Twilight Syndrome Murder Case

Twilight Syndrome Murder Mystery was a game in Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair that was created by Monokuma, which was supposed to give the students a motive for murder.

Twilight Syndrome Murder Mystery was introduced as the second motive of the second game. The game's centered in five students of Hope's Peak Academy, which involved in a murder case. Monokuma said, that Twilight Syndrome Murder Mystery is a game adaptation from the real life incident in the Hope's Peak Academy.

Twilight Syndrome Murder Mystery has two route, the first one is the false, and the second is the truth, which can be achieved by press the “Down-Up-Left-Left” button. And the first player who is able to finish the game, will get a prize, a document file filled with the real life taken photo of the incident.

Day 2
The game first begins on Day 2. The player begins as A-Ko, who is late to a meeting her friends started up in classroom 1-A. When A-ko enters the classroom, B-ko immediately scolds her, but then moves to the topic at hand when D-ko calms them down. A-ko asks B-ko what was it she wanted to talk about, and E-ko responds that it's about the incident that occurred the previous day. B-ko asks everyone if they read the newspaper, which they all did except for A-ko. C-ko shows A-ko said newspaper, and the group discusses about the murder that occurred the day prior. A-ko then brings up that they actually found the body first, and that if they were doing the right thing by keeping it a secret. B-ko counters her statement saying that it didn't matter who found the body first and wasn't a topic to worry about. E-ko responds with “All we did was not report a dead body we discovered” and says it is not much of a crime. She proceeds to call A-ko a masochist for wanting to get involved, since E-ko does not intend to join a murder investigation. She then calls D-ko for backup, who then reveals that she took pictures of the body. E-ko freaks out, taking D-ko's pictures and ripping them apart. She tells D-ko to remove the pictures from her camera's memory card, tells the rest of the group that the murder has nothing to do with them, and after calming down, suggests that it is time to go home as it was getting late. When E-ko was just to go home, she hears someone saying “I will not let you... forget....” repeatedly. E-ko freaks out, yelling “Forgive me!” and runs away. The voice responds with “Never” and the scene ends with a bloodied black screen saying “NEVER FORGIVE”.

Day 4
The scenes start when B-ko, C-ko and D-ko stands up in front of a classroom freaking out, when A-ko ask what happened, B-ko suggested her to enter the classroom 1-B and when A-ko entered it, she found E-ko's body leaning on the wall and a bloody metal bat beside her body. The scenes ends there, showing the “GAME OVER” and “DULL START” words.

Truth Route
This route is the truth route of the game by click “Down-Up-Left-Left” button at the beginning of the game. The player can win the prize that Monokuma would give if they cleared this route.

Before the game started, a monologue appeared.

It began with a murder.

A ghastly murder, right there in the girl's school.

After investigating the crime scene, the police concluded it was the work of a pervert who had broken into the school.

''But there was a secret behind this incident. The suspect was believed to have been the first to discover the body. But a group of students had discovered it before that.''

It was a group of five girls.

''Not wanting to get involved with the incident, they kept their discovery to themselves. But, tragedy soon came visiting.''

A few days after the incident...

E-ko, one of the five girls, was killed by an unknown assailant.

What happened in that school?

What had disrupted the peace?

By playing the missing first and third days, you should be able to find some answers to this mystery.

''Every truth is hidden in this "Truth Mode". ''

Will you succeed in revealing them?

Let us begin with the first day, when everything began.

Day 1
The screen first seen A-ko, who come late to the group. B-ko directly scold A-ko because of her tardiness, D-ko find way to comfort them, by taking a picture of them. But B-ko looks unhappy by tell that she won't people thinks that she befriend with A-ko, she even said that she won't be friends with a "stupid pig trash girl" like A-ko. A-ko seems more bothered by the absence of E-ko, but C-ko and D-ko said E-ko lost her swimming suit. B-ko thinks that E-ko's swimming suit has been stolen by a pervert who hanging around in these neighborhood lately.

Suddenly a glass breaking noise coming from upstairs, the groups immediately come to the noise source in the second floor. The groups soon found E-ko in front of the music room, she staeted that she just walk past the music room and then she heard a sound of glass breaking inside. The music room door locked and the group can't get inside. C-ko believe someone are inside the music room as she tried to enter the room. E-ko suggest the group to borrow a key in the staff room. D-ko then sneak in the staff room and grab the key for the group. But something unexpected coming from inside the room when they were able to enters the room. They found a corpse laying on the floor.

The group quickly get panicked, but B-ko suggest them to remain calm, as she found out that the girl who laying on the floor has been killed, and the killer are still around. B-ko solved that the culprit make an escape route by breaking and escape via the window. B-ko tells that the culprit locked the music room's door from the inside and then, after murder the girl, he broke the window and escaped through it. They stated that the culprit clubbed the girl and get panicked, so he accidentally broke the aquarium and make the gravels scattered all around. It proved when D-ko discover the key was still in the staff room as usual, and the only two ways to lock the music room are from the inside or with the key from the staff room. So the group reach the same consclusion, the culprit escaped through the window. E-ko convince the group that the pervert must done the murder, because her swimsuit recently has been stolen. In the end, the group decide to not involved in the case and left the corpse one by one, left D-ko who seems still confused about what happening that day. The screens end there.

Day 3
The screens first showed E-ko who come approaching D-ko who had been waiting for her arrival. D-ko wanted to show E-ko a picture that she just take yesterday. It's a picture of a broken flower vase in the classroom next to the music room. D-ko think that the glass breaking noise yesterday is not the window breaking sound, and the culprit didn't escape through the window and finally D-ko knows that E-ko was actually the culprit. D-ko decide to cleaned the evidence up by erasing the picture she take yesterday. Finally E-ko admit her crime, she told D-ko that the girl she murdered yesterday had been giving D-ko trouble. E-ko know the girl is D-ko's junior at the photography club in junior high. E-ko doesn't stand it anymore because the girl's parent is powerful, and she can do whatever she wants. At first E-ko just tried to talk to the girl, but then the girl said she was going to go after E-ko too. So E-ko got angry, and before she knew it, E-ko was strangling the girl and she lost consciousness, so before the situation get even worse, E-ko killed her. E-ko become flustered and finally left D-ko alone. Before she left the school, E-ko dumped the picture that D-ko taken to the garbage can behind the school buildings. Suddenly, a boy named F-suke come to check up what E-ko recently dumped to the garbage can. He also heard rumor that E-ko was with the girl on the day of incident. When F-suke checked the picture of the broken flower vase, he become surprised and suspect E-ko even more. He stated that the girl who has been killed by E-ko is his sister. The screen turned black while F-suke said "I'll never... I'LL NEVER FORGIVE HER!!"

Game Clear

Trivia

 * The "Twilight Syndrome Murder Mystery" game is actually based on the actual Syndrome horror game franchise, which of five games the last two of which were published by Spike, the creator of Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc who would have later merged with Chunsoft and released the following installments of the Danganronpa series as Spike Chunsoft. The "Twilight Syndrome Murder Mystery" imitates the "Syndrome" series' characteristic graphic design and player interface, as well as its unique use of photos of "real" staged murder scenes with actual actors.