The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy will add something Danganronpa fans have always asked for – control over who dies 

At Tokyo Game Show 2024, Danganronpa series creator Kazutaka Kodaka spoke to Famitsu about Too Kyoo Games and Media.Vision’s upcoming The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy, giving insights into the game’s mechanics. The creator revealed that a certain feature of the new tactical RPG was inspired by feedback he had received from Danganronpa players. 

The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy is a story-driven adventure game that features tactical tower-defense-style battles. It promises to put players through “100 days of war and despair” as the lives of their allies are claimed in the battle against invaders. Appropriately, the game will also include 100 “extreme despair-filled” endings that will play out depending on the player’s choices. 

It seems that this multitude of possible outcomes was something the developers decided to pursue based on past wishes expressed by Danganronpa’s playerbase, as Kodaka comments, “The life and death of the characters is influenced by the choices that appear throughout the game, so some characters will survive, while others will die depending on what you choose. I’ve been sneakily talking about how [The Hundred Line] is a multi-ending game, but the reason why we made it so that the characters’ survival depends on the player’s choices is because of feedback we received for the Dangranronpa series.” 

“Players told us it would have been more entertaining if the order in which characters died could be changed or if certain characters could be spared from dying. While it was difficult to do this in Danganronpa due to the nature of the game, we tried to do so in our new title,” Kodaka elaborates. 

While not completely devoid of choices, the Danganronpa games were mostly linear in structure, the twists and turns of the trials scripted, and deaths of characters set in stone. This left many players wishing the game offered them more agency, and it seems they will be getting this wish granted in Too Kyoo Games’ brand-new IP. The Hundred Line’s 100-ending-system (crafted skillfully by Zero Escape creator Kotaro Uchikoshi) will allow players to navigate through various outcomes by jumping to chapters and trying out different choices. 

The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy is scheduled to launch on April 23, 2025 for the PC (Steam) and Nintendo Switch.