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TopicTime for me to fumble through Zero Time Dilemma
andylt
02/11/24 5:38:15 PM
#43:


I realise in the next room that we've not had any scene take place between 13:30 and 18:00. Either we really were asleep for those 4.5 hours, or there's gonna be more earlier fragments that open up later on.

Team D are in the Healing Room, which is really cool looking. One of the best puzzle rooms so far, for sure. Once we're done, there's a fun decision on whether to press a button that says 'do not press this button'. Diana doesn't press it, of course, and we get some more bonding between Diana and Sigma. Sigma explains the plot of VLR again ("I'll sum it up in one sentence: I dunno"), and we get a second mention of Diana not remembering who she voted for in the opening. Very interesting, Q and Carlos haven't had moments like this.

Things take a left turn as a shadowy figure approaches, and what follows is maybe my fav sequence in the game so far. Sigma enters hero mode, and then has an excellent death scene with Lun- Dian- Luna. Luna mention aw yeah! Kyle mention!! That music box theme again!!! There's a great speech from Siggy, all the best character moments seem to happen when they're dying. Phi has a decent death shortly afterwards too, and I think my theory that Diana and Sigma are Phi's parents is holding a fair amount of water. I expect a tragic end where Diana is the sole survivor, but the game switches on me once more and she gets knifed. We are unfortunately forced to watch her die on the floor. Poor Diana :(

I see why everyone loves D team so much, go VLR crew! I head back and push the button, and that is hands down the funniest game over sequence yet. A really strong start to today! Also, this bothered me so I went back to check, and this timeline is the one where Mira stabbed Eric and Q... but Q's name isn't read out on the death list! A major detail. ...But his name has been mentioned before as a casualty, so it's not like he's immune. No idea how this implicates the killer, but it's surely very important.

I strangely get the achievement for all quest files here, when there's still so much of the game left. I guess we don't get hints anymore?

...Or maybe we're low on puzzles. Our next fragment has Q team sat in the decontamination room chatting away, and we don't get a puzzle. Zero comes in with some new ultimatum, we obviously don't press the button, and off to bed we go. I then realise that the other two scenes I have left are the exact same thing with the other teams. Did these open up without me realising or did I somehow manage to leave all three of these til last by coincidence? Again, I swear I've not looked anything up >_>

C team's scene is all about Junpei's changes over this past year, and his hostility towards Akane and the world. I absolutely buy his jaded behaviour given the trauma he experienced a year ago, but I don't know if we needed him to be a super detective on top of that to make him so uncaring towards all humanity. Maybe. We get shout-outs for some of the 999 crew, which is nice.

I figure I might as well finish off the set, though D team doesn't offer anything particularly enlightening. Diana's confused memory over the vote is brought up properly this time, and Sigma and Phi go over some of the VLR plot again. OK this stuff must be very relevant to the overall story of this game with how often we're getting the history/future explained, I'm pleased about that. Amusingly Diana says 'we've gotta trust the other teams!!' and then we have a chance to immediately push the button anyway.

I have to say Zero comes across as pretty pathetic and desperate with their attempts to get us all to kill each other here. Not a very intimidating figure, this go-around.

We've now gone through all the fragments and one more has opened up for each team! Woo we must be getting to the real stuff soon.
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