Twilight Syndrome Murder Case

Twilight Syndrome Murder Mystery is 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 around five students of Hope's Peak Academy, which were involved in a murder case. Monokuma said that Twilight Syndrome Murder Mystery is a game adaptation of the real life incident in Hope's Peak Academy.

Twilight Syndrome Murder Mystery has two routes, the first one is the false, and the second is the truth, which can be achieved by pressing 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 photos of the incident.

Day 2
The game first begins on Day 2. The player begins as A-Ko, who is late to a meeting with her friends in classroom 1-A. When A-ko enters the classroom, B-ko immediately scolds her, but then moves on to the topic at hand when D-ko calms them down. A-ko asks B-ko what was it that 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 the murder that occurred the day prior. A-ko then brings up that they actually found the body first, and if they were doing the right thing by keeping it a secret. B-ko counters her statement by 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 about 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 scene starts with B-ko, C-ko and D-ko standing up in front of a classroom freaking out. When A-ko asks what happened, B-ko suggests her to enter the classroom 1-B, and when A-ko enters it, she finds E-ko's body leaning against the wall with a bloody metal bat near her body. The scene 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 shows A-ko, who came late to the group. B-ko directly scolds A-ko for her tardiness, and D-ko finds a way to comfort them by taking a picture of them. But B-ko looks unhappy and says that she doesn't want people to think she's friends with A-ko. She even says 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 say E-ko lost her swimming suit. B-ko thinks that E-ko's swimming suit has been stolen by a pervert who had been hanging around in this neighborhood lately.

Suddenly a sound of shattered glass comes from upstairs. The group immediately goes to the noise source on the second floor. The group soon finds E-ko in front of the music room. She states that she was just walking past the music room when she heard a sound of glass breaking inside. The music room door is locked and the group can't get inside. C-ko believes someone is inside the music room as she tries to enter the room. E-ko suggests the group to borrow a key in the staff room. D-ko then sneaks into the staff room and grabs the key for the group. But something unexpected happens when they enter the room. They find a corpse lying on the floor.

The group quickly panicks, but B-ko suggests them to remain calm, as she finds out that the girl who is lying on the floor has been killed, and the killer is still around. B-ko decides that the culprit made an escape route by breaking and escaping via the window. B-ko says that the culprit locked the music room's door from the inside and then, after murdering the girl, he broke the window and escaped through it. They state that the culprit panicked after clubbing the girl, so he accidentally broke the aquarium and made the gravel scatter all around. It was proved when D-ko took the key, which had still been 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 reaches the same consclusion: the culprit escaped through the window. E-ko convinces the group that the pervert commited the murder, because her swimsuit has been stolen recently. In the end, the group decides not to get involved in the case and leaves the corpse one by one, the last being D-ko, who still seemed confused about what happened that day. The screen ends there.

Day 3
The screen first shows E-ko approaching D-ko, who has been waiting for her arrival. D-ko wants to show E-ko a picture that she took just yesterday. It's a picture of a broken flower vase in the classroom next to the music room. D-ko thinks that the glass breaking noise yesterday was not the sound of window breaking, the culprit didn't escape through the window and, finally, D-ko knows that E-ko was actually the culprit. D-ko decides to clean the evidence up by erasing the picture she took yesterday. Finally, E-ko admits her crime and tells D-ko that the girl she murdered yesterday had been giving D-ko trouble. E-ko knows the girl was D-ko's junior at the photography club in junior high. E-ko couldn't stand it anymore that the girl's parent were powerful, so she could do whatever she wanted. 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 got even worse, E-ko killed her. E-ko becomes flustered and finally leaves D-ko alone. Before she leaves the school, E-ko dumps the picture that D-ko took into the garbage can behind the school buildings. Suddenly, a boy named F-suke comes to check up what E-ko just dumped into the garbage can. He also heard rumors that E-ko was with the girl on the day of incident. When F-suke checks the picture of the broken flower vase, he becomes surprised and suspects E-ko even more. He states that the girl who was killed by E-ko is his sister. The screen turns black while F-suke says "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.