""The core emotion of this game is 'all emotions that accompany the act of living.' [Charlie] Chaplin once said, 'Life is a tragedy in close-up but a comedy in long-shot," writer Kotaro Uchikoshi tells Inverse, " Hundred Line simply captures the characters' lives sometimes in close-up, sometimes in long-shot. At its essence, it is both tragic and comedic. It's like filming 100 variations of 100 days of each character's life.""
""The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy is a collaborative effort between two of gaming's most inventive developers, Danganronpa creator Kazutaka Kodaka and the author behind the cult classic Zero Escape and AI: The Somnium Files, Kotaro Uchikoshi. This dream-team combined their powers to create one of the most startingly ambitious games of the decade - and it paid off in spades.""
The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy blends visual-novel storytelling with tactical RPG systems and delivers 100 distinct endings. The project unites Kazutaka Kodaka and Kotaro Uchikoshi, combining their signature narrative and structural ambitions. The game is intentionally modular, allowing players to see as much or as little as they want while revealing a tapestry of diverging routes. Narrative tones vary widely across routes, including slapstick comedy, dark murder games, social commentary, and subversions of anime harem tropes. The design emphasizes emotional range and coherence across disparate elements, and the game's commercial success averted developer bankruptcy.
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