999 First Impressions
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, 05-06-2015 at 05:52 PM (3200 Views)
Well I've reached the first actual choice so I thought it might be a good time to give first impressions.
Sorry about this being the only screenshot, I fear running into spoilers if I look for anything else.
First things first.
OH MY GOD THAT TEXT SPEED IS SO SLOW IT'S KILLING ME.
*Ahem* Sorry. I haven't read a visual novel that didn't just skip the text-appearing-animation if you click since... I think Ace Attorney, which was my very first visual novel. Takes getting used to for sure. But well, moving on.
The first thing that happens is you wake up in a room presumably in a ship somewhere, and it's not long before one of the windows breaks and water starts flooding the room. The only way out is through a locked door with an ominous red "5" painted on it.
I like how the game just presents you with the first puzzle right away. It's a good way to get accustomed to everything and the puzzle was straightforward enough to be solved quickly. Thank god there wasn't a time limit though, that would've freaked me out.
After we escape the room we get to meet the rest of the cast, and I really don't know anything about them yet besides that one of them is my childhood friend and another one of them is probably dead now. The 9th guy thought it was a great idea to be a jerk and take one of the others hostage to be able to advance himself, but it seems he just got blown to bits behind a locked door. I'll be going there momentarily to check...
So what exactly is going on? Well the nine of us have been locked into a ship by an unknown person calling themselves "Zero". We've so far only seen them with a gas mask and through a speaker, and his voice had been altered so we have literally zero clues as to what his true identity is. Anyways, this Zero tells us we're part of a game, the "Nonary Game", the goal of which is to survive; there are nine people in the ship, we need to find the exit which is supposedly a door with the number 9 on it, and we have nine hours to do so before the ship sinks. Well damn. I hope we don't have more idiots going rogue thinking they can defy this guy and escape themselves.
A quick bit of speculation: Zerois Junpei. Somehow. As of now I have no real reason for suspecting it besides knowing the writer through another work of his.
Overall, I'm very curious as to how this game will unfold. I'm getting Ever17 vibes from it. There's a lot of potential for a good, thrilling storyline and with how much good I've heard about it I hope it doesn't betray my expectations~
Edit: HAHAHAHA Small Bombs. That's too funny.