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Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward |OT| -- More Hours, More Persons, More Doors
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I hope this part has voice acting
Hours Left
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I would probably put Lotus at the very top if she was given just a bit more character development. I feel like they had a lot of things they could of delved into, but she kinda got brushed to the side a bit towards the end of the game.
I appreciated her behavior during the actual nonary game the best. Very logical and intuitive.
I wonder, would
Akane really be considered evil? She managed to off three guys who kidnapped kids and got one more ready to be locked up. Also, she (in the true ending) got everyone innocent out alive. She seems more like an anti-hero than a villain.
Cause there was nothing to do with her.
She had absolutely no reason to be in the game, besides needing a person to die every single time.
Hours Left
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I don't agree with that.
Her spot in the game didn't have as much weight as some others, but that's exactly the what I'm talking about. They could of easily built it into something greater, especially if you've read some of the supplemental material.
Plus, I appreciated her role as a true observer.
SolarKnight
Member
Except
Sure, they could've done better with her, but it's not like she was just there for the sake of being there.
What material?
being the mother of the twins from the previous Nonary Game, and pretty much being the only person that could complete some of the puzzles, and all that looks-like-useless-trivia-but-it's-actually-important technobabble.
Sure, they could've done better with her, but it's not like she was just there for the sake of being there.
What material?
Hours Left
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The guide books that were released in Japan, they give some more insight on her previous work and her family.
SolarKnight
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Hours Left
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I don't have them, so I can only go by what other people have told me and the little bits I've seen online. I'll try and find some stuff.I imagined it'd be those. What do they say?
I wish he actually showed a lot of this in game. It was like, about time the twist happened the game was over and I wanted to know more about Akane and Aoi and how they were able to do all that. He does explain it in that Answers section but I wish it was in game because all you ever see is "Kanny" Akane and not Akane how she actually is except for the very end when she is narrating.
Hopefully Zero Akane is shown in this game since these games are based around her
Hopefully Zero Akane is shown in this game since these games are based around her
Yeah, as a character Snake is better but I also feel like Lotus gets a few extra points for being involved in some of the most interesting conversations in the game.
Okay, but question for the thread, since I've mostly been avoiding it to try to keep my anticipation from killing me: has anyone played the 3DS version and commented on the quality of the 3D? I'm still torn between which version to get, but obviously have to make up my mind very soon.
edit: While playing I thought there was a good chance Lotus would turn out to
either have unknowingly been helping improve the security for the people who would eventually abduct her, or deliberately tracking these people down as revenge for her children. Both made sense to me given her knowledge of a lot of the systems and her capacity for handling the puzzles.
Hours Left
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Hmm, I can't find the page I read before about Lotus. It's possible I'm misremembering some things, but I still think even with just the in-game background info on her, there was more they could of built up.
UberTag
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It would be an outright travesty if that wasn't the case.
(no VLM spoilers here... I haven't played the game... just spec based on 999 spoilers)
You can't just rebrand the series Zero Escape, have the creator infer that Akane & Aoi have to "prepare for the larger thing she had planned" in the 999 Answers interview and then NOT incorporate her into a sequel that features an A.I. character named Zero III.
Now I don't expect her to be pulling Zero III's strings directly. That would be too obvious. But she's got a clear role here we need to see play out. And Junpei isn't around (right?) so she shouldn't need to mask her intentions, either. In other words, we should be expecting some Zero Akane goodness.
I include the (right?) up there because who the hell knows who's hiding inside the K armor. I'm surmising logically it's going to be someone we already know.
Now I don't expect her to be pulling Zero III's strings directly. That would be too obvious. But she's got a clear role here we need to see play out. And Junpei isn't around (right?) so she shouldn't need to mask her intentions, either. In other words, we should be expecting some Zero Akane goodness.
I include the (right?) up there because who the hell knows who's hiding inside the K armor. I'm surmising logically it's going to be someone we already know.
It's gotta be Ace, this is his redemption game.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Clover would probably win the poll.
Ugh. Clover is the Chie of the series ;_;
SolarKnight
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Yes they do, at least during the novel sections.
Played the JP demo and the 3D was great. I had it on the whole time whereas I usually always play in 2D
My personal opinion though is that vita w/ capacitive stylus > 3ds > vita w/o capacitive stylus. Main reason being that vita w/ stylus pretty much plays like 999 on 3ds - you look at and directly touch a clear crisp screen during escape sequences. The 3ds version has this annoying scan line filter on the bottom screen where you do all the interaction, so you either have to look back and forth between the top and bottom screen or just stare at an obscured lower screen the whole time while you're doing puzzles.
lol, she's not that bad
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
iirc, the Japanese poll results were:
Clover > June > Lotus > Snake > Santa > Junpei > Ace > Seven > 9th Man
I don't get the fascination with Clover either outside of perhaps (999 axe ending spoilers)
the fact that she's unstable. Also, she's female.
Hopes and love of yandere tendencies that could somehow be brought to a relationship sell her good.
I guess we'll have to see after most of us have played through VLR but I have a feeling she's going to be at the top of the poll again since she's a recurring character and people tend to favor those the most.
RyougaSaotome
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I'm glad the screenshot I took earlier this year is making the rounds and getting the appreciation it deserves!
And no, I refuse to give any kind of context to that image. Haha.
I feel ya.
The creator also mentions how Akane is not only a freaking millionaire but she has an organization full of people working for her and to do her bidding. The potential for a character with that much power is crazy. I'm expecting great things from her.
I couldn't even make a decent guess on who K is. But I'm positive its someone from 999 too.
I couldn't even make a decent guess on who K is. But I'm positive its someone from 999 too.
Funny that. Clover is one of the best....like Chie (huge Chie fan here).
You talking about clover? Then she is definitely 18
in 999 it ess explicitly stated she participated in the 1st nonary games when she was 9 years old, and took part in the 2nd game 9 years later
Welp.
Why not? She is clearly not a loli.
I can't think of a reason why they would do that. I don't recall anything of a sexual nature occurring with her.
None of the characters' ages were modified during localization
She's 18 in the Japanese version too~
RyougaSaotome
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Having played the Japanese versions of these games, I can also vouch for the fact that she IS 18 in 999.
Ok, fine, whatever.
So bad that even Japan wanted to be safe!
I can easily see it, as she dies horrible deaths and deals the most horrible deaths.
Koroviev
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Have you not seen anime interpretations of high schoolers?
RyougaSaotome
Member
Hell, try real Japanese school girls. They are in some ways even more ridiculous than their fictional counterparts.
Clover certainly falls in line with plenty of people I know. Haha.
15 is high school!
Koroviev
Member
Clover looks like an old maid by comparison is what I'm saying, lol.
onlyindreams
Banned
Clover is the best
Man, I really have to visit Japan some day.
devastatorprime
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I hope the official site gets a fansite kit like 999 did. Literally been waiting over for a year for Alice's art in a nice hi res transparent png.
She looks much older on the official artwork.
Give her a different hairstyle and no one would doubt her age.
None of the characters' ages were modified during localization
She's 18 in the Japanese version too~
Your avatar coupled with the cutesy smilies and tildes scares me a little.
I enjoyed 999, so I'm looking forward to picking this up when I get the chance.