I had to look up using "wire" on "maelstrom of blind confusion," that was the most nonsensical minigame puzzle so far. Can I just say that I hate all of the minigames in these games? Logic Dive isn't too bad, but all of the others are terrible. Improved Hangman's Gambit isn't difficult, but it is incredibly time-consuming, which is probably worse.
I'm disappointed that I figured out that it was Gundham only through process of elimination and the fact that he was completely redundant as a cast member, and not by figuring out his plan ahead of time -- I was wrong about basically the entire plan. I was also wrong about Nekomaru doing the Sakura thing, where even Hajime figures out Gundham helped them by killing him. By the way, I knew in one second that he was going to let his hamsters go before dying. Dude, hamsters are purely domestic animals, those things are going to die in one day max when out in the wild.
I assume that from this point on, we're going to do the MGS2 thing where someone steers the plot off-course, the main character discovers a shocking secret about himself, etc. I wouldn't even be surprised if we even get like "glitchy computer world falling apart" stuff just like MGS2, the parallels here are too obvious not to see. Really, my main questions are what's the deal with Monokuma (since he was just controlled by Junko in the first game), what's the deal with Byakuya, and who the traitor is. The game has repeatedly brought up the first game's cast (Monokuma keeps talking about "him," there's a statue of Sakura, Nagito has a copy of who survived the first game), but I don't yet know to what end. I'm going to laugh pretty damn hard if something happens like the characters are literally the same characters from the first game in a computer simulation where they only think they're new people, and that's why everyone is so similar.
As for the traitor, Hajime and Chiaki are the obvious suspects, but I can definitely believe anyone. For now, I'm pegging the likelihood of the traitor as: Chiaki > Hajime > Sonia > Akane > Kazuichi > Fuyuhiko > Nagito. Now, watch it be revealed in chapter 5 that it's Fuyuhiko and I'm just a complete dumbass.
I'll post more general and more specific thoughts on the cases and characters themselves once I finish the game.
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