I do not like leaving reviews on things, particularly publicly, but this game feels like such a blight upon me that I feel the need to complain.

The writing is nothing short of irritating. A product of its time, sure, but horribly obnoxious. Repetitive.
Toko's incessant complaints serve no purpose besides giving the player a headache.
The writing seems to strive to be as shocking as possible - through very cheap means. It only shows devastation upon devastation and disgusting acts without providing any commentary. It comes across as either preteen vent art or downright self serving fetish content at times.
I am aware that Danganronpa in general tends to be crass, but this game feels particularly pedantic in its desire to stick to shock humor. It gets old fast and simply feels uncomfortable in its insistence.
This game unfortunately suffers from the DGR-final-chapter-writing syndrome. It repeats itself again, again, again and again. Hey, did you catch that? It repeats itself countless times. I said it repeats itself. A constant stream of despair, despair, despair - I grow sick of the word. Kicking the character, picking it back up, kicking it again. No change, nothing learned. The final chapter of this game itself feels like a looping joke. It was difficult to sit through.
The series also has this unfortunate habit of killing off every remotely likable character for the sake of it having more impact, leaving (nearly) every survivor to be an active migraine-inducing disease.

I am usually unconcerned with graphics, but I must note that this game was the first instance I have ever encountered of real-time rendering and general gameplay looking better than its prerendered cutscenes. I found myself nearly dreading cutscenes using the 3D models. If anything, at least the UI elements had a more appealing creative vision. The 2D animated scenes were also a nice surprise.

The gameplay itself was unremarkable. Hitboxes are mercilessly janky. The aiming sensitivity feels downright strange - which, by the way, having to change the sensitivity, screen settings and camera controls BEFORE you launch the game is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hassle, though I am aware this is merely a port of a Vita game.

The bullet mechanic felt interesting at first, but was more of a detriment to the experience later on as more and more were added to the arsenal and made it difficult to swiftly change between them. Controlling Komaru felt clunky overall.

If there is anything positive I can say, it's that at the very least the music could be good at times, though it could be equally as repetitive.

Agh. What an annoying ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game this was. How insulting it felt to read its dialogue.

It's a shame. Its concept's boundless potential was hopelessly squandered.

Nasenheimer approves.

yuri

Don't buy this game if u have an azerty keyboard and no controllers to replace it with cause there is NO way to change the controls or button mapping

This game sucks

it sucks

peeeeak i love shotas and lolis and komaru being a female protag for the whole game is nice only complaint is that i dont like getting vored by monokumas

Not my cup of tea. Nice try by the creator though. Just decided to watch the entire game in youtube.

this game is quite freaky. its also one of my favorite games ever. PLEASE PLAY THIS the dialogue is actually so fun and clever, i normally dont go looking for collectibles but in this game i tried so hard to get them all because some of them came with bonus conversations between toko and komaru
this is the kinda game where youre like "why am i playing this??" for the prologue and first chapter, then youre like "ok this is really fun" for a while then near the end of chapter 3 hits and youre back to "WHAT THE ♥♥♥♥" then youre back to "oh my god this is so much fun"

liked the initial game mechanics regardless of how janky it was. constantly ended up tabbing out of the game because the mouse wasn't locked on to the monitor the game was in which pulls the game out of fullscreen mode and consequently made me close the game by accident to which i had to restart from the last save. ended up learning about what happens in the third chapter and i'd rather not ruin this franchise for myself.
overall i am going to pray and hope this game isn't canon