To be honest, I can 100% understand this decision. If they wanted to move the story into a different, deeper direction, then they wouldn't have been able to do it in the game's "death game" format. So instead, they opted to forsake that and ended up creating Another Episode for a spin at a different genre... Although now I guess they just decided to throw out all the game part altogether. Just hope it has a decent quality and amount of episodes. No way 12 episodes is going to compare to several hours of gameplay or an entire novel, have you seen the first Danganronpa anime? They tried.