Japanese video game studio Spike Chunsoft takes to Twitter to confirm one of the many rumors circulating around the future of Japanese hits coming to the PC.
Spike Chunsoft's tweet, which is as close to an actual confirmation as one can get without actually doing so, gives the incredibly direct hint that Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc is going to 'get very steamy' soon. Unless the developer plans to release some sort of bath house or sauna DLC in the near future, it seems almost guaranteed that the Japanese cult hit will be making its way onto the dominant PC sales platform by way of Steam.
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Title: Danganronpa 1 + 2 Genre: Adventure Developer: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd., Abstraction Games Publisher: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd. Franchise: Danganronpa Languages: English, Japanese, Traditional Chinese Listed languages may not be available for all games in. Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc is coming to Steam. Another game from that big list of Steam leaks has been pretty much confirmed. In a tweet, Spike Chunsoft has given a really.
For those unfamiliar with the title, Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc is the first installment of a visual novel series that features high school kids being locked within their schools and forced to live there forever. There is, of course, a way out - if someone murders one of the other students and gets away with it, they'll be free to go and the rest of the students will be left to die. However, if the person who committed the murder is found guilty in a classroom trial, only they will be executed. It's the type of game that is right at home in a Japanese otaku cafe, but it's also found a sizeable following in North America and Europe thanks to its PSP and PS Vita releases.
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Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc - 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.
Although Danganronpa is all but confirmed for a Steam platform release, it isn't known exactly when or how much the game will cost as of yet. It's also worth mentioning that the release of Trigger Happy Havoc was hinted at a while ago after a large Steam leak suggested a number of popular Japanese titles would be coming to the PC via the popular video game service, and Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair was also a member of that list.
Despite Steam's recent security leak troubles, the digital distribution service still reigns supreme over the PC market. It seems that the gaming world has already moved on from the troubling holiday issue that saw players who logged into the service gain access to random user's personal and payment information accidentally, perhaps because Valve assured everyone that the Steam service was not hacked, instead suffering an internal caching error that was remedied fairly quickly.
Still, given Gabe Newell and company's track record of financial and critical success, it's unsurprising to see developers like Spike Chunsoft and others continue to flock towards the PC service in order to create more exposure and sales for their IPs. Offering ports of popular titles on Steam might become even more important in the near future, too, as Valve has predicted a comeback for PC gaming in 2016 thanks in part to the advent of VR technology.
Do games like Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc interest you? Do you expect even more Japanese cult hits to come over to the Steam service in an attempt to crack the North American and European markets? Let us know in the comments below.
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc is currently a PS Vita, PSP, and mobile platform exclusive, and is expected to release for the PC via Steam sometime in the near future.
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For Anime lovers, Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair is the game to get to fill your action and adventurequests. The game is an upgrade from its predecessor Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc but still takes on the school theme and the characters comprising of 16 students. The game is a direct sequel of Danganronpa 1 which was developed by Abstraction Games and Spike Chunsoft and published by Spike Chunsoft and NIS America in 2012. For a time when Anime was still popular, it made the game extremely populous in the gaming community. However, the game took gamers away from the common traditions of Anime which were accustomed to ninja themes in their storyline. The game is more of a role-playing game with loads of dialogue involved.
Danganronpa 2 Plot
The story begins in a school set up with 16 characters. However, the developer this time does not wish the gamer to be confined in the school environment and therefore takes the school kids for a trip in a tropical island. The plot takes a deep turn of events when the school characters find themselves stranded at the island and need to do different things to survive and find a way to get home. The plot is typical with any tropical island story where people get stuck and need to survive until they get saved or find a way out.
The resort in the island has plenty of amenities to survive but Danganronpa 2 has to put its twist on the story. The evil bear mascot Monokuma makes a violent return by transforming the former resort into his evil fortified prison playground. No one can get in or come out even though there are resources in the resort to help the characters survive. Since no one could come out, they have to participate in the Monokuma's version of battle royale by killing one another and try to get away with it.
The evil comes off of the backdrop of hope where the characters are hinged in bids to get to create new friends and establish a deeper relationship with them only to defy all odds and kill some of them. Quite horrific, right?
Danganronpa 2 Gameplay
Through the fusion of text exposition, the solving of mystery puzzles and action elements, the game is divided into several chapters with each chapter containing three parts. The daily life segment involves your interaction with other students to develop friendship and get to know them better. The next part involves exploration of the different sections of the resort to try and look for clues of a vicious murder. The last is a class trial where you have to convene and establish who might be the killer. Choose correctly and the life of the perpetrator is executed but choose wrongly and the life of everyone remaining is forfeit. When compared to Danganronpa 1, Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair have various gameplay elements added to the Class Trial.
Pros and Cons
Pros:
- Same great visuals
- Characters are interesting and deep
- Addictive towards the end
- Cool soundtracks just like in the first Danganronpa version
Cons:
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- Although the cast is improved, it is far from perfect
- Some characters feel wasted for example Mahiru and Peko
- Having the same ending is disappointing