Power of Pecota posted:

My first major impressions with this cast was "OH MY GOD FAT TOGAMI" and also my second and third.

orenronen posted:

"Make no mistake. We are not covering this incident up to escape responsibility. If I could end it all here and now by simply taking responsibility, I would do so in a heartbeat. Unfortunately, this particular incident cannot be dealt with that easily. It doesn’t even matter if each and every one of us ‘takes responsibility’. We’re dealing with a problem that exists in an entirely different dimension."

W.T. Fits posted:

I love how they managed to invoke the same sense of isolation and confinement as in the first game.

The first game has this wonderfully oppressive atmosphere; oddly lit corridors and the omnipresent steel plates bolted over the windows cultivated a sense of claustrophobic dread. Even as the new floors opened up and more and more rooms became available, you can't ever forget that they're all stuck in there together, possibly forever, with potentially volatile strangers who could snap at any moment.

And now we're on an island... there's bright sunlight, blue skies, possibly a cool breeze and the gentle sound of the waves crashing against the shore... but even as idyllic as it seems, it still doesn't change the fact that they're still cut off from the rest of the world. Isolated. Confined. Trapped with a bunch of strangers and a bizarre talking stuffed animal who wants God only knows what from them.

Fedule posted:

Operation Tone-Down-Usami's-Speech-While-Maintaining-Character-And-Consistency is beginning the R&D phase. We present our current prototype. We request feedback.


The idea here is that rather than a speech impediment as such, Usami speaks like this on purpose, and as such can turn it off and on in accordance with... whatever her priorities are. Key Phrases, like Ewectwonic Student Handbook, and (I guess) "field twip", get the tweatment. Also, if she's emphasizing a word - like with "bwoom" up there*, it gets the tweatment. Otherwise, she's quite capable of speaking normally.

_{*I also altered the phrasing of this line to make the intended word "bloom" more obvious in context}

(Since focal words are likely to come towards the end of sentences, this would also make her character a tiny bit more ~true to the spirit of the original work~.

Basically, when it gets laid on thick, it's because she's laying it on thick herself. So, even if she retroactively gains the ability to speak with perfect clarity, she's still going to throw out her "vewy wuvly animal with fwuffy fwuffy fur!" line and her "wuv! wuv!" routine.

CandyCrazy posted:

Naegi presumably entered Hope's Peak his second year, since he was already previously a high-school student, which would put him at the 16-17 range, and there was explicitly a two-year time gap, so he'd actually be 18 or 19, well past the age for a growth spurt.

And put me in the camp that thinks that Nagito's so obviously based off of Naegi that actually being him goes straight back into being unlikely. Even Celes killing Yamada was subtler. Plus, there's the issue with reconciling Naegi's "hope for the best" attitude with Nagito's "expect the worst" one.

Fedule posted:

OK guys, maybe we ought t-


-yeah, what he said. You're good po-lice, slowbeef.

For what it's worth, I plan to continue with Anecdotes as they are now, although I won't always have one for every update because come on - but for now, at least, there's a lot to talk about (and, personally, I'd rather do it now than when we're in the middle of plot-bombs and murder).


Endless Video? Good god, man, you need to think bigger. Here is Miss Monomi's Practice Lesson as performed by Infinite Jukebox - a fascinating piece of machinery that takes your song and creates not just a dumb loop but an actual, varying, infinite mix. It's wonderful.

The downside is that it requires either Chrome or Safari to run due to super advanced magical audio stuff, but, good god, is it worth it.

Twiddy posted:

I think I understand this rear end in a top hat a little better now. I wonder how many times he's seen Home Alone at this point? That may be a bit of extrapolation, but there's a very clear annoyance at repetition brought about because the girl has no memory.

W.T. Fits posted:

Chihiro's voice actor, Kouki Miyata, is a guy.

4th Asclepiadean posted:

What was Monomi thinking by just standing in front of the robot overlord like that? There's no way that could have accomplished anything other than prove Monobear's point. It really does make me think that Monomi and Monobear might be operated by the same person, or at least the same group. The fact that both animals had some sort of presence set up on the island beforehand really makes that to be too much of a coincidence.

GhostStalker posted:

Wow, I guess the amount of the real Junko's personality that we got back in DR1 was quite an introduction to how crazy she really is, but we really had no idea, did we? This half chapter just confirms it all...

orenronen posted:

orenronen posted:

Come, my Four Dark Gods of Destruction! Our destination... Jabberwock Park!

orenronen posted:

Don't worry about me, just go ahead...! I'll catch up in no time!

orenronen posted:

The rest followed suit, and left the restaurant, complaining.
And we should leave too... but not before seeing what the two that are still here have to say.

I guess... I should go too.
We should.

...But not before we talk to these two, who are still in the lobby!


Right. Off to the park.

...But not before we talk to Souda, who's also still at the hotel.


He’s gone... I just hope he's going to the park like he should.
Well, I should too.

Yes, we should.

The rumors were right, it seems.


We're here!

Minister Robathan posted:

Did you really have to copy paste practically the entire loving update so you could make make pithy one line remarks about 5 things?

E for content: I find the characters in this game easier to immediately identify than in DR1, but I still have a hard time telling a couple of the girls apart. I mean, I got their archetypes in both games pretty much immediately, but with such a large cast I find it hard to immediately differentiate Tsumiki, Koizumi, Nanami and to some extent Sonia.

Ok, part of it is that I have trouble remembering their names, and linking the names to the images, or their SHSL...

Fedule posted:

It must be Gundam and Togami for entertainment and potentially some more info.

ApplesandOranges posted:

Was I the only one who got Maizono vibes from that line for some reason? Also interesting that she's suddenly addressing the viewer now.

And geez, I thought that was Syo for a second.

Rinoka posted:

Think about it: she's a SHSL Analyst.

That means she can basically play a single junk game and then WIPE THE FLOOR with someone, by predicting what they'd do next.

HelloWinter posted:

... and hamsters, right? Right?

Strange Quark posted:

Hell, you don't need to be in Japan to get some Ramune. Any Asian supermarket will likely have them. The one my parents run is mostly Chinese focused, and even they stock it.

Prison Warden posted:

Learn something new all the time, I guess. At least this isn't as big a culture shock as learning that cider is usually non-alchoholic in the US (which coloured my perceptions of a few bits of American media back in the day).

purple_sammich posted:

I don't think Kuzuryuu is a crossdresser. It seems to me that he's simply self-conscious about being a young, fresh-faced yakuza with a small build. I think the leap to "Aha he must be a girl!" is too extreme and ruins the humor of the situation. Also, his voice is pretty masculine, it's not ambiguous like Chihiro's voice was.

HelloWinter posted:

A bit late for contributing, but here we go anyway:

orenronen posted:

It gets worse when she does both at the same time.

Jeek posted:

The wounds are all between the throat and the stomach, so whatever the reason Togami didn't scream, it is not from an attack on the throat. Also, if Peko wants to murder somebody, it is unwise of her to choose stabbing as she is the one most proficient of doing so.

As for stabbing under the floor, it has been established that the floors are old with gaps between the planks, which would be enough for a skewer to go through. Besides, there is a chance that the knife is a trap for luring Togami, or prepared by a second murderer for his/her own use, either of which case would mean somebody will go under the table and get stabbed.

QuarkJets posted:

^^^ Really? Wouldn't the grate need to be removable at least for cleaning purposes?


Alternatively, there may be a way to get under there from outside.

The knife definitely isn't the weapon, so the weapon must be the missing skewer. The missing skewer definitely wasn't used in the dining area, so it was probably used through the floor. The game pointing out the wide gaps between the planks in the floor adds credence to this theory

HoneyBoy posted:

I thought this as well given Nagito's statement. I mostly don't want her to be a suspect because we've yet to learn anything about Kirigiri MK. II yet, I'm hoping she'll use that sword at some point and live up to her predecessor's namesake.

QuarkJets posted:

The table cloth could be used to block the blood splatter, but what I'm suggesting is that the knife wasn't used in the murder because the blood pattern on it doesn't make sense for a stabbing. This leaves only the missing skewer as a weapon, which would need to have been used through the floor because it's not anywhere in the room that we just finished investigating. Unless it's maybe just really well-hidden in the room and some other character will bring it up later, but I doubt it.

Here's my summary:

Nagito planted the knife and setup the blackout.
Togami saw Nagito going for the knife during the blackout. They struggle, but Togami prevails. Togami gets under the table, sees the knife and grabs it.
Someone stabs Togami through the gaps in the floor with the skewer



Yes, I think this is the key piece of evidence. Fire doors are generally one-way access points. Hanamura claims that he went to the kitchen, came back to the ballroom after the blackout, and then went back to the kitchen. This is impossible with the fire door there. We do know that he was able to say something in the room though. This indicates crawlspace shenanigans, to me.

orenronen posted:

FWIW, the dialogue didn't originally involve cake - we had to make it this way to fit with the English idiom 'a piece of cake' (I was very happy to create a K-On! reference in the process). My choice of strawberry shortcake was entirely deliberate, though.

Edit: Well, since I'm sure someone is going to ask - Ibuki was originally all about eating cha-han (a Chinese fried rice dish) for breakfast.

Twiddy posted:

Welcome to Something Awful.


The dogpile occurred because it's a loving weird as hell comment to make. It's functionally identical to "she's randomly sick from a virus" and serves the exact same plot point. Someone bringing it up at all implies some weird fixation. In addition, nothing else was said in the post, so nothing was added to the conversation. I hope that explains it well enough so that people can shut up about this.

orenronen posted:

You flipped the breakers back up, Big Bro Souda?! Good for you! You actually managed to be useful for once!



Uh... well, actually... I didn’t make it to the office -- that’s where the breakers are, see -- before the power came back on...

Falls Down Stairs posted:

That's why I put things as "eugenics/human enhancement". Maybe I should've left out 'eugenics', I dunno. I think it's unlikely that Hope's Peak is hiding an actual breeding program to raise Übermenschen, since that'd require control over their subjects' whole lives, not just the 3 years of Japanese high school.

But what if they tried to Captain America an untalented normal person up to Super High School Level, except it went horribly wrong and he ended up losing his mind? That's the only other way I can think of that they could create 'hope' or 'talent' (which they seem to regard as basically the same thing). And like you said, Nagito is one of the few untalented normal people who've entered the school.


I have an actual objection to that theory. We saw Mukuro's student file and several photographs of her and she's clearly a distinct person.

MonsterEnvy posted:

Leon is more justifiable (and the more sympathetic) Given that he was attacked first (And if the manga is correct when he got his tools and checked on Maizono to see if she was ok she attacked him again and was killed there.) and he did not know that killing someone results in everyone else dying as Monobear did not state that until after the first murder.