The game was officially announced on Septemat Sony's Tokyo Game Show presentation. In March 2015, Kodaka revealed that Danganronpa 3 was in early development. The existence of a third Danganronpa title was first teased in September 2013 with the announcement of Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls. The game's theme is described as "psycho-cool". There was division among the staff in the development team regarding whether the game should be a sequel or something new because of this, it was decided to make something that was both a sequel and new. Terasawa and Kodaka described the game's production level as being much higher than that of previous games in the series. The "V3" in the game's title was chosen to differentiate it from the anime the "V" is short for "Victory".
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The game is being developed at the same time as the production of the anime series Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School, which Terasawa and Kodaka described as being difficult they still try to develop both projects without making any compromises, as such an opportunity does not arise often. Developmentĭanganronpa V3 is produced by Yoshinori Terasawa, and planned and written by Kazutaka Kodaka, while the character design is done by Rui Komatsuzaki. The game features updates to the Nonstop Debates, in which players may have to listen to multiple testimonies at once.
In addition to the previous mechanic of using Truth Bullets containing evidence to shoot through contradictions that come up during discussions, the player will occasionally need to use lies in order to defeat opponents. The game continues the same style of gameplay as the first two Danganronpa games, in which the player must participate in Class Trials to determine who among their fellow students murdered one of their own. Players take control of Ultimate Pianist Kaede Akamatsu who, along with several other Ultimate inmates, has become trapped inside the school by the evil Monokuma and forced to participate in a mutual killing game.
Moving away from the setting of Hope's Peak Academy featured in previous games, Danganronpa V3 takes place at a prison school known as "Gifted Inmates Academy" ( 才囚学園, Sai-shū Gakuen). See also: Gameplay of the Danganronpa series and List of Danganronpa characters