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Danganronpa 1-2 Reload
Get two of the best murder-mystery adventures in one! Whether trapped in school in Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, or stranded on an island in Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, there's bound to be thrills, chills, and kills! In Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, enter Hope's Peak Academy, a prestigious high school reserved for the nation's "ultimate...
Details
- Released
- October 9, 2013
- Developer
- Spike Chunsoft
- Genres
- Point-and-click · Adventure · Visual Novel
- Publisher
- NIS America
- Platforms
- PS4
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Danganronpa 1-2 Reload Reviews
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This is just one other way to analyse the narrative of the two Danganronpa games, and as I said before – as with any great piece of writing – each person will respond to these narratives differently. What is important to any great visual novel is that it has great writing, and the Danganronpa games are by turns hilarious, reflective, intense and jovial, the characters are all unique and interesting, and the twists and turns are often startling. Visual novels just don’t get better than these.
The hope and despair of Danganronpa is finally moving from Vita to PS4. Check out our Danganronpa Reload review.
The Danganronpa series is built around a deliciously gruesome premise: a bunch of high schoolers are held captive - in a school in the first game, a tropical island in the second - and they're told that the only way they'll ever be allowed to go back to their normal life is if they kill one of the other members of the group and get away with it. If they manage to commit murder without anybody working out that they did it, then they'll be free to go while their classmates are executed - but if they're fingered as the culprit by the other students, then it's their head that'll be on the chopping...
Have you ever been trapped with a bunch of extraordinary high school students, tortured emotionally by a psychotic teddy bear and forced to kill each other off as the only way to escape? I know guys. We’ve all been there. That’s the premise for the Danganronpa franchise, the murder-mystery visual novel investigation games that have previously only been available in Australia on the almost extinct Vita handheld, but now available on PS4 in the form of Danganronpa 1•2 Reload.
The voice acting is also superb, with only a couple voices feeling off. While the Japanese dub is superior, the English voices are rather well-done, and the localization is particularly humorous. While it’s easy to slip-up and add in jokes that don’t fit in the slightest, Danganronpa manages to blend these jokes in, complimented by fantastic voice-acting, in a way that feels strangely natural to the weird world of Danganronpa.