Thread:Autumnlibrarian16/@comment-38973390-20190331120228/@comment-38973390-20191224232737

the fact that the winter solstice (for the northern hemisphere) has passed makes me incredibly happy, because it means that we'll be getting more sunlight from this point forward until June arrives :D sunshine,,,

also :/ guess who has a cold? normally I don't mind but my throat feels like it's in a constant state of dying

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I've recently been thinking about Danganronpa, likely because it's the Despair Sister's birthday, and because wintertime (more specifically December) is just Danganronpa season to me for some reason. It's probably because this is around the time I watched a playthrough of the first Danganronpa game two years ago (which,,, actually ultimately ended up impacting my life in a minor [?] way but that's really something for another time)

I don't care what anyone else says, I really liked V3's ending, and what it stood for. The concept of truth/lies and (possibly implied spoilers; read on at your own risk) especially the secondary theme, reality/fiction, are really interesting ones. With the ending, the game really blurred the line between the world of "truth" and the world of "lies", and I think that was really cool! Most people tend to think that there is only one "truth", and everything else is a "falsehood", which might seem to be true at first, but then when you get into the territory of white lies and especially half lies/half truths things start to get foggy. And then when you throw in interpretation and player's perspective into these things, the "truth" gets even more blurry. The ending of V3 is intended to be whatever the player makes it, and how they interpret the mastermind's words along with the protagonist's reasoning. I completely understand why people might hate it, and how one might think that it "makes all the other games insignificant" but personally, for what it was supposed to do (or at least, how I interpreted the meaning behind the ending, since I know that for sure people might think differently on the ending than me), I think it did really well.

V3's writing may not exactly be the best it could have been, but I certainly enjoyed that ending. It leaves a lot of food for thought, and even more than a year later I find myself reflecting on that ending. That's my stance on it, but I understand if people disagree with me. People could have found the ending to be a "screw you" to the players and the characters, but to me it was just really giving the player the option to try to sift through the facts and find their own belief on what the truth was, because as the game implies multiple times, if I recall correctly, it's not always black and white as just "truth" or "lie".