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CASE RANKING
#10: Case 1-3
Strengths: Celestes turn at the end is pretty cool, Hifumi dies
Weaknesses: Everything is extremely obvious and drawn out, it makes Celeste look like an idiot
The One Sentence Summary: The case where a robot sadly does not commit murder.

Case 2-2 was the case in the second game where I wound up having a mild panic attack about the quality of the game. Everything was going fine through the first case, and then I hit the second case and I was like oh no is this game dumb? It was this huge drop down in quality and huge chunks of it were either boring and straight up stupid, and my excitement definitely dipped while playing it. The exact same thing happened, albeit to a lesser extent in case 1-3. My problems with 1-3 are markedly different than the issues I was having with 2-2, but I still kinda link these two together because they represented the uh oh point for me in the game. The case that hits and immediately lowers your overall opinion of the title because you can more clearly see the shortcomings of the formula when the case really struggles. Id assume this is most peoples least favorite case in the first game, as I think more people might be more forgiving of 1-5 than I was. There are a lot of issues with 1-3, both from a story and a gameplay perspective, but honestly the biggest problem with this case is the fact that it is really quite boring.

There are a lot of reasons that 1-3 is boring, but I think most of them stemmed from the fact that this was also the case I figured out the earliest. There is a case in this same game where the murderer's name is written in the victims blood and it isnt a red herring. This case was easier for me to figure out than that one, which should tell you a bit about how dumb the overall murder plot is. I figured out who did this one before we found the body. As soon as Celeste was like this WEIRD man came out of nowhere and here is a picture of him I was already trying to figure out what Celestes execution was going to look like. I did not know who was murdered, but I was 99% sure who did the murdering. There isnt a single person in either game that acts more suspiciously than Celeste did in that initial scene, and I feel like I should remind everyone there is a case I already ranked where the murderer wants people to think they were the murderer. If I was trying to write a comedy scene where a very obvious murderer was trying to incompetently convince people they didnt commit a murder, Im not sure I wouldve been so on the nose as Celeste was here.

Likethe first piece of evidence we get is Celeste going oof ouch ow the STRANGE man got me with the justice hammer oof ouch and then he kidnapped Hifumi ouch ouch oh hey guys look I got a picture. Likeno, fuck you, Im not falling for this you idiot. You expect me to believe you got beaten by some Transformer that made their way into the school and you were knocked unconscious but you snapped to just to take a quick picture? Like her order of events is: 1) she is attacked by a robot, 2) she gets knocked unconscious, 3) she wakes up and begs the robot to spare her life, 4) she waits for Hifumi to walk into the room and get grabbed by the robot so she can take a picture. The plot she is trying to get people to believe is so monumentally unbelievable that it is instantly obvious she is lying. That right there is all the evidence you need to convict Celeste. The trial shouldve been Monokuma going now you have to decide whodunit and then everyone bursting out in uproarious laughter as they point at Celeste and go remember when she showed us that picture she took? She is freaking out at the end like HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN THE PICTURE THEN MORONS? and even the dumb characters are like you just staged it. The picture might as well been a crayon drawing she made for all the good it winds up doing her.

Then Celeste spends the next twenty minutes leading everyone around and proclaiming she is seeing shadows no one else can see to get them to run where she wants. It is like you are chasing an imaginary monster at this point and just pretending with the four-year-old youre playing with that yes you totally see it too so they dont feel dumb. Her argument is that Hiro is running around in an enormous robot costume, between three floors, killing multiple people, launching four separate attacks, and literally no one else sees him the entire time. I know this is a game and there is absolutely some silliness and weirdness allowed in the Danganronpa universe, but this is a level of nonsense I just cant overlook. Like I will buy into rules specific to your universe because I need to for the plot to go forward. That sort of stuff Im willing to overlook. I have a harder time swallowing gaps in logic like the fact nobody in this group is like hey isnt weird we didnt see a giant robot with low maneuverability wandering around when Celeste said he was? It is a plot that should be discredited in mere seconds because of how dumb the whole thing is.

It is weird because before this case it seems like Celeste is smart, but all the evidence here is so stupid and so obvious it is kind of shocking she went along with this. It is so utterly bizarre she thought we were going to buy Hiro in a giant robot costume as the killer here. Like he is found passed out at the pool with a robot suit that doesnt bend or move and comes with a latch in the back that makes it impossible to take off. LikeCeleste isnt supposed to be an idiot. This is so dumb that if you pitched it to Hiro, he wouldve been like hey I have some concerns about our plan here guys I don't think you thought this all the way through. Youre trying to convince people that the culprit was a person running around in a robot costume but then you design the costume in such a way that it makes it physically impossible for the person inside of it to have done it. I know Celeste tries to blame Hifumi for this, but lady this is your plan and your life on the line here. Once Hifumi starts pitching enormous robot that the person has to live in for the rest of their lives or have someone else help them out, just punch him in the face and tell him you were joking about murdering anyone.

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