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yaaay more free time events

I looked up when each character is available to minmax free time and I honestly. Completely, and utterly, forgot Peko dies. So, naturally I had to talk to her instantly because she is just. Really good.

Me when I don't know what to ask my conversation partner.

As response to saying I think she's really cool (not a lie. I do)

She wants to touch soft animals but they are scared of her. Gets me every time lms if you cry. Also I think she would be funny friends with Gundam. They neeeeeed to hang out.

I love characters who think the only thing they can do is fight and as a result they become socially awkward and they desire closeness and warmth. Truly gets me every time sorry. Also, I think she is a girlboss.

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First Free Time Event!

Yes you can!!!

I wonder.... if this is hinting about Hajime's past and talent.. like Gundam probably doesn't now or have e premonition about it and it's just on a meta level..or is it? Like in Hatoful Boyfriend when Anghel says really out there stuff but he is actually right about it and seems to have more intuition about these things than the other characters.. hm

Me too king. He has magically enchanted it so only the chosen ones can see it. He's shy.

He truly, really gets it, is the thing.

I am incredibly excited about this, in case you couldn't tell.

I feel like I took this specific image to say something about it but I forgot what it was. Hm, seems quite self-sacrificing and determined to me. Pleasure and pain also reminds me of Island of Doctor Moreau but I do not think that is intentional at all.

Okay help I just looked up the entire conversation and this is in response to Hinata saying it sounds difficult to prepare pumpkin seeds for his hamsters. Noblest of purposes, I love u.

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well worth a try!!

i wrote this post before but my laptop battery died because windows doesn't deem it necessary to give you popups in case your laptop is not plugged in correctly and at low battery. ue ue ue

funny you would say it like that.

that was yesterday, ibuki. people change.

o-ok sonia??

before going here mahiru also pestered sonia about becoming the leader again. since apparently togami is too forceful and sonia would be the gentle #girlboss we deserve. #feminism

i think she also might have a crush on her but cant fault her for that I think.

I wonder how all this stuff relates to her being a figurehead ruler. what IS the situation in her little fake european kingdom.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

also we are trying to figure out what that countdown in the park is about and which huge organisation could be behind such a well planned and executed murder island holiday. i guess. cute hamsters tho

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what can i say. cute sprite.

everyone is SOOO obsessed with calling the food plebeian. interestingly everyone seems to wonder who made the food which is a good point. how did i forget about this. like i suppose because its a simulation technically no one has to? is there confirmation on this!!

say the line, komaeda. it is really interesting because the game tries to walk the line of being genuine and ironypilled by making komaeda say stuff like this and then making saionji be like loool cringe. so its not like the narrative itself is lampshading it bc it works with her character to be (thera voice) a little cunt.

it really IS like gundam (the mentally ill people in space show, not the guy)

togami, who is the unfortunate center of a billion fat jokes. man. wants us to go to the park. guess we gotta!!!

i wish he wasn't tho bc i really do enjoy his character otherwise but. eugh.

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Chapter 1!

well! i reached the part where i get told to kill people now. on to chapter 1.

beautiful ruins is such a good song. gives me sonic adventure vibes (highest compliment)

really nice to have my own cottage. i loooove love the blue filter over everything at night. also of course hotel mirai activates my ��only able to think about 1.5 things max” brain. everything reminds me of her........

i am always really worried i'm somehow missing something important like a person to talk to and the plushie collecting side mission is giving me anxiety. man. but im still gonna look for them. still gonna look for them.

My little pet is also doing well and is going to evolve soon.... quite comforting as garmywarmy the second is in eternal nap stasis. not sure if my knockoff tamagotchi glitched out or this just is how they die. alas. he will probably never wake. will probably go on to garmywarmy the third when i feel up to it. (first garmywarmy fell victim to me fatfingering the reset button)

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Finishing up the prologue!

Are you seeing Gundam building a little sandcastle there. Are you seeing him.

I remember missing to take a screenshot of this CG for the first time and I was like NO I need to post this.

I think it also limits how many people you can talk to before the Monokuma-ification hits and I don't think I made it to Gundam. Inconsolable.

I am so glad I already know Monomi will come back because man. Her getting gunned down kind of hits!!

I also got sad at no one wanting her keychain again. I would want one!!! I would think it is cool!!!!

And with that the prologue is done!! Yippie!!

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there's a juvenile joke to be made here. but as i am very mature and composed i will not make it. as a king.

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Prologue!

Of course I first went off to see Gundam. I considered doing Saionji first because I remember being miffed with her earlier scenes and her randomly killing animals. To get her out of the way. But I was just really excited. I forgot he uses oresama but it makes sense. I was reall into oresama characters in 2013 lol.

I also absolutely love that around 50% of his voiced lines at me in that scene were just "kisama". Unironically. King.

I cannot believe I had to go to the wiki to read that they reference the Gundam's re-entry to earth. And the wiki made fun of Shounen fans' ability to read kanji. Dude.

Also playing this after watching Jojo and Gundam is truly an experience of "I got that reference!!" Can you believe I was a Mondo fan who didn't know Crazy Diamond. I didn't even know Char Aznable when I cried about Gundam back in the day.

I also used to have a way higher tolerance for Teruteru back in the day. Eugh.

My reaction to Saionji and Koizumi was. Underwhelming as expected but basically everyone else made me go "they really put the most characters ever in this game"

Sonia is Icelina to me. All I have to say.

Also very very excited about the pet mechanic as I'm also trying to keep my fake Tamagotchi alive and not accidentally press the reset button (happened twice so far)

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Pre-Prologue Thoughts

First of all, they did not have to put the best music ever written into this game. But they did. They did.

It is also really convenient for me that this is a Visual Novel esque game that has text auto-advance and a story focused difficulty setting.

Quite useless to me as of now, but very cool is that you can change not only the voice language but the entire game's language in the menu!

I am obsessed with the entire design of everything and I wish we would make the cardboard cutout aesthetic a thing again.

I played the first pre-island bit a while ago when I bought the game on sale so I don't have the clearest memories of my reaction, sorry.

Felt quite magical to experience the infamous Komaeda introduction scene myself, but that's prologue territory already.

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I used to be really into Super Dangan Ronpa 2, or just Danganronpa 2 as it is called now I suppose, in 2013.

When I was reading everyones go-to translation—currently not paywalled—it actually only went up to somewhere around chapter 4.

Some people kind of lived with that and religiously blacklisted spoilers, others went to the wiki for information. As someone who did not rest until I knew every plot point of the Hathaway's Flash novels after watching Gundam Hathaway for the first time, this was not enough for me.

There were actually quite thorough translations and summaries for later parts of the game that even included videos of the trials. It is weird to think that the majority of people I knew who were into sdr2 experienced even less of the game than me. At least back then.

I was never really interested in a PC port. Not sure why, but it just never felt appropriate somehow. So I made the mistake of saying "Well, when they release it on Nintendo Switch"

Playing the game 9 years after getting into it (and subsequently forgetting about it) feels a bit like having a conversation with my past self. It is also fitting to play during a heat wave right before summer break when a lot of my nostalgic memories are attached to reading it on my phone in my New Jersey relatives' house. They moved now but my memories of watching a Tears of a Rapper video in that house are forever.