Danganronpa Series - aka Demented Animatronic Bear Gets People Murdered: the Game

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wtfNeedSignUp said:
I kinda liked her actually, she has some good moments later on. But the plot is just too uninspired to make use of her.
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So can you go ahead and spoiler what you remember of the plot for me? I saw the part about the whole thing being a simulation (something I kinda guessed just from the opening and how the first shmup stage was called a calibration).

On that note, the Switch store page brags that the shmup bits were designed by some company known for high quality shmups. The one shmup stage I played in the demo seemed all right, but if they basically never get any better, then its like... it almost feels like they hired them as a form of stunt casting. Like saying you hired Metallica to perform classic nursery rhymes.
 
skykiii said:
So can you go ahead and spoiler what you remember of the plot for me? I saw the part about the whole thing being a simulation (something I kinda guessed just from the opening and how the first shmup stage was called a calibration).

On that note, the Switch store page brags that the shmup bits were designed by some company known for high quality shmups. The one shmup stage I played in the demo seemed all right, but if they basically never get any better, then its like... it almost feels like they hired them as a form of stunt casting. Like saying you hired Metallica to perform classic nursery rhymes.
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It's not a simulation actually, the whole shmup is just some sort of mental deep dive shoehorned into the plot for gameplay sake. Pretty much every team has the prisoner being blamed for a crime he didn't commit, with the only exceptions being the idol (she did kill a guy but it was self defence after he tried to kidnap her due to fabricated information) and the rich guy (he technically was blamed on causing the death of a group as minor, and is participating due to being promised to get to be the CEO of Yurukill if he wins). The big twist is that the rich guy's executioner caused every other event due to either Yurukill dictating it for some reason or being generic evil manipulator). They defeat her, and wish everyone get free, and she fakes her death.
 
My bad for necroing the thread but there's a Danganronpa V3 lottery at the moment where they'll be giving out some pins and clear (vinyl?) figures to the winners. It ends at June 30th and to participate you have to give around $6 ( ¥ 660).

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( twitter link )

Thought I'd share for anyone who's interested.
 
Necroing since I finished the new Detective Archives game and it fits here more than in the Visual Novel thread.

Overall thoughts: Pretty good though carries less emotional impact. Recommend when it goes on a sale.

The plot is a blank slate not connected to Danganronpa, we play an amnesiac detective who solves crimes using his busty grim reaper sidekick to go to Persona dungeons that represent the mystery, all occuring in a mysterious Zaibatsu city. In every chapter you have some free time exploring around town, then investigation and then dungeon.

The characters are a lot more down to earth this time though sadly you don't have a lot of development of the characters appearing in a crime due to not being kept afterwards. I liked the detectives you cooperate with, and the Grim Reaper is just enough troll to be entertaining without being too annoying.

The dungeons themselves aren't very hard, but do a good job of walking through the mysteries. The mysteries themselves are sadly pretty simplistic and most of the twists can be easily guessed most of the time before even starting the dungeon.

The game looks really good with ton of assets. Which is pretty impressive.

My main criticism is really how the game doesn't use the characters that much. Since most of the gameplay is in a dungeon where it's you, another detective and the grim reaper, you don't get to talk with witnesses, or have talks between characters. A big step down after Danganronpa was primarily about character interaction.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
Necroing since I finished the new Detective Archives game and it fits here more than in the Visual Novel thread.

Overall thoughts: Pretty good though carries less emotional impact. Recommend when it goes on a sale.

The plot is a blank slate not connected to Danganronpa, we play an amnesiac detective who solves crimes using his busty grim reaper sidekick to go to Persona dungeons that represent the mystery, all occuring in a mysterious Zaibatsu city. In every chapter you have some free time exploring around town, then investigation and then dungeon.

The characters are a lot more down to earth this time though sadly you don't have a lot of development of the characters appearing in a crime due to not being kept afterwards. I liked the detectives you cooperate with, and the Grim Reaper is just enough troll to be entertaining without being too annoying.

The dungeons themselves aren't very hard, but do a good job of walking through the mysteries. The mysteries themselves are sadly pretty simplistic and most of the twists can be easily guessed most of the time before even starting the dungeon.

The game looks really good with ton of assets. Which is pretty impressive.

My main criticism is really how the game doesn't use the characters that much. Since most of the gameplay is in a dungeon where it's you, another detective and the grim reaper, you don't get to talk with witnesses, or have talks between characters. A big step down after Danganronpa was primarily about character interaction.
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Is it woke like AI: Somnium Files was? I loved the Danganronpa trilogy but I grew wary of Spike Chunsoft after learning about AI.
 
SSj_Ness said:
Is it woke like AI: Somnium Files was? I loved the Danganronpa trilogy but I grew wary of Spike Chunsoft after learning about AI.
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The second AI was the one with more political sperging, though thankfully it didn't affect the main plot and just had the stereotypical anime fat trannie (like Yakuza).

As for the question, I didn't see anything woke. If anything the grim reaper has tons of great fanservice. Maybe the translators censored the word "bitch" to use something less hard but that's a minor issue.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
As for the question, I didn't see anything woke. If anything the grim reaper has tons of great fanservice. Maybe the translators censored the word "bitch" to use something less hard but that's a minor issue.
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Because translators just assume that it's more of an insult or some shit
 
Kind of sad to hear that it's missing on character interactions, but it's still in my radar. Thanks for the review @wtfNeedSignUp

Some questions, how long did it take you to finish? Did it feel tedious after a time or ended at a good spot?
 
ShitLurker said:
Kind of sad to hear that it's missing on character interactions, but it's still in my radar. Thanks for the review @wtfNeedSignUp

Some questions, how long did it take you to finish? Did it feel tedious after a time or ended at a good spot?
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I think it was around 15-20 hours, it doesn't overstay its welcome and it ended with all the mysteries solved.
 
Judicial said:
has anyone ever tried making an online danganronpa class trial system similar to Attorney Online? that would be fucking fun.
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there is garrys mod servres RP for danganronpa (only russian). that are reaaally popular and you can see them easily on the list.

there is ace attorney online danganronpa server but it's gay.

it shouldn't be hard to actually produce dedicated online server for danganronpa though.
 
Playing through V3 at the moment for the first time and am at the intermission point of Trial 5.

Everytime I think I got this game figured out or habe an idea where I think the plot is gomna go there’s a twist at every fucking corner it’s wild. But I truly am having so much fun with this game! (I’m liking it much more than 2, half the cast in that game I didn’t care about at all - and actually I think 1 had a mostly perfect cast cause I didn’t truly dislike a single one. Oh yeah and in V3; Kill Kokichi, Behead Kokichi… etc.)

So far I’d rank these games best to worst: V3, 1, 2 - I think?

Personal favourite characters in each game are Ryoma in V3, Imposter Byakuya in 2, and a tie between Kiyotaka and Toko in the first.
 
Richter Belmont said:
Finished V3 just 10 mins ago and I have no idea what I am feeling right now. Guess I need a moment to figure out my thoughts.

What do people here think of the ending?
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I was told a complete cope by a trusted friend at the time so I lived under the illusion that it was all happening in a parallel universe so it didn't matter for games 1 to 2.
 
GenociderSyo said:
Found it annoying, there were reasons why the producer went that way.
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I can see that. I think it would land better if the creators actually made something different after - but isn’t that hundred day whatever game basically just another cut from the dangan cloth right?


Tism the Return II said:
I was told a complete cope by a trusted friend at the time so I lived under the illusion that it was all happening in a parallel universe so it didn't matter for games 1 to 2.
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Lol. But I guess it does devalue those games too since, now in universe, they didn’t ultimately matter unless they did resonate with audience. Or at least I think that’s the read I’m getting for with V3.

Anyway V3 had my favourite gameplay and most of the cases were absolutely heartbreaking, No.4 and 5 especially really made me sit on it for a while. Tbh I didn’t really give a shit about the third one it was obvious and boring.

This series is really gonna stick with me for a while, but I am glad I gave it whirl now and not as a teen - even though I know I would’ve loved it back then.

I did like that the ending of V3 didn’t end on a downer for the characters and the final 3 seem to be ok.
 
Just ruminating on the ending, and it really really cheapens everything that came before huh? Since the cast know it isn't real then why did any victory before matter? I'd like to think that to them the truth revealed to them was just another lie, hence the three that survived after the credits roll to start fresh. (I hate when the fourth-wall is broken in other stuff)
 
Are the first three games worth playing through? I enjoyed games like Ace Attorney and Hotel Dusk and am looking for more like those from that era. I don't particularly like overt supernatural elements in these kinds of games and prefer stories to be grounded in reality, but if the drama is compelling enough I can overlook it. It seems like the anime version of Saw, not in a bad way either.
 
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