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do you not know how probabilities work?

How mad will people be if the Game of the Decade for the 2020s is a Game Boy game.

Okay but you're the first person I've ever seen conflate the V3 ending with suicide. I'm not saying it's a 100% impossible comparison to make but it's certainly a first from my perspective.

Yeah I think it's interesting that you play a series about high school kids being forced to kill each other to "feel good." Maybe you're really a member of V3's audience after all!

I mean it really didn't do this
and if you think that was the point I think you may have not been listening to the last 3rd of the trial

I mean it really didn't do this
and if you think that was the point I think you may have not been listening to the last 3rd of the trial

That defeats the point of 3-1. Its not just that there was a protagonist switch - it was set up specifically so that people would immediately attach to Kaede as the first female protagonist in the series who is outgoing and has a waifubait design. People don't attach to guy characters nearly as quickly, and people wouldn't have cared nearly as much if Shuichi - a reserved male protagonist - died first.

It was expertly designed to hurt the player. That's what V3 does best. It's why it's the best game in the series.

Eh, if you trust the prologue and take it at face value. Them actually being kidnapped would drop my opinion of the game a good bit. Them voluntarily participating is one of the best parts!

Was a bit sad with that one, since I was a big fan of Ibuki and Hiyoko. Always a shame when your fav characters go down early.

Also, since I didn't mention it earlier, I like DR2 Byakuya a lot more than DR1 Byakuya. Definitely has a more compelling personality here, and the fat part put a hilarious spin on his arrogance.

Terurteru at least has an acceptable design, which is more than I can say for Hifumi

There is no consensus on any character in the DR series. Everyone hates Hifumi and that's about it.

Looking at Wikipedia, there are three spinoff games, plus the anime. I can just ignore all of those unless I'm a big Toko fan, then?

I'll probably start D2 sometime this week. I occasionally do this where I just blow through long games in a few days. I've been doing it more during covid because I have nothing else of value to do. B8's favorite games have been directing me a little in this, obviously, which is why I chose Danganronpa.

Okay, characters and case rankings. I completed most of the characters' supports, except for Aoi, Sakura, and Yasuhiro.

Cases:
1-5/1-6 > 1-3 > 1-1 > 1-4 > 1-2

I put 1-4 low because it's blatantly obvious from the start that Sakura killed herself. 1-2 is annoying because Byakya wastes everyone's time for no reason. I felt it was sort of impossible to separate 1-5 and 1-6. It's funny how the entire game has only two premeditated murders in it, both of which are part of 1-3.

Characters:
Kyoko > Aoi > Byakuya > Sakura > "Junko" > Junko > Toko > Celeste > Taka > Mondo > Yasuhiro > Alter Ego > Sayaka > Chihiro > Leon > Hifumi

It's weird. I wouldn't say I particularly loved any of the characters? Like, I don't especially like Aoi or Byakuya, but they ended up in my top five, as did "Junko," who's there mainly just because she has the best facial expressions in the game. Even Kyoko, who's my #1, I wouldn't call a great character. It's a testament to how blah some of these characters are that Byakuya "Frame Toko for Murder for Literally No Reason" Togami gets into the top three. I don't know, I guess if you really like goth lolis, I can imagine Celeste being higher.

I really like the idea of Junko's despair ideal, but Junko herself was strongest when she had the bored expression on. I would have liked her more if she'd always been in like 'bored, barely attentive' mode instead of switching between her wacky personalities the way she did. When she introduced herself with the British queen persona, I thought I was going to hate her.

I can't really justify having Aoi high and Yasuhiro low, given that they're both just sort of normal. I guess I was just disappointed in Yasuhiro. I recognized Aoi as being genuine early on, but I was convinced the whole game that Yasuhiro was going to be the mastermind or the spy, and when he turned out to be exactly what he seemed to be, I don't know, it was just kind of boring. By the way, Yasuhiro was my only misfire on guessing the mysteries, I got basically everything else right.

Wha, why? That makes no sense. Wouldn't you be happy you had a game that gave you an alternative to BotW?

Whatever. People are weird.