This will be the last time I bring this up (hopefully) because you're probably sick of hearing it by now, but something great about the first game is the whole it could be anyone" thing. Here, in case two the motive was one person's sister had died and another person covered it up and here in case three only one person caught a make you turn into a crazy murdering psychopath disease. Thats lazy writing, even going beyond the whole stupid magically disease that can do whatever it wants thing.
No, super seriously, this is dumb. I dont like this. This is undermining one of the best parts of the first game. Ill give you a disease that makes you a murderer isnt the same thing as hey if you guys dont start killing each other I will reveal an embarrassing secret about each of you.
Shes a human who deserves to be called the Ultimate Despair! hey psst Nagito I think that name is trademarked.
Oh, also this is why Nagito was so determined. Mikan was killing for the sake of despair and not the sake of hope. Man, killers these days being all selfish and not doing those hope-full (not to be confused with hopeful) murders.
Mikan stops laughing like a crazy person to tell us all she committed these murders for the sake of her BELOVED. Who is her beloved? Henry Kissinger. Yeah, I know. Weird.
Hm we dont get any clues as to who her BELOVED is other than they are no longer alive. So maybe Junko? Is Mikan the spy or whatever that snuck in to mess with us?
Somethingweird is going on. Thanks to that disease, I was able to remember my beloved. Im not quite sure what that means. But I feel like this whole scene with Mikan is suddenly super important to the overall plot.
Mikan didnt have the despair disease. She had the remembering disease. INTERESTING.
SHES GOING TO TELL US ABOUT THE WORLD ENDER ORGANIZATION. Mikan might actually have the end game spoilers disease here.
Ok. Her big reveal is that the world ender organization is also the organization known as the future foundation. This means nothing to me. This is a terrible spoiler. Remember something more interesting please.
ALSO IN ANOTHER BIG TWIST the world ender organization wantsto end the world. STOP THE PRESSES EVERYONE
Oh wait she also knows who the traitor is! This one could actually be fun.
and she refuses to tell us. Mikan you butt why do you hate us? She even calls for her execution to start moving while everyone is still talking to her. Cold blooded man.
Her execution isI dont know what this is. Im missing something here. Monokuma has a huge syringe that he injects intoa rocket ship arm. And Mikan is on that arm, riding it a bit like Dr. Strangelove and the bomb. And then she disappears into space. Um. Ok. I dunno what this is supposed to be. But you do see MIkans butt like one more time, so maybe that was the point of this.
This is actually kind of interesting. I did (and still do) hate this magic despair disease that does anything the story needs it to, but the group grappling with Mikan not being the Mikan they thought they knew made for some interesting end of case dialogue.
Monokuma has prepared a special event for us to help us feel better. I can only assume it is somehow even worse than murder high school death simulator 2.0.
Sonia is really growing on me as a character. She is this weirdly human component to the group that almost feels out of place but that the game desperately needs. Everyone else is excited because Nekomaru may be coming back but shes the one thats like you know it is kind of hard to get excited considering three of our friends literally just died and its lines like that that help the game stay just enough grounded in reality and make the characters feel like humans instead of the caricatures they risk becoming.
Oh Nekomaru is a robot. Sorry that choking sound you hear is the game strangling out the last remaining shred of realism the game had been clinging to.
Murder Plot Grade: C. Okay, so I at least get what shes going for here. And she did a decent enough job thinking on the fly considering Hiyoko wandered in while she was in the midst of murdering someone. But, again, Im taking a lot of points off because she somehow didnt think of Ibuki count to a thousand and then go hang yourself ok? Also, lets say things went perfectly and Ibuki fake hung herself without Hiyoko getting slashed and we all believe she hung herself and Nagito doesnt figure out the truth. Isnt MIkan the number one suspect anyway? Hey Ibuki went and hung herself based on the orders of someone else. Who was the only person that had access to her at all times and couldve told her to do this. Like, oops. Best case scenario you have to explain why the person that was under your sole supervision and no one else's went and hung themselves because someone told them to. You're already suspect number one in that scenario. ALSO everyone immediately thought someone told Ibuki to kill herself right? So why the hell does Mikan need an alibi during the exact second she was supposedly hanging herself? She literally doesnt need to be there for that. Its a crime that doesnt need the person right there to commit it. Hey someone detonated a remote bomb and I wasnt at the exact spot where the bomb went off so it couldnt be me, right guys? I feel like Hiyoko being there actually helped her, and that was completely unplanned and by accident. Sorry, Mikan, but for someone that is a crazy lunatic, I expected better.
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Moops? "I thought you were making up diseases? That's spontaneous dental hydroplosion."