The Story
Hope’s Peak Academy is a school for elite students, the cream of the crop, the best of the best. You play as Makoto Naegi, the one odd student who got enrolled purely by virtue of having his name picked from a lucky draw. Your ‘elite’ ability is your incredible luck, and you’re thus known as the Ultimate Lucky Student.
Makoto is enrolled alongside several other ‘elite’ students as well, including the Ultimate Fashionista, the Ultimate Fanfic Writer, the Ultimate Clairvoyant, and a ton of other crazy personalities. The story kicks off on your first day of school, as you and your other elite friends step into Hope’s Peak Academy. However, the story takes a turn for the dark when Monokuma shows up, and tells you that you’ll never see the sunlight again.
The only way to ‘graduate’ and leave Hope’s Peak Academy is to murder one of your classmates and get away with it. If you’re able to pull off a successful murder without anyone figuring out that you’re the culprit, you’ll get to leave, but everyone else will be executed. If the culprit is identified, only he or she will pay the price of death.
These class trials become a grave matter of life and death where one wrong move could spell mass execution for all innocent parties.
