The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy- Reviews
The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy- feels like the love child of Kodaka's eccentric, character-driven storytelling from Danganronpa and Uchikoshi’s mind-bending twists from Zero Escape. The game pulls you in with its gripping narrative choices and fast-paced combat, all unfolding within a world brimming with mystery and high stakes.
The team’s incredible hard work has produced a wonderfully unique, deep, and rewarding game that fulfils its ambitious scope and has easily been seated as my favourite visual novel of all time.
A gripping fusion of Danganronpa’s twisted storytelling and tactical RPG combat, elevated by its eccentric cast and layered mysteries. While the 100-endings gimmick feels excessive and battles lack depth, the game’s dark humor, social sim elements, and Uchikoshi-style twists make it a must-play for fans—even if it doesn’t quite surpass its inspirations.
The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy- is one of the most complete title on the market, having a great narrative, with top notch storytelling and character development, while also having a fun, albeit repetitive and not really well tuned strategy element, while also having a great and unique 2D artstyle. A game every Visual Novel fan should play once in their life.
Review in Italian | Read full review
The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy is a fantastic game. The story is amazing, and once you see the twists and turns it will hook you in and not let go. I loved all of the characters, the soundtrack is just fantastic and this features one of the best English dubs I’ve heard in a long time. I had a blast with combat as well. It can be pretty tough on normal mode, but if you want easier combat so you can enjoy the Visual Novel aspects there is a safety difficulty that is much easier. At the $59.99 price tag it’s likely gonna take at least 100 hours to see all the endings here if not more, so it’s well worth your coin. It’s very rare a game comes along that does everything right, but The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy does just that.
The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy is an excellent mix of tactical RPG action and visual novel goodness from two of gaming’s most fascinating minds. From the extreme amount of content to the fascinating story, this is an impressive offering all around. If you want a truly unique story along with some flashy tactical combat, you can’t go wrong with this one.
The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy blends sharp writing with turn-based tactics, echoing the signature styles of Kodaka and Uchikoshi. While the routine can feel confining and the combat could go deeper, its strength lies in a cast of twisted, human, and unforgettable characters.
Review in Italian | Read full review
The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy- is a game that easily met my expectations. It is an excellent strategic RPG, with an unusual story where mystery awaits at every corner. It is above all a game that communicates with its target audience. On several occasions I raised a hypothesis with myself that the game immediately raised, and on several occasions it exceeded my expectations, showing a very exquisite level of dialogue with the player.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy- is the perfect fusion born of the collaboration between Kazutaka Kodaka and Kotaro Uchikoshi. The result is a title that draws on the best features of their major productions (Danganronpa and Zero Escape, above all) to create a unique and incredibly ambitious product, especially on the narrative side. Kaleidoscopic, sprawling, and surprising writing makes it essential to play and replay a title equally challenging in its tactical RPG component. There are some structural limitations of game design and, inevitably, its thick verbiage may not make it a product for everyone. But if you have loved the previous works of the two Japanese designers, we warn you: this may be their magnum opus.
Review in Italian | Read full review
The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy manages to combine a textual adventure full of mysteries with a tactical game with interesting strategic options. The end result has reservations and ends up revealing some of the limitations of Kodaka's writing, but it definitely pays off in the long run.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy- is the exact game Kodaka, Uchikoshi and co. promise it is, in every way. Those already familiar with these authors' work will receive something that is, at the same time, well within expectations and completely out there, all wrapped up in the form of a fun and challenging tactical RPG. Even those who don't have time for all the endings should come and meet the Special Defense Unit.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy is a massive game with interesting characters, high stakes, and dozens of endings. It can be a lot of fun, but it can also be overwhelming if you try to take everything on offer simultaneously.
A fun and unforgettable visual novel/SRPG that's an amalgamation of different genres, yet somehow works to form a sprawling narrative of epic proportions.
The Hundred Line: -Last Defense Academy- is an ambitious, experimental, and slightly bizarre strategy game with strong tactical battles and a unique setting, but its uneven story, sluggish pacing, and excessive dialogue may test your patience—especially if you're expecting a new Danganronpa.
Review in Dutch | Read full review
The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy is an utterly unhinged game, with incredible characters, exceptional combat and a whole lot of style.
The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy- uses a familiar foundation to deliver an unforgettable experience that is rich in suspense and thrills. Kazutaka Kodaka and Kotaro Uchikoshi bring everything they’ve learned about storytelling to a combat-heavy experience. The result is a thrilling blend of visual novel and JRPG elements that is also rich with callbacks to the Danganronpa series.
Hundred Line has so many things going for it and none of them are half-assed. If you're a fan of tactical RPG's, you'll love it.
The very idea of bringing together the minds behind Danganronpa and Zero Escape will be enough to get many fans of this genre in the door. They’ll find that The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy- is an incredibly ambitious title which may not have some of what they expect in the early going, but will ultimately give them everything they’re looking for and more.
The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy is an excellent strategy RPG that follows the same aesthetics and themes of the Danganronpa series while being an entirely different game and IP. The game offers a straightforward combat system that's easy to pick up and play while offering some challenging battles. In addition, The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy brings an intriguing and eccentric cast of characters with a compelling narrative and shock value at some points of the story.