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#326: Sep 30th 2011 at 5:28:26 AM

For me, the puzzles aren't all that fun. And you have to do them all over again when replaying the game. But to each their own.

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#327: Oct 1st 2011 at 2:28:26 AM

I'm grateful for the puzzles, as it's unlikely that the game wouldn't have been considered for Western release without them. Both the creators and localizers said that the puzzles were put it to help break up the story and widen the appeal of the game. It's not nearly as puzzletastic as Professor Layton (that THATS a puzzle game...and a somewhat exhausting one at that), but there was enough to help initially draw me in. I partially came for the puzzles, and stayed for the story.

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#328: Oct 1st 2011 at 2:36:17 AM

Coming from a Visual Novel background, the only reason I was playing was for the story.

I actualy anticipated some of the plot twists. I was pretty sure snake was in the coffin. I found Ace to be really suspicious. I also thought June was suspicious. I didn't expect Santa at all though. Snake, I thought might have been up to something but I was wrong on that front.

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#329: Oct 1st 2011 at 6:30:43 AM

I figured June was Zero from the beginning (because she seemed far too innocent), but like neo, I did not suspect Santa.

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#330: Oct 1st 2011 at 6:39:07 AM

Snake being in the coffin was rather easy to guess.

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#331: Oct 1st 2011 at 6:57:34 AM

[up]*did not guess that; mainly because he got that ending last*

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#332: Oct 1st 2011 at 8:10:16 AM

I rather like the puzzles in this game...

I probably would have loved it even without them, but they're quite fun.

"The world ends with you. If you want to enjoy life, expand your world. You gotta push your horizons out as far as they'll go."
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#333: Oct 1st 2011 at 8:30:14 AM

Ace was the only one who wasn't provided a backstory. We knew how everyone else (except June and Junpei) were connected to the story but not him. Same reason I suspected June. Couldn't suspect Junpei via Knox's 7th. Considering Snake was assumed dead but actually alive, I figured he could've easily gone around and acted as Zero for various situations.

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#334: Oct 1st 2011 at 8:31:23 AM

Oh good, I'm not the only one who thought about the Knox rules when I played this game. o.o

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#335: Oct 1st 2011 at 8:35:05 AM

Too much Umienko grin.

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#337: Oct 1st 2011 at 8:48:03 AM

Knox's Decalogue for detective fiction.

I realized at the end that 999 actually follows all 10 rules. Even Knox's 4th.

edited 1st Oct '11 8:48:59 AM by LiberatedLiberater

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#338: Oct 1st 2011 at 8:49:50 AM

It's funny how I start looking at all mystery's from Umineko's perspective. I label red truths, quote the decalogue and look for the tiniest hint.

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#339: Oct 1st 2011 at 11:10:51 AM

I'm not a visual novel person and don't generally like them, because, as I noted earlier, I'd rather just read an ordinary book. So the puzzles were actually crucial in getting me to play this; I did like the story, but if it hadn't been for the puzzles, I still would've preferred to read a book. Conveying the multiple endings in book form would be Mind Screw-tastic, come to think of it...

I think I suspected just about everyone save Seven, even with the amnesia. And while I did suspect June, due to the "yeah, she's way too innocent" means of thinking, I did not correctly guess the vehicle for this, or the motivation. And while I sort of knew they were actually in Building Q from the get-go, at least once Building Q became a thing, storyline-wise, seeing it actually happen was still kind of funny.

"Proto-Indo-European makes the damnedest words related. It's great. It's the Kevin Bacon of etymology." ~Madrugada
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#340: Oct 1st 2011 at 12:33:45 PM

Yeah, I don't think anyone actually guessed the time paradox thingy. Funny enough, I suspected Seven, and the ninth man a bit too.

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#341: Oct 1st 2011 at 11:59:46 PM

[up]: Did you do Door 4 or Door 5 first? I did Door 5, and spending time with Seven so early on, I just got the feeling that he was a good guy. When I did Door 3 on my second playthrough, him leaking some of his backstory basically confirmed for me that he was, indeed, a thorough good guy.

"Proto-Indo-European makes the damnedest words related. It's great. It's the Kevin Bacon of etymology." ~Madrugada
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#342: Oct 2nd 2011 at 5:46:28 AM

Went through door 5 first. He could've been lying about his backstory. Giving us false info for who knows why. That wasn't the case as it turned out.

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#343: Oct 2nd 2011 at 5:51:01 AM

I was never suspicious of Seven. He looks far too scary to be evil. Not sure if I can say the same about "Robo-Seven" from the sequel, though.

FreezairForALimitedTime Responsible adult from Planet Claire Since: Jan, 2001
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#344: Oct 2nd 2011 at 2:37:06 PM

That too. Seven just kind of "feels" sincere to the Genre Savvy. I was totally suspecting Lotus for a long time though... until I got her backstory too. People don't tend to make moms—mom-moms, not the kind of moms who use "mom" to denote they're an Evil Matriarch—evil in that way.

"Proto-Indo-European makes the damnedest words related. It's great. It's the Kevin Bacon of etymology." ~Madrugada
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#345: Oct 3rd 2011 at 3:08:55 PM

I liked the puzzles in this game, and thought they were worked quite well into the plot and the overall themes. Enough minor plot twists depended on you being absolutely familiar with digital sums or hexidecimal that the game brute-force teaching you those things via puzzles felt rewarding. Repeating previously cleared puzzles on multiple playthroughs was pretty annoying though. There probably should have been a skip option like there was for the text.

FreezairForALimitedTime Responsible adult from Planet Claire Since: Jan, 2001
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#346: Oct 26th 2011 at 11:24:39 AM

Some character names revealed for the sequel.

Alice is pretty much confirmed, yo.

edited 26th Oct '11 11:24:51 AM by FreezairForALimitedTime

"Proto-Indo-European makes the damnedest words related. It's great. It's the Kevin Bacon of etymology." ~Madrugada
Hobgoblin Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#347: Oct 26th 2011 at 11:29:05 AM

Zero the Third?

Who was the first? o_O

Or the second?

Was it June twice due to the timelines?

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#350: Oct 26th 2011 at 1:48:33 PM

I'm curious, what was it?

"The world ends with you. If you want to enjoy life, expand your world. You gotta push your horizons out as far as they'll go."

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