fondness for the calculating sociopathic types, and she's one of the finest examples I've come across.
- Elusive history and personality, adding to her mystique as a character. Even having finished the game I'm still not entirely sure how much of what she said about her past was genuine.
- One of the few to successfully commit premeditated murder. The most villainous character outside of Junko and (arguably) Mukuro.
- Her performance during the chapter 3 trial was one of the game's highlights for me. Watching her facade crack, hurriedly repair itself and then gradually shatter into pieces was enthralling and partially compensated for the fact that I was effectively killing her.
- Elusive history and personality, adding to her mystique as a character. Even having finished the game I'm still not entirely sure how much of what she said about her past was genuine.
- One of the few to successfully commit premeditated murder. The most villainous character outside of Junko and (arguably) Mukuro.
- Her performance during the chapter 3 trial was one of the game's highlights for me. Watching her facade crack, hurriedly repair itself and then gradually shatter into pieces was enthralling and partially compensated for the fact that I was effectively killing her.
with or without her drills
What was remotely fun about School Mode after the first playthrough? You did the same shit four times in a row, reading the same dialogue repeated over and over. The 'game' portion was to pick the correct menu dialogue, and once you carried your levels over the first time there was no challenge at all to cleaning. Wasting hours away doing that pointless busy work for a trophy.
Then there was sitting there spending monocoins over and over until you got all the items. This has been fixed in the sequel I understand.
Well I am glad I picked up the first game! So far the pace is crazy fast, and I like a VN like that. If I get bored during dialogue in a game that is MOSTLY DIALOGUE there is a major problem. Very much enjoying the little time I put into it so far. I doubt I will beat it by Tuesday but if I stick to it and don't get sucked into SAO full time like I have been then I should be done to at least pick up the second on release week. Unless the game takes a huge dive after the start worth every penny of 20$.
Yoshi
Headmaster of Console Warrior Jugendstrafanstalt
You can, on the save-screen, you can click on the "i"-icon to get information about your playtime. It took me between 34 and 35 hours to complete the main game.
Yoshi
Headmaster of Console Warrior Jugendstrafanstalt
I still think it is strange to say VLR is ripping off the prisoner's dilemma idea of DR, because the DR situation is no prisoner's dilemma situation, but the VLR one is. Just dropping the name is completely different when compared to basing your whole game on that. And a basic scenario from game theory ending up in a video game as a reference is not all too surprising.
Orniletter
Banned
You can check the time you´ve played by clicking on the little " i " on your save file in DR 1.
Edit: upupupupupu........beaten !
School Mode was the worrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrst
School mode didn't exist in the original DanganRonpa 1 on PSP and was only added to the Vita version since it was well received in DR2. In other words, School Mode in DR1 was made after DR2, so I doubt it's improved at all. It could actually be worse.
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
Not even a contest. I was initially drawn to her because of her design, but she turned out to have one of my favourite personalities from any game I've played. Largely regurgitating from the DR1 spoiler thread here:
- Favourite design / appearance from the game,- Morally bankrupt schemer who sees her former classmates as little more than expendable chips / pieces to be manipulated as she sees fit. I have an inherent fondness for the calculating sociopathic types, and she's one of the finest examples I've come across.
- Elusive history and personality, adding to her mystique as a character. Even having finished the game I'm still not entirely sure how much of what she said about her past was genuine.
- One of the few to successfully commit premeditated murder. The most villainous character outside of Junko and (arguably) Mukuro.
- Her performance during the chapter 3 trial was one of the game's highlights for me. Watching her facade crack, hurriedly repair itself and then gradually shatter into pieces was enthralling and partially compensated for the fact that I was effectively killing her.. Gothic lolita is the pinnacle of fashion.with or without her drills
This is all correct. You have fine taste my friend.
Honestly i'm not sure it's prisoner's dilemma, maybe it's something else that's also in VLR, but the point is that games usually don't name the ideas behind them, but both danganronpa and VLR do it, that's uncommon so players are impressed and those remain in their minds, but if some of those ideas are the same obviously someone ends having a not desired deja-vu.
MaximumSpider
Banned
Check your nearby GameStops.I woke up this morning and realized I still can't play DR2 yet
I'm gonna check with my stores today to see if anyone is carrying or selling it yet, this hype is too hard to sit through.
Mine has a couple of copies.
hmm good idea, I got 2 Gamestops in my area, and the one closest to me has pretty cool people that work there, so it wouldn't hurt to try. I will go crazy if I'm actually able to buy this game today
MaximumSpider
Banned
I've noticed a couple people here have the game so I think you should be able to buy it.
My sister is heading over there now to see if she can grab a copy for herself.
AdmiralMikey
Member
Thanks! I'll try to play it 1 chapter at a time but I know I'll get hooked and I won't stop till it's over.
Heck, each chapter kept me hooked! More than once I knew I wasn't sleeping much that night if the murder happened in the game later on in my real-life evening. No sleep can be had until all the evidence is collected and the trial is complete!!
My GameStop is pretty cool, but they are really cracking down on early releases. A couple employees broke the release on a major title and they both got fired, fined, and banned from Gamestop, possibly for life.
Back on the subject of DR, I still have not platinumed the first one. Damn Monokuma machine.
AtomskEater
Member
Yay, NISA took my money. Can't wait to blow off Japanese study time in favor of playing this.