Zero Escape

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How the

fuck

did I completely miss that this had been released

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Okay so I played it. I feel like I need to play both the other games again to really, truly lay this series to rest now though.

I think this game was the best presented, but 999 wins easily in the writing and character departments. It was much scarier and funnier and had a better shock twist. VLR had the best minigames perhaps?

I could go on but I cbf to use spoiler tags on mobile

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Spoiler:

For a while I was totally convinced that Gab was a robot and kept putting his name in first whenever I got prompted with one of those text inputs about who to kill / who was the killer

Thinking about it a bit more I should totally have picked up on Q/Delta existing because the trick that was pulled in VLR with Sigma actually being hella old is precisely along the same lines in terms of PoV and things that the characters take for granted but the player has no idea about

Also, question: in that ending in ZTD where iirc someone with robes and a hood attacks Sigma while it's just Diana and Sigma in the Lounge and then Diana totally thinks it was Phi BUT THEN Phi ends up getting stabbed too and Diana gives her a totally not lesbian-themed hug as she bleeds out—who was the killer then?? Was it evil serial killer lady, the one with the boobs and the annoying boyfriend?

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Spoiler:

Character rankings

1 Phi
2 Carlos
3 Sigma
4 Junpei
=5 Akane
=5 Diana
7 Sean
80 Mira
923 Eric

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Overall tho this game definitely had better characters than VLR—I did not connect with anyone except Phi, Sigma and Clover in that game. 999 I think basically had no dud characters.

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Spoiler:

Also, the character who turned out to be Asshole #1 in 999 did a good job of hiding it for most of the game—not so for either of the sequels (especially VLR). Not as fun.