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#23





Years of release: 2017 (PC/Vita/PS4)
Beaten?: Yes

Ranking this game on the list started to become almost something of an inside joke for me. Like, I very conspicuously did not mention it at all in my writeup for the first two games, and I was kind of wondering like, I wonder how far on this list I can go before everyone forgets about this game, or starts to wonder if maybe I didn't rank it?

It's really hard for me to explain just how much better I think V3 is than the other games, and why that's even the case. I spend very little time thinking about the first two games anymore but I think about V3 all the time. I think it's mostly the cast - whereas I kind of hated the cast in the first two games I actually adore V3's cast. I think it has the most entertaining overarching plot and the overall best murder mysteries too, and I like that it returns to the failing of being trapped in a high school as opposed to on an island. The music and visuals here are a step up from the previous games. And even the ending of the game, which is really divisive for some people... well, I really liked it! Some of Danganronpa's issues of weird anime humor and some plot points that I was REALLY disappointed with their execution still crop up here, from time to time, but overall, whereas the pervious two Danganronpa games were a huge mixed bag for me (I may have overranked them but they were hard to rank because their high points are so high), this game didn't leave me with that feeling at all. Danganronpa V3 is a great game, in my eyes.

There isn't really a whole lot more else I can say about it. If you've played the game, you know why. A more comprehensive look at Danganronpa V3 would talk a lot about some of the particular things that this game did remarkably well, but I wanna keep this relatively spoiler-free so I'm not gonna get into it. (It was exceptionally hard for me to even find a screenshot of the game that wasn't too revealing - I didn't even TRY with the first two games, haha.) Just take my word for it that I think this is the best one. I'm a little surprised, one of my friends irl ranks 'em 1 > 2 > V3 and I don't really know why! I'm not really sure where the fanbase stands overall on this, but DR1 was just easily the worst one for me.

I didn't play all the side stuff which I heard was actually really good. Maybe I'll get to it someday, but I'm mostly just here for the main story stuff.