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Danganronpa S: Ultimate Summer Camp coming to PS4, PC, and mobile​

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Spike Chunsoft has announced that the murderous cutie-pies that make up the Danganronpa elite are set to bring their summer shenanigans to new platforms — Danganronpa S: Ultimate Summer Camp is officially headed to PS4, PC, and mobile platforms, and will be with us as soon as next month.

Originally released on Nintendo Switch in late-2021, Danganronpa S: Ultimate Summer Camp is an expanded and revamped version of the “Ultimate Talent Development Plan” board game, as featured in Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony. Starring a huge cast of characters pulled from across Kazutaka Kodaka’s wild whodunnit franchise, Danganronpa S sees our guys and girls hanging out, fighting monsters, and gathering cool new gear during a vacation on the mysterious “Jabberwock Island”.




While Danganronpa S boasts the sly sense of humor, cheesecake fanservice, and striking visual aesthetic of its contemporaries, it was chastised for a heavy reliance on grinding, as well as its love affair with tiring gacha and microtransaction mechanics. While our own Eric van Allen found a lot of fun in seeing all of these famous faces crossover, he also noted that the gameplay required to enable said interactions was repetitive and tedious.

In the eyes of many Danganronpa fans, Ultimate Summer Camp is a wonderful idea on paper, packed out with dream meetings for the series’ long-time fans, but the execution is weak. No pun intended

Danganronpa S: Ultimate Summer Camp launches on PS4, PC, and iOS and Android platforms July 21. It is available right now on Nintendo Switch as part of the Danganronpa Decadence collection.

Source: Destructoid

 

[shaddam]

Beach episodes are my favorites in animus

 

[beatdowniidx]

this is great news love these games

 

[ANDS]

I'm fine with the other character designs but Togami just looks silly.

. . . also how do you fuck this up? After "v3" I guess I'm not surprised (they went from one of the best opening episodes in a VN to probably the biggest "middle finger to the fans" I've ever seen in a game), but at least that one still had interesting gameplay and story up to "that" point. This just seems. . . lame. Not the conceit, but the other garbage they seem to have shoved into this.

Shame.

 

[Graciaus]

Not exactly selling the game with the last couple paragraphs.

 

[names are for friends]

I'm finally going to have sex with Chiaki Nanami. Heck yes!

it was chastised for a heavy reliance on grinding, as well as its love affair with tiring gacha and microtransaction mechanics

Oh ok, nevermind then.

I'm fine with the other character designs but Togami just looks silly.

. . . also how do you fuck this up? After "v3" I guess I'm not surprised (they went from one of the best opening episodes in a VN to probably the biggest "middle finger to the fans" I've ever seen in a game), but at least that one still had interesting gameplay and story up to "that" point. This just seems. . . lame. Not the conceit, but the other garbage they seem to have shoved into this.

Shame.

I don't respect the ending of V3 at all but I think the metanarrative of these games is bad enough that I don't mind that they basically spat in our faces for caring even the slightest bit about it.

 

[ANDS]

I don't respect the ending of V3 at all but I think the metanarrative of these games is bad enough that I don't mind that they basically spat in our faces for caring even the slightest bit about it.

Oh I hated the ending of V3, but I actually thought the "meta" stuff was interesting at first; a day or so after I started thinking about I was like:

Spoiler

No fuck this. Not only did you just say that NOTHING we did in this game mattered and none of the characters are actually people you want to save, but you also cheated with the first murder.

Like, these games are meant to be a "decent" enough mystery: if you are paying attention, like really paying attention - which I never am - you could have sussed out the ending (or twists at least) to TRIGGER and GOODBYE. In HARMONY they just said "No, fuck you."

 

[names are for friends]

Like, these games are meant to be a "decent" enough mystery: if you are paying attention, like really paying attention - which I never am - you could have sussed out the ending (or twists at least) to TRIGGER and GOODBYE. In HARMONY they just said "No, fuck you."

Spoiler

That's what I dislike about it. I don't care that it doesn't do anything with the overall series narrative, but the way it's completely disconnected from anything that happens before it is awful. It's really not far removed from the "it was all a dream!" style of ending that schoolchildren are told not to write. If they'd written the game to hint at it, or perhaps some themes that would lead into it so it's at least cohesive in some way, then that would be something. But it's just random.

I still prefer it to the previous games' endings though because I always found them to be the least interesting part. I'll take vaguely-interesting-but-bad over boring. (Better yet give me something insanely stupid and nonsensical like the Zero Escape endings)