Current Events > About to play Danganronpa for the first time.

(+) Yeah! (+)

First free time period, yay! I'll get some gifts before I decide who to spend time with.

I tried the sewer escape game again, hope that doesn't spend time since I got thrown back to my room afterwards. Everyone seems to be in the same places so I guess it doesn't.

Are the yellow dots on the Monokubs' mouth areas supposed to be pacifiers?

Also it sounds like Tsumugi might have a JustSubscribers page for her special request cosplay photo spreads.
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Alright, first murder happened. Game is underway. Going to bed though so won't investigate or have the trial till probably tomorrow.

Very surprised that the first victim was Amami dude. I thought the game was setting them up to be A Komaeda-style foil for me.

Not sure why the killer would elect a class trial rather than taking advantage of the freebie like mentioned. We gonna have another crazy person or another suicide situation?

I feel like the game room is gonna become the alibi keypoint. Like either only someone in the game room could be the killer, or everyone in the game room can't be the killer.

I am very suspicious of Schuichi. The balls in the warehouse, them knowing the tricks and kinks to the camera system, them running off on their own. Them acting kind of weird here on the last day. I feel like even if they weren't the blackened in this case, they'll end up being it in another one, in a sort of twist thing.

But yeah, I'm liking it a lot and excited about everything except the Monokubs. Very interested to see who is the actual mastermind this time. I'm assuming it won't be Junko again. That would kind of suck if it was.

Tenko might possibly be my least favourite character in the entire franchise, though Yasuhiro gives her a run for the money, and she might turn out better as we go along. She looks a lot like Harukawa. Are they supposed to be sisters?

I am very sad that unlike in the first and second game, the Japanese audio doesn't have a voice clip of Monokuma saying "The Monokuma Firuuuuuuu!". It was hilarious.

I'll also need to have another look at the skills list to see what to get before the trial. Damn some of the ones I liked before are reeeeeally expensive.

Can't wait to continue.
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I dont think anyone can outsuck Leon from the first game, personally. That dude is irredeemable bad in every way.
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Why does Iruma keep saying Kaede have small boobs when her tuchankas are obviously massive?
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Because she's a sadomasochist who gets off on insulting and being insulted by people, and is just kind of all around rude and insufferable. That's just how she do.
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Can anyone confirm whether you get skill purchases points any other way than through bonding? The skill I really want costs 16, but if I only get 4 or 5 points per chapter, I'd have to go another 2 chapters before getting another one. I'm contemplating just saving my points till after the trial to experience most of the new gameplay elements and make purchases based on which of those I want to improve my position on.

Not finished investigating yet. Game seems to be implicating Gonta dude pretty hard. I'd be sad if it was, I like that character a lot. I'm thinking that, if not what happened, then what the game is going to try to push as what happened, was that someone chucked the iron ball at Amami. Gonta was in a position to do so from the AV room with the sliding door open on the crack, they could get their arm through and throw directly into the library. It is also being implied that the balls were so heavy that really only Gonta could throw them. But also one the players might be small, but they're still the Ultimate Tennis Pro. So I dunno if it could be them.

I'm still kinda thinking it's Shuichi.

One thing I'm curious about is whether it's gonna be like DR1 or DR2. Meaning whether people actually die or it's in a computer simulation. I'm thinking like DR1.

Edit: Oh, Tsumugi is an alien, lol.
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Finished investigation, trial time!

My thinking right now is fairly unchanged. The game will either go the obvious way and have it be Gonta, or the still rather obvious, but more interesting way and have it be Shuichi. Or as history shows, more likely I'm just wrong.

I think if it turns out to be Gonta it will be something like, Amami engaged him in a plan to kill the mastermind or some such, and maybe Gonta wasn't able to see very well behind the door, and when Shuichi heard he beeper thing and rushed into the library, Gonta thought it was the mastermind and threw the iron ball, which then killed Amami. He was too sad and horrified to stand up and get the first blood perk from it, maybe.

I don't know how, but I feel those pictures of Shuichi disabling the cameras are gonna end up being crucial evidence. I really wish you could full screen picture Truth Bullets to analyse them in more detail.

Either way, I feel like I'm gonna lose a character I like here.
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This V-point thing is... awkward. Imma need to see the end of the trial how much it actually matters to give a shit about.

Visually so far the trials are the weakest they've been. The background looks ridiculously dark. The font in Nonstop debates is super boring and doesn't reflect the frantic nature of the discussion. The HUD border is really big and imposing on the visuals in a way I haven't felt before. I dunno my man :/

Also why is Kaede wearing her backpack during the trial? That's silly.

Just got done confirming Iruma's alibi, but it got me thinking. Maybe they weren't working on the real drone in the kitchen. Maybe it had already been activated and placed in the library, holding an iron ball it was programmed to release. Then there wouldn't be camera sensors aiming at the doors picking up its entry. Or possibly it was small enough (not really, but I could see the game logic pulling it) to go through that vent. Hmmm....

Mass Panic Debates are awkward for someone who likes listening to/reading the dialogue.
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Shuichi's silence right now is really annoying. I feel like it's related to the backstory they gave about how finding the culprit made them sad and shit and they doesn't want to do it again, which I guess I get, but it's not endearing right now. Which would mean that Shuichi has figured out who the culprit is. And it's Iruma. That's where I'm at right now.

I feel like this case has gone more out of its way to set up red herrings than any in the other two games. Like, they were present, like the wet suit in case 2 of DR2, but they were mostly just argumentative red herrings. Here there are literal pieces of evidence that exist only to guide me off track. I think that seems conceptually very cool.

The Lie Bullet mechanic fundamentally strikes me as bad. I don't see how I'm supposed to guess when I'm meant to lie unless the game literally nudge nudge wink wink's me every time. And just the idea that I'm meant to lie in the trials rather than seek the truth just seems wrong and completely arbitrary in a way that prevents brain-teasing the case out in your head.

Debate Scrums seem really fun.

That one facial expression of Kokichi's is terrifying.
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What THE FUCK IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.

You tricked me, game!
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DeadBankerDream posted...

Which would mean that Shuichi has figured out who the culprit is.

Lol yup.

And about lying, I think there was just 1 point in each trial where you have to lie to continue, and the character will tell you outright when that is. There are also optional lies in trials that you can do, called backdoor's, where all you get some silly lines of dialog and then the trial continues as normal. You know when you have an optional lie because the music is different. I never bothered with the mechanic.

DeadBankerDream posted...

Visually so far the trials are the weakest they've been.

I find it the best, but not because of the color pallet, but because of the animations. The text moves in much more creative and interesting ways and there's more effects to liven it up a bit.


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Finished chapter 1.

Wow.

I dunno what to say. I was completely fooled and floored. And gut-punched.

Attack Armament or whatever it was called was easily the best version of the Bullet Time Battle. Closing Argument is vastly inferior to DR2, probably even DR1.

I'm tempted to ask a lot of questions, but I'm afraid I'd invite spoilers unto myself so I won't, for now at least.

In closing,

Tenko and Kokichi should kill themselves.

Edit: Also, accroding to the results screen, before the trial I accidentally set the difficulty levels to normal instead of mean. And I was feeling so good about completing a Danganronpa trial without a gameover for the first time.
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Just to clarify an earlier post, this is the music that plays when you can/are expected to lie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfVf0RiJP2s

Basically just listen for a vocal track.
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Hmm, maybe it wont be that bad then.

Yo, those casino prizes look dice!

I'll probably have to wait till late game to unlock good ways to get coins, or spend forever on that salmon fishing game right now, though.

Would a pitchfork mob really chase someone down for being the "ultimate maid"?

I just love the animations of Monokuma jumping in from the side or falling from the top of the screen in this one.
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Oh noes, someone died. Again not who I was expecting. Yo, the whole later part of Daily Life of chapter 2 had the creepiest atmosphere.

So I'm guessing the trial is going to be all about solving the magic trick. Or at least uncovering how it was abused. I have no idea who it could be at present time, though the obvious suspects to me are Yonaga and Kaito.

Tenko crushing on Himiko is weird considering how much older she looks than Himiko. Damn, Yonaga got really scary in this chapter. I'm not sure if I can consider her best girl anymore.
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Starting the trial. I don't think I've ever been at a loss for ideas as I am here in regards to whodunnit. Even when I turn out to be horribly wrong, which is all the time lol, I at least have some theory-crafting in regards to who it might be.

The only real thing I see here is that Shuichi's flashforward comments about being betrayed really indicates that it was Kaito. I also have a small suspicion that it was Tojo, just because I find the curtain around the gym sus, but I really have no idea otherwise who it might be.

I'm also confused if I'm supposed to take the ridiculously cartoony stripped clean skeleton at face value or if Ryoma's body was somehow whisked away during the pirahna attack and they replaced it with a halloween store plastic skeleton.

Some things about the murder I think are true.

Something other than the pirahnas were in the pirahna cage. The logical conclusion is that it would be Ryoma's body, but I don't understand why they wouldn't have eaten him already then. I think he was drowned in the sink in his lab bathroom. In some way a hoist system was used between the bathroom and the gym hall, presumably to carry his body. The floatation thing in the pool might be relevant, but I'm not sure how or why it wasn't added to the truth bullets. Probably something to "discover" in a Hangman's gambit or something.


I feel like there might be a detail of the crime discovered at the trial that proves the culprit had to be someone not at the show.

Also, I'm kind of annoyed that the game is playing the "A magician never reveals their secrets" trope. It's a class trial with our lives on the line. Why the fuck do I have to waste time discovering how the show was performed when I could just be told?

Also, this is entirely unrelated, but I really fucking love Shinguji.

Edit: If it was the body in the fish tank, then the killer would have to be someone who was not in the entomologist room after 9pm. So, Kokichi, Tojo, Iruma, Kaito, Harukawa. One of those. I think I'm leaning that way.
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There is one trial in the first that is fucked up you can have the entire thing solved and you have to jump though the dumbest backwards logic to explain it to the rest of the cast to win it....like weird ass logic that doesnt even make sense in an ace atterony game. But otherwise it isnt too bad

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Well, as usual most of what I thought was wrong, lol. But at least the game addressed most of it.

So, if the revelation right before the intermission is true, and I assume it is cause the plot wouldn't move forward if not, then I think the culprit has to have been Yonaga. Because I could see someone setting up the situation with the fish tank in the gym hall despite not having knowledge of the setup if they're actually in the gym while doing it. But if the crime happened during nighttime, then the culprit must have been in the swimming pool area and hoisted the body through the window into the gymnasium. They'd have to know that there was a suitably fishtank right below it to plop it into. And they'd have to set up the partition in advance before nighttime. Unless it was all pure coincidence, which it obviously wasn't.

Or maybe I'm entirely wrong about the way the crime was committed again and none of that will be true.

Edit: Monosuke > Monodam > Monophanie > Monotaro. I hope Taro gets the axe during the execution. The rest are slightly tolerable. Phanie only because I find her vomit gimmick funny. Otherwise she's a crappy Monomi.
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I can't believe the game is literally telling me that the character named Tojo is the prime minister of Japan and they were going to "make the country great again."
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They added a skill I want to the Casino that costs 6600 coins. That's 30+ minutes of salmon fishing or 2 hours of attempting to get good results on the slot machine >.>
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For some reason Mokujin is in the game now.
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What the hell. I gave Tsumugi a gift she was literally salivating over and I still couldn't get an event scene with her. Can you just not do events with people in the Atua cult? She seemed her normal self.

Getting events is a lot harder in this one than the last two games. I also miss the sound effects for when a gift was super effective.
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This is my third favorite game series. I would recommend to always play on Mean difficulty...
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Also, am I the only one who cried during certain parts of this game?

Also, I keep getting confused. The last names of some characters I forget. But also, switching between first and last gets confusing. Haha.

Garioshi posted...

A gigantic improvement from the first game. In 1, I knew the killers for the first 3 cases (and figured out what happened in Case 5) before the trials even started.

Case 4 was the easiest for me. I figured out who did it and just looked for clues hoping for it to be someone else... I figured it out when they talked about the clock. I realized he shouldnt have heard it. And I was hoping that he was just going to the bathroom or something...

DeadBankerDream posted...

That's good. I hope that turns out to be the case. I just am not interested in watching anime to play a video game. Or any other form of complimentary video media.

The anime isnt necessary to play the game. Though, it is necessary to understand the full and complete the story. But that would be obvious, so...

DeadBankerDream posted...

Lol, game just told me to spend time with Gundham to get his personal skill.

Not gonna happen. Fuck Gundham.

Awww... Poor Gundham. Him and Chiaki were my favorites of DR2... I liked his skill, as well...

Kircheis posted...

Would it be gay if I admitted that I want Nekomaru to do "it" to me?

I want it, too... I saw him and Akane, and I could get down with that...

markconigliaro posted...

But a large part of that is because of his English voice acting

This reminds me of something. One guy was skipping a lot of dialogue in the game. So his fans contacted Gundhams English voice actor and got him to send a message to the guy to stop skipping the dialogue in Gundhams voice. It was kind of funny... He seems like a nice guy, though...

DeadBankerDream posted...

It sounds extremely weaksauce to me compared to the Japanese audio.

I liked the English audio. Especially when you hear the accent on Teruteru...

DeadBankerDream posted...

Also, SHUT THE FUCK UP OWARI.

I assume you are saying that because of the front tail thing. Though, that actually made me laugh...
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DeadBankerDream posted...

I still feel confused about Fatogami, though. Like I get he is the ultimate imposter. But is that of no further significance? Seems kind of needless as an addition if so. Might as well not have had him. The only thing his existence really does is make the rest of the group go "huh?" when they see SlimTogami in the old school files.

Also never found out who this Sato person is. Will that become a thing in DR3 or UDG?

A lot is explained in the anime. The anime deals a lot with these characters. And things are explained a little more...

DeadBankerDream posted...

The skill I really want costs 16, but if I only get 4 or 5 points per chapter, I'd have to go another 2 chapters before getting another one.

With V3, you can start chapters at free time events. So, you can always go back to previous chapters to get more shards without using much time. Its be a good idea to do so since you dont have to play the full chapter like before...

DeadBankerDream posted...

The Lie Bullet mechanic fundamentally strikes me as bad. I don't see how I'm supposed to guess when I'm meant to lie unless the game literally nudge nudge wink wink's me every time.

It does for the pint where you need to lie. But you can also lie at certain other parts to get alternate dialogue...

DeadBankerDream posted...

Debate Scrums seem really fun.

Probably my favorite mini-game...

markconigliaro posted...

You know when you have an optional lie because the music is different.

I never knew this. I just got lucky and found a few. I did have to look up a few of the others, though... I knew the sound for mandatory lies, though. Plus, the dialogue before...

markconigliaro posted...

The text moves in much more creative and interesting ways and there's more effects to liven it up a bit.

I agree!

DeadBankerDream posted...

Tenko crushing on Himiko is weird considering how much older she looks than Himiko.

AFAIK, they should be the same age...

Also, sorry for the multi post. I just found this topic, so I was playing some catch up...
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Waiting for TC's Trial 3 experience

Mainly because it was Wasted Potential

Still not at the part of chapter 3 where someone dies, though I assume it's gonna be today. I'm figuring it's either gonna be Yonaga or Tenko who die and it's gonna be like a fight between the student council and the others during the trial.

Also, I hung out with Iruma and she gave me porn of herself. Okay.

LinkPizza posted...

Also, I keep getting confused. The last names of some characters I forget. But also, switching between first and last gets confusing. Haha.

Sorry, some of the names are just really confusing to me to remember so I go by their last names instead. It also makes it more confusing that I'm playing with Japanese audio, so the text refers to the characters by their first names, but when the characters have voiced dialogue and they mention someone else, they use their last name.

LinkPizza posted...

The anime isnt necessary to play the game. Though, it is necessary to understand the full and complete the story. But that would be obvious, so...

I do plan to watch the anime, I just don't want to have to do it when I'm engaged in the game series. I'll probably put it on in between replaying the games, which I plan to do.

LinkPizza posted...

I liked the English audio. Especially when you hear the accent on Teruteru...

I don't mind the English audio track overall, I just find Monokuma and Usami in particular rather weak because they have this really unique voicing in the Japanese audio and in the English they just sound like sort of crazy and cutesy humans respectively.

LinkPizza posted...

I assume you are saying that because of the front tail thing. Though, that actually made me laugh...

I don't remember specifically what it was, but in the later half of the game Owari's lack of interest or ability to think a situation through at all and just wanting to punch someone or "get the vote over with" as soon as possible, stuff like that, it really pissed me off. And it just got worse and worse as the game went on.

I actually specifically remember not understanding the front tail thing, but I don't remember the specifics of it.

LinkPizza posted...

With V3, you can start chapters at free time events. So, you can always go back to previous chapters to get more shards without using much time. Its be a good idea to do so since you dont have to play the full chapter like before...

I'll probably just replay the whole games a couple of time and get the events that way. Except for DR3 where I don't wanna replay chapter 1 over and over and over to get all of Kaede's events. I'm assuming there's like an Island Mode both for her and Shuichi and I can get them that way, which I will. Or maybe she is gonna get brought back by this revival ritual thing. Who knows. No need to comment on this, and if you do, put it in spoiler tags plz. >_>

LinkPizza posted...

It does for the pint where you need to lie. But you can also lie at certain other parts to get alternate dialogue...

Yeah, according to the game I got one of those in the last trial. But I really don't like this mechanic. In fact I hate it so fucking much, from a narrative level, that it might solely be responsible for me thinking DR3 has the worst trials, but I'll have to get through the whole game before I know if its that bad.

LinkPizza posted...

AFAIK, they should be the same age...

I assume so. Like, I don't know specifically what the age ranges in Japanese high school is. I'd imagine in reality they are fairly close in age, but in design Himiko looks like a pre-pubescent child.

Lmao, Kaito calls Harukawa Maki Roll.
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OH, THEY DEAD!

I knew it!

It had to happen, really. This situation couldn't keep going on.

I really hope Monokuma gets back to normal soon.
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Oh shit, we going full Phoenix Wright spirit medium nonsense on this case. I feel like once we turn on the lights again after the seance we gonna have another dead person.

I see you, bloodstain!

Having various emotions right now. On the one, I'm somewhat annoyed at the predictability. I don't see why every single DR game needs a third case with two deaths. I sort of get it in DR2 cause it was playing up the DR1 similarity. But why continue that beyond that point? But also I'm kind of sad cause I was actually starting to like Tenko somewhat in this chapter.

Also, I feel like the game is following a trend of characters being unable to die unless their ultimate talent research lab is revealed, which is kind of annoyingly predictable. Obviously Amami is an exception, but that feels to be the case due to that being part of the game's mystery what he was all about.

They added "Keebo's Flashlight Function" to my truth bullets and I have no fucking clue how that could possibly be relevant. I'm feeling like either he or Imura was involved in this solely based on them adding that to my bullets.

Presumably all the rooms share a crawl space, so the killer snuck under the floor in one of the rooms and crawled to the seance room area and stabbed the victim from there through a crack in the floor space ala DR2 case 1. Meaning the people in the seance room have alibis. Or I'm totally wrong!

Shinguji comes off as extremely suspicious, but I feel like they aren't actually involved.
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Holy shit, FUCK YOU, KOKICHI!

Alright, trial about to begin. For the first death I have no fucking clue. I think that's intentional that the game focused much more on investigating the second one so all the details regarding the first can come out in the trial. I feel like the culprit is the same, but I dunno yhow it ties together. Maybe the kama was used to ply the backdoor lock into place after the killer exited. I feel like the kama might be the murder weapon in Yonaga's murder too, but I dunno. The katana seems very performative. Though the lock did have goldleaf on it, which indicates it was somehow the katana that was used. I also think the dried blood under the seance room floor boards might be Yonaga's somehow.


As for the second murder, all the evidence points to Shinguji, which as always makes me think it isn't them. Also they're acting incredibly strange and suspicious this whole case. And chapter, really. They were really insistent on the marker stone, so if it was somehow used to to locate while under the floorboards, that would indicate that it was him. Also I believe the opening to the crawlspace was in the corner he was standing in. But I didn't get to investigate the other empty rooms to see if those were used to get into the crawl space. So I will probably be relying on Kokichi's knowledge in the trial. If the dried blood isn't Yonaga's maybe it's Shinguji's and he has a wound hidden under his bandages. I dunno. Again, it seems too obvious. And yeah, I am still suspicious as fuck regarding Keebo's flashlight function and how it will be relevant. No clue, really. Very exciting.
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DeadBankerDream posted...

Holy shit, FUCK YOU, KOKICHI!

My boy gets a fucking concussion and instead of getting medical attention he takes the opportunity to troll Shuichi and Maki. Gotta appreciate his commitment at least lol.
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DeadBankerDream posted...

Am I going to be in these fruithouses all chapter? I don't think I can handle that.

Worst location of the series due to how it looks. The trial was good but I was glad to get out of that funhouse.

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Literally got a game over on the second non-stop debate of the trial. The fuck?

Hold the fuck on. The piece of evidence I was supposed to present to the statement that Shinguji broke into Yonaga's lab was not one of the literally 3 possible ones that proved the lab wasn't broken into, it was the one that state that Yonaga wouldn't have willingly opened the door for him?

Okay game.
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A good ways into the trial and I still have no real idea of anything. Currently discussing if Tenko's death was suicide, which obviously it wasn't. I'm leaning more and more towards it actually being Shinguji who dun it, but I still think that would be too obvious.

I'm really starting to dislike Psyche Taxi. It takes so long, it's so boring and it's incredibly immersion breaking. Mind Excavation or whatever it was called is also annoying. It's not bad or immersion breaking like such, but it's probably the most nothing minigame in the trials since DR1 Hangman's Gambit. Possibly even more so. It feels like a complete waste of time.

What the hell are the blood marks on Yonaga's portrait supposed to be? First time it's been anything but an X.

Also, holy shit, Iruma actually got called a cum dumpster.
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At the intermission now and the evidence is hugely mounting that it was Shinguji who did it. Kokichi's account of falling through the floor boards of another room proves that the killer took the precaution of setting the trap in every room and then, as Shinguji did, let someone else pick the specific one so that they look like they picked the specific one that was trap sprung. I can't see how it could be anyone else right now, but that's so boring if so.

Not sure why they would kill Tenko, or I suppose anyone who volunteered to be the Maya. Was it just to make people waste time argue over the second murder so time is up on the first? That's dumb. It's obvious the killer is the same, there's be no reason to set a trap in the empty rooms if there was no first murder to conduct a seance for. I'm not even sure what his motivation would be. Just wanting to use his beloved dog cage thing? Something regarding the resurrection ritual that he wanted to stop, or maybe he wanted to bring someone other than Amami back? But who and why? My head is hurting thinking about what it might be.
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IT'S A LIE! is probably my favorite non-trial moment in the series, hilarious.

And I can't wait until you get the answers to all your motive related questions, it's very....interesting? There's a reason why this case is very divisive.

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Had to take a break again. Back at it. I seem to be on a lying section of the trial and am confused as to what to do. But I'll get it after 4 game overs or so.

I forget, can you use lie bullets to agree, or only disagree?
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What the fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuudge.
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Completed the trial.

This is...

Wow.

I kind of hate it.

Like, it's kind of like Tsumiki in DR2 where the killing is cause they're actually a fucking nutter (actually, this whole case is very much like that case), that is done so in futherance of the plot and reveals, or at least hints at the secret that restoring their lost memory will bring to light. This is just... hey i'm a crazy serial killer person also weird brain-incest!

I'm getting nothing out of this other than that the character, that I loved, was a waste of time. Like, I'm annoyed that Yonaga and Tenko died in the furtherance of this nonsense.

And worst of all, it's boring. You can have a case where the culprit is this obvious if you do something good with that to turn it upside down where it isn't really about the literal killing but another more interesting background mystery. See DR2 case 5. Nothing like that came from this.

Edit: NOOOOOO, Monodam! You were the one I didn't hate!
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One thing people often miss about lie bullets is when you hold the button, the truth bullet text changes to the lie text, so you'll know exactly what your lying about. I've seen some LPs where they try and mentally reverse the truth bullets statement and guess what the lie is, but you don't have to do all that work, it's right there.

As for case 3, I personally liked the murder mystery and didn't find it obvious. The main problem is the wasted potential. 2 ways, first bringing someone back from the dead is wasted. Second, and the biggest wasted potential in the whole series in my opinion, if someone else killed Angie. Monokuma introduced a rule where only the first kill counts, so that opened the door to the possibility of continuing the game with an actual blackened in the group. But they didn't do anything with that rule and just made Kiyo do both murders.

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The game tried so hard to not make him seem guilty, when damn near the whole area was set for him and his talent.

If that new rule was implemented, it could have made that case and the rest much more interesting.

I also do not like case 4

PowerOats posted...

I also do not like case 4

how could you not? The voice acting in it is phenomenal

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Oh my god, the game literally references the South Park fish sticks joke.

Also I'm feeling very much like Keebo is gonna be involved in whatever murder happens this chapter.

I'm missing Himiko's "nyeeeeh" from when she was depressed/sleepy
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Oh my god, the payout from normal difficulty salmon fishing is HNNNNNNNNNNNNGH!
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Monokuma woke me up in the middle of the night and told me how to play a sex minigame. Is there good gameplay prizes for this. Cause otherwise I'd rather... not.

Also, I've noticed that they completed renovations of an area of the school that you can see down on from the second floor, but I can't seem to go there. What up? Some story stuff or some secret stuff?

And also, why are nobodying getting that fucking cardkey back from Kokichi? It's obviously for the hidden door in the library.

Edit: At least Kaito punched him.

Though I fear that might be the catalyst for the upcoming murder case >_>
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I'm really enjoying these late night training sessions. It is really strong character expressions from those involved.

I think in general I am liking all the remaining characters quite a bit aside from Kokichi and Keebo. Himiko is probably the weakest of them, and Iruma is kind of annoying when it gets too much, but she's below that line most of the time and can be quite funny. I love Kaito, Gonta and Harukawa.

Also, I feel like Kaito might end up killed, but I question if they'd actually do that since their lab hasn't been revealed.
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Looks like I'm going full Danganronpa 2 up in here.

Oh it looks like a pokemon game.
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I'm having a hard time forcing myself through this VR section. Is it the whole chapter?

I'm curious if the murder in the chapter is gonna be Matrix-style where if you die in the virtual world you die outside it. If so, you could probably smack someone dead over the head with the sign board. But maybe it's gonna be that someone stabs someone to death in the chair, while everyone is in the virtual world and I have to figure it out by investigating both worlds.
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Oh noes, the annoying filth mongerer who was probably a virgin is dead. I liked her, but I can't see I'm too broken up about having to experience the rest of the game without her having a gross comment for everything and being entirely worthless in invesgations and trials. She was acting really stupid and weird about this whole VR thing and I really wanna get to the bottom of that. Main suspect is obviously gonna be Kaito, but naw dawg. Kokichi is also too obvious. Maybe Keebo. Or maybe it's our obligatory suicide episode.

Edit: Or maybe it is Kokichi. I could see this being interesting with an obvious culprit if we get some answers to stuff.

Edit: Oh was Iruma trying to kill someone? Was that the point of taking them all into the virtual world?
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Starting the trial. Feeling ambivalent about this chapter. On the one hand, the virtual world stuff was a complete momentum killer. Twilight Syndrome was kind of the same for me in DR2, but much less so. Even if overall you didn't spend that much time exploring the that world, I just didn't wanna play it.

On the other hand, I'm finding the mystery of the case of two worlds really exciting. I didn't even mind investigating in there.

I actually have some ideas this time. The obvious suspect is clearly Kokichi. But I feel like it isn't him and his account of the roof being locked is gonna end up being key. Seems pretty clear that Iruma's intent with modifying and inviting everyone into the virtual world was to murder Kokichi. The border she set up in the world I assume is that the world actually wraps around itself and she was the only one who could pass between the edge. Well, her and items like the sign board. She probably got thrown off the roof and into the chapel wall, Though I'm not sure that's what killed her. I'm not sure if any death in the virtual world could have caused her real-world expression except maybe drowning. I don't remember what was taken from the roof shed. Maybe the washing board or whatever it was that was found next to her. I feel like... it might be Tsumugi. If only Iruma could pass through the border and she died on the side with the Mansion, as I suspect, then it has to be someone on the mansion side, which would be me, Tsumugi, Kaito, Kokichi and Gonta. The record proves Kaito didn't do it. Gonta couldn't do it cause he's Gonta and I will hate the game forever if it makes him a murderer. I just don't think it's Kokichi. Tsumugi could have been on the roof while I was looking in the kitchen. I never went back to the dinning hall to check on her. Though why would she say she saw Iruma if she was the one who did it? So maybe it is Kokichi? One of those two and I'm leaning heavily on Tsumugi.


I'm really missing Iruma's foul mouth already :(

Also, this whole Monotaro death flag is a red herring and Monophanie is gonna die and I'm gonna be stuck with Monotaro for chapter 5. Ugh.

Edit: OH MY GOD, I JUST REALIZED. Iruma isn't dead. She uploaded herself into another person by switching the connective wires around.

Edit: Okay I went through all my evidence again before the trial started after my realization. Yes. It has to be it. The "avatar user error" mentioned meant that on first log in some people got their avatar switching around. Someone got switched with Iruma. She is in someone else's body right now. But I don't know who. Possibly Kokichi. Maki was also acting strange but I can't remember if that was a pre-VR thing as well. Forget everything I said. I'm back to having no idea who it is (but in a different sense).
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