#a second danganronpa take ! wow. alright back to hte cave again

[moonsidesong]

i like sdra2 but chapter 3 scarred me so bad that i remembered nothing aside from it abt my first playthrough

god yeah that one is. a lot. i mean its interesting i actually enjoyed it for what it was but its. a lot.

(gonna ramble about more thoughts on this trial under the cut, for anyone unfamiliar uhh spoilers obviously, also cw for talk of incest)

kanade's whole thing about being . yknow. eueuauuguh about her sister is super super uncomfortable and offputting but i hesitate to be super Mad at it bc i mean. i think being intensely uncomfortable is the point? yknow?

obviously when it first happened my kneejerk reaction was Gross Yuck Why Would You Put That In (and i still feel that to a degree) but at the same time its like. i feel like it is supposed to be a horror aspect. and not. like. a fetishization of twincest sort of thing. like youre very much not supposed to think anything kanade does or believes is... like... OKAY in any capacity shes never really depicted as anything other than a horrible monster (when the game touches on the gravity of the deaths of the others it even sometimes goes out of its way to say its a Good thing that kanade is. not. living anymore.) and the moments Hibiki has of lucidity shes obviously pretty horrified by the idea that kanade is anything other than her Regular and Normal sister.

i mean. im not gonna praise this inclusion. bc could it have been handled better? yeah. obviously it couldve. its still gross and makes me feel icky and very much couldve been removed entirely. but the thing about danganronpa as a whole is that you kinda have to go in expecting a little bit of garbage, yknow? i dunno. nuance or something. Being Critical Of Interests Or Something. speaking exclusively narratively i thought it was at least written better than whatever was going on with korekiyo (but again the bar is kinda on the floor for most things when it comes to comparing something to v3.)

the unfortunate part for me is my friend and i were voice acting the game on call together and towards the end i kinda just had to repeatedly go 'i am not saying that.'

though i will say, a twist on the third trial being a double Murderer case instead of a double victim case was interesting! its a neat twist even if the reason it works is a little contrived (but, i mean, again, its danganronpa, sometimes you just have to meet it on its level)

but also setsuka was my big favorite and i was VERY SAD WHEN SHE WAS GONE