More commonly known as Dangan Ronpa (at least, for me), is a game about sixteen gifted high school students, each with their unique 'super high school level' abilities, locked in their school and thrown into a 'school life of mutual killing' by their apparent headmaster, Monobear. Naegi, the protagonist, is super high school level lucky, even though he considers himself rather unlucky for getting involved in this mess. Throughout the game, students are given certain items or messages to prompt them to kill someone, for the sole sake of graduating. Students die one after another, and while the murderers are caught, they are also punished by death, bringing the remaining students one step closer to despair every time. Eventually, Naegi and the remaining students reveal the mastermind, the person behind Monobear and the school life of mutual killing, and escapes the school.
The game revolves around 'hope vs despair', with Naegi as 'hope' and the mastermind as 'despair'. Some of the deaths are highly emotional, and affects nearly every other student every time it occurs. Naegi, as 'hope', investigates the murders and, with the help of his friends (and not-so-friends), reveals the culprit for every murder. While it may seem to only drag them further and further into despair, the ending shows that no matter what, hope will always have a chance of striking back and defeating despair.
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