Ranking your favorite chapters

[Nexils]

All these chapters... murders... investigations... class trials....
Which one do you think is the best? Which one do you think is the worst?
Which one is your favorite? Could you rank them? If so, then go ahead.
I personally need to think a little before being able to rank them properly, but I do know that...

The first and third trial are in my top three.
#1: Chapter 1's class trial, because damn. The twist was real and so were the feels.
Although I heard theories about Kaede, our protagonist, dying. I had no idea how they were going to pull that off.

#2/3: Chapter 3's class trial. Although I'm not a fan of the culprit, it still turned out to be pretty intense and mysterious. When the investigation started I had no idea how the murder was possible and then the second murder happened, which led to even more mystery. Bit by bit, the mystery was solved in that class trial.
And I was disturbed... and creeped out.

I have to think about the other 4 trials and where to rank them.
What do you guys think?

[pauloandrade224]

the finaly for sure with the final part to be the hardest and most orgasmic way to end Danganronpa. i like failed it 10 times before gettin a skill to help me then 3 more and man when i ended i like screamed and hit my fists and i was so happy to have been able to beat it too
also happy with the ending too

[Nexils]

Ahh, so you're saying you thought the sixth trial was the best one?
It sure was an interesting and intense trial.

[pauloandrade224]

Originally posted by Nexils:

Ahh, so you're saying you thought the sixth trial was the best one?
It sure was an interesting and intense trial.

yes because of the plot twists and the end part of the trial. And the finaly which was the best one of the 53 games

[Nexils]

Originally posted by pauloandrade224:

Originally posted by Nexils:

Ahh, so you're saying you thought the sixth trial was the best one?
It sure was an interesting and intense trial.

yes because of the plot twists and the end part of the trial. And the finaly which was the best one of the 53 games

Mind the spoiler. You didn't do it correctly ;p

[pauloandrade224]

Originally posted by Nexils:

Originally posted by pauloandrade224:

yes because of the plot twists and the end part of the trial. And the finaly which was the best one of the 53 games

Mind the spoiler. You didn't do it correctly ;p

how do u do it then ?
Nevermind i figured it out

[Doloris]

1. Case 4
2. Case 2
3. Case 3
4. Case 1
5. Case 5
6. Case 6

This is counting the actual cases rather than just the class trials. While the fourth was really easy, I found it really refreshing compared to the rest. It was something that hadn't been done before.

[✨Nutkun7993✨]

1. Case 6th
2. Case 5th
3. Case 4th
4. Case 1st
5. Case 2nd
6. Case 3rd


4th was new honestly, and 5th was a blast.

And case 6th is the best I could ask for storywise. I don't mind they invalidate all prevent games into tv show anyway. From my point of view those troligy was ended so horribly, so this retcon is completely welcome to me and I hope it stays like that.

[WizoDard]

These are my orders for the best class trials in V3:
1 - Case 5
2 - Case 2
3 - Case 1
4 - Case 3
5 - Case 6
6 - Case 4
I am also including what happened after the trial finished, which is why Case 2 is so high. I found the talent twist of Maki being an assassin and Kirumi running to try and escape ( my mouth dropped at her execution and will to escape ) the best things in that game. And that death reveal of Ryouma, my draw dropped so far...I thought he was going to fall from the ceiling or something, I didn't expect him to be in the tank itself.
Case 5 was put so high because I wasn't able to predict anything that happened during the case, although I did think that Kaito did it.
Case 1 was pretty boring at the start, just a regular class trial, it only got good during the second half.
Case 3 was pretty interesting with how Korekiyo used the new rule to his advantage of admitting he killed Tenko, but not Angie. Although to me it was pretty obvious he did it all, especially since he was the one who asked for the ritual and controlled all of the constants of how it went. It was way too obvious who the killer was.
Case 6 was over 30 mins into the trial, and to me it was also obvious that Tsumugi did it. In fact, I was one of the very few people who predicted the entire events of Tsumugi committing the murder since the end of Case 2 and around the middle of Case 3. I predicted there being a hidden door in the bathroom, her smacking Rantarou on the head, that's why Shuuichi and Kaede saw the secret bookcase door close when they entered the library, and Tsumugi's alibi being crap.
Case 4 was just way too predictable. I had basically all of it figured out by the time it started, other than Gonta dropping the toilet paper down to get off the roof and Gonta mixing up the plug-ins...I thought his execution was also the worst out of everyone, just because to me I felt the music and the execution didn't sync very well together until Monokuma starts shooting him with a machine gun.
I don't think I'll be spoiler blocking any of this because it's a spoiler thread and will eventually get moved to the Spoilers Discussion section.

[Sepiablitz]

1. Case 1
2. Case 5
3. Case 4
4. Case 6
5. Case 3
6. Case 2

Somehow this makes it look like I think cases 3 and 2 were bad, but I don't.

[WizoDard]

Originally posted by Sepiablitz:

1. Case 1
2. Case 5
3. Case 4
4. Case 6
5. Case 3
6. Case 2

Somehow this makes it look like I think cases 3 and 2 were bad, but I don't.

I think all of the cases in V3 were amazing, but it does make them look bad when comparing them to the other trials. Although, I'll take a Danganronpa murder case and trial any day, xD.

[vailserenity]

1. Case 5 was the best imo mainly because training trio/Ouma are my favourites, although the ending broke my heart it was super heated all the way through and the end of it broke my heart.

2. Case 2 - The trial itself was pretty boring, but everything that happened after the voting was amazing. Esp with the reveal right at the end of the chapter.

3. Case 3 - Tenko was best girl before she died, and Kiyo was best boy before his backstory apart from my favs dying, it was pretty intense and the murders were very well thought out !

4. Case 1 - I didn't actually like Kaede bc she seemed too similiar to Hajime and Naegi, but with what is learned in Ch. 6 and Shuuichi's and Kaede's interactions, the emotional value > the case's compelxity. It was pretty obvious.

5. Case 6 - I don't hate the ending as much as others do, but I wish it was less ambiguous. I didn't like the mastermind from the start of the game, so I was glad it was them.

6. Case 4 - It was obvious, and they never seemed to have a problem convicting Kaede or Kirumi, but as soon as Gonta's name is mentioned they all rush to defend the killer?

[WizoDard]

Originally posted by PearlTurtle:

1. Case 5 was the best imo mainly because training trio/Ouma are my favourites, although the ending broke my heart it was super heated all the way through and the end of it broke my heart.

2. Case 2 - The trial itself was pretty boring, but everything that happened after the voting was amazing. Esp with the reveal right at the end of the chapter.

3. Case 3 - Tenko was best girl before she died, and Kiyo was best boy before his backstory apart from my favs dying, it was pretty intense and the murders were very well thought out !

4. Case 1 - I didn't actually like Kaede bc she seemed too similiar to Hajime and Naegi, but with what is learned in Ch. 6 and Shuuichi's and Kaede's interactions, the emotional value > the case's compelxity. It was pretty obvious.

5. Case 6 - I don't hate the ending as much as others do, but I wish it was less ambiguous. I didn't like the mastermind from the start of the game, so I was glad it was them.

6. Case 4 - It was obvious, and they never seemed to have a problem convicting Kaede or Kirumi, but as soon as Gonta's name is mentioned they all rush to defend the killer?

I agree with Chapter 4. It's kind of weird how they immediately went to defend Gonta vs. someone like Kaede...Kirumi and Korekiyo I get, but they never defended Kaede on the matter.

[Nexils]

I'm glad that there are more people who aren't fond of chapter 4's case.. I actually thought it was the most annoying Class Trial out of all.
Perhaps it's because I'm too genre savvy, but everything just seemed so obvious and the characters just didn't get it for some reason.

I may be one of the only people in the world, but I'm honestly not a fan of the culrprit.
Obviously I don't hate the culprit, either. It's just that I had no connection with them.

[WizoDard]

Originally posted by Nexils:

I'm glad that there are more people who aren't fond of chapter 4's case.. I actually thought it was the most annoying Class Trial out of all.
Perhaps it's because I'm too genre savvy, but everything just seemed so obvious and the characters just didn't get it for some reason.

I may be one of the only people in the world, but I'm honestly not a fan of the culrprit.
Obviously I don't hate the culprit, either. It's just that I had no connection with them.

SAME. Finally I found someone who doesn't give a crap about Gonta. It's not like I hate him, but I honestly don't care for him anyway. And honestly, his case was cool, but it would've been cooler if Iruma was the person alive who got executed and Gonta died instead. Which would've confused the case even more, and she could defend herself a lot easier. Also, his execution was disappointing to me, and the music didn't seem like it really synced up with what was happening until the bug appeared...Although it was one of the best execution OSTs.

[BeastBox]

Chapter 6 was easily the most tedious. It belaboured the point much too much and eventually I was just hitting A to get through it. I've gone over this in other threads, but it wasn't nearly as clever as it thought it was and it just felt drawn out with overblown dialogue as a result. This was the only chapter I would have called bad. How you reveal the mastermind was excellent, but once you reveal the killing game's secret, it just went off the rails. It might be the worst chapter of all three games, depending on how charitable I want to be to the funhouse.

Chapter 3 is the second worst chapter in the game, but still actually pretty good. I do have to deduct points for some of the ridiculousness ("I couldn't have found statue in the dark!" How about walking forward, jackass? It was huge and you weren't exactly in a football field) but it wasn't enough to diminish my enjoyment. Something has to be 5th place, though. This case is still as good as the cases in any other DR game.

Chapter 2 wins for fourth, only because the top three chapters were some of the best. The second case was simply a bog-standard case to me. It had its moments, but nothing that really made it stand out. It was just a by-the-books Danganronpa chapter. Slightly better than Chapter 3. Average. C+. Good, not great.

Chapter 4 is third best, but there's a wide margin between this chapter and 2 in terms of quality. It does suffer minorly for the characters taking an estimated 5 years to figure out the secret of the virtual world (something we as video game players probably figured out in five seconds) but it was clever and sad and had a strong gimmick and was really well thought out.

Chapter 1 is probably second best purely for the plot twist. My enjoyment in the moment was very low, because we were effectively losing a character I liked a lot for a character I thought was the absolute worst, most boring character in the game, which set a really downer tone for chapter 2. It also caused some other problems which I won't mention for spoilers. But overall, the execution on the actual case was excellent, especially since it got expanded on later, so I guess I'll give it second place. Seriously though, Shuichi sucks donkey balls.

Chapter 5 was, frankly, brilliant. There were a ton of moving parts and twists and surprises, and yet it all worked and made sense. It suffered a bit from the stupidity of the translation team (that was the dumbest possible change you could have made to the artwork, guys) and was a bit drawn out, but overall great. The voice acting of a certain Exisal certainly carried it, too. Right up there with the fifth case of the previous game.

(in defense of the culprit of case 4, Gonta were actually innocent, if you think about it. He didn't kill Miu ... a copy did. Plus it was really more Kokichi's fault that he did that. The first three cases, the murders just chose to murder, so less sympathy or jumping to their defense is fair, honestly)