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Chapter 4 was probably my favorite chapter in the whole game. I liked having the entire murder in a very closed environment. The stakes of starving to death unless someone was willing to kill felt much more real than a lot of the sillier motivations I've seen in the games as well. The escape room and playing as Nagito was a welcome change of pace. Figuring out the mysteries or the building was pretty interesting, and Mecha-maru was fantastic. I love how excited he was to just be alive and also when he found out he had new functionality. It sucked for me as I was working on his Hope Fragments and was close to finishing him off when he got killed. Thankfully I had just finished Gundham's prior to his outcome. Speaking of Gundham I, his motive for the murder didn't quite make sense to me. They really made it sound like he killed Mecha-Maru knowing he would get caught therefor he was sacrificing himself (and killing the least jarring character since he was already "died" once) for the good of the remaining students. If that was really the case though why would be go through such elaborate efforts to conceal some of the evidence? Seemed like he also would have just been happy to escape as the "blackened" to me.

Chapter 5 had maybe the most interesting murder to solve out of both games and definitely the most brutal. Nagito, from the chapter 1 trial, was not a character I had any appreciation for and I often just dreaded him talking (especially during trials). Wasn't surprised or sad to see him go. I liked that they tied his Ultimate Lucky Student talent so strongly into this game though. That's something they didn't do at all with Makoto from the first game and right up until the end I really though there was going to be a connection between the two of them since they had the same talent, but that just wasn't the case. I had strong suspicions that Chiaki was the traitor from in chapter 4 when she prevented me from going into the escape room to hunt for the Ultimate Weapon, so that reveal wasn't a surprise, but it was still cool to uncover how Nagito sussed her out to the rest of us.

I was really expecting a much shorter kind of wrap up, but boy did they go off the rails in full force for this last chapter trial and all. I'm super curious to know if this final chapter made any sense to someone who didn't play the 1st game as you had to know about 4-5 of the main characters from there to really piece it all together. Douglie you might be the only one going into this without experience with the 1st game so I'd love to hear what you thought about the finale specifically. I just felt the game had really overstayed it's welcome at this point and there was so much dialogue that seemed unnecessary or repetitive.

Holy shit!  I cannot believe that two of the relationships that I was building on became the killers in these two chapters. I had maxed out my relationship with Mikan and was halfway done with Peko...  I seem to do this a lot, get sucked in by characters who don't seem like they would be dangerous and avoid the ones that appear dangerous.  Oh well, at least I got a set of undies out of it! **winks at Crabby**  So far, I have also maxed out a relationship with Chiaki, and considering Fuyuhiko and Sonia as my next targets (if any of them are future killers, please don't tell me).

With chapter 6 taking place in the Hope's Peak Academy of the first game, it brings up a lot of topics and information from that game. One of these topics is the event that is referred to as "The Tragedy of Hope's Peak Academy", which is when the Ultimate Despairs (who turn out to be Junko from the 1st game and the characters of this game less Chiaki as she is the spy from Future Corp) killed 13 students. It is during the Chapter 6 trail that you learn that the world the characters are in is a simulation that was utilized by some members of Future Corp to revert the surviving members of the Ultimate Despairs back to "normal people" who have hope. The Chapter 6 trial also provides more details on The Biggest, Most Awful, Most Tragic Event in Human History (a.k.a The Tragedy), where it is revealed that the Junko and Ultimate Despairs, spread despair like a disease infecting many people as well as killing many too. One of the examples of the killings is when Junko infected the reserve department students resulting in a mass suicide of over 2000 students. Essentially a cult like following was created where those who were infected by despair did things like murdering their friends and family and self mutilation/harm to gain/spread more despair. Even more disturbing is the fact that when Junko died, those infected did things like transplant part of her body onto themselves and some even tried to reproduce with her corpse to spread despair. This over the top description of what was happening in the outside world paints a very detailed picture of how bad the world had become. Learning all of this information to me was great because it finally gave me some closure to the first game on what all of the tragic events were and who was involved. I also like how it revealed what happened to most of the surviving members of the 1st game. I thought the reveal that the world that the students were in is a simulation was quite interesting. Even though they had to resort to the cliche of if you die in the game you die in real life to prevent dead characters from coming back. I was also a fan of the tipping point in the 6th trail where the current surviving members have only three choices they can make that will shape the outcome of the game. If they graduate  they can leave the simulation changed with hope, but also releasing more despair in the world by freeing Alter Ego Junko. If they repeat, the essentially have to stay in the fabricated world. Or they can use a fail safe by selecting to graduate and repeat simultaneously resulting in the deletion of Junko as well as their memories of their times in the simulation and reverting back to Ultimate Despairs. Ultimately they choose to use the fail safe, but its revealed in the ending that this choice isn't so bad, as the survivors chose to go to the actual Jabbawak Island to live for the rest of their lives along with those who died in the game in hopes that the will awake from their comatose states (even though it is very unlikely). I like the open ended ending because it makes the player interpret the outcome in their own way. For me I like to think that the Surviving members are able to revert back to the side of hope and that eventually their friends will wake up and revert back to hope as well.

After coming across the factory that makes the Monokuma plushies, I get the feeling that they are merchandise for some sort of popular show. My guess is that the participants are a part of some sort of reality show where they are being filmed all the time and broadcast to the rest of the world.  I think that they were captured as a result of their uprising and put on this island with their memories wiped to kill each other for the powers-that-be's enjoyment, and to also teach a lesson to those who defy this authority. This theory brings to mind other futuristic, post-apoctolyptic works such as  Battle Royale/The Hunger Games and Running Man. Though Chiaki is deemed the "traitor," I think that she was more of an infultrator who entered the game to help them out. I dunno, I could be way off on these inferences, but it's fun to play along and take some stabs at what may be revealed.