Question meme!

[itsalluseless]

It's been a while since the last time and Battler recently reached 6500 comments so LET'S DO THIS.

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[telltaleheart]

I don't actually have anyone else I particularly want to app right now! My app urges are actually very infrequent, which is why I played only Raven for such a long time until I found just the right female psychopath to app. (Guess who!!) And I haven't gotten super excited about any new canons since Tiger & Bunny!

I guess under the strict parameters of the question, if I had to drop someone and app someone else, I would drop Kotetsu and app Karina from Tiger & Bunny instead. Like a reasonable person.

...Or I might app Roxy from Homestuck. :|a

TELL ME MORE ABOUT WHAT DANGAN RONPA IS ABOUT

[itsalluseless]

OKAY SO there's a school called Hope's Peak Academy! It only accepts in students who are the top of their chosen field or Super High-School Level; for example, Asahina is a SHSL Swimmer. The game's protagonist, Naegi Makoto, is kind of a special case, though. He won a lottery arranged by the school and because of that was accepted in as SHSL Good Luck.

So Naegi and the other new students enter the school, but immediately pass out and wake up to find that every door and window leading to the outside has been tightly locked, trapping them inside. A stuffed toy/robot called Monobear appears, claiming to be the headmaster, and tells them the only way to get out of the school is to "graduate". The way to graduate? You have to kill one of your fellow students without being discovered by the others. If you succeed, everyone else is killed and you get out. If the others find out you're the culprit, you're killed and the others keep going. Later on, Monobear keeps providing the students with "motives": threats to loved ones, threatening to reveal everyone's darkest secrets unless a murder occurs, etc.

Eventually bodies do start appearing, and it's mostly up to Naegi to investigate and find the true culprits. Every time there is a murder, Monobear sets up a School Trial where the students must provide evidence and arguments to try and prove their innocence or someone else's guilt. The trials are very much in the style of Phoenix Wright or Umineko, with a lot of dramatic yelling and coloured text and arguments taking the form of metaphorical bullets. Alongside the murder storylines, you also get to learn a lot about each student's past and personality as well as the trying to uncover the truth about the school and the mastermind behind all these twisted events.

Basically it's a really cool and fun game and definitely worth checking out! There's an excellent Let's Play/translation of it right here!