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I bought VLR like 2 years ago and it never really clicked but I decided to try it again a few weeks ago and got totally hooked and could play nothing else until I finished it. Going to play ZTD on my PlayStation Vita and I sure hope it's good .... not sure how I feel about the new art style, it looked ok in screenshots but I watched a video and the animation is really bad. They could definitely take some lessons from the guys who do the Overwatch porn
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In Training posted:One of my favorite paths is when Sigma and Phi are playing against each other and she changes her answer because she knows you're trying to trick her with morphogenetic manipulation what happens if you go Ally first in that branch and then Betray? I imagine the resolution stays the same but I can't really see how it would have played out that way
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Jun 13, 2016 00:55
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tumor looking batty posted:do you need to play the first one to play Virtue's Last Reward? ive never played any of them but might pick up vlr for 3ds I played VLR first and it was great on its own but there were some reveals that didn't really mean anything to me since I hadn't played 999. If you can't find a copy of the DS cart for 999 I think there's a visual novel version on iOS with all the puzzles stripped out but at that point you might as well watch an LP or something
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Jun 13, 2016 02:22
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There's a screenshot of the flowchart up on steam  http://i.imgur.com/v52WvvX.jpg
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Jun 13, 2016 17:45
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VLR is $12 on the eshop for nintendos e3 sale if for some reason you're reading this thread and havent played it edit: also don't be afraid to look at that ZTD flowchart screenshot I posted, I spoiled it just in case but it doesn't tell you anything except for the game looks freaking HUGE...
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Jun 14, 2016 20:00
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In Training posted:I feel like a moron because I spent a while puzzling out the rec room darts but it turned out to be the bonus password and now I can't figure out how to find the actual password Uhhhh iirc the actual password might be another thing with the darts that I found harder than the bonus solution. I know one of those loving dice puzzles works like that and it was really annoying. If they still let you mess with the dartboard after getting the bonus password that's probably the case
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Jun 17, 2016 02:49
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I like the phone version of The World Ends With You better than the DS one. the changes to the battle system are debatable (I liked em) but the sound quality and higher res graphics are so nice. Ghost Trick works great on a phone too
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Jun 18, 2016 06:30
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no they will not posted:googled this... https://www.destructoid.com/999-on-ios-lacks-any-actual-gameplay-254765.phtml not sure if they fixed it for the western release. hope so Nah there's no puzzles in the English phone version either but I guess it's better than not playing it at all. Honestly the puzzles are a nice break from the VN stuff but it's not like they're thematically tied to the rest of the game or anything, outside of the puzzle rooms themselves the dialogue barely acknowledged their existence.
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Jun 18, 2016 06:32
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Yeah I like how the far left one is everybody gets brutally murdered. I did that first I think and expected all the plot lines to end in a total blood bath and was pleasantly surprised when they weren't
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Reviews looking good ....... A lot of them are saying the puzzle rooms are possibly too hard though. Great news for this extremely intelligent gamer Edit: and as I typed this destructoid gave it a 9.5. kotaku review isn't up yet but kotaku guy said on Twitter that it's his GOTY. Hype goferchan fucked around with this message at 08:10 on Jun 23, 2016 |
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Jun 23, 2016 08:08
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In Training posted:Seems like a lot of positive buzz and also a word of warning that the 3DS version kind of blows. One review mentions the framerate dropped in some sections to 2fps Yeah and there's not even 3D on it..... Thankful for my Vita
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Jun 23, 2016 21:03
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if anyone's got a pstv/vita VLR is $7.50 in the flash sale right now.
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Jun 24, 2016 22:53
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Considering making an 8 hour drive to NYC to hit up one of the stores breaking street date
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Jun 27, 2016 01:16
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Anyone played Steins;Gate? I know it doesn't have the puzzle room stuff from Zero Escape (although according to reviews they're kinda downplayed in ZEro Time Dilemma anyway) and probably barely qualifies as a game but it's like $10 in the PSN flash sale right now and im pretty sure im gonna be in major withdrawals after burning through ZTD, and from what I've read maybe it will scratch the same crazy scifi time travel VN itch as the ZE games. Worth playing/reading? VLR is the only visual novel style game I've ever hosed with so I don't really have a frame of reference . Definitely a plus if there's a similarly complex series of branching paths but even if it doesn't go quite as deep I can deal as long as it's entertaining
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Jun 27, 2016 05:38
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mysterious loyall X posted:i never tried stein's gate most vns are too long and i have the attetnion span of a little baby and hell i'm a 50 yo game r so really i am a baby haha. anyway u should check out pheonix wright series [no branching paths to speak of] and dangan ronpa [maybe branching paths idk i'm not finished w/ number 1 yet]. there's a game on steam called va-11 hall-a that just camwe out that looks good too Oh yeah im nearing the end of Danganronpa2 and will probably finish it tonight I have no idea why I forgot that. Guess I lied when I said I never played VNs. I like it pretty good but sometimes I don't really give a crap about all the little character stories so the dialogue can drag, I just want it to hurry up and get to the murder mystery stuff
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Jun 27, 2016 19:49
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no they will not posted:Ive bought it!! for vita Whoa I wonder if that means we'll get a midnight release in NA.... I rly want it on Vita over 3DS but don't want to wait like 12 extra hours
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Jun 28, 2016 02:19
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Wait can I just buy it right now on the UK PSN store O_O and it's only gonna cost like $3 more than it normally would thanks to current exchange rates..... Bless all you plucky brits who voted to Leave
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Jun 28, 2016 05:12
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goferchan posted:Wait can I just buy it right now on the UK PSN store O_O and it's only gonna cost like $3 more than it normally would thanks to current exchange rates..... Bless all you plucky brits who voted to Leave Ok that was actually kind of a hassle because the Vita doesn't have support for multiple accounts like a PS4 so I had to restore all my settings and I won't be able to play any of my US games while I'm on my UK account. But I don't plan on playing anything else until I finish ZTD anyways so no big loss . If anyone else is as brain damaged and impatient as I am you can get eu PSN codes from game.co.uk
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Jun 28, 2016 05:43
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no they will not posted:very early game spoilers you can get an ending at the first choice. if you call a coin flip everyone just gets to leave the facility and it's fine Lmao yeah i had no doubt this game would own but I did not expect it to start loving with me in the first 5 minutes like that. Also I stayed away from all the preview videos that came out so I wasn't sure what to expect but so far I actually really really like all the 3D character designs even if the animation/lipsyncing is a little chunky. Some of the backgrounds look really cool too in 3D. Only grief is that you kinda have to have subtitles on because the music/voice balance is weird and I had to start over because I couldn't hear wtf some people were saying in the first few minutes.
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Jun 28, 2016 06:54
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Wow the whole 3-team structure and the fragments crank up the complexity so much ... I haven't even seen poo poo yet and I'm already getting my mind blown. Unless it majorly drops the ball later on (which I kinda doubt it will) this game is everything I was hoping for and more . The hype is real, game on and god speed. Also if there was ever any doubt, if you're considering picking this up without having played the other games don't do it. I played VLR before 999 and still really enjoyed it but I'm barely an hour into this one and its already kinda critical that you know what's up with the rest of the series .
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In Training posted:I figured that would be the case considering the ending of VLR is like a Next Time, On Zero Escape! finale. Anyway I decided I'm going to play on Vita since I can't wait any longer. Now I just need stupid work to end so I can start reading this VN. Honestly I think it's suited really well to playing on a touchscreen anyway, they changed the controls a little from VLR. Like you can pan around escape rooms REALLY quickly by swiping on the screen and it's great and navigating them in general is just really smooth compared to VLR
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Jun 28, 2016 15:28
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Lol after all the crazy poo poo he's been through I love how in awe Sigma is of the fact that Carlos is an ACTUAL firefighter
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Jun 28, 2016 18:07
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In Training posted:im going to kill myself because PSN download speeds are so slow and its going to take 45 minutes to download ztd even though its only 900 MB fuuuuuuuu I get this on PS4 and Vita and pausing and resuming the download until I get a more reasonable speed always eventually works. tried it a few times last night with ZTD and it jumped from 45 minutes to 9 minutes remaining
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I saw a couple reviews imply that you can leave a puzzle room and go play another branch and then later resume the puzzle room where you left off , but unless I am missing something this is not the case. Oops
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In Training posted:I think I'm going to make some tea and stay up till 1am and maybe I'll have finished this first puzzle room because it's already kind of overwhelming and I need to get my pen and paper out I like how the odds are extremely slim that any of us are dealing with any of the same poo poo after the short intro section. Seriously (non-specific very early game structural stuff) there are like 9 different fragments and puzzle rooms available right off the get-go and god knows what else to come. Im glad I played VLR this year because otherwise my brain would be mush right now. Also im happy to see that one of my only issues with VLR is being improved upon -- even though the puzzle rooms were fun they usually felt really arbitrary and what you did in them didn't tie into the narrative at all, it just felt like an excuse for some puzzles. So far two of the three I've done have involved some very serious story advancement tied to your actual solving of the puzzle room itself instead of just "do this to open the door so you can get on with the story" and that's freaking awesome. Which room are you talking about? Wonder if it's the one I'm on because it's a doozy and there's no way I'm doing it without a pen and paper and a calculator
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In Training posted:Structure spoilers: the fragment system is extremely cool and the first puzzle room I did completely just randomly is the Transport room which may wind up having insane implications on the rest of the plot, and knowing it was just one of many choices, gives me hope that this game is going to be ridiculous from start to finish Oh yeah that's one of the ones I was referring to in my post. It's really cool how the puzzles are no longer just a means to escape the room and get on with the plot
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Jun 29, 2016 01:59
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no they will not posted:D is my fav group In Training posted:Obviously gravitated towards them because of the players involved but I've also been doing some Team C stuff. Team Q is for losers Favorite so far as well. Here's a little work-in-progress shot of the gangtag I'm whipping up for us 
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The only minor thing I have to bitch about is how the skip text function works .... You have to enable it in the menu to even have it in un-played story parts but sometimes hitting the button will arbitrarily skip multiple lines of conversation instead of just the one that's currently displayed so it's really never "safe" to use if you don't want to miss anything. I like the voice acting and the new cutscene structure a lot (and the animation isn't as bad as I expected considering they certainly didn't have the budget to mo-cap stuff) but sometimes I just wanna hurry up and get through the text as fast as I can read it and there's not really any good way to do so. Pretty small nitpick though and overall it's worth it because I think I prefer the new 3D style to the traditional VN stuff. Even though the assets are simple they do some fun, dramatic stuff with the camera angles and a lot of the backgrounds look great . I also love how much faster and less clunky it is to navigate around the puzzle rooms
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no they will not posted:spoiler free thing: i found a lock where i have to choose a character by typing in their name but if i type in Q it says i have to type their real name. so every time someone alludes to a character from their backstory i immediately go to that path and type it in just in case they're secretly Q If this is what I'm thinking of (Easter egg) (I think) try typing in the dogs name -- there's a response for every thing and it's great
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In Training posted:You know you're in for some poo poo when they force you to follow only one fragment. I just got that and it terrified me. Also (D Team robot room but maybe it happens elsewhere idk) being able to gently caress up a puzzle room so bad that you get a game over really hosed with my preconceptions of the series. I'm an extremely good gamer and never actually hosed things up enough to get things to that point but the game was pretty clear that this could potentially happen so now I guess I gotta go back and fail on purpose Edit: the game overs in general seem to have a lot more content and plot-relevant stuff go on than in previous games, too. It's not just a fun "what-if" scenario like in VLR I feel like some of these Ive seen definitely must be vital to progressing the game. Also the only draw for me getting the game on 3DS was the notetaking function but I still feel like I haven't scratched the surface of poo poo and I have already written down way too much stuff to fit in the in-game notes and pen&paper seems pretty much necessary goferchan fucked around with this message at 05:42 on Jun 29, 2016 |
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Also pro-tip if you have a smartphone handy because this is basically the only reason I was able to beat The Witness: apps like Snapchat where you can take a picture of your screen and then draw/write on it within the app are really really helpful for some puzzle room stuff
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no they will not posted:i finished the game but i have one file still listed as ??? so what the gently caress. it's not even a story file, it's a quest file Could it be from the Q-team study? There's a missable file you get from the chair that tells you you need to combine the A+B+C+D+E+F parts together lol in case it somehow wasn't clear
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mysterious loyall X posted:holy poo poo timb cuck
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I'm stuck in the Q bio lab and I don't think it's even a puzzle I just don't know what else to click on. Just use the loving centrifuge who cares if you don't know what it does!!! doesn't stop everyone from hitting random buttons on every other fuckinng machine in the game Edit: I would love a hint actually - i got the 2 vials full of liquid but if I look at them under the microscope Q just says it's too fuzzy. I microwaved the centrifuge cover (??) but the info on it doesn't seem relevant to anything I can access yet. When I try to use the Simon looking machine the text implies I'm not supposed to know the solution yet goferchan fucked around with this message at 21:29 on Jun 29, 2016 |
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Jun 29, 2016 21:26
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Yeah nevermind I just missed something I could click on lol
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In Training posted:As long as there no game breaking puzzle rooms like VLR it should be fine I saw a screenshot of the transporter room with all the cards and the texture quality/resolution is so bad on 3DS that some of them are indistinguishable without clicking on them for a description lol
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Good eye Carlos
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In Training posted:I got stuck on this one too because i didn't microwave the centrifuge cover. Why would that be possible? I spent a while thinking the pills were the color order hint and I couldn't figure out which color was which number I absolutely didn't find that interaction on purpose either. the rest of the room was cool and the gimmick with the pills was pretty funny because I initially read into it way too hard and was trying to interpret it into binary and stuff lol. Just hated that tiny note on the shelf that you had to click on, it blended in way too much. In general though the rooms have been much better about that crap than VLR was
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