unpopular opinion: I think that the dr3's characters overall fell short of those from the previous games. It has some excellent characters, but I was uninterested in most of them.
(v3 spoilers under the cut)
i kind of agree and kind of disagree. i do think that v3 relied heavily on some tropes set up from the previous games, (this could have also been due to plot/endgame spoilers) but personally, i felt that the cast of v3 was my favorite and i honestly like every character in the game.
a few complaints i do have tho:
kirumi: this girl has no personality AT ALL. and its such a shame because she has a cool design and an interesting talent. but they made her talent HER ONLY PERSONALITY TRAIT. shes a maid! and thats the only thing that we’re getting out of her the whole game. her freetime events? “im a maid. heres what i can do.” it doesnt even offer any reason why she became a maid or anything that she does/did before becoming a maid or in her downtime. just. “im a maid.” her love suite event? predictable. maid/master. its... sad.
kirumi had the potential to be a badass character and they reduced her down to one trait. thats why i really liked the manga anthology- there was a comic where kirumi talked about how she used to play gacha games a lot and had to stop because she was spending so much money on them. thats character! thats personality! thats backstory! it was so refreshing to see! but in game it felt like they didnt know what to do with her, so they killed her off in chapter 2.
korekiyo: i honestly often forgot that he was a character until chapter 3 because he... didnt do anything. he didnt talk to anyone. so when he started getting involved in the investigation in chapter 3 it was very suspicious and it made it obvious that he was the killer because before that point he did absolutely nothing. i feel like the writers also kind of forgot that he was a character and forgot to make him do absolutely anything before chapter 3. but he has a cool design and personality so its rlly :(
also cut the i*cest shit out please
himiko, tenko, and angie: i didnt care about this arc. at all. every time one of these characters started fighting over himiko i just sighed and wanted to skip it because it was SO BORING. ive never been more relieved over victim reveals because that meant i didnt have to sit through 10 more minutes of those two fighting over himiko. but then i realized id have to deal with himiko saying “im a mage” and “its magic” for the rest of the game bc of the “dead friend” immunity perk and i was like UUUGHHH. even after all that, i didnt feel like himiko changed much. at least, she didnt stop annoying me.
tsumugi: let me preface this by saying that I LOVE TSUMUGI SHIROGANE WITH ALL MY HEART but i feel like the writers did her dirty. i wish she had been more important before the chapter 6 reveal. i feel like her not doing anything until she became the mastermind made it easy for players to hate her when she actually is quite a sweet girl. also, i feel like if she had done more, say along the lines of kaito or maki, it wouldve been more devastating if she had been revealed as the mastermind because you wouldve felt betrayed.
tsumugi was a really nice girl and i wish i couldve seen her interact more with the others instead of being content with being thrown into the background. i know she says shes plain but i think its endearing and nice because both her and shuichi and kaede have that normality in common, so i think they couldve been good friends. personally i wish she and keebo had talked more, because of team dr shenanigans, i thought it wouldve been cute if she treated him like a little brother.
ALSO CUT THE I*CEST SHIT IN THE LOVE SUITE EVENT OUT PLEASE.
maki: i both like and dislike maki, i wish she wouldve changed more throughout the game. i think i wouldve preferred to see kaito’s reaction to maki being executed instead of the other way around. maybe she kills to protect him or something, something shes never done before. i think it wouldve been more interesting than the blatant “i have feelings for kaito” reveal at the end of chapter 5. and the fact that she couldnt actually do anything to save him- it wouldve been so cool to see maki in action is what im saying. it wouldve been nice to see maki say ”i love you” without actually having to say it, either.
shuichi: i didnt like shuichi in chapter 1 because in comparison to the other boys, i just didnt think he was interesting at all. i think shuichi only works as a protagonist, because i didnt like him until chapter 2 when he took over for kaede and i got to see what he was thinking. this isnt a super big complaint but i thought id mention it.
keebo: they did my boy dirty. they did my boy SO DIRTY. i hate that the entire game all he does is get bullied by kokichi, which makes his “haha hes a stupid robot who yells about ‘robot rights!’” trope come to the forefront of his personality so he doesnt seem like he can do anything at all until the end of the game when he fucking kills himself.
