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Inviso posted...

Well it's part of the problem with DR2's entire premise. Because it's all secretly a virtual reality program, you have a whole bunch of utter nonsense and contrivances thrown together that really don't work. 2-2, let's throw in a video game (adding an asinine mystery on top of the real murder) that only applies to like, three people (two of whom are dead by the end of the chapter). 2-3, let's give half the cast a nonsense disease to make people act out of character. 2-4, let's have the entire chapter in a single, baffling location that wouldn't work outside of a virtual reality program (oh, and duh, the victim was a robot, because of course he was). And then 2-6 is just the culmination of all that, with a bunch of wackiness being flung at the walls.

2-1 works because it feels like a real, genuine case. And 2-5 works because it's the culmination of five very fucking long chapters of the Nagito Show, and it doesn't have any special gimmicks about it. Hence why those are the only chapters I outright like.

I agree with you on the motive for 2-3. And the starvation motive in 2-4 sucks for the same reason. Monokuma basically forced a murder to happen both times. It didn't happen naturally because of the murderer's tragic flaw, it was basically self-defense.

But strawberry and grape house are fine. The geometry is intentionally obscured but the building does have a specific blueprint. It's no more crazy than The Tragedy from the first game. And it still manages to be a pretty good character motive for Gundham.

But I generally agree with you that the only trials I don't have a major problem with are 1, 2, and 5. And that I don't really like 2 very much despite its lack of flaws. But I do like 4 despite not liking the motive.

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