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I'm fully aware this stream of consciousness ramble written below makes me look like this.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/4/7/AADAKwAADkED.jpg

.....This fuckin' game series is just a different branch in the Zero Escape series isn't it?

TC-Perge sure gave me Radical 6 vibes.

Then after finishing the game I started looking up plot points from Zero Escape that AI reminded me of but since it's been nearly a damn decade, and I saw the Free the Soul logo.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/5/2/AADAKwAADkEI.png

weeeeeeeeeeelp, that can be easily seen as a type of percent sign, eh?

The 'non canon' ending in VLR, where '?' is in Kyle's body. ? is intended to be the 'consciousness of the player'. Sure sounds like a 'Frayer' or what-not. Also seems like this was the most criticized part of ZTD that it never really touched on this side ending at all and K was said to be sent to 'our 2028' and not VLR's 2028...

Then there is this entire tweet chain of stuff about Kyle and ?.

https://twitter.com/Pain1227/status/762932061883736064

https://twitter.com/Uchikoshi_Eng/status/763340866693963778

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/4/8/AADAKwAADkEE.png

Also the timelines will work. The first Zero Escape game took place in 2027. The events of AI take place in 2020 and 2026.

......I'm setting myself up to be extremely disappointed by AI 3 either never existing, or not at all come close to this interesting... But I was extremely happy to see that the game did finally go through with the wild-ass 'the world is a simulation' thing.

Anyway, hi, I've spent way too long thinking about this. >_>