Danganronpa: Academy of Hope and High School Students of Despair

Any word on a Steam release?

I'm assuming that a Steam release is going to happen, but there's probably not going to be any word of it right away, especially considering that Ultra Despair Girls doesn't even have a specific Steam release date yet (just Q2 2017). With that in mind, I can't see a Steam release until Q1 or Q2 2018 at the very earliest.

Same day as the Vita release.

Was Chiaki literally unable to reveal her secret to anyone? If not, I feel like she doesn't really have an excuse for not revealing it WAY before it was dragged out of her by necessity in Trial 5. Still unfair that she had to get executed via the rules of the game, though.

I'm pretty sure she was literally unable to do so. the only thing she can do is confirm Hajime's deduction, which I guess is a case of exact words.

Yeah, she couldn't.

Considering what she is, yeah she was literally unable to do so.

Sad thing....... everything about her in general.

Yeah...that's what I thought.

It really is pretty unfair. I'm not particularly fond of her as a character but that's just sad.

edited 28th Mar '17 8:18:10 PM by LinkToTheFuture

You know, I kinda wonder what it would be like to play as the culprit in a Danganronpa game, all the way up to the execution.

That would be an interesting experience, right?

Not as much content as playing the crimebuster, though.

The trouble with playing as the culprit is that if they "win" the trial, the game is over. If they lose, you have to switch to another protagonist after they get executed.

I suppose there could be an optional "bad ending" where the blackened wins the trial and graduates, but it would be a downer as the canonical ending (plus it would be a short game unless it happened in the endgame).

Playing as the culprit would most likely lose it's magic as soon as your character starts getting cornered.

Should be a one-time thing.

I can imagine if done right it can be a beyond words epic experience but it can only be done very few times if not once cause yeah the magic would quickly dissipate.

Also would everyone else die if you win & if so are you the good guy or most sympathetic party & everyone else deserves it?

edited 27th Apr '17 5:12:03 AM by slimcoder

You know, I just realized something.

Every Danganronpa game starts off with a group of people that are complete strangers.

Danganronpa 1: Everybody knew each other for a year but when the game proper began, nobody knew each other because they lost their memories.

Danganronpa 2: When the game proper began, it was if it was the first day of school. Nobody really knew each other before.

Danganronpa 3: Ditto for Danganronpa 2.

Just wondering, how would Monokuma have handled people that DID know each other and already have strong relationships?

That would probably slow down the game a lot, as people are normally a lot more reluctant to kill people they care for.

On the top of my head, it would mean that Monokuma would have to up his game to get people to start killing.

He just needs to START it, though. Once the first execution is finished, he'll have an easier time getting people to kill since killing becomes an option and no longer an unthinkable crime.

He'll have to bring in more pressure then usual from the start to get the ball rolling, he can't just wait for paranoia to claim a victim so his first motivation would have to be something special.

edited 8th May '17 8:25:05 AM by fredhot16

Danganronpa 2 had Fuyuhiko and Pekoyama. They had known each other since childhood.

Yes, but they were the only ones who knew each other before. I'm talking about everyone knowing each other before the murders began.

That would be quite the difficulty spike for Monokuma, wouldn't it?

Did Monokuma know Peko & Fuyu were close & knew each other before the game?

Well, considering the nature of Jabberwock Island, I think it's likely that Monokuma did know. After all, why the hell would Monokuma not know as much as he can about the students, especially considering he's in a better position to find out everything about them then in Danganronpa 1, right?

After all, how did he know about the murder of Kurzuyu's sister and that Mahiru tried to protect the murderer? If he found out about that, he could easily have found out about Peko's and Kurzuyu's relationship.

edited 9th May '17 5:05:46 PM by fredhot16

Honestly I think everyone knowing each other before would make kickstarting the killing game even easier for Monokuma because then he can manipulate relationships between people who don't get along so that one person can kill the other. From there the first killer would have to get more creative less they run the risk of it being too obvious that they were the killer.

Hell I could see a scenario where everyone knows that the killer and their victim hated each other but some of the cast would think the killer wouldn't go that far and try to defend them while the rest try to prove that the killer really would go that far and then the game spiraling out from there with the class not knowing who to trust because some classmates were friends with the killer, some with the victim, and some with both. Avenging the killer/victim could even be used as a motive for one of the characters to kill another classmate during a future chapter.

You know, I just realized something again.

All of the trial votes, ALL of them, are usually unanimous. Yeah, once a game, someone votes against the majority, but almost everyone in all the trials vote the same.

Just saying, I would like to see a trial where there isn't a majority vote for the murderer. You know, you barely convince enough people to vote for the murderer but you don't know that until the vote's actually carried out and everyone else votes for somebody else who is equally likely to have carried out the murder.

Perhaps there wasn't enough evidence to carry everybody?

edited 5th Jun '17 2:47:16 PM by fredhot16

I'd love that too...it'd be harrowing. Maybe the protagonist will be the other suspect, and you have to desperately prove your innocence and just barely get other people to vote for the real killer?

I think after the 2:2 case, anything else wouldn't seem as intimidating. Nothing quite as bad as finding out the true circumstances AFTER the voting is done.

If the votes are tied, it counts as the right answer as long as the culprit is one of the two tied parties.

Well, at least in V3 rules that is. 1/2 rules can be different.