Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair is the sequel to the beloved Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc. While Trigger Happy Havoc takes place in Hope Peak's academy, a government sanctioned co-ed private high school, Goodbye Despair is set on a mysterious tropical island.
If you're unaware of what Danganronpa is, it's a visual novel style game about high school students who are locked in a location together and told they must kill one another. If one student kills another one and gets away with it, he or she "graduates" and is allowed to leave, and all of the other students are killed. If the other students can gather enough evidence and correctly identify the murderer, the murderer is executed and the other students live to see another day.
In between the various murders that occur the player is able to interact with his classmates and form bonds and learn more about their past and their dreams for the future.
Monokuma is back in Goodbye Despair, setting the rules for the killing game while also overseeing the class trials once again. Monokuma is hilarious. Without Monokuma Danganronpa doesn't work. Talking about Goodbye Despair in depth would be a disservice to new players of the series. It's best to go in as blind as possible. If you've played Trigger Happy Havoc then you already know what you're getting into.
Goodbye Despair is a game that everyone should experience as blind as possible if they aren't weary or turned off by anime tropes and camp. While I enjoyed my time with Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair I came away from it appreciating and liking Trigger Happy Havoc more.
Pros:
The narrative
Soundtrack
Cast of characters
Cons:
Mini games during the class trials
Localization. There were typos in text multiple times
throughout the game.
Played on: Xbox Series X via Xbox Gamepass
If you're unaware of what Danganronpa is, it's a visual novel style game about high school students who are locked in a location together and told they must kill one another. If one student kills another one and gets away with it, he or she "graduates" and is allowed to leave, and all of the other students are killed. If the other students can gather enough evidence and correctly identify the murderer, the murderer is executed and the other students live to see another day.
In between the various murders that occur the player is able to interact with his classmates and form bonds and learn more about their past and their dreams for the future.
Monokuma is back in Goodbye Despair, setting the rules for the killing game while also overseeing the class trials once again. Monokuma is hilarious. Without Monokuma Danganronpa doesn't work. Talking about Goodbye Despair in depth would be a disservice to new players of the series. It's best to go in as blind as possible. If you've played Trigger Happy Havoc then you already know what you're getting into.
Goodbye Despair is a game that everyone should experience as blind as possible if they aren't weary or turned off by anime tropes and camp. While I enjoyed my time with Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair I came away from it appreciating and liking Trigger Happy Havoc more.
Pros:
The narrative
Soundtrack
Cast of characters
Cons:
Mini games during the class trials
Localization. There were typos in text multiple times
throughout the game.
Played on: Xbox Series X via Xbox Gamepass