It falls short compared to anything.  The fact it's tied to DanganRonpa makes it all the worse considering it basically undoes all the mystery in the series and proceeds to pick apart a number of characters from previous games.

I can't say that it's poor. It has some disappointing aspects, sure, but it delivers on other huge points (the feels mostly) and it does close the Hope's Peak story as promised.

The games are awesome (I'm in the "2>1" team though ;) ) and everyone should buy it, especially with V3 coming in 2017 too. The 1/2 remaster was an obvious choice for Spike Chunsoft. If it really releases in early 2017, I think I'll buy it again.

I think I'd better leave this point because I'm obviously in the minority here, but I'll top things off by expanding on why I disagree.

DanganRonpa requires you to suspend your disbelief for some of the events that happen in it.  The anime decided it was going to explain why everything happened which makes you realise how flimsy the overarching plot is.  In addition, it provides major backstory to the antagonist in a way that makes it seem that circumstances just happened to work out rather than them being the cunning mastermind that they appear to be during the events of the other games.  It severely de-powers just about everything from the other games for the sake of providing some disappointing answers.

The biggest crime it commits relates to the cast of DanganRonpa 2.

In the game it's pointed out that Junko picked on their insecurities one by one to turn them into the remnants of despair; slowly turning them over days and months until they wanted nothing but to spread despair.  In the anime?  Brainwashing.  They're converted in half an episode while watching Chiaki get executed.  Brainwashing is such a cheap way of explaining things that really takes away from everything that happens in DR2.

It completely sucked the mystery out of the franchise and I can genuinely say that - knowing what I know now - I wouldn't have watched it the first time if I had a second chance.

Aside from all that, it would've been slightly redeemable if the killing game from the Future Arc was better, but it was just melodramatic nonsense that felt like it was out of a Zero Escape game rather than DanganRonpa.

The old kressie avatar will surely be making a comeback!! 

first !!!!!!!!!!!quarter 2017:
Yakuza Zero, Resident Evil 7 and Gravity Rush 2 in january !!
Persona 5 and Ni-Oh in february!!!
Horizon Zero Dawn and Digimon World Next Order in march !!
And maybe Tales of Berseria, Danganronpa Reload and Tekken 7 too.
2017 = the best Games-Jahr ever.

Awesome! Would be nice to see this cross pack on PS Vita too. ^^

DR3 seems to have a lot of mixed opinions in the fan base, myself included. There were some ideas that I liked or could even excuse, some of the new characters were interesting and I can understand some of the motivation of the mastermind from Future but it lacked the mystery, pacing and character interactions that made me love the first two games.

Speaking of which, having got my platinum in DR1 and working on it in DR2, I like those games so much that I'm considering to double dip on PS4 if I can find the money for it.

the chance is not high, i think ^^ (weil es die games ja schon länger für psvita gibt^^)

Man the ps4 is becoming a must for fans of Japanese games.  And we're only early into the gen.  It's going to be an incredible gen. 

Yep, I'd agree it was full of decent ideas, it just executed them all terribly. 

The biggest sin it commits is that it sucked all the mystery out of the franchise and managed to effectively destroy everything that happened in DR2 and made Another Episode completely irrelevant.

Not the end to the franchise I'd hoped it would be.