Lurker > andylt

SHINE_GET_64 posted...

All the FF4 fans got old and died to COVID

SBAllen is still alive.

Lol XI. Poor XIII! I'm always surprised to see V do alright in Japanese polls, of course it makes sense as it's not as obscure over there.

Strike the Earth! (Plains of Passage)
Tin Soldiers
Disco Heat For Rehot Ride Act 3

Sigma is cool but the chorus lets it down imo.
Match 2's tracks fit well together. As always, Neotokyo keeps getting better the longer the song goes on.

Dusknoir
Cofagrigus

HM Mega Banette, one of the few megas to improve on its base form.

Rapid as Wildfires
Corneria
Mechanism

Wildfires is very impressive if a tad overlong.
Corneria is one of my fav Brawl tracks, which itself is my fav Smash OST. Very simple but there's no fat here. 30XX is pandering to everything I like, but not quite enough to get the vote today. Maybe if it was Hollows! Close match.
Much like Tokyo, Mechanism grows from 'meh' to 'this kicks ass' for me as the song progresses. Forest is also very good. This is a close one, too! Great day.

Maybe it was a joke run, Wakka was their Edward. Tidus is top 10 so I'm happy!

Lol that pricing for the content provided. Nah.

Pineco
Grubbin

Good group imo! I like the look of Spidops and Nymble but I don't know them well enough to pick them here.

Daughter of the Dark God
Soft Collision
The Marble Sea (Time Forgotten)

Pancham
Crabrawler
Passimian

tazzyboyishere posted...

Tiebreaker for KD/RE4 will run tomorrow

my word will it ever end

Umbreon
Thievul

Paradise (Stay Forever)
Dungeon - Geofront 4
Keycard #1

Wonderful to see Rouge get a much deserved win for SA2. BOST is good again! (No offence to the PLA nominator I'm just thrilled to not have my noms go winless through the whole contest)

Clap & Walk
Challenge Accepted
Pole Shift

snubs match strongest today

Growlithe
Quilava
Slugma
Raboot

up

Spoink
Chimecho
Reuniclus
Meowstic M

Espathra looks cool but I know nothing about it. I like that you combined Chimecho and Chinchou into one wonderful hybrid.

Ordium Shrine
Anchorhead Raid
Silicon Lover

Zwei's tracks are consistently interesting sounding and fresh. Three Houses' OST is a bit generic sounding to me from what I've heard.
Still not feeling PSO2 I'm afraid. I haven't been big on AC7 but this is my fav track yet.
I admire Instinct but Silicon gets right to my beep and boop loving soul.

Chansey
Ditto
Eevee
Furret
Blissey
Linoone
Bidoof
Porygon-Z

Lightning Pandemonium
Golden Nocturne
Fly in the Freedom ...Theme of Rouge

Match 1 is very good even if this TB shouldn't exist.
This is probs my fav of the 13Sen tracks I've heard but Nocturne is still a league above imo.
I'm thrilled Rouge's theme was picked for SA2. I know the setlist is a bit messy but I wanted to get every different style of the OST represented in there, personally Rouge's stuff is my absolute fav and I'd happily make a playlist of only her themes. Whether it can pull off the win or not, at least people will get to listen to a track I love.

tazzyboyishere posted...

(10) Katamari Damacy - 79
(2) Resident Evil 4 - 79

lmao poor tazzy. I'd love to vote on this but I haven't played Katamari so it wouldn't be fair.

shane15 posted...

I'm probably in the minority but i wish they'd do 1-2 5-6 in the style of the DS remakes of 3 and 4.

I'm with you!

Grimlyn posted...

xboner of the day

Final Fantasy hates xbox for some reason these days

Anyway now Crisis Core and I-VI are gonna be available on some modern consoles, it's time for The After Years. And the Tonbetty game stuck on Wiiware. And Crystal Bearers why not.

MNN+@0(Day)
Roll Me In (Katamaritaino)
The Rise

good day

What pj said!

Not anymore I think, but I used to assume Haxorus was gen 5's pseudo as I never played those games. Maybe Goodra for the other way around?

I still get mixed up between some mythicals and legendaries.

noooooo shine noooooo

I don't have a PC (or Vita), my only options are Xbox or mobile and I'm 100% picking Xbox of those!

What are the chances they're packaged together for a reasonable price

True. Though I can't help but speculate about where the plot might go based on VLR's ending!

Ah, how odd. Licensing sounds like a bizarre world. Well I'm usually a subs over dubs guy anyway (though not often with vg) and the VA was fine so it was no big deal. How is the dub?

masterplum posted...

If memory serves me right, part of the problem with ZTD is people had already figured out where ZTD was going before it was written so it was changed to intentionally make it more surprising and harder to predict

This.....was not very successful

Oh dear, picking shock value unpredictability over cohesive and narratively consistent storytelling does not sound good! And honestly I doubt I would've figured out where things were going anyway >_> But of course I'll wait and come to my own judgments when I play.

Weirdly ZTD was delisted from the 3DS eshop a while ago and there was no physical release in Europe, so I'll be playing it on Xbox when I do pick it up.

I'm invested enough in this world that I'm definitely gonna play Zero Time Dilemma at some point. I'm aware it is, uh, divisive though so I'll temper my expectations somewhat. I didn't talk much about the puzzle rooms in this topic but I enjoyed them, they were for the most part an improvement on 999's and I liked the optional harder stuff. Oh that's a thought, I should go and read all the golden secret files now I don't have to worry about being spoiled!

Arti posted...

but it was still dubbed by the English VAs.

The EU release had no English VA for some reason!

RoseChevalier posted...

also may I introduce you to https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blickwinkel aka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viewing_angle lol

This sounds like something a 999 character would attempt to explain to Junpei in the 5 minutes they had left before certain death.

Dels posted...

I liked the ending and thought the final twist was great, but I understand your reaction. I guess I'm just lucky that my suspension of disbelief was at a high enough level that I didn't think too much about the details of it. And yeah, in retrospect it's not much of an ending, more of a hook. Guess I was just so into the game that I wasn't thinking that way at the time, but I could see myself feeling how you did in a different circumstance.

Yeah I get that, I was probably less willing to suspend my disbelief at the very end because I felt the narrative had lost its emotional core a little in the last hour and I didn't like that the main 9 were mostly reduced to background. But I didn't dislike it as much as my post will have made out, that stuff just comes to me when I'm trying to explain what just happened haha.

I am very curious about ZTD now. Assuming it primarily takes place in the test site at the end of 2028 with the goal being to prevent the pandemic outbreak, there's a lot of things that the player will already know and it's gonna be hard to keep us completely in the dark. Sigma should be there (though as Zero at this point), Phi, Kyle, the mysterious epilogue character, maybe Clover and Alice based on their last scene, and you know Akane is gonna be in the shadows inflicting trauma on everyone somehow. I don't see how a Nonary Game would work, or how they can pull some of the ridiculous twists they've managed to dazzle us with in the other two games. Of course, maybe it doesn't follow the direct setup from the ending of VLR and it's something completely different.

OK, the new timeline is more a brief epilogue to VLR/prologue to the next game (I assume) rather than a full new scenario. We wake as Kyle Klim a few days after the events of the main game conclude, and get to chat to most of the gang. Oops, is this going to be everything I pre-emptively complained about the ending not doing??

Well... sort of. After chatting with Luna we have a nice scene with Tenmyouji, where he affirms the value of life in this doomed timeline and reassures me that things will continue regardless of what Sigma does in the past. He also gets closure on Akane and has nothing to say to her, I smile and nod as he basically says she can fuck off. Good for you, Junpei! You deserve better. This was a much needed moment and I'm thrilled it's here.

Alice and Clover have more middling reactions to events, and their final moment is a tease that they can maybe send their bodies back to the past somehow. So Clover might make appearances in the whole saga lol. Then it's time to see Phi, and Kyle clears up her timeline for me as I'm trying to figure it out in my head. We don't really learn more about her purpose or who she is though.

We don't get to see Zero!Sigma as I guess there was no budget left to make a new character model, but our final scene is, once again, with Akane. Turns out we are not Kyle at all, but another unnamed variable who can freely travel across space and time and will be instrumental in halting the virus's spread. Akane might as well turn to the camera and say 'don't forget to buy the next game if you want actual answers', and before long the game ends/begins again. Huh!

There was no voice acting for this segment, and given that the scenes address many of the concerns I had about the ending I'm guessing this was an epilogue added in after initial release, or added as a response to focus testing when it was too late in production to get the VAs back. I appreciate its existence, and the little bits of closure we get are great even if the writers can't help themselves and throw in several new questions anyway.

Random thought: the lack of VAs here reminded me of Sigma not having a voice in the main game. This is presumably because it'd spoil his age twist, but like... why didn't Sigma notice his own voice was super different? Why didn't he recognise the voice from Zero's hologram as identical to his own? >_>

Anyway, assuming there are no more secret endings, I think that's it! I of course will have to play the next game to see how this all wraps up (fingers crossed it actually wraps up next time), I won't be doing so right away but I doubt I'll leave it as long as I did between these first two games as things are left so open here lol. Thank you all again for reading along, it helps clear my head writing down my thoughts about this kind of game and I greatly appreciate all the assistance! I hope you enjoyed yourselves, I certainly did.

Have a nice trilogy!

Customize
Running to the Horizon
Shade Armory

invivo is weirdly appealing.
Snubs match is so good! Damn! Would vote either over the other 4.

hombad46 posted...

Check the flowchart again, there may be an extra bit

So there is! Thanks hombad (and Rose and sceptile)! I'm sure the game didn't tell me another timeline had opened up >_>

Looks like I have more to do, I may have jumped to conclusions too soon. Will do this extra route tomorrow!

Lewis is far and away the best imo. And I like the others!

Yeah I meant why do they need her to jump timelines when Sigma is better at it and has a reason to be there in the first place, I know Da Moon made her jump high.

Sceptilesolar posted...

According to the wiki, you do unlock the last ending by doing all puzzles on Hard mode.

I've done all the puzzles on hard, have I missed an ending? The last one I got was Sigma and Akane talking in 2029 getting ready to go to the moon (and then eventually head to the Nevada test site to stop the pandemic)
masterplum posted...

I also agree with it being a cool journey game. The puzzles were fun. The story was fun. The Twists were fun.

I don't have it in my top games of all time list or anything, but I thought it was a great experience that was evenly paced between puzzle rooms and exposition. I thought it was better than 999 in that regard in that 999 had a better ending but felt pretty uneven where there were large stretches of tedious puzzles and not much exposition

Agreed with all of this!

Also, here's some character rankings.

1. Luna
Nobody reading this is at all surprised I have her at the top. A wonderfully written character.

2. Alice
Funnily enough she winds up being the least important character storywise. aKane insisting 'no no you're really important' felt like the writers trying to justify her inclusion more than anything else, but regardless I'm glad she's here. Love how her character unfolds, and I find her very sympathetic.

3. Tenmyouji
It's Jumpy! His identity is almost treated as an afterthought, and it's to this game's great credit that it creates such a compelling character long before the reveal without relying on the player's past knowledge of him.

4. Sigma
Strictly referring to the character as we know him, not as the AB project creator. Obligatory Uchikoshi horniness aside, he becomes a pretty damn good hero who never loses sight of his core humanity. I'm concerned where he will go in the third game if he becomes more like Zero.

5. K
Oh man, poor K. He may be the most victimised character of the whole bunch, in another game he would be the protagonist of this story and his 'father' the antagonist. I like what we get of him, but wish there was more. He deserves a resolution.

6. Phi
I needed to talk about Phi somewhere. It feels like they just forgot to write a big scene telling us her backstory and her role in the game. Why did they need to train her to jump? What is her deal? I enjoy her personality a lot, but why on earth is she here?! Why does she volunteer for the time traveling at the end? I assume the sequel will address her more, but it's really jarring that they left her such a mystery.

7. Clover
I'm not sure why they brought Clover back. There's some very nice moments with her, but also some odd ones and she can be a hindrance for no good reason sometimes. Was she a fan favourite from 999? I can't think why else she'd be here. Still, she's fine.

8. Quark
He's a kid. All the mysteries and baiting and switching, and he winds up just being a regular kid. It works well for the story, but yeah there's not much to say about him. We barely spend any time with him conscious.

9. Dio
A moustache-twirling monster with no redeeming qualities, he makes Ace look like a saint. Serves his purpose but he's more a plot device than a character.

10. Akane+Zero
Yeah I'm not a fan. Zero seems very unlike Sigma as we know him, and I don't know how Akane got into this mess in the first place.

I'd love to see anyone else's rankings (and overall thoughts now I've beaten the game), I have no idea what the general consensus is on things!

MysteriousStan posted...

It never crossed my mind to solely ally with everyone and then go back and betray after all the ally routes had been exhausted.

Well, after Sigma acknowledged the first rewind I thought my choices might have an effect on other timelines going forward, so I wanted to be careful. Sadly the game didn't really turn out this way!

The Quantum room is a rehash of several past puzzles, and our reward is another hologram visit, this time from Akane herself. She explains that the purpose of the AB project is to send Phi and Sigma to the past, and then soon after we open a new flowchart option set before the beginning of the game (not sure how that works). Here we save Akane and speak to her in person, and she explains a bit more, then we go back into the future and eventually speak to her again so she can explain the whole lot. There's a lot of jumping around here!

After our rest stop in the past the whole gang (minus Dio lol) leaves the facility and Tenmyouji explains that, yes, we are in fact on the moon. Dammit game, you got me again! Of course we're on the moon, we have spacesuits on! I feel so foolish for buying the false reveal earlier lol. None of us realised we were on the moon because we've been infected with Rad-6, slowing our mind processing speed by sqrt 1/6. I'm not sure if this actually makes sense but it's a fun twist so I go along with it. We head back inside through floor B (ah, that door was useful after all!) and go to the Garden Where Good Scenes Happen.

I'm assuming now that B. Garden is really named Before Garden, as in a garden showing how things used to be before the pandemic. That's a neat unspoken reveal if true. We unlock the grave and a treatment pod rises up, and while we wait for it to defrost K explains everything he knows. I'm not going to try to explain the whole ABCDE thing here because a) it'd take me a long time b) I'd definitely mess it up and c) you all know it anyway. The pod defrosts and we see another Sigma clone, who is in fact the same body who is usually in K's suit. The K speaking to us is the Akane we saved, and our Sigma is... old! And Zero!

Like Akane herself, this reveal of Sigma's age isn't really a surprise by the time it comes around. It explains a lot of things, and it works in most respects, but... I don't know, in a way it feels a bit cheap. The twist only works because the game withholds information from the player for no good reason- there's no reason Sigma shouldn't be shown in the group shot by the AB reveal screen for instance, except for the fact it'd spoil this. And moon gravity shmoon gravity, you're telling me at no point did any of these people say 'hey dude the fuck is up with your eye'?? I probably missed some allusions to it to be fair, but still... Did Sigma never put his hands to his face and feel his roboeye or wrinkled skin, or did his cyberarms trick his brain into thinking he looked young still? Maybe I'm doing the game a disservice here, overall the twist works and it's obviously important to the story, but it feels a little sloppier than most of the big reveals have.

More importantly, Sigma is Doctor Sigma 'Zero' Klim. And K is his clone, created to replace him. Poor K. Poor young Sigma's consciousness >_> Akane explains some more batshit sci fi stuff, knifes Sigma into the past, and we have a chat with young Akane about saving the world. Then the game ends. Or begins. Wait, what? That's it?!

Overall I'm sorry to say this ending leaves me a bit empty. I mean, it just ends like that with a sequel hook? All the stuff we've been building up to and that's it?! 999's ending may have had flaws but it was grand and emotionally satisfying, this one is a bunch of cold exposition that cuts off before reaching any resolution. VLR has been great at keeping an emotional throughline throughout its runtime, I'm sad that it ends like this. All of these characters we've bonded with over our journey, and they barely get to react to any of the grand revelations before they're offscreen and done with.

Don't get me wrong, I don't dislike it, it just doesn't feel like an ending. And I think it's time I talk about Akane. At one point she talks about some death being 'unavoidable', and she explains that all of this was set up to help boost Sigma and Phi's jumping skills. But I'm annoyed that nobody pushes back on this! Sure, her and Dr Siggy's intentions are good and they want to save the world, but there is no mention of there being a moral quandary here. A few updates ago I mentioned that I was happy the game was going in this direction, but it doesn't go there at all! Akane is taken at her word and all of her+Zero's victims don't get a say in things. The two have created dozens of timelines of death and destruction for the sake of saving one single timeline, and to me that feels like an issue worth exploring.

I'm not saying Akane should be treated as a villain necessarily, but her reasoning is hard to swallow. Was this really the only way for Sig+Phi's powers to manifest? I know there's 'fight or flight' and Sigma's species B explanation from ages ago, but did they even try anything else? Because it seems to me like creating a Nonary Game to psychologically torture and kill 9 people shouldn't be the first solution you jump to, and yet Akane's done it twice now! I know, I know, in 999 she had to do it because it was already done when she was a kid, and they try to spin that again here, but I don't really buy it. She had to bring Clover here to put her through all that pain again, but this time without her brother to support her? Were there really no other espers left? Junpei had finally moved on from her and started to find some peace and fulfillment in life through Quark, and she just yanks him back from all that to boost the psychic powers another notch? And subjects Quark to the misery too? K's entire existence is just as a backup in case Zero dies, but they throw him in here and drug him so he doesn't remember who he is for good measure. Luna's creation seems to serve a similar purpose. Clover, Alice and Phi get robbed of their lives to be brought to this hellhole. All of these people get infected with a deadly disease that can and does make them suicidal. All this suffering, death, and pain has a reason, and yeah sure saving the world is as good a reason as you can get, but surely the question of the ethics of doing all this should at least be raised? Am I alone in thinking this?

I feel like I'm being too harsh here. Especially on Akane. I know Zero is just as if not more responsible for all this, but Sigma as we know him is innocent and we haven't seen him in Zero form really, and Akane is the face of the project. I'm making it sound like I hate the game now lol, but I don't! I really like it! My instant reaction now though is to think of it as a game about the journey rather than the destination, and a game with great characters and great twists but not a tightly wrapped mystery.

There are far more questions left than I expected, I guess Zero Time Dilemma will answer them and I really hope it doesn't abandon the future characters I've grown so fond of. I probably set my expectations too high, I knew going in that there was another sequel but it never crossed my mind that they wouldn't resolve this game's story here like they did with 999's last time. Still, I had a wonderful time playing and I hope you enjoyed following along and laughing at my many terrible predictions!

song 2
song 2
song 2

Match 2 is tough!

Sigma gets his cyberarm chopped off by the #9 door, and this is the first timeline which continues past the end of the Nonary Game. The only real new piece of info we get here is an ID card on the old woman, which reads 'KURASHIKI'. Yeah I'm not surprised by this reveal at this point, Tenmyouji's Akane revelation ages ago prepared me. It is odd that we just... never properly examine the old woman before this. There's only one timeline or two where we see her bracelet mark, and this is the first time someone has gone through her clothes and found the card. You've been slacking, Phi!

Alice commits suicide again and we get the Quark ending. Pretty odd way to cut the timeline off, but I imagine we probably 'should' have gotten this ending a while ago. After this the only routes I have left are betray routes that I don't think Sigma would naturally go down, which is pretty annoying. I grit my teeth and go through some of these endings, and... honestly they're pretty disappointing. Things feel much more video-gamey in these routes. Characters all unite against Sigma and hate him for taking the chance to leave, stopping him through violence despite several other timelines resulting in some of the others leaving without anyone stopping them. Betraying Luna post-robo reveal feels bad. We at least get a new scene with Zero there, but he just berates us for not trusting her.

The worst ending here is oddly enough the one that I need to progress. I had intended to avoid betraying Phi so she could never be justified in betraying Sigma, but it becomes clear that that's what I'm gonna have to do to break the final lock. But when we betray her Sigma doesn't acknowledge the other timeline and Phi is incredibly aggrieved, and when we go back to the other timeline there's a clear guilt pushed onto Siggy. It doesn't feel natural and I resent being pushed through this order of events and then made to feel bad about it. But we quickly get over it, and move on.

Hoo boy, it seems like we're on the 'true' path now. Phi gives us a lengthy explanation of Schrodinger's cat and other pseudoscientific theories, and the groundwork is laid for reversing the pandemic- we are outside the box, and the outside world is the cat in an unknown state of life and death until we trigger the correct outcome. Is Akane gonna get out of this alive again >_> Sigma and Phi are pretty comfortable with their timeline jumps now, though neither knows why or how it works and Sigma seems to have more control over his than she does.

Later, we finally get to input all our bomb passwords. One of them is in the control room this time, and Bomb 00 is in the spot where the bloody knife used to be. All locks have been cleared now, and with Phi and Tenmyouji we head into our last (?) puzzle room, a bizarre empty white space titled 'Q'. I save and quit just before switching out of novel mode as I feel like things aren't going to slow down once we get out of that room. The end is approaching! Maybe???

What else do we crucially need to learn? Who exactly Zero Sr is, what Sigma's deal is (arms, age, clone status, connection to Zero+K, timeline jumping), how and why all of this was planned as it was and how it can possibly work to reverse the pandemic, how the pandemic began in the first place, who Tenmyouji is (Junpei?), Phi's deal, and what will happen to all of us should Zero's plan succeed. And JUMPYDOLL.

Neon Universe EX
Terra Pluviam
Into the Volcano

where is the panda

Metroid Fusion

Advancing Through the Wilderness
Grassland Groove
Scorching Desert

Ooh, Wilderness is sweet. The piano is my fav (of course). I did not expect to be voting against another splendid Airport CEO track but here we are!
Scorching Desert is very nice.

Fun game, love how much detail they put into the items. I liked going through each video game trying to place what they were.

Did all of you figure out this twist beforehand?

By my count Soul Sanctum lost by 2, which means my noms are 0-5 :/ My only hope for a win is SA2 in snubs, which... lol. :(

oh i thought 'epic battle fantasy' was just a generic title for a playlist of cool vg battle music or something >_>

Yep, after entering in the password we find out the gaulem is pretty much the only character I never singled out as a candidate. Of course! My first reaction to this blunt revelation is 'holy shit'. That is also my second, third, and maybe fourth reaction. After a while I shift to being annoyed at myself for not figuring this out, and some of the clues fall into place as the game scatters some past quotes at me. Looking back I think the biggest clue (aside from her always picking Ally) was the fact we never see Luna's blood. Every other character has a bloody death at some point aside from Sigma and Quark. Now Quark could be a special case as there's more to learn of him yet, or maybe there was reluctance to show a child bleeding in a game, but Sigma himself had noted how Luna looked perfectly calm and sleeping while 'dead'. I hope you all enjoyed me accusing every other character of being a robot while missing the real answer lol.

Anyway, after some time I realise I'm a little relieved that this is Luna's deal. I had been becoming increasingly worried that she was behind this whole thing, and I really like her so didn't want that to be the case. I'm sure I don't need to tell any of you that I choose Ally with zero hesitation. 'The evil robot did it' is not where this game is going to go. I trust her. Sigma trusts her too, and has another Badass Protagonist Moment putting Quark into Phi's arms before turning back into hell purely to go and talk with his friend.

We of course find her in The Area Where The Best Scenes Happen, B. Garden. (Random thought: maybe there's an A Garden on the upper floor, the map for that level is much smaller than below...). What follows is a very lengthy account of events from Luna, and an intimate and caring discussion between her and Sigma. He winds up being the comforting figure that she was to him in their previous scene. I'm not going to recount all the info she teaches us- aside from scenes with the old woman most of what we learn is that the answers we'd been leaning towards were usually the right ones. Clover did 'kill' Luna, and Dio killed pretty much everyone else. She doesn't tell us about the bombs, but then I don't think we found any in this timeline so I guess Dio didn't set them here.

Rather than being anything mindblowing, this scene is largely just... sad. All of this death and torture was just part of Zero's mysterious project, and Luna was aware of everything but unable to do anything about it. She finally breaks free of her orders and helps us, but blames herself for not defying her commands sooner and saving everyone else at the cost of her own life. She dies in Sigma's arms, and teases another story hook by calling him 'doctor', but this sequence is plenty satisfying on its own. Poor Luna.

Sigma rightly points out that the one responsible for all this isn't just Dio but Zero and the old woman themselves, and I'm really glad the game is going down this route. One of my problems with 999's ending was how Santa and Akane are never really held accountable for all the death and trauma instigated under their grand plan, but this time we are seeing the victims' perspectives one by one. K's childhood, Luna's whole existence, everything that has happened during all of these timelines, it is all suffering caused by Zero and the old woman, and no matter how altruistic their goal winds up being this is an issue that needs to be explored. I didn't like how the old woman treated Luna and shut down her compassionate complaints, I know she had reason but you don't treat people like that! Luna is made to suffer watching all of this happen, blames herself for not stopping it, then dies. That's pretty brutal.

This is all I do today, it was a short session but I know I'm coming up on the ending and I want to make this thing last as long as possible! The game seems to be pointing me to the idea that K and Sigma are Zero's clones, or maybe that Sigma is Zero himself. Hm I kinda want to replay the section where K tells us about his childhood. All I know is I really want Luna and Sigma to get out of this and go sit on a bench together in whatever world we wind up in. These revelations have only cemented Luna as my fav character, her kind innocent demeanor was not a fake, she's a complex flawed character who wants to help people and is unsure of her own personhood. Sigma also continues to shoot up in my estimations whenever he enters Benevolent Hero Mode, and I like that he is fully confident in his timeline jumping abilities now.

Next up: one weird aluminium trick to get rid of your death bracelet?? Rabbits HATE him!!