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Man, SDR2.
Feb. 2nd, 2014 08:48 pmStop making me like the whiny Katekyoh Hitman Reborn-reference character. I planned to dislike that guy on principle! Don't do this to me!
Pfft Dangan Ronpa bronies.
Jan. 22nd, 2014 10:40 pm(I'm calling unpleasant male fans of anything bronies now. Heinlein bronies and Civil war bronies and etc.)
There are people on SA upset that the SDR2 kids don't have "strong motives" like the SDR kids. Here, let me translate that for you: "The characters in this game are on average smarter, nicer, and less cynical than the ones in the last one, so they're not as cool with casually murdering each other." Let me abbreviate that for you: "This game is somehow too mature for me, and by the way where can I find sexy fanart of dead teenaged girls."
That it is possible for SDR2 to be too thoughtful for someone over the age of fifteen makes my head hurt. It's a Battle Royale/Phoenix Wright crossover, grow up five minutes' worth and you'll get over it.
The first game would not have succeeded the way it did if it had had this cast of characters, because the first game succeeded largely on the basis of shock value. This is not entirely a bad thing! Because the shock did not come primarily from the violence itself, but from the disdain that the game leveled at the tropes it was making use of.
You could imagine these guys sitting there brainstorming like, "god, I hate people who draw fanart of Mia Faye with her boobs even bigger. Can we hurt their feelings?" "I cannot believe people actually like Kristoph fucking Gavin, I want to make them uncomfortable with their life choices."
So no one should have expected the second game to feature an exact fucking clone of the social dynamics in the first one. The creators of SDR are a contrary bunch of dudes who do not actually like their fans. The chances that they were going to pack the sequel with hardcore-unrelateable psychopaths, exactly like they did the first game, were always nil.
Be grateful that you got Saionji and Sekuhara-Chef and sit down, you big babies.
There are people on SA upset that the SDR2 kids don't have "strong motives" like the SDR kids. Here, let me translate that for you: "The characters in this game are on average smarter, nicer, and less cynical than the ones in the last one, so they're not as cool with casually murdering each other." Let me abbreviate that for you: "This game is somehow too mature for me, and by the way where can I find sexy fanart of dead teenaged girls."
That it is possible for SDR2 to be too thoughtful for someone over the age of fifteen makes my head hurt. It's a Battle Royale/Phoenix Wright crossover, grow up five minutes' worth and you'll get over it.
The first game would not have succeeded the way it did if it had had this cast of characters, because the first game succeeded largely on the basis of shock value. This is not entirely a bad thing! Because the shock did not come primarily from the violence itself, but from the disdain that the game leveled at the tropes it was making use of.
You could imagine these guys sitting there brainstorming like, "god, I hate people who draw fanart of Mia Faye with her boobs even bigger. Can we hurt their feelings?" "I cannot believe people actually like Kristoph fucking Gavin, I want to make them uncomfortable with their life choices."
So no one should have expected the second game to feature an exact fucking clone of the social dynamics in the first one. The creators of SDR are a contrary bunch of dudes who do not actually like their fans. The chances that they were going to pack the sequel with hardcore-unrelateable psychopaths, exactly like they did the first game, were always nil.
Be grateful that you got Saionji and Sekuhara-Chef and sit down, you big babies.
Pff, Dangan Ronpa.
May. 25th, 2013 03:50 pm"Besides, our eyes are on the front of our faces so we can always face forward into the future!"
See, I haven't read much of Doraemon, but even I recognize that line. Is Monobear just quoting that series constantly, and I'm not noticing it? I wonder if the voice actress developed some pent-up frustration voicing that cat for so many years.
See, I haven't read much of Doraemon, but even I recognize that line. Is Monobear just quoting that series constantly, and I'm not noticing it? I wonder if the voice actress developed some pent-up frustration voicing that cat for so many years.
Dangan Ronpa is pretty hilarious.
Apr. 10th, 2013 04:12 pmI just read through this playthrough of it, and enjoyed the ending a lot. A lot of the early stuff was just Japan-standard over-focus-grouped pap, with the misogyny/transphobia/homophobia/etc that that entails. But the final confrontation with the villain was high-caliber black humor, and there were a lot of other funny moments scattered throughout. The fake-out Bad Ending and its foreshadowing were especially good.
The hero’s pretty funny on a meta-level, too. The game is based heavily on the Ace Attorney series, wherein the protagonist is a glove the rest of the cast is using to handle the nasty parts of the plot: “Here is where the trap and/or murderer is, Phoenix! I obviously will not be accompanying you over there, as you are theone-man bomb-squad hero!”
Usually, though, the hero’s status as the bomb-squad is metaphorical. In Dangan Ronpa, his friends literally make Naegi touch shit they think might explode. Over and over. And he complains about it to the player, but then he does it anyway! He knows what genre he’s in.
And usually the hero’s actually the one to solve the mysteries, too! That’s what makes him/her the hero, right? Even though the other characters are hand-holding him/her the entire time, handing out blatant clues, so as not to make things too hard for the player, those other characters aren’t supposed to actually know what’s going on! The rely on the Hero to figure it out!
But in this case another character actually is just leading Naegi by the hand throughout the entire game. He is literally the real detective’s meat shield. It’s pleasant to find a game that chooses to drop the pretense.
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The hero’s pretty funny on a meta-level, too. The game is based heavily on the Ace Attorney series, wherein the protagonist is a glove the rest of the cast is using to handle the nasty parts of the plot: “Here is where the trap and/or murderer is, Phoenix! I obviously will not be accompanying you over there, as you are the
Usually, though, the hero’s status as the bomb-squad is metaphorical. In Dangan Ronpa, his friends literally make Naegi touch shit they think might explode. Over and over. And he complains about it to the player, but then he does it anyway! He knows what genre he’s in.
And usually the hero’s actually the one to solve the mysteries, too! That’s what makes him/her the hero, right? Even though the other characters are hand-holding him/her the entire time, handing out blatant clues, so as not to make things too hard for the player, those other characters aren’t supposed to actually know what’s going on! The rely on the Hero to figure it out!
But in this case another character actually is just leading Naegi by the hand throughout the entire game. He is literally the real detective’s meat shield. It’s pleasant to find a game that chooses to drop the pretense.
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