The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy-

The game has a lot going for it but is dragged down heavily by many monotonous factors that affect its narrative and gameplay. I do like the premise and some of the routes that come up once you beat Route 0. Some routes have interesting character pieces (02, 10B, 12, 13A, 15A), good character dynamics (00, 05, 11, 15A), or fun plot developments (14A, one path in 14B). A lot of the routes that start early in the timeline feel more obligated to get to 100 days compared to the routes that start later, which ends up hurting the pacing of those routes. Each route tends to have a character focus on it, and it's nice to go through and have a different character be in the spotlight, letting them develop and go beyond their stereotypical one-liners. Unfortunately a lot of the same events transpire no matter which route you go through, making each path feel less unique and constrained to the overarching narrative that the game wants to achieve. Every facet of the gameplay has built-in timewasters that will whittle at the player as they go through the routes. Each instance is a small amount of time but they add up as you make your way through the game. Reading the plot has announcements and Takumi's randomly manual or automatic trip to the Cafeteria almost every day, as well as time skips that sometimes load in each day separately before reaching the final destination. Free Time pads out almost every route, and serves little purpose in the narrative. If this mechanic was kept outside of the structure of the routes' plots it would help with the game's pacing problems. Exploration becomes entirely skippable after making progress on the game, which is good because it's not a good mode but bad because it's wasted potential. Even if you do Simple Explorations you're watching a lot of unskippable animations as you go through many Free Time days to upgrade your characters. In combat, battles in different routes can be skipped if you have done it once already. This does not skip the entire fight though, before you are given the choice to skip there are animations that play out fully and dialogue that happens before each wave. Since these routes share a lot of plot elements, finishing one route makes it so ~80% of every other route's battles are skippable. There are many wasted chances to make unique combat encounters based on the route that you're on, so instead the player gets to watch many fade to blacks as all the battles are skipped. The combat loses steam fairly quickly after all the characters are introduced. There is a lack of variety in enemy and map design. The backgrounds can vary but you're fighting in a perfectly rectangular arena in almost every fight. There's nothing that makes a fight unique aside from story implications that could affect objectives. When the player comes across a fight they finally can't skip and it turns out it's played like every other fight done before, it adds to the time wasted by this game. It's pretty shameless as to what the game tries to get away with to try to justify its large scale. I'm not sure if more QoL changes could be applied to this game to fix these issues given how the systems are built. Whatever changes the devs could implement to pare down the overall experience would greatly help out, however.

虽然全通至今已经过了半年多了不过还是来写个好评。没赤过石的可以来吃，量大管饱保证有最对电波的路线和最难忘的史线（贬义），二周目最初不锁线就极不合理，小高和刚自己打过没就端出来这个？看攻略走真相线可以获得不错的游戏体验，至于初见就进上半区的我只能说孩子你有福了。如果有异食癖说不定在一些玩家公认的“史线”里也能品出巧克力味，虽然写到现在都在骂但我个人还是很喜欢这游戏的，跟小高和刚自己写的几条路线对上电波的话就会像我一样半年多了还在被这破游戏套牢，不过小高以后能不能别和打越合作了你俩根本尿不到一个壶里。

This is one of the most ambitious games I've ever played in my life, and I fully recommend it, particularly if you like Danganronpa or other similar games. But take it slow! I have burned myself out hard by pushing through the first ending as quickly as possible, and there will be quite a bit of repetition in the different routes of this game - but there's enough difference to keep them fresh and interesting. Just don't rush it.

As a danganronopa veteran and Fire Emblem enjoyer this was the game I never knew I needed. On paper a game that combines elements of visual novels with turn based strategy which works well in theory but being able to pull off a story as convuluted as this at this scale (100+ hours of gameplay) is insane. If you love the writing of Danganronpa and enjoy RPGs this game is worth it, there's so much content to keep you going for weeks on end. I wasn't as big of a fan of [spoiler]some of the routes this game had to offer such as the comedy routes. They felt like filler content more than anything. But the routes they actually took their time on were amazing and lets each player unravel the mystery of what's really going on differently.[/spoiler]

I was extremely hesitant to buy this game, It just didn't seem like my kind of game but after playing it *the main game, i haven't done any of the 100 endings yet but i will* I am pleased to say this was fantastic and had me engrossed in the story and characters the whole time. Sure it has some problems like the UI and map can be kind of bad at times and this one minigame is kind of boring after awhile, but the combat is fun. i might update it after the 100 endings if i still have sanity left, i just hope they are unique enough being so many.

Whilst it takes time to get started, I found myself very invested and eager to find answers to the story. First off, I think this game is too long, many of the hundred days contain lots of padding conversations that don't serve a purpose towards building characters, progressing or providing hints to the story and work-building. I started to speed through some of these once I noticed the tone saving time on several days that didn't eat too much into my enjoyment of the game. Now that is done with, the story and characters are very 'anime', lots of opening story threads that get tied up, many highly emotive personalities from characters that you would be familiar with if you have played the Danganronpa games, which is referenced several times here for story-unrelated humour (much appreciated). The art style is not to everyone's tastes, you can tell the character designers were having fun here, where at certain points designs totally change from budget 90's style visual novel to highly detailed very dramatic layered images. How this game differs is with the strategic combat, moving your characters with unique abilities (which are upgradable) on a grid, planning and using their abilities in addition to tools to defeat waves of enemies in turn based combat using limited action points. These action points are regained each turn or by defeating specific enemies. This creates a satisfying flow process of being creative and analytical to cause as much damage within each turn.

I played through the first 100 days and, while I enjoyed parts of the experience, most of it became extremely monotonous. There are just enough interesting story developments to keep you moving forward, but they are buried beneath what feels like an endless cycle of repetition. After you “beat” the game, the real story finally begins. That sounds exciting at first—until you find yourself back on day 45, or some other familiar point, once again going through the motions. Even the combat eventually loses its appeal, and the story starts skipping over many battles entirely. Ultimately, The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy demands far too much patience from the player. You have to genuinely love lengthy visual novels and anime-style storytelling to endure how slowly it reveals its best ideas. After spending more than 30 hours repeatedly waiting for something exciting to happen, I honestly feel that my time would have been better spent elsewhere.