Tricky I Shadow said:
Ok, so I did the True Ending again yesterday and things have become much clearer to me now. Correct me if I'm wrong. But basically June did not die 9 years ago. Seven lied when he told Junpei the story. During the first Nonary Game she contacted Junpei 9 years into the future and he helped her with the incinerator puzzle. Now June had to make sure that happened again 9 years in the future, and that's why her, Santa and Seven did the second Nonary Game. I'm pretty sure that's the very basic plot, but I still have some more questions:
Yeah, you're on the money there.
1. So no one here knows who destroyed/fixed the REDs?
It was presumably Santa, Seven, or June before anyone ever got there. The search for the REDs was a way to remove Snake from the game and have Ace kill one of his former colleagues.
2. What was the point of June telling Junpei about the Titanic sinking being predicted? Was she simply giving him hints about how people could communicate that's not visible to the naked eye?
3. Does that also go for Ice-9? How it was communicating thats not visible to the naked eye? Then what was the whole point to it not melting at room temperature?
It's all about the morphogenetic field stuff that comes about at the very end of the game. The Gigantic in particular (which in real life became the HMHS Britannic and was supposed to be the ship everyone was on) was one of the sister ships of the Titanic. All the pseudoscience stuff was done to set up the final twist in the game. Also, the thing about "Futility" in particular was explained probably to set up the idea that details of things even years apart can be sent through the field.
4. What's the significance of the sock/boat explanation from Clover? I mean I understand that Snake has a fake left arm, but surely that's not it?
So you have a sock with a hole. Then you fix it and there's a patch, and if it kept getting holes and you kept fixing it, you would have a sock that consisted entirely of patches. So that sock consisting entirely of patches couldn't be the same sock that it originally was. The point behind her explaining this was to explain the biology behind the morphogenetic field.
So if you have cells that were generated from the energy of a burger, and that cow had had its cells generated thanks to the cells of a plant, and the plant had its cells grown from whatever was in the ground, etc etc, we'd also be a patchwork of various things. And I think the idea is because of this, it connects everyone/everything through the field.
5. Was June the narrator the whole time? And the bad endings just her exploring all the possible paths that Junpei could have taken....so they don't actually happen when looking at the bigger picture?
Yes, basically.
6. What was the point in saying that June died 9 years ago?
Presumably so Junpei would be in a heightened state so he could receive June's transmission at the end and everyone.
7. Why was June with Santa 9 years ago? I mean they were supposed to be split up. She was a receiver I think they said. Was it explained why she was accidentally on the Gigantic and not in Nevada?
It was a mistake and that was it. It's never explained why it was a mistake.
8. Where did June go in the present time when they were all in the incinerator? They look to the spot she was laying and then she is simply gone? What happened?
Secret hatch somewhere. I mean, she was Zero so she had 9 years of prep time to know she was going to be gone at that point. It's the only thing that makes sense.
9. June and Junpei on the hill at the end - was that when Junpei saved June 9 years into the future and this was a flashback to when she was in the past with Junpei not even knowing yet that he had saved June's life?
EDIT: Actually, this happens before she's kidnapped. That scene is there to show us what Junpei gave her that she drops during the Nonary Project as a kid.
10. Why did Junpei know who the bunny killers were on the hill when 9 years later in the shower room they never knew/caught the killers? Basically I'm having a hard time figuring out what timeline them on the hill is!
Good question.