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suuchan posted:Ah, I guess so. The no spoiler guide includes 'character names and titles', so I assumed. Eh, shouldn't take too long anyway. We'll get an official introduction soon. Hopefully. DESPAIR. 
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Zandar posted:The combination of the hexcode at the start, the glitches before Hinata blacks out and Hope's Peak being apparently fine when he got there (which presumably must have been after the Incident, unless DR2 happens before DR) puts me in mind of this being some sort of computer simulation. I know there are any number of other explanations, but it would continue the AI theme of the first game. It could happen during DR (E: In the sense that it would take place within the time gap). Remember, the DR1 class was at Hope's Peak for a year before the most despair-inducing incident in the history of mankind or whatever it was called. And that classroom does look familiar. So I'm thinking here that we're dealing with the DR1 cast's juniors. Or a simulation of them, given the whole glitchy code stuff.
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Ergonomix posted:Welp. That sure is a start. Glad I could get in on this, I didn't start reading the previous thread until it was already finished. You do some good work, dude. The chef actually reminds me of the character that was unused in DR1. (I think he was super high school biologist Santa?)
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Yeah Bro posted:They kinda got lazy with the character design, didn't they. Most of these guys have reused faces or bodies from the previous game. I get that it's anime, but they could at least have tried for a bit more variation. Unless this game is going to pull an SO3 and it'll turn out that the whole game takes place in a computer simulation with all the characteristics of the entrants switched up. But that's just baseless speculation. Honestly, yeah, so far I'm not digging the characters designs outside of Fatogami and maybe the the Pillsbury Doughboy looking dude. so I'm hoping their personalities win me over.
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Renzuko posted:I'm calling cross dresser now so that in 150 updates when this character is dead and someone grabs their crotch to reveal that he is actually a woman, I can be all smug and quote myself. Pinstripe McBuzzcut is totally a girl, I agree. Hell, the first thing I thought to myself was "Girl!" when I saw the picture, and it's all cause of the eyes.
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Goonami!  And that chef...! I thought Santa would look out of place in the last cast but now he seems completely normal in comparison. Catastrophics fucked around with this message at 16:21 on Dec 11, 2012 |
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MechanicalTomPetty posted:
Just gonna point out that as far as I know, every classroom in the academy is basically identical.
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Oh. Hello there new thread! You sure look bright and shiny and new! ...And here's the cast of brand new murder children. Huh. Something about this whole game's color scheme is throwing me. off. It... I don't know. Looks faded? like an old photograph or something. But hey, Mr. Purple Scarf there brooding in the back looks pretty cool. Too bad he had nothing to say.
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Well it didn't take very long for speculation to start running wild in here.
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njsykora posted:Well it didn't take very long for speculation to start running wild in here.
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Oh wow we're starting! And already we've gotten the one 'spoiler' I knew out of the way - that Monorabbit exists. So I'm going in clean and pure. So far my thoughts are that Beautiful Days remains as uplifting as ever, Fat Togami looks weird as hell, and that creepy chef is going to murder everyone. Immediately. Also:  I think this girl looks a lot like Junko. I'm thinking the similarities are deliberate, not laziness. Of course I have no idea what significance they could have...
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I also like how, so far, all of Fatogami's sprites are all a fat version of his DR1 version sprites, I hope they are like that. Also the fact that this is a sequel and we are already talking about him so much......I have a bad felling about the first victim now  Well there is also Naegi but with crazy hair so it could be him too I guess, since he was there in the very first scene my theory is that he will be the Maizono type assistant in this chapter..
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Orfeo posted:Eh, shouldn't take too long anyway. We'll get an official introduction soon. Hopefully. Hopefully. I think Oren mentioned something in the DR1 thread about having a small backlog of DR2 updates? So maybe the official introductions will come pretty soon!
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Leavemywife posted:
EDIT: Jesus Christ this thread moves fast.
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So has everyone else decided who they want to live and die based on the tiny amount we've seen so far? I'm rooting for backpack girl personally.
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Whoo! I didn't read the first LP until very late in the game when I heard it suggested via podcast. I'm happy to be here on the ground floor for this one. Not used to this cast yet, but I'm sure they'll grow on me in time. So, in Dangan Ronpa, Junko showed the images of Monoworld. Does that mean that Monoworld is confirmed a lie, since this game is a sequel. You'd think that if the world outside was fine, Naegi & Co. would be getting the word out that Hope's Peak murders its students. Or maybe this is happening concurrently as DR1 but somewhere else, so Monoworld will continue to be ambiguously true. Anyway, theories aside, hopefully this game will exceed Dangan Ronpa in terms of... Well, everything. Also looking forward to how Zero plays into all of this. I'm assuming from that first chapter/prologue it probably follows Junko and Mukuro?
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Look at this face and tell me he doesn't intend to gleefully to murder the gently caress out of everyone You know what I think? If he's not our mastermind, he has a murderous split personality. I also bet he uses his victims as cooking ingredients.
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All the characters have aspects of previous characters - Chef has Mondo's hair, that blonde girl has Maizono's hair, Fatogami is Togami + Yamada... we even have the return of Asahina's chest. Personally I can't wait for Free Time again.  I'm guessing Fatogami will get oodles of votes.Also, with all the 'chef might be the chief!' suggestions, maybe we'll even have another Suspicious Dish 'holy nuts, he guessed the master antagonist on the first page!' again.
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To be honest, I really hope Col. Togami there isn't original recipe Togami and is a new character. But I REALLY hope the pale hoody guy isn't Naegi even more. Mostly to keep the DR 1 ending/message of hope intact because it would be kinda lovely to bring back DR1 staples only to kill them off in the practice of the "Dies in the Sequel" trope.
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kidcoelacanth posted:So has everyone else decided who they want to live and die based on the tiny amount we've seen so far? I'm rooting for backpack girl personally. The super high school level Chef is too beautiful for this cruel, cruel world
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All you dudes talking about split-personalities, you seem to be working under the assumption that the game's writers are lazy enough to copy twists from the previous game. New game, new rules. Fat-Togami may not even be wealthy, the generic love interest probably won't be psychotic, and I doubt anyone has multiple personalities. Besides, everyone knows that the mastermind will be Santa.  *I have heard nothing about this game before besides what was talked about in the Dangan Ronpa 1 thread. None of the above statements are spoilers (as far as I know).
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kidcoelacanth posted:So has everyone else decided who they want to live and die based on the tiny amount we've seen so far? I'm rooting for backpack girl personally.
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Ohboyohboyohboyohboy! So, apparently Togami has decided to cosplay as Nero Wolfe. Well, with him, Detective Conan, and "Frances" York Morgan around, the criminals don't stand a chance.
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Son Conan posted:Ohboyohboyohboyohboy! Huh. I wonder if in some way this is significant, or if it's just a little nod. It'd be loving awesome though if *all* the characters have some sort of reference to a detective hidden in their character.
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The thing that immediately jumped out at me regarding chef guy is that his facial design is almost exactly like the plant-loving guy from the concept art who never got used in the original game. Not sure where the idea came from that he's going to be the first murderer though. If anything, I'd probably expect it to be one of the more ordinary-looking ones, just to throw everyone off yet again. Honestly, from what I've seen of the cast thus far, I'm not sure I quite like the designs so much. I'll have to see if their personalities can carry them, but for the moment, I'm not that enthusiastic about most of them. While we've got some interesting ones in the crowd, others, like the lady with the large amount of cleavage, seem a little bland in terms of their design. As for the main character, we haven't seen enough of him yet to determine whether he's as much of a doormat as Naegi, but I'm hoping that he's actually a little more assertive and takes charge a little more, just to change things up a little.
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Son Conan posted:Ohboyohboyohboyohboy! I'm down with this. Wolfe is my favorite fictional detective.
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I like so many of the characters already. The androgynous suited kid (suits look great on everyone ever), Lightning McEyebrows, the two goth ravers at the back, the super-polite Classic Lolita girl (who I will presently dub as Alice)... And they're all probably going to die! Bugger!
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 The chef is tiny compared to the rest of the cast!
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I like how everyone is so excited about fat Togami that nobody has even mentioned the loving furry
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Regarding the designs, I actually like quite a few of them. But for me, while I can see the re-hashing of designs from DR 1, it's not that that bothers me, it's some of the color schemes. Would it have killed anybody to have changed some of the girls' colors? Three of them have very light/pale blond scalps that are far too close to the color of Junko's hair for crying out loud. EDIT: ...Wait. *what* furry?
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Son Conan posted:Ohboyohboyohboyohboy! Haha, that would be perfect. Hell, William S. Baring-Gould(and somebody else whose named I cannot recall) theorized that Nero Wolfe was Sherlock Holmes' son with Irene Adler. Could Fatogami be Togami's son with...I don't know, who's the DR equivalent of Irene Adler? It's sure as hell not Fukawa. ...Wow. Page three and I feel we already went past the deep end with theories.
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Catastrophics posted:
Maybe it's because she's just sat down, but that girl sat just in front of him doesn't seem particularly large either.
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orenronen posted:
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...Oy. How about you at least come into the room?
Eh? Oh, excuse me!
Right after we came here, I felt an urge and figured I’d go use the crapper...
But that door wouldn't budge an inch!
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Hey, I just finished reading the updates of the DR thread, good job orenronen! (unfortunately missed the speculation, cause I don't have that much free time  )I'll be reading this one too and since I feel pretty confident about my Japanese reading comprehension, I'll probably be playing the original game at the same time, so I might be asking you questions about your translation choices. You okay with that? Also, is Fedule helping with the translation or is it just editing? I didn't really understand what you meant with "rewriting the translation". Do you mean "retranslating"? Keep it up!
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Sherringford posted:Haha, that would be perfect. Hell, William S. Baring-Gould(and somebody else whose named I cannot recall) theorized that Nero Wolfe was Sherlock Holmes' son with Irene Adler. Could Fatogami be Togami's son with...I don't know, who's the DR equivalent of Irene Adler? It's sure as hell not Fukawa. Not Fukawa no. I just realized we already know who three of these characters are:  There's Fat Togami, Long Hair Naegi, and Punk Hagakure. 
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Yes! Dangan Ronpa 2 LP is here at last! Hope it will be as fun as the last one.
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yessssssss The original LP (alternate title, Let's Make Lowtax Mad Bank on New Avatars) was one of the most delightful surprises I've had the pleasure of encountering on these forums. It's very rare these days to find a game you can experience totally blind. One as entertaining as the original Dangan Ronpa is rarer still. The two of you have my sincere appreciation for making this franchise accessible to an English-speaking audience.
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I bet the horn girl and the chef will not live past chapter 3. Their designs are too goofy for their own good.
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