Second Opinion: Zero Time Dilemma PS4 Review

<p>I am a relative newcomer to <em>The Nonary Games<&sol;em> series&semi; I started my adventure on Nintendo&&num;8217&semi;s DS with <em>Nine Hours&comma; Nine Doors&comma; Nine Persons<&sol;em> and found out that I am very bad at this series&period; Maybe my bad life choices slowly bleed into the difficult choices in this series and I continue to make bad ones&period; I got decently far in the game but did not choose wisely at some point in the game and found an icepick in my back&period; I never went back to the series and I&&num;8217&semi;ve not even played the second game in the series&period; Yet&comma; here I am reviewing the third game in the series as a relative newcomer&comma; which means these characters won&&num;8217&semi;t mean as much to me&comma; and I&&num;8217&semi;ll be a tad confused at some point during the story scenes&semi; of which there are plenty&period; If you want to read a review of someone who loves this series and has played the game multiple times&comma; then check out Kailan&&num;8217&semi;s review <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;zero-escape-zero-time-dilemma-review&sol;">here<&sol;a>&period; I will be giving newcomers a chance to gauge if they want to pick this up before playing the others&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This game is highly story based&comma; seeing as it is a visual novel&comma; which I am used to playing on my Vita&period; Seeing one on my big screen was a nice change of pace&period; One drawback is the fact that you can&&num;8217&semi;t walk around or quit as easy if you were on a portable device&comma; but seeing these characters almost life sized was pretty sweet for me&period; I digress&period; You find yourself one of nine people trapped in the Nevada Desert&semi; you are locked in a cell with two other people and have a strange bracelet attached to your wrist&period; You meet your captor named Zero and he&&num;8217&semi;s oddly dressed as a plague doctor&period; He explains to you the situation and offers you your first choice of the game&comma; a simple coin toss&period; Choose what you will&semi; I think you will be surprised by both outcomes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;129118" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-129118" style&equals;"width&colon; 640px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-129118" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;08&sol;25004934&sol;3088858-2016-02-22-192757&period;0&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"362" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-129118" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;<em>Zero Time Dilemma<&sol;em> &&num;8211&semi; AKSYS Games&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>I love the look of this game&semi; I&&num;8217&semi;ve been a huge fan of cell-shading ever since I got my hands on <em>Wind Waker<&sol;em>&period; Somehow these type of graphics just make the game look and feel timeless&period; In 20 years&comma; when I fire up my PS4&comma; <em>Zero Time Dilemma<&sol;em> will still look amazing&period; The character designs are great and each person has an amazing uniqueness about them&comma; and if you&&num;8217&semi;ve played through any of the previous games&comma; you can recognize some familiar faces&period; The voice acting is great too&semi; the actors really capture the panic of what these individuals are going through&period; Being kidnapped&comma; locked in an underground bunker&comma; and told that only six out of nine will live has to be horrifying&semi; it is one of the reasons I&&num;8217&semi;ll never let myself be kidnapped&semi; I&&num;8217&semi;d rather be shot on the street&period; Either way I enjoyed the look and feel of this game immensely&period; It is the best looking one in the series and keeps you on your toes more than the first one did&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>What I really like about this series is how it pretty much took the Escape Room craze and turned it into three extremely well done games&period; They test your mettle and allow you chances to replay what you may have mucked up on&period; A real life Escape Room won&&num;8217&semi;t allow you to do that&semi; you just fail and lose your money&period; At least with this game you can figure out what you did wrong and come back better than ever&period; For the older readers out there these games also reminded me a lot of my favorite type of books during childhood&colon; <em>Choose Your Own Adventure<&sol;em>&period; When  you fail in a choice&comma; you can go back to that choice and try again to see what would have happened if you made a better decision&period; I used to dog-ear my <em>Choose Your Own Adventure<&sol;em>s where I had to make a choice so that I could check out what I didn&&num;8217&semi;t pick later&period; Man I miss those books&comma; and this series is the closest I&&num;8217&semi;ll get to having them back&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;129163" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-129163" style&equals;"width&colon; 667px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-129163" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;08&sol;25233111&sol;AR-160709921&period;jpgmaxh400maxw667&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"667" height&equals;"378" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-129163" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;<em>Zero Time Dilemma<&sol;em> &&num;8211&semi; AKSYS Games&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p><em>The Nonary Games<&sol;em> is a series that needs to be enjoyed in order&comma; so you know what is going and have all your decisions come with a heavier weight to them&period; I enjoyed my time with the third one in the series having completely skipped <em>Virtue&&num;8217&semi;s Last Reward<&sol;em> and I&&num;8217&semi;m pretty sure some major spoilers came my way and I don&&num;8217&semi;t even know it yet&period; For fans who want to finish this series up&comma; Spike Chunsoft really upped the ante with the decisions you make and the outcomes you get&period; I don&&num;8217&semi;t want to spoil anything because I was taken aback quite a few times&comma; but man there were some jaw dropping consequences&period;  If you are new to the series&comma; please&comma; please&comma; please play the games in order&semi; the impact will be much greater and you&&num;8217&semi;ll have an overall better experience&period; Think of it as watching <em>Return of the King<&sol;em> first and then watching <em>Fellowship of the Ring<&sol;em>&period; You&&num;8217&semi;ve got to play them in order to get the maximized enjoyment from them&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><em>A PS4 review code of Zero Time Dilemma was provided by Aksys Games<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;