Spoiler: What the fuck.
Case 5 [Finito]I have so many notes.Spoiler: Why did Shuichi help Monokuma? Is he an idiot or something?
Spoiler: The execution.... was that the intro to DR1?!
chapter 4/chapter 5 stuff:Spoiler: it's never outright stated but it's basically implied that a combination of learning the truth about the outside world (if nothing else there was the METEORS BITCHES flashback light) + not doing well under pressure in the first place + paranoia from the first three cases caused miu to fracture under pressure and go for the murder plan in the belief she could save the world with her genius, rather than her being a malicious killer from the startnotice that it's not until after trial 3 and the flashback light that she throws herself full-time into working on the virtual world(she's still my favorite tbh, maybe i just have weird taste)
Spoiler: the way it sort of redeemed Kokichi a bit while still keeping his motivations ambiguous,
Just a personal thing: Spoiler: I don't think it redeemed, or it meant to redeem, Kokichi. Kokichi's a bastard, and he always was a bastard till the moment he died. His actions were inexcusable, and neither the game nor the characters try to excuse them. What the game does is make him more understandable, but at the same time insert that bit of ambiguity that makes everyone a bit unsure if they were able to figure him out in the end, or if it was just another lie.And that's why Kokichi is the best worst character in the series. He's the worst because he's an absolute bastard that plays with peoples' lives even while he's (maybe) trying to save them and has an absolute blast doing so, and he's the best because every single bit about him, from the writing down to the voice acting delivering, is top notch.
And Case 6 is a doozy. It's been about, what, four or five days since I beat it, and I still am trying to come to terms with it.
Real quick thoughts on case 1 before I start case 2:Spoiler: Having the main character get killed was a pretty bold move that I really wanted to appreciate, but instead of Kaede being killed as the victim of of case 2 (which would have been an incredible shocker) we get a lightly reheated version of DR 2-5 that lacked impact and kinda made me angry since we're back to a bog-standard DR hero instead of having a girl MC. Even reversing their roles would have been more interesting if it meant we got to play as Kaede after case 1. It feels like a tremendously wasted opportunity and lost potential to...not buck the trend of guy MCs?
Spoiler: Do you guys think this completely closes the door on the franchise? Does an ending like that make another Danganronpa title impossible? Or at least, do you think it was the dev team's intent that this was the absolute final chapter?
Spoiler: Oh yeah, did Kaede have a twin sister or not? As far as I can tell that was just some kind of bizarre red herring, which is fair enough I guess, it genuinely did throw me off for a while in the last case. But was it a total fabrication? Did I miss something there?
Spoiler: Even if the creators wanted to stop with V3, they might be forced to make another DR game. Or a new set of devs could be given control of the franchise to do that, if they resist that much.
Kinda gave up on trying to clear the despair road minigame after a few dozen times. It just feels like it wants to be IWBTG and it's successful.
Spoiler: I got a music sheet from monokuma machine. The only musician in the group is Kaede. Is she going to gift it to herself?
I gave it to Spoiler: Korekiyo, since it was described as a lost composition. Seemed to work.