The gameplay is as bad as VN gameplay goes. The truth bullet segments should've been a tad more forgiving in my opinion. The unlimited continues does help make any difficulty frustration go away. I got lost a few times, the map travel is terribly clunky. Music good. Story and characters were pretty fun! Not perfect, but it's goofy fun. Couldn't remember their names though, for a few of them. many times i had to ask myself "who is that??"
also, odd choice to severely limit "Free Time" segments. You barely get any!
also, odd choice to severely limit "Free Time" segments. You barely get any!
Played it back in 2018 when I was in my second semester of college. It doesn’t hold up as well as I remember watching a friend play through but I still thoroughly enjoyed it.
Pretty good collection of murder mysteries with an overarching plot. Worth a playthrough for the interactions between the over-the-top characters, music and minigames (except for Machinegun Talk Battle, the timings for that one can be brutal on PC).
mindless murder mystery fun
monokuma
And then i GAN all over this RONPA until they DAN
She slowly walks up to me, emanating gatekeep girlboss gaslight energy from every step taken, deliberately. Once she makes sure I am within whispering vicinity, she utters those words
"Makoto get strapped or get clapped"
Ayo Kyoko I will never forget you manhandles an uncontrollable tear frenzy
I'm not the brightest bulb in the room, but neither are they. Do they deserve death for this reason? No!! Hence why this is a series of hopium and copium, and this is the train's first stop. Still kinda funny, these executions really have "mods kill this guy" energy to them. Everything is so over-the-top in its writing and presentation that it's very difficult to be whelmed. You gotta have an opinion on this game. Some people were FNAF kids and I guess I was a Dangan kid... a late bloomer though I was already 15, and since then the only game that came out was a beach episode cashgrab coming out in winter.
I won't sugarcoat it, this is W writing. It's absurd, it's complex, it hits you when it needs to. Kodaka's style is something special. He knows how to blueball his audience and you're still in his grasp. The protagonist Big Mac is a template compared to the others, the whole cast has grounded designs and less complex personalities but they bounce off eachother due to the story's nature, and it's a delight to see. A battle royale with emphasis on relationships and deductions is like, best template ever! So many quality fangames are being made for this reason. Very few are actually completed, people don't see the labor needed for the whole package, meanwhile Kodaka made a sequel in 2 years the mad lad.
Uh oh, someone died. You better not have been watching Shrek 2 in the projector room or you won't have an alibi! The main course is, naturally, the class trials hosted by horror-mascot-before-mascot-horror-games-existed Monokuma! Fun fact: he's feeling white. These transracial statements don't surprise me, he's never been one for being likeable. Gather round fellas, the council has decided- wait, you're part of it. Democracy sucks it should be an authoritarian Kirigiri government but Big Mac needs to grow a spine and somehow outsmart Byakuya, whose face is shown next to "sigma male alpha chad" in Urban Dictionary. No seriously, he faces off an entire country in the novels it's wild. My favorite character is and will still be Sakura, I trust I won't have to explain this one. But, really I only dislike Celeste. She's hyped up to be a whole lot of nothing in the end that can't live up to expectations. The VA's shoulders must be sore by now.
"Makoto get strapped or get clapped"
Ayo Kyoko I will never forget you manhandles an uncontrollable tear frenzy
I'm not the brightest bulb in the room, but neither are they. Do they deserve death for this reason? No!! Hence why this is a series of hopium and copium, and this is the train's first stop. Still kinda funny, these executions really have "mods kill this guy" energy to them. Everything is so over-the-top in its writing and presentation that it's very difficult to be whelmed. You gotta have an opinion on this game. Some people were FNAF kids and I guess I was a Dangan kid... a late bloomer though I was already 15, and since then the only game that came out was a beach episode cashgrab coming out in winter.
I won't sugarcoat it, this is W writing. It's absurd, it's complex, it hits you when it needs to. Kodaka's style is something special. He knows how to blueball his audience and you're still in his grasp. The protagonist Big Mac is a template compared to the others, the whole cast has grounded designs and less complex personalities but they bounce off eachother due to the story's nature, and it's a delight to see. A battle royale with emphasis on relationships and deductions is like, best template ever! So many quality fangames are being made for this reason. Very few are actually completed, people don't see the labor needed for the whole package, meanwhile Kodaka made a sequel in 2 years the mad lad.
Uh oh, someone died. You better not have been watching Shrek 2 in the projector room or you won't have an alibi! The main course is, naturally, the class trials hosted by horror-mascot-before-mascot-horror-games-existed Monokuma! Fun fact: he's feeling white. These transracial statements don't surprise me, he's never been one for being likeable. Gather round fellas, the council has decided- wait, you're part of it. Democracy sucks it should be an authoritarian Kirigiri government but Big Mac needs to grow a spine and somehow outsmart Byakuya, whose face is shown next to "sigma male alpha chad" in Urban Dictionary. No seriously, he faces off an entire country in the novels it's wild. My favorite character is and will still be Sakura, I trust I won't have to explain this one. But, really I only dislike Celeste. She's hyped up to be a whole lot of nothing in the end that can't live up to expectations. The VA's shoulders must be sore by now.
playing this with 2 friends made me actually enjoy this game
What I thought would be a bizarro battle royale that's slightly cringe ended up being (kinda) that but more cringe, with Ace Attorney-inspired elements and contents that absolutely make this a product of its time...
...but I also like it? It's weirdly endearing in a way seeing a decent amount of likable and/or fascinating characters trying to sort and debate their way out of insane circumstances and the mysteries into their situation with some great ass OSTs, fun court mechanics, and overall just a unique vibe and aesthetic that can be apart of an embodiment of the late-2000's - early-2010's.
but damn this bear is fucked up bruh.
...but I also like it? It's weirdly endearing in a way seeing a decent amount of likable and/or fascinating characters trying to sort and debate their way out of insane circumstances and the mysteries into their situation with some great ass OSTs, fun court mechanics, and overall just a unique vibe and aesthetic that can be apart of an embodiment of the late-2000's - early-2010's.
but damn this bear is fucked up bruh.
This review contains spoilers
I wanna say a lot of things but I think I’m gonna save them for when I come back to 100% this game. Needless to say though this is the first single player game I have finished in lord knows how long now.
(UPDATED REVIEW FOR 100%. MAJOR SPOILERS FOR BASE GAME + HIDDEN MODE AFTER GAME COMPLETION AHEAD). I have since 100%’d this game on April 17th 2024. Needless to say this is one of my new favorite games. First playthrough I did was on the hardest difficulty going in 97% blind completely unaware of almost anything. All the characters were interesting in their own ways, some i started off hating, others I liked through out the whole game, and the outliers that I hated at the beginning but ended up NOT hating as I went on with the 100% (filling out the report cards). I’ll start off by listing off each character and if I liked them right off the bat.
Makoto: (liked) he was a very, interesting? main character. He seemed too oblivious to what was going on throughout the whole game. (given that we find out at the end of the game he’s considered “the ultimate hope” or whatever I guess it kinda makes sense he was delusional to the “despair” going on around him.)
Kyoko: (liked) kyoko tends to keep a very calm and reserved tone throughout the whole game. With her starting out as “the ultimate ???” It leaves what her skill is up in the air. (even though it’s kind of obvious and I even accidentally guessed it the very second I saw her help me, as a joke.) So there is a mystery behind what could she be the ultimate of… spoiler alert!!! It’s the “ultimate detective.” Her ultimate isn’t the only mystery, she’s also super insecure of the scars on her hands which is why she wears gloves. (I believe this is touched on when you do her report card.) Later on in the game during the last class trial she is backed into a corner and forced to show her scars to everyone. Ok now I’ll backtrack a bit and talk about her “cold demeanor”. She does open up to you as the game goes on and even shows a bit of romantic interest, showing that is the fact she doesn’t really cooperate with anyone except makoto. Her whole story and reason for even being there in the first place is to look for her father which is also the headmaster of hopes peak. I like how that despite her strong stone face during the early game, her will starts to break a bit and gets driven a bit by emotion in the later half of the game, (granted she does regain composure back quickly) showing that she does have some emotions/gets emotional like everyone else. A character that is both strong and has weaknesses always adds a lot to the story, even if it’s subtle. Which is pretty cool because I believe she has the most character development out of everyone there!
Monokuma: (liked) Who doesn’t love monokuma? If you don’t like monokuma you’ll probably hate the whole game it’s just that simple. From goofy ass dialogue, to sly comments about hard on’s + his witty nature and ability to break the forth wall, you almost CANT hate monokuma. Genuinely one of my favorite antagonists truly.
Chihiro: (ultimate programmer) (loved) One of the 2 favorite characters in this game. Despite always talking about being super weak and not able to help as much, “she” arguably did the most with the help of “alter ego” “her” computer AI system. Notice how I put quotation marks on the pronouns? That’s because chihiro is a boy just cross dressing and pretending to be a girl because of his insecurities involving weakness (he also touches on this at the end of one of the school mode endings. Where he makes you touch his chest to feel not a single trace of girlhood there). I love this character and the writing and dialogue he has. I wish he didn’t die the way he did but it was crucial to the continuation of the story so I can’t be mad.
Asahina: (liked) I really really like hina! She’s like this optimistic bubble that almost can’t ever be popped. Even in her report cards she’s overly optimistic (except one where she questions her girlhood cause she never dated someone?). She just brings nothing but joy whenever she’s on screen, it’s really hard to hate her as a character. My only issue with her is that despite her being “the ultimate swimming pro” they almost never touch on that at all. She obviously has brief dialogue options of that sort. But compared to the others she almost never mentions that at all, which is just so strange to me.
Sakura: (liked) The misunderstood women. Or you could call her “the ogre imposter”. Either one works but in this case I’ll keep referring to her as the misunderstood women because that’s what she is, misunderstood. Despite being gigantic and strong, doing her report card and the school mode dialogue options show she’s just like any other women. Being “the ultimate martial artist” must be rough for someone like her who just wants to be both strong and a women. During the chapter in which her death and trial takes place it’s unknown at the time that she had taken her own life due to being mistreated after coming out as the imposter and helping “monokuma”. This in turn once found out destroyed hina so much that she was willing to throw everyone off track by saying she killed her. Because of the way we treated sakura when we found out she was working with “monokuma”. I feel like Sakura as a character isn’t respected enough for her efforts to help out despite being “monokuma’s” buddy.
Sayaka: (ultimate pop sensation) (disliked) I’m not sure if I’m gonna get grilled for this one but…. I didn’t like Sayaka. Her “wannabe” psychic abilities and boring ultimate added on top of her using her girl charm to bum makoto down into a senseless nothing of just mindlessly agreeing with her makes her just not enjoyable in the slightest. It also doesn’t help at all that she LITERALLY dies at the very beginning. As for her report card it was just more of the same boring makoto mind games. Overall not the greatest character, arguably the weakest both writing and progression wise.
Celeste: (loved) here’s number 2/2 of my favorite characters. “The queen of liars”, “the ultimate gambler”, or her real identity, “taeko yasuhiro”. She was a very fun character and she was the mastermind behind hifumis demise (yippeee). Not only do I really like her design I also love how she was written and portrayed. She was willing to give up anything and everything for her goal, nothing but 10 million dollars and a grand dream of a European castle where she will dress up male servants as vampires… can’t help but respect it?!
Mondo: (liked) I actually really liked his character. He was portrayed as a tough guy, but in reality he was scared just like everyone else. Constantly swearing to keep up a “strong” demeanor. Given the title “ultimate biker gang leader”, he made reference during school mode of being afraid to leave the school because he felt like his life was halted due to dedicating so much of it to the biker gang. As sad as I am for him killing poor chihiro, I can’t actually hate him as a character because he was written so well.
Kiyotaka: (ultimate moral compass) (???) mondo’s best buddy there after the sauna incident. I didn’t really pay too much attention to him as a character because he came off as uninteresting and didn’t add much to the game even following his death. I feel like they could’ve done more with him and did a better job with the representation of his ultimate.
Leon (ultimate baseball star) (???) I’m not even gonna lie he died so fast and I really don’t remember much from his report card nor school ending so I really can’t say too too much about him as a character. Do I hate him? No. Do I like him? I don’t know. He’s very up in the air for me. I will say he had the most boring class trial in the game.
Hifumi: (ultimate fanfic creator) (disliked) if you played the game you’ll know why. Thank you Celeste.
Byakuya: (ultimate affluent progeny) (liked) I feel like I both liked and disliked him but I respect him so much I can’t actually dislike him. Both his school mode ending and report card make you lean towards disliking him. As for how I see him, he adds a lot to the class trials same as kyoko. Despite being an ass sometimes he has a point a lot of the time and it can also end up just being funny. Despite feeling like he adds a lot to the game I can’t find too much to talk about him. Just know he’s a good character if you put aside personal bias.
Toko: (disliked/liked) I started off the game severely disliking her. She was pressed heavily into that corner for a reason though. But, both her report card and her school mode ending both added so much to her character that I actually ended up feeling bad for her and ended up seeing her in a whole new light. Being the “ultimate writing prodigy”, she didn’t write her stories from her personal experiences. Instead she wrote them based on her own delusions. She makes this very clear as you’re doing her report card and school mode ending where she constantly mentions you disrupting her delusions. Alongside her first ultimate, she is also the “ultimate murderous fiend”. Meaning she has a split personality disorder that only activates when she either passes out, or sneezes?! I found it pretty cool how her murderous side fell enough in love with byakuya to the point that she would end up no longer be a murderer. Other than that I don’t have much to say about her.
Yasuhiro: (???) Dumb luck does exist and this guy is living proof of it. The fact he managed to make it to the end of the game is an absolute miracle to me. Being the “ultimate clairvoyant”, he added like nothing except for some funny dialogue and some of the dumbest questions ever in the class trials. I don’t hate him though I just don’t prefer him to everyone else there. He’s just ok and funny. I do like the ultimate representation though, it was very much a big part of his personality!
Junko/Mukuro: (???) I’m gonna put these 2 together but split my opinions on them.
Mukuro: (???) being the older twin of the despair sisters + being the “ultimate soldier” she isn’t touched on at all on a personal level. Playing through the school mode and doing junko’s report card during that, her personality bleeds through a lot and is unlike what junko is perceived as junko. even touches on this at the end of the game saying something around the lines of “she couldn’t even play the role of me right” when justifying murdering her sister. I can’t say I like or dislike mukuro because I would probably like her if she was touched on more.
Junko: (???) being the younger twin sister of the despair sisters + being the “ultimate fashionista”. She ended up being the monokuma of the game which in turn means Sakura was working for junko (maybe unintentionally). During the final class trial she showed multiple personalities, which is another instance of a split personality disorder. She was super obsessed with despair to the point where she willingly sacrificed her sister without any shred of guilt. Another character that wasn’t touched on personally so I can’t form a good personal opinion on them. I assume I wouldn’t like her that much though even if they did touch up on her more.
Closing notes: this game was one of the most fun I’ve had playing a single player/story game in a good while. This would probably be a 5/5 if it had replayability but given the nature of the game it’s just not possible to replay it and achieve the same enjoyment you get on your first playthrough. I do highly recommend this game even if it’s one of those games where the fanbase might scare you off, I went into it with 0 knowledge of it and what goes on in the fanbase and had a good time.
(Another thing I’d like to mention. If any point of this seems rushed or there might be missing information or just not flushed out, thats because this was all written in a couple days at like 3 to 4am so apologies lol).
(UPDATED REVIEW FOR 100%. MAJOR SPOILERS FOR BASE GAME + HIDDEN MODE AFTER GAME COMPLETION AHEAD). I have since 100%’d this game on April 17th 2024. Needless to say this is one of my new favorite games. First playthrough I did was on the hardest difficulty going in 97% blind completely unaware of almost anything. All the characters were interesting in their own ways, some i started off hating, others I liked through out the whole game, and the outliers that I hated at the beginning but ended up NOT hating as I went on with the 100% (filling out the report cards). I’ll start off by listing off each character and if I liked them right off the bat.
Makoto: (liked) he was a very, interesting? main character. He seemed too oblivious to what was going on throughout the whole game. (given that we find out at the end of the game he’s considered “the ultimate hope” or whatever I guess it kinda makes sense he was delusional to the “despair” going on around him.)
Kyoko: (liked) kyoko tends to keep a very calm and reserved tone throughout the whole game. With her starting out as “the ultimate ???” It leaves what her skill is up in the air. (even though it’s kind of obvious and I even accidentally guessed it the very second I saw her help me, as a joke.) So there is a mystery behind what could she be the ultimate of… spoiler alert!!! It’s the “ultimate detective.” Her ultimate isn’t the only mystery, she’s also super insecure of the scars on her hands which is why she wears gloves. (I believe this is touched on when you do her report card.) Later on in the game during the last class trial she is backed into a corner and forced to show her scars to everyone. Ok now I’ll backtrack a bit and talk about her “cold demeanor”. She does open up to you as the game goes on and even shows a bit of romantic interest, showing that is the fact she doesn’t really cooperate with anyone except makoto. Her whole story and reason for even being there in the first place is to look for her father which is also the headmaster of hopes peak. I like how that despite her strong stone face during the early game, her will starts to break a bit and gets driven a bit by emotion in the later half of the game, (granted she does regain composure back quickly) showing that she does have some emotions/gets emotional like everyone else. A character that is both strong and has weaknesses always adds a lot to the story, even if it’s subtle. Which is pretty cool because I believe she has the most character development out of everyone there!
Monokuma: (liked) Who doesn’t love monokuma? If you don’t like monokuma you’ll probably hate the whole game it’s just that simple. From goofy ass dialogue, to sly comments about hard on’s + his witty nature and ability to break the forth wall, you almost CANT hate monokuma. Genuinely one of my favorite antagonists truly.
Chihiro: (ultimate programmer) (loved) One of the 2 favorite characters in this game. Despite always talking about being super weak and not able to help as much, “she” arguably did the most with the help of “alter ego” “her” computer AI system. Notice how I put quotation marks on the pronouns? That’s because chihiro is a boy just cross dressing and pretending to be a girl because of his insecurities involving weakness (he also touches on this at the end of one of the school mode endings. Where he makes you touch his chest to feel not a single trace of girlhood there). I love this character and the writing and dialogue he has. I wish he didn’t die the way he did but it was crucial to the continuation of the story so I can’t be mad.
Asahina: (liked) I really really like hina! She’s like this optimistic bubble that almost can’t ever be popped. Even in her report cards she’s overly optimistic (except one where she questions her girlhood cause she never dated someone?). She just brings nothing but joy whenever she’s on screen, it’s really hard to hate her as a character. My only issue with her is that despite her being “the ultimate swimming pro” they almost never touch on that at all. She obviously has brief dialogue options of that sort. But compared to the others she almost never mentions that at all, which is just so strange to me.
Sakura: (liked) The misunderstood women. Or you could call her “the ogre imposter”. Either one works but in this case I’ll keep referring to her as the misunderstood women because that’s what she is, misunderstood. Despite being gigantic and strong, doing her report card and the school mode dialogue options show she’s just like any other women. Being “the ultimate martial artist” must be rough for someone like her who just wants to be both strong and a women. During the chapter in which her death and trial takes place it’s unknown at the time that she had taken her own life due to being mistreated after coming out as the imposter and helping “monokuma”. This in turn once found out destroyed hina so much that she was willing to throw everyone off track by saying she killed her. Because of the way we treated sakura when we found out she was working with “monokuma”. I feel like Sakura as a character isn’t respected enough for her efforts to help out despite being “monokuma’s” buddy.
Sayaka: (ultimate pop sensation) (disliked) I’m not sure if I’m gonna get grilled for this one but…. I didn’t like Sayaka. Her “wannabe” psychic abilities and boring ultimate added on top of her using her girl charm to bum makoto down into a senseless nothing of just mindlessly agreeing with her makes her just not enjoyable in the slightest. It also doesn’t help at all that she LITERALLY dies at the very beginning. As for her report card it was just more of the same boring makoto mind games. Overall not the greatest character, arguably the weakest both writing and progression wise.
Celeste: (loved) here’s number 2/2 of my favorite characters. “The queen of liars”, “the ultimate gambler”, or her real identity, “taeko yasuhiro”. She was a very fun character and she was the mastermind behind hifumis demise (yippeee). Not only do I really like her design I also love how she was written and portrayed. She was willing to give up anything and everything for her goal, nothing but 10 million dollars and a grand dream of a European castle where she will dress up male servants as vampires… can’t help but respect it?!
Mondo: (liked) I actually really liked his character. He was portrayed as a tough guy, but in reality he was scared just like everyone else. Constantly swearing to keep up a “strong” demeanor. Given the title “ultimate biker gang leader”, he made reference during school mode of being afraid to leave the school because he felt like his life was halted due to dedicating so much of it to the biker gang. As sad as I am for him killing poor chihiro, I can’t actually hate him as a character because he was written so well.
Kiyotaka: (ultimate moral compass) (???) mondo’s best buddy there after the sauna incident. I didn’t really pay too much attention to him as a character because he came off as uninteresting and didn’t add much to the game even following his death. I feel like they could’ve done more with him and did a better job with the representation of his ultimate.
Leon (ultimate baseball star) (???) I’m not even gonna lie he died so fast and I really don’t remember much from his report card nor school ending so I really can’t say too too much about him as a character. Do I hate him? No. Do I like him? I don’t know. He’s very up in the air for me. I will say he had the most boring class trial in the game.
Hifumi: (ultimate fanfic creator) (disliked) if you played the game you’ll know why. Thank you Celeste.
Byakuya: (ultimate affluent progeny) (liked) I feel like I both liked and disliked him but I respect him so much I can’t actually dislike him. Both his school mode ending and report card make you lean towards disliking him. As for how I see him, he adds a lot to the class trials same as kyoko. Despite being an ass sometimes he has a point a lot of the time and it can also end up just being funny. Despite feeling like he adds a lot to the game I can’t find too much to talk about him. Just know he’s a good character if you put aside personal bias.
Toko: (disliked/liked) I started off the game severely disliking her. She was pressed heavily into that corner for a reason though. But, both her report card and her school mode ending both added so much to her character that I actually ended up feeling bad for her and ended up seeing her in a whole new light. Being the “ultimate writing prodigy”, she didn’t write her stories from her personal experiences. Instead she wrote them based on her own delusions. She makes this very clear as you’re doing her report card and school mode ending where she constantly mentions you disrupting her delusions. Alongside her first ultimate, she is also the “ultimate murderous fiend”. Meaning she has a split personality disorder that only activates when she either passes out, or sneezes?! I found it pretty cool how her murderous side fell enough in love with byakuya to the point that she would end up no longer be a murderer. Other than that I don’t have much to say about her.
Yasuhiro: (???) Dumb luck does exist and this guy is living proof of it. The fact he managed to make it to the end of the game is an absolute miracle to me. Being the “ultimate clairvoyant”, he added like nothing except for some funny dialogue and some of the dumbest questions ever in the class trials. I don’t hate him though I just don’t prefer him to everyone else there. He’s just ok and funny. I do like the ultimate representation though, it was very much a big part of his personality!
Junko/Mukuro: (???) I’m gonna put these 2 together but split my opinions on them.
Mukuro: (???) being the older twin of the despair sisters + being the “ultimate soldier” she isn’t touched on at all on a personal level. Playing through the school mode and doing junko’s report card during that, her personality bleeds through a lot and is unlike what junko is perceived as junko. even touches on this at the end of the game saying something around the lines of “she couldn’t even play the role of me right” when justifying murdering her sister. I can’t say I like or dislike mukuro because I would probably like her if she was touched on more.
Junko: (???) being the younger twin sister of the despair sisters + being the “ultimate fashionista”. She ended up being the monokuma of the game which in turn means Sakura was working for junko (maybe unintentionally). During the final class trial she showed multiple personalities, which is another instance of a split personality disorder. She was super obsessed with despair to the point where she willingly sacrificed her sister without any shred of guilt. Another character that wasn’t touched on personally so I can’t form a good personal opinion on them. I assume I wouldn’t like her that much though even if they did touch up on her more.
Closing notes: this game was one of the most fun I’ve had playing a single player/story game in a good while. This would probably be a 5/5 if it had replayability but given the nature of the game it’s just not possible to replay it and achieve the same enjoyment you get on your first playthrough. I do highly recommend this game even if it’s one of those games where the fanbase might scare you off, I went into it with 0 knowledge of it and what goes on in the fanbase and had a good time.
(Another thing I’d like to mention. If any point of this seems rushed or there might be missing information or just not flushed out, thats because this was all written in a couple days at like 3 to 4am so apologies lol).
the game that made me get obsessed with this franchise, loving the characters and the story, the traumas were worth it
still hate the fandom tho
still hate the fandom tho
we can hate on danganronpa all we want but i actually really like the first game and i think its very cool 😎 before the weird fans ruined it!!
Shuichi is so me
All around a very solid experience. The whole story was really well crafted and there was always so much intrigue going on that made me curious and try to piece bits of the plot together. But none of that would have been possible if it weren't for a handful of incredibly well-written, endearing, and entertaining characters. I'm talking about Makoto, Kyoko, Byakuya, Sakura, Celeste, Alter Ego, and the one and only Mastermind. They all made the story something I could truly care about, because I cared for them. Makoto's development throughout the game was really awesome to see unfold. As the main character I thought he was a great representation of the player going through all of this at the same time, and an incredible embodiment for the theme of Hope. Learning about Kyoko's story and getting answers about her was a contributor to a lot of my intrigue in the story. And overall her personality very nicely fits into the category of characters I typically love. Byakuya is an asshole, moving on. I thought Sakura and Celeste's motives and endings were super well-written and compelling. For Sakura in particular I didn't think much of her at all until chapter 4 where I really started to like her. Alter Ego is a character I was not expecting to find so endearing. It made Chihiro's character and circumstances during the story a lot more sad and overall it was just really hard to not like Alter Ego. And finally the Mastermind who I won't name. Despite not BEING there during almost the whole game, their presence was still around during the whole story. And the reveal and subsequent display of how insane and off the walls they were was an unexpected twist.
On the otherhand, there were some characters who were really annoying or straight up uninteresting such as Toko, Hiro, and Hifumi. The rest of the cast was either fine or didn't have enough content for me to form a real opinion. I won't go into why I dislike or don't feel anything towards those characters, all I have to say is that some are just gimmicky and nothing else, and some are just boring and forgettable. I think those specific characters who I wasn't super fond of ended up bringing the game down quite a bit for me, but not in a way that they ruined the experience.
On the otherhand, there were some characters who were really annoying or straight up uninteresting such as Toko, Hiro, and Hifumi. The rest of the cast was either fine or didn't have enough content for me to form a real opinion. I won't go into why I dislike or don't feel anything towards those characters, all I have to say is that some are just gimmicky and nothing else, and some are just boring and forgettable. I think those specific characters who I wasn't super fond of ended up bringing the game down quite a bit for me, but not in a way that they ruined the experience.
Truly one of the most fucked-up games I've ever played! The early murders made me sick to my stomach despite the playful Persona 4 art style. But then I had to see the mystery through to the end - the story and twists kept me going. Ending was both extremely cheesy and extremely dark. Don't think I'll continue the series but glad I finished this one.
The murder mysteries are very good and some of the characters are very lovable
dont. makoto naegi
As someone who watched Let's Plays back in the day, I think the game still holds up. Although I already know who the culprit is, the journey of the game, its gameplay, and its characters kept me hook throughout the entire game. I do think that the game is a bit basic sometimes (either it is because it is a bit easy or maybe I have knowledge of some parts of this game), but I think that the sequel would expand these concept even further. The school mode is a bit tedious to do, but I still have fun organizing and managing characters and items. Plus I used the school mode to be able to get all the characters' report cards.
Jogão
eu assisti um amigo jogando esse jogo inteiro e meio que é ok
The start of a series that would plague my mind for years. For what its worth TTH is a good game.
love this game to death, but i cant manage to give it more than 3 stars.
this is one of the oddest games ive ever played
i quite literally cant describe it. you should play it.
you either love it or hate it
this is one of the oddest games ive ever played
i quite literally cant describe it. you should play it.
you either love it or hate it
good atmosphere and music, Celestia Ludenberg
3★
Sometimes I like to look back and think about how much of a better person i've become compared to when i was a danganronpa fan back in the day.
the atmosphere carries this game
só faltou a opção de romance
arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggggghhhhhh the first like six or seven hours kind of suck but then it gets really good
Good murder mystery game. Old and kinda camp, but it's age shows in a good way. The characters are fun, the cases are mostly good, and the ending is pretty satisfying. It's completely into itself, and it needs that to fully function, as the world is so intense and complicated. The dialogue sometimes lasts a bit too long, but I guess it's necessary for "character building". Overall, good first entry to a good trilogy, at least in my opinion :3
The vibes are good, the mysteries are decent. Characters.... most are not really fully fleshed out, which is bad for a visual novel game that has nothing BUT time to develop characters.