{"id":48252,"date":"2025-05-23T09:33:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T00:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=48252"},"modified":"2025-05-23T09:33:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T00:33:58","slug":"danganronpa-creators-new-murder-mystery-shuten-order-was-tricky-to-localize-due-to-protagonists-hidden-gender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/danganronpa-creators-new-murder-mystery-shuten-order-was-tricky-to-localize-due-to-protagonists-hidden-gender\/","title":{"rendered":"Danganronpa creator\u2019s new murder mystery Shuten Order was tricky to localize due to protagonist\u2019s hidden gender\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>DMM Games and Too Kyo Games recently announced the new multi-genre murder mystery game <strong>Shuten Order<\/strong>, launching September 5 on Steam and Switch.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shuten Order is another ambitious and unusual project coming from Danganronpa and The Hundred Line creator Kazutaka Kodaka. Set in a religious cult advocating for the end of humanity, Shuten Order starts out as a story-driven adventure game, before branching out into five main routes \u2013 each of which brings a different genre and game system. Although the core of the game is cracking the underlying murder case of the religious cult\u2019s leader, the different routes will range from detective-style investigation to stealth action, death games,&nbsp;and even a dating simulator.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1514\" height=\"849\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1514px) 100vw, 1514px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250522-48252-001.jpg\" alt=\"Shuten Order\" class=\"wp-image-48256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250522-48252-001.jpg 1514w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250522-48252-001-380x213.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250522-48252-001-768x431.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1518\" height=\"852\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1518px) 100vw, 1518px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250522-48252-002.jpg\" alt=\"Shuten Order\" class=\"wp-image-48260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250522-48252-002.jpg 1518w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250522-48252-002-380x213.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250522-48252-002-768x431.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What\u2019s even more peculiar is Shuten Order\u2019s protagonist \u2013 you play as the victim of the case you\u2019re solving. The murdered cult leader is, as Kodaka explains for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.famitsu.com\/article\/202505\/41972\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Famitsu<\/a>, \u201cresurrected by the power of God\u201d and tasked with finding out who killed them (as they wake up with amnesia). The resurrection is incomplete, meaning that the protagonist has to solve the mystery within a given time limit or face permanent death.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1515\" height=\"847\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1515px) 100vw, 1515px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250522-48252-003.jpg\" alt=\"Shuten Order\" class=\"wp-image-48257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250522-48252-003.jpg 1515w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250522-48252-003-380x212.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250522-48252-003-768x429.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Although her appearance is androgynous, the cult leader, called Rei Shimobe, is actually a girl. Shuten Order\u2019s writers decided to make this \u201csecret\u201d known to the player (so you\u2019re not being spoiled, don\u2019t worry), but the characters around her assume that she\u2019s a man, and many of the story\u2019s twists come from the fact that the protagonist\u2019s gender isn\u2019t made clear. According to the devs, these circumstances complicated the game\u2019s translation into English. This is likely due to the fact that the Japanese language makes it much easier to be ambiguous about gender when it comes to pronouns and the like.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This also adds a somewhat comical layer to Shuten Order\u2019s dating simulator gameplay (in the Ministry of Education route), as the protagonist is tasked with earnestly romancing three female leads to complete her objective, despite \u201chaving no desire to fall in love with them.\u201d Kodaka describes this part of the game as a \u201cpsycho school rom com,&#8221; rather than a typical school romance. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1514\" height=\"848\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1514px) 100vw, 1514px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250522-48252-004.jpg\" alt=\"Shuten Order\" class=\"wp-image-48258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250522-48252-004.jpg 1514w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250522-48252-004-380x213.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250522-48252-004-768x430.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Shuten Order is scheduled to launch on September 5 for the PC (<a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/3216500\/SHUTEN_ORDER\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Steam<\/a>) and Nintendo Switch.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Shuten Order, you play as the resurrected victim of a murder case tasked with finding their own killer, but there&#8217;s another catch to your identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":48255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-48252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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