LogFAQs > #917099481

Okay, have to admit: I had to consult a walkthrough for the first time on this one. And apparently the Vita version of this game is different than all others because that one was actively detrimental to solving this.I pull a lever on the machine to get a camera, and start shooting every "key" I can find--the tumbler, the candle, the pixel pad in red, the blooming flower...not the piano keys; my theory was wrong there. Or was it? I see that those panels that open up are the shape of piano keys. The correct ones for the letters, even. The chair back and the odd spot on the wall in forest mode do light up at the camera, but fail to register as keys. The examination of the monitor is finally updated to admit that they're piano keys, and now playing the piano actually works and obtains the keys, which was what the Vita walkthrough said you should obtain first. I grab all the keys, then put low-C through G in their proper places. Just have to figure out how to open up A through high-C. Argh, now I get a better zoom-in on the chair, but...still can't get it. Third time's the charm, and high C opens. Putting it in opens up a fifth wall pattern, the sky. The water tube is all black now, and...the star is here! Taking a picture of the water glass and pitcher, with the star covered, grants A key, and also makes a projection change to grant B key. GEFC'C.DAB is the order, and returning the keys to the piano and playing it there opens the tube, and ends the escape sequence. A blue button appears, with a warning not to press it. Sigma's certain they should press it anyway. Phi thinks it's a trap, that he's using reverse psychology. That something bad will happen if they push it. Sigma asks what, and Phi's not sure. Sigma says that there are far easier ways Zero could kill them, and Phi finally says that it's a Decision Game. Well, yeah... Diana says we should take a vote, and as expected, Sigma says push it and Phi says no, giving Diana the deciding vote. Obviously we push it. It causes...a huge explosion? And an immediate game over, no exposition added. Right, so try again, and this time don't push it. There's over a minute, and the longer we stay on the screen, Sigma and Phi weigh in trying to sway Diana to their side. It's all pretty generic, though Sigma suggests that the button turns off the timer on a bomb, the exact opposite of what we've seen it to do. The door opens. Diana thinks it's because they didn't push it. Sigma says it might've opened anyway, and Phi calls him a stubborn old man. They leave the room, and Diana asks Sigma about his true age. He tells her his mind must be almost 67, as he came back from 2074 and was more or less that old there. Diana asks if it's the same with Phi, and Sigma says that she, too, came back from 2074, but her mind is still young, around 20 years old. Diana does the math and suggests that that means Phi was born around 2054, but Sigma says no, she was born in 2008. Diana says the math doesn't add up, but Sigma clarifies that she was in cold sleep from April 2029 to January 2074. Diana asks how it's possible for them to come back in time, and he says it's the SHIFT phenomenon. He gives a similar explanation to what Akane did, using the alternate history where they pushed the button as the example. Diana asks for a better explanation of why it happens, and Sigma says he doesn't know. He knows how, but not why. Then we get exposition about Sigma's strange childhood. One winter, he and his friends went fishing and he slipped and fell into the water. He woke up in his bed the next day, under the blankets, and when he asked his friends what happened the previous day, they said he blew them off and didn't come fishing with them. Another time he was about to get run over by a car and found himself in the school gym, or fell off the roof and woke up on the school bus. Sounds like he was accident-prone. At the time, though, he thought they were extremely vivid dreams. Now he knows better, that each time he was in danger, he SHIFTed.
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