Danganronpa V3 – The Essence of Lies and Truth

What is Danganronpa V3?

Danganronpa is a popular Japanese game series, including three main game series, a side game and an anime series. Danganronpa V3 is the latest and last part of the series

 Danganronpa V3, like its predecessor, is in the visual novel genre. A special game genre developed in Japan, originally formed by having a generation of machines that, although able to use drawings of thousands of pixels, were limited in gameplay to only a few pages of text.

 This is a series of games largely inspired by Zero Escape of the same production company. Both of these games have given players a new perspective on the escape room genre, or in Vietnamese, we might know it as: finding objects. Although it still retains the look of this genre, it focuses on the characters rather than the plot. Because “when people are pushed into the most desperate situations, they are the most unpredictable”.  

Overall about the game

All games have the same description: 15-16 students locked in an enclosed space are forced to participate in a deadly game.

 At this point I have to warn you, you should save the article and go out right away for the best experience, if we have considered it fully, we continue.

 In the game, you will meet a bear, which is also the mascot of the whole game. And depending on how it was said it would also make a rule like this: no one can escape until they kill a person undetected. During the judgment time, everyone will vote on who is the killer, quite like a werewolf, and if you choose right, that person will die, if you choose wrong, everyone else will die and the person who killed will die. be left.

 That’s the description, but the most important part of the whole game must be the talented mechanics of the characters. In all the games, you will always be with characters who have a talent of their own, and all of them are exceptionally good at that part. But what’s novel about Danganronpa is that those talents are often the reason they’re found to be murderers, since only people with the right talent can commit murders. with super talent. Not only that, the “punishment” for those caught will always be based on their talent.

 The gameplay always follows a pattern that will never change, no matter how creative, such things include: the daughter closest to the male protagonist first dies, the mastermind is always on the front For a long time now, all those who win by killing practically go nowhere… But surely what has never changed in Danganronpa is the two opposing ideological factions. Remember the above quote? That quote is from Junko Enoshima, who, if not directly, also indirectly makes all three games happen.

 The common point of both first games is that she is always the bad guy, the despair of the entire cast. Up until the third season, when Danganronpa chose a much more adult theme, lies and truth, the good and the bad here were not as white and black as despair and hope, and especially in V3, the gameplay itself. It also helps us understand the topic.

 The gameplay of all three-game series can be summarized as follows, first you go around, learn the world and the characters and then wait for the murder to happen. At that time you will be summoned to the crime scene, looking for evidence. Then into judgment. Your mission is to convince people and find the killer. You will play minigames such as matching letters, driving to find words. Or the main gameplay of the game is to use evidence to, literally, shoot or slash through lies or arguments in your favor. In the end, you will piece together what happened in the case. But V3 had an extra twist.

 Analysis

 The special thing in V3 is that it also has two other types of gameplay, in which you have to split into two factions when opinions are divided, and then it will lead to the second type, when you reach a dead end you will have to lie to find out the truth.

 In V3, black and white has more gray areas than all the rest. The characters here are written with much more serious dialogue. And the reasons they kill other people are usually because of a higher purpose, although still a little selfish, but it all makes them more human. In fact, there are too many anime and games that care too much about the special and forget about the human element, V3 doesn’t, it makes us feel like real life is really important, that all is not worth dying for. This makes even the characters with the shortest screen time have a lot of weight on the player’s choices.

 Lying and telling the truth in this game are both placed in the same common moral area. As mentioned above, lies in the game used to lead to the truth. For example, once, I lied that magic tricks use magic, which in turn would make Himiko reveal to me how to perform magic tricks, the darkest thing of a magician, help us prove her innocence.

 Not only that, truth and lies are also reflected in the moral thoughts of the characters. The most typical one is probably Tenko, she was taught a martial art called Neo-aikido, it forces her not to follow boys, and not do “bad”, the bad thing here can be just eating candy or having fun. joking, because it can damage people. This was obviously a lie, but it was for her own good. But later on when she began to trust boys, she would accept them if they practiced Neo-aikido, she created her own truth, truth created from the foundation of falsehood.

 But surely, the most blatant lie is the lie about the whole game series. In the final chapter of the game, it is revealed that this is just a TV game show, the characters are all fans of the previous game series. That all the characters have voluntarily had their memories erased in order to receive a bogus talent, a false personality. According to the game, that is the biggest real-life lie. Even if I win, I will have to continue to participate next time. None of the options are really good. So they had to let go. They do not choose, sacrifice to end the game, we also have to let go, as the game series says, it is the viewer who is the deciding factor here.

 And I must have done the right thing, I let go of the game so it could stop. But it’s not like we don’t get anything in return, because the last lie said: everything just now could have been a lie, there could still be a world ahead, it said that until As long as we continue to be fans, Danganronpa will never really die.

 This is the end of the post, if you haven’t played it yet, download it now if you’re impressed. This is an extremely valuable series of games for anyone who wants a game that focuses on characters rather than random elements like complicated storylines. The music alone can convince me to play, how about you? Will you choose lies or truth?