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Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls |OT| Monokuma and Co.
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Johan Liebert
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Is it up on US PS Store?
TheSlySoul
Member
You may have to settle for it on Amazon. I never see any PS Vita games locally anymore.Ugh, I've looked for this game everywhere and I can't fucking find it. I don't want to buy it digitally
yah, they didn't ship until release day which is annoying. they usually ship preorders a few days beforehand but this was actually shipped on release.
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
I've been watching a let's play of this on YouTube and watched till The Warriors of Hope were introduced - who are awfully designed and pretty insufferable.
So far the story has been uninteresting. It feels like something a 13 year old would come up with. Maybe I'm just too old? I'll keep watching to see if it gets better, but so far I feel pretty good about skipping this one.
So far the story has been uninteresting. It feels like something a 13 year old would come up with. Maybe I'm just too old? I'll keep watching to see if it gets better, but so far I feel pretty good about skipping this one.
So you watched half of the prologue? Yeah, the story's boring until then because only 15% of the characters have been introduced.
thanks for letting us know how much you're not playing this game and not enjoying it.
Would you like some confirmation with that bias?
semiconscious
Member
TheSlySoul
Member
I want to imagine the poster watching LOTR.
It is a thriller, which has to build up suspense. It is not going to go all out in the first 10 minutes.
This is coming from someone with a 999 avatar... incredible.
I've just cleared chapter 2.
Everything about the game that's just Toko and Komaru running around the city while commenting on things and having various things happen to and around them is great. Everything outside of that is kinda...not.
Luckily once the prologue is done the former is 90% of the game.
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
You're welcome!
Please stop acting like Danganronpa is even in the same league as Zero Escape. Comparing them is just....no.
Interesting. I quite like Komaru, so that sounds quite promising.
Jazzy Network
Member
Bro I like started the first 5 minutes of FF7 and it was like all this green sparkles around and some girl appeared and I was like nah this is dumb.
It's apparent you came in looking for a bone to pick, because I wasn't comparing Danganronpa's supposed quality to Zero Escape's. I thought someone who was a fellow enthusiast of visual novels and story/text heavy games would know better, but I guess not.
Judging a game like that by watching a YouTube playthrough for the game's first 15 minutes...? I can't even take your opinion on Zero Escape seriously now knowing that.
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
I apologise then. I misread your post.
EDIT: 15 minutes? Try a little over an hour. I'm judging what I've seen so far, and I'm not really liking what I've seen. Simple as that. Like I said I'll keep watching, but my first impressions are not good.
look, you already mentioned you're not interested in this game before so it's time to move onto something else. constantly telling us how you're happy to skip the game even tho you're not playing it is bordering on threadshitting. if you wanna watch the story play out in a LP, feel free to discuss it in the spoilers thread.
I love both ZE and Danganronpa and I don't like comparing them because they're each their own thing.
TheSlySoul
Member
I played both and love both franchises.
But yeah, you can't judge a story-based 8-10 hour game on the first 30 minutes. Heck, Hatoful Boyfriend doesn't even get really started until you unlock the special mode.
If I judged Telltale games by the first 30 minutes, then I would have never played any of them.
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
Geez, was my post really that bad? I didn't think I'd get slammed like I'm some kind of witch. I was just posting my honest impressions, sheesh.
if someone went into the 999/VLR OTs and said "hey, I just watched an hour of the LP for this game and this looks bad. glad I skipped this dumb game.", how would you reply?
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
then post your impressions of the story with spoiler tags or post in the spoilers thread please.
LOL as if an ever17 rehash is any better...
Thickstone
Member
Jeeez you guys are getting _very_ defensive about the game.
For someone who is insecure about the game (like me) it's good to have varied opinions and it's worth knowing that the beginning seems to be uninteresting. I also read his post as a subliminal question whether the game will stay this way.
Btw what's with taking avatars as a satisfactory indicator of one's set of beliefs? If this was the case I could easily dismiss every positive opinion with 'lol danganronpa avatar, bias!'
For someone who is insecure about the game (like me) it's good to have varied opinions and it's worth knowing that the beginning seems to be uninteresting. I also read his post as a subliminal question whether the game will stay this way.
Btw what's with taking avatars as a satisfactory indicator of one's set of beliefs? If this was the case I could easily dismiss every positive opinion with 'lol danganronpa avatar, bias!'
The Prologue is boring outside of
the five minutes of Nagito being his usual self while breaking the fourth wall
I don't blame you for being bored by the kids though. I find myself struggling to stay awake in any cutscenes that just focus solely on them, and
their long "I'm an abuse victim let's kill everyone" spiels before every boss fight so far are just really dull and go on for way too long while just sort of repeating themselves, which is sort of surprising after how well Dangan Ronpa 2 was able to evoke sympathy for even the chef kid at the end of chapter one with just a few cheap lines.
I will say though that (chapter 2 end spoilers)
the mask kid's face reveal during his execution (?) scene was freaking hilarious
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
If a
group of little kids with rainbow coloured hair that call themselves ultimates and are controlling robotic bears
Thanks a lot for this write up. I'm looking forward to when Toko finally shows her ugly face.
I don't think you're refuting what I was doing by referring to avatars. Unless you want to be more specific about how that was fallacious?
Same here. As someone who clearly wants the game in his hands ASAP, I can understand liking it a lot. But as I'm also someone who knows I'll likely have issues with some of its content, it's hard to see that people are already being so harsh about criticism (I agree that it could have been delivered better, but it's not exactly a big deal).
dissenting opinions and criticisms are fine. it depends on where it's coming from for me. but I'm done with this thread. gonna wait for the game to arrive and play through it before I come back and give my impressions.
I've played up to... well, a little past meeting Toko. Enjoying the game so far - and I mean the game so far - which surprised me quite a bit. It's rough, no doubt about it. There's something really finicky and over-sensitive about the shooting (and the camera pulls in way too much), and that married with the apparently finicky hitbox of the Monokuma weakpoints makes things very awkward, but chaining a bunch of nice shots feels surprisingly good, and as with anything Danganronpa, there's a real charm in the odd and occasionally clunky mechanics. In any case, I was expecting the game itself to be a slog, but so far I've found it perfectly enjoyable.
I obviously can't really say much about the story so far, but if I can say nothing else, it's that Komaru is a fantastic protagonist. She's certainly not remarkable in the way a lot of DR characters tend to be, which is a point the narrative itself takes great pains to remind us of, but she's anything but milquetoast (something I can't really say toward her brother), and almost kind of refreshing to see a character acting so... normally toward her circumstances. Even Hajime, which I would say is a character archetype that Komaru skews closer toward, normalized to his situation in a way Komaru certainly hasn't thus far.
With this in mind, I think my favourite scene with Komaru thus far has to be (very light chapter 1 spoilers):
It helps that Cherami Leigh fucking kills it.
Can't say overmuch about the game's villains thus far, but they're certainly a bit hit and miss. I'll say I really liked the implication at the start of their (end of prologue spoilers)
. Monaca is certainly the standout of the group, which I'd say makes up for a handful of the shortcomings given how important she is relative to the rest of the members - her little monologue at the end was definitely well done.
Also, the UI is brilliant. I think I might still prefer DR2's just speaking toward my basic preferences, but it lives and breathes that surreal scrapbook pop aesthetic that the series embraces and does it without affecting utility. It's gaudy and vibrant and it puts a goofy grin on my face whenever I pull up the menu. It's good stuff.
And the little chibi characters in the corner own. My favourite is Komaru on the ducky ride, who's introduction probably gave me the biggest and dumbest laugh I've had playing the game so far.
I obviously can't really say much about the story so far, but if I can say nothing else, it's that Komaru is a fantastic protagonist. She's certainly not remarkable in the way a lot of DR characters tend to be, which is a point the narrative itself takes great pains to remind us of, but she's anything but milquetoast (something I can't really say toward her brother), and almost kind of refreshing to see a character acting so... normally toward her circumstances. Even Hajime, which I would say is a character archetype that Komaru skews closer toward, normalized to his situation in a way Komaru certainly hasn't thus far.
With this in mind, I think my favourite scene with Komaru thus far has to be (very light chapter 1 spoilers):
her reacting so happily to Toko promising to help her escape. It's a surprising outburst, but given everything she's experienced so far it's completely understandable and cements a lot of Komaru's insecurities as a consequence of her imprisonment. Not to mention it sets the tone for her and Toko's amazing chemistry with each other.
It helps that Cherami Leigh fucking kills it.
Can't say overmuch about the game's villains thus far, but they're certainly a bit hit and miss. I'll say I really liked the implication at the start of their (end of prologue spoilers)
meeting with Komaru that they were about to induct her into their club before she, eh, 'ruined it'
Also, the UI is brilliant. I think I might still prefer DR2's just speaking toward my basic preferences, but it lives and breathes that surreal scrapbook pop aesthetic that the series embraces and does it without affecting utility. It's gaudy and vibrant and it puts a goofy grin on my face whenever I pull up the menu. It's good stuff.
And the little chibi characters in the corner own. My favourite is Komaru on the ducky ride, who's introduction probably gave me the biggest and dumbest laugh I've had playing the game so far.
Shipping was now updated to 3-day priority, though only update was from yesterday on "Pre-Shipment Info Sent to USPS". I want to assume/hope since tomorrow will be 3 days since the shipping label was created yesterday, that's when I should get the game. That seems to be when I got the other DR LEs from what I remember, after 2 days when the game is released.
Oh, wow, I guess you haven't seen defensiveness until you've seen people try to convince themselves that DanganRonpa is better than Zero Escape.
Well, it's not like anyone would know she was there.
You can skip the cutscenes if you want to give it another try. The game isn't really that long without all that story.
Do you really think there can't possibly be more to those characters than that?
Well, it's not like anyone would know she was there.
You can skip the cutscenes if you want to give it another try. The game isn't really that long without all that story.
Do you really think there can't possibly be more to those characters than that?
SolarKnight
Member
So in the end it's still not possible to have subtitles with the English cutscenes or am I just missing something?
Yeah. The subtitles are all hard coded into the video, and the original video doesn't have them. The reason that the Japanese audio pack is 1.8 GB while the full game is 2.3 GB is because all of the cutscenes are redone.
My guess is that the engine doesn't provide for dual audio functionality in the video files, or turning subtitles on and off. So providing English cutscenes with and without subtitles wouldn't have fit on the cart.
Danganronpa's has always had juvenile over-the-top plot points(hell, everything about Ultimates in general is way over-the-top) and they're more than self-aware of that. It's their blunt attempt at mind-fuckery, which Zero Escape is better at. That being said, taking things at face value in this type of game isn't suggestible.
On another note: I nominate
Jataro kemuri
WrenchNinja
Member
He makes a lot of good points though
You save at those training potty things for some reason. I don't think any show up until the first chapter.
Those are ducks.
Duck-shaped training potties.
He's my favourite of the new characters, though. He's so weird.
He's 1 of the two characters who voices I have to skip, so very very grating. He talks way too slow.