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Quick Summary of Thoughts and Big Picture Stuff Before I Start Deadly Life
I have to admit I'm kinda...disappointed? So far. I think? I really love the characters this time around and it is still fun but I had heard this game was great and so far the cases have all been less interesting than their game one counterparts. Improved mechanics and characters, yes, but the cases themselves have all been varying levels of dumb.

The "despair disease" or whatever this motive is sucks. Like crazy sucks. It makes people act differently than they normally would. That isn't a fucking motive. That is mind controlling people into behaving badly. Like Nagito almost died unrelated to anyone in the class killing him because of whatever this stupid motive is. A disease that can do whatever it needs to for the convenience of the plot is bs. I don't know what happened here yet so I'm willing to let it play out, but this kind of motive cuts at the heart of one of the things I loved about the first game. In that game, anyone could be the killer because the motives targeted anyone. Uh oh, here's what life is like on the outside. Uh oh, I'm going to let a secret out. Uh oh, I'm going to give someone a ton of money. Universal motivators. Here it is like "ok so case 2 I'm targeting Fuyuhiko and case 3 I'm targeting person x and let's just go from there". That isn't as interesting a motive, honestly. AND I DON'T LIKE IT.

Also this despair disease is DUMB in general and weird even by the very lenient standards I hold the game to. I'm willing to believe Junko had some sort of insane AI system in the first game and amazing technology or whatever. But "mosquitos carrying a disease that does random things to people" is just straight up dumb. DUMB.

Ok, I'm done being a grump about the motive. I did like the rest of the set up to this chapter. The communication is an interesting way to set up part of this murder and I'm really curious to see where it goes. The dialogue and characters continue to be fun and I'm still super interested to keep on playing. I know I'm complaining a lot about some aspects of the game so far, but overall I'm definitely still enjoying it. Assume I like everything I'm not complaining about and go from there!

DOUBLE MURDER. WHAT IS GOING ON. Ok, case 1 in both games: someone tries to kill someone else, but a second person fights them off and someone else dies instead. Case 2: reference made to a super serial killer being a person that was in the school the entire time. Somewhat impromptu crime of passion occurs. Case 3: DOUBLE MURDER. Case 4 is definitely going to be a suicide, right? Am I reading too far into this? It was a half theory before but then I was right about a double murder occurring this case. So...this means something! Right? Maybe? But what?

I'm struggling at the what. Ok so each case has some sort of parallel to its corresponding case in the first game. So what? Is that coincidence, lazy writing, or is there something bigger at play here? Is there some reason these cases have to be mirroring each other? I cannot think of anything but that doesn't mean I'm wrong! ...does it? I dunno. But it is interesting I said "oh a double murder would happen" and then a double murder happens. I feel like Charlie from IASIP with the PEPE SILVA board in the background right now, but I don't think I'm wrong!

Also, double murders suuuuuuuuuuuck. It cuts down on the cast which sucks because I very much like this cast! Next chapter is when the daily lives stop being so much fun, I think. I like it when the cast is big and fun and interesting and when they get cut down and you're going around on free time and realizing you only have like seven choices left to pick from...there's something sad about that.

Can I say one more time how bummed I am Hiyoko died? She was legit one of my favorite characters and I really thought she was going to have some sort of character arc with forgiving Fuyuhiko. I'm legit bummed at this one. And Ibuki too. She was cool, but just less cool than Hiyoko.

Hajime is weirdly...asexual so far? Mikan is throwing herself at him and he's just sort of awkwardly pretending not to notice. He hasn't expressed any sort of sexual interest one way or another, which is weird because I've had Mikan climb into bed with me twice and Nekomaru try to do "it" to me during a free time. You think one of those two things would elicit some sort of positive response. Hajime must not be able to get excited when murders are happening around him. What a weirdo.

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Moops?
"I thought you were making up diseases? That's spontaneous dental hydroplosion."