AWKWARD ZOMBIE

Finished the first one in like, 3 days.

Wow!

A+ Danger Will Robinson.

It was amazing, wasn't it? I really love how the game starts out making its audience jump to all sorts of conclusions about the characters and then proceeds to flip the conclusions on their heads.

Like Maizono being the main love interest in the story. When they advertised the game, they even edited the trailer to show her still alive during the first trial to trick people into thinking she would survive.

I'm gonna bite my tongue on a lot of these because spoilers but i'd just like to point out that Yamada isn't really that bad once you continue to read it. He's kind of obsessed with fictional characters but y'know, a lot of people are and there is a questionable bit at one point but even then it was pretty mild. I can't say a whole lot because it's spoilers but try to trust me here. Not my favorite character but i think he gets shat on a lot unfairly.

Haha, if you say so. I really don't mind people telling me to hold off on hating certain characters.

Unless that character is Togami. Then I will politely refuse.

togami is a dick throughout the game and spoiler: he doesn't really change.

Especially when early on he's like "I found all this information related to the murder" and everyone's like "tell us togami" and togami just makes that little asshole grin and is like "yes, tell us Naegi" and you have to answer hahaha have fun!

That's one of the things the second game has over the first: other people actually participate in the trials instead of you just having to figure out everything else yourself and with assistance from maybe one other person

Reading through it now. Just got to the first execution scene. daisies that was brutal, and according to the comments it was probably the tamest one.

All of the executions are pretty brutal, but they can be pretty cartoony as well.

Apparently the game devs thought up executions for every character in the game, even the characters that would survive to the end in the final version. I wish there were video clips out there of all the 'potential' executions.

And now at the second trial.

Togami you're a fucking idiot to betray a serial killer and get it wrong.

I really like that in the Something Awful LP, the OP includes lots of additional information about the cast and Japanese culture. It really helps me understand what's going on better and I just like that kind of stuff to begin with.

The second trial MADE ME SO UPSET LIKE GOD daisies. it's also why I don't like togamoney even though I do make jokes about him I just don't like him at all. It also made me cry at the end and I hated myself for snickering at the end of the e xecution friggin stupid sympathetic murderers frickin frick

Not to mention after my first favorite was killed at the second chapter my second favorite was murdered in the third then my third fav died in the fourth WHAT BULLSHIT

Togami needs some major surgery to remove his head from his booty.

Edit: What is this wordfilter nonsense? LOLI.

Edit2: Wait, I found a discrepancy in the fifth trial. When the masked body was found, the alert didn't sound. It only sounded after the explosion. Meaning that wasn't a corpse until someone who was in the gym, when the bomb was found, brought it up and detonated it.

Have you finished the fifth trial yet? shit gets wild during it.

ALSO HAVE A VIDEO (it's not spoilers.)

Man, I'm slow. I just finished the prologue yesterday, I think. Although in my defense I've been doing an online class too. I like the characterization Oowada's getting with his brother and keeping his promises.

Also every time I see Maizono's serious face, I automatically think her dialogue is going to be "I can read minds." So it's pretty hilarious seeing that after Naegi asks what she's doing outside his room.

Finished it all actually. That was certainly a, uh, thing. Not sure if I like it or not though, since it went from murder-mystery to basically Gurren Lagann with the whole Despair thing.

Don't look too hard into that.

There's so much inconsistency with the death alert in that case that it's more likely to be used to screw with the player.

Also, something that always weirded me out.

If a death alert only sounds when three students find a dead body how did Maizono's sound while Naegi was passed out when he found her in his bedroom and no one else was in the room with him?

Anyways, realized I haven't talked a lot about the game, so here's some of my thoughts as I was playing.

Chapter 1:

I figured Maizono was going to die and might try to set Naegi up, but not exactly the same way it happened. I thought she was going to try killing him because she was afraid someone was going to kill her and she needed to escape anyways. I feel she's at least a little sympathetic though, seeing as none of the students knew at that time about the trial, just that they had to "get away with it". It's reasonable to think that maybe she felt that if Naegi were blamed for it and didn't expose her switch, she'd get to leave, and then eventually, Naegi would escape by killing someone. But since Monobear set up the idea that everyone dies if she were to get away with it, that plan would have backfired. I feel really bad for Leon for being targeted, but I also think he could have just left her in the bathroom and been better off, though he probably thought if she turned on him, many others would have too for the opportunity, and he had her cornered, so he took the chance. Junko's death seemed kinda weird at the time, but I brushed it off. The spears of Gungnir are still very "what the fuck".

Chapter 2:

I figured Chihiro would have been safe since he hadn't shown off any hacking yet, and was kinda miffed about it because I felt it was an "informed" ability. The room switch was pretty apparent to me, so I figured out the big twist was that he was a guy in a dress. The ID cards made me think that Mondo and Ishimaru might have both ruined their cards, and thus taken Chihiro's and Leon's. Of course, only one of them could be the murderer because they couldn't both come in on Leon's card and I'm not sure if Leon's card could be "loaned" between them, so I figured that Mondo did it and Ishimaru watched and helped cover for him. Ishimaru being so pushy on defending him didn't sink through until I realized he likely didn't have his card on him in the sauna since he was in a towel. Whoops. Still, got pretty daisies close. Togami was also a dick and I was convinced he was going to pull something dumb later in the game. Genocider Syo is wonderful.

Chapter 3:

Alter Ego made me pop flyin' because Chihiro didn't end up being wasted for nothing. I suspected Celes as soon as I realized she was the only one who saw the figure "moving around" (including insisting that they didn't get past her on the stairs), and especially when the two death alerts came at different times. I realized Yamada must have been playing along with her, and that she probably set up a double kill to "get them both free" but framed Yamada so no one knew she was the killer. Throughout the chapter, I thought that Higakure was the mole, and being framed for murder would easily make players discount their role as the mole. Plus, I felt they were playing too dumb and staying too safe. Too bad Sakura was doing the same thing and I failed to notice her. Good job game, I should have known that the mastermind would go after the person that's "hardest" to control.

Chapter 4:

Man, that trial was great, even though I suspected that Sakura switched the protein and poisoned herself with Asahina as an "accomplice" and that Asahina was going to try framing someone or taking the blame on purpose. The glass at the bottom of the poison jar threw me off real bad though, but my prediction was again spot on, even though the circumstances were wrong. I love that Sakura broke the lock to the headmaster's room before this too. Too bad she ended up as one of my favorite characters, but the fact that she did that allowed the others to become more unified. Even Togami was mad that the mastermind was playing dirty.

Chapter 5:

This was probably the most confusing case, and that's kinda understandable. I thought the arrows and tape were supposed to be related to Junko's death, and that Mukuro was using Junko's body to cover for it, but the death alert weirded me out way too much. Why would it sound then and not when Junko was speared? Naegi having to go through the execution was nerve wracking, because I thought they'd really try to kill him off, but luckily he survived.

Chapter 6:

Everything came together, but I still thought Mukuro would be the mastermind with disguising Junko's body with a posthumous tattoo (after all, the mark of the wolf had to be somewhere on their body, not necessarily on the hand. This would just be the best way to say "hey look, this is Mukuro, not Junko) to cover for their identity, but I didn't consider them to pull a more tenuous "make up" thing, plus I guess Mukuro being the mastermind would be a bit of a cop out, so I was technically right. The person who presented themselves as Junko was the corpse used to hide the real murderer who would be Mukuro, I just didn't anticipate a switch like that. The amount that Junko talked after being exposed was kinda unnerving, since she gave away most of the secrets that she was expecting the group to find out, but it made sense when she revealed it was ultimately a trap to keep them in the school under he foot and get rid of Naegi for the sake of "killing Hope". I'm kinda surprised I didn't catch the eye color switch early on though, but I guess I bought into the photoshop thing too much.

All in all, a very good experience even if I guessed the result of pretty much every case (even though the circumstances weren't spot on). Hagakure is an idiot, Kirigiri is gr8, Fukawa is amazing, Togami is a giant dick and reminds me of PW1 Edgeworth, Naegi bridges the gap between beta-male protag and badass (I find a lot of similarities in his snark to Phoenix Wright aswell), and Asahina is sweet as fuck even if she tried to kill everyone in her despair of losing Sakura like that (though it's REALLY understandable). The bad ending was also hilarious since Higakure's other prediction came true in it, and I imagined that Fukawa probably killed herself because Togami got tired of dealing with her and asked her to.

Also, I wish the secret ending was canon. And even with the existence of DR IF, I still feel sad knowing the "canon" result.