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rionaleonhart) wrote2013-04-04 07:37 pm
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Chicken! Now! Become A Cow!
Has anyone been keeping up with the translation of Super Dangan Ronpa 2? (The paywall is currently down, so you can read it without an account!) It's pretty great; the start was slower than that of the original Dangan Ronpa (these are very image-heavy links), but then the first case hit and everything became amazing. I love all the changes to the trials; I particularly like how much more your fellow students are contributing this time around. In the first game, much though I love it, there were maybe two other students who were actually useful at the trials and everyone else was a blithering idiot.
I sort of want to write Hinata/Nagito. LET'S TALK ABOUT HINATA/NAGITO.
I wouldn't say I 'ship Hinata/Nagito, exactly; I just think it would be both possible (Hinata and Nagito seemed to get along pretty well before, you know...) and fascinating. Someone needs to write pre-first-murder fanfiction in which they get into a relationship; it seems functional enough at first, but gradually Hinata becomes aware of a strange undercurrent, a sense that something isn't quite right.
AND THEN NAGITO TRIES TO STAB HIM TO DEATH.
Or possibly tries to talk Hinata into stabbing someone else to death? I'm not sure of exactly what Nagito's goals are. This is the problem with being struck by ideas this soon into the game; there's no way I can write this, because I don't know the characters well enough yet. (Please don't tell me anything that hasn't been revealed in the Let's Play yet, though!)
Maybe Nagito offers himself up for Hinata to kill? (My current theory, as of update 35, is that Nagito wasn't plotting to commit murder at the party so much as plotting to get murdered and kick everything off that way.) No matter which possibility turns out to be most likely, I'll want to read this. I may not yet know exactly how Hinata/Nagito would work, but I know it would be really, really interesting.
It'll never beat my inexplicable Dangan Ronpa OTP, though. Naegi/Ikusaba for ever and ever and ever. IT MAKES SO LITTLE SENSE AND I LOVE IT SO MUCH.
Dangan Ronpa is just such a great concept. It's fundamentally a murder mystery game, much like the Ace Attorney games; the difference is that you get to know every single potential victim and murderer personally.
And also there's the evil teddy bear. The evil teddy bear is another difference.
I enjoy the Ace Attorney games (my entry draft, when I chose to restore it, read 'KLAVIER GAVIN WHY ARE YOU SO ATTRACTIVE, STOP IT'), but I don't get nearly as stupidly invested in them as I do in Dangan Ronpa. In Ace Attorney, there's a personal element to some of the murders, but most of them are just an interesting mystery to unravel. In Dangan Ronpa's cases, you find out that a character you know and like has been murdered and then you have to unveil their murderer, who is also a character you know and like. I tried so hard not to get attached to the characters in the sequel, but WHOOPS, IT'S ONLY THE FIRST CHAPTER AND I ALREADY LOVE MOST OF THEM.
I sort of want to write Hinata/Nagito. LET'S TALK ABOUT HINATA/NAGITO.
I wouldn't say I 'ship Hinata/Nagito, exactly; I just think it would be both possible (Hinata and Nagito seemed to get along pretty well before, you know...) and fascinating. Someone needs to write pre-first-murder fanfiction in which they get into a relationship; it seems functional enough at first, but gradually Hinata becomes aware of a strange undercurrent, a sense that something isn't quite right.
AND THEN NAGITO TRIES TO STAB HIM TO DEATH.
Or possibly tries to talk Hinata into stabbing someone else to death? I'm not sure of exactly what Nagito's goals are. This is the problem with being struck by ideas this soon into the game; there's no way I can write this, because I don't know the characters well enough yet. (Please don't tell me anything that hasn't been revealed in the Let's Play yet, though!)
Maybe Nagito offers himself up for Hinata to kill? (My current theory, as of update 35, is that Nagito wasn't plotting to commit murder at the party so much as plotting to get murdered and kick everything off that way.) No matter which possibility turns out to be most likely, I'll want to read this. I may not yet know exactly how Hinata/Nagito would work, but I know it would be really, really interesting.
It'll never beat my inexplicable Dangan Ronpa OTP, though. Naegi/Ikusaba for ever and ever and ever. IT MAKES SO LITTLE SENSE AND I LOVE IT SO MUCH.
Dangan Ronpa is just such a great concept. It's fundamentally a murder mystery game, much like the Ace Attorney games; the difference is that you get to know every single potential victim and murderer personally.
And also there's the evil teddy bear. The evil teddy bear is another difference.
I enjoy the Ace Attorney games (my entry draft, when I chose to restore it, read 'KLAVIER GAVIN WHY ARE YOU SO ATTRACTIVE, STOP IT'), but I don't get nearly as stupidly invested in them as I do in Dangan Ronpa. In Ace Attorney, there's a personal element to some of the murders, but most of them are just an interesting mystery to unravel. In Dangan Ronpa's cases, you find out that a character you know and like has been murdered and then you have to unveil their murderer, who is also a character you know and like. I tried so hard not to get attached to the characters in the sequel, but WHOOPS, IT'S ONLY THE FIRST CHAPTER AND I ALREADY LOVE MOST OF THEM.