Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony

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Danganronpa V3 is the finale to the Danganronpa series. Since there's a lot of confusion, (for good reason), about what you need to watch/ play in order to play this game, I'm gonna give you a quick run through before getting into the review.
Danganronpa 1 and 2: obviously, play these first.
Danganronpa 3 Anime: This is NOT V3! this is the conclusion to the stories of the 1,2 and UDG casts. There might be a reference to it somewhere in here, but you can largely skip this, (its pretty awful anyways)
Danganronpa: Ultra Despair Girls: I wouldn't really worry about this game either, it takes place after 1, but V3 is largely disconnected from the rest of the series, and minor details don't matter as much.
these are all set before V3, and if you're a superfan and want to see EVERYTHING, you can check them out first, but if you're a casual enjoyer, or you aren't interested in the pretty mediocre spinoff content, (rightfully so) then you can go straight from 2 to V3.
(Also Danganronpa S requires V3 knowledge, it's pretty worthless but if you are interested in it, play V3 first.)
Ok, with that out of the way, Danganronpa V3. This game is definitely contentious within the fandom for a few reasons, namely the story, these are massive story beats that I can't mention here for the sake of ruining the entire game, so I'll touch on them at the bottom with spoiler tags for those interested. Rest assured, this is a spoiler free overview of the game, as thoroughly as I can be. We'll touch on the plot first, since spoilers or no, this tends to be the biggest talking point V3 has.
V3 has a much more volatile general quality compared to the rest of the series. 1 and 2 are generally pretty consistant, but V3 contains both some of the best moments in the entire series, and by far some of the worst. Cases can be incredibly compelling with great pacing and insane reveals, or they can have amateur fanfiction-level writing, or just outright pointless/ wasted plot beats. The high points outweigh the low points, but its very much a roller coaster ride, and the downright stupid decisions made throughout points, especially in chapter 3, are hard to ignore.
The cast is kinda the same way, with 1, I generally like almost everyone, but don't feel too strongly about many, with 2, I love almost every member of the cast, with only a few that aren't awesome, but with V3, we get some of the most interesting and compelling members of the cast, and some that just kinda do fuck all and I don't know why they're there. Every game has their bland characters, but V3 has a lot more, where they aren't even infuriating, just boring and forgettable. Again, the strong characters shine hard enough to make it not matter, but its pretty glaring when they aren't the focus and you're stuck with the duds.
With those 2 out of the way, everything else is fucking incredible. This game is gorgeous, plain and simple. The world, the UI, the character art, the music, and everything in between, just shines with a quality that blows the previous instalments out of the water. The gameplay is the same way, movement feels so much smoother, and the trials are way more exciting, with the minigames all being refined, and while the new ones aren't exactly the best, they're still nice additions, and don't detract from the otherwise outstanding improvements. Ditching the memory bullet system for a much more interesting, although unfortunately underutilised, new system was a great change, and it makes revisiting the older games in the series a little difficult.
Overall, V3 is definitely a mixed bag, but its strong parts shine so brightly in mind mind over the downsides that it still means a lot to me, even now. Its a great sendoff to the series, and I think if they left the series alone here, it would be a great conclusion. They clearly don't plan to leave it where it is, so heres hoping its up from here. Overall, I'd give it an 8/10. Doesn't quite top the second game for me, but not many things do.
SPOILER SECTION! I'M DISCUSSION MAJOR SPOILERS HERE! DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVEN'T FINISHED V3!
So I'm gonna touch on 3 major things here, the fake out female protagonist, Chapter 3, and the ending, since I have a lot of feelings about them, and they tend to be big talking points when criticising this game. First off, Kaede's death. It's tricky to navigate, since I understand 100% why this upset a lot of people, but at the same time, I really like Saihara, and think that this was a really cool twist. At the end of the day, I think that it was a really awesome, incredibly heartbreaking first trial, but at the same time I see why Kodaka giving us a female protagonist only to murder her for shock value rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. There was probably a better way to do it, but personally, I think it was an incredible Chapter 1, and it's one of my favorites. Chapter 3 is a different story however.
If you like V3-3, you should not be allowed to have opinions on video games. The motive does nothing, the murders are incredibly forced, and make no sense, the student council arc is pointless, having no lasting impact and only really existing to cause a little character drama, and it took one of my early favorites, Korekiyo, and butchers him. Another appearance of the Danganronpa team's strange incest fascination, on top of ruining a really cool character, a really cool potential plot beat, in the second kill being a waste, this chapter is blatantly just a double kill to fit in with the "chapter 3 is a double murder just because" pattern that hasn't really worked in any of the past entries, and it just kinda pissed me off how bad it was botched every time I think about it. What if Kiyo really did get away with killing Chabashira, and you had a creepy serial killer who killed one of your friends hanging around the cast? How fucking cool of a concept would that have been? What about the student council? What if there was more fallout from it? Some people still wanting to uphold it after Angie dies, or at the very least not just forgetting about it immediately after the trial? Why is the necronomicon here? I don't really think there should've been a character revival, but it really only exists for the wax statues to get made, and just feels really unnecessary. This chapter could've been awesome, the groundworks are set, but they somehow managed to waste EVERYTHING.
Now the ending. This is probably the most controversial thing in the series, but I don't have nearly as much to say about it as I do for chapter 3, believe it or not. I kinda like it? I don't know how else they really could've ended the series, I rolled my eyes into the back of my fucking head when they teased Junko being back AGAIN, and while I don't really like Shirogane either, a new villain is better than recycling Junko again. The whole series being fake twist is a bit strange, and I'll admit when I got there the first time, I thought it was awful, its grown on me sense. Watching so many franchises I love being dug up, rebooted and continued far past any reasonable time is draining and disappointing, so seeing a game so eager to call this practice out is refreshing, and while Spike has different plans, I think Kodaka really meant to end it here, on a high note. It becomes more relevant the longer we go into the era of remasters, and while I get what makes people upset about it, I think its a clever spin on things, and a great commentary on the industry as a whole.
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I liked the part when my favorite character died. 10/10

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good game, terrible fanbase.