When the Ultimate Hope meets the Ultimate Despair, which side will be triumphant? Fairly they let us experience this conflict through the perspective of people that were promised a bright future ahead of them. Will the students chosen to represent mankind's hope, be able to overcome the perpetually resurrected despair which awaits them?
The game is filled with unseriousness and anguish, the latter they want to portray over everything to deliver us the most ultimate hope they can achieve, but in my view, they didn't really manage to do that. A cruel irony that left me unaffected, resulted in a dull hope that didn't move me.
Yet, I had a good time. The goofiness behind the characters results in a distinct charm many creators would like to find in their own works. This makes them lovable, I found sympathy towards a lot of them. Unluckily this is a shallow sympathy that isn't able to evoke any true depth of emotion in me.
The charm is definitely caused partly by their quirky designs, and the overall art style of the world they found themselves in. I like Kiyotaka's and Kirigiri's designs the most (Sakura's is cool too). The way the characters were drawn in the CGs was in a way off-putting, and they missed with the cutscenes since the videos were so low quality.
Kirigiri is the character I grew the fondest of, considering her great design, personality, and being the most interesting person around. Honestly, the only character I kind of disliked was Hifumi (I'll never grow fond of the weirdo otaku troupe)
The cases and overarching mystery were interesting, but overall they were unable deeply intrigue me. The answers were always pretty clear, the problem was in the way to get there canonically which was sometimes handled clumsily. Sometimes I wouldn't really know how Makoto was going to approach his counterargument, and therefore the game wanted to tell me I was wrong (even though it was right if he said what I wanted him to say)
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc wasn't able to really finalize its underlying goal, but it managed to positively surprise me with the enjoyable road towards it. I feel like the image created about Danganronpa is undeserved, it's not a game that should be ridiculed by the people that look at themselves seriously.
The game is filled with unseriousness and anguish, the latter they want to portray over everything to deliver us the most ultimate hope they can achieve, but in my view, they didn't really manage to do that. A cruel irony that left me unaffected, resulted in a dull hope that didn't move me.
Yet, I had a good time. The goofiness behind the characters results in a distinct charm many creators would like to find in their own works. This makes them lovable, I found sympathy towards a lot of them. Unluckily this is a shallow sympathy that isn't able to evoke any true depth of emotion in me.
The charm is definitely caused partly by their quirky designs, and the overall art style of the world they found themselves in. I like Kiyotaka's and Kirigiri's designs the most (Sakura's is cool too). The way the characters were drawn in the CGs was in a way off-putting, and they missed with the cutscenes since the videos were so low quality.
Kirigiri is the character I grew the fondest of, considering her great design, personality, and being the most interesting person around. Honestly, the only character I kind of disliked was Hifumi (I'll never grow fond of the weirdo otaku troupe)
The cases and overarching mystery were interesting, but overall they were unable deeply intrigue me. The answers were always pretty clear, the problem was in the way to get there canonically which was sometimes handled clumsily. Sometimes I wouldn't really know how Makoto was going to approach his counterargument, and therefore the game wanted to tell me I was wrong (even though it was right if he said what I wanted him to say)
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc wasn't able to really finalize its underlying goal, but it managed to positively surprise me with the enjoyable road towards it. I feel like the image created about Danganronpa is undeserved, it's not a game that should be ridiculed by the people that look at themselves seriously.