December 24, 2021 Office
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In early December, Switch entered Danganronpa Decadence -A collection of four games, dedicated to the decade of the series of anime detectives from Spike Chunsoft. Even if you are not familiar with her, for sure you at least have encountered her mask-black and white robes Monocum. However, the series definitely deserves attention – if you are not embarrassed by tons of text and a minimum of gameplay. About which parts to go and which to skip, I will tell in this material.
Danganronpa tie resembles the film " Royal battle ": A group of adolescents, isolated from the outside world, bites each other into the throats. Only here is not action, but a psychological detective. Indeed, in order to earn freedom, it is enough to commit one murder and remain unsolved: the winner will receive everything he wishes, the losers are awaiting execution. Therefore, at the court hearings, where everyone is trying to find out the identity of the criminal, the bets are as high as possible. The heroes of Danganronpa are schoolchildren, but not ordinary, but just the opposite: incredibly gifted in a particular area, and they are not at all embarrassed to apply their skills both in murders and in investigations. Their features are intentionally hyperbolized, as in Ace Attorney. Hoamfines of the series prefers pretentiousness and shouting, but you do not get bored with such colorful heroes.
By the structure of Danganronpa, it is similar to ACE Attorney. In “peaceful” time, the hero can explore small locations and communicate with classmates, but as soon as the corpse is found, the investigation begins – linear, without the opportunity to miss important evidence. Upon his completion, the court session starts, where it is necessary to refute the theses of other characters, literally shooting at their vulnerable points with their arguments-arguments. Deduction and other mental processes here are made in the form of a mini-game, so that in the culmination of each secret you will have to break not only the head, but also fingers.
Finally, Danganronpa is also a native of portable consoles. Initially, it appeared on PSP, English localization first went to Vita, so on Switch the anniversary reprinting itself. In the end, Danganronpa is almost completely consisted of text that would not be very convenient to read from the TV screen.
But there is something to read there. The series skillfully combines humor and bloody murders, cunning plans-many ways and unexpected revelations. Through all the license plates, the topics of truth and lies, memories and what role they play in the formation of the personality pass through the leitmotif. Everything is not limited to one detective, the narrative works at several levels at once. Since the games are plot, I will not risk spoiling you with the pleasure of even hints of the script and go through the series fluently, paying maximum attention to the new release.
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc
The first part, as it often happens, turned out to be a break of the pen – not bad, but nothing more. There are few pretty characters in it, as well as truly interesting murders. The situation is saved by a strong antagonist: Monocum’s robot is so funny at schoolchildren, so skillfully gives them to each other and so often jokes that it is impossible not to fall in love with him. On his charisma, you can easily withstand the whole game to the finals – and there will go plot turns, like Kojima's.
Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair
The perfect sequel. Literally all aspects of the original in the second part became better: that the characters, that the soundtrack, the script. Cunning murders and emotional American slides begin immediately and continue without stopping until the end of the game. And if Trigger Happy Havoc could be compared with Metal Gear Solid , then goodbye despair – flesh from the flesh Metal Gear Solid 2 : The narrative is replete with postmodern techniques, the player’s expectations are deceived at every step, and the denouement puts before the heroes a complicated, almost insoluble dilemma. Monocum, of course, handsome here, but this time he does not need to pull the whole narrative on himself. Danganronpa 2 – from all sides an excellent and very unusual detective.
Anime Danganronpa: The Animation and Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope’s Peak High School
Misunderstandings that should not have existed. The first is the adaptation of Trigger Happy Havoc, cutting the corners at every opportunity. And without that, not the best characters do not have time to open before the plot throws them under the train; Investigations without interactivity lose the last charm of charm. If for some reason you got acquainted with the series thanks to this series, know: the games are noticeably better.
However, the first two issues of Danganronpa have a big problem: the lack of a global interchange. The events of both the first and second parts did not leave the limits of their chamber settings, and the finals were quite open. Talk about what preceded the events of the dilogy and how it ended was the anime of Danganronpa 3 – but it is better to live in ignorance than to agree with such answers! Even the most vulgar and lazy explanation of which one can come up with was not as terrible as the “official” prince and the sequel.
Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls
Bad and not very necessary spin-off-off spin in the form of a shooter. His events unfold between the first and second parts, but the plot does not give any answers and does not respond either in a terrible sequel anime or in Danganronpa v3. There are no investigations and trials here – only the shooting curve for boring identical opponents. Apparently, even the publisher understands that the game turned out to be completely worthless – it did not enter the decadence collection.
Danganronpa v3: Killing Harmony
The final part of the series is issued by the duty set of what the audience expects from Danganronpa; So on duty that Monocum does not try to entertain – he simply delegated a significant part of the powers to his offspring. As Danganronpa, this part is noticeably inferior to the brilliant Goodbye Despair, especially in terms of the characters, but is released by a methanarratian. Refusing to dwell on postmodernism, history gives him an open battle, trying to break out of this familiar paradigm; She is trying to find the way to sincerity in the world of post -truth. V3 is an unusual and bold final of the series, after which new parts should be shameful.
Danganronpa S: Ultimate Summer Camp
The new release, exclusive for decadence, is a non -canonical fan -service cabbage, gathered the heroes of all four games. Yes, including not included in the Ultra Despair Girls, the characters of which even most fans have successfully forgotten. In fact, this is a stupid “beach episode”, stretched to indecently large scale: here in a peaceful atmosphere (and often without outerwear) there are heroes who would never have managed to cross before, and talk – superficial, often aimless. Many of them look tormented, but what is there to be surprised? The screenwriter of all previous games did not participate in the development, and the number of characters that grew several times could not but affect the quality of dialogs.
Gameplaino Danganronpa S is the same as the Mini-game Ultimate Talent Development Plan from V3: a cross between a virtual table and a primitive step by step Jrpg. In standard mode, the character you have chosen gains experience and skills, conducting fifty moves in the game field, whose cells increase characteristics or throw monocums into battles with monotonous hypostases. Heroes pumped in this way can be assembled to a team of four people and send to Battle mode, where they have to go through a series of battles. Both like a virtual hood, and how Jrpg danganronpa s is not good: to walk along the same field bothers the third time, and the battles lack the variety of enemies and the depth of customization of the heroes.
But the main ambush is that the dialogs between the characters open only on this very pumping field: to see a new scene, you need to stand on a certain cell. By the main dignity, the fan -service episode will have to literally break through with the torment, with each throw of the cube hoping for Golden Genie Casino the only winning number.
But this is not the most vile surprise Danganronpa S. After all, what first of all wants to do every fan in such a cabbage? Of course, see the scenes with your favorite character. That's just the game does not allow it to do it. All actors, except for protagonists of four parts of Danganronpa, are at first inaccessible. You can open them for coins that are in reward for various achievements, but it is not as simple as we would like: if you please twist the gacha-chopper. Who will fall out, and be content with. In seven hours, not one of my favorites fell out of a gruelingly monotonous, dull process. But in this case, Danganronpa S helpfully offers access to the favorites for real money. In general, a gift to fans for the anniversary of the series turned into a shameful lottery with microtransactions.
All four games that are part of Decadence are sold in digital form, and I advise you to get acquainted with only three license plates. No spin-offs, no anime. It is sometimes important to stop in time, and the Danganronpa series is this case.
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