Personally, my favorite game in the franchise is the second game, although I agree that V3 has some of the best characters. I'm still bitter about the decision to kill off Kaede, though.
The theme of truth and lies was interesting, but I didn't like how fiction was considered to be equivalent to a lie. A lie is something that the liars want people to accept as truth, whereas fiction is meant to be an entertaining fantasy that, while believable, is never meant to be seen as real (the This Is A Work Of Fiction disclaimer isn't just for humor or foreshadowing meta twists).
I agree that some of the minigames are more entertaining, especially Mind Mine, but Hangman's Gambit still has some of the flaws from its previous iterations.
Incidentally, it's a bit strange how my review for New Danganronpa V3 stopped being tied to the work page after its name got changed to Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony. I wonder if I'm allowed to repost my review now that the work page has changed its name.
I’ll never agree but like what you like.
Hey Valiona, why don\'t you try to repost it? You have piqued my curiosity. And if you can\'t then you could try to redo it.
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Danganronpa finally grew the beard
I don't care what anyone says, this is for me, the best game in the franchise.
It fixes almost all of the problems I've had with this franchise since the beginning, all of the characters feel fleshed out (at least for the short time they're alive), the corny theme of hope is gone, replaced with the much more interesting theme of lies and metafiction, and the minigames are actually not terrible for once.
The biggest problem of this game is that it suffers from the lack of new ideas, there are a lot of moments that are very similar to previous installments, so if you just finished Danganronpa 2, wait some time before playing this or you might feel franchise fatigue.
And about the ending, while it still suffers from the same mistakes from the previous games (being unnecessarily long and Anvilicious), It's still a lot better because the message is much more deep than "Hope good". I can understand why some people hate it, but at least hate it for the right reasons (the game isn't criticizing you for enjoining the franchise); it could also be said that this ending completely goes against the themes of the franchise, but since I HATE the corny themes of hope vs despair, for me this is actually a good thing.
So, well done Kodaka, you finally made a Danganronpa game that has more positives than negatives.