極限脱出 9時間9人9の扉 (Zero Escape: 999) 🗝 Week 15 (Visual Novel Book Club)

Week 15: Starting July 7th

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 14
Next Part: Week 16 (starting July 14th)

Reading

This week we’re reading five scenes starting from the bottom-left scene on the flowchart (aka the coffin ending).

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:

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

No choices this week!

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!)

書庫
Japanese guide
English guide

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
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I did it! (spoilers)

Another big endurance test week, this time with puzzles. With the texthooker not working there I admittedly started not paying much attention to the 書庫 dialog – it’s too much work to read all those titles and subjects with little context right now. Still, I’m happy with how the overall reading went; I felt like I could move pretty quickly through with all the exposure to this VN’s vocab up to now. We’re so close to the end now I think I’ll save discussion of events for the end, when I’m freed of the need to not spoil things. Just gonna say: isn’t Seven great?

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I have (finally) finished this section so the main post is all up to date! These assignments continue to be longer as we’re getting to the end of things; this week took me about 4h 40min in total so definitely a hefty one. But oh what a time it is :eyes: I hope everyone’s enjoying it!


That room is my nemesis, I remember it being exhausting the first time around and it sure was this time too :joy: definitely got more out of it with less effort this time but still… oof lmao

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Nearly there.
Here I come!

Spoiler type things as I pass through

「私はこのゲームをクリアし、 きみたちはバッドエンドを迎える」 一宮
Very Funny

書庫 After taking a needed break in order to tackle this room, I found most of the difficulty in navigation. Reading everything not so much a problem, finding everything that needed to be read proved impossible. Had to cheat.

Seven, still my fav

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Oh yeah, that room is extremely confusing too. Hard to see where all the places you can move are, and a lot of them look really samey. Good job making it through.

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