Must Play!

This game was so much fun to play! The controls were easy to pick up, the plot was amazing, and the graphics were good too! I really enjoyed the concept of the game, and all of the twists and turns!

The game that started the whole danganronpa story. I love the characters but I do wish you were able to get more attached to some of them. I found the executions to be the most interesting. Long story driven game but worth it

Dangonronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc is an interactive visual novel for the PlayStation Vita. It was released in 2014.

The story is about Makoto Naegi, who has just been accepted to Hope's Peak Academy after being on the reserve list. When he arrives, he's immediately rendered unconscious only to awaken in an abandoned classroom some time later. Makoto finds his fellow classmates in the auditorium, where they've been gathered and told that they must play a game as their only means of escape. They must kill another classmate and not be identified as the murderer.

As an interactive visual novel, this means that you will be reading a fair amount of dialogue. As far as the interaction and gameplay goes, you can move around and examine objects or talk to your fellow students. If someone is murdered, you investigate the crime scene for evidence. There's also a "courtroom" section in each chapter, where the students are put on trial in order to figure out who did it. If they guess right, the murderer is punished (killed); if they guess wrong, the murderer walks free and everyone else is punished in their stead.

This is obviously very gory, even though the blood has been turned pink and the drawings are very cartoony. It'srated M for a reason. Still, I found it to be a surprisingly engaging story with a very good mystery. I enjoyed getting to the bottom of who was behind the entire scheme.

I would definitely recommend this for mature gamers. Alternatively, there is also an anime adaptation, which I will review in the future.