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Chapter 5 Reflections of "Do I Want To Keep Playing Immediately Or Stop Playing Forever?"
It is 2:30 AM as of writing this up right now and I desperately want to go back and keep playing. I feel like I am seconds away from getting those plot revelations I've been desperate for and I don't want to wait until normal waking hours to find them out.

This case was excellent. Well written and clever and the perfect closure for both Nagito and Chiaki. Even with Chapter 4 I was like "is this game really better than DR1" and now I can definitively say "yep" even without the final chapter/epilogue stuff or whatever coming up. I have absolutely no complaints about that chapter. OTHER THAN CHIAKI DIDN'T DESERVE PUNISHMENT I DEMAND A RECOUNT

That line in there of me stopping for like five minutes wasn't even a joke. Things clicked right before the big reveal and I put my Vita down and contemplated my life decisions up to this point because boy did I not want things to wrap up the way they were wrapping up.

Also, I didn't mention this in my notes, but I am such a moron it is embarrassing. I had thought, the entire case, that the Monokuma panels tipped over in a line and somehow fell in such a way to click the lighter on. It wasn't until closing arguments that I was like "ok duh it just tipped over an already lit lighter". Which makes like 100x more sense and I have no idea why I had that original stupid thought in my head in the first place.

I have no clue what is going on now with the overarching plot other than "something weird and exciting". The entire game is glitching out DDLC style and all the dead people were back and no one said anything about them being dead. I'm super interested and want to keep playing like right now.

This final cast...is not what I was hoping for! That's fine, I get it, but I'm a bit sad about who I drug along to the finish line here, game. I want a recount.

How badly does Kazuichi stick out? What is he doing here? Fuyuhiko lost Peko and Sonia lost Gundham and Akane lost Nekomaru and Hajime lost Chiaki and...seriously, what is Kazuichi doing here? I feel like they messed up a bit here. It should've been Hiyoko, and not just because I liked her. This would have been a perfect final cast of "people who lost someone and are determine to see the end" if we had the Hiyoko-Mahiru connection. Or if Kazuichi had been given any sort of other connection other than "Sonia's stalker" the entire game. My theory is Hiyoko originally lived but they needed someone to fix the elevator in Chapter 4 to get the plot to work so Kazuichi got sloppily thrown back in instead.

I have no clue what the parallels in the earlier cases mean now. Was that just fun fanservice? A misdirect? I see no connection to 1-5 here at all. That was where they discovered Mukuro's body and there wasn't really a murder. I can't even think of a stretch here for a comparison. I guess...that was the one where Junko tried to set up Kyoko right? This was kinda a set up too, I guess, only Nagito was more competent in his execution. And I think 1-5 gets the helper character of Alter Ego killed right? And the helpers of Monomi and Chiaki get killed here? Is...is that parallel? I don't even know. Like I said, I don't know if the earlier parallels were for story reasons or just for fun to wink at fans of the first game at this point, so I'm really just spitballing here.

It is too late and I'm too tired no so I guess I'll have to wait to tomorrow to try and finish things off. SAD.

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