Here are all my thoughts on each case of the game as i was playing them and the game overall that i wrote throughout the days i played it, obviously, as you can expect, there are spoilers in the review, so if you haven''t played the game, go play it yourself and then read this review if you wish. Now, let us start.
So im in the middle of chapter 1 of danganronpa right now and, i will say i dont know what to think about it, parts of it i like, parts of it i dont.
Case 1
What i like:
The atmosphere and music is great, also the art style, the characters are cool but....theres one big issue i have with not the characters themselves but with the promise....
didnt expect this game to be full on squid games and ace attorney have a baby, but here we are, its an interesting idea dont get me wrong, but it feels like every time i will get close to a character its very likely that they die sooner or later, which is kind of, i dont know, making the whole experience weird in that area, not sure if i like it.
Also the main baddie being a teddie bear that gives me teddie vibes from p4 sometimes isnt that interesting to me, but the appeal here definitely doesnt seem to be a great antagonist, more so the characters, atmosphere and premise, as well as the overall style of the game. Also the fact that he appears in the other games makes me feel even more powerless because it seems like we never really catch the mastermind behind all this? But i dunno, gonna have to keep playing to find all that out.
Case 2
This was insane, i enjoyed it a lot, man i feel bad for chihiro and mando man, i really liked mando so it was sad to lose him already, same with chihiro, didnt expect that she was a boy though..
The banter between Mando and the white suit guy was hilarious though (his name is hard to remember, was it kiyaoto (corrected to kiyotaka) or smth like that?
Kyoko keeps being great, love her character a lot, hopefully makoto and her have more interactions beyond their social link as well
Yea overall cool case
Also i suspected biyoko (or bayoko?) as ♥♥♥♥ lmao, im expecting this guy to be a culprit sooner or later (adding this while copying and pasting these here, but well, i can say that Byakuya was not actually a culprit in any of these cases, color me surprised lmao.)
Case 3
Another great case, i will say though ♥♥♥♥ google because during the daily life i was looking for where celeste was located, so i looked up "where is celeste usually" and the AI already ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ spoiled me that shes the culprit, whats wrong with you google? And as you probably guessed i stopped hanging out with Celeste because of that lol. Regardless point is despite knowing who the culprit is i enjoyed the case a lot anyway, i remember seeing someone on danganronpas subreddit discussing the franchise and mentioning celeste as one of their fav things so im actually surprised that shes dead now, unless she somehow comes back but id rather not as much as i liked her as an antagonist.
Also i didnt expect hifumi to be an accomplice, i always expected him to become the victim sooner or later because of how hes just the usual pervert character you see in anime every now and then, but im glad i was wrong and that he was actually an accomplice, even though in the end i still find him meh as a villain, but celeste carries a lot.
Also ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ did not expect Sakura to be the spy, but oh boy am i looking forward to seeing more of her since she seems to be more complex than just some bad guy traitor, overall 8 out of 10 case, and the execution was horrifying, ♥♥♥♥ the mastermind again.
Edit: now i know that to locate each character i gotta find them on the map through the handbook map, i usually used the quick map from tab so i didnt know lol, well good to know for the future
Case 4
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ this was a crazy case, probably my favourite in the game thus far, i wanted to finish sakuras social link but wasnt fast enough to do it so losing her was super sad, but also the amount of story this case gives is probably the most thus far, execution was crazy levels of messed up too, but man it was a rollercoaster of emotions with the amount of culprit accusations we got, with how emotional byukaya was getting i started suspecting him too lmao, i suspected sakara commiting suicide from the very beginning but the way the case went almost convinced me otherwise lol. So props for that. Kyoko again keeps being the best character in the game and i will say, i understand why i couldnt tell her the truth from the start, because it was to show Makoto isnt a self insert, but the way it was shown was annoying, illusion of choice and all that, and the way its presented was kind of annoying but again, i get why it was done.
Regardless im hyped for the last 2 cases and to learn all the last information there is to learn, cant wait to see how this franchise continues beyond this game as well
Case 5
Case 5 was crazy, definitely enjoyed it though will say what the actual ♥♥♥♥ was that alternate ending, i get that its supposed to be the bad ending, but having all 3 guys reduce Aoi to a baby making machine? Now thats gross. Anyway, its a good set up for the last case and definitely has the tension, im gonna move on to the last case immediately because thats where all my most important thoughts are.
Case 6
Case 6, now where do i start, i will say that i knew Junko was the mastermind because i got spoiled on that, i had my doubts on whether this game franchise will be for me so one of the things i found out was that yes you do defeat the mastermind in the end, and its not just dragging the same villain throughout the games without ultimately defeating both, so i was glad to learn that, although unfortunately i had to get spoiled on who the mastermind was, well regardless, it was definitely great overall, but i will say turning the Danganronpa world into this apocalyptic world was not really something i hoped to see, and Junko as a villain isnt really all that interesting to me, like, shes just a psycho and if we swapped her with genocidal Jack when it comes to the overall story not much would change, since both are just super ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up in the head without much else to them,so i was dissapointed in Junko as a villain
However Makoto, Kyoko, Hiro and Byakuya were definitely at their best as characters in these last 2 cases, they are definitely the main driving force behind my enjoyment of these cases, another thing i will say is we didnt get enough of the school memories that they lost, like i wish we saw how they were all like to each other in that time, and learning all of those memories back could come along with the end of the world thing, but oh well.
My only worry is that danganronpa will get hella repetetive in the next games, but Ace Attorney never did for me so i'll see for myself soon.
Overall enjoyed my time with this game, its not fantastic but it is great, despite having some major flaws that i mentione in my review. Anyway i hope that if anyone has read this very long Danganronpa 1 yap session they enjoyed reading through it lmao.
