Never thought I’d say this, but it might be a little TOO Danganronpa inspired, what with the twofaced animal overlord trapping kids together and forcing them to kill one another. But I love the concept of a card-based debate!
Yeah, the gameplay would have to really redeem it. Looking at the trailer it is unlikely they’ll outdo or even match Danganronpa in art style, music, and it’ll be tough to see how it stacks up in writing and worldbuilding. It also seems to lack voice acting. The advantage is that Danganronpa’s mini games have been mostly just tolerable to me, so the card system could almost easily beat it there, but I never played Danganronpa for the gameplay anyway.
To take this much inspiration is dangerous because if it falls short enough of Danganronpa’s quality, then people looking for this sort of story would be easily recommended to play the established, polished series instead. Also, nobody is gonna mention that they named the big evil cat Nyanus?
to be fair to the team, in regards to Nyanus, Monokuma literally translates to black and white bear. Otherwise, yeah, i watched this and it looks like a fan remake with card battles. Those card battles better be REALLY interesting or this is going nowhere. That said, i’m interested anyway.
Oh no, I’m not talking about how deeply interesting the name is. Just the fact that the cat has the word anus in its name.
Edit: I also sound pretty judgmental in my comments about this game. I do genuinely want it to be good! I just feel it’s an easy trap for a game to be so directly influenced as it draws high comparisons. I assume the devs know what they’re getting into there, so I hope they pull it off on release! Lots of games have high level similarities that don’t mean much when you’re in the nitty gritty of playing it. I hope it’s the case here.
Really wearing that inspiration on the shoulder, aren’t we?
