Titan Game and Visual Novel #2

And they just keep coming down the pipe. When I said that Titan is a good venue for games, I wasn’t really putting much thought into them being used for visual novels even though there’s precedent for it. Well, for those of you waiting on the ones coming with the Blu-rays, you may now have a different recourse if we don’t end up getting those. This new Titan game is coming out for the 3DS sometime this year. This image is the only real detail we have on it until a further announcement is made in October, but I know that it’ll be a visual novel because it’s being developed by Spike Chunsoft who you probably know as being the people behind VNs like Dangan Ronpa and 999. Spike has developed a few games in other genres, but the two companies together have primarily made VNs.

As for the subject matter, this is being developed as a full on game. We can only speculate, but it’s likely to be more developed than the bonus games coming with the blu-rays in a little while. If they manage to pack in some of the writing prowess the main series has, it could be a fun read.

Dangan Ronpa: Academy of Hope and High School Students of Despair Preview Show

Once in awhile, something comes along with such a ridiculous premise that you have to check it out. The most recent thing to meet that criteria of mine was Spike Chunsoft’s Dangan Ronpa: a game where a bunch of gifted high school students are selected to attend Hope’s Peak Academy, the most prestigious high school in Japan where every student is “Super High School Level” in their respective fields, covering the wide gambit from “Cook” to “Hall Monitor.” However, when they get there, they’re trapped inside the school and told by the enigmatic Monokuma that they may only leave by successfully murdering a fellow student without getting caught. It’s sorta like… imagine if Ace Attorney decided to have a lot more character interactions high school anime style like Persona and the lawyering was bullets.

It’s pretty cool and a real trip to read. There was an LP thread for it not too long ago that was astronomically popular, but the thing just refuses to be archived, so you’ll have to wait a bit to read it. Not that you’ll have to wait long to get the story because there’s an anime, and there’s an event for it soon.

This was posted by the official Dangan Ronpa Anime twitter about a special preview event that is being held on the 23rd of June. A snippet of the first episode will be shown shown twice at the Toho Theatre in Roppongi Hills. Along with the preview is a little talk show like event with special guest Megumi Ogata, the voice of the main character Makoto Naegi who you might recognize for as a young Shinji Ikari. She’ll be talking about the development of the show and her role. Tickets are going on sale in a few days, so pop into your local airport for an international flight so you can head on over. Or wait for the news. That works too.