Virtue’s Last Reward is a 2012 adventure game developed by Chunsoft. It is the second installment in the Zero Escape series, and was released for the Nintendo 3DS and PlayStation Vita. The game was a commercial failure in Japan, which led to the temporary cancellation of its sequel.
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Virtue’s Last Reward is a 2012 adventure game developed by Chunsoft. It is the second installment in the Zero Escape series, and was released for the Nintendo 3DS and PlayStation Vita. The story follows the player character Sigma, a man who is abducted and forced to play the Nonary Game. The gameplay alternates between two types of sections: Escape sections, where the player completes puzzles in escape-the-room scenarios, and Novel sections. The player is given access to a flowchart, which allows them to revisit any previously completed section, and choose a different option to cause the story to proceed in another direction. While there are 24 endings available, many endings are inaccessible initially and must be unlocked by experiencing events or learning information in other plotlines. The game was a commercial failure in Japan, which led to the temporary cancellation of its sequel. Zero Time Dilemma was released in 2016, and an enhanced port of its predecessor, were released in a bundle titled Zero Escape: The Nonary Games for the PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Microsoft Windows in 2017. It features nine main characters who are kidnapped by an unknown individual and are joined by Zero Phi, a girl who wears an irremovable suit of armor. It was developed as a result of the unexpected critical success that its predecessor,. Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, received in North America. Game director Kotaro Uchikoshi wrote the script, which was then localized by Aksys Games and Rising Star Games for North America and Europe respectively.
In between Novel sections, the player arrives in a room from which they need to find a means of escape. These are presented from a first-person perspective, with the player able to move between predetermined positions in each room. The puzzles include various brain teasers, such as Lights Out and sliding puzzles. In each Escape room, a safe can be found, which can be opened with two passwords. One of these passwords gives the player the key needed to escape from the room, while the other grants access to an hidden folder that provides the player with supplementary backstory or other information. For example, a required password is unknown, and the player must jump to a particular plotline and learn the password before returning to the original one to progress to another plotline. The main characters are Sigma, who wears a full-body suit of artificial intelligence, who appears in the game in an artificial form of the Zero III, an artificial intelligence in the form of a young boy. He is joined by eight other individuals, including Tenmyouji, an elderly man; an energetic young man; Quark, a kind and quiet woman; Luna, a young girl; and Alice, a commanding and focused woman; and Dio, a rude and insensitive man. In the game, Sigma is pitted against the characters they are pitted against, with different results depending on what choices the two parties picked. One recurring decision option is a prisoner’s dilemma-type choice.
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