Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony | |
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Developer(s) | Spike Chunsoft |
Publisher(s) |
PlayStation 4 & PlayStaton Vita
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Producer(s) | Yoshinori Terasawa |
Artist(s) | Rui Komatsuzaki |
Writer(s) | Kazutaka Kodaka |
Composer(s) | Masafumi Takada |
Series | Danganronpa |
Platform(s) | PlayStation 4 PlayStation Vita Microsoft Windows |
Release |
PlayStation 4 & PlayStaton Vita
Microsoft Windows
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Genre(s) | Adventure, visual novel |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony is an adventure visual novel video game developed by Spike Chunsoft for PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Microsoft Windows. It is the third main title in the Danganronpa series and the first in the franchise to be developed for home consoles. The game was released in Japan in January 2017, and will be published by NIS America on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita in North America on September 26, 2017, in Europe on September 29, and Australia on October 6, 2017. A Microsoft Windows version is set to be published by Spike Chunsoft and scheduled for September 26, 2017.
Danganronpa V3 continues the same style of gameplay as the first two Danganronpa games, which is split into School Life and Class Trial segments. During School Life, players interact with other characters and progress through the story until coming across a murder, after which they must gather evidence for use in the Class Trial. Like in previous games, Class Trials largely revolve around the Non-Stop Debate, in which characters discuss the case, with the player required to use Truth Bullets containing evidence against highlighted statements determining whether someone is lying or telling the truth. During Non-Stop debates that appear to have no clear contradictions, players can now use Lie Bullets to break the conversation with a False Counter. Returning from Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair are Rebuttal Showdowns, in which the player must debate with a specific character in order to reach a contradiction.
Danganronpa V3 adds new gameplay elements to the Class Trials. Mass Panic Debates involve multiple characters talking over each other, making finding the correct statement harder, while Debate Scrums have groups of characters argue against each other, requiring the player to use statements from their side against the other side's statements. New mini-games are also added. Epiphany Anagram 3.0 requires players to use light to pick out letters spelling out an answer. Excavation Imagination is a puzzle game requiring players to remove colored blocks in order to reveal an illustration. Finally, Brain Drive sees players driving a car, collecting letters for a question that they must then answer.