https://automaton-media.com/en/news/danganronpa-creator-kazutaka-kodaka-considers-ultimate-despair-girls-the-pinnacle-of-his-writing-i-will-never-be-able-to-write-another-scenario-that-surpasses-it/>Commemorating the anniversary of 'Ultra Despair Girls', Danganronpa creator Kazutaka Kodaka took to X to talk about what it looked like developing the title back in the day.>Kodaka says that, in a sense, he considers himself to have reached a pinnacle with Ultra Despair Girls, as he will “never be able to write another scenario that surpasses it.” (https://x.com/kazkodaka/status/2103286335633236479)>Apparently, the development process itself was also painstakingly difficult, especially when it came to designing the game’s event cutscenes. According to Kodaka, he and a few other developers would pull all-nighters to create the scenes. A lot of the times, the program they used for creating the event scenes would crash, causing hours of work to go down the drain. >Kodaka wasn’t quite fond of staying overnight at the office (which was not an uncommon practice for many developers back in the day, though it was most prominent during the late 90s and early 00s), so he would usually take a taxi home at his own expense (public transport in Japan usually doesn’t operate past midnight), take a nap, and go back to work.>However, he states that he made this game with the firm intention to make players “absolutely cry through experiencing the relationship between Komaru and Fukawa,” which could be a big reason why he went all in on developing it.>As he explained in one of his previous interviews, Kodaka doesn’t consider his sad scenes complete until they actually make him cry. “When I test play the game and a tear softly falls down my cheek, that’s when I consider it finished. This is an absolute for me. […] If I’m unable to cry, I switch back to the creator’s perspective and try to think about what went wrong.”
>"The peak of my writing is when I made soft CP"What a guy!
>>748431234He's right.
>>748431234apologize
>>748431234I'm not reading all that but he's mostly right. Relatives of the original Danganronpa cast showing up for 10 seconds then dying was a little weak but outside of that it's paced so much better than basically anything else, including short stuff like Death Come True.
>>748431234>the pinnacle of his writing
>>748431234Shame the game itself is an atrocious chore to go through. Goated music, fun setting and characters but absolutely not worth the trash moment to moment gameplay, I really wish it was closer to a VN like the other danganronpa games.
>>748432106I thought it was fine, honestly, just a cheap RE4 like. Levels are legit like 20 seconds long with 5 enemies, just mow right through them with headshots.Didn't even touch the fujo girls mode.
>>748431234>the pinnacle of his writing>5/10 at bestDo Danganfags really?
>>748431234honestly, I can’t disagree
>>748431234Monaca is still my favorite villain in the series.
>>748431234>pinnacle of his writing when under spike chunsoft>not when he went independentyou had literally 1 job
>>748431234Kodaka's unironically the worst writer I've ever experienced in any form of media. How anyone could possibly enjoy his work for reasons outside shit-posting is beyond me.
>>748433204must not have experienced a lot of media then
>>748433204I was 13 and enjoyed the hype nagito moments in DR2
>pinnacle
>>748431514Wait everyone told me this game was bad. It sounds pretty good.
>>748433705gameplay can get tedious, especially on hard modenot hard but just annoying to play
>>748433204It’s sloppa but fun sloppa
Sorry but I can't participate in these threads or I'll get spoiled. I only played the first game.
>>748431234If that's what a writer considers the pinnacle of their writing, that's pretty depressing.That'd be like citing the contents of your trash can as the peak of your creative output.
>>748433204I think he’s very entertaining. I was not bored with any of these games them being visual novels
>>748431234well at least he is honest
>>748433204Ishimaru getting killed off mid character development sealed the deal for me, atrocious writing
>>748434120>Ishimaru
>>748431234the only achievement is that he got away with releasing it in the west in 2014
>>748434120if every character had to complete their arc first before they could die it would be a rather easy murder mystery
>>748431234The pinnacle of his writing was obviously the seesaw trick
>>748434587still have no idea why the translators changed "seesaw" to "seesaw effect"
>>748434120isn't it pretty impactful when the character dies before they finished developing? Why was it OK when American History X did it? >>748431234>turns out when Kodaka doesn't have to juggle between writing 16 main characters + 1-5 yurucharas he can actually expand on themなんと…
>>748431514kys trannyfag. Hebes are peak.
>>748434120Ishimaru's development was that he couldn't cope. It's a tragedy at the end of the day and there are naturally characters who wouldn't turn out fine and there are even others who could turn out fine but but still victims like Chihiro.
>>748433204The stylish art is enough to trick most people
>>748431234Monaca and Nagisa are good characters and I found the story reasonably enjoyable, but it wasn't anything special.>However, he states that he made this game with the firm intention to make players “absolutely cry through experiencing the relationship between Komaru and Fukawa"I don't get that at all. I shed a fair amount of bodily fluids over Komaru, but it wasn't tears. And Toko is just kind of ridiculous. Who is crying over them or their relationship?
>>748433204No, he isn't. Even if it's subjectively repulsive to you, you will lose this argument because Danganronpa at its worst is nowhere near as bad as so much shit today.
>>748433204I shit on him because I enjoy his work and want him to evolve past the flaws I see. I see a man who loves commenting and parodying the zeitgeist of gaming and anime culture, clearly the culture he's planted his stake in and became a creative for. He clearly wants to make statements and be evocative/provocative but he also wants to have the fun of creating a spectacle separate as well. He's allowed to make the vidya equivalent of a pulp fiction for a cheap rollercoaster alike thrill ride of shock and twists, as many have said he accomplishes that and is quite entertaining in doing it. No, it's not the highest art, and I have mixed feelings on how he "has his cake and eats it too" with both pointing out how myopic franchises are for the sake of doing lewd fanservice ala carts before a horse and then do shit like >>748431945 or the bath scenes. Let's make one thing clear, yes you can do a lot of media depiction and social interactions with youth differently in Japan than you can in the west, but a huge majority of people still find it unsavory, uncouth, and wrong over there as well. When I saw >>748432894 >>748433634 this felt more like Kodaka's parody mode of making him sound retarded and painting him as a creep even in Japanese sensibility contexts. Maybe I'm mistaken, but the man IS capable of being multidimensional, so when either he writes some very two dimensional characters Teruteru, Peko, Junko, or half the v3 cast you either see him wanting and aiming for a 2d character and wonder if he really should try harder specifically there. I understand a major plot point of v3 is how two dimensional the cast is, but that seems like convenient writing justifying laziness more than an awe-striking revelation that makes it all come together. >'CAUSE IT'S A GAME!
Good, make another one.
>>748431514it filtered normies so gg
>>748431514>muh cpYou lost tranny
>>748431234Can they UDG to Switch already, it's the only one missing I can play it on the Deck but I want to complete my Danganronpa Switch collection
>>748433204Rather have fun writing than shitty Western writing.
UDG was a really fun game and I'm tired of pretending it wasn't.
Komaru's canon underwear.
>>748431945The translation misses the point of the line.
Is Dangan 3 worth watching?
>Ultimate Despair Girlsthat is a name that should only ever be reserved for pornography
>>748441404What was the point?
>>748442224The 逆 should've been reverse not opposite. And the video game part isn't there, so no fourth wall break. She's going to make some point about how if it's bad for kids to molest adults it's also bad for adults to molest kids She's coping because she got whored out by her mom lol
mindless cattle
>>748441526It's probably the worst piece of mainline dangan media and that's really saying something
>>748437175I still believe.
>>748442597But enough about normalfags.
>>748431234I like it a lot because it doesn't follow the class trial formula, so the storytelling is inherently less repetitive. Even the gameplay, which isn't great, at least has some attempt at variation by introducing new enemy types and puzzle gimmicks as you progress
>>748433204this, I love DR2 but he is only capable of doing the same thing over and over again, worse each time too. I actively avoid his dogshit now
>>748442586Fucking hell. It's a good thing I started learning Japanese. いざ!
>>748431234the story in this slop was so fucking shitall those power ranger kids or whatever sucke big cocks especially the obnoxious pink haired bitch
kodaka is the biggest one hit wonder man alive and it's not even funny
>>748431514Even by anime = real life logic, that isn't this game.
>>748441526It's worth watching for this complete retard.
>>748431234I didn't know my favorite was his favorite.
>>748443973You want Kotoko to suck your dick? Understandable.
>>748444017but he made 3 hits (Dangandonpa 1,2 and V3)should have retired from gaming and went to TV show business
>>748441526>world ends because a closeted faggot fear of being called out and junko creates mk ultrano
>>748444246i wouldn't even rape herethe green haired bitch tho... i'll happily correct her
>>748434587>Man-hating lesbian gets killed by delusional AGP sickoWhat did they mean by this?
I know this shit sucks to be in and takes a big toll on your health but I wish I was even remotely passionate enough about my job to be willing to do all nights to get it done
>wake up in a jail cell>see thisWhat do?
>Makoto canonically browses 4chanHe's /ourguy/
>>748444481It's easy to fall into that if you're a writer.
>>748444724What's his favorite board?
>>748442586>She's going to make some pointSo you haven't even read the whole thing in both languages to compare?
>>748444864/x/
>>748444957The scene I didn't look at the English past the screenshot. I'm only talking about that one line so theoretically they could've knocked everything else out of the park.
>>748433204Danganropa and Life is Strange are the same shit to me. I see they have massive fanbases, I look inside, and I find the worst written shit I've ever endured in a video game. Yet people rave about it. It feels alien as hell.
>survives by doing nothingMight be the most based character in the franchise
>>748445592>predicts the bad ending where all the guys are fucking Aoi
>>748444724image boards like that are much more common and not strange to do in Japan, ですね?
