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Strange and troubling moments from our Ultimate Detective (cut up):

Recognition of ‘Ultimate’ as if it’s something bad (JP). Granted it’s before he has his memories, but what’s also curious is the recognition a few of the group have of the Monokubs. The vagueness is... troubling, in part considering that Danganronpa is purported to be popular.

Deja vu recognition, while Kaede has no such response. Shuichi alone is particularly unsettled by the notion that he had been there before. Add that to a recognition of ‘Ultimate’ as something awry, and there’s a curious implication of what he means by ‘in for something strange’, considering that his own lab room is filled with Ultimate experiments...

Monophanie, faking falling asleep after... apparently forgetting to do her duty. She doesn’t seem to be too bothered about what happened though, not like she was when Monokuma was present for the motive video jumble, later on.

This always struck me as really weird, cause I expected the game to start similar to the demo. It feels more like Kaede’s reciting a script or talking to a voice in her head, like this isn’t her body, or she’s having an out of body experience cause the player can see her, but there’s no mirror so she can’t see herself, if that makes sense.

Curiously, in DR1, you find out that the group barricaded themselves in, that the ‘imprisonment’ was their own doing. So with that you get a clear context for the appearance of those windows.

As for the barbed wire presence though, we don’t. We don’t even know what that area ‘feels’ like, as Makoto investigated the metal by touch, but Kaede didn’t go to touch the window... understandably, as it’s obviously dangerous.

With that in mind...

Those windows there... almost don’t look like windows. The barbed wire is crossed over bars on the inside, bars that for all intents and purposes look like they belong in a prison. The only indication there’s a window there is the imagery of greenery smushed up against glass.

The wires don’t even seem to serve any purpose - not like the End Wall ‘cage’, at least - but one way or another, ‘less than friendly’ is an understatement. 

The other side though, has regular pane windows, no freaky wires or anything. You can also see the form of each pane quite easily. It puts me in mind of when Ryoma’s lab was partway turning into a prison room- some of it was functional for his research, but the rest was prison.