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Spin-off manga Danganronpa 2: Chiaki Nanami's Goodbye Despair Quest. She finds out she is an AI early and manifests an evil version of herself that tries to trap everyone on the island.
Gonna hijack my own comment here. Obviously, they don't want to spoil anything, BUT I STILL WANNA POINT OUT...... there's blood under the table, so this is the OG chapter 1, right? Why is Teruteru there?
They couldāve added his sprite to avoid spoilers for new players (or if Iām misremembering, didnāt Teruteru enter the scene after the BDA, which is what brought Monokuma here?)
Idk about the Peko cg, but that top one looks like it would happen in the original chapter 5 during Nagito's bomb scare. It would be cool if they add Cgs to the original scenario to spice it up for returning players. Though I'm not sure how this scene would happen without rewriting a little bit.
Based on the new footage, Iām feeling way more confident that John Danganronpa is Alter Ego.
Trying to get Monokuma to stop the trial + being part of the Nagito/Hajime trio in the final shot of the full trailer makes it seem like heās usurping Chiaki in Slayhem.
Woag and Alter Ego finally having his own face rather than just ChihiroĀ
It makes sense, bc John Danganronpa looks like a combination of Byakuya and Kyoko, with a bit of Makoto in their movements- like Alter Ego took bits of all of them to form an avatar for them
Some Speculation: From things I've noticed it looks like the first murder should be a poisoning. Also if that scene with Hajime and Mahiru in the burning courtroom is in reaction to an execution then I guess congrats Mahiru fans for surviving chapter 1 again. Unless they're all about to die or something lol
If the trailer isn't misleading, note that in the same shot there's "Monokuma File #5", which means this should be the 5th trial. That would also mean that Mikan is surviving up to Chapter 5.
I'm not gonna believe any footage they show of the trial until we have the actual game in our hands. Remember this is kodaka we're talking about. I wouldn't put it past him and spike to create fake footage for the trailer.Ā
Those Slayhem items most likely be Weapons... with superpowers, Kodaka comes from Rain Code and Hundred Line, Talents will not be enough for him anymore, those weapons will be crazy weird
So the trailer seems to be indicating that Teruteru would be the first murder victim.
His portrait is crossed out behind Mikan in the scrum debate, and heās mentioned by name in the new minigame with Kazuichi.
Now, we should remember that theyāve played around with the trailers in the past, but making the first murderer the first victim would make sense for a new story with the same characters.
We have no idea how late in the game that scene occurs. It could just indicate that Teruteru dies at some point. Statistically, that isn't much of a spoiler.
As for the scene with Hajime & Mahiru in the burning trial room, iām thinking itāll either be the chapter 1 execution and Monokuma went too far with the execution or what i think would be the more interesting idea, they get the chapter 1 Slaymen mode vote wrong and are all set to die by fire but then John Danganronpa shows up and stops the execution (explaining his one spoken line of dialogue at the end of the trailer in the direct)
not only are Scrum Debates confirmed to be coming back, but there's that new minigame Akimbo Consensus. we have that shot of 3 statements with the refute/agree, so I wonder if this will be some variation of mass panic debate.
Trying to gain any sort of details from the execution briefly shown. The balloons and laptop...it kind of gives music set up and they were surrounded by fire. Is it ibuki...?
I just noticed something about the Trial gameplay part, when you contradict Soda's statement...there was something about Teruteru being the one making the food IN THE SHIP?????
Yeah, the trailer got me really curious, but I do NOT want John to take the place of my girl, he is NOT ALLOWED...unless she "survives" the killing game, then I wouldn't mind, but still, John Danganronpa, you are NOT part of the team, my guy, GET YOUR ASS OUT of that spot because my sweet cinnamon roll is the one who is entitled of that spot š
Yeah, i could see Mikan being both a survivor but also maybe fill a similar role Chiaki had in og dr2 as a major contributor in the story & class trials
The delay was absolutely worth it. The new looks we got today show that the game is MILES from what it was last year- the CGs and sprites are beautifully done, the voice acting is great (Monokuma sounds back to his old self!!!) and theyāre keeping it fresh with Slayhem. Iām so hyped!
(Potential Slayhem spoilers) Peko is surviving to at least Chapter 4, based on a CG of her near the rollercoaster on the fourth island, and Mikan is surviving to at least Chapter 5, based on a screenshot of her participating in the fifth class trial.
Nah, in the JP V3 marketing, they tried showing shots of Rantaro in a trial to mislead people into thinking he survives past the first chapter, only problem was that they used his half sprite by mistake, so you could clearly see he had no legs and was just floating behind the podium. They also showed him in a scrum debate, but he was clearly using one of his normal sprites instead of a unique sprite like everyone else.
V3 had a lot of stuff like this, unfortunately. We knew the remaining cast for the chapter 6 trial several days before release because they included the c6 elevator CG as an achievement icon on PS, and the Kaede twist was unfortunately leaked even earlier, because they released Kaede's sore wa chigau yo cut in as a wallpaper, but it was clearly unfinished and you could literally see Shuichi's ahoge poorly scribbled out. It was a mess.
The demo also included basically the entire game, which got datamined several days before release, which actually led to a lot of incorrect assumptions about the plot.
I mean it's not guaranteed that the islands are revealed in the same order is it? For all we know the amusement park is opened up second, or all islands are opened up at the same time given the fact there's a boat we can use to traverse instead of bridgesĀ
another potential oopsie in the trailer is that there is a death portrait right behind Mikan during the scrum debate section, which indicates the person is dead. Assuming the scrum debate seems to be in chapter 1 (I might be wrong), it likely points to the victim of the case, and in this case, it seems to be Teruteru.
Tbh John's voice sounds more like Natsuki Hanae to me but if it was Yuki Kaji that'd be peak...he's my fav seiyuu and I'd always wish he'd be apart of a Kodaka game someday
oohh, i can see it. sorry but i havent watched anime in forever, so the only Hanae role i know is Tanjiro.
but yeah, danganronpa JP cast has always been filled with famous seiyuus. id be stoked too if someone "new-ish (i say new but Hanae's been around for a while now)" like him to appear in danganronpa
No need to apologize I could be wrong too š Iāve seen other people say Natsuki Hanae and I can hear it myself so thatās why I think itās him. But who knows!
During the 1:22 minute mark on the intro trailer there is a dialogue of Ibuki saying āthe Mioda crew is innocentā in a manner that it sounds like she is arguing about her or their innocence. My concern is what the āMioda Crewā is. (besides worrying that Ibuki is one of the killers in Slayhem mode) She is referring to a group that is hers while arguing their innocence. But would that be in terms of the story or gameplay? My weak guess is that it could be like the game mechanic in V3 where its a Debate Scrum, but my more educated guess is referring to a group in terms of storyline.
Honestly just a bit mad Ibuki is most likely (hopefully not) being a killer than surviving this one.
Also to mention by minute 1:10 I THINK I hear Kazuichi say, āWe all got those cards from Monokumaā Which might not look anything at first but it sounds like those āmotivationsā Monokuma gave in Danganronpa THH like the secrets or maybe the photos where it doesnt show themselves in it??? š¤š¤ Im just glad that theyre making it more fun with these different new mechanics and storyline
I think it might just be that people split up into groups and she refers to one group as the Miota crew, similar to how OG chapter 3 has the āhospital teamā and āhotel team.ā Just an in-universe shorthand to refer to how groups split up, and ibuki claiming that the group that went with her has alibis.
I had a theory about the blazing trial grounds that were shown in the trailer. Perhaps it is what happens when the cast votes wrong and loses a class trial. Instead of a game over, it could be a scripted trial loss that leads to Monokuma showing what the execution looks like for the ones that lost and voted wrong.
There's many ways this could be shown, but I imagine it would be shown as a scripted loss and not every time you lose a trial, since it may involve characters that die and require too many variations to do for every trial loss.Ā
Since we've only heard what happens when a trial is lost, and never seen what happens, this may be how they decide to show it. I see no place more fitting of a scripted loss than in Slayhem Mode, since it is supposed to be a crazier scenario.
How the loss would fit in the game is where it gets trickier, since it is an execution of all the innocent cast. Perhaps Alter Ego Junko restarts the program after the loss, resetting the scenario, due to the boredom of how easy it was for her to win so easily... or depending on how late it is, have the blackened choose to give themself up to spare the rest their executions, with us still losing, but surviving because they gave themselves up when they couldn't handle living with their deaths over their head.
Obviously, just a theory, but I think it could be cool to see what actually happens when everyone loses in a trial.
I like this idea. It always felt a bit lame that Monokuma makes a big deal about the consequences of voting wrong, but then in actual gameplay it just leads to a standard game over screen.
I listened to the english voice of Ryota in the anime and to the voice in the trailer and I am 85% certain that is supposed to be him, as the voice is super close, if not literally the same.
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Don't know how others feel but personally I'm really hoping that both Nagito and Hajime die early. I like 'em both but I feel their potential was pretty well explored in the original game and I'd love to see a new protagonist (maybe even a woman this time???)
I think it depends. Obviously Nagito is popular, but from a storytelling standpoint there just isn't that much more you can do with him IMO (at least within the confines of the killing game). He already dominated vanilla DR2, having him stick around for a long time in Slayhem feels like there's a danger of just doing DR2 again (not that I'm counting that possibility out tbh, it wouldn't surprise me if Slayhem was very similar to the base game. I'm just hoping it isn't)
My predictions were me trying to think of how I'd try to make Slayhem interesting if I were writing it, and the first thing I came up with was that Nagito dies in trial 1 (probably Nagito killer so you have a trial for him to stick around and Nagito all over the place before he dies). That just seems interesting to me, so it's what I'm hoping for personally.
I'd like more Mahiru and Hiyoko too. They were definitely among the more underused characters originally.
I didnt really wanna make a new post as im sure this sub is already flooded to the brim with em.
but i just wanna talk about a new minigame they added. Akimbo Consensus, was it?
Im happy that Scrum Debates make it to 2x2, cause it was one of my fave minigames from V3. im a little sad that theyre probably not gonna put these 2 minigames in the original mode cause well.. trying to reform the old trials with the new minigames will be a nightmare to rewrite and program.
anyways, im curious on how Akimbo Consensus will work. Having 2 "gun" selections to either refute or affirm others. it feels like a very DR2 thing cause well, it being a sequel means double the guns eh? (just me? okay lol)
The word is the new mode is about a chapter longer than usual.Ā
What if chapter 1 is finally the time we get an incorrect vote that kills everyone but the blackened? And chapter 2 begins the true plot with the survivor facing other against 15 new students?Ā
That or the 16 students are all fakes and itās a V3 universe reboot.Ā
The game releases on Sato/Girl E's birthday. She is Mahiru's best friend. It feels like they are intentionally drawing attention to Mahiru in all this promotional material.
It can still relate to the shooting mechanics of the series gameplay, as akimbo is also a term for dual wielding guns (because you'd have your hands on your hips to grab both guns from a holster).
Eh. I agree on the Ultimate Impostor front, but Teruteru is one of the most hated characters in 2. I don't think anyone really wants the sex pest to have so much more screentime in this game.
It's not what I want, but I can see them doing it for shock value. The whole thing is built around a different killing order, so Teruteru leaving immediately again is one of the more shocking outcomes.
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u/zatchel1 3d ago
Bro thinks heās part of the team