The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy Reviews

The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy- has its strengths, but the large amount of content is repetitive to complete.

The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy- is the perfect game for anime and strategy fans, but might leave those looking for a deeper RPG experience in the cold.

It’s important to remember that supergroups still work and produce excellence. Not everyone is emphatic about Temple of the Dog or The Highwaymen, but they should be because the result is incredible. Did ya’ll forget that ABBA is a supergroup? The point is, when you bring top talent together in a collaboration, what comes out is, more often than not, absurdly interesting. I’ve already done my due diligence in gushing over Uchikoshi Kotaro this year with the releases of Never 7 and Ever ...

When the sheltered Tokyo Residential Complex comes under attack, Takumi Sumino fights back in The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy-.

The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy- is a blend of adventure and tactical RPG. With a narrative made by the fathers of the Danganronpa and Zero Escape series and a well-balanced battle system, the game's quality and length don't disappoint.

Your experience with The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy will leave you eager to dive back into its blend of story and strategy. Your choices shape the narrative in this game and remain a compelling fusion of narrative depth.

The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy is an incredibly impressive game that combines the talents of Danganronpa’s Kazutaka Kodaka and Zero Escape’s Kotaro Uchikoshi to create an exciting and enthralling tactical RPG and visual novel hybrid.

The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy is a massive game filled with interesting characters, high stakes, and dozens of endings.

When a video game developer makes a big hit that earns it recognition, it’s only natural that it might try to stick with the same formula and try to make lightning strike twice. Atlus’s Metaphor: ReFantazio is a prime example, doubling down on the Persona structure to create a refined RPG that hits a lot of the same beats. Similarly, The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy, created by Too Kyo Games, heavily borrows elements from Danganronpa. It’s no surprise that the creators behind that eccentric visual novel series are responsible for this excellent new RPG that builds on its DNA.

The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy is an excellent strategy RPG that follows the same aesthetics and themes of the Danganronpa series while being an entirely different game and IP. The game offers a straightforward combat system that's easy to pick up and play while offering some challenging battles. In addition, The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy brings an intriguing and eccentric cast of characters with a compelling narrative and shock value at some points of the story.

If I were to describe The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy- with one phrase, it would be greater than the sum of its 100 parts. Despite the hurdles in its character writing and monotonous first 30 hours, this collaboration feels like a culmination of Uchikoshi and Kodaka's driving philosophies. Hundred Line's joyful and cruel execution of its themes is the linchpin of its quality. The strategy RPG battles are compelling in both gameplay and story. Uchikoshi’s fresh and risky take on his b...

The Hundred Line – Last Defense Academy is an interesting beast of a game. Headed by Kotaro Uchikoshi and Kazutaka Kodaka, the lead writers on the Zero Escape and Danganronpa series respectively, it takes a lot of cues from these games but deviates almost completely in the gameplay. Instead of being a visual novel story broken up by characters attempting to survive some sort of killing game, the meat of the gameplay is instead tactical turn-based combat. A completely different kind of exper...

The narrative of The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy always felt more fun than the combat, but the experience was a blast overall.

This title is not entirely perfect. The adventure game elements look a little goofy, the characters can be quite archetypal, and the humor gets quite crass. But the game’s wild plot twists, intense character dynamics, and sheer style hold it together.

It feels like a no-brainer for a collaboration between the creators of the Zero Escape and Danganronpa games to just be the biggest, wildest death-game crossover imaginable. Yet, to the credit of both developers, they’ve spent the last few years instead collaborating on projects that explore refreshingly different genres and mediums while still retaining a lot of the creative charm that made their breakout works so memorable. The Hundred Line Last Defense Academy is by far the magnum opus of their collaborative game works as Too Kyo Games. Blending the wild flowchart-storytelling of Zero Escape with the bombastic and absurd mystery thriller antics of Danganronpa is incredible enough, but doing so within such a different frame of narrative and with such an addictive gameplay loop has resulted in one of the most memorable games I’ve played in ages.

Kazutaka Kodaka and Kotaro Uchikoshi join forces for the first time to deliver the ULTIMATE adventure game! 15 students are tasked with defending a school from grotesque monsters for 100 days. Can they make it to the end? And will they survive long enough to uncover the truth? PC version reviewed. Review copy provided by company for testing purposes.

When Danganronpa creator Kazutaka Kodaka and Zero Escape/AI: Somnium Files creator Kotaro Uchikoshi formed (with other industry legends like composer Masafumi Takada) Too Kyo Games, fans of both series wondered if these modern visual novel/adventure game legends would collaborate. It took a while, but that day has finally come. The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy- is the result, and it is exactly the kind of thing I expected from this dream team project. It’s completely unhinged, basically.

The Hundred Line - Last Defence Academy is a pretty solid turn-based strategy game buried under an avalanche of terrible anime tropes and mediocre storytelling.

Kazutaka Kodaka and Kotaro Uchikoshi's collaboration on The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy is a winning mix befitting both creators' legacies.

The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy is an utterly unhinged game, with incredible characters, exceptional combat and a whole lot of style.