HMD

[strangerpeople]

HMD




Hey everyone! It's time for HMD! We want to thank you for making this an amazing round. Seriously, I had a lot of fun, personally (I being...well, Ni. Hello everyone!) and I truly hope you guys had a great time as well. As always, what makes these rounds so amazing is you, the players, and players both old and new truly made this round a memorable experience.

However, there's always room for improvement, and of course, this round was not perfect on our end, no matter how much work we put in - we know it wasn't and isn't. Nevertheless, we always strive to do our best to do better and be better as time goes by and as each round is completed, we want to know how well of a job we've done to try and meet those expectations. And so, we leave it to you to let us know how we're doing.

Anon will be allowed. Have fun y'all, and we will hopefully see you...come Round 8!

Comments

MOD HMD

[strangerpeople]

PLAYER HMD

[strangerpeople]

[Or player love! We're cool with it. <3]

Natalie/Akane!

[exequte]

I've had a blast playing with yall, come at me!

Goldude | Hermes

[somuchshipping]

Any bug reports you'd like to report to the dev team?

Mika/Roland

[godspiousjasper]

I've had so much fun! Please bring it on!! ^^

[exequte]

Hermes was such a unique and fun character, and I feel like you managed to mostly keep him from getting so off topic that it got frustrating to deal with, so kudos for that! It seems like it'd be a hard line to walk. His slow transformation was also really good, and I love how his arc was able to end with him gaining confidence in himself and wanting to be himself and make his own choices, mistakes and all. He was super memorable, and the cast just wouldn't have been as chaotic without him.

[exequte]

Roland! He really was a drop of sunshine in this game, and almost too good and pure for all of it. I really enjoyed their threads together, maybe especially the one where she was able to comfort him after having killed Hubert.

[somuchshipping]

I always intended from the start to play as one of the more unhelpful people. I had no idea the chaos I was going to talk into, but I'm so glad I chose Hermes this round. I was honestly very surprised the moment basically everyone started liking or even loving Hermes. I felt as if I had managed to get a lot of leeway in what I could do with Hermes given he came from such an obscure canon.

The slow transformation at first had me thinking that when the symptoms had started showing, what I was doing was going to be super blatant and suspicious. I basically had two weeks to fully establish Hermes's character before the IC OOCness started showing up, but nobody either IC nor OOC was talking about it and I basically had to escalate the signs of oddness slowly and was very surprised it took as long as it did.

One unfortunate thing I didn't get to really play with and one thing I was holding off for a motive was him wanting to bring back a friend he had lost due to one of his own mistakes. The motive never happened so I didn't really get the opportunity for that. Hermes isn't really one to talk about his past as he's a very in-the-moment character who chases a lot of butterflies.

Once again, I'm glad you like him and I'm glad a lot of other people liked him!

Lenga | Makima 😈

[yesorwoof]

this image (major spoilers implied) shows how Makima expects love... But also shares it, as I do with the wonderful cast of this game.

Tulip/Kaito

[unpossibilities]

Something something Luminary of the Stars.

Des ✋ Yoshikage Kira

[onychomance]

Hope my weirdo was entertaining!

[exequte]

KAITO MY LOVE!!!

he and akane were so, so good together

[exequte]

entertaining, yes, just as a train wreck, perhaps, is entertaining (positive)

kira sure did bring something to this cast. not sure what that something would be classified as, mind, but... somethin. And despite his everything, you kept it a LOT of fun!

[exequte]

THANKS FOR BEING A GOOD ROOMIE, SORRY ABOUT UR TASTE IN MEN!!!

Honestly, I really loved a lot of Makima and Akane's interactions, and the way she like, very lowkey soft adopted her. It was not nearly as much adopted as some other characters adopted her but she was still always looking out for her and that was really good.

[unpossibilities]

Alright, let's do this thing.

Good:

- The maps were very lovingly put together and all of them worked very well as potential murder locations and potential places where characters could just hang out. From what I could tell, there was a lot of effort put in there.

- The final trial/battle was very well done overall! Don't think I have a single complaint there. You had a good thing, you worked with it, it was very well done. The battle led to a lot of funny IC moments and the Discord that entire day felt like everyone was having a lot of fun.

- Responses by mods to questions were usually pretty prompt.

- Powers were very fun to work with and tied neatly back into the lore. Letting us keep those is much appreciated. I found mine really fun.

- Special shout-out to Ni for being a sweetheart. <3

Not As Good:

- This didn't really feel like I was in a Zero Escape round, if I'm being honest. The dressing was there, there was technically a Zero and we were on a ship, but there were no real finer touches from the actual series beyond dressing. It would've been fun to at least have one instance of 'Find A Way Out!' at least. I don't know DMC (nor do I have really any interest in it), so I can't comment on that. Hades I do know, and I almost wish more of it were implemented.

- The baby. The baby seemed a bit of a moot point when the reasoning for the baby could've been conveyed with other means - there were other ways to get the characters into the game that didn't involve making an OC that put a little wedge of questionable player consent (since one of the players, like it or not, was the mother of that baby, and there wasn't really any way to fully jump around that) in there. I personally wasn't a fan of Ayame and it felt weird to work around that.

- The minigames ultimately felt a little pointless. They were a good way for characters to get to know each other in a way, but when it came to the overall lore, they just...were silly? They were there? I'm not too miffed about it, but it came off as kind of silly in retrospect and I can't see why Zero wanted them to exist IC-wise.

- Graveyard felt neglected. This may have been a factor of things getting jumbled behind the scenes, but nonetheless, there didn't really feel like there was a reason to stick around. There's a LOT to do with the House of Hades normally and I felt like it wasn't utilized to its fullest potential. HOWEVER, at the very end, the graveyard did get a bump up in things to do, so that was much appreciated.

- There were some moments of questionable conduct when it comes to certain things in the Discord chat. I'll leave it at that.

[somuchshipping]

I will admit. Having played Dangan Ronpa V3, Kaito is not really near the top end of my tier list. It's a shame I didn't really have Hermes interact with him more often, but from what I saw, you did a good job of playing as him.

[unpossibilities]

[unpossibilities]

AKANE MY WIFE!!!!

but yeah, kinfinite forever. we had a good thing and we ran with it even not expecting to get into a ship this round.

sometimes things work out that way and akane is a sweetheart. a calculating sweetheart. but still. kaito has a type and it's 'people who would in certain circumstances kill him'.

[exequte]

I did not come into this at all expecting a ship, but man they were a good one. Soft kisses and holding hands for these two. She loves her idiot, and was very sad that he died, but is super glad they got reunited. Glad he's coming home with her, she'll try not to get him killed again.

[somuchshipping]

ROMANCE FOR EVERYONE!

[onychomance]

Akane was really good! I loved how you balanced her sweetness, ruthlessness and her silly weirdgirl side. It was a very full portrayal and she truly deserved better than the shit she put up with in this game. Extremely funny the sheer number of times she passed out. A+

[onychomance]

I can't believe we have Jotaro at home.....

[exequte]

Thank you! I really enjoyed playing her here, and really enjoyed all this CR i managed to build with her! It is a shame (?? maybe????) she and Kira never interacted more but also: he alarmed her XD

[unpossibilities]

Z a w a r u d o .

[godspiousjasper]

Given everything that was going down? Yeah. Definitely edging on being almost too good and pure for all of this, I cannot argue that in the slightest xD

YESS!! I enjoyed the threads they had together as well! From her confusing him with all the complicated science-y talk to the over-dramatic improv acting session and then her actually getting him to break down after killing Hubert! He truly needed that ;;