@Kidfried In 2 the best part are the last two trials in my opinion. The climax is great. This lucky guy (Naato?) gave me the creeps when I played this game.
Nagito is awesome, and adds a healthy layer of tension to the entire game that simply wasn't there in Trigger Happy Havoc. I also prefer navigating the island via thr side-scroller perspective to the early 90's PC dungeon crawler navigation of Hope's Peak in the original.
I absolutely adore the entire game. Chapters 2 and 6 are probably my favorite sections, though.
@Ralizah Honestly, I like the side scrolling, but it takes way too long. And the 1st person view is still there.
Overall, I like how different this game is from other games I've played, but also most visual novels I played. But a lot of the moving around and stuff feels like padding. Which prevents it from becoing remarkable. But we'll see, let's hope some of these next cases will blow me away!
@Th3solution@KratosMD@Ralizah@belmont Thank you so much for your help! It seems like it has enough similarities to what I love about ace attorney (trials, great characters, amazing twists) that I'm sure to enjoy this. I can't say how I feel about the mini games yet, so I'll refrain judgement on them for now, especially considering one of you seems to love them and another finds them quite out of place! So I reckon I'll look into buying the first one soon and seeing what it's like!
@KratosMD I'm just so used to auto save that I just forget to ever manual save. I definitely going to auto save in the future.
I just discovered you can hold circle button, and you can go through dialogue pretty quick. It was only half an hour of catching up. It was frustrating, but at least I'm back again. Just couldn't wait to see how this case turns out.
@Kidfried@KratosMD The save system is the most annoying thing about Ultra Despair Girls. You can only save at certain save points. (Which are very creatively rendered however, without spoiling anything 😆)
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You wont regret that decision at all!! Danganronpa universe is one i never wanna leave. On no other PS4 game will u become so close with like you will here with these colorful, emotional characters on the Danganronpa series. I happened to stumble on this series by luck and have not missed a single shred of content released there afterward. I have every game including Ultra Despair Girls (which in my opinion is my least favorite, but still a good game) I have all the anime Blu-Rays, all the manga magazine editions dedicated to Danganronpa and I even bought the soundtrack!!! I cannot tell you how pleased I was to become immersed in this crazy and amazing world with all these loveable and (also hate-able) cast of Ultimate characters, each with their own shining unique personality and traits, and I know you will be so thankful that you found this series!!
I love DR2!! A lot of people I talk to usually say they like Trigger Happy Havoc better than DR2: Goodbye Despair, but I (by a considerable amount) like DR2 much better. I thought that Nagito and the dreadful, threatening dangerous feeling of a looming threat just made the atmosphere so compelling in that one. The Hope's Peak Academy halls in the 1st were also intimidating and had me on high alert a lot, but nothing compared to the 2nd!! To me, its mainly due to the stellar cast of students on the 2nd. For instance, the 1st had many that I just could not really become that attached to like Mondo Owada, Celeste Ludenberg, & Hifumi Yamada, among others. Not saying they didnt have a unique and special personality, but for different reasons, these characters just didnt grow on me like the sequel's cast did. Hajime is a much better and filled out protagonist than Makoto Naegi (in my opinion). And the threat and malicious feeling in the background and scenery on Jabberwock Island just makes for a really intense play through. Plus, Fuyohiko, Gundham, Sonia, Mikan, Hiyoko & so many more awesome characters really really grew on me and I fell in love with them.There were a few who obviously didnt earn my affections as well such as Kazuichi (a crybaby stalker who came off as very selfish to me) and also the boring Nekomaru Nedai. The only downfall to DR2 is the huge amounts of scenes with Monomi in it, oh and Chapter 4. I wont spoil anything but the chp where your in another reality just didnt sit well with me as well as the other islands. Not saying that I didnt like Monomi being included, cuz I did and I think she is an important asset to the cast of the game, but I didnt like having to listen to her and Monokuma every five seconds babbling nonsense. But still, 10 out of 10 stars for both Trigger Happy Havoc and DR2!!! And while Im at it, I also think V3 gets 10 out of 10 stars. I wish these games would gain the recognition and attention they deserve!!! Love hearing from all you fellow Danganronpan's out there. Stay tuned for the next Spike Chunsoft (dev's who work on Danganronpa) game that is kinda similar to the story arc of Danganronpa. Zanki Zero
@jim_bob_89 I enjoy all of the games, but I'm particularly passionate about Danganronpa 2. It's one of my favorite games of all time, and my love for it informs and fuels my enjoyment of other games in the series. The lovable cast, amazing twists, wonderful atmosphere (I feel like DR2 really got the combination of absurd humor and dark, larger-than-life drama and themes just right, whereas the original struggled a bit to find this balance), and gameplay improvements made this game for me.
Case in point: I initially played THH, enjoyed it, and then dropped it without a second thought. Once I played DR2, though, I couldn't get it out of my head. I did all of the extra stuff to get the platinum trophy and then, fueled by my love for the game, I decided to revisit the first game and clear out of the trophies such for it as well. You know it's a great game when it even improves your opinion of previous games in the series.
And yes. THANK YOU! Finally, someone else who thinks Chapter 4 was underwhelming. It's not bad, but it doesn't match the wonderful atmosphere of the rest of the game.
At this point, I'd rank the games:
Danganronpa 2 > Danganronpa V3 > Ultra Despair Girls > Trigger Happy Havoc
I think UDG is fantastic, and probably the most underrated game in the entire series due to the narrower focus and change in gameplay.
I agree with about 95% of your statements. Yes, DR2 is way more fleshed out of a game than the 1st. I was amazed after playing through the first time and then coming back for a 2nd play through to see all the wonderful and brilliant little hints and references that are littered throughout the dialog. I mean the devs did some 5 star writing on this one. And the despair was far more dark and brooding, even the mode where you go on dates with classmates that you unlock after you beat the game feels more "right". Yeah, but like you said UDG is a great game, I just had to rank it last in terms of the lack of characters, but no doubt I still loved Kimora and I will always love Genocide Jack!! Ha. The villains, (can't remember their name for the life of me) in UDG were amazing!! I thought they were actually cute kids for awhile till I saw how sadistic and neo-Satanic Monica turned out to be!!! LOL.
Gotta question for ya. On Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, have you played a lot of the board game where you have to go roll the dice and make it around the board while collecting Talent Fragments and building bonds and leveling your character up? If so, have you discovered the Future Course, which becomes available after beating the game on Mean (I presume???), but anyways , when you land on an Event Square on the whole Future Course, every time it introduces scenarios of Ultimate students never before seen (or at least not to my knowledge) I remember one guy was the Ultimate Boxer, another chick with green hair was the Ultimate Pharmacist, and it seemed to me that each one of these characters (whether it was just random names being pulled out of a hat or not) had a pre-determined backstory. Or in better understandable terms, it made me feel like Spike Chunsoft may have been hinting that these students could be in the future Danganronpa mainline games? I am always intrigued by any character in a Danganronpa game whether its a tiny role or big one, my interest goes thru the roof!! But on another note, it could also mean that those guys I saw were members of the Future Foundation and were assisting students in their daily lives at Hope's Peak Academy. I dunno though, I feel like this is a hint at things to come for the Danganronpa series, whether it happens soon or years from now, I dunno, but I feel like those names and their talents will be brought back to everyone's attention at some point or another in the future. Sorry I didnt mean to write so much, but I was just curious as to your opinion or thoughts on that as you seem to be well informed and intelligent on all things Danganronpa?!!!!!!
@jim_bob_89 UDG's cast is definitely limited, but I absolutely love the growing friendship between Komaru and Toko. It's my single favorite relationship in the series.
I actually didn't know that the Future Course was unlocked through replaying the trials on Mean, but that makes a lot of sense. I replayed all of the trials on Mean difficulty with Maki's Financing skill to grind monocoins for gallery unlocks and the arcade early on (before I got better at Outlaw Run and started making 100k on 1k wagers, which meant I could stop wasting monocoins at the casino) before starting the board game mode, so I just assumed it was unlocked by default.
Anyway, the characters you mentioned in the Future Course are actually characters from the Future Arc of the Danganronpa 3 anime that brings the story arc of the first two games to a close.
@jim_bob_89@Ralizah I actually thought chapter 4 was the strongest in the game so far. I liked the more isolated setting, surprising twists and the writing was the best I've seen in the game so far. By a mile, I'd say.
Also, the conclusion of the chapter (including the killing movie) really grabbed me.
The previous chapters I constantly knew who the killer was before the body had been found.
When Peko walked into the diner with wet hair, I immediately was like "she did it", without ever doubting it, because it is an alibi that you can fake very easily. Same with Mikan in the chapter after. After she is in your bed, I was like "she has the disease, she did it."
So I was very happy to finally have some real surprises in there.
I thought the isolated setting felt out of place, and the entire scenario felt fairly forced, like the writers were just forcing the game to continue, whereas I was genuinely engaged in the group dynamics and mysteries of Ch. 2 and 3. But many players think Ch. 4 is one of the best in the game, with Ch. 3 representing the low point of the game for them.
Also, the identity of the killer was more obvious to me due to the crime scene clues than in Ch. 2.
You're pretty far in now, huh? The last two chapters are crazy. Be sure to post your thoughts.
I completed chapter 5 now and am well into chapter 6. At this point in the story it's kinda hard to comment on anything. I'll refrain from it until I discovered the truth, I think.
I don't really know about the ending... It didn't really blow me away or anything. I liked case 4 and 5 a lot, the characters were great and there was some inspirational dialogue as well. But also a lot of stuff I didn't care about.
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