This interactive mystery is endearing, but there’s more story than gameplay
The interactive mystery novel genre hasn’t been exactly embraced by Western gamers. Sure, there are exceptions such as Ace Attorney , but compared with the Japanese market, Europeans have not been won over. Danganronpa:
Trigger Happy Havoc is sparkly, colourful and weird, but not very interactive. You play an average teen who somehow gets enrolled in a prestigious boarding school for the gifted. But moments after entering the building, you and the other new students are imprisoned by a mysterious, malevolent being.
The other students include a promising baseball player, a psychic popstar and a shy young novelist. There are shades of Oldboy, The Shining and Alice in Wonderland , and puzzles to be solved a la Cluedo .
(There are minor mysteries about the environment as well as the overall story arc conundrum.) It’s a great, endearingly weird premise, but text-heavy and gameplay-light.
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