A sequel, Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, was released in 2012. It won awards, though critics were divided on the lack of challenging difficulty on solving class trials and its mini games. The cast was designed by Rui Komatsuzaki.ĭanganronpa was a commercial success and earned positive reviews for the handling of the cast and story. Nevertheless, the company decided to develop it alongside the unique gameplay system which they thought was less derivative from other games. As a result, he created a dark scenario that generated controversy within Spike due to the amount of violence displayed among students.

The game originated from writer Kazutaka Kodaka's idea to generate a new type of game as he believed the original adventure games were no longer popular. Combining elements from dating simulations and third-person shooters, Makoto interacts with other students to solve 'class trials' by shooting at arguments displayed on the screen. The player controls a high school student named Makoto Naegi who finds himself involved in a battle royale in Hope's Peak Academy, where the robot bear Monokuma gives the 15 students the chance to escape from the establishment if they murder another student and not be voted as the killer in a trial.

Danganronpa was localized and published in English regions by NIS America for multiple consoles including the PC, Mac, Linux among others.

The game was originally released in Japan for the PlayStation Portable in November 2010 and was later ported to Android and iOS in August 2012. Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc is a visual novel adventure game developed and published by Spike as the first game in the Danganronpa series.

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