History ScrappyMechanic / Danganronpa

* The gifts with Free Time Events are another serious case of GuideDangIt. Not helping is that you can only get them at random. This was improved in the sequel, where you could access a vending machine that gives you a list of items to buy, and many of them are easy for you to figure out who would like what.

** Speaking of which, do you believe that you can keep a merged letter from earlier on the screen and just save it for when you need it? Think again; after a certain amount of time, those letters ''explode'', with ''absolutely no warning'', which means even more damage for you.

** Not that the easier levels are much better, since they have an annoying tendency of forcing you to wait ''30 seconds or more'' before giving you the next letter you need, making running out of time a ''legitimate'' concern. Do you believe that you can keep a merged letter from earlier on the screen and just save it for when you need it? Think again; after a certain amount of time, those letters ''explode'', with ''absolutely no warning'', which means even more damage for you.

** Because of the way taking damage has been altered, it's entirely possible for two different letters to spawn close enough that they register a collision, thus causing you ''unavoidable damage before the letters even fully appear onscreen''.

** And ''God help you'' if you're playing on Mean difficulty, in which the Gambits in Chapters 5 and 6 take on BulletHell levels of insanity as letters fly across the screen in all directions, requiring practically inhuman concentration and reflexes to avoid taking massive damage. For most players, these segments end up becoming wars of attrition in which simply trying to spell the phrase as quickly as possible before the rapidly plummeting influence meter bottoms out becomes the order of the day.

* Memory Truth Bullets were a frequent source of annoyance, especially to first-time players. More often than not, even if the player knew the answer, they still had to sit through a Nonstop Debate at least twice. They were thankfully not used as frequently in ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'' and were removed altogether and replaced with Lie Bullets in ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony.''

* The Closing Arguments that end each class trial can cross into GuideDangIt territory, since you're expected to summarize the entire murder by filling in blanks of manga segments using nothing but tiny, textless thumbnails that may esoterically depict the event they're meant to represent. Even if you know exactly how the murder went down, you may screw up and lose influence gauge hitpoints just because a thumbnail was too vague for you to figure out. For example, Chapter 4's trial features two thumbnails of Toko either entering or exiting a locker. Which one is which? Who knows--the clues distinguishing the two are very small. She's sweatier in one of the thumbnails. This one goes with the panels of her covered in sweat. It ''is'' worth points, so good luck!

* The Closing Arguments that end each class trial can cross into GuideDangIt territory, since you're expected to summarize the entire murder by filling in blanks of manga segments using nothing but tiny, textless thumbnails that may esoterically depict the event they're meant to represent. Even if you know exactly how the murder went down, you may screw up and lose credibility points just because a thumbnail was too vague for you to figure out. For example, Chapter 4's trial features two thumbnails of Toko either entering or exiting a locker. Which one is which? Who knows--the clues distinguishing the two are very small. She's sweatier in one of the thumbnails. This one goes with the panels of her covered in sweat. It ''is'' worth points, so good luck!

* The Closing Arguments that end each Class Trial can cross into GuideDangIt territory, since you're expected to summarize the entire murder by filling in blanks of manga segments using nothing but tiny, textless thumbnails that may esoterically depict the event they're meant to represent. Even if you know exactly how the murder went down, you may screw up and lose credibility points just because a thumbnail was too vague for you to figure out. For example, Chapter 4's trial features two thumbnails of Toko either entering or exiting a locker. Which one is which? Who knows--the clues distinguishing the two are very small. She's sweatier in one of the thumbnails. This one goes with the panels of her covered in sweat. It ''is'' worth points, so good luck!

* The gifts with Free Time Events are another serious case of GuideDangIt. Not helping is that you can only get them at random. This was improved in the sequel, where you could access a vending machine that gives you a list of items to buy, and many of them are easy for the player to figure out who would like what.

* The gifts with Free Time Events are a serious case of GuideDangIt. Not helping is that you can only get them at random. This was improved in the sequel, where you could access a vending machine that gives you a list of items to buy, and many of them are easy for the player to figure out who would like what.

* This game's iteration of the Hangman's Gambit has the audacity to call itself "improved" when, to the vast majority of players, it's anything ''but''. What was once a relatively simple - if dull and uninteresting - affair has been transformed into a tedious and frustrating headache thanks to mechanics that reek of FakeDifficulty. In a sequel in which all of the other returning mechanics received significant improvements, the fact that this one fell backwards so hard is nothing short of an enigma, and most players would rather have had the Hangman's Gambit remain the same or disappear entirely than to be forced to deal with this version of the minigame.

* The Closing Arguments that end each Class Trial can cross into GuideDangIt territory, since you're expected to summarize the entire murder by filling in blanks of manga segments using nothing but tiny, textless thumbnails that may esoterically depict the event they're meant to represent. Even if you know exactly how the murder went down, you may screw up and lose credibility points just because a thumbnail was too vague for you to figure out. For example, chapter 4's trial features two thumbnails of Toko either entering or exiting a locker. Which one is which? Who knows--the clues distinguishing the two are very small. She's sweatier in one of the thumbnails. This one goes with the panels of her covered in sweat. It ''is'' worth points, so good luck!

** Because of the way taking damage has been altered, it's entirely possible for two different letters to spawn close enough that they register a collision, thus causing you ''unavoidable damage before the letters even fully appear on-screen''.

** Not that the easier levels are much better, since they have an annoying tendency of forcing you to wait ''30 seconds or more'' before giving you the next letter you need, making running out of time a ''legitimate'' concern. Think you can keep a merged letter from earlier on the screen and just save it for when you need it? Think again; after a certain amount of time, those letters ''explode'', with ''absolutely no warning'', which means even more damage for you.

* This game's iteration of the Hangman's Gambit has the audacity to call itself "improved" when, to the vast majority of players, it's anything ''but''. What was once a relatively simple - if dull and uninteresting - affair has been transformed into a tedious and frustrating headache thanks to mechanics that reek of FakeDifficulty. In a sequel in which all of the other returning mechanics received significant improvements, the fact that this one fell ''backwards'' so hard is nothing short of an enigma, and most players would rather have had the Hangman's Gambit remain the same or disappear entirely than to be forced to deal with this version of the minigame.

* This game's iteration of the Hangman's Gambit has the audacity to call itself "improved" when, to the vast majority of players, it's anything ''but''. What was once a relatively simple - if dull and uninteresting - affair has been transformed into a tedious and frustrating headache thanks to mechanics that reek of FakeDifficulty. For starters, whereas most phrases in the first game were typically no more than around 10 letters and usually had a few filled in for you, this game's phrases can go as high as ''thirteen'' letters, ''none'' of which are pre-filled. In addition, because of the way taking damage has been altered, it's entirely possible for two different letters to spawn close enough that they register a collision, thus causing you ''unavoidable damage before the letters even fully appear on-screen''. And ''God help you'' if you're playing on Mean difficulty, in which the Gambits in Chapters 5 and 6 take on ''BulletHell'' levels of insanity as letters fly across the screen in all directions, requiring practically inhuman concentration and reflexes to avoid taking massive damage. For most players, these segments end up becoming wars of attrition in which simply trying to spell the phrase as quickly as possible before the rapidly plummeting influence meter bottoms out becomes the order of the day. Not that the easier levels are much better, since they have an annoying tendency of forcing you to wait ''thirty seconds or more'' before giving you the next letter you need. making running out of time a ''legitimate'' concern. Think you can keep a merged letter from earlier on the screen and just save it for when you need it? Think again; after a certain amount of time, those letters ''explode'', with ''absolutely no warning'', which means even more damage for you. In a sequel in which all of the other returning mechanics received significant improvements, the fact that this one fell ''backwards'' so hard is nothing short of an enigma, and most players would rather have had the Hangman's Gambit disappear entirely than to be forced to deal with this abomination of a minigame.

** However, it's worth mentioning that, while it is a ScrappyMechanic gameplay-wise, it's well-liked aesthetically and thematically, due to it going over the entirety of the crime (which is useful to players that have been focusing on analyzing small bits of the crime up to this point and may not have a clear idea of the big picture, especially in regards to event chronology) in an alternate art style. The sequels fix most of the complaints by immediately telling you what the thumbnails are actually supposed to represent as well as giving you specific questions to answer for each panel.

* The manga segments that end each Class Trial can cross into GuideDangIt territory, since you're expected to summarize the entire murder by filling in blanks using nothing but tiny, textless thumbnails that may esoterically depict the event they're meant to represent. Even if you know exactly how the murder went down, you may screw up and lose credibility points just because a thumbnail was too vague for you to figure out. For example, chapter 4's trial features two thumbnails of Toko either entering or exiting a locker. Which one is which? Who knows--the clues distinguishing the two are very small. She's sweatier in one of the thumbnails. This one goes with the panels of her covered in sweat. It ''is'' worth points, so good luck!