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GAME: Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony

Should I play Despair Girls before V3? Is there any Easter egg or characters in V3 from Despair Girls I'll miss out on if I skip it?

V3 it is then. Kind of worried about these spoiler concern things, but there is only a few things that would make me possibly hate it. And I hope it has neither of these, (speculation spoilers):spoiler[Its a dream, a what-if scenario and nothing is really done, no one dies, some lame simulation to prepare for crap plot.]

Basically I hope that the deaths have consequences.

Danganronpa V3...challeng(es) the very idea of truth itself in a world dominated by the need for lies—lies like "never lose hope" or "the future is always open", for example.

“All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."

REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

"They're not the same at all!"

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand— AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"

MY POINT EXACTLY.

I loved this game. Absolutely loved it. I bought it the day it came out in Japan and was glued to it until I finished it - i dont usually rush through games due to lack of time to do so but I was determined to not let this one be spoiled for me. And Jake is right, you're doing yourself a huge disservice if you let it be spoiled for you.
I've seen on tumblr people gleefully went and spoiled themselves without playing the game, and I just dont really get that. It's not remotely the same when you know what's going to happen. This game just throws loop after loop at you.

The only real criticism is that, even though it contains 3 of my favourite characters in the series, it also contains what I consider the worst character in the entire franchise. I couldn't STAND this character and every time they appeared I hoped they'd be the next to die. They did nothing of value, and every time they appeared it made the game worse. They almost ruined the entire game for me so I'm glad that the rest was good enough to make up for. spoiler[I'm talking about Iruma Miu. Her entire shtick seems to be ''hey remember Teruteru, that character literally no one liked? What if we just did him again, but instead of just saying innunendo he just straight-up said the actual dirty stuff constantly..but he was also girl with giant tits?" Her entire personality was actually painful to me. All she does is make lewd jokes and sexually harass the others (amazingly, changing the gender of a character who sexually harasses others does not magically make it funny) but nothing she says is ever funny. It's the first time I was actively hoping a character would die. I also really hated Ouma, who is basically a worse version of Komaeda who inexplicably became the most popular character in the japanese fanbase, sigh. (But, Ouma's irritating edginess at least becomes somewhat forgivable after The Ending, when it instead gets really funny if you think about it. Was also not a fan of Korekiyo because the dude was a total creep but he didn't make me anywhere near as angry, probably because he doesn't talk as much.]