Update: Apparently some have been claiming that this release will only feature the first of the two DanganRonpa games from the Playstation Portable. I will seek further clarification as I was not at the announcement event today. (Thanks Aaeru)
With very few companies releasing games for the Playstation Portable anymore, there seemed to be a very low chance that the Danganronpa games would hit international stores despite the recent anime series acquisition by Funimation Entertainment. However, with Spike Chunsoft confirming their plans to release the game on the Playstation Vita it turns out this has been the tipping point for Nippon Ichi Software America to acquire the rights to the game.
Under the title DanganRonpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, the game will be making its way to both North American and PAL regions early 2014. For those who have been following my previous articles on Danganronpa 1&2 Reload which this release will be based off, it is a revised and revamped edition of the original games released back in 2010 in Japan – but contains both available games so we won’t only be receiving one game or the other. You’ll take on the role of Makoto Naegi, a desperately average teenager who somehow finds himself accepted into Hope’s Peak Academy, a prestigious high school normally reserved for the nation’s most “ultimate” students. But when he arrives, he and the other students soon find themselves trapped in a battle for survival against a twisted mastermind who has taken them all prisoner. You’ll have to unmask the villain and uncover the secret of the school…or die trying!
Some promoted features of the game includes:
Daily Life, Deadly Life
Trapped in a school-turned-prison, students are murdering each other one by one. You’ll have to investigate each incident, search for clues, and talk to your classmates to try and get to the bottom of each brutal case!
Mock Trial
The nefarious Monokuma serves as judge, jury, and executioner as you engage in deadly wordplay, going back and forth with suspects, dissecting their statements and firing their words back at them to expose their lies!
Popularity Contest
Sway classmates to your side in each investigation, squeezing information from them to figure out who did it. And when you do, turn up the heat in a
variety of timing and reflex-based game systems to uncover the truth and save your skin!
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NIS America are set to release this game exclusively for the Playstation Vita in early-2014. Check back a little later this week for much more information and preview goodies for this game.
About the Game
Hope’s Peak Academy is home to Japan’s best and brightest high school students—the beacons of hope for the future. But that hope suddenly dies when Makoto Naegi and his classmates find themselves imprisoned in the school, cut off from the outside world and subject to the whims of a strange, murderous little bear named Monokuma. He pits the students against each other, promising freedom to anyone who can murder a fellow classmate and get away with it.
It’s up to you to find out who Monokuma really is, and why you’ve been taken from the world you once knew. But be careful what you wish for— sometimes there’s nothing more deadly than the truth…
