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Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward |OT| -- More Hours, More Persons, More Doors
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Tricky I Shadow
Banned
Reading all the comments in this thread due to the plot twists/reveals will never get old!
Hours Left
Member
And alternatively, I've seen a lot of people say they prefer VLR to 999.
Personally, with a series like this, I don't even see them as separate entities. Just a continuation, and I'm ready for more.
So far, after around 6-7 hours in, I find 999 to be more "theorycraftable". The different number combinations needed to open the doors provided some very welcome breeding grounds for the "who dunnit" theories that were (re)developed while playing through the game.
:edit: Perhaps that is only because [999 beginning spoilers]
:edit: Perhaps that is only because [999 beginning spoilers]
that one guy immediately dies in the beginning which sets a different mood as VLR from the outset
I like VLR's story more as well. There are more .. logical gaps you have to cross, but that leaves more room for my creativity.
For better or for worse!
I paid a stupid amount of money for one after realizing they existed (I honestly forgot about this game until a day after it came out)
You might still be able to get one for a decent amount in the Buy/Sell/Trade thread.
everyone feels a lot less invincible in 999 too
the more i think back on it, the more i'm disappointed by vlr's story, but specifically in the way it ruins 999's story.
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
I just want to say this: playing this game as a partially color blind guy is a massive pain in the ass, especially during several color-specific puzzles.
Hours Left
Member
The last puzzle room may give you some problems. It may of just been because I was playing on 3DS, but one element of that room is really poorly colored, and it affects a lot of the mechanics of the room.
Just finished.
...so the third game is coming out tomorrow, right?
...Right?
...so the third game is coming out tomorrow, right?
...Right?
also, that ABCDE time jumping was just incomprehensible to be for a bit. I was like...I see what you're saying but I can't even fathom this shit, Akane. Cool though... All I know is Sigma and Phi are swapping around to eventually get where they need to be haha.
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
I have difficulties in differentiating between green and red in this game, as is purple and blue. The color puzzle in IIRC
Director's Office and B Garden
Oh, the PEC room too... I imagine people without the impairment can solve them a lot easier than me. Thankfully the game only crashed once there... it made my journey through that room very tense!
A question to you guys, maybe you folks know: it is common knowledge not to save in the puzzle rooms for the 3DS version right? Is that only during the escape section only? Is it okay to save in, say, PEC room before "SEEK THE WAY OUT" or after "YOU FOUND IT"?
Two more points I just thought of is that
a)
in this game Zero is a lot more omnipresent, than the mysterious, more phantom-like, Zero of 999
b)
Door 9 is shown in the beginning. In 999 door 9 was almost a mystical construct where the player was not even sure if it existed until the very end of only a few of the paths
But, enough whining. Continuing the game now.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
VLR has a lot of the characters waiting around for stuff to happen, so at times the narrative feels like it's not going anywhere. The purpose in 999 was always in mind, and it felt like the different parties were really going in a race against time. It's a sense of urgency that's seriously missing from the sequel because it doesn't seem like your life is actually danger at any given moment.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
I got the
just now. D: I had
Alice - End
bomb passwords but not the input devices location or anything. D:
yeah. and considering the sense of urgency is what
activates the morphofield, well, it diminishes the effect of akane accessing it in 999
hahah holy shit, I just realised something re: K
Man I'll have to replay one day to make sure, but no wonder K's voting choices are a bit more difficult to decipher in Alice's third of the game
semiconscious
Member
my final thoughts, as well. vlr is a very entertaining, completely over-the-top mindfuck, but 999 somehow managed to do more with less, & had much more of an emotional impact...
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
My brain is on the verge of exploding...what in the hell is going on? So much to take in! So much to remember!
Im doing the left most path and just made it to the Security Room. What the hell did
What the hell is up with
Why does
What the hell was up with that whole
Theory about this:
What the hell happened to
Why did
What the hell is up with
WHY!? WHY!? WHY!? WHY!? WHY!? AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! So many theories running through my head!
Im doing the left most path and just made it to the Security Room. What the hell did
that robot mean when saying something about the middle?
that message in Warehouse B?
ninth have an e in it?
AB room switching thing only to find Lunar dead after it?
Lunar is a robot and faked her own death! The poison would not have affected her and no one would be able to pick up a pulse even if she was alive!
the key Alice had? (the one that goes into K!)
K want Sigma and Phi to go through the white chromatic doors and not just leave them behind to die?
Tenmyouji and Clover?
WHY!? WHY!? WHY!? WHY!? WHY!? AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! So many theories running through my head!
I think I could make it to the end of the very left most path after the vita finishes charging again.
I'm getting around 4.5ish (bit less) hours of playtime on one charge. Is that around the norm for you guys?
Just met
. Not sure what to think. Quite funny, but the tense atmosphere kinda evaporated. Let's see if the game is as good as higurashi/umineko is switching from a merry atmosphere to shit-just-got-real in a split second.
Can't wait until I can play again!
I'm getting around 4.5ish (bit less) hours of playtime on one charge. Is that around the norm for you guys?
Just met
---- G-0lm ----
Can't wait until I can play again!
So I'm trying to get the true ending, and I have one though: WAT.
I don't have any new branches on the flowchart to jump through, I did all the puzzle rooms on hard (but don't have all the files, do I need those?). Old Akane told me I can change the past still, but yet there's no time before the disaster, the only thing is that one in 2029 where you're talking to 20-year-old Akane.
I was right about some things. I had a suspicion we were either on the moon or Mars. One of my other theories though, still is kind of ambiguous with all the wibbly wobbly timey shit going on here. I still have a crazy theory about Quark, but I doubt it's true.
My theory is that Dio is Quark's father and Akane is Quark's mother. Why do I think this? Let me refer you to the 999 answers: (From Question 15) Perhaps there were things that happened on that ship that couldn't be shown in the actual game.
Dio/Left is with Free the Soul, which was working with Cradle, so this theory could be possible. However, this would mean that Dio and Quark would BOTH have to have been frozen, and we have no evidence that they were.
I was right about some things. I had a suspicion we were either on the moon or Mars. One of my other theories though, still is kind of ambiguous with all the wibbly wobbly timey shit going on here. I still have a crazy theory about Quark, but I doubt it's true.
My theory is that Dio is Quark's father and Akane is Quark's mother. Why do I think this? Let me refer you to the 999 answers: (From Question 15) Perhaps there were things that happened on that ship that couldn't be shown in the actual game.
Dio/Left is with Free the Soul, which was working with Cradle, so this theory could be possible. However, this would mean that Dio and Quark would BOTH have to have been frozen, and we have no evidence that they were.
slightconfuse
Banned
The phrase on floor b is explained
If you're sure you did everything on hard, there should be a new path down in the VERY BOTTOM RIGHT area. You'll be speaking with a Young Akane
timetokill
Banned
FUCK
I ran into a crash bug on PEC
There's 2 hours of my game gone
I guess I should save more often, but then I heard this crash sometimes corrupts your save?
Is there any way around it, anybody know anything in particular that triggers it? Mine crashed right when I put the
on the stool.
I ran into a crash bug on PEC
There's 2 hours of my game gone
I guess I should save more often, but then I heard this crash sometimes corrupts your save?Is there any way around it, anybody know anything in particular that triggers it? Mine crashed right when I put the
Zero Jr. Doll
Maybe I need to double check that. I didn't think the garden screwed me over, but maybe it did and I didn't realize it.
FUCK
I ran into a crash bug on PEC
There's 2 hours of my game gone
Is there any way around it, anybody know anything in particular that triggers it? Mine crashed right when I put theon the stool.Zero Jr. Doll
Don't save in escape rooms.
slightconfuse
Banned
FUCK
I ran into a crash bug on PEC
There's 2 hours of my game gone
Is there any way around it, anybody know anything in particular that triggers it? Mine crashed right when I put theon the stool.Zero Jr. Doll
first dont save in that room.
second follow a faq for that room. i have heard that only examining puzzle realted things will not make it crash and it worked.
My apologies to those 3-4 people who told me that the ingame flowchart is not nearly as spoilerific as it first seems. I shouldn't have brushed off your comments and believed you as I was only at the beginning of the game.
I thought I was at the end of a route
.
Damn it, this game is so unbelivably awesome WHEN it is tense. However that's also the main problem so far for me. During too much of the game, at least of the two routes I have seen so far, too much has been a happy-go-lucky mood. The VN and escape room sequences are really different. While the VN scenes can be really tense, this feeling has dissipated, so far, as soon as a puzzle room was entered.
I thought I was at the end of a route
the most left one, to be exact, and BAM the flow chart exapanded
Damn it, this game is so unbelivably awesome WHEN it is tense. However that's also the main problem so far for me. During too much of the game, at least of the two routes I have seen so far, too much has been a happy-go-lucky mood. The VN and escape room sequences are really different. While the VN scenes can be really tense, this feeling has dissipated, so far, as soon as a puzzle room was entered.
R_thanatos
Member
i've just finished the game ( plat trophy )
WAAAAAAOUH
the game was awesome .. really incredible .. it's a shame i was able to guess some of the twists very early ( after ever17 & 9,9,9 you get used to weird things )
WHERE IS ZERO ESCAPE VOLUME 3 !!!
i mean dammit .. they have plenty of things to explain ..so much to show
anyway ..off to the spoiler thread !!!
WAAAAAAOUH
the game was awesome .. really incredible .. it's a shame i was able to guess some of the twists very early ( after ever17 & 9,9,9 you get used to weird things )
WHERE IS ZERO ESCAPE VOLUME 3 !!!
i mean dammit .. they have plenty of things to explain ..so much to show
anyway ..off to the spoiler thread !!!
ColossalLazy
Member
LMAO @ the contrast during the VA bit.
Going through the endgame right now.
I seriously couldn't find a more appropriate gif to describe what I'm going through right now.
It is a glorious feeling
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
・Sound chief orders BGM/SE (background music and sound effects)→BGM/SE arrives→I say no→Another round of BGM/SE→I say no again →Even more BGM/SE comes in→The music is so beautiful you cry like a baby →OK!
KINDA EASY WHEN YOU REUSE MOST TRACKS FROM THE ORIGINAL GAME HURDURRRagingnight
Member
need help. finished all the flowchart that I am able to do but nothing pops up.. I'm missing Phi's ending
thetrin
Hail, peons, for I have come as ambassador from the great and bountiful Blueberry Butt Explosion
JeTmAn81
Member
I'm inclined to agree with this. I'm 15 hours in now, and things are finally getting more interesting, but this is seeming like a real step down from 999. If they ever do a third game (the original Nonary game, perhaps?), they'll really need to shake up the premise to keep it from becoming super stale.
thetrin
Hail, peons, for I have come as ambassador from the great and bountiful Blueberry Butt Explosion
Alright, I'm stuck, and I need some endgame help: (MAJOR ENDGAME SPOILERS)
Considering it's a 40 hour game, you have a lot to see still.
I just finished the Another Time novel section where Kyle talks to Akane. Do I need all the gold files to access 2028 and get the very end, or did I miss something?
Considering it's a 40 hour game, you have a lot to see still.
I have a question regarding "to be continued"
mild spoiler version
more spoilers version of same question
Semi agree. It is almost like the routes I have seen so far suffer from "trilogy" syndrom where the midpart is a bit boring but the beginning and ending are really exciting.
mild spoiler version
I have received 2 to be continueds. Once the piece, on the flow chart, turned into a lock. However the other time it retained its VN icon. Does this mean that I simply failed a/the puzzle in the case of the symbol where no lock appeared after a "to be continued"?
more spoilers version of same question
To be exact, this happened to me in the left-most path when Phi and Sigma are in the director's office and have to input a user ID and passcode into the PC. After giving up I got a "to be continued", but the events icon did not change to a lock, like happened after another "to be continued".
Semi agree. It is almost like the routes I have seen so far suffer from "trilogy" syndrom where the midpart is a bit boring but the beginning and ending are really exciting.