Game entry

Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair

2012 · Visual novel, Action-adventure · PC, Mac, Linux, PSP, PS Vita, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, iOS · NIS America

After 175 duels settled by the community, Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair stands no. 375 among the best video games of all time on GameForever, with 1,731 ELO points and 74% of wins. Steins;Gate is the rival it has faced most: 5 duels, 2 wins and 3 losses. Its best rank by family puts it at no. 2 out of 75 (Visual novel).

World rank

no. 375 =

ELO score

1,731

Wins

74%

Duels played

175

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About Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair

The follow up to Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc. The main character, Hajime Hinata, a new 'Ultimate' student at Hope's Peak Academy. On their first day, Hajime and all of his classmates are taken on a field trip to the mysterious Jabberwock island by their anthropomorphic rabbit teacher, Usami. Usami explains that on this island the students are to have fun together and become friends to gather Hope Fragments. Usami's field trip does not go as planned when Monokuma appears and begins a new Killing Game. Anyone that wants to leave the island must commit a murder and get away with it. If the murderer is successful, he/she is allowed to leave the island, while everyone else is killed. When a murder occurs, the player investigates. After the investigations, a trial commences to determine who the culprit is.

The community says

I picked it up right after finishing the first one, expecting more of the same, and somehow got attached to this cast even harder than the last one. Ended up…

ELO progression

Score moved from 1,500 to 1,731 ELO points over the last 170 days.

Head-to-head

Direct record on the most played match-ups.

against Steins;Gate 40% 5 duels played · 120 points ahead
against Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney 20% 5 duels played · 158 points behind
against Doki Doki Literature Club! 80% 5 duels played · 39 points ahead
against Emily is Away 50% 4 duels played · 164 points ahead
against Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Justice for All 75% 4 duels played · 53 points ahead

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Around this spot

The games Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair sits between in the world ranking.

372 Donkey Kong Country 1,732
373 Super Smash Bros. 1,731
374 Streets of Rage 4 1,731
375 Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair 1,731
376 Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King 1,731
377 Super Mario Odyssey 1,730
378 Max Payne 1,730

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The standing

Where Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair ranks

The world rank mixes every family of games. Here is where Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair stands in each of the ones it belongs to. Its best standing, all families considered: 2 out of 75 (Visual novel).

Where Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair ranks
Ranking	Position	Games competing
World ranking	375	5,035
Visual novel	2	75
2010s	158	2,050
2012	14	199

The community

The debate

35 comments

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Kuphal99

I picked it up right after finishing the first one, expecting more of the same, and somehow got attached to this cast even harder than the last one. Ended up staying up way too late more than once just to see what the next trial would throw at me.
QuestRunner25

I keep going back and forth on where I'd put this one honestly, because on one hand the writing takes real risks the first game never really attempted, but on the other hand some of the pacing choices in the middle stretch just don't land the same way for me anymore

jeannine68

Pareil pour moi, la comparaison avec Ace Attorney me revient tout le temps, l'écriture ose plus mais perd un peu en efficacité par rapport aux procès.
SilentMaster

Played it on and off during a long vacation, mostly at night when everyone else was asleep.

PixelOwl1997

The pacing issues in the middle really do stick out more the second time through, at least for me.
TurboPhoenix2006

Ah, parce qu'on va encore me dire que c'est le meilleur de la saga, c'est ça ? Je l'ai fait d'une traite un été où je n'avais rien de mieux à faire, et j'avoue que l'île m'a bien plus marqué que je ne l'aurais cru au départ, va savoir pourquoi.

LuckyByte9

¿A ti también te pasó que el tramo final se te hizo cuesta arriba, o solo me pasó a mí?
Celia_44

Otro duelo más y seguimos votando igual desde hace meses.

LootFox

¿No es raro que sigamos votando exactamente igual duelo tras duelo? A mí me da la sensación de que el puesto está bien puesto.

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