The cast is trapped for the rest of their lives in an establishment and the only way to return home is by killing another person and remain innocent during the class trials. The video games's narratives are connected by related media, expanding the story between titles. The first game was ported to...
The cast is trapped for the rest of their lives in an establishment and the only way to return home is by killing another person and remain innocent during the class trials. The video games's narratives are connected by related media, expanding the story between titles. The first game was ported to iOS and Android in August 2012, with new features such as retina display support, touch screen controls, and a new image gallery. Besides the trilogy, the compilation will offer a new title called Danganronpa S: Ultimate Summer Camp. The spin-off, Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls, takes place between the events of the first two games, follows Makoto's younger sister, Komaru Naegi, accompanied by Toko Fukawa, as both of them trek through a city overrun by murderous Monokumas, and fighting against a group of children calling themselves the Warriors of Hope. This game was also adapted into the manga Genocider Mode. Gameplay in the main Danganronpa games is split into six chapters which each have three sections: Daily Life, Deadly Life, and Class Trial. Deadly Life is the post-murder investigation part of the story, in which players search for clues and gather evidence for the Class Trial. The Class Trial is the main section of the series, in which the students attempt to determine the culprit. Here, the characters discuss the case in real-time, and the player must spot contradictions in their statements and shoot them using "Truth Bullets" containing the corresponding evidence. Other minigames include Hangman's Gambit, with the goal being to shoot letters to spell out a clue, Bullet Time Battle/Panic Talk Action/Argument Armament has the player using rhythmic button presses to argue against a character, and Closing Argument, which has the player piece together comic strips depicting the events of a murder. The spinoffs Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls and Danganronpa: Unlimited Battle use different type of gameplay. The former is a third-person shooter in which the protagonist, Komaru Naegi, uses a megaphone to issue commands at most of the electronic objects in-game, including Monokuma Robots and switches.Unlimited Battle is an action game where players use touchscreen controls to fling a team of four of the Danganronpa characters at enemies. "It was originally a basic visual novel, but visual novel games are not that popular in Japan anymore, either. So that's why, to show that the game is really interesting, we decided to add a lot of different features -- after the scenario was written." —Yoshinori Terasawa In Spike Chunsoft, Kodaka proposed an idea to the company that was known as Distrust. The concept was similar to that of Danganronpa, a battle royale style death game in a closed environment between high school students, but the idea was too gruesome and was consequently scrapped.