the danganronpa series bundle is a massive 83% off right now, three seminal visual novels for under fifteen pounds. unfortunately it still, costs nothing at all to not play danganronpa, which is a much better and more fulfilling deal
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I still remember one case where at the crime scene you see the killers name written in blood and, like, it's not a red herring or anything, that's the dude. You spend the next few hours bickering before finally going "wait! the killers name is written in blood!"
ok so, this was probably a casualty of a mystery for Japanese readers being spoiled if you know English (I'm guessing in jp it was called 'octagon' whilst the jp for that shape is hakkaku 八角)
EXCEPT ITS STILL STUPID BC SONIA'S THERE AND HER GIMMICK IS SHE'S EUROPEAN AND FLUENT IN A TON OF LANGUAGES
Every character in the murder mystery game has worse investigative skills than me, a dude who's read one Agatha Christie novel and watched a handful of Columbo episodes.
TBF Aside from one character, none of them are meant to be experienced in mysteries (also dangan Is aimed at teens)
But my issue (and this got worse as the series went on) is when characters would just stand around talking about dumb shit like there isn't a trial going on
I mean, neither am I. I've read a handful of detective novels and watched an average number of mystery movies. I do think that a prerequisite of having a good murder mystery is keeping the mystery a mystery for the duration of the mystery though. Hell, even Scooby Doo does that.
like, this was exaccerbated for me because I played them streaming for a friend
in THH trials last about an hour and I'd say that's a good length...
Then by DR2 and V3 they're 2 hours or longer and esp if someone is being annoying it turns into a SLOG
The first one was really fun at the time but then playing each successive one highlighted the tedium and bad writing to such a degree that now I can’t even enjoy that one anymore. Just not good games.
Just finished watching Joseph Anderson's playthrough of the 2nd one and I was in shock at how bad it was able to get in the last hour. I wish I could unlearn that shit
Danganronpa is one of those series where you go into it thinking it's cool and it becomes progressively worse the more of it you've experienced until the end of V3 when you realize the whole thing was actually trash.
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it is dumber than any single one of the 3rd cases in any ace attorney game
Ace Attorney for toddlers.
EXCEPT ITS STILL STUPID BC SONIA'S THERE AND HER GIMMICK IS SHE'S EUROPEAN AND FLUENT IN A TON OF LANGUAGES
But my issue (and this got worse as the series went on) is when characters would just stand around talking about dumb shit like there isn't a trial going on
in THH trials last about an hour and I'd say that's a good length...
Then by DR2 and V3 they're 2 hours or longer and esp if someone is being annoying it turns into a SLOG
I don't know that I've ever felt I've wasted my time more than I did with the final case of SDR2