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Zero Time Dilemma (Zero Escape 3) review thread
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TheSuperSakura
Member
Thanks for the update. I think at this point I'll just take the loss of the 20% off and just try to find it out in the wild on Tuesday.
Jack Videogames
Member
I'm not sure, but it worries me. The full review doesn't elaborate on that point. I just hope it doesn't mean that you can doom yourself out of the best ending in a playthrough if you don't follow very specific steps
and you can't go back in time to mend them
I don't mind bad endings in visual novels where I can easily go back and skip read text and try again, but I find bad ends on other genres a bit traitorous unless they're dependant on a last-second decision. I loved VLR's approach - 999's was more annoying. Let's hope ZTD also goes for pragmatism.
Still, my game is now on the way from Canada. So psyched.
For those of you who actually played it already, a request: a friend of mine would like to play it on Vita, but his console's right analog doesn't work anymore. He'd love to know if the game is fully playable without using the right analog.
calc84maniac
Member
I only played the 3DS version, but I believe the entire game is playable with the touch screen if it comes down to that.
here's pictures of the controls from the vita manual, looks like it's only analog camera movement.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=208072096&postcount=376
Dandy Crocodile
Member
Up and down are probably restricted to the stick, but the manual says L and R move the camera like in VLR.
properpropaganda
Member
Im going to post this here since everyone that I have helped seem to be stuck in the same spot (I too was stuck there).
So if you are playing and are around 20ish hours in and can not seem to progress any further:
If anyone needs other help, feel free to pm and i'll try my best to help.
So if you are playing and are around 20ish hours in and can not seem to progress any further:
make sure you have seen everything up to that point including all 4 outcomes of the execution vote.
If anyone needs other help, feel free to pm and i'll try my best to help.
I have no fucking Idea. I'm 6 hours in and still confused as fuck... lol
I'm still keeping my order because I want my watch, but if I don't get it then I will just play on Steam.
Ivan A Nguyen
Member
I wasn't getting any clear answer from Amazon so I ended up canceling my pre-order with a watch and ordering some PSN cards from Best buy. I didn't have a Vita last year when I pre-oredered. I thought I could just get them to switch the 3DS copy for a vita copy, but apparently that requires an act of god. I'll be downloading my copy as soon as it goes live on Tuesday.
With Amazon it doesn't hurt to cover both bases. Just cancel whichever one you don't want when the time comes, it's why I have the more pragmatic worry of which comes sooner rather than whether to get the one that works nicer or the one I can get a watch with even if the game looks like trash.
Ivan A Nguyen
Member
The watch wasn't worth paying for the 3DS version and getting a sub part experience. I also have an apple watch so there's almost no use case for me wearing a ZTD watch. A lot changes in a year.
TheSuperSakura
Member
Unfortunately I've missed out on every watch so I just have a regular order
The things always been more of a novelty for anyone with a smartphone at a minimum anyway admittedly. Which is also why it's probably not worth waiting on the game for if Amazon drops the ball.
properpropaganda
Member
You are basically put into the position of Carlos/Diana if you havent played the first 2. You get the information. A short, cliff notes version. You can understand it, but you dont fully GET it without playing the other two.
I still stand by that you dont NEED to play it, but it is HIGHLY, HIGHLY, HIGHLY recommended. Plus it helps you to get attached to the characters, so it hightens the impact of certain events.
What am i supposed to do in the Poison puzzle room? I got 4 items (luminol, barcode scan, syrenge, stethoscope). I'm dunno what else to do lol
PM'd
...So I signed up for Neogaf a few months ago and just now my account was finally approved. Really?!
Anyways, I do have a small question about the game about the voice acting (of which is one of the last things I'm still iffy about). I think Team C's voices were the most disparaged based off the trailers. How they are in-game? I'd like some details on them, especially on Carlos's. Please, and thanks!
Anyways, I do have a small question about the game about the voice acting (of which is one of the last things I'm still iffy about). I think Team C's voices were the most disparaged based off the trailers. How they are in-game? I'd like some details on them, especially on Carlos's. Please, and thanks!
Trigonometrize.
Member
I think they work much better as games. I'm all for supporting the growing potential of story-telling in video games, but ZE's best qualities are not ones that translate well to other media.
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Deleted member 518609
Unconfirmed Member
That'd be Spike Chunsoft you want to read that. Aksys are the publishers for only the 3DS/Vita versions. Steam is all Spike Chunsoft.
You're right. My request still stands!
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Deleted member 518609
Unconfirmed Member
Completely agree. Not that it'll ever happen, but a 999 adaptation wouldn't be too big a task to adapt to a film, though it'd have to remove a fair bit. But dear god, a VLR adaptation would be an absolute nightmare, there's no way you could ever get those timelines into one and not confuse the hell out of the viewer and lose a tonne of the impact.
You'd also have to probably film the entire thing in first-person.
ryanfadholi
Member
Soo.. Apparently 999 port to Steam & Vita is hinted?
I'm curious, how did they reveal the
in the iOS port?
I'm curious, how did they reveal the
bottom screen is Akane and upper screen is Junpei twist in DS
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Deleted member 518609
Unconfirmed Member
In the DS version, the bottom screen only ever shows narration, and the top screen only ever shows everyone's dialogue.
So in the iOS version, the twist is just that the narrator is Akane. It works pretty well.
So in the iOS version, the twist is just that the narrator is Akane. It works pretty well.
Spieler Eins
Member
Just as anyone could have guessed. The DS ,,feature" was really overhyped and not at all crucial to the core element of what was happening. In fact, it made me guess the twist pretty early on, because how everyone talked about it. It would have probably been harder to predict (i.e. better) in the iOS/PC ports.
Don't worry, that's the norm
Even a tv show, which might handle the multiple endings thing ok, would completely lose any sense of player involvement and how that plays into the story.
properpropaganda
Member
Everyone is pretty good for the most part but there were a few scenes between Junpei and Carlos were I thought it was fucking fantastic. Same with Sigma and Diana/Phi.
I'd rather a Tv show so they wouldnt have to super heavily condense the story, at least with VLR and ZTD. 999 could just take the true path.
properpropaganda
Member
It wasnt that bad. I was able to make out what the cards were. Or were you playing on a small 3ds.
Although, in regards to that same room:
jam-odds+sadman
Yeah, that's the one I talked about a while ago. The blurriness won't go away (Sigma's shirt being the prime example), but that specific puzzle is the only one where it affected me.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Woke up this morning, said "Wisn I could play ZTD but I'm broke". Went for a hike, found $100 in the parking lot. I was pretty near Aksys' office--is this viral marketing?
mrmickfran
Member
VLR scored higher than 999? Shenanigans.
Make sure you don't see a person in a Zero mask gas you when you turn around.
Who knows where the hell you'll wake up.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Normally I pay to be locked in a room and solve puzzles to escape IRL, so all things considered this sounds like a pretty good deal.
It's cursed. You'll go to sleep and wake up only to repeat today's events with no knowledge of the infinite loop. Doomed to forever pick up that same $100 in a never-ending, infinite cycle. Never getting closer to ZTD's release. It's Aksys and Uchikoshi trying to
awaken your esper powers so you can tap into the Morphogenetic Field and "escape" their 4th dimensional marketing.
Remember, you're here forever!
But only in conversations with those specific characters? As much as I do look forward to this, it is a bit of a bummer that they don't pull off stellar performances in other situations (ie, in monologues or death scenes?) or with other characters. I'm still glad everything seems to be solid otherwise.
I walked outside, realized that it had rained, realized I live in Florida, died from humidity and then dragged myself back inside.
Twinsies!
JeTmAn81
Member
Definitely the story benefits from interactivity but I just meant the story is strong enough for a medium where story is all there is (books, movies, etc.), and that's very rare for games. It would probably be better as a TV show than a movie as well.
morphogenetics
The man with the 999th post can't lie.