DanganRonpa: Trigger Happy Havoc

Action-Adventure RPG

Trigger Happy Havoc has both elements of classic RPGs and visual novels.

While one might call this installment of the DanganRonpa series a murder mystery visual novel, even that's not giving it enough credit. The creators of the game had genuinely intended to make a meta-series with it. It was initially released in Japan for PlayStation Portable in 2010, and the remake was released by NIS America for Vita players in 2014.

Other Media and Gaming

Players of Trigger Happy Havoc should note that the game is intended to go along with Lerche's television anime adaptation. There were additionally two manga adaptations, and the game has been novelized twice. Individuals who play this installment and genuinely love it should certainly check out Zettai Zetsubo Shojo: Danganronpa AnotherEpisode if it ever actually comes to this continent.

Hope's Peak Academy is where most of the game takes place. This elite high school requires students to commit murders if they don't wish to be imprisoned at the academy forever. Class trials are held to attempt to catch those who are committing the murders. Several students are killed throughout the course of the game, and it's going to be up to the player to handle these grizzly murders. If they play their cards right then they might be able to get to the bottom of the mystery and figure out why everyone is being held here against their will and all. Otherwise they too could be trapped at Hope's Peak for the rest of their lives.

Intended Audience

Since the game play is sort of like the game play in the Ace Attorney series, those who like to unravel a mystery will certainly be attracted to it but perhaps the biggest comparison someone could make is to Death Note. Fans of the Death Note anime and manga will probably be attracted to this more than anything else. It has characters that even resemble the thought processes of L and Light to some degree, though it's very clear that it wasn't actually intended to be a derivative work of that series in any way. There are also some elements that borrow from the mecha genre, and this has certainly helped to broaden out the appeal all things considered.