Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11553089-20150913211717/@comment-27229742-20150919185500

Just remember that the dev said that there will only be the kind of weapons that are the ones you could find at a typical Japanese highschool. Like, a katana which was confiscated by the headmaster years ago, or something. I think a frying pan could work since there is a Cooking Club at school and we know that the second rival is going to be a cook. I don't really know about the baseball bat though. I don't think Japanese people are that into baseball, but maybe it could be one of those confiscated items like the katana?

Then again, what purpose would the frying pan and the baseball bat have in gameplay? What, knocking people out? You'd probably have to include a difficult way to get those two items, since if you could knock people out that easily with the pan and the bat then why would anyone go for the tranquilizer? We all know that the tranquilizer is going to be harder to get in the full game because the nurse will hide it in a different place each day or so. So if getting the pan and the bat will be easy then the tranquilizer will be useless. Unless the former two will be nerfed by the fact that you have a certain percent chance of causing brain damage or death by doing so. Maybe that percentage will go up depending on how good your Physical Education skill is. Like, if you have the highest amount of points for that class then you will for sure kill someone with the pan or the bat instead of just putting people to sleep.

So the pan and the bat aren't good for killing people because you have other weapons that will for absolute sure kill people. They aren't good for knocking people out because what if you accidentally kill them? So would that make the pan and the bat slightly or more slightly easier to get than the tranquilizer? It must be because the tranquilizer is much more efficient.

Of course, this is all assuming that the pan and the bat will indeed make people unconscious. If they didn't knock people out and you could just kill with them then why would you use such blunt and not as effective weapons instead of something that could more easily kill someone? What would be the point of the bat and pan? Maybe, they require more hits to kill someone (depending on your Physical Education score) and they'll be easier to reach. Maybe there will be a baseball field in the full game, considering that there is already a track at school (that can only be seen in bicycle mode) and a little kitchen of sorts for the Cooking Club and whoever wants to buy their lunch. That way, if you're on the Sports Club or Cooking Club it'll make those easier to get.

So, in short, if the pan and the bat do put people to sleep then they must be easier to get but weaker than the other weapons. If the two do make people unconscious then they must be easier to get to than the tranquilizer but less efficient and more risky, considering the fact that they're blunt weapons which can easily do too much or too little damage, depending on your Physical Education skill.

If anyone wants to suggest another idea then be sure to think about these things. Why would a new weapon be introduced? Why would it be at school? What will separate it from the other weapons? If it's too similar to other weapons then, again, why is it there?