Fynn
is an EoFF Hero and/or Heroine
Radical Dreamer

Feelin alright. Don't think I did as well as I wanted to, but we will say. Yayyyyy summer break when I get home

Hows you

It is done

Final exam in a few hours

Tell me about it. To be fair, my work week has been ramping up more than it has in the past which started this weekend, so I probably shouldn't have made the deal to begin with...

Btw have you read DR0 or IF (Edit: I ended up reading IF right after writing this message =P) and if so what did you think of them and should I read them as well? :P

>the twist being that there is no twist is a great if done well
Agreed

>which I think it was here
Disagreed

is what it is in a nutshell =P

I do get what you mean with defying expectations set by the predecessor though, I had that same experience with a certain other visual novel I may or may not have already given the highest recommendation I could give. I really liked how it built upon its much more blindly idealistic and shounen-esque spiritual predecessor and slowly tore down its unrealistic idealism (without getting all cynical in the process =P), and also how it literally has characters laughing at how ridiculous some of its twists were. Which hit all too close to home because at that point having it be basically a repeat of the predecessor's reveals was my best theory

I suppose it would be that type of thing, yeah. It's not an expression I've heard often, it might be more prominent in France

This was quite interesting for me to read through, as none of these I consciously picked up on, some in fact I interpreted quite differently.

Monokuma rehashing the twist was to me Monokuma addressing the elephant in the room that everyone's thinking might be a thing again this game, precluding it from being a twist and instead just making it part of the setting from the beginning. In that sense of course it's a fun undercutting of the first game (cue screenshot of Monokuma saying "only a hack would keep that sort of twist hidden until the end") but nothing you really miss out on if you just play the second. The first victim I'd say played more into my expectations rather than defying them since having a 'capable leader' around massively brightens the atmosphere for all characters and in reverse losing him heavily dampens it so I rather expected him to get offed early on. And seeing the impostor have so little a role was more of a disappointment than anything And as for that final bit, I felt it could go either way and wasn't all that surprised that person got killed.

Just goes to show we engaged in these games quite a bit differently ^^

I'd actually like if you went into more detail as to what things you're referring to in particular with that^^

I never had the explicit feeling that DR2 in its construction and writing specifically played on your knowledge and familiarity with the first game.

Well those same things are hinted at across DR2 just as well, aren't they?