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While it’s not necessarily a game you need to play to get the proper Danganronpa experience, it is canon, and its exclusion here makes the collection feel incomplete. The black-or, given the nature of the franchise, perhaps I should say white-sheep of the family, Ultra Despair Girls is an action-adventure spin-off that plays very differently from its siblings. The first is that there’s a glaring omission in Danganronpa Decadence’s line-up: Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls. The problem is, there are two factors with the collection that keep it from being everything it could, or should, have been.

In a perfect world, I would tell you that Danganronpa Decadence brings together those three mainline games at their best, and that this is a release no gamer should be without. While we’ve seen a handful of other releases try to emulate the Danganronpa formula, none have had the same impact as the real deals, and they’re just as exciting to go back to now as they were to play for the first time so many years ago.

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Back when they were freshly released, it was easy to find nitpicks with each or feel that the series might be losing steam, but as the years have passed, I’ve found myself appreciating just how timeless these games remain. Image credit: Spike ChunsoftĪbove anything else, the best part of Danganronpa Decadence is that all three of the games remain amazing experiences to this day. If you fail, not only will the killer go free, but the rest of the class will meet their maker as well. As murders happen, you must work together with the remaining participants to figure out who the latest killer is, all while having no idea who to trust.

In order to escape the game, a student not only needs to kill another student, but also get away with it. Each group of students think they’re the new freshman class for a prestigious government-sanctioned private school named Hope’s Peak Academy instead, they’re the latest participants in a deadly game run by a half-white, half-black bear named Monokuma. In each game, you’re paired up with 14 other high school students, each of whom has a special talent or personality trait that makes them an “Ultimate” of some sort (such as the Ultimate Baseball Star, Ultimate Detective, or Ultimate Cook). But let me at least try to quickly summarize the series. If you’d like deeper looks at what they are on a core gameplay level, I suggest you go read my individual reviews of both Danganronpaand Danganronpa V3. If you aren’t familiar with the Danganronpa games, trying to properly introduce you to each is too big a task for this review. Among the Vita releases I’ve wanted to see make their way over to the Switch, Danganronpa was near the top of my list, so getting Decadence has been a long time coming for me. Nintendo’s hybrid hardware has become something of a new-era Vita since its launch, as it’s seen ports of many of that platform’s titles and become one of the best places to play visual novels and indie games.

Image credit: Spike ChunsoftĮnter Danganronpa Decadence, a new collection that brings lovable lunatic Monokuma and his evil schemes to the Switch. Danganronpa was born a handheld experience, and the world deserved to play the franchise that way on a far larger scale.

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Namely, the ability to play the games on a portable device that isn’t a smartphone. Fortunately, that has happened, but in each port we’ve received, something’s been missing. Unfortunately, as much as some of us- including the Danganronpa dev team-loved the Vita, the series would have faded into niche cult classic status had the games not seen ports on other platforms. The mainline series would see two sequels, Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair and Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony while they both followed the same basic principles in gameplay and narrative structure, each offered new twists that gave them an identity of their own. Among those titles was Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, a deliciously dark tale of 15 high school students forced to kill one another at the whim of a sadistic stuffed bear.ĭanganronpa expertly wove together an engrossing story, interesting characters, unique gameplay elements, and some genuinely fun puzzles as you tried to deduce who the latest killer was. While the PlayStation Vita is often derided or outright forgotten these days, the system was important for the fact that it finally offered a home to numerous PlayStation Portable games that had previously never left Japan.