I am unhappy to report that the victim of chapter one is the same on my current V3 replay, and it's looking increasingly likely that the murderer is as well.
Hinata is so good! He feels so real to me: his insecurities, his sarcasm, the way he relates to the other characters. I love Naegi, but his optimism meant that, in a way, he never seemed to grasp how terrible the situation was; the potential of murder wasn't a real thing to him, because he was always going 'nobody's going to kill anyone, right?' right up until a body showed up. So it caught my attention very early on that Hinata's plagued by dread in a way Naegi isn't; he really grasps the weight of the situation, and as soon as he learns the rules of the game he's asking himself whether he can trust the others not to kill, and whether he can trust himself.
A lot of V3's characters felt a bit two-note to me. It makes perfect sense when you realise they're not actually supposed to be real people, but it does make them harder to love.
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Hinata is so good! He feels so real to me: his insecurities, his sarcasm, the way he relates to the other characters. I love Naegi, but his optimism meant that, in a way, he never seemed to grasp how terrible the situation was; the potential of murder wasn't a real thing to him, because he was always going 'nobody's going to kill anyone, right?' right up until a body showed up. So it caught my attention very early on that Hinata's plagued by dread in a way Naegi isn't; he really grasps the weight of the situation, and as soon as he learns the rules of the game he's asking himself whether he can trust the others not to kill, and whether he can trust himself.
A lot of V3's characters felt a bit two-note to me. It makes perfect sense when you realise they're not actually supposed to be real people, but it does make them harder to love.