cosmicblizzard
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You sure about that? After being completely unsatisfied with Umineko, I'm a bit iffy about starting long VNs that don't have the important answers.
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Zero Escape 3 announced, Summer 2016. PR: 3DS and Vita
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You sure about that? After being completely unsatisfied with Umineko, I'm a bit iffy about starting long VNs that don't have the important answers.
PurpleMaster
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Well, Remember11 won't be a secondo Umineko. Umineko's answers are completely hidden and up to the player to piece together, while if you pay attention during Remember11, you should be able to piece everything up easily. This has been said many times, but what threw off people in the first place were some twists that happen right at the end of the game. If you paid attention and understood the dynamics of the plot, those twist will not be a surprise. Even so, the game ends on those twists and doesn't offer closure.
So, Remember11 lacks closure, not answers...
grim-tales
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Wonder if Zero Dilemma will be the actual title (well subtitle)? Interesting
Funyarinpa
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Remember11 didn't take me all that long, 30 something hours max. Not to mention it is probably one of my favorite VNs. It doesn't have an "answer sheet" route but answers are given to you implicitly. Nowhere as gargantuan and convoluted as Umineko, IMHO. There are a multitude of banal (but necessary due to the plot) endings (33 endings 20 of which are mediocre at best) and quite a few choices. I recommend getting all bad ends you can before getting the good end of a route (there are only two routes in Remember11, and both are amazing). explainremember11.wordpress.com is a concise website that CONTAINS HUGE REMEMBER11 SPOILERS but appears to be a concise resource if you don't want to analyze it yourself. The character cast does not have a single character who isn't multifaceted and important to the story in some way, and the Uchikoshi shows.
My favorite VN after 999 and VLR. Highly recommended, also has a pretty damned good soundtrack to boot.
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Pretty sure it is Zero Time Dilemma.
Sounds good to me.
lazyproblems
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Lee Chaolan
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Anyone here play Virtues Last Reward on a Playstation TV? is a pretty doable or tougher with the controller based touch screen?
cj_iwakura
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So NISA didn't announce anything? WTF?
Out_Of_Ammo
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It's probably very doable. The only thing you wouldn't be able to do with buttons is taking notes but you can just use the screenshot function for that. That's the better method anyway.
Hours Left
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Really? That's bizarre.
What else do they have scheduled besides DanganRonpa AE and Disgaea 5?
Melhisedek
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Guys I played 999 back when it came out and have all but forgotten most of the stuff I think. Will I be ok just reading story synopsis on wiki or watch YT before I jump into VLR?
Nether didn't have them in VLR. The panel is in an hour.
When I watched this, I legitimately got chills... So hyped for this!
Can't believe I missed seeing that video! I had only seen the Twitter pics so far. Feels indeed. I only wish I was there to dwarf all of those screams. <3
Just rewatched the trailers for 999 and vlr.
Man the 999 trailer is so... Amateur lol. Go back and watch it, it's only just synced to the music, there's no punch to it, the only thing that really draws your attention is the content of some of the words and hosoe's incredible main theme
Vlr on the other hand is a much better produced trailer, with short, snappy phrases, all sorts of camera effects and just far better timing. It is let down slightly by the 3d models though which look real basic
Man the 999 trailer is so... Amateur lol. Go back and watch it, it's only just synced to the music, there's no punch to it, the only thing that really draws your attention is the content of some of the words and hosoe's incredible main theme
Vlr on the other hand is a much better produced trailer, with short, snappy phrases, all sorts of camera effects and just far better timing. It is let down slightly by the 3d models though which look real basic
PurpleMaster
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From a technical standpoint 999 was really, really poor! Beautiful hand drawn animations, but everything else was pretty dated for the time!
Tinfoilhatsron
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Totally getting this on vita! Sweet!
Hours Left
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Is is the next panel being streamed* too?
So Uchikoshi's panel is in 8 minutes. What are the chances they actually manage to stream it live this time?
http://www.twitch.tv/aksys_nation
http://www.twitch.tv/aksys_nation
Tinfoilhatsron
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Is this more popular in US/EU?
Seemingly, which is why it was announced through a North American venue instead of in Japan first.
Let's hope it works this time.
Very.
Uchikoshi mentioned that Spike Chunsoft considers the ZE series in Japan to be in the red. Even after they demanded him to tone down the gruesome atmosphere of 999 after market research leading up to the startup of VLR's development, it ironically it ended up selling less than 999 (and lead to Uchikoshi admitting ruefully that he much prefers writing the kind of stuff that was in 999).
In contrast, Aksys considers it to be one of their biggest franchises and every time they were asked about the series performance they'd respond with very vocal satisfaction.
For a while the entire existence of the game hinged on whether or not the franchise's main publisher saw any gain in developing a game that would mostly have a western audience. Spike Chunsoft was allegedly okay with publishing the game but not funding it, at least not the entirety of it. Seems like there's a good chance that Aksys ended up saving the day one way or another.
InsaneZero
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Panel is starting. Might be having stream problems since Internet sucks in here.
yup, from the old community thread:
comment on US sales by Akselziys
vs. Japanese sales numbers from 2013 (first week / ltd)
3DS: Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward - 7,890 / 17,913
PSV: Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward - 6,133 / 15,454
NDS: Zero Escape: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors [Chun Selection] - ?? / 4,714
NDS: Zero Escape: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors - 16,967 / 39,653
999 sold ok-ish, VLR had a higher budget and was changed to better fit the taste of Japanese costumers but sold worse than 999
InsaneZero
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Not sure if this is visible on the stream, but this room is rather empty. The AX staff might be fucking up here.
Just went and checked out the 999 trailer, isn't it the exact thing as the intro movie for the game? lol That main theme though gets me everytime
PurpleMaster
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Can only see the first row!
grim-tales
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Oooo where is the panel?
Hours Left
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Did the video just crash for anyone else?
InsaneZero
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Normal attendees have finally been let in. 3/4th full now, will probably get full later on
Introductions now. Panel all about Uchikoshi.
PurpleMaster
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We're all on the same boat, mate!
Can you somehow notify them about the stream?
Hours Left
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Is anyone tweeting it like yesterday?
Tizoc
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So VLR combined sold around 33K units in Japan, whereas 999 sold 44K units total so far?
What about non-Japan figures; how much have both games sold?
We don't know numbers, we just know both games did well.
The only numbers available are guesstimates from chartz, the rest are comments like the one from Akselziys but no real numbers
Hours Left
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Back up, the audio at least.
InsaneZero
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No details for ZE3 here. About the Mars test colony and people trapped in it.
And there's a dog.
And there's a dog.
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