And yet another image that reminds me of Resident Evil: Revelation
I wasn't gonna get this game since I waited on the game Ever Oasis that at the point just had released on the 3DS and awaited my Amazon copy... but it for some reason ended up at my parents house instead of having to pick it up at the pick-up zone. Damn customer service, and I spent 2 weeks talking about how bad the Swedish postal service had become (helped by the news bringing up several other problems at the time). Anyway, I got this game instead as a quick point- and click puzzle game. And it was interesting, best described as a Saw game, but with characters I actually care about, except Dio.
Not that Dio
Story is that you, Sigma, gets kidnapped on Christmas Day 2028 and wake up in some underground facility together with 8 other people, Phi, Luna, K, Clover, Alice, Quark, Tenmouijo (?) and Dio. An AI rabbit explains that you have to participate in the Nonary games thanks to Zero, the person behind the kidnappings. To pursued you to cooperate you all have a bracelet on your left hand showing a colour, a number, time and if you are pair or solo. It also contains two needles, one with a anaesthetic that triggers first and 9 minutes later injects you with a muscle relaxant that stops your heart and lungs and kills you. It will activate if you break the rules or the number on the bracelet goes to zero or below. The colour and pair/solo tells which group you are forced to play with and the time counts down to when the next door opens. In pair of threes you need to enter a room, solve a puzzle to get out and find a card key to enter the AB-rooms where you play Ally or Betray. It works like the prisoners dilemma and you play against the others in the group you entered the puzzle room with. So depending on which group you choose to enter the rooms with and if you vote ally or betray the story changes.
Do you trust any of them?
So the overall question is why are we here? Where are we? When are we? And then they add who is the old lady that was found dead in one of the AB-rooms. Who is K as he have amnesia and is draped in armour that won't get off? Who is Zero? And who starts to kill people in certain story parts? There's gonna be spoilers here. So Alice and Clover was kidnapped around Christmas 2028, put into sleep and transported to the moon on one of the moon bases there together with Phi. It's the year 2074 to be exact. Ten... and Quark arrived later in search of the old woman and K is a clone of you, Sigma who have aged 40 years and is the Zero behind it all... except it's your future consciousness that have switched place with your younger one in order to go back to 2029 in order to stop a virus infection called Radical-6 that causes suicide and blew all of the worlds annihilator reactors that have decimated the human population. Ten is the older version of the protagonist from the game prior, 999 where Clover also was part in. Clover now works with Alice as a terrorist counter agency in search of the Myrmidons where Dio is a clone of the sects leader's brother. Dio is also the one behind the murder of the old woman, which you can save by jumping back in time (with your conscious) and stop it from happening. The whole project have been to train Sigma and Phi to get stronger and being sent back in time to stop this. Phi is a volunteer from the people behind Zero. Also the current Sigma have lost both his arms and one eye failing stoping it before, but hope they will succeed this other time. Luna is a golem robot Zero built.
So a complete mindscrew. The biggest twist for me was that we were 40 years into the future and on the moon (I thought one moment we were on Mars since it's mentioned in story) followed by that Sigma is in his 60's. Mostly contributed by "a false narrator". He believed he was 20 something so I believed him. Which proves that the Knox ten commandment of a murder mystery doesn't apply here. Was rather obvious when we start bring in telekinetic people and sending consciouses back and forth through time. Overall I liked the story and game. The puzzles just about right difficulty for me and the story kept me constantly guessing what the deal was. Problems I have with it is that parts of the game is broken. It isn't recommended to save in the puzzle rooms since there is a chance that the save could lock-up and since there is only one save, you have to play the game all over again. Especially in the PEC room. I got there after 8 hour and did the save and had to play the game all over again. The PEC room is very prone to shutting down the game and/or console for some reason. It took me 4 tries to get past that room. Apparently that have made a HD remake for PS4 or something like that, but the 3DS double screen really helped with the puzzle's, especially with the note taking. Wish they could port over the original game to the 3DS.
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