This is the cheapest cutscene I've ever seen. This is sub-indie game tier, and it's the opening cutscene.
Turns out Robot is a kid in a mask, but he looked like a robot in the Steam banner.
Someone in a Plague Doctor mask but who's dressed like Akane from the second game shows up.
Downcast Girl is called Akane, dun dun dun.
Carlos guesses red and gets the coin flip right, and Redhead asks if he's a clairvoyant. I suspect everyone may be really stupid. Plague Doctor needs to put us to sleep, and we all just collapse off-screen while a sound effect plays of something dropping. Could we not get some gas shooting out of the walls or something? That can't be THAT expensive to animate.
Oh my god, these cutscenes, people are just standing perfectly still, this is like a joke.
Hahahaha, I knew the game was going to end here as a path, that's hilarious.
Huh, the save screen only has room for seven endings instead of nine, and they don't appear to be character-named.
Oh god, there are three teams: C/red/Carlos, Q/green/kid, and D/blue/Redhead. Well, of these, Redhead is clearly the worst drawn character, so I go with D team. Like, tell me that she's not the most off-model character in this game, she looks nothing like anyone else.
Go back in time, choose blue on the coinflip. Luke Skywalker and 18 Guy are super upset at Carlos for guessing wrong, like this is even a remotely reasonable thing to be angry about. Luke Skywalker sure seems to think the kid is responsible for everything because he has a mask on.
Plague Doctor tells us that he's the second Zero, and Scruffy Hair Guy is called Junpei. That's Junpei? He really doesn't look like him, but then again, neither does Akane. The only person who looks like themselves is Phi. Junpei screams "Wait, what?!" with no change of expression on his face at all.
Plague Doctor says we need six passwords, and get one per person who dies. So, guessing we'll get the passwords on various paths, then time travel to remember that information.
The real question is if Kid is Quark. I don't think he could be, because the year given is 2028, but that could easily be a lie, or the first section of the game could have been in 2028, then we all wake up in 2077 after being knocked out, and Kid is replaced by Quark, and it'll be a big plot reveal.
Oh, jeez, 18 Guy is Sigma? I love how Phi says to check the underside of a box, so Sigma checks while the camera zooms to the ceiling so they don't have to animate a guy picking up a box.
Phi says there are two reasons why Zero would prerecord a message: either he's one of us or he's already dead. Phi, I can think of more reasons than just those.
Man, Redhead is sure taking Sigma's claim to be from the future well. This is like in Phoenix Wright when Phoenix tells Athena that he owns a psychic lie detection stone and she's just like 'cool.'
A dog shows up, and everyone is like 'oh cool, it's Gab, the dog we all knew about.' You need to establish the existence of a dog before this, game.
Game, seriously, if you're going to have characters being knocked unconscious as a frequent, recurrent thing that happens a lot, you really need to make an "everyone falls down" animation and stop just cutting to the ceiling, this is really embarrassing.
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