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New Danganronpa V3 featured in Famitsu this week

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Basileus777

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cosmicblizzard said:
How so?
The conflict that started the game is still ongoing, the main villain is on the loose and still has some Monokuma Kid henchman, the Warriors of Hope are still alive even if they have switched sides, and of course the two protagonists are still in the city.

At a base level, it doesn't need much to resolve this. They could find a document in 3 that says something like
the Warriors of Hope were kidnapped and put in the Neo World Program, Monaca gets captured or dies without doing anything (which would be incredibly anti-climactic, but something the series would do), and Future Foundation swoops in and deactivates the kids' helmets while the adults are put in refugee centers or something.

Hell, I'd even take that as a comment by Kodaka himself and not actually in any works, but as it stands, I am not even close to satisfied with how AE ended and I figured it would be addressed in a future installment.
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Well you make my case fairly convincingly here. I think what's left works well left open. I don't really see a demanding need to spell out what happens with all of that. It could work as sequel fodder, but it's not needed. Especially for the protagonists, that's not a loose thread at all.
 
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cosmicblizzard

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Basileus777 said:
Well you make my case fairly convincingly here. I think what's left works well left open. I don't really see a demanding need to spell out what happens with all of that. It could work as sequel fodder, but it's not needed. Especially for the protagonists, that's not a loose thread at all.
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Loose ends are good within reason. Danganronpa 2 had loose ends and the whole franchise could have ended there.

AE's loose ends are for the most part framed as a set up, not a conclusion.
Nagito's speech regarding Monaca becoming a better Junko than Junko
is definitely not portrayed in a way that implies it will never be resolved. Except in very specific circumstances,
the villain still being free and having the potential to fuck things up
is not a good open-ended scenario.
 
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twozerotwo

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AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH FUCK THIS THREAD I'M OUT

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GoldStarz

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FluxWaveZ said:
Localization work isn't finished when English voice acting is. Persona 4: Dancing All Night had its VA work finished months before it was released in September. We don't know the intricacies of localization, but there's definitely a lot more to it than what we see. It could even be a simple question of timing, and not releasing the DR games too close to each other in the West.
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That's more or less what I believe, which is why I don't think that the year-wait for DRAE was genuine development time. The only way to know for sure would be to ask NISA employees how closely they're working with Spike-Chun and Team DR to know how soon they start localization. I'd think you'd want to be as close as possible for the third game.
 
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GoldStarz

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Rich! said:
Even so, it kinda proves that
there need not be anyone "behind" monokuma in DR3. Or even multiple monokumas. They have their own AI, even if it is based on Junko's.
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Yeah, but you saw what that was AI was like in DRAE, they're not very advanced, they just take orders and maim people. Plus, it kinda ruins the whole mystery if the person behind the Mutual Killing has been the person presenting themselves as the person behind the Mutual Killing.
 
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cosmicblizzard

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GoldStarz said:
Yeah, but you saw what that was AI was like in DRAE, they're not very advanced, they just take orders and maim people. Plus, it kinda ruins the whole mystery if the person behind the Mutual Killing has been the person presenting themselves as the person behind the Mutual Killing.
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Yeah, I would be incredibly disappointed if the mastermind in 3 was just Monokuma.
 
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kewlmyc

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cyborg009 said:
It was that bad?
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It's easily the worst of the DR games, but it has some interesting Toko development as well as explaining some things in DR and DR2.

Also DR is becoming one of those series that can't have any discussion without a sea of spoiler tags everywhere. Makes sense considering it's part mystery, but still...
 
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Rich!

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GoldStarz said:
Yeah, but you saw what that was AI was like in DRAE, they're not very advanced, they just take orders and maim people. Plus, it kinda ruins the whole mystery if the person behind the Mutual Killing has been the person presenting themselves as the person behind the Mutual Killing.
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I dunno man, look at Kuro and Shiro.
 
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GamerJM

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GET HYPED

I'm expecting an Apollo Justice-esque scenario, where the story is mostly self contained compared to the other sequels in the series, but there are some returning characters and references to past games.
 
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Weebos

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TheChillyAcademic said:
So wait, are any of the
Junko AIs
still alive?
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I think it is possible that one is, but it is far from confirmed.

TheChillyAcademic said:
But didn't
Izuru
destroy them?
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He destroyed Shiro and Kuro after AE, extracting their chips for use in Danganronpa 2.

In theory
one could have been used in Danganronpa 2, leaving another lying around somewhere. Or both could have been used, I don't think there is a definitive answer.
 
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GoldStarz

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Weebos said:
In theory
one could have been used in Danganronpa 2, leaving another lying around somewhere. Or both could have been used, I don't think there is a definitive answer.
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Pretty much this, some people were freaking out that
there were two chips, others just thought that due to the way Shiro and Kurokuma acted during the game that they were two halves of her personality. Neither answer is right, so Junko could still have another copy of herself out there. Not that it matters since ghosts are a thing now.
 
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TheChillyAcademic

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Weebos said:
I think it is possible that one is, but it is far from confirmed.



He destroyed Shiro and Kuro after AE, extracting their chips for use in Danganronpa 2.

In theory
one could have been used in Danganronpa 2, leaving another lying around somewhere. Or both could have been used, I don't think there is a definitive answer.
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Makes sense, though at this point its clear the mastermind isn't
Junko
right?
 
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Weebos

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GoldStarz said:
Pretty much this, some people were freaking out that
there were two chips, others just thought that due to the way Shiro and Kurokuma acted during the game that they were two halves of her personality. Neither answer is right, so Junko could still have another copy of herself out there. Not that it matters since ghosts are a thing now.
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Another thing to think about
is that they weren't acting like halves, but more like sevenths, since Junko has so many different "personalities". It could mean there are more Junkokumas and Junko AIs out there.
 
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cosmicblizzard

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GoldStarz said:
Pretty much this, some people were freaking out that
there were two chips, others just thought that due to the way Shiro and Kurokuma acted during the game that they were two halves of her personality. Neither answer is right, so Junko could still have another copy of herself out there. Not that it matters since ghosts are a thing now.
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Oh god, if the mastermind is
the ghost of Junko
, I will be so pissed. Not enough to quit the series, but goddamn will it suck.
 
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GoldStarz

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Weebos said:
Another thing to think about
is that they weren't acting like halves, but more like sevenths, since Junko has so many different "personalities". It could mean there are more Junkokumas and Junko AIs out there.
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Again depends on the viewpoint since some people, myself included, think that
Junko's alternate personality bit is just her mocking the personalities of her surviving classmates since everyone except Hiro has a direct parallel.
It should be worth noting (DR0 spoilers)
that when Junko's memory is completely erased, she lacks any signs of an alternate personalities although Ryoko's personality is more or less just a despair-free version of Junko's "main" one.

Also I'd love it if DR3's mastermind was
the ghost of Junko
only because you know they wouldn't play it straight at all.
 
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FluxWaveZ

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I missed this but, according to a flying get from Sokuho@hokanko, the upcoming issue of Famitsu this week won't actually have much more information than what we have right now.

There are 4 in-game screenshots (the ones in the OP) across a 2-page spread (also the ones in the OP).

Basically all that's in there is that this is a refresh of fundamental elements of the series (essentially, again, what's in the OP). It says graphics seem to be better, too, so I guess we might be able to discern some of that from the scans later.

Kodaka says that his aim for V3 is for it to be a very interesting story, as the culmination of the work he has put into the series since it started 5 years ago.

There'll be some new information in the December 2 event, and that's what will be in next week's issue of Famitsu on December 10.
 
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Thoraxes

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The thing I love about Danganronpa is that no matter how hard we try to predict what's going to happen, all of our predictions will be shattered into a million pieces lol
 
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PurpleMoustache

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Got into this series when it was on sale on PSN this summer. So pumped for 3, though I haven't finished AE yet.

As much as it would be cool to step away from the known universe of Danganronpa, I don't feel as though it would be the same without That Character. That Character kind of is the thread through the whole series right? That Character has to show up in some form...
 
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GoldStarz

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Thoraxes said:
The thing I love about Danganronpa is that no matter how hard we try to predict what's going to happen, all of our predictions will be shattered into a million pieces lol
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Nah, there's always one JUNKOS guy that no one believes until it turns out they're right.
 
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Sky Interloper

Member
PurpleMoustache said:
Got into this series when it was on sale on PSN this summer. So pumped for 3, though I haven't finished AE yet.

As much as it would be cool to step away from the known universe of Danganronpa, I don't feel as though it would be the same without That Character. That Character kind of is the thread through the whole series right? That Character has to show up in some form...
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Although having the embodiment of despair is always a pleasure, letting Kodaka to flex his creative muscles may do wonders. Just remember the insanity that was Chapter 5 of Danganronpa 2 and the entire character arc that gave us that.
 
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lazyproblems

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PurpleMoustache said:
As much as it would be cool to step away from the known universe of Danganronpa, I don't feel as though it would be the same without That Character. That Character kind of is the thread through the whole series right? That Character has to show up in some form...
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I don't really agree. I think it's pretty easy to
not use Junko. They only have to recognize her as the person who started and influenced the Ultimate Despair, but she doesn't need to actually show up. It was a large group of people, it's very easy to believe someone else could step up and try to carry on her work, be a copycat killer, or something along those lines.

I think the only character that absolutely needs to be in every game is Monokuma. I know some people argue that
you can't have one without the other
, but again, I disagree.
 
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GoldStarz

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Honestly, my ideal scenario is
Junko appearing but being neither the Mastermind or Main Villain.
Just because to me that would honestly be genuinely surprising.
 
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Basileus777

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PurpleMoustache said:
Got into this series when it was on sale on PSN this summer. So pumped for 3, though I haven't finished AE yet.

As much as it would be cool to step away from the known universe of Danganronpa, I don't feel as though it would be the same without That Character. That Character kind of is the thread through the whole series right? That Character has to show up in some form...
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If it can't move on from that, the franchise is beyond being stale and out of ideas and should just die.
Having Junko in more than one game was already stretching it.
 
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