I was baited into this under the promise that even if I disliked Zero Escape, this would be very very interesting. I was also informed this isn't only uchikoshi working on it, to soften the blow.
This is the worst prose I've read in a very very very long time, and I put up with shit from Umineko. Here's some excerpts from this work of pure art:
"Why had such a thing happened?
He had no idea.
No idea...
Where he was.
Where had gone.
Shaking.
Shaken.
Feeling ill."
"Couldn't be? Do you know something about this?
I don't know anything...
Do you know something?
How could I know anything?"
"He had no idea.
He didn't know...
There was no way he could know.
But there on the bed.
There...
On the bed...
There...
The bed below, the bed on top, the bed below...
Who are...
(You...?)
Who...?
(Stop...)
Please stop."
"More than anything, they didn't allow PDAs to work inside so the facility would be completely separated from the world above as part of the attraction." (Yes, this is how it's grammatically said).
No, I got a lot further than where these excerpts are taken from and it did not get any better. Some of this could be translation errors, but I went ahead and checked up with the kanji for a few of these just to make sure and no the separations and general use of establishment with where people are is just disorienting. This main hook is laughably bad too. I recall what a friend told me today, "VN authors need more Agatha Christie in their lives." And boy does that hold true. What a mess!
This is the worst prose I've read in a very very very long time, and I put up with shit from Umineko. Here's some excerpts from this work of pure art:
"Why had such a thing happened?
He had no idea.
No idea...
Where he was.
Where had gone.
Shaking.
Shaken.
Feeling ill."
"Couldn't be? Do you know something about this?
I don't know anything...
Do you know something?
How could I know anything?"
"He had no idea.
He didn't know...
There was no way he could know.
But there on the bed.
There...
On the bed...
There...
The bed below, the bed on top, the bed below...
Who are...
(You...?)
Who...?
(Stop...)
Please stop."
"More than anything, they didn't allow PDAs to work inside so the facility would be completely separated from the world above as part of the attraction." (Yes, this is how it's grammatically said).
No, I got a lot further than where these excerpts are taken from and it did not get any better. Some of this could be translation errors, but I went ahead and checked up with the kanji for a few of these just to make sure and no the separations and general use of establishment with where people are is just disorienting. This main hook is laughably bad too. I recall what a friend told me today, "VN authors need more Agatha Christie in their lives." And boy does that hold true. What a mess!
always have a craving for chicken sandwiches when I think about this game
I can't fucking believe Uchikoshi did the whole Zero Escape series just to repeat the twists he firstly thought of here. But I'm sort of glad, because while the final revelations are pretty good (maybe even better constructed throughout the game than ZE), the rest feels kinda like a chore.
this game has one of the biggest and ballsiest twists i've seen any game do, and the fact that it pulls it off is a testament to how precise and immaculate the execution of it was. this is the type of game where even if you can predict/figure out a reveal ahead of time, there's going to be 20 other things that catch you off guard and have you going "holy shit no way". and it fucking rules for that alone.
i have my problems with this game (there's a lack of urgency for a lot of the routes, people really don't panic as much as they should when faced with the prospect of their impending death, only one of the three romances really works for me, and there's some sexual violence as a plot point that did not age well at all in one route), but i had a great time with this game. i would recommend it to anyone regardless of their affinity for visual novels, because this was a landmark game that has left an impression on me that will stick with me for a very, very long time.
i have my problems with this game (there's a lack of urgency for a lot of the routes, people really don't panic as much as they should when faced with the prospect of their impending death, only one of the three romances really works for me, and there's some sexual violence as a plot point that did not age well at all in one route), but i had a great time with this game. i would recommend it to anyone regardless of their affinity for visual novels, because this was a landmark game that has left an impression on me that will stick with me for a very, very long time.
A game that uses everything about the visual novel/ADV genre to its fullest for it all to come together in the single greatest true route I have played in any VN ever. The mystery in this is so amazing, and is the best I've ever seen. A masterpiece in every sense of the word.