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#28 - Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair (Vita, 2014)

Been 72 titles since I ranked Danganronpa 1 at #100. This game pretty much takes the original game and improves every aspect of it, from the investigation, the trials, the characters, and the overall story. The game is great to play all the way through, and even though I had already the answers to the first three cases from orenronen's LP topic in the Something Awful forums I breezed through those to get to the latter half of the cases, which are some of the best in the series. 2-5 is probably the best case in the series period, the whole set-up and conclusion is great. The ending in 2-6 is merely ok, and I wasn't too impressed with it overall especially given the past cases being too good.

There's a lot of dumb stuff embedded in the platinum trophy though, but I won't hold that against how excellent this game is.

Cases: 2-5 > 2-4 > 2-2 > 2-6 > 2-3 > 2-1

#27 - AI: The Somnium Files (PS4, 2019)

A-set, you bet!

The most recent game on the list, as I excluded all 2020 games from this. AI's true strength lies in its story and characters and not really much in its trial and error puzzle gameplay, but even that has its moments with all the funny dialogue you can get with Aiba doing stupid stuff in Somniums. For once in a Kotaro Uchikoshi title I didn't go straight for the true route and hit a lock in the flowchart again preventing me from going forward (though I did hit a lock somewhere else), which was great for a first run through.

I'd link the Invincible Rainbow Arrow dance but it's full of spoilers and this game is best left unspoiled with all the plot twists fitting a script by Kotaro Uchikoshi. If you've liked any of his other games, this is definitely a game you shouldn't miss.

#26 - Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony (Vita, 2017)

Three puzzle visual novels in a row? Sure, why not. V3 is the first Danganronpa visual novel I got to play completely unspoiled and I think that's a big factor on how it managed to be ahead of the other games in the series. This game is very divisive in the fanbase mainly because of how the game ends - I think the ending works fine, though I'm not sure where they can go from here if they continue the series.

This game though has a lot of extra content after beating the game, culminating into a board-game dungeon crawler hybrid where you level up characters from all games in the series using a board game, then have them fight through a 100-floor dungeon crawler. Like many dungeon crawler games I really enjoyed this extra bit, despite how repetitive the board game got.

Cases: 3-4 > 3-1 > 3-6 > 3-5 > 3-2 > 3-3

Not much in these three writeups as they are all visual novels that are best left unspoiled to be enjoyed to the fullest. Maybe next batch!

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