Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair Review (Spoilers)
Sequels are hard. I don’t envy a team of creatives, fresh off the success, both financially and critically, of their new work of art are commissioned to make a follow up. Whether they had envisioned one or not, they are bound by financial responsibilities to do so, artistic integrity isn’t always a realistic offer in the crushing reality of the industrial complex. Catching lightning in a bottle once again with the intention of making the sequel feel distinct but not overly similar to it’s predecessor, all the while carrying the soul and feeling of the original with the same level of quality sounds an impossible expectation. Both by those creating it and by those anticipating the finished work. Across the various mediums of art in our modern world, there are many such examples of those that did their previous works justice as are there many such examples that did not. Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, written by Kazutaka Kodaka, is not only a sequel that for much of its runtime feels ine...
