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999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors
999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors is a story about nine people who find themselves abducted by a mysterious assailant in a gas mask who forces them to play a survival game aboard a sinking ocean liner. Called the Nonary Game, the players will have to work together in teams of three to five and scour the ship for clues, solve puzzles, and find ways to open doors which block their path. Nine special doors each have a big, splotchily-painted red number on them -- 1 through 9 -- with the promise of salvation awaiting them should they make it past the door with the 9. But first, they'll have to find it ... With only six hours available to them before the ship capsizes, tensions are high and opportunities to double-cross, deceive, or murder one's fellow contestants abound. In this waking nightmare, our protagonist Junpei finds himself. Who is this so-called "Zero" who brought him here? And why? Just who are these other eight people he'll have to work with in order to survive? And who among them can he trust? 999 is a fun survival-horror game which plays a little like Professor Layton and a lot like other visual novels in the survival genre for the PC. While it's been compared by some fans with the Saw films, I don't think that's accurate. While the game does depict graphic violence and profanity warranting its M rating, the story is not effed up in the head like your typical survival-horror Hollywood script. I don't want to spoil the game for you, so you'll just have to take my word for it that this game is not offensive or grotesque like the Saw films and that you should definitely still give it your consideration even if you're like me and you can't stand those kinds of movies. WARNING! DO NOT READ WIKIPEDIA! Wikipedia's 999 page has recently been edited by somebody and now contains major, major spoilers. Also: before you hit the "Reply" button, be sure to check out some of the other posts written about 999 on this webforum: Post 1: Talon tells his friends he's just found this interesting-sounding game called 999. Post 2: Several hours into the game, Talon offers his thoughts. Post 3: Doppleganger asks him, "How many hours long do you think the game is?" Post 4: Talon explains that the game doesn't log Total Play Time or Percent Completion like most visual novels do. Post 5: lilbluecorsola says she doesn't have a DS, otherwise she'd play. Post 6: Talon says he's almost finished the game. He highly recommends it. Post 7: Talon's finished the game and offers his thoughts on the package as a whole. Post 8: Doppleganger says his interest is piqued. Post 9: So does big bad birtha. Post 10: And so does lilbluecorsola! Post 11: Where there's a will, there's a way! lilblue finds a way to play 999 and reports in with some early speculation. And that's it! Thanks for taking the time to read the backlog of posts not found in this thread. And with that, let's talk about the game! Console: NintendoDS Length: 20-30 hours for 100% completion Price: $35 on Amazon.com
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I would encourage you to play the game the first one or two times without using any walkthrough or spoilers whatsoever. There's a lot of good reasons for this.
So I'd recommend playing blind the first two times at least. If you pick Door 4 the first time you play and Door 5 the second time you play, I can almost guarantee you that if you then go out of your way to make different choices the second time around you'll wind up with two of the different endings. I actually picked Door 4 twice and, lucky or not, got endings 3 and 6. Then I picked Door 5 and got ending 5. When I played for the fourth time and got ending 6 again, I decided at that time to open up a walkthrough. I think that was a smart decision on my part. I'd recommend the so-called Spoiler-Free or Spoiler-Minimal walkthrough on GameFAQS. That was the one I used to get endings 4 and 1 without being spoilered and it worked perfectly. I'd also recommend that, if you're trying to unlock particular endings in a particular order, to follow the advice of doing it in one of these ways:
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Okay, now time for some character discussion so I can actually get us both into the game of chatting about what you're seeing and not have me focus so anxiously on what endings you're going to get and when.
Initially, I liked Lotus. Obviously she's a major hottie, but it was also really neat when we discovered that she knew so much about psychiatry and cell biology (Door 4) and computer programming (Door 8 ). But as the story developed, I began to really lose trust in her. Her questionable apathy at times when people seemed to be in danger (Door 4 path's freezer scene, followed up with the search for Snake). My final verdict on Lotus ... well, that'd require me to spoil a whole bunch of endings. ^^; So I won't go there. Not just yet, anyway. By the end of the game, my favorite character was without a doubt: (big spoiler) Spoiler: show If you really want to know who my favorite character was but don't want any of the spoiler stuff I wrote, click on this spoiler box. All I've written in this one is the character's name. Spoiler: show
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I don't intend to use a walkthrough. It's just hard for me to keep the characters' names straight right now, so I've been trying and failing to look up who's who without coming across spoilers. I started by going through the 5 door, since I really wanted to investigate the circumstances surrounding the prior incident. Plus Snake seemed to have the most information. (Apologies to June, but I think getting to the bottom of things first would increase chances of survival.) Still on the escape puzzle. I should really save further progress for the break, but chances are I'm gonna end up playing more tonight. >>;
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WARNING: somebody edited spoilers into Wikipedia! This can't be helped since there will always be those who prefer fullness of content in articles over respecting the spoiler-free wishes of people looking for superficial information about a particular game, film, or novel. In fact, I am normally such a person! However, I have taken the liberty of adding a spoiler warning to the top of the character section just in case. Please do not read the list of characters on Wikipedia!!! If you do, you will spoil for yourself several major plot twists in the game, not to mention the biggest character identity revelations of the final two endings you'll play (4 and 1).
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(a) if they're trustworthy, then they're the best ally I can hope for; and (b) if they're mentally unstable, then I won't piss them off by choosing to go through the same door as them, while I would piss them off if I said, "Screw you, I'm going through Door 5." Also, (c) I didn't want to cause unnecessary friction so early in the game. By choosing to go through Door 5 after I'd been assigned to Door 4, I'd be pissing off Clover and Snake (who'd have to split) and Lotus and Santa (who'd be all, "What the fuck? We're not good enough for him!? "). Add June from Letter B to this list and that's five out of seven people I'd be pissing off (since I obviously don't count and #9's already out of the picture by this point). So I stayed put with Door 4.
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Yeah, I can remember the names and explanations fine. It's just matching them to some of the less vocal characters that I had trouble with. Like Ace and Seven.
Mm, I think rather than acting on my own or the protagonist's instinct, I tend to fall into the mindset that, as the gamer, it's my duty to solve the mystery. Certainly, if I were in that situation, my own survival would be of the utmost importance. As it is, I guess I'm trying to play Blick by sacrificing Junpei's safety this time for the sake of information, which I hope will help future reincarnations.
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I've gotten all the bad endings (In order of completion: 3, 6, 5), and just reached ending 2. True Ending -Incomplete- Spoiler Spoiler: show Any nonspoiler tips on how to achieve ending 4? I'd like to finish this game without using a walkthrough.
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To find out how to unlock Ending 4, click here ... Spoiler: show To find out how to unlock Ending 1, click here ... Spoiler: show EDIT: All credit for the walkthrough tips goes to Chloe B./drachemeister, © 2010.
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So now you've finally learned the truth about one of the characters:
Spoiler: show Isn't it sad? ^^; Spoiler: show And it gets worse in Ending 1. Not much worse, but in fact worse. Things don't just stay the same with that character. They ... they get worse. What a horrible person. There's one image in particular of this character sticking their eye right up against the glass of the [you'll-know-what] and it's just so creepy and revolting that I wasn't able to look at it at all. It made it very difficult to read the text in that portion of the game since the eye-against-glass image was left hanging in the background while new plot text poured forth on top of it. Ugh. Terrible monster.
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That's the final puzzle.
(you can click it, I've put it in spoilers so others don't see what kind of puzzle it is) Spoiler: show So, if you've gotten to the final puzzle, then by definition you've discovered what I was referring to when I said that this game has a Blick Winkel-like aspect to it. (you can click, others should not unless they too have made it to the final puzzle -AND- also they've completed Ever17) Spoiler: show
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Finish the game. It's all answered.
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It was a little too cute. I half laughed with and half rolled my eyes at the bits where Junpei kept stripping the duct tape from _________'s mouth and then mercilessly replacing it when he'd decided he'd heard enough.
But all in all, I think it did its job. When the credits rolled, I still had several major questions about the plot. But the epilogue pretty much addressed all but the most inconsequential of them, so that was very good. What do you mean, "What is your final verdict on Lotus?" ... Quote:
Spoiler: show I feel like there was more I had originally wanted to say -- including comments about her in the in_____or room -- but I can't remember what they were now, sorry.
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(too afraid to read spoilers)
Corsola, are you playing this on DS or using an emulator? If the latter, which one are you using? I'll be starting 999 earlier than expected because I learned Alternative isn't 100% translated, although I will be starting Muv-Luv shortly. Talon - did you set your computer to Japanese in the Regional Language Settings?
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I have a DS. I played this on my DS.
But yes, as an aside, I do have my computer set to Japanese in the Regional Language Settings for non-Unicode programs. Screencap here.
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Oh, and a tip: + on the number pad acts as a turbo button. XP (I discovered I can also keep it set by holding it down and clicking to another window.)
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Since I'm back in a speculative mood and Dopple brought up 999 the other day, I may as well post the major question that's still on my mind after finishing the game:
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Haven't gotten very far, the ship just sunk. Someone said there's something involving the dual screen of the DS, so I'm going in thinking the narrator and main guy are different people.
How long is this, exactly? I'm debating whether or not to simply finish SnK because I think it'll be shorter to get through, and I won't have to do the active analysis to try and figure out what's going on. (I spent the whole day playing Hanafuda so I'm quite tired)
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