{"id":675656,"date":"2026-07-05T21:44:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T21:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/675656\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T21:44:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T21:44:14","slug":"danganronpa-2x2-delayed-to-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/675656\/","title":{"rendered":"Danganronpa 2&#215;2 delayed to 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Danganronpa 2&#215;2 has been delayed to 2027.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement posted to Spike Chunsoft&#8217;s website, producer Shohei Sakakibara said that while &#8220;development has been progressing toward a 2026 release&#8221;, &#8220;we have decided to move the launch to early 2027&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The team said it would &#8220;share a more specific release date at a later time&#8221;, although the update itself suggests we&#8217;ll see it in &#8220;early 2027&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>To see this content please enable targeting cookies.<\/p>\n<p>Manage cookie settings <\/p>\n<p>Danganronpa 2&#215;2: Official Trailer | Nintendo Direct.<a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O2hGCxZC6iw\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are continuing to work to bring you the best possible experience. We sincerely appreciate your patience as development continues, and we look forward to sharing further updates with you soon,&#8221; Sakakibara concluded.<\/p>\n<p>We heard a little more about the new Slayhem mode, too.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Danganronpa 2&#215;2 lets players experience Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair in two different modes,&#8221; the update stated. &#8220;Players can choose between the revamped scenario in &#8216;Original&#8217; mode, which retells the story from the 2012 release with enhanced visuals and updated presentation for modern game systems, and &#8216;Slayhem&#8217; mode which features a new scenario based on Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, but [with a] completely different storyline. Both options are available from the start of the game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The World Map has &#8220;undergone a major update&#8221; in Danganronpa 2&#215;2, too. Whereas Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair featured a side-scrolling map for traveling between locations, Danganronpa 2&#215;2 introduces a 3D World Map that &#8220;gives players a clearer sense of the island&#8217;s layout&#8221;. You can now navigate the island however you prefer, whether by freely running across the map or instantly traveling to a selected destination.<\/p>\n<p>Danganronpa creator Kazutaka Kodaka is one of the most recognisable names in the games industry. He led The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy&#8217;s development, but the creator recently opened up about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/danganronpa-and-the-hundred-line-last-defense-academy-creator-blames-an-insult-from-a-co-worker-on-getting-him-back-into-game-development\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his journey back into the world of game development<\/a> and the huge impact anime, manga, and &#8220;borrowed&#8221; video games had on his personal storytelling style and the visual aspect of Danganronpa and The Hundred Line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Danganronpa 2&#215;2 has been delayed to 2027. In a statement posted to Spike Chunsoft&#8217;s website, producer Shohei Sakakibara&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-675656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}