Chapter 4 begins, and the trio spend time together and finally Maki has that conversation with Shuichi when she hints that she has fallen for someone in the killing game. Kaito is back for investigation time, but after he jumps on Maki he's away again. She clearly worries about him and why he's absent and says she wants to keep up the training sessions when Kaito wants to change the training time or cancel the sessions altogether.
Then Kaito is absent for a few days, and when he disappears and he comes back. Even if Kaito is defending her and inviting her to hang out with him, none of that has any effect on Maki and she still dislikes him. Their interactions begin with Maki having quite the negative opinion of Kaito, she complains that he's dragging her places, harassing her, yanking her arm and not letting her go. Not only the pacing of Maki getting close to him and falling for him is off and also it has some good moments in the early stages but it worsens with time. More thoughts on how momo/haru is badly written: Also, it contrasts a lot with how they were leaning on Kaito for anything while he was alive. They talk about Kaito more like he's been dead for some time, like the pain of losing him has subsided, whereas it should be acute, because damn, it's Kaito, their best friend, the guy that they were (both?) into, died like, five hours ago from a disease they didn't know he had until five seconds before his death. After that they talk about how he wouldn't want them to be sad, how he helped them, how they will be strong for him.
They cry a bit in the courtroom, and that's the only time they felt distraught or lost. To talk about the trio's dynamic again, because this tone was set, neither Shuichi or Maki feel like they are grieving. (and he was doomed and suffering all along so it's tragic in itself, but that gets glossed over.) Kaito "winning" over Monokuma and the need that the game has for him to be inspirational at all costs distracts from the fact that it's still a death… he wasn't butchered like the other culprits but he still died. You talked about how Kaito's death set a hopeful/victorious tone for chapter 6 and that made me realize that his death and the aftermath of it isn't treated like a sad, tragic, major event. His resolve to make the best of the situation never changed, but certainly his number of “followers” dropped and his views on what “the best” even means changed drastically. Having everyone rally against him (the leader who’s meant to be rallying) after he plotted all alone to make the campus a safe haven without telling anybody or having a partner, and an attempted murder and torturing from Maki forcing his hand into helping the cast after his suicide choosing to try and make the best of his death (and Kaito’s) instead of just dragging Maki down with him. “I’m going to survive no matter what” and trying to work with the others and help them get along by scolding Kaede after the despair road, being able to get almost everyone on his side despite his apparent obnoxiousness, calming everyone with a lie, trying to render CH2’s motive useless, etc.īeing suicidal, trying to mercy kill everyone, having his one partner try to kill him and his other partner die in vain rendering the leader all alone with absolutely one to help him. The combat in this game, while still in third person, now has you make use of an AR to dispatch foes and eventually has you return to your roots with a driving sequence.I’m not sure how I want to word it, but right now I’m thinking about how Kokichi did have a character arc and y'all’re sleeping on it. Krabs once again this time, he's out to escape Bikini Bottom after having evaded his taxes (probably due to all the Ketamine he bought), and he must fight through hordes of tax collectors in order to arrive on his plane. Tax Evasion takes place after Overdoses on Ketamine, and while this seems like this game would follow the same open world format of its predecessor, the developer of this game decided that a more linear storyline would play out better. Being a part of the Ketamine universe, I had high hopes for how this game was going to play out even without using the exact layout of the "first" game in this series, I can say I was still pleasantly surprised with how this game turned out.
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