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rionaleonhart) wrote2018-05-07 12:18 pm
rionaleonhart) wrote2018-05-07 12:18 pm
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Not The Same Person Telling You To Forfeit The Game.
More Zero Time Dilemma! I've heard people saying this game was a bit disappointing, but so far I think it's actually my favourite in the Zero Escape series, although I suppose there's still time for it to disappoint.
There was a bit in the game where I was faced with a button that said 'WARNING: DO NOT PRESS THIS BUTTON'. I didn't press it. Shortly afterwards, three characters were stabbed to death and I got a game over.
'I suppose I should have pressed that button,' I thought.
I went back to that decision point and pressed the button, and the building exploded, and everyone died, and I got a game over.
The 'roll three dice, you'll all die if they don't all show a 1' bit was an interesting one. You have to keep reloading and rolling until they all live, but it's not random; you get the 1s on your third attempt, and you just have to infer that there are hundreds more timelines in which they died.
For a moment I thought the game might actually make me roll the dice until I legitimately beat the odds. It could have worked if the rolls had been in succession, rather than simultaneous. Same odds for the characters, much better odds for the player if you can save after a roll.
I really like Carlos's uncertain 'We're... alive, right?' after the successful roll. On some level, he's aware of all those timelines where they died.
Carlos and Akane's awareness of other timelines really makes me want fanfiction where they seek comfort in each other after Junpei's death, and then those feelings filter through into timelines where Junpei is alive and make everything very complicated.
I am doing some absolutely disastrous shipping in this game. Look, I know Sigma is a sixty-seven-year-old man in a twenty-two-year-old body and Diana's probably actually somewhere in her twenties, but they got awkward when I shut them in a shower stall together and I can't resist that.
I'm extremely disappointed that, although Sigma and Diana cloned themselves into an alternate timeline, it was a timeline where they were already dead. I wanted to see them interact with themselves!
The versions of Sigma and Diana who did the cloning are still trapped in the nuclear shelter, the only people alive, so of course I want fanfiction where they bang. I was thinking 'they should have incredibly unhappy sex' even before I reached the shower-stall scene and started shipping them properly. Take two characters, isolate them completely, I'll want them to bang. It's like clockwork.
I feel I owe Phi an apology for going 'okay, Phi's trapped in an incinerator and I should really move fast to rescue her, but I have to know whether you get special dialogue for trying to examine Sigma's crotch.'
Sigma: ...What are you doing?
Diana: Um... I just thought, maybe an important clue would be hidden somewhere...
Sigma: ...Well, there IS something important there.
Diana: O-Oh my God, I'm sorry! It's not like that! I didn't mean... It's not like that!
(If you examine his chest, she goes, 'Oh...! Uh, wow, your chest is... strong.' It's exactly like that, Diana, and you know it. I'm glad the game is supporting me in my forty-year-age-gap ship.)
I don't know what it is about this game specifically that's put me into full-on fandom mode. The idea of shipping or writing fanfiction never even crossed my mind with 999 or Virtue's Last Reward. There's a genuine danger I might write something for this one.
I have been talking exclusively about C-Team and D-Team, and that is because Q-Team is the worst. Q himself is fine, though. Sorry you're stuck with these arseholes, Q.
In the Q-Team execution timeline, C-Team sends the poisoned D-Team an antidote and Phi's response is 'wait, why would Carlos want us to have the antidote when he tricked us into executing Q-Team? Surely he wants more people to die so he can get more passwords.' Look, Phi, maybe Carlos just voted for Q-Team because they're a bunch of dicks.
(I like Carlos just staring at his own hands in horror after voting for Q-Team, evidently wondering why he just did that. I'm sorry, Carlos. It was me. You're not a bad person; you're just played by one.)
This is an extremely weird game.
There was a bit in the game where I was faced with a button that said 'WARNING: DO NOT PRESS THIS BUTTON'. I didn't press it. Shortly afterwards, three characters were stabbed to death and I got a game over.
'I suppose I should have pressed that button,' I thought.
I went back to that decision point and pressed the button, and the building exploded, and everyone died, and I got a game over.
The 'roll three dice, you'll all die if they don't all show a 1' bit was an interesting one. You have to keep reloading and rolling until they all live, but it's not random; you get the 1s on your third attempt, and you just have to infer that there are hundreds more timelines in which they died.
For a moment I thought the game might actually make me roll the dice until I legitimately beat the odds. It could have worked if the rolls had been in succession, rather than simultaneous. Same odds for the characters, much better odds for the player if you can save after a roll.
I really like Carlos's uncertain 'We're... alive, right?' after the successful roll. On some level, he's aware of all those timelines where they died.
Carlos and Akane's awareness of other timelines really makes me want fanfiction where they seek comfort in each other after Junpei's death, and then those feelings filter through into timelines where Junpei is alive and make everything very complicated.
I am doing some absolutely disastrous shipping in this game. Look, I know Sigma is a sixty-seven-year-old man in a twenty-two-year-old body and Diana's probably actually somewhere in her twenties, but they got awkward when I shut them in a shower stall together and I can't resist that.
I'm extremely disappointed that, although Sigma and Diana cloned themselves into an alternate timeline, it was a timeline where they were already dead. I wanted to see them interact with themselves!
The versions of Sigma and Diana who did the cloning are still trapped in the nuclear shelter, the only people alive, so of course I want fanfiction where they bang. I was thinking 'they should have incredibly unhappy sex' even before I reached the shower-stall scene and started shipping them properly. Take two characters, isolate them completely, I'll want them to bang. It's like clockwork.
I feel I owe Phi an apology for going 'okay, Phi's trapped in an incinerator and I should really move fast to rescue her, but I have to know whether you get special dialogue for trying to examine Sigma's crotch.'
Sigma: ...What are you doing?
Diana: Um... I just thought, maybe an important clue would be hidden somewhere...
Sigma: ...Well, there IS something important there.
Diana: O-Oh my God, I'm sorry! It's not like that! I didn't mean... It's not like that!
(If you examine his chest, she goes, 'Oh...! Uh, wow, your chest is... strong.' It's exactly like that, Diana, and you know it. I'm glad the game is supporting me in my forty-year-age-gap ship.)
I don't know what it is about this game specifically that's put me into full-on fandom mode. The idea of shipping or writing fanfiction never even crossed my mind with 999 or Virtue's Last Reward. There's a genuine danger I might write something for this one.
I have been talking exclusively about C-Team and D-Team, and that is because Q-Team is the worst. Q himself is fine, though. Sorry you're stuck with these arseholes, Q.
In the Q-Team execution timeline, C-Team sends the poisoned D-Team an antidote and Phi's response is 'wait, why would Carlos want us to have the antidote when he tricked us into executing Q-Team? Surely he wants more people to die so he can get more passwords.' Look, Phi, maybe Carlos just voted for Q-Team because they're a bunch of dicks.
(I like Carlos just staring at his own hands in horror after voting for Q-Team, evidently wondering why he just did that. I'm sorry, Carlos. It was me. You're not a bad person; you're just played by one.)
This is an extremely weird game.
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