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The first Danganronpa just came to steam in February, but that's not going to stop Danganronpa 2 from coming to Steam on April 18.Jabberwock Island – once a popular tourist destination, this now uninhabited island remains oddly pristine. You and your classmates at the elite Hope's Peak Academy have been brought to this island by your super-cute teacher for a “lovey-dovey, heart-throbbing school trip.” Everyone seems to be having fun in the sun...until Monokuma returns to restart his murderous game! Trapped on this island of mutual killing, your only hope of escape rests in solving the island’s mysteries. But be warned—sometimes the truth can be its own despair...
Key Features
• Deadly Island Vibes: Murder is the only means of escape when you’re trapped on this island paradise. As your fellow classmates start dropping like coconuts, you’ll need to delve into each murderous incident, forage for clues, and interview your classmates to reveal the opportunity, motive, and means behind each killer case!
• Tribal Council: You’ll go head-to-head in all new minigames with the other students during the Class Trial, shooting down their false truths and using your evidence to uncover what really happened. But watch out! If a student is unconvinced, they'll challenge you to a one-on-one Rebuttal Showdown and force you to defend your argument!
• Survival of the Keenest: Match up your evidence with your fellow classmates’ arguments and determine who’s really telling the truth. Once you’ve got a suspect in your sights, turn up that tropical heat in a variety of timing and reflex-based game systems to reveal the ultimate truth and escape with your life!
• Steam Features: Supports Steam Achievements and Steam Cloud with plans to add Steam Trading Cards
Key Features
• Deadly Island Vibes: Murder is the only means of escape when you’re trapped on this island paradise. As your fellow classmates start dropping like coconuts, you’ll need to delve into each murderous incident, forage for clues, and interview your classmates to reveal the opportunity, motive, and means behind each killer case!
• Tribal Council: You’ll go head-to-head in all new minigames with the other students during the Class Trial, shooting down their false truths and using your evidence to uncover what really happened. But watch out! If a student is unconvinced, they'll challenge you to a one-on-one Rebuttal Showdown and force you to defend your argument!
• Survival of the Keenest: Match up your evidence with your fellow classmates’ arguments and determine who’s really telling the truth. Once you’ve got a suspect in your sights, turn up that tropical heat in a variety of timing and reflex-based game systems to reveal the ultimate truth and escape with your life!
• Steam Features: Supports Steam Achievements and Steam Cloud with plans to add Steam Trading Cards
It's not yet available for pre-order, but you can nonetheless check out the Steam page listing for Danganronpa 2. Once it's available, it will be sold for $29.99 (USD).
I was hoping to get Umineko No Naku Koro Ni (Umineko: When They Cry) before Danganronpa 2, but it seems Danganronpa's coming out first, which means I may have to change my priorities accordingly. Kind of wished MangaGamer didn't announce Umineko for Steam last year if it wasn't coming out anytime soon.
I wonder if we'll also get the action-adventure spinoff game Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls (yeah great name...) on Steam soon? That's also already localized for PS Vita back in September, so... How hard could it be to port a 3D game compared to a visual novel? But don't get us the iOS Free To Play trash ported to Steam. That shut down for a reason.
That and I hope whoever has the animé licenses will consider bringing both animés (the adaptation to the first game, and the upcoming aforementioned conclusion to the past series) to Steam. I mean, Viz Media LLC already put their stuff on Steam (almost every single Naruto movie except for the very latest one, although sadly no Japanese audio track is available), so I don't see why anybody else couldn't do the same. The first animé is REALLY weird though. Because it's an adaptation of the game instead of vice-versa (usually game adapts the show), the show has a LOT of HUD elements from the actual game, as well as cutscenes taken straight from the game. I kind of found myself at times to have difficulty telling the difference between an animé and Let's Play of the game. It's way too faithful to the game for me to recommend this to anybody but the hardcore fans of the game.
If you thought Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World was too faithful to the comic for any casual audiences to enjoy the film, then Danganronpa: The Animation cranks that up to insane levels of video game nonsense. Heck even the Ace Attorney movie is less reliant on game mechanics than this show (and believe me when I say that movie made creative choices to be completely different than the game, yet be EVEN MORE faithful to the Ace Attorney universe, which makes it even more over the top and strange, yet AWESOME).
Anyway, let me finish this wall of text with useless filler by repeating Danganronpa. Danganronpa. Danganronpa. Danganronpa. Danganronpa. Danganronpa. Danganronpa. Danganronpa. Danganronpa. Danganronpa...[Banned.]