Even four years after it launched, I’m still kind of in awe of how bold Danganronpa V3’s ending is.
#DANGANRONPA KILLING HARMONY DEAD STUDENT STAND SERIES#
It all ended with the participants of the 53rd Danganronpa choosing to stop playing the game, the audience tuning out en masse, and the series being canceled.
In the game’s timeline, the franchise’s popularity had grown over the years, eventually transcending video games and anime and becoming a reality show where fans offered their own lives up as players in its killing game. It was positioned as the 53rd iteration of Danganronpa. Then Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony came out a year later, and through an elaborate, fourth-wall-breaking setup, begged for the series to be put out of its misery before it could become a capitalistic parody of itself. That original story was built upon themes of hope, despair, and what it looks like when those ideals clash, ending in 2016 with the anime Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope’s Peak High School. One distanced from the death and despair of a series with an intricate, ongoing story that ended exactly as it needed to. But Danganronpa S and the side game it was based on are non-canon social sim vignettes where characters from separate games interact in a way we haven’t seen before. So by the end of each game, only a fraction of these teenagers are left standing. So each game is roughly 20-30 hours of their numbers dwindling until the truth of their confinement acts as a final mystery to solve. These kids are kept in a confined space and told by Monokuma, an animatronic teddy bear, the only means they have of escape is killing a classmate and getting away with murder.
This way, it creates new content that doesn’t step on the toes of anything that’s come before.ĭanganronpa is a series that centers around death games between high school students. Plus, it all takes place in an alternate reality as these characters go on a beach trip.
While many folks probably played the original board game and social sim elements of Danganronpa V3, the new and improved game features additional content, including adding characters who weren’t present in it, to begin with. Beyond putting these games on a system they should’ve been on years ago, if you want veteran fans to buy into your new Danganronpa Decadence ports, it’s good to have something they haven’t experienced yet. Reader discretion is advised.įirst off, I get why Danganronpa S exists. The following will contain spoilers for the Danganronpa series. And while the thought of seeing all these characters interact in a more peaceful context is nice, coming off the metatextual ending of Danganronpa V3, its existence feels…off. It’s not a new entry into the series’ iconic murder mystery setup, but it is something. The compilation will include Danganronpa S: Ultimate Summer Camp, a revamped version of Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony’s board game and social sim side content. But we’re getting a new game when the series finally comes to Switch later this year in the form of the Danganronpa Decadence collection. But I don’t want another game set within its world because I like when things end, and Danganronpa has ended pretty definitively twice by this point. Danganronpa is one of my favorite series in video games.
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