極限脱出 9時間9人9の扉 (Zero Escape: 999) 🗝 Week 12 (Visual Novel Book Club)

Week 12: Starting June 16th

極限脱出 9時間9人9の扉 :old_key: Home Thread!

This is being read as part of the Visual Novel Book Club.

Previous Part: Week 11
Next Part: Week 13 (starting June 23rd)

Reading

This week we’re reading five scenes starting from the second square on the left side of the last branch of the flowchart; see week 11’s main post for screenshots of the starting points.

Note: it’s not always obvious when a section ends, so try to keep an eye on the flowchart when you think you’re getting close to the end. Below is a screenshot of how your flowchart should look and where the section ends. Screenshots are under a double spoiler so you can unblur one at a time (minimizing spoilers).

Screenshots (potential spoilers)

Current flowchart:

Stop here:

The end of this week’s assignment is an ending so you’ll circle back around to the beginning of the game after some information screens and saving.

General Advice

In the remastered version, novel sections have two reading modes: novel and adventure. The mode you are currently in is displayed in the top right; click on it to swap between the two. Novel mode includes both dialogue and narrative text, while adventure mode includes only dialogue. Which you read is up to you; novel mode generally gives you more information by nature of writing out descriptions of events, while adventure mode is less reading by nature of being only dialogue.

Note: the game will occasionally force you into the other mode. When this happens, you can simply click the button in the top right to swap back; however, if it forces you into novel mode, there may be a reason it does so, so proceed with caution!

Choices

The choices are under a double spoiler so you can unblur one choice at the time (minimizing spoilers). For those of you who would like to go through the game blind as to which choices matter, I am including baseline responses for all choices. However, for those of you who would like to make your own choices where it doesn’t affect story progression, whether a choice is critical or not is marked under a second spoiler below each choice.

Note: the appearance of some choices is triggered by previous choices, so if you pick different responses on ones that aren’t required for story progression don’t be concerned if you don’t see some of the choices listed below.

Choices

「ちょっと様子を見にきただけだよ。いけないのかい?」
別にいけないってわけじゃないが……

required: yes | no

Guides if you want to check choices yourself (beware of spoilers!)

From what I can tell it seems like major spoilers and puzzle answers are hidden, but proceed with caution!

Japanese guide
English guide

Puzzles

In case anyone has trouble with the puzzles or that just isn’t their thing, I’m including the relevant puzzle instructions. Of course you’re welcome to ask for help in the thread as well! If you are trying to figure it out I’d recommend asking for hints here first, as the guides are somewhat hit or miss with how much they reveal and how quickly.

Puzzle guides (beware of spoilers!)

Discussion Rules

  • Please use spoiler tags for major events in the current chapter/part and any content in future chapters/parts.
  • When asking for help, do your best to provide context. Pasted text, screenshots, descriptions, etc. Unlike book clubs we can’t flip to relevant pages, so we may need a little help identifying exactly what is being discussed.
  • Feel totally at ease to ask questions or give your thoughts, any time! Clubs live and die by participation, and asking whatever question you have, no matter how silly it may seem, helps others who are reading it and even the answerer themselves.
  • Have fun, and do your best to interpret anything said with as much good faith as possible :slightly_smiling_face:

Participants

Mark your participation status by voting in this poll.
(Please feel free to update your status whenever you like!)

  • I’m reading along
  • I have finished this part
  • I’m still reading but I haven’t reached this part yet
  • I am not reading this VN

0 voters

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I haven’t played this assignment yet so I don’t have an estimated length, but I’ll update here when I do!

Edit: it took me about 1h 20min, though I was probably going a little faster than I normally would due to general time constraints. Even so, I think it’s on the shorter side of what we’ve done!

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Finished! It took me about 1.5 hours. I think that the puzzles in this one were particularly short.

It’s killing me not being able to talk about stuff. I’ve got notes for when we finish everything and I don’t have to worry about accidental spoilers anymore.

@natarin I took a snap of the screen we end on if you want it. I can also confirm no choices that matter for this section

Screenshot
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Does this novel have any connecton with

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Beyond being coincidentally picked in a row by the club, nope! People seem to just love 9s in their titles.

Quick spoilers

The ax ending! I remember this one well; I want to say it was the first ending I ever got. Feels like the circumstances leading up to it rely on Junpei (and others) being a fool multiple times in a row, but I think the actual presentation at the end when Yotsuba shows up is quite well done.

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