*BRRIIINNNGGG* Attention students, class is now in session. Visiting professor David from Prinny University here (AKA NIS America) to give you a little lesson on Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, which launches on February 11th in North America exclusively for PlayStation Vita.
Trigger Happy Havoc is a revamped edition of the very first Danganronpa that appeared on PSPs in Japan in 2010, and now includes updated graphics, touchscreen functionality, and a new game mode. Now get your thinking hats on, because murder’s afoot, and you’re going to need more than a #2 pencil to survive the tests this high school’s got in store for you.
Imagine attending the most elite high school in the country, Hope’s Peak Academy, where only the best students get their education. Your classmates include the Ultimate Swimming Pro, the Ultimate Fashionista, and the Ultimate Baseball Star. And then there’s our main character, Makoto Naegi, who’s not much of an Ultimate anything.
It’s hard enough trying to find your niche in a regular high school, but when it’s revealed that the students have been locked in by the headmaster of this school — a psychotic black and white bear named Monokuma — things get a little more complicated. The only way out is to murder someone and get away with it. However, if the other students unveil the murderer, he or she will have to endure a poetic death at Monokuma’s hands.
The gameplay utilizes the investigatory elements of the Phoenix Wright series with the dark storytelling of games like 999 and Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward. Throughout the game, you’ll gather clues and establish ties with other students. Once a murder happens, you’ll then enter the “Class Trial” period, which consists of a series of adrenaline-laced, timing- and rhythm-based games, shooting down falsehoods and shining the light of truth in the darkest corners of the school halls. On top of that, you’ll build relationships with the surviving students. But keep on your toes, because nothing is as it seems! It’s just like high school, except with crazy bears and murder.
So keep your friends close and your frenemies closer in this game of mystery and deceit. You’ll need your wits about you to reveal the killers and survive the deadliest high school you could imagine.
Thanks for taking this crash course in Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc. Please keep your eye out for the game in February, and until then, this professor has some apples to polish. Prinny out, dood!
Love the anime, but the english voices I don’t like.
Yeah, unfortunately I’m not quite fond of the English voice over neither, will we have the option to change it back to Japanese and keep the text in English?
Why does this not include Danganronpa 2 like the Japanese release?
Been looking forward to playing this. Can’t wait to try it out as I’ve heard it’s actually quite good.
Will there be a demo?
Looking forward to this.
And yes, the game has dual audio.
Definitely looking forward to this one. I seriously had no clue how good visual novel games were until I played Zero Escape.
I can’t wait. I loved the games on the PSP. Really looking forward to this on my Vita with some English voices too! Now I can get a hint of both worlds with some English and some Japanese. Nice!
I’m very excited for this!
The only thing I wanted to say was Thank You NIS America for bringing the Vita some love with Danganronpa and Demon Gaze. Hopefully there’s enough support to continue bringing more of these games over our way… and maybe a Hyperdimension Neptunia Vita game in the near future?
Like a few people of have already said I’d love for all of your games to have the original Japanese voices.
Hi shuaDove,
Thanks for the appreciation, dood!
Danganronpa will indeed have dual audio, and we try to make it a point for all of the games we localize to have dual audio.
As for Hyperdimension Neptunia on Vita, we will be having Hyperdimension Neptunia: Producing Perfection coming out sometime on the Vita!