Board 8 > Best of the Collection: Danganronpa Decadence Collector's Edition

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V3 easy.

I used to think 2 was neck and neck but on replays it's clear.

I'm kinda surprised Danganronpa isn't getting votes here on Board 8.

I'm surprised that THH has any votes

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I'm surprised that V3 is winning

Must be all those anti-Nagito people

2>1>V3
Don't give a shit about the school mode thing

2 >>> 1 > V3

V3 > 2 > 1 > S

1 > 2 > 3

Remember the old days before 2 came out when everyone loved DR1?

2>1>>>>>>>V3 for me, but they all share the exact same bad traits and I dont think Id say I liked any of them much overall.

MacArrowny posted...

Remember the old days before 2 came out when everyone loved DR1?

Dark times.

2 and V3 both oh so very good
1 oh so very bad
S oh so very disappointing and predatory

Is S notably different from the V3 mini game?

The only thing I cared about there was the cross series interactions.

KCF0107 posted...

I'm surprised that THH has any votes

OK so THH is the only one I've played (played it last year) and i really enjoyed it. I will be moving onto the others soon.

Do you say this because it is seen as a bad game or are the other two just better than it?

It's only notably different in that progression is SUUUUUPER slowed down and locked behind gacha items. Every character now also has stat buffs that you can get as cards, on top of the different rarities that you needed, like in V3. So you still need to get the R, S, and U versions of them like before, but if you don't have those stat boosts, you're not gonna be able to power through more than about half the turn-based battle part of the game.

In fact, there's a specific upgrade that will break your stat cap from 255 to 999 that is just as rare as getting a U card, that every U is basically only as good as an S without. How rare is that? A whopping 0.2% on the only grindable currency.

So in order to make an endgame team, you need, AT MINIMUM, four characters where you have both their U card, and their attribute cap break, at 0.2% apiece. And there are 62 characters in the game. Ideally, you'd want 4 of a certain type that specialize in healing/buffing, preventing damage, dealing magic damage, and dealing physical damage. But good fucking luck with getting that. So the game lets you straight-up buy upgrades. From the eShop. For money.

I booted up my game to check, and I have 45 hours played with 13 U cards and 7 stat cap breaks unlocked, and only one of them match. The content itself is... fine, I guess, though a bit fanservice-y, but you can tell there was very little effort put into it. No new voice acting, no more dungeon crawling (it's all just set battles one after the other). It's just really aggravating how much I hate about it.

Cavedweller2000 posted...

Do you say this because it is seen as a bad game or are the other two just better than it?

DR1 is still good, it's definitely a comparative issue.

Even when I'm feeling the absolute most animosity towards DR1 I can, and am actively shitting on it, I'm feeling 7/10 at bare minimum.

MrSmartGuy posted...

Tons of stuff

Thank you for that breakdown.

My takeaway is that this is the Danganronpa franchise's Metal Gear Survive.

I think it's a 4/10 at absolute maximum.