Game of the Week Review: DanganronpaV3 by Rachelle Phipps
Welcome back everyone! We hope your summers were AMAZING and are ready to get back into the swing of things with GDA for a Game of the Week!
The first week’s game is DanganronpaV3 (a game very near and dear to my heart) that’ll put you into a thrill for murder, mystery, and children dying!
The third and final installment of the Danganronpa series, DanganronpaV3 starts off with the player learning about the series’ new protagonist, Kaede Akamatsu. Kaede soon discovers that this strange school, talking bears, and events are due to her being kidnapped with 16 other students like her.
Then, once she makes friends with her new classmates, she’s told the worst: in order to leave, they must kill another student and get away with it. If they’re caught in the class trial, they get to go free and everyone else dies. Else, they get killed instead for their crimes. Kaede then becomes determined to end this killing game herself and figure out the truth of the outside world.
DanganronpaV3 has a lot of great style elements that give you a great sense of individuality from the game. Although it is the third one, it nonetheless improves the graphs of the previous games and brings more murder-mystery fun for the audience that never gets boring. The music is memorable and always sets a tone in the best way to give tension and suspense to a visual novel game you think might not have much “action”. The characters are extremely intriguing, especially when they die, and each one has their part to play in the story.
Even if you might not think of yourself as a visual novel game player, I highly recommend trying out the Danganronpa series for the suspense and love that the game gives for mysteries.
