Cyber Danganronpa VR: The Class Trial (PSVR)

System: PSVR 1
Price at Time Of Review: Free
Comfort Rating: Green (No Movement)
Genre: Interactive Experience
Input: DualShock Controller
Best Playing Position: Sitting, Standing
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: 15+

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Description: Stand trial for murder with your classmates in this tech demo based on Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc. Use your truth bullets to shoot through suspicious statements and find the killer! The headmaster has a special punishment prepared just for you.

Review: Cyber Danganronpa VR: The Class Trial is a VR adventure game in the Danganronpa series. Produced by Yoshinori Terasawa, the game is a tech demo of sorts that takes roughly ten minutes to play through. The idea of the game is you have to uncover who was behind the murder of Sakura Ogami. Unlike the original game, which uses 2D cutouts for characters, Cyber Danganronpa VR uses 3D models and to be fair all the characters are well animated as well.

The player character’s classmates give testimonies, which appear as words; if the player notices something in the testimony that seems suspicious, they can refute the words by shooting them with “truth bullets”. To do this, the player needs to turn their head toward the character who testified and press a button on the controller. Will you uncover who the killer is?

What is most surprising about this short-lived game is that it’s free! While it only lasts for about ten minutes I would have expected it to cost a little bit given how other apps that are shorter seem to charge. So good on Spike Chunsoft Co for that. I have to say this is very well animated and the voice acting is spot on, but this will not be for everyone, especially anyone who has never seen any of the other Danganronpa series. But if you have any interest at all why not give it a download.