Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony Review | Bagogames

"The Danganronpa series always felt like a series that flirted with my heart. An appeal to my gorehound interests? Check. A murder mystery set up with neat mini-games? Check. An aesthetic style that provides a colourful stylistic presentation that avoids being tone-death? Triple check, because every murder scene could be a poster. Then I get to the writing and then I’m wounded. Despite a murder mystery set-up, it either feels impossible or too easy to solve each mystery, and the writing often feels geared towards having a good time than raising the stakes or reaping sympathy.

Then there was the problem that even by the anime Danganronpa 3, I thought the series had run its course. Even the writers seemed to acknowledge this, styling the anime as the conclusion to the “Hope’s Peak Academy” saga. I’d love to keep experiencing a similar set up, but how can you keep doing it without seeming contrived and forced? While Danganronpa V3 preserves the dumb fun gameplay, good-time narrative and unsatisfying murder mysteries of predecessors, it ends on an awe-inspiring gutsy swing that shows what Spike Chunsoft is truly capable of." – Kailan May