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Final Chapter 4 Daily Life Wrap Up Thoughts and HOT PREDIX
You know, it is getting easier and easier for me to write up those power rankings because of how the cast list is shrinking and that makes me sad.

Ok. Ok ok ok. So I think this was a SUICIDE. Again, there is something odd going on about parallels between cases in this game and the corresponding cases from the last game. I don't know what or why or who or when or which or WHERE OR WHATEVER. But the last chapter as a double murder absolutely solidified this for me. Chapter 4 was the suicide case last game (also best case last game don't @ me bro) and this would make sense as the suicide case this chapter.

MORE importantly though, Sonia made a big stink about twice giving us the laws of robotics. One was don't kill and two was obey humans and three was self protection. I think they did this because it relates to the case. And the way it relates to the case is Nekomaru was trying to kill himself so everyone else could live. I have no clue how he did this yet but it makes sense for his character since he is all about supporting everyone and making sure they succeed and thrive, and it also makes sense for Sonia to lay out exactly how robots work if it was going to impact this case in some way. But, calling it now, Nekomaru offed himself

Most importantly, man did I like this set up better than the last two cases. "You're going to starve to death" isn't perhaps the best motivator, but it was certainly better than the last two where he just hand picked who was going to die. The set up was also just a lot more fun, and I liked them being trapped in this enclosed space while the suddenly grew more delirious and started to turn on each other. I've heard a couple times now that this is where the game really turns around so I'm excited to power through some more tonight.

Weirdly, I wound up not minding Nekomaru as a robot all that much. I can't quite explain it, but after a while I was just sort of going along with it and I wasn't as annoyed. Like "oh yeah of course he's a robot now". What doesn't quite make sense is the why of it all. Is the game just being weird? I know this is a series that loves being weird, but usually there is a reason for the weirdness. It is bizarre for his to come back and then just be killed off right away. Are they just showing us what Monokuma can do? I dunno.

I think I was too hard on Akane. She's been growing on me and there were a couple times this chapter she actually made me laugh. I was comparing her to Hina too much and she feels less complex than here, but she does have a fun role as the lovable idiot like Hiro from the last game. That she pulls off fairly well and I've been noticing that more the last couple of chapters. I'll probably bump her up to good character status, leaving literally only Fuyuhiko now as the living character that I'm not particularly a fan of.

This means literally nothing, but I noticed while looking through the cast list that they have the characters organized by 3 rows of 5 on the map screen. The entire bottom row is dead and the entire middle row is alive. I can't remember who was left on the top row, but I'd be worried if I was them.

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