DANGANRONPA 1 UNUSED TRIAL & CASE

They would have really done Mukuro dirty in this trial. Imagine the Ultimate soldier dying to a baseball player. Like imagine learning about her later in the game and how she "never got a single injury in battle" and yet Leon was able to just stab her easily.

The fact that Kiyotaka could be the antagonist and STILL be the ultimate moral compass impresses me

leon dramatically breaking a jar is so amazing for no reason

The most interesting thing about this beta version imo is that it means Sayaka would live past chapter 1, which certainly makes me curious what her role would have been going forward

Mukuro Ikusaba, disrespected to death even in the beta she is innocent in my eyes forever

Idk when this was decided, but Junko was supposed to be just Junko in earlier versions not Mukuro in disguise, so maybe Leon could overpower someone who was just the ultimate fashionista and nothing more

There is clearly a reason why this trial was scrapped It didnt include 11037

I don't think the scenario would've played out with Leon overpowering Mukuro. She is the Ultimate Soldier, so it's likely she's fought stronger foes. I see him killing her not by surprise or brute force but some kind of unknown interference, like Junko herself purposely causing Mukuro to lower her guard just long enough for him to deal a fatal blow.

Hearing that the case supposedly took place on the third floor makes me wonder if their was a version where all the participants were trapped on the third floor and had to work their way down to the enterance. Of course that does create a bit of an issue with the fact that floors only unlock when they survive another trial, but I kinda assume it works like you can either work together with the others and maybe get out eventually or kill someone and hope you dont get caught to fast track your way out.

The only issue i have with it actually being mukuro that was killed is that there would be few people capable of killing the ultimate soldier. Maybe sakura could overpower her but unless junko somehow was directly involved in catching her by surprise i dont think it would play out the way the killler wants.

It's possible that Leon also tried breaking the vase at 12 pm to give himself an Alibi, alongside making everyone else think the murder occurred at twelve. Leon could claim he was simply relieving some stress by throwing the vase down on the ground.

It kinda sounds like what happened in Twilight Syndrome Murder Case, with the broken vase and a different weapon used.

I am definitely happy they decided to change this trial. Like you said, it seems very poorly made. Although, at the same time it makes sense because of the fact they made it in order to just present something to the higher ups. I personally have no idea what they were trying to go for with this trial. Although, I like to believe that maybe leon pulled a kaede. What if for the first motive, Junko gave each student a piece of paper saying a random, stupid fact about Hopes Peak Academy and the killing game. For example students could receive a paper saying “the windows are boarded up with iron” or “you must kill someone to graduate.” Maybe to push it even further, the papers can say even dumber stuff which would lead the students thinking it as a joke and maybe getting pissed about it. Although little did they know, Leon got handed a paper saying “Junko is the mastermind of this killing game.” Obviously since Mukuro is dressed up as Junko, leon would think she was the mastermind. While all the other students are bashing Monokuma for giving them ridiculous facts, leon would be too stunned at what he learned. After that maybe leon thought that maybe if he killed mukuro/junko, everyone would be free. This is what Junko would want in order for the killing game to start. Leon would send a leter to Mukuro maybe wanting to talk about something which leads to those series of events happening. I hope this makes sense, I suck at explaining things ;-;

One thing I noticed they changed from the beta to the final was the lighting of the sprites in the trial. In the beta, you can see when leon gets pissed that the lighting drastically changes his face, making it a more menacing look. I actually really like that and I wish they would’ve kept that.

To be fair, 11037 was made more for Japanese players who don't read Latin script, but yeah the original first chapter definitely work way better. This was probably more of a test like you said, or maybe an early draft they updated and switched the killer to Sayaka. People are hard on the first game and first trial but for the reasons you say I really do appreciate it a lot. Some stuff is easy cuz first trial but oh well. Also AUs based on Distrust could be fun!

Idk if you ever thought of this, but have you ever considered doing an alternate protagonist video? The canon games tended to go with people who were more average, so it would be interesting to see someone "not so average" take the reigns for once. I think most of the DR characters are pretty interesting and are strong enough to carry the plot on their own, so I'd love to see how having another character as the protag (say maybe Celeste or Ishimaru or even Sayaka) would change up the story and possibly the cases and the victims.

i much prefer actual trial 1. it would have annoyed me far too much to find out that the baseball kid successfully killed the ultimate soldier. but it's danganronpa, so it probably wouldn't have been so simple - i can imagine mukuro overpowering leon instead and junko interfering to kill her at the last minute, leaving us with a DRV3 style false first blackened and a similar last trial where they rehash the first trial. that could have been very danganronpa, with leon insisting on his innocence until the end and the others dismissing him as pretty awful for killing first and never admitting to it even until his execution, when actually he was telling the truth and they unfairly put someone they barely even got to know to death.

help beta kyoko built like a chopstick someone give her some food 💀😭

The broken vase think really looks like Twilight Syndrome Murder Case.

No, I completely understand what Leon was doing. He was obviously trying to make a seesaw effect.