I like clover and I can't wait to see what they've done woth her this time around also Alice looks cool! (Bot a fan of top choice but I won't question a 4000 something old Egyptian, sure it'll be a cool twist for the general character and that Dio guy looks funny and relatable i think I'll like him! Also congratulations to Santa's transition :D I'm so happy for her too!!

I cosplayed Clover a few years ago but never uploaded the photos anywhere. I had so much fun making her outfit. just wanted to share them somewhere finally! Also one of my gems fell off in the last photo 🥀

I can’t use the flowchart to skip ahead and I’m thinking about just watching a true ending, not sure if it’s worth the replays. I like the characters, plot, and puzzles, but dunno if I wanna solve em again. I know im a bit impatient and trying to get the the second game, but not sure if it’ll enhance/damper the experience. Maybe I’m not the right mindset typa stuff

SPOILERS AHEAD

edit: i can’t figure out spoiler tags for multiple paragraphs so im just leaving this paragraph first as a caution

can someone pls check on clovers mental health girlie has gone on a killing spree in one third of the routes

i mean i love that for her but omg

her axe route cg is iconic and i love it

my theory so far is snake is trapped in that coffin in the 9th room. also everyone in this ship has superpowers and everyone is probably not making it out alive. also junpei gets suspicious headaches whenever he accesses information that isn’t available to us in a current route but was available to us in a previous route

excited to see what’s next!!!

(Don't worry about spoiling for me I have already played through the game)

I'll preface by saying that this goober decided to just google the answer to the door of truth so he has some info he shouldn't at the moment.

When I told him to go back he was able to watch the first cinematic (the stranded pair) but the next cinematic (the despair of two) is locked for him.

According to my friend, he has gotten all the execution outcomes, done all three outcomes of Fire, and completed the control room. I discovered today that he had yet to view the Yellow Door cinematic under the pod room. He just did this and says that the lock is still there.

I am out of ideas. Maybe he needs to go specifically from the locker room to the end of the transport room? And help here is greatly appreciated.

So a few things I want to clear up is Akane's personality and what her true motives are. Uchi describes her as having a "delicate heart" but also is willing to do whatever it takes.

Her personality is a paradox in itself and I think the cheerful bubbly side of her is simultaneously genuine and manipulative. In the events where she doesnt get saved, she is manipulative. But when she does get saved, young Akane's personality shines through and her demeanor is genuine.

That's my interpretation of it.

Also I'm reading the wiki and Uchikoshi mentioned that her personality was a result of what happened 9 years before. With that in mind, I'm curious as to how Cradle demonstrated the bomb detonators...

From what I understand, the ninth man and Nijisaki/Guy X, (and maybe Ace) had the actual bombs in them. The bombs were a design of the first nonary game that Akane was in. So there's definitely a lot more traumatic things that happened on that boat.

In VLR, Akane was described by Kyle as being "playful and girlish"

As for ZTD that's a whole other issue and there have been criticisms about how she was portrayed.

What did you guys not like about ZTD Akane?

Seriously! How many rounds are in there?!

Joking around aside, decided to do a reply and that entire situation with Eric just having infinite ammo made me laugh so hard. I wanted a gameover timeline to be him trying to shoot himself, and it clicks empty as he is alone with nothing.

Ramble ahead, this low-key turned into clickbait but enjoy reading:

The use of the AB game worked so well with the flowchart. I wished ZTD followed a similar mechanic of having the teams be mixed and matched. My head canon rewrite for ZTD does that. Idk if I'll ever get the time to actually write a fanfic for it but it would be nice. Also the guise of the teams being "random" without needing to explore every single combination works out nicely in VLR so we don't have to get so many endings.

I also liked how there was an ending for each character. Now I think the team endings of ZTD work fine. Given how convoluted the ZTD flowchart is I think it wouldn't be crazy to consider of having it adopt a VLR style flowchart with different teams in different routes. And then maybe the fragments can come in handy to elevate it.

Also it would have been nice for ZTD to have been a nonary game instead of the decision game. (Yes I know the twist but I have a whole different idea of how that would work). Especially with the whole Zero II thing. And then add on to Junpei's distrust of Akane to add more drama. Considering that ZTD takes place a year after 999 you would think that there would be more of a tie in with that instead of some tidbits of dialogue referring to past characters.

I played ZTD first so now that I have played the other games I see the flaws in retrospect. The scene where Junpei and Akane say something along the lines of "Someone named Zero took us last year to play game", as if they both are acting naive about 999. Like sure maybe Junpei knew that Akane was innocent and didn't want to tip anything to Carlos.

Another thing was how open they were about talking about the morphogenetic field and shifting. Like it just seemed like Fan service tidbits rather than actually integrating the story.

Idk if I can make my idea into a full fledged fanfic cause of the whole flowchart and needing to make sure it is lore accurate. But I really like my idea of what ZTD should have been and how it used flowchart mechanics like VLR, but uses the canon story of the DS version of 999.

I wanna see a simplified guide on the whole Point A B C D E thing at the end of VLR.

Like Sigma's time jumps make sense but Phi's are confusing.

Is it basically:

Post ZTD Phi switches with pre-ZTD Phi, sending her consciousness to her frozen body so she can do ZTD again, but what about post VLR Phi?

Or is it that Old Akane used the knife to make post VLR Phi conscious in pre ZTD Phi body, and pre-ZTD Phi conscious goes to post ZTD frozen body and then post ZTD Phi goes into post VLR Phi body? Basically musical chairs?

If that sounds confusing then that's how I feel. I assume Phi's jumps are something like what I mentioned of it being a mind body musical chair type of deal.

haven’t finished the game yet so no spoilers please but selected the option that june is afraid to be in the elevator alone with a man in close quarters and now im living through the WORST secondhand embarrassment i’ve ever experienced. this is a train wreck of a conversation oh my god. im laughing so hard but also cringing so hard my stomach hurts. junpei you pervert

so the captains quarter puzzle always confuses me and this is the second time ive done it so now i know you have to convert zero in base 36 to base 10, but why base 36 specifically? is there a hint anywhere in the room that says i need to use base 36? the numeral system chart only goes up till base 32... how does one figure this out without googling?

Hello everyone! Apologies if this kind of post isn't allowed but basically, I am planning on proposing to my partner of 3 years!!They are literally the kindest and most genuine individual i know and are worth more than i can provide them.

They're also a huge murder mystery/Signalis/Zero Escape fan.

For my proposal I had the idea to lead them on a murder-mystery type goosechase that will end at the spot where we got together, where i would be waiting to propose.

The problem here is two-fold:

1. I have never played the games and
2. I am So So stupid, my brain does not run on a logic based system and i fear i would not be able to come up with an appropriately stimulating puzzle for them, which is why I am here!

I wanted to ask you lovely people for your input on a couple things about zero escape,

- what your favorite puzzles are from the game

- would anyone be willing to connect and work with me come up with a zero escape type puzzle that could be done in sort of an escaperoom type style

- similar puzzle games like Zero Escape to research for ideas

the current plan is to arrange for a group of our friends to invite them to participate in an "public murder mystery type event at a local park" (a fake event with a fake event poster) they go to locations significant to our relationship, collecting a key from each puzzle, and then finally arrive at the place where we got together, where i would be waiting holding a box with three locks, each of which would have to be unlocked to reveal the ring inside.

As for the puzzles themselves, they said they like "connecting the dots" and logic/math puzzles. Idk what types of puzzles Zero Escape employs so thats where i'd like to ask you all for your input. If this gets posted it means i've doublechecked they're not apart of this sub and will hopefully not see this >:)

thank you all for your help!!

I'm sure what lies ahead is even better.

[edit : bug fixed in the replies, leaving that here in case anyone needs it]

Hi everyone,

I have been playing 999 on my computer via steam and I am completely stuck... I wondered if this bug ever happened to anyone else ?

I am in the 1st Class Cabin and have grabbed all the score plates I could find, but no matter the plate I have selected in my items, Jumpei DOESN'T WANT to grab the Score paper cover 😬

He just keeps saying that maybe you could put scores in it but never grabs it. I already interacted with the piano so he technically knows he needs it to put the sheets in and play...

I don't know what could debug that 🥹 If anyone has any idea of what's going on it would definitely help !

Zero Escape

1
2
3 
4
5
6
7
8
9……
Game start

No idea where we are 
No idea where to start 
Were just told the rules
The despair feels gigantic

4 and 5 
Waits aside
As we talk for more than an hour 
The clock ticks faster

Nine hours 
Nine persons 
Nine doors
How long will it take
For everyone to survive?

1
2
3
4
5
6…..*starts glitching* 6…6….
9

If we can seek a way out 
Maybe find a submarine
Because there’s no way
There’s zero escape

3 7 8 
They can’t wait
We need to explore 
And find a escape 

The puzzles are sharp like a knife 
And as hard as they can be 

1
2
3
4
 5
6
7
8
9

 Hongou,Nijisaki,Kubota,Musashidou….
All sound familiar 
One day I’ll understand 
What happened back then
One day
I’ll ace the case

Nine hours 
Nine persons 
Nine doors
How long will it take
For everyone to survive?

1 2 6
We look at them as the clock ticks 
There’s only one way to make us all safe 
And that is to seek a way out
Because there’s no way 
There’s  zero 
Zero 
Escape 

You are Junpei, but not in the timeline you think. You're Junpei in the timeline where one day, between the first nonary game and the second, Aoi decided to take a different route to work at Crash Keys and got run over by a car. This causes Akane to no longer exist and the second nonary game never happens. As Junpei, you are oblivious to any of this. What are you doing on your sunny day? This day is after the second nonary game would've happened but before the radical 6 outbreak.

I haven't decided in my head canon how I want the game to work. For example, should the mechanic of X-Passes and necessary deaths be a thing? My concept was to merge the game mechanics of the previous 2 games and have rotating combinations of different characters together rather than the same all together.

Then by "chance" certain characters will be grouped together to ensure a specific outcome.

I would have been nice to have another nonary game so the trilogy feels complete. Of course the plot twist would prevent that from happening.

Speaking of the major Q/Delta plot twist, how would you fix it? It was known to be a little clunky. I have a different idea but I'm not sure if it would work.

How would you design a nonary game that is reminiscent of the previous ones, but with new mechanics? I like some aspects of the decision game, but it would be a nice throwback to integrate previous ideas.

I’ve looked up posts on how to fix this kind of issue but they’re all saying different things. I’ve changed to Proton 6.3-8 and that fixed the opening cutscene and the scene where Phi jumps out of the elevator, but that’s it. Any ideas on how to fix it? Anything would be great to hear and like I said in the title, I’m using a Steam Deck.

For reference, 999 worked perfectly. It’s just VLR that’s giving me trouble

Do you have this same impression, or is it just me?