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D'awww, Gust finally mustered enough courage to settle for a non golden happy ending in Nights of Azure 2.
The first game had like 4 bad ends that were neutralized by the 1 true golden happy end, but this time around you either get the normal tragic end or the true romantic bittersweetness end and they both gave me some pretty feels.
Ultimate spoilers
SpoilerYou either beat the big baddie and as a result become the big baddie yourself and subsequently slain by your best friend,
-> It's a lovely ending because throughout the game as Aluche is slowly becoming a full demon she always begs Ruenheid to be the one who will cut her down so it's nice to see it actually play out in full. I say this because the first game also brings into question the whole human, half-demon, full demon morality compass with Arnice but never really committed to showing the consequences of going full demon.Or you and your lover who can stop time make the ultimate sacrifice and trap yourselves along with the big baddie in eternal stasis, thus saving the world
-> Wonderful, wonderful wonderful romantic tragedy because of several revelations that are made at the same time: when Aluche dies against the Moon Queen in the prologue, the Eternal Night was actually supposed to engulf the world at this point but it was Liliana who slowed down time which then gave Aluche the entire game with its lovely time limits to eventually make her way back to the Moon Queen for round 2In addition, the 'Liliana' Aluche spends the majority of the game with was just a manifestation of the real Liliana's subconscious, who desired to spend her last moments with Aluche before her powers gave in and the slowed down Eternal Night is fully unleashed
And by the time Aluche finally does reach the Moon Queen and its revealed that Liliana was just standing there slowing down time the whole time, Aluche decides to join her, saying,"It's my turn to slow down time" and a lot of mushy 'we'll be together forever' stuff and with the power of love the two are strong enough to instead lock the Moon Queen and themselves in eternal stasis, forever prolonging the rise of the Eternal Night.
Oh, and they don't even say anything to third wheel best friend Ruenheid before disappearing forever, just a quick glance of 'this is the only way / this has to be done' acknowledgement and then poof.
Fking romantic, man.
Aight, i gotta get back to the damned Atelier games, i think once i finish Meruru i'ma skip the Dusk trilogy for now and jump into the Mysterious series cuz Sophie's cute and I've only been hearing good things about Firis
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Almost towards the end of Nights of Azure 2
It's still a pretty mediocre action jrpg at the end of the day, but the one thing it has over the first game is having an actual band of female characters instead of being limited to just the Arnice + Lilysse duo
So you can have some decent (yuri) interaction moments like this rofl
That's gotta be the best comedic usage of the whole music-cutting-out shenanigans ive seen in a while xD
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5 hours ago, Huang Ling Yin said:
for what kind of people is this?
https://vndb.org/g178Its for twisted, evil people with sick minds
I never really got the tentacle hype, think its pretty gross actually. The whole avoid censorship origin though sounds pretty cool
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Yeah, OoT is something i probably wouldn't enjoy if i played it now..but the nostalgia is real.
...wait, some of you guys consider it hard? whatta buncha plebs
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I randomly managed to plow through Nights of Azure. It's a 6 or 7/10 Gust JRPG, basically consists of 40% supernatural demon stuff and 60% yuri between the protagonist Arnice, a half-demon Holy Knight of the organization Curia, and Lilysse, a Saint from the same organization and her best friend.Basic world lore is that XXXX years ago or so the First Saint defeated the evil Nightlord who threatened to shrowd the entire world in Eternal Night, but a consequence was that the sealing blow caused the Nightlord's Blue Blood to shower the earth corrupting everyone and everything it touched. The organization Curia was established to maintain the Nightlord's seal, and every 10 years a Saint is sacrificed in order to do so. Holy Knights are formed to protect these Saints and also combat Fiends, people who have turned into monsters from being exposed to Blue Blood.
Arnice is the first ever purple blooded half-demon, a result of her original red human blood being exposed to the blue demon blood. Yada yada yada, Lilysse is chosen by Curia to become the next Saint to be sacrificed with Arnice as her Holy Knight, and the duo spend the entire game quipping back and forth how Lily shouldn't sacrifice herself, how Arnice will protect her no matter what, and overall affirming their love for each other
The gameworld is pretty lifeless, there's literally only three other male NPCs to interact with at the one hotel you stay in the entire game (and the familiars you unlock i guess); the rest of the world map is reserved for monsters and hack n' slashing.
Gameplay is OK, this was one of Gust's early attempts at Action Rpgs or so and it shows. Arnice is limited to running around hack n' slashing with a sword and fixed combos, no spells, and can't even jump around, but you eventually unlock daggers, crossbow, and a 2h hammer so you can mix n' match the slice and dicing. You can also collect and summon up to 4 familiars to assist you in combat, there's a variety of them ranging from melee dps to tanks to healers but I find that the first 4 they give you at the start of the game are the best >.>. Quests and overall main plot progression are limited to "Go to X, talk to Y, defeat Z, proceed"...
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Nights of Azure 2 on the other hand is looking like an 8/10 just from first impressions. Overall story is same premise, 'cept we have Holy Knight Aluche and Saint Liliana this time around set some time after the events of the 1st game, so an indirect sequel. I'm only at the beginning, but wow jumping from PS3 to PS4 graphics is very nice, the character models' eyes more lively, movement and expression animations more fluid, etc, #graphicsmatter. They also made better effort in establishing the main yuri duo Aluche's and Liliana's relationship this time; Arnice x Lilysse was kind of shoved down your throat at the start and didn't feel as natural. Gameplaywise the hack n' slashing is overall same if not more polished, but the cooler thing is you can have an actual partner with you instead of just familiars and can perform some pretty flashy combos with them now. -
6 hours ago, Kabu said:
No, I'm pretty sure that you're remembering something wrong or simply weren't paying attention. Kyosuke wanted Riki and Rin to grow stronger and to get past the tragedy, he didn't care how. And of course Riki would have became strong enough to conquer his narcolepsy. Throughout all of the loops we personally witnessed him growing stronger and more resilient, more willing to stand on his own even if it meant defying his hero.
Either way, I can't help but fully disagree about the ending being a copout with all of the buildup leading up to it and one other thing. Personally I wouldn't have enjoyed the story nearly as much if not for the happy ending, if Riki had just run away with Rin and tried to ignore his friends' passings. THAT would have been the ultimate cop out and would have gone against everything that the story had been building up to until that point.
my point is i wouldn't consider it a copout if Riki attempted to save the crew 1st time and made it. the cop out happens when he chooses to run away with Rin, regrets it in that lovely Riki x Rin hospital CG, and then Key Magicks his narcolepsy away to attempt and save the crew the 2nd time
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My thoughts went from greatest tragedy of all time pre-magical-narcolepsy-conquering into worst cop out of all time post-magical-narcolepsy-conquering.
Srsly, just Riki and Rin surviving out of the entire LB! crew fit the ongoing thematics so well with all that world looping to develop the two to become strong & independent but nope, we gotta haves the happy endings, Riki magically became strong enough to override his narcolepsy and save crew yeee /endrant
It's a cop out because you are told plenty of times by Kyousuke that Riki should just gtfo out with Rin because he will fail if he tries to save the crew from the 'splody bus, and actually you will get a bad ending if you try to play hero and save the crew the 1st time you encounter the bus scene. For me that whole scene would've been handled better if it was just black and white. No magical narcolepsy conquering. Riki either, in the heat of the moment with all of his development from all the world looping, mans up and chooses to save everybody or he obeys orders and runs away with Rin like a good little soldier.
As for more epilogue, yeah it's an ongoing issue i have with VNs as well. Epilogues need to be longer, we spend hours, days on VNs and when you finally reach the end you can get slapped with only 5 minutes of wrap up, it's like the writers ran out of gas and just said fk it, main stories' done, pce out. ///////////endrant
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6 hours ago, Fred the Barber said:
I finally finished Tales of Zestiria, after starting it probably six months ago. One brief spoilerish thought on the story overall:
I get that Mikleo and Sorey are basically the "couple" in this game. There's no romance going on in the main party at all, so the bromance there is basically all you've got. Thus, the final moment in the ending where they're reunited is clearly supposed to be the sweet part of the bittersweet ending. However, the Sorey and Mikleo thing never really felt all that strong to me. This is, most likely, my problem: I bond way more strongly with female characters than with male characters, generally, and Rose in particular holds a special place in my heart, but got pretty screwed by the game in general, including but not limited to the ending. At any rate, regardless of the reason, the end result was that Zestiria's ending was way more bitter than sweet for me, and felt like one heck of a downer. I actually even felt more positive about Xillia 2's super bittersweet pair of "good" and "true" endings than I feel about Zestiria's ending.
That complaining aside, I enjoyed it well enough. As I've once seen a Tales game rated before, I would rate this one: a Tales game out of ten. They're pretty much never my favorite, but they are pleasant. Also, the translation was bananas good, so that was nice.
After I finished (that was a few days ago), the very next day I picked up Berseria, though I've hardly gotten anywhere with it (at least my main character got her proper "clothes", I guess, but I still don't have a party, for instance). I'm pretty stoked for Berseria, overall: badass female leads are my jam, and by all accounts, it's the best Tales game in a long time. Who knows, maybe this will be the Tales game that finally blows me away the way Vesperia did, a long time ago.
I have both Zestiria and Berseria collecting dust on my shelf, should probably get around to playing them sometime... In general I've never played a Tales game so i have no idea what they're about.
Still gotta get through all them Ateliers though
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Sunshine S2 ep 5 felt pretty bland. Maybe i just enjoyed Ep 4 way more than I should've because #DiaBias but the interactions and overall plot between Yoshiko and Riko and the doggies just didn't feel impactful, nor was it interesting
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Looks like we ded, but here's some SIF shenanigans over the past couple weeks for me:Angel Charm cursed:
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PLEASE just give me some Princess and Empress Charms goddammit ;-;. Also some Cool Veils too, wtf is that 1:14 Veil:Aura ratio ._.Score Match BM:
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NICE FULL COMBOOOO!!! works both ways. BM'ing is fun. I'm a bad person ;-;
And most importantly, with Circus Kanan out (finally), I've done completed my Aqours Smile team
. Too bad it's loaded with 4 PLockers, damn KLAB is powercreeping them Aqours URs...
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Sunshine S2 ep 4
Dia trying to break the -san barrier was awesome. Jeez she was already one of my S tier favorites but now it's more like SSS tier
. I'm glad they concluded with her ultimately just being herself and sticking to the formal -san usage, that's special in its own right. Bonus points though for the last minute consolation prize group "Dia-chan!"
As for SIF, some of you might have saw my epic fail trying to get Beach Chika... landed tails 3x in a row rip. I have like 9 UR stickers stockpiled up now so I'm probably just gonna wait 500 years for Aqours to have their URs be in the shop so I can finally nab the last couple of URs needed to complete the Tricolor all member dream team..
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Yeah Clephy or any other trusted still-lingering-the-forums peep can probably just ask Tazer for the policing skills, cuz yeah the current policers were all assassin'd. I don't think i've seen a Blue down there for Gold knows how long, then again even i only come on like once a day late at PST night after finishing combo work-skoo so
21 hours ago, Nosebleed said:Ded
WTF
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SunshineS2 Ep 2
Mari just might become my favorite at this rate
Shining Tornado!@#@$%
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Been months since i laughed on Fuwanovel, ty
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Ohhh, Fuwachat died? Nice badge you got there, Kuu
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u want the fantasy magics Holy Grail War u go fate
u want the not normal high skoo with only 6 students (5 being grills) u go grisaia
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Kurisu
and Kurisu
Maho was cool, but Kurisu
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Yes, i tend to completionist-try-to-see-all-possible-outcomes/dialogue and so when the VN is littered with choices i get shrekt'd
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Hory shi the 2nd season of Sunshine's already here, I'm 100% chance u's can cameo this time around since All Stars already broke the ice,
The current conflict with the skoos and open house are whatevers, hurry up and give me more background info on Aqours! Yoshiko looks just like her mum, right down to the hair bun ermgergawds x3
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6 hours ago, Akshay said:
Gank, First Blood...
For some reason your word choices make me think you play DOTA
Hehe, nope :<
Gank, at least for me, came from Supernatural, some Ch.5 'murican TV show on the CW from a character named Dean whenever he speaks of killing something
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And they literally call it First Blood in the VN
But yeah, ppl say i tend to speak funnies 'round these parts
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Hi I'm dead, I'm alive, welcome
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Finished Danganronpa V3
I have no screenshots for my upcoming walloftext because they decided to gg console peeps and block screenshot abilities from Ch 2 onwards for both PS4 & Vita versions apparently because they wanted to limit spoilers or something #ShouldveJustGonePCMasterRace
First let me load up some Mass Panice Debate craziness and some Debate Scrum coolness and Closing Argument thinkingness and finally New World Order v3 epicness as I type this because i fking love all of these BGMs:SpoilerIndividual Chapter Thoughts (ULTIMATE SPOILERS INCOMING!!)
SpoilerCh 1 - Y'know, technically I should've seen what was coming from a mile away... Shuichi and Kaede were just moving waaay too quickly it should've been an obvious death flag like it was with Makoto x Sayaka. But I guess since they teased us with Kaede being the 'protagonist' she automatically was given plot armor in my book.
Anyways I LOVED the twist with Kaede being the murderer, you basically got to see the murder-in-the-makings but just not realize it with Kaede spending all that time stacking those books in the library and then randomly inspecting things in the storage and finding the shot ball while waiting for Shuichi to fetch the cameras... For the actual trial though I was too stupid and so when it was time for the revelation with the whole camera-having-Flash bit I actually accused like 6 other people before finally going OHHH its her >.> #seasonedDRplayer
Again, this was one of the best DR trials for me, but shortly after i was hit with a nasty bout of despair and salt since it meant another great character (Kaede) was thrown out at the very start (and i was looking forward to playing as her for the entire game, goddammit ._.). Damned Decoy Protagonists. False advertising!!! From then on anytime before a Class Trial where they showed all the character CGs with Kaede's redded out I would always feel a bit sad ;-;
Out of the three Danganronpas, I'd rank her death as the 2nd most tragic 'poster' heroine deaths, with the 1st being Chiaki (since she's the only DR2 member who actually doesn't live) and 3rd being Sayaka. The writers messed up with Makoto x Sayaka so her death didn't really feel as impactful as much as Shuichi x Kaede
Misc Comments:
- WHYYYY KAEDE DIE ;-; I WANTED TO PLAY AS A FEMALE FOR ONCE, DAMMIT SHUICHI WHO ARE YOU ULTIMATE DETECTIVE WANNABE YOU AIN'T GOT NOTHING ON KYOKO
- Maki and Kirumi are my first impression favorites. Red+Black Kuudere and Ultimate Maid pls
- Monokubs are pretty annoying, it's like they merged the brats from Ultra Despair Girls with Monokuma
Ch 2 - Really felt like a 'business is business' Chapter. Just another day at the park. But goddammit, already one of my favorite characters has done goofed and committed murder, RIP Kirumi. Maki, you better live to the end. Also RIP Ryoma, he actually felt like a character that would survive until top 5 with the whole reason-to-live bits, and man that motive video being empty was depressing. ///PostTrueEnd comment: They all technically had nothing to live for anymore holy cow.
Insect Meet n' Greet was l0l, Gonta not being able to capture Miu because she was walking around in underwear was l0l
Trial was whatevers. They spent way too much time trying to logics obvious things like how to hide the body in the tank of piranhas and how to ropeway from the Ultimate Tennis Lab across the Pool to the Gym. Strand of Agony was a great execution, gogo Kirumi.
Misc. Comments:
- MAKI! WHY WON'T YOU LET ME HANG OUT WITH YOU, STOP GUARDING YOUR DAY CARE ALL DAY ;-;;;
- WAIT, WHAT? SHE'S THE ULTIMATE ASSASSIN???!!! HOLY SMOKES,SHE'S AUTOMATICALLY BEST GIRL NOW
- Ouma's annoying af, he's the successor to Nagito, the tryhard who just pisses everyone off and should die asap,
- Angie's also annoying with the Atua crap, cute to see Tenko fighting so hard for Himiko's attention though
- I just realized, people who unlock their Ultimate Labs have a super high chance of being involved in the next Class Trial, Ch1. Ultimate Piano Lab was open -> Kaede, Ch2 Ultimate Tennis Lab & Ultimate Maid Lab -> Ryoma & Kirumi... and later on Ch 3 Ultimate Art Lab & Anthropologist Lab -> Angie & Korekiyo... the pattern stops from Ch 4 onwards so I'm guessing it was purely a coincidence on the writers' behalf, but anyone who made this deduction would be pretty spoiled on who'd be involved in a murder, esp the following Chapter:
Ch 3 - Oh great, Angie's the prevalent character this time around, and she's brainwashed half the crew for her little Student Council BS, i was honestly expecting there to be a twist that she's actually the Ultimate Hypnotist or something xD. 4th floor of the school is unlocked, jesus the music here really matches Korekiyo and Angie's creepy supernatural thematics - their Ultimate Labs are also discovered, along with Tenko's, so yeah.
Shuichi x Kaito x Maki are established as the Makoto x Byakuya x Kyouko, the Ultimate Trio, and it was actually pretty nice to see this level of comraderie with the nighttime workouts and all since the previous games kind of lacked showing this level of intimacy during the main story and left it for Free Time events.
Reviving a dead participant was a cool possibility, I was hoping for Kaede's great return or something, but alas Angie got offed by Korekiyo by wrong-place-at-the-wrong-time, heh, reminds me of a certain Ultimate Traditional Dancer's death...
Wax effigies were creepy as hell. Was nice to see Kaede's sprite again though.
The Trial was interesting, Prior to main perp reveal I was actually really, really scared that the culprit could be Maki- usually when characters are given time in the limelight it spells their impending doom, especially with how Maki was just revealed to be the Ultimate Assassin and started hanging out with Shuichi and Kaito more, along with her becoming your investigation partner this time around (last time a certain Ultimate Gambler decided to get serious and be involved with the case, she was the perp >.>). Made worse by her suggesting Tenko could've committed suicide and her knowledge of stabbing one's vitals.
But PHEW! It was Korekiyo, bwahaha. They obviously took from past games the double murder and possible double Blackened concepts, but ultimately fell short on execution when they just decided fk it, the same guy killed both. It was actually super obvious too, idk what they were thinking trying to pin the blame on Himiko just because she suggested using the room, but overall the whole ritual itself and how precisely it had to be set up just screamed only Korekiyo could do it. Also, goddammit Ouma and the fake death scene. A triple murder would've been awesome...
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- Really digging Maki being escalated from non-existent side character to main heroine, writers made good choice xD.
- Bummed out that Tenko had to die, losing her was like losing Ultimate Musician Ibuki in DR2, and post Ch. 3 the overall atmosphere of the game felt a lot quieter and empty without her around
- Himiko got a nice dose of character growth after this though, so she's probably gonna be survive to the end due to the writers' "it'd be a waste to kill this character now" complex they did with the Ultimate Gangster.
- Angie's the first of the dark-skinned DR girls to die, RIP
- Didn't really care much for Korekiyo, felt like his whole sister-persona thing was just a way to mirror him with DR2's Ch. 3 Mikan despair outburst. Cheap.
Ch. 4 Gonta stupid, chibi-sprite Neo World Program stupid (we all were expecting a cameo Jabberwock Island let's be real), Miu stupid, I was actually REALLY hoping that there would be a twist, something like "even though all sprites have same strength, with 2v1 it's still possible for Gonta to hold her down while Ouma did the actual strangling, so he wins the trial by successfully framing the convenient memory loss Gonta" but nope. Miu also attempting to kill Ouma because paranoia got the best of her felt really uncharacteristic too, just too weak of a motive. ///PostTrueEnd comment: But hey, she ultimately did create an invention to change the world- the electrohammers/bombs that paved the way to the final couple of trials and revelations ^^
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- Too much time on trial spent explaining the world loop physics. I was snoring during that Psyche Taxi on how the bridge board landed on the left side of the rock towards the mansion side despite flowing to the right towards the chapel side. Psyche Taxi in general is by far the worst Class Trial minigame, jesus it just takes waaay to long and breaks the tempo.
- Uh oh, Kaito has a terminal illness, I swear I was just waiting for him to eventually do the whole 'I can't die here! So I must escape! I must win the Trial!' but alas...
Ch 5 - What...? Ouma's the mastermind of this Killing Game? Well holy shit, that's as unclimactic a revelation as Monaca making an appearance during the Danganronpa 3: End of Hope's Peak. Something that makes sense but felt too easy to be the answer. And jesus, I heard it's possible to beat the 2D escape game without the Electrohammers, fk that.
The tie in revelations to the Hopes Peak Saga were nice, and really started making this game feel like a true Danganronpa Hope vs. Despair. Them being the LAST 16 survivors of humanity stranded on a ruined Earth was a huge downer, that means Makoto x Kyouko x Byakuya, Future Foundation, Hinata/Izuru, Komaru x Touko...all of them died? Boooo. Also makes this entire killing game and everyone's motives and convictions meaningless, Kaede's 'let's all escape and be friends'...Kirumi's last ditch effort to escape for the people... Ryouma's giving up on surviving... Gonta's 'everyone would be better off dead'... the follow up BSOD the surviving people had where they just stayed in their rooms for several days in utter despair was great.
The trial was, as all other 5th Trials in the series, pretty fun and emotional. Maki spending so much time in the beginning with her adamant belief that Kaito was 100% dead and belittling Shuichi's 'we don't know for sure!' makes sense once you realize she's the Blackened who shot the poison arrows, and you even get to have a Scrum Debate with just Shuichi and Maki vs. the rest of the cast once all the evidence points to Kaito clearly being dead. But of course, with Ouma being the sly bastard that he is, it turns out that's not true after all. Yada yada yada, Electrobombs disabling Monokuma's surveillance cameras, the hangar door alarm, and the hydraulic press's safety function along with using a pause-play camera and we got ourselves a recipe for an unsolvable mystery!
Ouma tried to pull a Nagito with his suicide gambit to fool Monokuma and while it was pretty clever, i still give Nagito the crown having the most WOW attempt even though I hate his guts.
Misc. Comments
- RIP Kaito. Good riddance Ouma. Overall just super relieved that Maki wasn't the culprit, losing both of of the Ultimate Trio would've been absolutely devastating
- Maki had a thing for Kaito. D'awwwww :3 Was kind of hoping for her to fall for Shuichi, but I guess thematically she fits with Kaito better.
- Would've liked to see how the 5th trial would've ended if Kaito let Shuichi play along with deceiving Monokuma, but I guess we saw soon enough in Ch. 6 that the rules weren't so set in stone after all since Ch 1's trial was rigged.
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Chapter 6 - Well, that's gotta be the most Danganronpa way to end all of this huh, that's all i can say honestly xD.
Tsumugi being the mastermind didn't shock me too much, usually with Danganronpa the way things are set up literally anyone can be plot twisted however the writers wanted- could've just as easily been Himiko or Maki if they wanted. Kind of glad they didn't follow up on Kaede's twin sister, would've been too stale. It was also nice to finally see Tsumugi's Ultimate Cosplayer talent in action, and we got some nice lip service from all of the characters from the entire series to boot. That was pretty hype.
This is the first time a mastermind's been present thoughout the entire game though, so it gives a nice replayability aspect to the game to see how Tsumugi's been acting, though if i recall she's been pretty... normal and plain all this time. Perfect cover. I mainly just glossed over her living this long as being the writer's way to make up for offing a certain previous bluehead from the get go. But yeah, over on TV Tropes they already highlighted foreshadowing elements such as Ch 1 Tsumugi is the first to say that the culprit couldn't be the mastermind, or Ch 5 Tsumugi being the first to express shock when Ouma says he's the mastermind, during Free Time Tsumugi has the highest amount of time being around the Library / 2nd floor Classroom, her seat position in Class Trials is the same spot as Junko's was, etc...
Didn't really care much about the Ultimate Survivor Rantaro, the horse a twin b riddle was bullshit, K1-B0's robot battle with Monokuma & the Exisals was cool but it's like why couldn't you just do that earlier, the revelation that Flashback Lights created false memories was horrifically cheap, amnesia itself is already cheap enough now we gotta throw in fake memories? Booo.
RIP Kaede though, makes her death exponentially more tragic since she actually wasn't the perp after all... YO FK YOU SHICHUI WHEN I DERPED AND DIDN'T PICK KAEDE DURING THE FIRST TRIAL UNTIL SIX TRIES I ACTUALLY PICKED TSUMUGI
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But let's get to the meat of the goodies, whoop-dee-doo, the entire Danganronpa franchise is fiction in this particular universe* and the audience is the one that's been letting this killing game between hope and despair for continue V3 -> 53 seasons (i wanna play the 5th game, Final Danganronpa 5 goddammit xD)*I thought DRV3's universe was meant to be our real life universe, but apparently it's just another fictional universe where DR1&2 is fiction / didn't occur, and their protagonist is K1-B0 since his eyes are what they've been seeing through and acting as his inner voice. Something like that.
Only Danganronpa could pull this off without looking like a total joke. I was kind of shaking my head a bit that this was ultimately all Danganronpa boiled down to, but not many games can break the 4th wall to this level so I just went along and enjoyed it for what it was.
K1-B0's one man stand as the Ultimate Hope Robot and having to take on Tsumugi's Despair in a Mass Panic Debate with Monokuma being Loud as hell was my favorite moment of this game, it was almost as epic as Hinata having to overcome his inner Despair in DR2. That was some epic shit right there.
Ultimately though Hope's not the answer this time as it simply continues the cycle, so Shuichi brilliantly comes up with the only way to finally put an end the Killing Game: Choose neither Hope nor Despair. No more games, let the timer run out on those stupid Psyche Taxis, Hangmans' Gambit, Mind Mines, we're done playing.
Surviving cast: Shuichi, Maki and Himiko. Not too shabby.
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Overall I'd rate DRV3 a 9/10. enjoyed it more than DR1 but less than DR2. Any fan of Danganronpa will enjoy it nevertheless, it's a new Killing Game, new cast, Class Trials are more flashy, the cases quite often thematically focus on finding the truth vs. what you want to believe which makes the culprit plot twists even more suspenseful. Some of the investigations themselves are a bit lacking though since they try to make the murders happen in pretty complicated ways when they really aren't and so sometimes you'd spend a nasty chunk of time explaining an obvious detail in a Class Trial. There are some tie-ins to the first two games and the whole Hope vs Despair saga, and there's an Ultimate Revelation to be had that will literally make or break the entire Danganronpa franchise for you
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I'm probably gonna tier fairly high / not minimalistic T1 for this event, i wanna farm some SIS Veils/Charms/Heals (i got a princess trick just now gg), the level 17 Ns feel super worth compared to last time where we only got level 1 Ns, Alpacas, R teachers, 50k Gs, possibility for green tix, only 60 LP vs 75 LP... no reason not to make the grind.
New beach background is nice, still waiting for the one day they put some of the older login bonus wallpapers in the sticker shop or something cuz RIP me not having the orange sunset beach esp. for my mermaid noz/maki
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When i was a kid i liked Mayl(u) from Megaman, lel
Today i like alotta heroines, no absolute top favorite. harems are the way to go in the 2d realm
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Aight I'ma be invading this thread over the next few days or w.e spamming my WTFUXXORS!@# on Danganronpa v3 because I just finished Ch 1 and as any DR fan should know, Ch 1 will ALWAYS gank the best characters so while I'm dying a bit inside, that was a pretty awesome 1st ClassTrial
The prologue is nothing new, though it does feel pretty long, easily 1-2 hours of having to explore the entire campus and meet-n-greeting all 15 other SHSL/Ultimate students before the Killing Game is even announced. And then of course you gotta slog around for another hour or two as the cast naturally claims that they'll never participate in such a game, yada yada, this and that happens, First Blood finally happens, and we finally get to have our first trial
We're led by a female protagonist this time, le gasp, the bright and sophisticated Ultimate Pianist Kaede Akamatsu. The writers are quick to pair her up with the soft-spoken and unconfident Ultimate Detective Suichi Saihara, and the duo move quickly with their schemes to try to unearth who the mastermind is so they can hopefully end the Killing Game before it can even begin, but what fun would that be if everything ended so quick and painlessly
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jEZUZ yOU Guys mOve WAy quiCkeR THAN makotoXsayaka/Kyoko and hinata/chiaki maNG
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Obviously won't speak much of the actual trial because spoilers, but it's done extremely well and is easily one of the best trials in the DR franchise mainly due to the plot twist at the end. You start off knocking out easy peasy accusations because Tutorials before having to take down some pretty evidently-plausible attractive-distractor suspects and will even have to resort to LYING when the group all begins to home in on someone you just know isn't the culprit but they are too stubborn to desist. Then BAM, when you finally shed some light on who the culprit really is, it's just like Ho. Lee. Shit. No way. No Way. NO WAY. DSKFJSDKKSDKFJEJAKFJWEIRUT48323WHYYYYYYYYYYLying is just another mechanic to make Nonstop Debates more colorful, just like how they added the Agree mechanic in DR2. But it's nice to have another layer of stuff to keep you thinking, looking forward to see how future trials will carry out.
Hangman's Gambit v3.0 was thankfully revamped to be less tedious, since you can just point-and-click the required letters rather than trying to line-them-up-and-click.
Logic Dive didn't make an appearance, good riddance i hope, that surfboard minigame was so meh.
Panic Talk is still its usual rhythm game
Debate Scrum sounded cool in theory, since it's half the students with one opinion vs the other half, but it's really just a simple matching game of lining up your side's arguments against the other side.
Panic Debates are the one that's probably my favorite, it's just a standard Nonstop Debate... multiplied by 3. Makes things feel pretty chaotic and intense having three people going off at the same time:
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My best girls atm are Maki and Kirumi. Maki because she just looks great aesthetically (i luv me some black and red) and Kirumi because Ultimate Maid, was wondering when one would appear (closest we got was Yukizome's Ultimate Housekeeper). The dudes are whatevers, that one guy what's his face Supreme Leader is a wannabe Nagito, fk his annoying ass.
I swear if these two die and leave crap like that Ultimate Supreme Leader live, I'ma-
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Eyyyyy, ULTRA DESPAIR GIRLS 2 COMING SOON XD
TAKE MAH MONEHY
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Aight boys n' gals, I finally got my limited edition copy of Danganronpa v3: Killing Harmony, excited as hell for this stuff, time to stall everything else I'm playing/watching and let the killing games begin
e: FK me, first I gotta download the JP voices off of PSN cuz it didn't come with it built in, and it's a 1.5GB download gg, gawd i hate english dubs
Fuwanovel Confessions
in The Coliseum of Chatter
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Aren't you like, 14,
Oh wait it's been like 3 years since we've been on Fuwa so you're more like 18ish
Too old for midlife crisis mang!
But
Make sure to take care of the ol' health first, das most important
School idk how it works and the necessities of college in other places but in 'Murica you always want that door open, so don't just outright bomb it, esp. at 18, and ESP not because of emotionals sappiness or no motivational laziness BS. Cuz when you're 25 you'll look back and be super ashamed and embarrassed at how you could've just sucked it up, manned up, and done it ez pz but nope you were boo-hoo qq life sucks and that'll cost you big time
Friends are interesting, my facebook was loaded daily with 100+ pictures spams of all the good fun times for a year or two during colleges partyyy!@# alcoholll!@#!@ PUBGG!!! making it look like i was da super outgoing popularz goodlyfe but at the end of the day nowadays fk it, rather stay home and maybe get together for birthdays and christmas secret santas and thats all. Hopefully you have a handful of trusted lifelong buddies by now, those are the ones that really matter, if those are the ones you got beef with currently then fix asap. if you don't then i have no idea, my besties atm were with me since mid skoo so ya that's alotta histories
gl mang, el psy kangeroo, upupu,
delta