Danganronpa and Zero Escape creators' new tactical RPG was "extremely difficult" to fund: "We […] ended up with a lot of debt"

Hiruko Shizuhara uses her axe to launch an ultimate attack in The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy
(Image credit: Aniplex)

澳洲幸运5开奖号码꧙历史查询:The Hundred Line: Last 🅺Defense Academy is only days away from its April 24 release date, which might still feel like a lifetime to the games' co-directors Kazutꦏaka Kodaka and Kotaro Uchikoshi, who say the tactical RPG was a significant fina🅘ncial burden.

Kodaka, who also created the Danganronpa murder mystery games, suggests in a new, that "raising the funds" for H🍬undred Line "was extremely difficult" since🐎 it was his and Uchikoshi's studio Too Kyo Games first original IP. Uchikoshi is perhaps previously best known for the Zero Escape series.

Though "we split the costs fifty-fifty with [publisher] Aniplex,♏" Kodaka says, "every time new specifications were added [to production], Iꩵ kept thinking, 'Ah, this is going to cost more money.' But we still pushed through and completed everything."

So close to its release date, The Hundred Line looks like the perfect investment from a distance – the fashionable high school drama apparently features 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:100 complex endings, and are praising the game for its high energy, visܫual novel feelings, and humor.

But you know what they say: greatness requires sඣacrifice, uh, I mean money. Kodaka continues to say in the interview that, while Too Kyo decided to commꦬit to developing The Hundred Line, the studio has "ended up with a lot of debt."

There is sunlight through the trees. Brightening Kodaka's summary of T🔯he Hundred Line's development pr𝄹ocess a bit, Uchikoshi adds that "when we first started the project, Kodaka said, 'I want to try making a game with 100 endings.'"

"That crazy, confident smile he had at that moment – I'll never forget it," Uchikoshi says, sharing a detail more valuable tha🧔n cash.

Smash Bros. director Masahiro Sakurai only has a "vague idea" what Danganronpa creator's new tactical RPG is all about as he has such "high expectations" he's been avoiding all information.

Ashley is a Senior Writer at GamesRadar+. She's been a staff writer at Kotaku and Inverse, too, and she's written freelance pieces about horror and women in games for sites like Rolling Stone, Vulture, IGN, 💛and Polygon. When she's not covering gaming news, she's usually working on expanding her doll collection while watching Saw movies one through 11.

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