This is the best game of the series, but still an incredibly poor written work due to Uchikoshi's absolutely awful writing. Full of contrived plot threads that barely hook together wrapped in a series of gotchas, awful character moments, and completely convoluted and ultimately thematically bare series of events.

There's nothing to latch onto unless you enjoy being thrown around a roller coaster of increasingly stupid and escalating events. I can certainly see the appeal with this one over the rest of the ZE series simply because it is the most ambitious and plays around with admittedly interesting plot structures. The execution leaves way more to be desired and is then retrospectively brought down by the sequel that swore to answer the MULTITUDE of """intentional""" questions left in.

It's ultimately an average not very interesting work that should be left in the bin with the rest of the series as a whole.