You Live What You've Learned.
May. 4th, 2018 10:22 amI seem to have gone from 'I can't really get engaged with any fiction' to 'I'm trying to play EVERY VIDEOGAME simultaneously'. Zero Time Dilemma was heavily discounted on the PlayStation Store, so I've bought it!
Zero Time Dilemma is the third game in the Zero Escape series, following Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors and Virtue's Last Reward (the Zero Escape series isn't much better than Kingdom Hearts on the naming front). It's a puzzling series of games about people who are locked up together and get weird lectures on philosophical concepts and then die repeatedly. I've played the first two, but I haven't talked much about them here.
Here are my early notes on Zero Time Dilemma! The game is very weirdly structured in a way that makes it hard to warn about spoilers, but I'm going to spoil the early C-Team scene 'Suspicion'. (It lets you hop between different characters and play assorted scenes out of order, but I've mainly been sticking with C-Team because it's the team I like the most.)
( Early (spoilery) thoughts on Zero Time Dilemma. )
It's a shame this game lacks the 'will the opponent ally or betray?' tension of Virtue's Last Reward (which was basically The Prisoner's Dilemma: The Videogame). The life-or-death decisions don't really have any weight when you know exactly what the other teams are going to do, on account of being the other teams.
Zero Time Dilemma is the third game in the Zero Escape series, following Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors and Virtue's Last Reward (the Zero Escape series isn't much better than Kingdom Hearts on the naming front). It's a puzzling series of games about people who are locked up together and get weird lectures on philosophical concepts and then die repeatedly. I've played the first two, but I haven't talked much about them here.
Here are my early notes on Zero Time Dilemma! The game is very weirdly structured in a way that makes it hard to warn about spoilers, but I'm going to spoil the early C-Team scene 'Suspicion'. (It lets you hop between different characters and play assorted scenes out of order, but I've mainly been sticking with C-Team because it's the team I like the most.)
( Early (spoilery) thoughts on Zero Time Dilemma. )
It's a shame this game lacks the 'will the opponent ally or betray?' tension of Virtue's Last Reward (which was basically The Prisoner's Dilemma: The Videogame). The life-or-death decisions don't really have any weight when you know exactly what the other teams are going to do, on account of being the other teams.
