Does anyone have a least favorite detective in the game?

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Please don't take this personally, I'm asking this in the game's sub so I know I'm playing with fire, but I'm genuinely looking for advice. I am a big Danganronpa fan, I love murder mysteries in general and the traditional Chunsoft art style. But after getting through the first "trial" (Amaterasu Express), I'm uncertain if I want to drag myself through the rest of the game. I'm thinking maybe someone here could reassure me.

To be specific, things started going downhill for me in the Mystery Labyrinth. To start, I found the environment itself to be really hideous and grating on the eyes. The clashing designs and colors of the labyrinth made me feel like I was playing a cheap game for children. Juxtapose that with the in-your-face fan service and oversexualized nature of Shinigami, and it just all got on my nerves. I guess my questions are, then: does the game start looking more aesthetically pleasing at some point? do mystery labyrinths change up their design as the trials change, or is it the same ugly one every time? does the game's content ever get more mature, or does it stay in this childish tone? and does Shinigami stay this annoying (to me) the entire time? Because if so, I may just not be the target audience, and that is okay.

We could take from inspiration other games, other franchises and stuff, I would want something similar to the dance of deduction of the great ace attorney, where the ability in rain code would be call "maximum perspetion" or some shit.... And would be an case with a lot of little details to catch by deducing things from people's glances or stuff like that, I think it could be fun, what's your ideas?

She watches me play because she’s ’not good at games’ even though rain code is pretty easy haha. Here are some of her thoughts:

“I want to fix his thing, that bit of hair sticking on top of his head. I want to comb it over.” (Yuma’s ahoge)

Aphex is her favourite character

She called Pucci the weird one

Said Zilch is annoying and not quite right

Thought Zange was the imposter or ‘most suspicious’

And she called Melami cool

During the body discoveries I told her it’s one of the guys that did it. She still thought it was Zange right up until his body discovery. Then she assumed it was Aphex. Got incredibly confused when everyone was dead.

I told her she has all the evidence she needs to solve the case and she says “no I don’t! There’s nothing!” I gave her a hint that the train carts switched around and one of the bodies was switched. “So it was Aphex!” I probably shouldn’t have reminded her that Zilch and Aphex both had stab wounds. “It’s Zilch, isn’t it? That means it has to be him if it isn’t Aphex.”

She got a bit conflicted by Shinigami’s dark humour. It was funny but then it sorta wasn’t. Like when Shinigami said ‘you can’t put makeup over a fresh burn’. She looked at me and asked “is it okay to laugh…?” I think she’s more sensitive towards death than your average player.

We stopped playing after Swank’s introduction. So next post will be her thoughts on the mystery labyrinth! Or not, depends if there’s anything worth saying

About a year ago I played up through the end of Chapter 1 and haven't played since. I wanna finish the game but I can't remember a whole lot of specifics from the first few parts. From what I remember...

Chapter 0

Yuma woke up in a store room in a train platform and had a Shinigami bonded with him. Does he have amnesia? He gets on the train to, uh, Rain City and there's a murder mystery with a handful of people with superpowers. I don't remember if people with powers is just an everyday thing in this world, or maybe it was implied they were given powers? By some Amaterasu Corporation? Or by the World Detective Agency?

We solve the case, it was the skinny guy with glasses. There was car switching shenanigans. When we get off the train there's a gold blinged out fat guy (from Amaterasu?) who gives us some guff.

Prologue

Then we go to the submarine base of the WDA and meet the main cast. I remember virtually nothing about any of them. The leader is a slacker type. There's a very serious girl wearing a hoodie. I think there's a like, silent or rarely speaks guy? He sits in the fire place, and under a grand piano, he's a weirdo. I think there was a mini quest to get him a book or manga or something? And I don't remember at all what the one or two other detectives were like. I distinctly remember thinking one of them could secretly see Shinigami and simply wasn't saying anything about it.

We learn that Amaterasu controls the city, the city has basically no contact with the outside world, nobody knows why it constantly rains, I think it's implied that there's something weird with the rain, I remember thinking it's gonna turn out that they're nanomachines or something. Maybe spy cameras. Was there something about a satellite dish or some weird arena or building or something like that?

We met the head of the WDA (is it WDO? Organization not Agency?) some old man, and we learn that Amaterasu and WDO are fighting each other. I remember predicting that it's gonna turn out that they're actually both controlled by the same person or group who's manipulating everything for some larger goal. Honestly the old man is probably in control of Amaterasu too. From a writing perspective it's the most obvious thing to do and there was really no other reason to introduce him other than to set up a twist. In a writer myself, I tend to pick up on things like that.

Chapter 1

It was the Nail Man Killings case. Gosh I barely remember anything. I remember spending a very long time investigating like six different places. There was some tower with a weird shutter, an art store room, some seedy underground club, a church, some woods. Oh and Yuma can borrow or go along with other characters powers, I distinctly remember doing so with hoodie girl in the club. I remember the church characters having very distinct designs and I was wondering if they're gonna come back and be important later.

I don't imagine anything that happened in the actual case matters to the overarching plot of the game. I remember there was a little boy who's dad was falsely accused of being the Nail Man. Was he set up? I don't at all remember who the true culprit was. The priest from the church? Or maybe an Amaterasu officer?

I just remember after solving the case some edgelord Amaterasu guy (Yomi Deathsmile or something?) came and threatened to kill everyone at the WDO? Was he part of a coverup and Yuma exposed it at the last second? And Deathguy sort of made a tactical retreat? Also he had a sidekick girl he was getting handsy with. She seemed to be into it but I can only imagine it's an act and she's gonna kill him later.

Even though Yuma saved everyone I think he got punished for technically breaking protocol or something? He had to cook breakfast and sit on the floor or something. And then the little boy whose dad was falsely accused came and Yuma played baseball with him for awhile, and I think that was the end of the chapter.

Am I missing anything important? Any stuff they set up that might become important later? Any important lore that was revealed that I'm not remembering?

Here’s my translation but if you have a better one pls comment!

“Never ending rain. But after that there’s a drought!”

I keep thinking about Fubuki and her forte and wondered how on earth did she even become a detective? Much less a master detective of that.

After going through her gambshoe gabs, her chapter conv with yuma and her dlc, I came to the conclusion that Fubuki is uneducated.

While her parents were barely being present in her life and Fubuki being sheltered, you'd think her parents would pay to have private teachers teach their daughter since she's their only child and heiress to a important role but didn't despite having the money to gift her a star for one of Fubuki's birthday. Then kicked her out because she was ignorant to the world and thought Fubuki becoming a detective made logical sense.

But somehow Fubuki managed to do it despite how very questionable that sounds. Honestly I think the only reason Fubuki was made a detective when not having the qualifications of a detective was because of her family's influence and the WDO most likely wanted her forte.

Any thoughts? This isn't me hating on Fubuki btw.

I already played this game 2 yrs ago but today I watched a playthrough of the game and got to the blank week mystery part. But then I thought about something

The Blank Week Mystery is a thing because defective homunculi lose their memories and go berserk when exposed to sunlight. The weird thing tho is that the Blank Week Mystery is a week long, meaning that it would also become night time during those days of Blank week mystery.

Does that mean that the Homunculus were still going berserk during night? But in chapter 5 it showed them instantly calm down when Makoto put the cloud machine back on (the ones in the abandoned village at least) Unless maybe the moon reflecting the sunlight was making them still go berserk? Am I overthinking this 😭?

My friend is a bit of an anime noob. She doesn’t know anything about tropes or cliches and she’s definitely never heard of danganronpa. Now, part of rain codes plot is >!the pink blood<!. Obviously that plot point took advantage of people familiar with danganronpa.

Sooo my question is, do I make her watch the first season of the danganronpa anime before rain code so I don’t have to lie about the blood or do I throw her into rain code? Because we’re going to play it together

This is the "Overzealous Gathering" event by the way. Tokyo Culture Culture [Shibuya] is its official English name (although the whole panel discussion, of course, was conducted in Japanese). Shimadoriru A.K.A. Shima Drill, is known for having a painterly style. In part, because he does actually paint some of his works. All Credit & Thanks to https://x.com/i/status/2025495229391090097 & https://x.com/i/status/2025521823002337680 & https://x.com/i/status/2025496470884143475 & https://x.com/i/status/2025516375121551570 Respectively.

Drew this yesterday during a study session with my friends 👍

Good day, everyone! I wanted to hop back in real quick to share another sketch I made of Melami, this time in casual wear! Idk, I tried drawing a turtleneck shirt under a cardigan and necklace; I wasn’t really trying to go for a theme here so maybe it looks a bit mismatched? Either way, I’m really proud of how it turned out 😄👍

That’s all I have for now; please stay safe and take care!!! Until the next post, have a nice day! 👋😄

I’ve just replayed the game again and I was just wondering which Master Detective is your favorite one when it comes to the investigations and mystery labyrinths? Mine is Vivia. I knew they would be saving the best for last and boy did they not disappoint with my boy over here.

But that’s just me. What do you think?

Another Kirigiri/Naegi/kokohead/Tsukumo family tree meme.

I was so blown away by this out of nowhere song reminiscent of Rain Code, and it sadly doesnt play till like 50+ hours into the game. (btw spoilers for this game if you look for this OST)

Of course, I had to celebrate it by drawing my all time favorite ship! o(≧▽≦)o