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 217 duels settled by the community, Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair stands no. 213 among the best video games of all time on GameForever, with 1,797 ELO points and 75% of wins. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney is the rival it has faced most: 6 duels, 1 wins and 5 losses. Its best rank by family puts it at no. 2 out of 75 (Visual novel).

World rank

no. 213 =

ELO score

1,797

Wins

75%

Duels played

217

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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 1,797 ELO points over the last 215 days.

Head-to-head

Direct record on the most played match-ups.

against Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney 17% 6 duels played · 84 points behind
against Steins;Gate 50% 6 duels played · 124 points ahead
against Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors 100% 5 duels played · 337 points ahead
against Doki Doki Literature Club! 80% 5 duels played · 76 points ahead
against Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations 50% 4 duels played · 182 points ahead

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Around this spot

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

210 Devil May Cry 4 1,797
211 XCOM 2 1,797
212 Quake II 1,797
213 Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair 1,797
214 Ōkami 1,797
215 Bastion 1,796
216 Pillars of Eternity 1,796

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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	213	5,110
Visual novel	2	75
2010s	76	2,044
2012	4	198

The community

The debate

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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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