Danganronpa Decadence



"Indulge in a decade of despair with four games in one!"

Danganronpa Decadence (ダンガンロンパ トリロジーパック Danganronpa Trilogy Pack) is an upcoming remastered Danganronpa collection for Nintendo Switch, released as part of the Danganronpa 10th Anniversary celebration. It will release in 2021.

The collection includes the Anniversary Edition remasters of Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, and Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, alongside a new fourth game: Danganronpa S: Ultimate Summer Camp, which is a stand-alone expanded version of the Ultimate Talent Development Plan minigame previously featured in Danganronpa V3.

The collection is available as a physical-only bundle, or à la carte in digital format from the Nintendo e-Shop.

Synopsis
"Indulge in a decade of despair with four games in one! Danganronpa Decadence contains the three main titles in the legendary Danganronpa franchise, Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc Anniversary Edition, Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair Anniversary Edition, and Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony Anniversary Edition, and also features the brand-new title Danganronpa S: Ultimate Summer Camp, a boardgame-style bonus game with all-new scenes and interactions between your favorite characters! Celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Danganronpa with this exclusive Nintendo Switch™ four-games-in-one bundle." - Official Synopsis

Anniversary Editions
Spike Chunsoft announced mobile ports of Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, and Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony in April 2020 as part of Danganronpa's 10th Anniversary celebrations. The ports are remastered versions of the original games, with enhanced touch controls and UI, as well as new bonus gallery of illustrations, event scenes, character voices and design documents. Danganronpa Decade includes Nintendo Switch ports of these remasters, featuring the same touch controls and bonus features.

Danganronpa S: Ultimate Summer Camp

 * "With an all-star dream lineup of characters from each Danganronpa game, gather Hope Fragments at a tropical resort. Explore Jabberwock Island and develop your Dangan characters. Gather money through battle and upgrade your equipment, then defeat bosses and move on to the next island!" - Official Synopsis

Danganronpa S: Ultimate Summer Camp is an expanded, stand-alone remaster of the board game minigame Ultimate Talent Development Plan (UTDP) featured as post-game bonus content in Danganronpa V3: Killing Game. The game is set in an alternate universe in which characters from all four games are able to interact, and are peers, in a non-killing peaceful environment based on Jabberwock Island, the tropical location of Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair. Danganronpa S features new sets of sprites featuring the characters in beachwear, new CGs, and new encounters not featured in the original board game. The game features over 1,000 different character events.

Like it's predecessor UTDP, the game features three main modes which work in a cyclical system:
 * The player can play as any main character from Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony - or, new to this new remaster - Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls. The player unlocks these characters by earning cards from the Ultimate Card Death Machine, a gacha system similar to the MonoMono Machines in the main game series.
 * The player can then use their unlocked characters to play the board game mode, which features cross-over interactions between characters from all four games, allowing characters to interact with characters they never would have met in the normal timeline. Based on where they land on the board, the player levels up their character's abilities.
 * Once the characters are leveled up, the player can then use them in the Monokuma's Test dungeon crawler minigame. The player can create a party of up to 4 characters, who each have different stats and abilities. The goal is to travel around each level of the dungeon and reach the staircase to the next floor. As they navigate the dungeon, they will face random encounters with monsters who they must defeat or run away from to continue. Defeating enemies will earn the player gold (G), which can be used to receive new cards from the Ultimate Death Card Machine or craft new equipment. The deeper into the dungeon the player travels, the higher level the enemies will be. Every 10th level contains a boss. When a boss is defeated, the level of the Ultimate Death Card Machine increases, making it easier to collect rarer (and stronger) cards. While traversing the dungeon, materials can be collected and used to create equipment which can strengthen the characters. In treasure chests, S Tickets and U Tickets can be found, which will award the player a free rare drop from the Ultimate Death Card Machine.

Development
On November 13th, 2017, a job listing was posted by developer Spike Chunsoft on Japanese website Levtech by Spike Chunsoft seeking a game programmer, character designer, and 3D designer for a future Danganronpa game to be launched on the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita. On December 20th, 2019, another job listing was posted on Workport by Spike Chunsoft seeking a UI designer to work on an adventure game for PlayStation 4 and PC (Steam). One of the required job qualifications is “someone who likes the Danganronpa series.” The other requirements are that the applicant has professional communication skills, as well as experience in UI creation for a console title or equivalent PC or browser title. It is speculated that these job listings may have been in reference to the development of Danganronpa Decadence.

On December 27th, 2019, Spike Chunsoft and TooKyo Games contributed to a "Game Developers New Years Messages" segment in Famitsu gaming magazine, in which both companies confirmed that they are working on something for the 10th anniversary of Danganronpa in 2020. Spike Chunsoft said: "We're preparing many projects for Danganronpa's 10th anniversary.", while TooKyo games said: "We want to create a reunion party-like atmosphere with the players working together with Spike Chunsoft for Danganronpa's 10th anniversary."

Danganronpa Decade was announced as part of Nintendo's 2021 E3 Nintendo Direct presentation on June 15th, 2021 with a 1:50min trailer showcasing the Anniversary Edition ports and Danganronpa S. Sub-sites were created on both Danganronpa.com and the Spike Chunsoft English division website, showcasing a number of in-game screenshots, the collection and Danganronpa S logos, and a new piece of key art by Danganronpa character designer Rui Komatsuzaki.

Releases
The game is available in physical cartridge format in Standard Edition or Collector's Edition variants, or à la carte as four individual game downloads via the Nintendo e-Shop. The physical releases are published by Spike Chunsoft worldwide, except in Europe, where the game is published by Numskull Games. Both the physical and digital versions are playable on Nintendo Switch in TV mode, tabletop mode, or handheld mode. They include both English and Japanese voice-over.

Physical
In North America, the Collector's Edition includes all four games on one cartridge in an exclusive Collector's Edition steelbook with unique artwork. The game is bundled with a 18x24" cloth poster featuring new artwork by Rui Komatsuzaki of Kyoko, Nagito, and Shuichi; a lenticular print art print set for each of the main three games; and a special 10-track remixed soundtrack CD composed by Masafumi Takada.

The Standard Edition includes all four games on one cartridge with no bonus material.

Trivia

 * The title Danganronpa Decadence is a pun on the "Danganronpa Decade" tagline used throughout the 10th Anniversary Celebrations, and the word Decadence, referring to something luxurious, premium, and self-indulgent.
 * The Japanese version of the E3 announcement trailer included a number of different scenes to the English/Worldwide trailer, with less focus on the edition of Danganronpa Another Episode characters, most notably replacing Kotoko Utsugi on the game board clip with Kokichi Oma, and an encounter with Hiroko Hagakure with a clip of Makoto, Hajime, and Nagito.

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