For those wondering, the Danganronpa V3 section only contains footage from the first half of chapter 1 and the non-canon demo. I tried to keep spoilers to a minimum.

I came for Danganronpa. I stayed for the rest of the video. Very informative.

One part of Danganronpa's UI that I've always really liked was the graphic in the upper-left corner that shows the name of the background song playing. Danganronpa's always had great OSTs, so I like that they make the BGM easy to identify.

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About text animations in NDRV3 - what I really love is that text animation isn't just a random spinning and stretching ect. For example, when someone says about some stuff "FALLING", that word is really falling. Or if they talk about "DROWNING", text animation also looks like it was drowning. Small detail, but I love it.

danganronpa v3's overall presentation is incredibly slick and just pleasing, happy to see it being mentioned here!

Sucks that the best part of the v3 kinetic typohgraphy is hidden in the extremely spoilery convos so that you cant show them here. I mean it's really ingenious, from the time they made white noise talking about a wall into a wall of the word wall itself, to one of the words crawling offscreen like a worm when someone said worm. Those are some of my favorite uses of the kinetic typography in v3, and what really sets it apart from the typography in previous games.

I see Danganronpa I C L I C C

V3 was good. But Danganronpa 3V blew me outta the water.

clicked so fast with that monokuma in the thumbnail

This video was what finally pushed me over the edge into trying out the Danganronpa series. No regrets, despite the constant anxiety of wondering if my favorite characters are going to die.

Let's be honest now. We all clicked for Monokuma.

As a graphic design student these videos are very intriguing! I'm so happy you did a sequel to your first episode. Graphic design is something people take for granted but is one of the most important things in our world, as you said: It's the "presentation of information" and thus it's there to inform, navigate/orientate but also be entertaining at the same time. The sad thing is, so many people don't appreciate good design and are not bothered by bad design.

Also if you're open to constructive criticism, if you're making another episode could you pair up the Bad designs with Good designs that are related and get contrasted? Like bad menus with good menus, bad fighting games with good fighting games etc. The list's flow sometimes seem all over the place when the items are unrelated

I love everything about Danganronpa, especially its UI and visuals

Vol.1 = Persona 5 Vol.2 = Danganronpa V3 i see a patron here

I'm a huge Danganronpa fan and this is why I came. And everything said about it is true and all. But after watching this video, something else really grabbed my attention: Big shout out to Little Big Planet's menus! Especially during level creation. It makes me really look forward to Dream's menus. And everything we've seen about Dream, which is even way more complicated than LBP, seem to work really well and put your intention to what is really important at all times.

i clicked for danganronpa. i stayed for splatoon 2.

9:12 First rule of mentioning FF6: You have to show a clip of Sabin suplexing the train.

Going off the Danganronpa bit, it's also a case of how a unique & well made design can draw people in. I was recommended it by my friend & when I looked up the gameplay trailer, the cinematography & look of the NSD's got me really interested. A few years later & I've now played through the first 3 games, watched the anime of both the first game & 3, & have started V3.

I came here for Danganronpa and stayed for the good content. I never paid much attention to how the menus and all that are designed and watching this reminded me of how good things like the menus have to look to easily help first-time players and have them stay with the game. Now I gotta watch Vol. 1 of this.

Me:*sees danganronpa V3 in good design* Me:*Happiest noise*

I was about to be like "Jesus Christ how much do you hate Mario Party 8?"

Nice way to bait me with that Monokuma decal.

Persona 5 soundtrack, because it's just so good it can't be in only one video

"font choice" How about if I ever make a game I use *comic sans*

when i first played danganronpa it never told me HOW TO EXIT THE GAME

V3 kinetic typohgraphy (im not gonna lie i have to copy paste those words) is great, i've akways loved the non-stop dabates of previous games but v3 was on another level. The only part is that you cant show the really REALLY GOOD examples without spoiling the game. one thing love is how the characters personality is relfected on the words. Is someone is saying something happy (or as happy as someone can get after a murder) the words move acordingly.

I see Danganronpa. I’m here.

"Anime high school hunger games" so....Battle Royale? Which hunger games seemed based off of? JK seriously great stuff man, I'm hoping this could be a recurring series :D

I decided to play Danganronpa V3 after seeing this video a few weeks ago and boy, it was a masterpiece. Thanks for making this

this video so well made im glad youtube recommended this piece of gem to me... (shed tears)

I found your channel a week ago, and wow. How do you not have more subscribers? Your content is really enjoyable to watch and listen to, without feeling like I'm being flooded with a boring string of words that come in one ear and out the other. As an aspiring graphic designer, I find your videos to be really insightful, so keep up the great work!

Danganronpa is one of my favorite game series ever

All my fav games are being praised I feel blessed

Oh my god, Danganronpa. I love you more than everything i ever loved now. Thank you, thank you and thank you.

When the V3 intro played, I sang along.

My favourite part of Danganronpa is the music. D-D-D-D-DANGANRONPA *intense head bopping*

Hey, I found your channel last week and I love it! Please keep it going, your videos are super interesting and well-made. I look forward to see what else you will produce!

Just found your channel and love your content. Looking into the design of games is something that I think is under appreciated. Keep up the good work!

I am absolutely loving this series. It’s digging into an important but often over looked aspect of game development. As an aspiring designer these videos are fascinating to me. On that note I’d love to see your opinion of the UI/Graphic design of the Disgaea series. Specially Disgaea 5. Its a series that thrives on information overload, with a lot of the game being spent in menus (I mean that in a good way) though in my personal opinion never felt overwhelmed or out of place despite the title wave of information always being presented to me. I would love to get a deeper look into this from the eyes of a graphics designer.

"Each element must harmonize..." while showing Zenyatta's gameplay I see what you did there.

as a cs major, "programmer menus" was such a useful term for me when i was going through school, thank you Doctor

I love these videos so much. Visual design in games is definitely something needing of praise and criticism as of late and this series is the perfect answer to it. Fantastic work man!

I wholly agree with your opinion on the PC remakes of old final fantasy games. The GBA remakes of 1, 2 and 5 had fantastic graphic design though.

Very insightful. I need more of this.

The Great Desing choices was so well chosen that made me go watch the entire channel! As an artist, your channel fells like a blessing to me! Amazing joob!!! ❤️

Dope series. I love your take and critiques on UI design for these games.

I must admit, I know almost nothing about Dangan Ronpa. and tbh I'm not all that interested, I'm more of an Ace Attorney kinda person and tbh it looks a little too chaotic for me to be able to properly play it. But that class trial part you showed off? Gosh dang that's beautiful. Almost looks like a game trailer. .... In fact, it reminds me of the Ghost Trick announcement trailer. Gosh, I love that thing.

"It's high-school anime Hunger Games!" You make Battle Royale cry so hard.

Just love your videos! As an aspiring game designer, I'd love to see more analyses like this one!

Just subscribed yesterday. Good to see you're still at it!

screamed when it showed NDRV3

im a simple man i see monokuma i click!

Every time I click on one of your videos, I leave feeling a little bit smarter. I really appreciate how you give insight on the things the average players takes for granted when playing a game. You make design concepts easy to understand and give numerous and detailed examples of your point to get it across. It's a really didactic experience.

Holy crap! This video was so well done. You definitely deserve more subscribers and views!

A saw monokuma, screamed, clicked the video, and fell in love with this channel. Also, I love little big planet!

i had a few problems with dr1 and 2s design, and ultra despair girls felt absolutely terrible but man, im so happy they learned from that, ndrv3 is near perfection

Thanks for making these types of videos! I want to be a game critic and these are a great place to start for me. have a great day!

Hey, I loved the idea of talking about graphic design, that's pretty cool. Subscribed!

In these videos you seem to have used trails in the sky as an example of bad design. I don't have a problem with that, but I don't believe you have explained why yet. It's one of my favourite rpg series, so I'd love to find out how it could be better! Keep up the good work.

How about JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven or All Star Battle? They're both based on the same manga and it has a pretty unique style

Nice video, explaining complex ideas of aesthetic design simply, but it seems all over the place. Maybe later videos can more specifically do compare and contrast, say, comparing Battleborn’s distracting UI with a game that knows how to make a UI that gets your attention only when it’s needed?

Holy shit a new video just minutes after binging your videos. Keep up the good work man!! ❤️

I was hoping for a sequel!

Im a simple man, I see danganronpa, I click

thanks for making these videos man, subbed to an awesome channel today

Oh wow this is quick, absolutely loved it You should do this as a series, in fact, music plays a part in UI design too to give off a feel of the overall theme of the games design, say Gran Turismo 4, uses clean, white with many shades of grey for it's UI coupled with café music for that professional, snobbish feel to it

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5:27 Me:Looks at Rantaro Me: "Yeah...sure"

Once again, amazingly produced video!

Love this series. Looking forward to more.

I'm a simple woman. When someone mentions Splatoon 2 or Danganronpa, I C L I C K

I clicked for Danganronpa tbh-

God bless Warbot, effective ways of explaining an equally weighted argument and provides the evidence SOO well. Thank God I found you today.

Love your work. Keep at it!

"Good design: Splatoon 2" ...INSTA-LIKE!!

this. this video is what made me discover danganronpa. i dont know whether to thank you or not

As a graphic designer anda a gamer, i love this series of videos you have been doing. Keep up the great work :)

I'm ever so greatful to you. i'm learning so much from your videos. I strive to make my videos better and better. I hope to one day be really really good.

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Slow paced games all seem to have the best graphic design, and I think it's why in an action game "dominated" world these games are usually seen as superior. When you're not busy focusing on making the moment to moment gameplay as flashy and as in your face as possibly as you try to grab the attention of what you assume is a goldfish you end up forgetting that a memorable well crafted gaming experience is far more charming and is going to leave a positive impact on the player. Slower paced games are, well, slow. And as a result the game designers but a large emphasis on making everything around the gameplay interesting, beautiful, important and impactful. These games respect the players, and as a result know that crafting a world that is beautiful, fleshed out, memerable and appealing to look at in general will more than make up for poor gameplay. For example look at Zelda breath of the wild, a stunning game that throws you in with no clue as to what you have to do other than save the princess and hyrule. The world is empty, there's little moment to moment gameplay, yet you can easily sink hundreds of hours into it and feel like the game you were given was exciting and memorable. Every single location was crafted to create a reaction from you, you can't help but want to explore what the world has to offer even if you have little time, because every unqiue region has landmarks, but it also able to cater to the true explorers who want some secrets they have to dig for. Persona is even slower, but it's world is such a beautifully crafted region and the UI is so impactful and nice looking that even though the combat is painfully slow, all the flashy effect that go on around the battle make it feel like the action so so much faster than it is, everything flows and you never feel like you're really hitting a brick wall in pace. I've not even played the game but I'm willing to bet that you can go through the entire game without something cool or beautiful keeping you from feeling bored or like the game has slowed down immensely, there's always some kind of movement going on beyond ambience. I honestly feel like even without a single second playing the game that Persona 5 has the best graphic design of any game, movie, novel whatever I can think of. I also think it ties into Japanese culture a lot of the time, there are plenty of great looking western games, but the Japanese focus on craftsmanship and making something not only beautiful/impactful but also just as usable as if there wasn't anything there at all is why we get so many Japanese examples given when we ask about great graphic design. Flow, presentation and quality are all hallmarks of Japanese art (especially flow), whereas in the west pure creative energy or the most realism you can think of is the focus. You can see this by comparing for example battlefield to splatoon. Splatoon focuses on the flow of battle, each side going back and forth between what is literally a liquid taking up more of the field, as well as the presentation of the game as you explained, and the quality of the mechanics and maps. Battlefield on the other-hand aims for realistic set pieces with realistic graphics and the raw creative power to destroy the battlefield how you see fit. This isn't meant to say that the Japanese are superior at making games, rather that due to the differences in their game markets and the small cultural nuances that separate them from the west, they tend to focus on completely different areas to the west. Compare for one second the raw gameplay of a JRPG to something like fallout or skyrim and you can obviously tell emphasis was put in different places despite both being RPG games. Videos like this might convince you graphic design is everything, but in reality some games with horrible graphic design are still absolutely amazing and deserve a lot of praise. Rather Graphic design is a way to support the quality of a game, it's a language that is much needed in games that aren't as flashy or action packed to give a sense of content to the game, I mean when you ask someone why they love for example xenoblade, they don't say "the gameplay is amazing" , they'll give you a massive epilogue about how the game world is beautiful, how the characters have so much charm and emotions, how the game presents itself is a cut above anything they've played. Graphic design is a testament to the fact that you don't have to make another call of duty or assassins creed to create a great game, beautiful presentation and a breathtaking world can mean so much more than another copy and paste combat system no matter how fun that system may be. Side note: Japan also focuses more on what I would call a caste, where for example the dev is above you and you are below the dev. You are expected to play the game how the dev lets you play it, once again splatoon, your focus is only on covering the map with ink, sure you can kill enemies, but you don't get too much utility out of it. By forcing your players to play how you want you can ensure they never stray far from the boundaries of what you crafted, ensuring the quality of your design never changes. The west though, with it's individualist ideas, focuses far more on letting the player manipulate the game how they see fit, in battlefield again, you can choose your objective, kill, heal, chase objectives, destroy buildings, start a levolution even that changes the entire map etc. etc. etc.

Im new here and boy do I love these. Ive been looking at people who look at UIs and UX from games. As a jr game dev Im always looking for good and bad examples to learn from! I hope one day you can critique UI and UX of my games.

This series is great, please continue it!

Fun fact some people that made zero escape made dangaropa aka best game of all time

Appreciate the Fyrestone music outro.

I agree with all your choices and love your explanation. I've always loved Splatoon's vibrant color scheme and well designed world and gameplay. It's one of the only games out there with no story that I truly love, and I know design is a huge part of why I do love it. Danganronpa also is amazingly well designed. The art style is eye catching and while the color palate is kind of uncomfortable, it's a very intentional feeling that works well with the over all feel of the game. And that's not even going into the type and the way it's arranged and chosen. Basically speaking, if a game's art style and design do not appeal to me I won't play it, and your list here is a really good example of my tastes and the why behind them. I think your analysis skills are great. Keep up the good work. :)

Hello! Your videos about graphic design are amazing, I watched part 1 and 2 and I'd like to know if you inspired yourself or got this knowledge from any book or article on the topic. I'd like to quote this on a written project I'm doing for my university, but I can't quote or add a youtube video to the bibliography haha so that's why I'm asking... these videos are great, I hope I can see more of you in the future!

Jesus Christ The FFVI android sprites are like bad tumblr fanart.

4:58 this is for the people that wanted danganronpa

I was shocked when you put that contrast filter over the Splatoon part I had never noticed just how big it played a role in that game

Me: sees Danganronpa Also me: *INTENSE FANGIRLING*

I actually like the design of mario party 8 and battleborn. The only problem I faced in battleborn is that you don't realize your almost dead. It's looks the same when you take damage with almost full like ans with almost no life.

Danganronpa uses like 50 font types at a time tho...

In defense of Yatagarasu, one must note that it was just an indie project founded by an indiegogo crowdfunding campaign reaching barely more than a $100'000, with a just a few developers on a ludicrously tight budget so it is no wonder they cut a lot of corners.

Thank you so much for agreeing wholeheartedly with me on Danganronpa V3's outstanding style 😍

Yatagarasu looks like a shitty flash game you'd find on one of those free games websites back in 2009

I'm a simple man, I see Monokuma, I click

This is a great series. Thank you

would love it more if you use games in similar genre as comparison, either way, I enjoyed the video.