Danganronpa: Academy of Hope and High School Students of Despair

I wouldn't trust Monokuma to not screw everyone over in that instance.

edited 31st May '17 7:59:27 PM by LordVatek

It'd be fun if the chapter leading up to a trial that's ultimately decided by election rather than by truly conclusive proof was politics-themed. Like if the students had to participate in a "campaign" and one of them wound up dead.

Monokuma should really shake things up.

It gets kinda boring following the same routine.

There are tons of ways to make these games more torturous for the students.

Come to think of it, that scenario would work very well with the Scrum Debate mechanic.

Also, I don't know if this counts as V3 spoilers, but the Scrum Debate theme is sooo catchy

Yeah, that theme is pretty catchy.

If it comes out in an even split, perhaps the tiebreaker could be settled like this: a final Scrum Debate to convince Monokuma of the identity of the murderer. Everyone who voted for one person would try to convince Monokuma that that person they voted for was the murderer. There would also be some sort of meter that shows how convincing each side's argument is.

Of course, that could just be me and my love for the Scrum Debate mechanic.

Who wants to retroactively put Scrum Debates in the previous Danganronpa games? Because I fucking would.

I believe that if you wanted a tie to be possible, then you'd probably need to have had a double murder or something beforehand - otherwise you'd have an odd number of people voting, right?

Alternatively, someone could vote for a third person form some inane reason.

I think it'd be better this way:

I'm thinking there are seven students left at the trial. Monokuma knows the culprit, because he always does. Instead, you have the entire trial having people waver with their suspicions. The last nonstop debates proves the existence of a second culprit for real, and then you need to do the P.T.A and give the Closing Argument. However, there is no conclusive proof. The way the tally lines up is 3 students on your side and 4 on the culprit's side, and then you have a final Scrum Debate to argue the point. You win the Scrum Debate, as usual, and after it's over Monokuma calls the vote. It's 4 votes for the culprit vs. 3 for you, you have managed to swing a single vote to win the trial for you.

The Scrum Debate mechanic is the best thing to come out of V3, everything about it is awesome.

Isn't it just hilarious how failure always results in protagonist being voted even if it doesn't make any sense? I mean in Ace Attourney its at least because you failed to do your job so you lose by default or something

Every now and then they throw in raised stakes, like how Kurain's entire concept is that they'll bring the same punishment down on Phoenix.

It took me till now to realize that Peko is somewhat of a rehash of Mukoro, but this time we actually get to hear about it from their mouth, instead of postmortem investigation that you won't connect until the final chapter.

I wonder if the Danganronpa 2.5 OVA will have to be sent to Funimation.

I'm excited for V3 but I don't know how demanding the graphics will be (I'm playing on PC)

Ditto. I played Zero Time Dilemma on PC, and the cutscenes were laggy as heck.

I know NDRV3 uses 2D graphics and not 3D models. But there are a lot of animations, so I'm kinda worried.

edited 23rd Jun '17 1:44:44 PM by sleeping-in-bloom

Not that many animations actually. There are quite indeed quite a few in the prologue and in chapter 6 (the latter specially), the same animation for the Remembering Lights every chapter and 1 body discovery and 1 execution per chapter. It's far from ZTD, where every scene is an animation.

I heard the deaths are more brutal than Goodbye Despair

But what about the Class Trials? There is a lot of movement during the gameplay aspects.

*rubs hands in anticipation*

edited 24th Jun '17 12:48:44 PM by sleeping-in-bloom

Movement? Do the sprites have mouth movement or something

Oh yeah, the V3 text movement is amazing. They got really clever and creative with that. One time the word "roll" appears and it's spinning across the screen, other time the word "teleport" would warp back and forth, the sentence "they shot the crossbow" would have the words forming the shape of a bow with the last word being the arrow that gets fired, etc.

This can indeed lag, but that might be an advantage if you're a slow thinker.

Would I need a graphics card for the game?

I must add that the game has an amazing soundtrack

Class Trial - Universal Edition is my jam!

There are a lot of examples...my faves are Class Trial-Revival Edition, Discussion -SCRUM-, Climactic Return, Beautiful Lie, Living in Crazy Parallel World, and Darkness Time, among others.

I like how pretty much all the returning track were given remixes but Trial Underground was left pretty much untouched. Don't fix what isn't broken.

Has Monokuma ever punished somebody for attempting to kill someone but failing?

No, the rules don't treat failed murders as something punishable. Akamatsu's punishment was an intentional irregularity and it's inquestionably treated as the ringleader breaking the rules.

You don't need to spoilertag DR 1 chapter 1 content. Just spoiler tagging V3 is enough.

edited 27th Jun '17 9:47:10 AM by Comun

The first death in the first game was the result of a failed attempt. Same in the 2nd game

edited 27th Jun '17 9:36:16 PM by Zackontheattack