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mikogalateaBringing this over mostly because the post about my thoughts on the game's ending touched on it slightly. As much as I love NDRV3, it sure ain't perfect.
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I've seen quite a few posts in the NDRV3 fandom about how unfair the game's narrative can be towards Kokichi, and to be honest, I do agree with some of what they say (although as much as I love the character, I don't agree with any overwoobification that tries to absolve him of all wrongdoing; even bearing in mind his situation and true intentions, he did do some awful things that he did deserve to be called out for). I suspect a certain amount of that unfairness is the fault of the localisation.
That said, I'd really like to see some acknowledgement of how even more unfair the game's narrative is towards Miu. I recall Kodaka admitting around the time of the Japanese popularity poll that he basically designed her to be hated, and it's painfully obvious in how the game bashes us over the head over and over with the idea that we should hate her, as if no players could possibly be interested in or entertained by this rude and ~problematic~ fanservice girl.
It gets especially annoying in scenes like early in Chapter 3's investigation, where Maki is proven right about Miu having nothing useful to say almost as if Kodaka is saying "why would you ever like Miu when you should be liking Maki instead"... or how about when Gonta gives that touching little speech in Chapter 4 about how it's the killing game that's bad and not Miu herself, and that he doesn't think she's an inherently bad person and would've liked to be friends with her in better circumstances, only for most of the other characters to shoot him down? (Frankly, that wasn't very fair on poor Gonta either.)
There's certainly other examples I could use, but hopefully I've made my point. I like Miu a lot, and while she's obviously nowhere near a saint (hell, that's a lot of her appeal to me), I still think she deserved a bit better than she got from the narrative regardless of what it blatantly wants me to think of her.
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This is the last of the cranky posts I'm bringing over, which I'm thankful for even if I didn't bring over that many cranky ones in the first place.
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I've seen quite a few posts in the NDRV3 fandom about how unfair the game's narrative can be towards Kokichi, and to be honest, I do agree with some of what they say (although as much as I love the character, I don't agree with any overwoobification that tries to absolve him of all wrongdoing; even bearing in mind his situation and true intentions, he did do some awful things that he did deserve to be called out for). I suspect a certain amount of that unfairness is the fault of the localisation.
That said, I'd really like to see some acknowledgement of how even more unfair the game's narrative is towards Miu. I recall Kodaka admitting around the time of the Japanese popularity poll that he basically designed her to be hated, and it's painfully obvious in how the game bashes us over the head over and over with the idea that we should hate her, as if no players could possibly be interested in or entertained by this rude and ~problematic~ fanservice girl.
It gets especially annoying in scenes like early in Chapter 3's investigation, where Maki is proven right about Miu having nothing useful to say almost as if Kodaka is saying "why would you ever like Miu when you should be liking Maki instead"... or how about when Gonta gives that touching little speech in Chapter 4 about how it's the killing game that's bad and not Miu herself, and that he doesn't think she's an inherently bad person and would've liked to be friends with her in better circumstances, only for most of the other characters to shoot him down? (Frankly, that wasn't very fair on poor Gonta either.)
There's certainly other examples I could use, but hopefully I've made my point. I like Miu a lot, and while she's obviously nowhere near a saint (hell, that's a lot of her appeal to me), I still think she deserved a bit better than she got from the narrative regardless of what it blatantly wants me to think of her.
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This is the last of the cranky posts I'm bringing over, which I'm thankful for even if I didn't bring over that many cranky ones in the first place.
