Nine Patricks, Nine Beers, One Spoilercast

@patrickklepek:Please do NOT watch the anime prologue to VLR. Not only is the prologue just not very good at all, it also ruins something very important that you'll discover by the end of the game. The prologue is clearly not at all canon, and anyone who played the game to completion will know what i mean. Trust me. VLR is my favourite game of 2012 and i hold it in high regard and that anime prologue does more harm than good, I'm glad that I didnt watch it before playing the game.

Edit - Also, June being alive as an adult and child in 999 is explained in 999. She's alive because technically you have already saved her in the past. Which is why during the timelines when you get the Bad Ends she starts feeling sick and phasing out of existence.

@cthomer5000 said:

@MordeaniisChaos said:

Is it Halloween? Is Patrick dressing up as his dad? Did this need to be a video?

Do you need to be alive?

Christ, am I some kind of monster for asking if there is any visual stimuli in the freakin video? All I wanted to know was if I could just listen and not need to look at the screen so I didn't miss anything. I've had at least four people bitching at me, dear god this community can be touchy about the oddest things.

I was one of those people that had no idea what the game was about. Finished it once, got a terrible ending and had no idea that it was meant to be played again. I thought that game was dumb, kinda intrigued by the new one on Vita though.

Cheers Patrick, here's to more Giant Bomb awesomeness to come. Have a happy holiday.

@patrickklepek:Please do NOT watch the anime prologue to VLR. Not only is the prologue just not very good at all, it also ruins something very important that you'll discover by the end of the game. The prologue is clearly not at all canon, and anyone who played the game to completion will know what i mean. Trust me. VLR is my favourite game of 2012 and i hold it in high regard and that anime prologue does more harm than good, I'm glad that I didnt watch it before playing the game.

@PresidentOfJellybeans said:

Not at all interested in 999, but great job on the solo video thing. Well done Patrick.

Omg new content!! Don't care what it is ill watch it, feeling deprived lately. Also, hurry up with the GOTY podcasts.

@patrickklepek : Regarding June's death/life/death as I came to understand it.

*No spoilers for VLR but tons for 999*

999 should really be on iOS or android. I really want to play this game .

After all the stuff you said about this game on the bombcast i am really interested...thank you Sir

I was looking at VLR on the eshop, but didn't pull the trigger. Now I really want to play 999 first, but since it's not available in EU, I just ordered it from videogamesplus for 20 canadian pretend money.

Hopefully it's true that original US DS games work on EU 3DS'.

@Amafi: I'm a European that owns a US 3DS and all of my European and Japanese DS games work fine on it.

@JackSukeru: Awesome news, thanks for the confirmation. Now I just have to survive the wait without starting VLR.

@evanbower said:

@MordeaniisChaos

@cthomer5000 said:

@MordeaniisChaos said:

Is it Halloween? Is Patrick dressing up as his dad? Did this need to be a video?

Do you need to be alive?

Christ, am I some kind of monster for asking if there is any visual stimuli in the freakin video? All I wanted to know was if I could just listen and not need to look at the screen so I didn't miss anything. I've had at least four people bitching at me, dear god this community can be touchy about the oddest things.

It probably doesn't help that you have to say something about the way he's dressed.

I'm guessing not everyone keeps track of what happens in the crew's personal life.

I need to get off my ass and play 999 before I can listen to this. But still, thanks for doing it Patrick! Looking forward to it.

Oh, thanks for doing this, I was really wanting to hear more about this game (but like most people, i'm not a huge visual novel fan) :D So like your Spooking with Scoops I like to hear about games even if I don't personally like to play :p

I had no interest in these games but it was fun listening to the crazy BS in this spoilercast. Maybe I'll go give 'em a shot now.

Well Merry Christmas to me!

@MordeaniisChaos so did it need video? I'm going out to shuffle snow for a couple of hours and this would be sweet to listen to while I work.

EDIT: I just finished VLR and my mind is still reeling, playing these two games, one two punch, must really fuck with your lateral thinking.

@patrickklepek Your confusion on how June could be both dead and alive in the past, and alive in the present is understandable, but... Play VLR. It won't give you a straight answer, but it will broaden your understanding of how the universe of Zero Escape works.

Also, since you did one for 999, you are now formally bound to make a spoilercast for VLR :P

Great stuff, Patrick!

I ask this as someone with a huge amount of appreciation and admiration for 999: Why does everyone say that the knowledge you gain from previous playthroughs is crucial to later ones? The primary way the story branches is by choosing what number door you want to go through, and I haven't seen the path to get the true ending discernible in the game. I had to resort to a handy little flowchart I found on Gamefaqs.

Great stuff, Patrick!:)

The idea of the multiple endings being different timelines sounds exactly the same as the twist in the anime Higurashi no Naku Koro ni.

spoiler'n with scoops

Whatever you think about 999 will be blown away in VLR. You might need to do a follow up video with a VLR spoilercast.

Pretty sure that's not how you pronounce "coerce" Patrick :P

Haven't watched it yet (cuz' spoilers), but nine beers over one hour? Patrick's drinkin' skills must be legendary.

999 Patricks and a bitch ain't one

That's it, I'm ordering 999 from amazon.

@Lyfeforce said:

Haven't watched it yet (cuz' spoilers), but nine beers over one hour? Patrick's drinkin' skills must be legendary.

Well maybe not legendary but even speaking as a Dane, sure, that's a lot of beer... Good luck with that. Also, christmas comes early, this is super awesome Patrick!

SCOOOOOOOOOOOOPS!!!!!!!!!!

I get this weird feeling that Patrick's enjoyment of 999 is tied to the same preferences that made him a fan of Lost. Now, I liked Lost, but that was years ago, and I find a lot of twist-oriented media just tires me the hell out these days. Regardless, I do enjoy just knowing what the twists are in this series. It's cool that something really good seems to have come out of the Japanese VN culture.

@patrickklepek You should totally check out Analogue: A Hate Story. It's amazing.

@bvilleneuve: There is a lot of good Japanese VN, even some good ones with Moe elements.

SCOOOOOOOOOOOOPS!!!!!!!!!!

Very interesting video Patrick!

@Protome said:

The idea of the multiple endings being different timelines sounds exactly the same as the twist in the anime Higurashi no Naku Koro ni.

I've never played 999, but I've watched a good deal of Higurashi and by listening to this it feels pretty similar. In the beginning everyone is confused as to what is truly going on in the series. Are they hallucinating? Are these different viewpoints of a single events? Are these retellings of the same scenario with different people switched around? The twist is fantastic in the series because it doesn't provide a solution, but a means by which to solve the problem in the future.

The same could be said for Steins; Gate and to a lesser degree Madoka, but they don't really have the same twists and mystery solving aspect.

@patrickklepek Just because of you I bought 999 last week. Today morning I had the submarine ending, I think it's a great ending, I feel already satisfied, I started the second playtrought, I love to see the different sides of the story and I really hate the repetitions in some parts

Thanks!

Uggggh now I have to hurry up and finish 999 so I can watch this.

Hooray!

@patrickklepek Definitely glad to hear you weren't disappointed by the nagging. Glad you could see past the flaws of the actual game part to enjoy the overall, expertly-crafted unique story experience.

I mentioned the Infinity series. Uchikoshi was the lead designer on 999/Virtue's, and also the co-scenario writer for the Infinity series (Never7: The End of Infinity, Ever17: The Out of Infinity, Remember11: The Age of Infinity, and 12Riven: The Psi-Climinal of Integral being the key pieces of that franchise until the studio closed and everyone important went their own separate ways). It's a series I'd recommend for similar sci-fi story twists. Specifically, as I said in the pre-spoilercast thread, I'd recommend Remember11. It's the best story, with the most "what the fuck" moments that will take you years of on and off pondering to completely figure out (or constant scouring of wiki articles). Ever17 was the one which came highly-praised enough to make me leap in, though it might turn you off for being a little too "dating sim-y." Again, like I said, the ultimate payoff makes it well worth the experience if that's your turnoff.

Oh, and it's definitely necessary to note that these are all straight-up visual novels. No puzzle solving, besides the greater puzzle of the story.

On Patrick's recommendation really enjoyed 999, just starting VLR. Wanted to say thanks, also great video.

The answers section of the 999 website has a ton of great questions answered by the writer (spoilers obviously), don't know if Patrick mentioned it: www.aksysgames.com/999/answers Mandatory reading if you've played through the game.

I love that he did this on his own time. I also love that he's into this series now.

@Japanese games

Yeah, it's the meeting the game halfway thing. This is a problem larger that Japan, though.

I've never had a more "INSIDE THE FACE OF THE TINY KID THAT WRITES WORTH READING" moment in my life. Cheers.

YES!

I actually just figured out what Lotus' connection was to the Nonary Game. It's in the sixth ("submarine") ending.

Great video and interesting to watch and listen to the spoilers. But Patrick, please, quit picking your nose.

And Sudoku's easy to learn. 9 squares of 9 blocks, 9 blocks across and down. (Hmmm, 999...) Each square, row and column must contain 1-9 with no repeats. I'm guessing them using Sudoku is to tie into the title, the fact that there are 9 characters you could see as the numbers in a game of Sudoku and the true ending is when you line up all of the numbers just right.

this game is sooo good

@Vyper said:

Awesome vid trickkkk