as typical as this may seem i need to emphasize that meizuno was all over this game's ad campaign her assistant role is nigh traditional of detective adventure games of this nature and everything about her insisted that she would be the typical sidekick love interest she was even in the demo version of the first trial released a month before the game's retail arrival which incidentally featured hagakure as the first victim who spoilers doesn't even die in the final game at all they really threw people for a loop here as all the build up had consistently and silently insisted that maezuno would not only be a character who lived throughout but would be an important and consistent asset to the player instead she's dead within the first few hours of this NUMBER_TOKEN plus hour game and oh buddy the crazy train is only just getting started grief stricken and terrified naegi passes out almost instantly upon seeing the corpse which uh yeah don't blame him and awakens in the gym where monokuma outlines the whole class trial thing i mentioned earlier oh yeah that's another important thing he uh didn't mention that until now you see during the first lovely gym tutorial to their school life monokuma only mentions the killing part not the mock court trial where your life is on the line part which means the culprit of this first murder had no idea their every action was going to be under such scrutiny and ultimately putting them at risk for execution either way though tactfully explained or not most of the class has no desire to participate in these proceedings with junko's objections even raising to the level of stomping on monokuma unfortunately for her this violation of the school rules leads to monokuma suddenly springing a spear trap from the floor impaling and killing her near instantaneously making her both the second dead body in the last NUMBER_TOKEN minutes and a potently frightening example to the rest of the students what the risks of disobeying him really are left to their devices it takes little time for the rest of the students to notice that maezno's body was found in naiki's dorm and given that nobody else knew about the room switching thing his word does little to persuade them that he's not the murderer which saddles you with the tall order of not only solving meisner's fresh murder but acquitting yourself of your own friend's killing turnabout sister style because people clearly haven't compared this game to ace attorney enough yet despite the room being naegi's however the strangest part about its dilapidated state is actually a surprising lack of any hair whatsoever being present in it this combined with the mysterious dying message left behind the body a shattered crystal ball and bloody shirt tatter left behind the closed garbage room great next to the incinerator and the strange way your bathroom doorknob appears to have been unscrewed all coalesces into an interesting set of clues that you make your way underground with and the debate finally begins this is where you're first introduced to the class trial in its many mechanics starting with a non-stop debate this flings you into a conversation where texts will float on the screen as the characters take turns arguing their points in your arsenal is your truth bullets your ammunition that you shoot out
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