the Human After All of video-games; nowhere near as good as the first two releases, gets largely repetitive mid way through and people are trolling if they say it's their best.
In all seriousness though, I appreciate the game at the very least. Deciding that the next place to take your safe but solid 2D specific stylized courtroom investigation game is into a 3D puzzle third person shooter with very little in common with the previous games? A brave and fun move, just a shame that it doesn't really pay off in the end.
'Cus the game starts off pretty strong! You're locked up on this mysterious island, you escape from a bunch of evil Monokumas, you meet the villains and get the low down on what's gonna happen and the first level is genuinely great! You're excited to be playing a different new danganronpa, it throws a bunch of new attatchments for your gun and there's a cool scene with a bridge. After you beat that first boss though, game starts to go downhill.
Second level is all over the place. Immediately you start going in a circle, with your only reward being a monologue from the villain of the cast who REALLY DIDN'T NEED A MONOLOGUE OH MY GOD, and then you're left to wander a straight linear sewer level! Yay! You do eventually get to a camp full of humans and get to interact with some people but, from this point onwards, the game never really gets back to the highs of the intro+first level. It just starts to get real repetitive and runs out of ideas gameplay wise.
Also there's some things story wise that I think kinda blow or were unnecessary: the origin of what Monokuma is, the actual villain's motivations and the minigame with the idol girl. They're all just kinda like...really? Don't think it's a coincidence that around this time I started to care less about the universe that danganronpa was creating and maybe wished it stayed as the more mysterious world from the first game.
Cool idea; bad execution.
In all seriousness though, I appreciate the game at the very least. Deciding that the next place to take your safe but solid 2D specific stylized courtroom investigation game is into a 3D puzzle third person shooter with very little in common with the previous games? A brave and fun move, just a shame that it doesn't really pay off in the end.
'Cus the game starts off pretty strong! You're locked up on this mysterious island, you escape from a bunch of evil Monokumas, you meet the villains and get the low down on what's gonna happen and the first level is genuinely great! You're excited to be playing a different new danganronpa, it throws a bunch of new attatchments for your gun and there's a cool scene with a bridge. After you beat that first boss though, game starts to go downhill.
Second level is all over the place. Immediately you start going in a circle, with your only reward being a monologue from the villain of the cast who REALLY DIDN'T NEED A MONOLOGUE OH MY GOD, and then you're left to wander a straight linear sewer level! Yay! You do eventually get to a camp full of humans and get to interact with some people but, from this point onwards, the game never really gets back to the highs of the intro+first level. It just starts to get real repetitive and runs out of ideas gameplay wise.
Also there's some things story wise that I think kinda blow or were unnecessary: the origin of what Monokuma is, the actual villain's motivations and the minigame with the idol girl. They're all just kinda like...really? Don't think it's a coincidence that around this time I started to care less about the universe that danganronpa was creating and maybe wished it stayed as the more mysterious world from the first game.
Cool idea; bad execution.