Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls was not included in the recent four-game compilation, Danganronpa Decadence, that came to Switch on December 3rd.
For the most part, it seems that fans didn't mind — the games that were included were the more traditional, story-based ones, and Ultra Despair Girls is instead a third-person action-adventure game — but the fans who do mind may be able to change that.
According to an interview between Shun Sasaki, one of the developers of the Danganronpa series, and Famitsu (translated by Nintendo Everything), the spin-off game could, perhaps, make it to the Nintendo Switch some day.
"I think Nintendo Switch’s handheld mode would work well with Ultra Despair Girls, which was a cornerstone of the Vita lineup, but at this stage there’s nothing in the pipeline (laughs). The game deals with sensitive subject matter and we’re not sure if we can release it on Switch. If fans are vocal enough though, it makes it easier to turn it into a reality. If you’d like to see it, please speak out!"
The "sensitive subject matter" that Sasaki mentions has been a mainstay of the Danganronpa series, which features the brutal murders of teens as its main concept, but Ultra Despair Girls in particular is known for featuring heavy subjects like the sexualisation of children and paedophilic characters.
Ultra Despair Girls didn't have the best reception when it first came out. Released in various forms between 2014 and 2017, the game has only sold a fraction of the copies that Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc managed, and its Metacritic score hovers around 7/10. Nevertheless, the game has its fans, and now it's up to them to decide the fate of this game.
Are you one of the fans of Ultra Despair Girls? Would you like to see it on Switch? Time to be vocal in the comments!
[source nintendoeverything.com]
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Isn’t this the game that is infamous for having that one mini game.
still haven't played this one or any v3 chapter after 1 so having it on switch'd give me an excuse to give it a go!
@Greatluigi also yeah, if i remember it is yeah, thats like the only thing i know about it unfortunately
Honestly hate this whole "Need to speak up" thing. We shouldn't have to. It should have been part of the Danganronpa Collection that just released..
Like someone else pointed out elsewhere, Fatal Frame was released on the Switch which had a way worse "sensitive" subject.
And if its because of some of the specific lewdness? There's borderline hentai games on Switch...
Took them near 5 years to bring the og Danganronpa games so I played them on the PC. I hope they bring this one over so I can pass on the games on Switch one more time!
@moodycat I agree Ultra Despair Girls deserved to be included in Decadence, but V3 was definitely merited as a choice, it's the last mainline game in the series timeline.
Yes we want Ultra Despair Girls. It would’ve been a better choice than the board game.
I like Ultra Despair Girls, but the Vita has Never been a really great handheld.. It would really merit to be released on the Switch, the vita is too small for the controls and I do get cramp really easily with it.
So yes UDG need to be ported on Switch!
@rawzeku Yeah, I'm a tad tired of companies telling Switch owners to "speak up" if they want a game. Software is selling extremely well on this device. It has proven itself as a viable platform for pretty much everything other than modern AAA games. And, frankly, we're spoiled for choice at this point. If they want to miss out on sales from a large new chunk of potential Danganronpa fans, that's on them.
It's one of those things where it's extremely understandable why it isn't here, but if the option to bring it to switch is there, I wouldn't mind. Aside from....those....moments, it's a pretty damn fun game
I'd like it to come to Switch (unlikely), but I do have a Vita and PS5. Which version should I get?
@mauhlin12 Vita version runs fine enough, so, as usual, it depends on whether the portability is worth the trade off of playing on weaker, slower hardware.
"We like making money but....."
@Ralizah Thanks, I think I'll go with Vita. I played D1 and 2 on PS5, but when I heard the trilogy was coming to Switch I held off on playing V3 until I could play it there. Just feels like a series that's better suited for handheld.
"Isn't coming to Switch"
Ah yes, so leave out the game that's more actually pertinent to Danganronpa as a whole than V3 is. I'm really glad I didn't buy Decadence, UDG should have been included.
Man, it won't take away how amazing everything about Danganronpa was up to but not including V3 but my lord, they won't stop putting a damper on their own hard work creating this franchise. Between Decadence not having UDG but V3 which I honestly think should be forgotten, the awful Summer Camp nonsense and now this.
@%&#, I wish this franchise ended after the Danganronpa 3 anime. I never asked for this to continue beyond that. Who the hell did?!
Zero Escape never got quite as good as Danganronpa but jeez, at least it knew to conclude.
P.S. No, I won't "speak up" to get it on Switch. It shouldn't have been excluded in the first place.
im still waiting for my copy of danganronpa decadence on switch to be delivered live love preorder shipping
@Greatluigi
Yes, but it's pertinent to a characters' past trauma. It's not disrespectfully set when in context.
BS excuse. The Switch literally has a Senran Kagura grope simulator game, DoA Xtreme Volleyball in the lineup, and several Gal Gun games.
Not that I have much love for that game from a gameplay perspective, but at least come up with a more believable excuse like the effort was not worth the reward since that game wasn’t exactly super beloved by fans when it dropped back on the Vita and was the black sheep for the series
@mauhlin12 As a portable game in 2014, it felt well-suited to the hardware. Probably much less so to the beastly PS5 hardware, blown up on a large TV screen. So I'm inclined to think you're making the right choice in platform.
As part of the series itll drive me insane if its missing from Switch forever. Nothing irks me more than seeing 3/4ths of a series (i.e. og re2 and 3 are sooo needed on switch so well have 0-6 OGs, DYING for FF Pixel remasters on Switch as well since we have ff7-10, 12 and a port of 15.
@rawzeku I agree. It's a game that's part of the series it should have just been there. They even added the characters to the Switch version of the Summer vacation game. Yet, Ultra Despair Girls wasn't there. It makes no sense to me.
@Aya-chan I personally think it should have just been there period without saying, "It should have replaced such and such game". This was marketed as a Danganronpa collection, yet they left a game out. They even added the UDG characters to the Summer camp game, there's literally zero excuse for it to not be here.
I think marketing Decadence as a Danganronpa "collection", including characters from Ultra Despair Girls in the summer camp game's switch version, but then not porting Ultra Despair Girls to the Switch was just an idiotic move. "Sensitive content" is a BS reason to have not included it, the series has an ESRB rating of M for a reason. If you make a collection, plan to include all of the games in it, not just the "really good ones".
I feel like ultra despair girls was supposed to be with danganronpa decadence judging how the cover art uses the UDG version of Toko rather the one from triggerhappyhavoc. UDG is what got me into danganronpa. I would love to play it again on switch. MAKE IT HAPPEN
I would Love to play Udg On the Switch! Shoulda Put it in the Decadence Collection A Long time ago. Instead of putting it Half-assed with a 4/5 games And Call it a Collection.
And Please. Don't give me that "maybe to Sensitive" Topic. There's Literally Hèntai Games and stuff on the Switch.
(Sorry for the Late Comment. And I hope I didn't Sound to rude, Haha,)
I would love to play it on switch. Especially if they add some kind of gyro assist skill for aiming.
@rawzeku Yes! i absolutely it should have been released with the danganronpa game pack. it is unfair that nintendo users cant play ultra despair girls. as someone who is hoping to get their first nintendo system for christmas i would love to be able to play all the danganronpa games.
I don't know if it's just me but i tired of companies telling us to "speak up" if we want the game of course we want the game! There's a big chunk of danganronpa fans who use switch and as someone who is getting their first nintendo system for christmas i would absolutely love UDG to be on nintendo switch!
@AlexTheHedgehog13 Dw! you had all the right to be rude other consoles like ps5 have UDG but we don't they need to ut UDG in the collection and on nintendo or they'll lose a lot of potential buyers
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