Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward (AKA: 999 Sequel, Good People Will Die)
Del Murder's thread about adventure games seems to make this an appropriate thread, right?
Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors is an excellent visual novel / adventure game for the DS directed by Kotaru Uchikoshi and developed by Chunsoft. For a long while it seemed as though the sequel, known in Japan as Extreme Escape Adventure: Good People Will Die, wouldn't receive an English translation. I haven't really been into gaming lately, so I'm actually somewhat late to realize that it's actually going to be released in the States this October, and that it has a neat new name!
That makes me a very happy person, to say the least. 999 is a really great game, and I'm excited to see how they continue the story. I'm kinda curious how the Vita and 3DS versions will differ, because the puzzles of the game apparently rely on things like touch and motion control. Although I haven't watched the Saw movies, for some reason when I read about this game it reminds me of them, with the Bunny being kind of like that puppet.
Anyway, if it's like the first game, the premise is that there's a group of people who've been captured to participate in a "game", and you play as one of the people in that group trying to escape. In this case the player character is Sigma. The escape scenes make up most of the gameplay, with the player basically solving a series of interconnected puzzles to figure out how to proceed. Between escape scenes the game plays like a visual novel.
Like I said before, I've been kind of out of the gaming scene so I don't know much about how the game plays, plus I'm trying to avoid spoilers, so I don't really know much about the game itself, but I'm extremely glad that the sequel is coming out in English. =) Anyone else? :kakapo:
