I’d like to play Clue: Zero Escape Edition
— Mr Green (cloned) in the moon base with a robot arm
— Miss Scarlet in the grand staircase with a baseball bat
— Mrs White in the incinerator with sudoku
— Colonel Mustard’s severed head in the pantry with a chainsaw
— You win when Mr Body is no longer dead
Okay but actually. The balance between visual novel and puzzles was far better than the previous two, and the flowchart was brilliantly implemented. I called most of the twists. This is NOT a criticism. Not at all. All the twists actually make me want to replay the entire series, because everything is so well seeded. Uchikoshi has a way of feeding you exactly enough information to piece together the plot yourself, and then he immediately rewards you for paying attention. Every time. Very few plots in any medium are so collaborative with the audience. It’s really, genuinely special. The meta stuff is also just, intensely good. It’s hard to imagine this series being anything OTHER than a video game.
My brain broke though. How many people who worked on this game just ran out of the writer’s room screaming, never to return?
Reviews on this game are all over the place, and I can absolutely understand why, but I loved it start to finish. The janky insanity of it just really appeals to me, I guess.
— Mr Green (cloned) in the moon base with a robot arm
— Miss Scarlet in the grand staircase with a baseball bat
— Mrs White in the incinerator with sudoku
— Colonel Mustard’s severed head in the pantry with a chainsaw
— You win when Mr Body is no longer dead
Okay but actually. The balance between visual novel and puzzles was far better than the previous two, and the flowchart was brilliantly implemented. I called most of the twists. This is NOT a criticism. Not at all. All the twists actually make me want to replay the entire series, because everything is so well seeded. Uchikoshi has a way of feeding you exactly enough information to piece together the plot yourself, and then he immediately rewards you for paying attention. Every time. Very few plots in any medium are so collaborative with the audience. It’s really, genuinely special. The meta stuff is also just, intensely good. It’s hard to imagine this series being anything OTHER than a video game.
My brain broke though. How many people who worked on this game just ran out of the writer’s room screaming, never to return?
Reviews on this game are all over the place, and I can absolutely understand why, but I loved it start to finish. The janky insanity of it just really appeals to me, I guess.