I've looked up Snowbreak, this is the images:
It's kinda like an impassé, really. If you didn't play any of the previous games (like I almost did) then 1 and 2 and 3 being fictional doesn't really impact you all that much, (although it does spoil 1's ending pretty hard, and to a lesser extent also 2's) as you are basically learning that those other games were in-universe fictional stories, which honestly doesn't matter all that much. It isn't as if a piece of media is inherently a lesser form of storytelling just because it's made-up in-universe.
Yeah, it leads into some interesting world-building that's never really built off of in a decent way. If Trigger Happy Havoc happened, how did the world come back from the most despair-inducing event in history, let alone base a game show-esque series with 53 seasons on the first killing game? Did the event cause humanity to relapse morally? If you view the first two games from an in-universe fiction perspective, then that doesn't make sense either because (correct me if I'm wrong) we're never really told if the people who enter the show in V3 are still alive by the end of it, even if they're killed off.
Honestly that's a pretty good question. Maybe not all of them could still be alive, but I can easily see Rantaro and all of the blackened not dying for real. Mugi could've easily used her cosplay abilities to make it seem that Rantaro died because there was literally nobody else besides the two of them inside the library when he was murdered. The same with the blackened; if her cosplay bullshit+the guys running the show are able to create a giant dome and an artificial toxic wasteland surrounding it, then switching the would-be executed with some sort of dummy is within the realm of possibility. The fact that the "bodies" get disposed of soon after that person dies only reinforces that theory
Shuichi and the surviving students (all... two of them) make it out and they're greeted with the blackened and murdered trying to keel back from the downloaded memories and shit, making all of their struggles to survive practically pointless, which is honestly an interesting concept for a story.
I played the demo. It really feels like it wants to be Persona and Danganronpa at the same time. Kodaka can't stop making Danganronpa.
I'm like an hour in and it's even got Danganronpa music
A few hours in (Day 18 ), it's pretty much DR with turn-based combat sequences. The majority of the characters are (so far) alright, but few of them are jumping on a range between really annoying (the menhera psycho bitch) to detestable. The small fucker with the low-self esteem issues? I fucking HATE him.
His character is pretty much identical to Alcryst from Fire Emblem Engage, it's annoying as fuck.
I just got my first ending Double genocide. 12 survivors in the entire system. I am very good at making decisions. I think it turned out really great, I'm hyped to go and try another route now. I started off hating a couple of the characters but reversed my opinions by the end. Combat felt interesting throughout. Good balance between time spent on story, fights, and daily activities. My one and only complaint is the shitty localization.
He's the only guy who tried to stop us committing continued war crimes against the best girl so I can't hate him. Menhera chick was the worst and I'm glad she died very early in my route.
I played that one for a little while. It would've been a lot better as a single player game.