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i don't even know what to say first about this game. i suppose nothing really sticks out to me right away. it's just really "mid".
i never felt a deep connection to any of the characters and the ones i found likeable ended up dead before chapter 1 even started (goodbye pucci, zilch and aphex, my beloved :'). desuhiko and yomi were nice characters, but not good enough to stand out. i really dislike vivia (i know he's everyones skrunkly wunkly little guy but this man lacked depth and was so boring that i'd rather watch paint dry than listen to him any longer). though the worst characters was dominic fulltank. this man didn't say a single word during the entire game/chapter he was in! you expect me to get attached to someone who just stares at me with an expressionless face? absolutely not.
honestly, i was hoping for so much more, especially from the characters. the danganronpa characters had always been so great, making me feel all sorts of things. but raincode barely managed to make me care about the characters. the thing i liked most about the characters were their va's, since they did a great job. though the voices and the characters lips did not match at all which you could really see in cutscenes where you'd see them close up.
i was also cursed with liking the killers the most each time. so the detectives i liked died right away and the suspects i liked were always the killer. just my luck, huh...
the soundtrack of this game is actually quite alright. nothing i'd listen to outside of the game very often, but i do overall prefere it over the danganronpa ost. though you can easily make an argument for this ost just being a copy or remix of danganronpa's ost.
the ending plot twist was actually what made me like the game. i assumed from the start that yuma was number one, but i always assumed makoto would be the homunculi of kurumi and not yuma, so that was quite the surprise.
shinigami also became less annoying in the last chapter. to be fair, i didn't hate her as much as other people do, but she really lacked some more emotional moments. instead, she was too much fanservice (though pulling the truth blade out of her mouth is so weird that it somehow became funny again). but yeah, she's an annoying bully for most of the time, but her ending redeemed her in my eyes and made me consider that she tried to be an asshole to everyone, so it would be easier for yuma to move on after their pact ended. this might just be my interpretation, but it does make her much more likeable if i view her like this.
overall, chapter 5 was the highlight of the game (as it should be)! the meatbuns, the hommunculi, the rain and the pink blood... honestly, they did well with that! especially the blood thing caught me off guard and upon replaying the game i did notice the difference in chapter 0 with yuma's blood being red when he cuts himself, yet everyone else afterwards being pink. replaying the game helped with finding more small moments to appreciate the game for, but also made its flaws stand out more.
i never felt a deep connection to any of the characters and the ones i found likeable ended up dead before chapter 1 even started (goodbye pucci, zilch and aphex, my beloved :'). desuhiko and yomi were nice characters, but not good enough to stand out. i really dislike vivia (i know he's everyones skrunkly wunkly little guy but this man lacked depth and was so boring that i'd rather watch paint dry than listen to him any longer). though the worst characters was dominic fulltank. this man didn't say a single word during the entire game/chapter he was in! you expect me to get attached to someone who just stares at me with an expressionless face? absolutely not.
honestly, i was hoping for so much more, especially from the characters. the danganronpa characters had always been so great, making me feel all sorts of things. but raincode barely managed to make me care about the characters. the thing i liked most about the characters were their va's, since they did a great job. though the voices and the characters lips did not match at all which you could really see in cutscenes where you'd see them close up.
i was also cursed with liking the killers the most each time. so the detectives i liked died right away and the suspects i liked were always the killer. just my luck, huh...
the soundtrack of this game is actually quite alright. nothing i'd listen to outside of the game very often, but i do overall prefere it over the danganronpa ost. though you can easily make an argument for this ost just being a copy or remix of danganronpa's ost.
the ending plot twist was actually what made me like the game. i assumed from the start that yuma was number one, but i always assumed makoto would be the homunculi of kurumi and not yuma, so that was quite the surprise.
shinigami also became less annoying in the last chapter. to be fair, i didn't hate her as much as other people do, but she really lacked some more emotional moments. instead, she was too much fanservice (though pulling the truth blade out of her mouth is so weird that it somehow became funny again). but yeah, she's an annoying bully for most of the time, but her ending redeemed her in my eyes and made me consider that she tried to be an asshole to everyone, so it would be easier for yuma to move on after their pact ended. this might just be my interpretation, but it does make her much more likeable if i view her like this.
overall, chapter 5 was the highlight of the game (as it should be)! the meatbuns, the hommunculi, the rain and the pink blood... honestly, they did well with that! especially the blood thing caught me off guard and upon replaying the game i did notice the difference in chapter 0 with yuma's blood being red when he cuts himself, yet everyone else afterwards being pink. replaying the game helped with finding more small moments to appreciate the game for, but also made its flaws stand out more.
stovetop
9 months ago
What did you think of the labyrinths? I thought most of them were longer than they should have been and too much frontloaded repetition in the with the very first one being a horrible first impression cuz of it.